Using flight and a teleportation talisman, ten days later, Li Jizhou finally arrived at the City of Ten Thousand Races, located one hundred thousand miles southwest of Qianji City.

This is the only city of the southern demon race in the northeast direction, built entirely in accordance with the human race’s city structures.

It was constructed after the hundred races’ war, when the demon race was unified, specifically to establish contact with the Central State’s royal family and the Ten Thousand Poison Swamp.

However, since its construction, no real official power has come to cooperate with the demon race.

The reason is simple—the Central State Dynasty has looked down upon the demon race in every era.

Since the ancient immortal times, human Immortal Monarchs have emerged incessantly, overshadowing all other races for a million years, leading the human race to view itself as the orthodox of heaven and earth. They disdain the demon race for their mutated bloodlines and humanoid forms, arrogantly considering them no different from demon beasts.

This has a basis, after all. Since the birth of the Spirit Vein Ancestral Tree, the human race’s speed and efficiency in cultivating and refining spiritual qi have been the highest. Therefore, the human body and its structure are deemed most in line with the Celestial Dao, regarded as the leader of all spirits. The numerous ascensions of human Immortal Monarchs in ancient times prove this point.

Meanwhile, although the demon beast race has the potential for ancestral bloodline divine ability awakening, only a few can awaken, and most still rely on methods of spiritual qi cultivation to achieve greater and more stable development.

The Central State Dynasty’s disdain for the demon race stems from human arrogance, while the Ten Thousand Poison Swamp looks down on them for their ignorance, considering them stubborn and inept in spiritual cultivation techniques.

Regardless of the type of demon race, ninety-nine percent know nothing about cultivation techniques—be it pill refining, artifact creation, formations, witchcraft, or puppetry, they are all clueless.

Additionally, since the demon race of the southern region does not produce spirit stones, the swamp is even less inclined to interact with them.

As for the demon race itself, except for a few insightful and visionary Demon Emperors, Demon Saints, and Demon Venerables, eighty percent of them also dismiss the human race as nothing but their blood food.

The human race is no different from two-legged sheep.

This mutual disdain led to the failure of the City of Ten Thousand Races, built with painstaking effort by the Demon Saint back in the day.

However, the Demon Emperor still has numerous followers, as the adoration of the strong is written into the demon race’s bloodline. As such, forces representing the Demon Emperor have always remained in the City of Ten Thousand Races to maintain order.

The order is simple—humans coming to the City of Ten Thousand Races are not to be eaten.

Because of this straightforward rule, some human cultivators have engaged in private business transactions with the demon race.

Most of them are individual cultivators in need of demon race materials, or some small businesses.

A few months ago, Jin Zhaoyu reached a cooperative agreement with the Red Flame demon race here, taking risks to trade one hundred thousand square units of Red Phosphorus Gold Ore with the Red Flame Demon Division.

According to recent information from Consort Zhen, Li Jizhou has figured out the details of the entire situation concerning Jin Zhaoyu.

Initially, he was swindled by a wealthy merchant claiming to be from the Daoyi Dynasty, causing issues with Qianji City transactions and resulting in a deficit of a million middle-grade spirit stones.

Unexpectedly, he then learned the demon race in the City of Ten Thousand Races was seeking to purchase Red Phosphorus Gold Ore at high prices, with profits that could compensate for the deficit. Furthermore, the demon race was a small southern tribe of the southern region, almost without any contact with human cultivators. Then someone impersonated Consort Zhen to seek help from Jin Zhaoyu again.

With a substantial deficit and facing pressure from Qianji City’s Master Mu Yu, Jin Zhaoyu finally took the risk, harboring a fluke mentality.

Had he known at the start that it was the Red Flame demon race, he wouldn’t have engaged in such business even if it meant death.

Upon entering the City of Ten Thousand Races, desolation greeted him.

Not only were the street stalls absent, but even the stores along the street had only a few opened. The street itself was sparsely populated, with only a few passersby hurrying through.

A slight sensing suggested that almost ninety percent bore the aura of the demon race, with scarcely any human cultivators in sight.

In the few open shops, only slave-like half-demons were seen welcoming and cleaning for the guests.

Li Jizhou’s appearance immediately drew the attention of the few onlookers.

There was no helping it. In a demon race city filled with demons, a human cultivator already stood out, let alone a minor human cultivator like him.

This was rarer than a quasi-immortal artifact!

Even small caravans had attendants who were at least late-stage Golden Core.

And yet, Li Jizhou dared to come here at the mere middle stage of Foundation Establishment?

Not only the demons here but even the enslaved half-demons gazed at Li Jizhou with a hint of a ravenous glint in their eyes.

So tempting, one wonders how delicious a tender and smooth human like this would taste?

This time, accompanying Li Jizhou were Cyan Dome, Hong Luan, Cang Huang, and Sable.

Firstly, to present a front convincing enough for the Red Flame demon race, as a lone middle-stage Foundation Establishment human cultivator coming to the City of Ten Thousand Races would be too unbelievable and would inevitably make the Red Flame demon race suspicious.

Secondly, the four women, regardless, still belonged to the demon race. Coming to their ancestral land in the southern region felt like returning home. Despite some resentment toward the demon race, they were eager to come out and explore.

According to the secret talks from Jin Zhaoyu relayed by Consort Zhen, Li Jizhou easily located a shop in the central market of the City of Ten Thousand Races.

The shop was named "Fair and Just Trading Pavilion."

This awkward name confirmed that the shop owner must be a demon race, one emulating human style.

"Welcome, guest!" As soon as he approached the shop’s entrance, a female half-demon with fur on her face greeted him with a bow.

Her attire was wild in style, reminiscent of human race skirts, but the fabric was as thin as feathers, revealing her allure and enticing form within.