'The Enduring demon sect was said to have techniques that directly affected the bloodlines of its members.'

Noah thought as he neared the slave with a peculiar body.

Icy Cascade didn't even try to stop him, those Credits were more than enough to cover for the work of one cultivator.

Noah could guess that the cultivator from the Wardens was rising issues on purpose, but he didn't care if the Empire wanted to use that chance to rip him off.

Money was useless in his mind, and he was rich anyway, he could casually throw even a few millions of Credits without blinking.

The slave didn't even notice his presence, he just kept on breaking the surface of the dark-gray mountain with the pickaxe in his grasp.

Noah applied a bit of pressure with his mental sphere, and the man became confused for a moment.

Yet, it immediately resumed its work when his mind stabilized.

'Rank 3 body, rank 2 dantian, and rank 1 sea of consciousness… The Empire even forces them to cultivate.'

Noah thought as his mental waves probed the state of the slave's mind.

The latter's mental sphere couldn't do anything against his inspection, the difference in the power of their minds was simply immense.

Noah could read his thoughts as if they were words on an open book, but that only confirmed his suspects.

The insides of the slave's mind were murky, his sea didn't radiate any form of light, and a black smoke occupied the rest of his sphere.

His half-transparent figure was full of cracks that resembled a tight array of chains that covered the entirety of his ethereal body.

'This man is broken to the core, he can't give me any answer. The chains of the Empire are indeed scary.'

"How much for him?"

Noah said after having those thoughts.

He couldn't obtain an answer, but that didn't mean that Chasing Demon couldn't either.

"No slave can leave the working area alive. The Empire has a wide choice of purchasable cultivators, but these ones are not for-"

Icy Cascade began to speak, but a sudden pressure generated by Noah's mental energy forced her to stop.

The man in front of him