After hearing Long Yu's account, She Mo finally realized that her thinking had been too naive.
If the other side discovered their intentions, it would be highly detrimental to their next moves.
"Your Excellency is still more thorough in your considerations. Should I raise her rent a little and exhaust the demonic crystals on her sooner?"
Long Yu shook his head. "No need. Those few demonic crystals cannot change anything, and it could easily make her wary. Let her cultivate for a while longer. At most, she will break through to the Earth Demon Realm. Such cultivation is nothing to fear."
"Yes. Your Excellency possesses late stage Heavenly Demon cultivation and governs the entire southern district. If not for Your Excellency's unwillingness to be bound by others, you would have long since pledged allegiance to some Demon King and left this land beyond the domain."
Long Yu smiled dismissively. "Others see this land beyond the domain as a venomous scorpion, but in my eyes, opportunities lie everywhere here. One can earn mountains of demonic crystals. Only useless trash lacking sufficient strength would place their hopes in others.
Pledging allegiance to a Demon King may seem glorious, but one would instead be unable to control one's own fate; even one's life would rest on another's whim."
Having said this, Long Yu looked at She Mo. "Do you also feel that your life rests on my whim, that you are bound and constrained?"
She Mo was slightly startled and hurriedly lowered her head in explanation.
"This subordinate would never dare entertain such thoughts. This subordinate's cultivation is low and her abilities shallow. Only under Your Excellency's protection has this subordinate been able to live peacefully in Abyss City. This subordinate has yet to repay Your Excellency's grace; how could she harbor such