Chapter 387: Sand

Never play in the sand at a cat demon’s house.

This is a very important lesson for all demons. If you don’t follow it, something terrible will happen.

For example… your hands will stink for days.

“What kind of bag is this!”

The stench that even the Mighty Diamond Hand couldn’t block drove that human cultivator crazy on the spot.

“It’s a Gu Raising bag. I never said it was a Storage Bag,” Jiang Ke’er said, covering her nose and looking at the Diamond Hand man in horror.

“Uncle, please stay away from me.”

That Diamond Hand man wished he could slap Jiang Ke’er across the head, but in the end, he was defeated by her young and pretty face.

His heart softened, and he ran off to wash his hands obediently.

“Move it!”

The group of human cultivators glared at Jiang Ke’er fiercely and pushed her as they walked out of the forest.

“Aren’t you going to kidnap me for my beauty?” Jiang Ke’er looked at them in surprise. “I’m very cute!”

‘Although I’m disguised, I’m still cute!’

“…”

The cultivator leader, whose hand was swollen from the sting, glanced at Jiang Ke’er with a pained expression.

“We’re not scummy enough to go after a little girl like you.”

“But you’re humans! Aren’t humans bottomless scumbags?” Jiang Ke’er blinked.

“It’s the other way around!” The cultivator leader said angrily.

Jiang Ke’er looked at him with sympathy. He also looked back with sympathy.

The group of cultivators soon escorted Jiang Ke’er to their destination—a prison cart. Inside the cart were already a few bedraggled demons. Although these captured demons looked a bit upset, they weren’t seriously injured.

Jiang Ke’er was stuffed into the cart and heard a burly tiger clan uncle sigh, “Bad luck.”

“Bad luck about what?” Jiang Ke’er asked curiously.

“Are you new here?” The tiger clan uncle immediately saw through Jiang Ke’er’s identity.

“Yeah.” Jiang Ke’er admitted.

“Outside the Ancient Scholarly Realm, the two clans are at war, making the Realm of No Regret uneasy too,” the tiger clan uncle said.

“At first, a group of demon cultivators accidentally teleported into human territory and got caught. To exchange prisoners, the demons started capturing humans who accidentally teleported into their lands as bargaining chips… But don’t forget, humans outnumber demons several times over.”

The tiger clan uncle laughed as he spoke.

“So the demons quickly caught enough, even far exceeding the quota. The humans panicked. They wanted to exchange prisoners but didn’t have enough demon prisoners to trade, so they had to come here to set traps and catch us.”

So that was it. No wonder the demons in the prison cart weren’t injured and looked very calm.

“If you don’t resist violently, you won’t get hurt or die,” the tiger clan uncle said, frowning.

“But if this continues, I’m afraid there will be big trouble…”

Indeed. Jiang Ke’er glanced at the Gu bag that had been tossed aside in the cart; those cultivators still hadn’t given up on it.

“Cultivators from both races are afraid of being caught in the wild and stripped of their belongings, so they don’t dare carry valuable artifacts and dan medicines. If they don’t encounter Xubeasts, it’s fine, but if they do… they’ll probably lose their lives. Not to mention the Super Void King that might jump out at any time.”

This was indeed a tricky problem. The chain effect of the war between the two races had changed the entire environment of the Realm of No Regret. Survival here was already very difficult.

If cultivators wanted to go into the wild but carried a “disarmed” debuff, the death rate would inevitably skyrocket.

“Why not set a rule? No robbing when catching people,” a young demon who was also captured said with a pout.

“This is too troublesome. It would be better for the two clan leaders to meet and negotiate to solve the problem. Otherwise, no one can survive.”

“Easier said than done,” the tiger clan uncle shook his head.

“Cultivators never submit to each other. Besides, the path of cultivation is about competition, a hundred boats contending, fighting for limited resources. Even if negotiations solve the problem, there will still be lower-level cultivators who break the ban and commit robbery under the guise of capturing people… Robbery is so profitable. If I hadn’t already taken a delivery mission, I’d join a robbery gang too.”

This uncle was straightforward. The human cultivator outside the cart also laughed when he heard this.

“Cultivation, cultivation, isn’t it just doing murder and robbery under the banner of seeking the Dao? Unless Spiritual Energy disappears one day, the Xiuzhen World will always be this way.”

“Haha, who can argue with that?”

‘Even if Spiritual Energy disappeared, it would still be the same.’ She had seen an era without Spiritual Energy.

But indeed, at least on the surface, that era was much more peaceful.

“Speaking of which, don’t you demons already have your own territory?” the human cultivator captain asked curiously.

“Why are you still coming to this crappy Realm of No Regret?”

“Even with territory, you still need to earn a living. Magic Crystals don’t fall from the sky,” the tiger clan uncle said with a bitter smile and shook his head.

“It’s dangerous here, but the pay is good. This is all I can achieve in my life. But I don’t want my son to end up like me, unable to afford training and stuck at the Six Harmonies Stage until he dies of old age…”

“Sigh,” the human cultivator leader sighed lightly, handed a cigarette to the tiger clan uncle, and said with emotion, “Same here. Among us old folks who still come to the Realm of No Regret to struggle, how many aren’t doing it for their children?”

“Is this a loser support group?”

A discordant voice came from beside the tiger clan uncle.

A young man had a cold smile on his lips and disdain in his eyes.

The tiger clan uncle raised his bushy eyebrows and smiled at the young man.

“Losers always find all kinds of excuses for themselves. If you ask me, the reason you’re stuck at the Six Harmonies Stage for life is just an excuse. In the end, you’re just too lazy to look for opportunities,” the young man said with his chin raised, arrogantly.

Jiang Ke’er sensed his cultivation base… Mid Four Symbols Realm.

Being able to reach this level under thirty was indeed a small elite. No wonder he spoke so aggressively.

But the tiger clan uncle wasn’t angry at all.

Instead, he gave a thumbs up and said to the young man with a hearty laugh, “Little brother, being able to reach this level at such a young age is indeed impressive. You definitely have the right to mock us old losers.”

“Hmph,” the young man became even more smug upon receiving praise, his nostrils seeming larger.

“Then, may I ask what your secret to cultivation is?” the human cultivator captain asked with some displeasure.

“One percent talent, ninety-nine percent effort,” the young man said proudly in a lecturing tone.

“If you worked as hard as I do, you wouldn’t be stuck at the Six Harmonies Stage.”

“I see,” Jiang Ke’er suddenly spoke up.

“However, the nature of your cultivation method seems a bit special. Can you tell us its origin?”

This was a pretty good high-grade cultivation method, not one that a demon could afford to buy.

At Jiang Ke’er’s question, the young man’s expression stiffened.

“It’s just from a small cliff secret realm. There wasn’t anything good in the secret realm… It’s mainly due to hard work!” the young man said, trying to appear unembarrassed.

So he still got lucky by jumping off a cliff. Jiang Ke’er couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Only Jiang Ke’er’s laughter made the young man unable to get angry and retort.

If anyone here had the right to step on his face and mercilessly mock him, it was Jiang Ke’er.

“And you?” The tiger clan uncle looked at Jiang Ke’er curiously, even with some awe in his eyes. “You… must be a genius descendant from some big clan, right?”

“I’m an orphan. No parents, no clan.”

“Then your cultivation…”

“This is considered high?” Jiang Ke’er stared at him in surprise.

“Honestly, my talent is garbage.”