The Empire Star truly relies on high-tech means for layered exploitation. The energy mines were acquired through astronomical loan interest, and the ore was mined by trading the lives of beastmen at extremely low prices. After processing into energy stones, they were resold to beastman planets at high prices. The hidden layers of exploitation are truly terrifying!
Indeed, monopoly is the true path to immense profit!
Even if some beastmen understood this, they were likely powerless. After all, the technological gap between the beastmen and the humans of the Empire Star was widening to an unbridgeable extent. Falling behind meant being beaten and exploited!
After understanding the secrets of the energy ore, Ding Yun couldn't help but sigh. She thought of those who had chosen to sacrifice part of their intelligence, transplant their bloodlines, and protect humanity.
Seeing this scene, seeing this future.
Would they regret it?
...
With her original objective achieved, Ding Yun had no desire to continue mining here. In the next moment, she piled all the energy ore into her basket and carried it out.
She then went directly to the management office to submit the ore.
Simultaneously, she applied for resignation.
Although the mining site was black-hearted, all due wages were deducted precisely as they should be, and anything not due was not deducted. Everything was handled according to procedure.
Therefore, after confirming her resignation, the management only deducted three days' wages from Ding Yun before settling the remaining balance. Her file was noted with voluntary resignation, and she would be permanently ineligible for re-employment.
Subsequently, Ding Yun went to the second energy mine to handle resignation procedures, and then to the third martial arts hall. The former was quite smooth.
Only the martial arts hall presented more trouble. The hall manager stated that someone had already booked her in advance. Breaching the contract would incur a tenfold penalty for breach of contract and would damage the hall's reputation, for which the hall would also claim compensation from her.
Therefore, resignation was permissible.
Either she would work until the end of today and then resign, or she would pay tenfold the breach of contract fee plus the hall's loss of reputation fee.
Ding Yun obviously couldn't afford that much money.
She could only stay, preparing to endure another beating.
However, she had arrived at the martial arts hall fourteen hours in advance. The reserved guest would not arrive for another fourteen hours, so she did not need to be beaten immediately. She could rest here for fourteen hours and wait.
Since she had nothing else to do, Ding Yun naturally went directly to the lounge to begin cultivating.
The original body had no money to purchase any high-grade cultivation techniques. She practiced the basic breathing technique that was free online and issued to all beastmen upon reaching adulthood. Compared to those high-grade techniques that could enhance bloodline concentration, purity, lead to ancestral reversion, or even absorb the essence of the sun and moon, the basic breathing technique only served to nourish the body and slowly improve physical fitness.
Moreover, the rate of improvement was extremely slow.
It was so slow that after about ten years of practice, physical fitness would only increase by about ten percent. However, what the original body valued was not its effect on physical fitness but its nourishing effect. This was how she was able to recover without medicine or medical attention after being beaten.
Of course, in reality, the nourishing effect of the technique was insufficient to allow her body to recover so quickly.
Her rapid recovery was mainly due to the powerful panda bloodline.
However, Ding Yun had numerous cultivation techniques. Although none were perfectly suited to the panda bloodline, she could find several techniques in her extensive library. Combined with her understanding of the original body's condition and the entire cultivation system, it was easy for her to create a technique that was perfectly suited to her current physique and bloodline.
She took advantage of the temporary free time to cultivate it rapidly.
Sometimes, compatibility with a technique was more important than its rank. A perfectly compatible technique allowed for effortless cultivation. Problems such as insufficient qi and blood during cultivation could be resolved by consuming various delicacies and high-energy foods from her portable gourmet planet.
Therefore, during the fourteen hours of waiting.
Ding Yun grew stronger every moment.
Her qi flowed like a dragon, her blood like mercury, and every cell in her body, as if starved for a long time, frantically absorbed qi and blood energy to grow. The panda bloodline, which had been consumed and was difficult to replenish, even showing signs of depletion and decay, rapidly strengthened. Finally, Ding Yun even transformed into a panda, stomped on the earth, gazed at the sky, and absorbed the essence of heaven and earth through the innate yin and yang energy on her body, transforming it into yin and yang talismans to accelerate her cultivation.
After more than ten hours.
Ding Yun underwent a seismic transformation.
The purity of her panda bloodline increased from the original three percent to ten percent. Her physical fitness, qi and blood intensity, and other aspects quadrupled to fivefold, directly elevating her from an unranked Level 8 beastman to a Level 6 one.
Beastman cultivation was very unique. They pursued bloodline purity but also feared pursuing perfect bloodline purity.
In their view, enhancing the purity of their beast bloodline could make them stronger, but it should never exceed fifty percent. They believed that once their beast bloodline purity exceeded fifty percent, how could they still be considered human?
Already subject to ostracism and disdain, if their beast bloodline purity reached seventy or eighty percent, even if they became extremely powerful, they would likely be expelled from humanity. Thus, most were hesitant and dared not perfectly enhance their bloodline purity, curbing their advancement after reaching forty percent.
They no longer relied on increasing bloodline purity to raise their cultivation.
Instead, they increased their cultivation through other means.
For example, the concentration of qi and blood.
Or the strength of their bloodline, by finding ways to delve deeper into the origin of their bloodline, allowing their beast bloodline to revert to an ancestral state and transform towards ancient divine beasts.
However, there were still those who continued to increase their bloodline purity. But once their bloodline purity exceeded fifty percent, they were ostracized as demons, considered no longer human, not even beastmen.
They were merely considered demons, intelligent beasts that had attained sentience.
This was true excommunication from humanity.
Ding Yun's current bloodline purity was still very low, so she did not need to worry about which direction to take next.
Fourteen hours were not that long, and when one was cultivating, time seemed to pass extremely quickly. Before long, the martial arts hall's supervisor and manager knocked on the door, signaling Ding Yun to come out and receive the guest.
Immediately after, Ding Yun finished her cultivation.
She put on her designated uniform.
Then, she directly took the stage in her panda form.
That's right, the sparring partners in martial arts halls generally had to fight in their beast forms. After all, fighting against humans offered no satisfaction, whereas beating beastmen much larger than oneself felt more thrilling and accomplished!
The original body had been hired for this job precisely because of her size. If she had only the bloodline of a hamster or some other small animal, the martial arts hall wouldn't have hired her at all.