Chapter 561 - 460: Squirrel Demon, You Can Buy Dresses in Celestial Wolf City

While the Nine-tailed Fox and Jiang Qiu were absorbing the Spirit Vein and cultivating a third avatar, One-tailed and Ah Xiong stood guard outside the mining area. One-tailed sat on a small cliff on the side of the mountain, her fair little feet dangling in mid-air. With her pale, slender arms propped up beside her, she looked down at the dazed Demon Race miners who hadn’t fled. "These demons seem to have lost their minds."

Ah Xiong stood beside her. Although she was quite short, she looked a head taller since One-tailed was sitting. She was studying the miners below. "Are they scared?"

Now, the several hundred members of the Celestial Wolf Race in the mining area had all been killed. Even some of the Celestial Wolf Race members supervising from the depths had been slaughtered, yet none of these miners had tried to escape. It was quite strange.

Although they didn’t quite understand why they were mining, their haggard appearances couldn’t be faked. Every single one of them looked like they had endured a long time of suffering. There was no reason they would enjoy staying here.

Of course, the most crucial part was that all of them showed faint signs of Transformation. Their physical sizes were just right—neither too small nor too large—yet here they were, stuck in the mining area, digging.

It was strange. They were clearly only at the Opening Spirit Veins level, or the Spirit Control Realm at most, yet they all showed features of Transformation. This was not at all what one would expect to find in a mining area.

However... in truth, they didn’t know what the standard configuration for a mining area was supposed to be. It was just that the sight of this huge crowd of the Demon Race had shaken their worldview.

Never before had they heard of a case where thousands, or even tens of thousands, of demons capable of Cultivation—some even at the Dominator Level—were forced to mine. Even the great and powerful Golden Eagle Race didn’t restrict their subordinate Golden Eagles in such a manner.

The Golden Eagle Ancestor had even enfeoffed his descendants across various regions to watch over his territory. Even one who had just achieved Opening Spirit Veins could control a vast domain. After all, who could argue when the entire outer region of that massive Primitive Ancient Forest belonged to the Golden Eagle Race?

But here, individuals who were clearly at the level of regional Dominators were still crammed together, mining. They were filled with such sorrow, as if they had lost their souls, tortured for who knows how many ages.

’Why didn’t Celestial Wolf City grant them their own territories?

’It’s not as if there isn’t enough land or territory. Celestial Wolf City is a gathering place for a million demons. Although I haven’t seen how big Celestial Wolf City truly is, all the surrounding lands are unmanaged by any demons. They’re like ownerless lands!

’In other words, despite having so much territory outside Celestial Wolf City, they didn’t give it to these demons. Instead, they gathered them all here to mine.’

Ah Xiong, naturally, couldn’t understand such a thing. In fact, before coming here and meeting One-tailed, she hadn’t even known a great city called Celestial Wolf City existed.

Back when she first met Jiang Qiu, she had thought there were no demon gathering places in this world. But now, she was seeing a huge number of demons gathered in a single mining area.

’So many demons, and many at the Dominator Level, too! They could command all the land a Great Dominator could, or even more!’

"Celestial Wolf City really is something, to make these demons fear them so much they don’t even dare to run," One-tailed said, her eyes still narrowed as she observed the miners below. She let out a soft breath. "Just what has Celestial Wolf City become?"

She wasn’t particularly concerned about what would happen to the so-called miners, nor did she care why they didn’t flee. She was simply curious about what kind of methods Celestial Wolf City possessed.

She was the Nine-tailed Fox’s first avatar, privy to all of the Nine-tailed Fox’s experiences. In a way, the two were one and the same. It was just that from this unique relationship, a distinct consciousness had been born. But in essence, she was a part of the Nine-tailed Fox.

Therefore, her understanding of the Celestial Wolf Race came from the Nine-tailed Fox, and the Nine-tailed Fox had never been to Celestial Wolf City. She had only heard that a Super True Dominator resided here, which was why a city had formed.

’I don’t know how big the city is, but the fact that it can gather a million demons, all of whom have achieved Opening Spirit Veins, is astounding. That might be more than the entire population of the Golden Eagle Race’s territory.

’Most importantly, there are many demons here who are stronger than the Golden Eagles, many of them Ancestors of their own clans. Within the Celestial Wolf Race alone, there are at least several dozen Ancestors, all of whom came into being because of that Super True Dominator.

’You could say Celestial Wolf City is a symbol of strength, power, and honor. Any demon who can live in Celestial Wolf City and secure a place for themselves is countless times stronger than the wild demons outside!

’The demons from the city look down on the Golden Eagle Race the same way the Golden Eagle Race looks down on the various wild demons—with nothing but condescension and arrogance.’

One-tailed could sense this easily. She didn’t know why, but she was just very sensitive to emotions. When she killed those members of the Celestial Wolf Race, she could easily perceive their fear and indignation—indignation that they were dying at the hands of some wild demons who had appeared out of nowhere.

Yes, even in death, they felt disgraced. ’Why would we, the proud descendants of a great family of the Celestial Wolf Race, die at the hands of demons we’ve never even seen before?’

And to die so cleanly and decisively!

One-tailed had always met such gazes with cold indifference. But thinking back on it now, she felt a little displeased. They were as annoying as the catatonic miners below. "They don’t know their place."