Chapter 280
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Chapter 280: Black Star
“Dad, what should we do with the beast tribe in this small world?”
After robbing all the beasts in the small world and thoroughly searching the entire place inside and out, Tu Shan Yueyue asked Li Xiaojun.
Hearing his daughter’s question, Li Xiaojun fell into deep thought.
It was definitely not possible to simply let these beasts go.
However, he sensed that he shouldn’t kill all the beasts, as he had once promised not to harm them.
He had a feeling that if he killed these beasts, he would face great repercussions.
Since killing the beasts was off the table, yet he also couldn’t easily let them go, Li Xiaojun found himself in a bit of a dilemma.
“Yueyue, what do you think we should do?” Li Xiaojun turned his gaze to Tu Shan Yueyue.
From Li Xiaojun’s demeanor, Tu Shan Yueyue already understood that he didn’t want to kill the beasts.
After thinking for a while, she said to Li Xiaojun, “Maybe we can enslave these beasts, just like the beast tribe enslaves our Human Race.”
“Enslave?” Li Xiaojun was surprised.
“Yes,” Tu Shan Yueyue nodded. “When the beast tribe captures members of the Human Race, they usually don’t kill them right away, because killing us doesn’t bring them much benefit. However, enslaving us does, as we can create great value for them.”
“For instance, I can engage in trade, so I have brought many resources to the beast tribe I belong to.”
“I seem to live better than many others who are enslaved, and I even receive a lot of respect from some beasts within certain limits. But in the end, I am still a slave to the beast tribe, and if I can no longer bring benefits to them, I will surely be killed.”
“Now, with so many beasts here, as long as we can enslave them, they can generate much more value for us.”
“For instance, this small world was a space opened by the Profound Immortal Beast Immortal of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe at a huge resource cost, making it a treasure in itself.
Inside this small world, there are many immortal fields we can use to continue growing immortal grains or spiritual medicine…”
After listening to Tu Shan Yueyue’s words, Li Xiaojun pondered and asked, “If we’re going to enslave these beasts, how exactly do we do that?”
Li Xiaojun wanted to enslave the beasts but didn’t know how to go about it.
The beast tribe would enslave the Human Race simply by assigning some beasts to watch over them, since the entire Immortal Realm belonged to the beasts; even if humans were enslaved, they had no way to escape.
When humans were enslaved by beasts, they would be marked with a slavery mark that only beasts could recognize. If a human tried to escape and was caught by a beast, the beasts would punish them in various ways.
But for Li Xiaojun to enslave beasts, this method wouldn’t work, because if the beasts ran away, he wouldn’t have any means to control them.
He was aware of some methods to control living beings, like the life and death symbols used by the Tianshan Tonglao.
Li Xiaojun knew that he could leave a trace of divine soul in the sea of souls of a being, allowing him to control their life and death.
If he wanted the enslaved being to die, he would just need to trigger the divine soul.
However, this method only worked for a small number of individuals.
In this small world, the number of beasts was too great; if Li Xiaojun tried to control all of them using this method, his divine soul would be depleted and ineffective.
Moreover, using too much of his divine soul would also affect his cultivation, making this approach unsuitable.
Perhaps sensing Li Xiaojun’s dilemma, Tu Shan Yueyue thought for a moment and said, “Dad, if we only focus on managing this small world well, we could sell off most of these beasts and keep just a few lower-level ones to help us take care of the immortal fields.”
“Sell them?”
Li Xiaojun was very surprised by his daughter’s suggestion.
“Can we really sell these beasts? To whom? Who would buy them?”
In this small world, most of the beings are from the Heavenly Tiger Tribe, one of the ten major tribes in the Immortal Realm.
Who would dare to buy from such a tribe?
Upon hearing Li Xiaojun’s words, Tu Shan Yueyue replied leisurely, “Of course, we sell them to the Heavenly Tiger Tribe. We can tell them that if they don’t buy, we will kill all the hostages…”
Li Xiaojun’s eyes lit up upon hearing Tu Shan Yueyue’s words.
So that was it—after all that, Tu Shan Yueyue was suggesting kidnapping for ransom.
Previously, they extorted from the Heavenly Tiger Tribe using their own resources as leverage, threatening their lives to get everything they wanted.
Now, they were extorting other groups of the Heavenly Tiger Tribe.
As long as the Heavenly Tiger Tribe didn’t want to see these members die, they would have to cough up money to save them.
It was just like robbers kidnapping a child to demand a ransom from the parents.
“This is great! This way, we can profit from these beasts again,” Li Xiaojun said excitedly.
Moreover, he had already decided that this time, he would only accept high-quality immortal essence stones as ransom.
The small world had millions of Heavenly Tigers, with thousands of them having become immortals.
According to Tu Shan Yueyue, the Heavenly Tiger Tribe didn’t have a large population in the Immortal Realm. If possible, they definitely wouldn’t want to see so many of their tribesmen die.
In this situation, Li Xiaojun decided it would be best to demand a billion high-quality immortal essence stones from the Heavenly Tiger Tribe to consider letting them go.
“Yueyue, do you know where the high-quality immortal essence stone veins of the beast tribe are located?”
Thinking about the high-quality immortal essence stones, Li Xiaojun quickly asked his daughter Tu Shan Yueyue.
“I don’t know. Even if the beast tribe finds high-quality immortal essence stone veins, they wouldn’t tell anyone. Although they are beasts, they consist of many different tribes,” Tu Shan Yueyue shook her head and replied.
Upon hearing his daughter’s words, Li Xiaojun felt somewhat regretful.
If he could find the location of the high-quality immortal essence stone veins of the beast tribe, he could directly mine them himself.
With the system space combined with his rule of space, he could mine at incredible speed.
The last time he was in the Xumi Mountain Secret Realm, he mined an entire vein in just a few years, obtaining tens of billions of high-quality immortal essence stones.
According to the energy required for his system upgrade, he still needed one hundred trillion high-quality immortal essence stones, which roughly meant he had to mine around one thousand high-quality immortal essence stone veins.
Of course, if he had superior-grade immortal essence stones, he would only need around one hundred billion.
However, based on what he knew, the entire galaxy didn’t have any superior-grade immortal essence stone veins.
Perhaps there were superior-grade immortal essence stone veins near a black hole, but black holes were too dangerous. Even cultivators in the Golden Immortal Realm couldn’t approach the black hole’s horizon, or they would be torn apart by the black hole’s tremendous gravity.
“Dad, I may not know exactly where the beast tribe’s high-quality immortal essence stone veins are, but I have a rough idea of the location,” Tu Shan Yueyue said to Li Xiaojun.
“Where?” Li Xiaojun asked, surprised.
“It should be near the black star.”
“Black star?”
“Yes!” Tu Shan Yueyue nodded. “The black star is a planet that absorbs light and is formed by the collapse of a massive star. It is very dangerous; usually, beings below the True Immortal Realm don’t dare to approach the black star.”
Tu Shan Yueyue continued, “Generally, there are definitely immortal essence stone veins near the black star because it attracts materials and spiritual energy, compresses them, and then ejects them. So, in the direction materials are ejected from the black star, one can find immortal essence stone veins, with at least medium-quality veins.”
“If the black star is relatively large, the probability of encountering high-quality immortal essence stone veins increases greatly.”
After hearing Tu Shan Yueyue’s words, Li Xiaojun thought for a moment.
He believed that the black star Yueyue mentioned was indeed a stellar black hole.
A black hole is a celestial body that absorbs surrounding material and forms jets to eject matter back out.
However, this “celestial body” is so massive that it can absorb light, thus forming a black hole.
So, a black hole isn’t a hole; it is an extremely massive “planet.”
Small black holes expel more material than they absorb, which is what Hawking radiation describes.
As such, small black holes disappear faster than large ones.
"Black hole" is the term used by people from Earth, while in the Immortal Realm, both beasts and humans refer to a black hole as a black star because it truly is a celestial body.
