Chapter 1368: 1011: Willing to Be Sliced Up (Part 2)

You think it’s unfair? Ha! If there truly were absolute fairness in this world, then the dozen people you killed shouldn’t have died. Instead, when you made your move, they should have successfully countered and rid the world of a menace like you! Your biggest mistake is your lack of self-awareness.

As a young cultivator, knowing you have no talent, no background, no extraordinary luck, you should set aside your delusions and diligently do every little thing, accumulate virtue and forge good karma.

But you were greedy, wanting to ascend to the heavens in one step, so you fell to the evil path.

If you had self-awareness, you would know that a small ant from the righteous path, once fallen to the evil path, remains a small ant among evil cultivators.

No talent, no endurance, no fortune; ordinary and unremarkable. To the righteous path, you are no more or less; to the evil path, it is the same. Falling into my hands becoming mysterious, it remains unchanged because you have no inherent value.

Glancing around, seeing many mysterious entities cowering, Jiang Yuan smiled lightly and said, "You see the commanders and leaders not doing hard labor, yet living in luxury.

But did you see Ugly Slave imparting skills and now delving into the way of arrays to boost their own value?

Did you see Qi Baijun leading by example? Did you see Qian Xiaoyu impartially managing and recording merits? If you haven’t seen these, you should see You Lai offering two spirit stone mines to earn merits.

You want to be an official, want to throw your weight around, what can you use in exchange?

Here’s the deal, if you really have nothing to offer, I’ll show you a way. You should have seen my punishment of those mysterious entities just now. If you’re willing to be harvested by me once a day, you can also avoid hard labor and enjoy food and drink according to the commanders’ standards, how about that?"

"Even now, there’s still a distinction between high and low status, no choice!"

"No value, insignificant, can only fall into hard labor."

"If I had Qi Baijun’s treatment, I could lead by example too!"

"Ah, bullshit. If you really had that kind of toughness, you’d have been selected as a combat member long ago."

"Previously, there was a difference in realms, now that’s gone, everyone’s strength is the same, it just depends on who’s more ruthless."

"Easy for you to say! Anyway, I can’t do that hard job, cutting trees is the safest bet..."

......

The mysterious entities whispered among themselves, and then one hesitantly stepped forward, gathering courage to say, "I’m willing! It’s just being flayed, anyway, if I work slowly and can’t compete with others, I’ll end up being flayed anyway, might as well... at least eat well and drink well daily!"

"When you put it that way, it makes some sense."

"I’m kind of tempted too, anyway, dead pigs aren’t afraid of boiling water!"

"Those who fall behind get flayed and still have to keep working, can’t even match the commanders’ meals, gotta aim for something, right?"

Jiang Yuan’s eyes brightened at the words, nodding in admiration, saying, "Having the nerve to trade your body is way better than those yelling cowards afraid of everything. Anyone else willing to join in?"

As they say, when the forest is vast, you find all kinds of birds; with many mysterious entities, there are many little schemes at play.

Seeing someone stepping up as an example, indeed many more mysterious entities followed, roughly scanning, there were at least two or three hundred.

He gestured them forward, "Step closer. Those willing to endure a little flaying for an easy life, come over here. Today I am gracious, I’ll take in as many as there are, one flaying a day, enjoying commander treatment - four meals a day, three regular ones plus a choice of snacks or afternoon tea, each regular meal includes one meat, one vegetable, one soup plus staple food, three portions of water daily."

The terms laid out, stirred the interest of more mysterious entities.

It’s tough earning merits through hard labor, reluctant to even splurge on a piece of meat, every day envying the commanders’ diet of meats and greens readily available, more mysterious entities came forward.

"Mister, I’ll take them away, have Qian Xiaoyu record each one and remove them from the list."

"Easy enough, I’ll have him record them one by one!"

The sudden occurrence brought Jiang Yuan a windfall of four hundred and sixty-three self-volunteering for nurturing and slicing, which delighted him, never expecting such good fortune!

Post-registration, he instructed them if any have a change of heart, feel free to register with Qian Xiaoyu, waiting to gather a hundred before taking them away collectively.

Then, Jiang Yuan circled around, hitting select all, placing these four hundred plus mysterious entities into a new instance with the smallest area.

"As previously mentioned, you needn’t toil, eat when you wish, sleep when you wish." Extracting a storage array from the Chaos Trigram Disc, consuming some wood to generate over four hundred tokens, setting and distributing them, he smiled saying, "As long as you let me flay you once a day, who’s coming first?"

Enduring a little flesh pain for abundant food, seeing the filled array of exquisite dishes, many mysterious entities had no hesitation.

However, when the Soul Hook snagged someone, their ghostly wail echoed.

Jiang Yuan didn’t care if they regretted it or not, in any case, another task was accomplished!

[Side Mission: Human Support Plan]

[Mission 13: Use the Soul Hook to collect 50,000 Mysterious Soul Fragments (50000/50000) completed. Reward: Custom Tool +1; Skill Upgrade Card +4; Building Upgrade Card +2 issued]

[Mission 14: Use the Soul Hook to collect 100,000 Mysterious Soul Fragments (142/100000). Reward: Custom Tool +2; Resurrection Talisman +2; Custom Mystery Package +1]

Finishing the slicing harvest, in good spirits, humming a tune, he exited the instance.

Several skill upgrade cards had been stockpiled; without hesitation, he fed them to the Ice Flame, elevating it directly to level ten!

Earth Spirit Flame followed closely, also reaching level ten, with a thought, two flames emerged alongside, their power doubling. Thus, continuing the World Tree branch instance, it would be even more at ease!