You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 416 Blood Mist Star Sea

"Kill them all, one by one!"

"Just tell me if you encounter any problems!"

Qi Ping's voice was very calm, but it still contained an extremely terrifying killing intent. The operation of the laws of heaven and earth was as shocking as the wrath of the heavens.

"Yes, Star Lord!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Since they chose to join Starsea Academy and completely revered Qi Ping, they automatically addressed him as Star Lord, making him the true emperor of the entire Starsea Continent.

Now, Qi Ping is only one formal ceremony to declare himself the sole emperor of the Star Sea Continent away from becoming the only emperor in the world.

As Mu Xian, Meng Tianqi, and the others felt the increasingly intense pressure emanating from Qi Ping, their sense of awe grew stronger.

However, this awe was only directed at Qi Ping. Apart from Qi Ping, they were still powerful figures who could amaze an entire era, second only to one person and above hundreds of millions.

This is true in terms of strength, status, and reputation.

After they left, they immediately discussed with Lin Yue how to mobilize the Azure God Army to sweep away the remaining aristocratic families on the Star Sea Continent.

These powerful families possess extraordinary resources and are almost ubiquitous throughout the entire Star Sea Continent, making them the greatest threat to the Nine Domains of Star Sea today.

These aristocratic families possess a wealth of heritage and hidden strength passed down through countless years. Once unleashed, they will undoubtedly unleash astonishing power.

If it weren't for the rapid pace of the recent continental war, this group would undoubtedly have become a terrifying force disrupting the Star Sea. Once so many powerful families unite, they would be able to instantly inflict enormous damage on the Star Sea continent.

Even after Qi Ping and his group completely swept through the Star Sea, they still did not attack this group, not because they lacked the strength, but because the damage this group could cause when they went berserk was too great.

Another reason is that Qi Ping and the others also want to see if there is an opportunity to integrate this group of people into the Nine Domains of the Star Sea. After all, aristocratic families account for nearly half of the mid-level cultivators on the Star Sea Continent, and not every aristocratic family is irredeemably evil.

Qi Ping felt that there should still be some smart people in this group.

However, judging from the current situation, Qi Ping overestimated this group of people.

To date, less than half of the families have chosen to join the Nine Realms of the Star Sea. At most, they have only sent a portion of their clansmen to join the Nine Realms of the Star Sea. However, the core spiritual veins and industries they occupy remain unchanged in other places, and they are unwilling to give up the interests they have occupied.

The killing began quickly.

After completing the relocation of the vast majority of independent cultivators to the Nine Domains of the Star Sea, the family forces that remained stationed outside the Nine Domains of the Star Sea became the sheep of the Azure God Army.

With no further worries, Qi Ping's side directly took the evidence of the various powerful families' crimes and stormed their doorsteps.
"I thought that these families, which have been able to survive for so many years, must have a strong vitality, but it turns out they are just a makeshift operation!"

Looking at the messages and battle reports that had been sent back, Qi Ping couldn't help but sigh.

Although he didn't like this group, they ultimately comprised a significant portion of the mid-to-high-level combat power on the Star Sea Continent. If they could be preserved, Qi Ping still hoped that they could become an important force for the development of the new era.

His current magnanimity is not so blatantly biased towards rogue cultivators. The fair mechanism he has built is for everyone, whether it is rogue cultivators, aristocratic families, or even alien races!
Anyone who is truly willing to become a member of the Nine Realms of the Star Sea will be given protection and opportunities for development. He wants not only the human race, but also all races in the world to become the foundation of his home.

But this incident proves that the aristocratic family had already rotted from the very beginning.

After Qing Shenjun and his men made deeper contact with this group, they discovered that many of them looked down on ordinary cultivators and even Qing Shenjun, believing that people like them with "noble blood" could not be treated as equals to lowly cultivators like cattle and horses.

That inherent "innate nobility" makes it impossible for these people to communicate normally.

Of course, this doesn't mean these people aren't strong. Their accumulated resources, methods, and trump cards are extremely powerful. They have developed an incredibly mature system for dealing with issues such as enslaving lower-level cultivators, risk screening and danger suppression, seizing opportunities, and blood food production.

It can be said that as long as there is no external intervention, they can basically reliably harvest any emerging resources in their territory, eliminate any dangers that may threaten them, and accurately find suitable prey. More than half of the aristocratic families are like this.

They genuinely believed that everything within their territory belonged to them—opportunities, wandering cultivators, and beautiful women—just as a farm owner would inspect his horse ranch.

In this sophisticated harvesting system, if a person shows even the slightest abnormality, they may be caught and harvested by the "Black Guard".

As for the kind of opportunity that allows one to show off and gain recognition, it is almost non-existent. As long as a disciple dares to reveal even the slightest abnormal strength or change in combat power, he will be precisely targeted.

Once a disciple is identified, further intelligence will be gathered and analyzed to determine whether to recruit them or plunder their resources.

In this way, most of the opportunities and traditions that arise and emerge in each region flow into the hands of aristocratic families, becoming their foundation.
"That's so ruthless! But it's also so real!"

Upon learning of this situation, Qi Ping couldn't help but feel a little scared. It was the first time he had ever learned in such detail that these aristocratic families had such a terrifying and complete system for exploiting the lower classes!
Under this spontaneously formed system, it is basically able to accurately harvest more than 95% of opportunities and geniuses.

Qi Ping finally understood why these aristocratic families were able to maintain their positions so firmly. The entire region had been exploited to such an extent that they had seized all the opportunities and resources. They could even plunder the talents of lower-level cultivators. Although the conversion rate of such talent plundering was not high, the sheer number of them made up for it!

In this way, even if the oppressed cultivators at the bottom are exceptionally talented and have cheat codes, they will have virtually no chance of rising up, let alone overthrowing this oppression.

Qi Ping was incredibly grateful for his caution when he first awakened the Druid class.

In retrospect, it was precisely that almost delusional persecution complex that saved his life.

Otherwise, if he were to show off or be careless even once, what awaits him is definitely not amazement, beautiful women throwing themselves into his arms, or the appreciation of powerful figures. Instead, he will be cut off inch by inch by the incredibly sharp blade of aristocratic families to maximize his value.
Especially considering his talent could be improved, it was like a beacon in the darkness, faster than courting death with a lantern. The bloody incidents and information relayed back by Qi Ping's subordinates were proving his assessment correct: this cultivation world wasn't even a world of survival of the fittest, but a slaughterhouse kept by the strong and powerful families!

However, in order to ensure that the animals in the slaughterhouse can grow up in peace, this existence has been hidden and beautified, giving ordinary animals a little hope for survival.

Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, although the life of cultivation is difficult, there is still hope. The top sects are willing to protect their talented disciples, and occasionally ordinary cultivators will become high-ranking and powerful figures in those sects.
But if you look at the big picture, you'll find that this is a cleverly designed illusion!

Ordinary cultivators diligently reproduce, strive, and cultivate, providing the aristocratic families with the broadest possible foundation of cattle and horses.
Then those sects continuously attract talented disciples, and then select the best of the bred ones to consume.

Ultimately, anything of the highest value produced on this racetrack is what the family truly aims for.
"What an ingenious harvesting system!"

"But while powerful families are the harvesters, aren't they also the harvested? In the past, those truly valuable opportunities were also harvested by beings on a higher level."

"What a messed-up world!"

At this moment, Qi Ping had a stronger sense of recognition of the advantages of Druids.

I suddenly felt that I would travel to this world and awaken the Druid class. Could this be the reason?

"Perhaps some mysterious entity is exploring and attempting a cultivation system that can enable the world to develop healthily?"

Qi Ping felt that this was highly likely, because based on the current state of the cultivation world he had observed, even without his intervention, the Star Sea Continent would still gradually enter a Dharma-ending Age after a period of time, even without the Demon Clan crisis, and might even become a desolate place where no normal living beings could survive.

Furthermore, if it weren't for the appearance of Qi Ping, this Earth Immortal, the people of Tianlong Continent wouldn't have colluded with the Demon Race to invade this place, and the inevitable outcome of entering the Dharma-ending Age and Spirit-Severing Era would have been devastating.
"No wonder those powerful families are unwilling to become part of the Nine Star Domains in such a stable harvesting system!"

"Resources that used to be easily acquired with a flick of a finger now require hard work to obtain. Going from someone who reaps the benefits to someone who works for others, it's no wonder they're unhappy."

"That's why they'd rather have their servants continue cultivating spiritual herbs and managing businesses outside the Nine Realms of the Star Sea than rely on their own efforts to earn resources."

"Ha, what good are these parasites who only know how to reap the benefits without sowing!"

Qi Ping suddenly felt no regret for these people.

He originally thought that with so many opportunities to acquire resources, as long as one was willing to strive, one could obtain high-level resources that one had never been able to reach before. With such a good environment and system, how could anyone not want to come?

But now it seems that his mindset as a wage earner limited him. The wonderful life of capitalists was beyond his imagination. Making them work in the Nine Realms of Stars was probably no different from making them slaves.

In addition, for many aristocratic families, pursuing immortality and eternal life is not their goal.

Because they see things more clearly, having witnessed countless opportunities and resources, they know that no matter how hard they try, the top is roughly the same. Therefore, they naturally don't strive to climb as desperately as many independent cultivators.

What they usually learn is more about how to exploit the lower-level cultivators and how to enjoy themselves. The more serious things they learn are things like managing industries and fighting with other powerful families.

The way of thinking of this group of people is completely different from that of normal practitioners.

Having realized this, Qi Ping's murderous intent was completely aroused, and he immediately changed his original orders.

Qi Ping originally planned to hold those directly responsible accountable according to the investigation, and temporarily take in and observe some unrelated people according to the rules of the Nine Realms of the Star Sea, and kill them all if they resisted.

However, after reading the information that Lin Yue sent back, Qi Ping changed it directly to "extermination of the clan"!
All those related to aristocratic families who have not previously submitted to the Nine Realms of the Star Sea and have committed numerous evil deeds will be exterminated along with their entire clan!
The most excited person after receiving this order was none other than Old Woman Muxian.

No one hated aristocratic families more than she did!

It can be said that she spent most of her life fighting against these powerful families that she loathed, and most of her time was spent suppressing her anger and murderous intent.

After receiving Qi Ping's order, they were finally able to release themselves without any worries.

Therefore, during this crackdown, the reputation of the Old Woman of Wood Immortals reached its peak!

First, the old woman Mu Xian went from being the most disgusting and ugly Nascent Soul cultivator on the Star Sea Continent to breaking through to the Void Refinement realm, becoming a Void Refinement master whose appearance surpassed the entire Star Sea. This in itself contained two huge explosive points.

During this cleansing operation, the Old Woman of Wood Immortals was the most frenzied of the three Void Refinement cultivators. No matter who her opponent was, no one could stop her from killing, whether they were seemingly innocent people or her former enemies.

During this battle, she had only one thought in her mind: kill!

All those aristocratic families that disgust people deserve to die!
No one deserves to be forgiven!

Those once high and mighty families perished one after another at the hands of the Old Woman of Wood Immortal.

The corpses of the murdered were piled up like mountains, and the blood flowed like rivers!
Even the logistics teams specifically responsible for collecting flesh and corpses couldn't keep up with the old woman's killing speed.

This is undoubtedly extremely crazy and irrational.

However, Qi Ping did not stop her, because the old woman was simply following his orders.

Before he ordered the extermination of the clan, the old woman of the Wood Immortal's ability to restrain her murderous intent was enough to satisfy him.

This kind of obedient, powerful, and compassionate general is exactly the kind of person he likes best; although his talent is slightly inferior to Meng Tianqi and Baili Yun, he is worth focusing on cultivating.

When the massacre finally came to an end, the entire Star Sea Continent was shrouded in a strange blood mist. The old woman's original green robes were completely stained black and red, and her hair and cheeks were stained with bloodstains from some unknown enemy.
The death toll from this horrific massacre far exceeded that of the recent continental war, causing bizarre phenomena to emerge throughout the entire Starsea Continent due to the horror of the slaughter.
(End of this chapter)