They paid the Demon Spirit Coins.
Lao Six and Xiao Chen sat at a Primordial Antiquity wooden table, spiritual energy curling around them, the windows bright and the furnishings spotless.
They wolfed down stir-fried demon beef.
And demon beef hot pot.
Xiao Chen had stripped the Demonic Light from the demon bull's leg with a secret art.
All the demonic energy he extracted had flowed into his Demon Seed.
The carefully prepared demon beef was delicious and wonderfully chewy.
As he swallowed it,
waves of warmth surged through him.
Its Origin Power was astonishing.
Feasting on fine food and drinking fine wine,
Lao Six kept exclaiming in delight.
In this world,
you still needed money.
With money, you could have everything.
Without it, you went hungry and cold.
Meanwhile,
at the Demon-Eating Wine House,
in a luxurious guest room,
a handsome, cold-looking youth in red sat cross-legged in meditation. Golden radiance wreathed him, and the resonance of the Dao surged around him, warping the void and twisting space and time.
Suddenly,
he seemed to sense something.
He opened his eyes.
Deep within his pupils,
divine radiance flowed,
stirring wondrous divine glyphs.
In the void,
Azure radiance streamed.
An aged face, sinister and fierce,
slowly appeared.
"Greetings, Azure Heaven Demon Emperor!"
The youth in red descended from the air and gave Qing Jiuwu a slight bow, his expression indifferent, hardly respectful.
"Luo Jiuxiao, the War Family has ordered you to intercept someone! Complete the task, and the War Family will grant you an earth-shaking ancient art!"
Qing Jiuwu spoke coolly.
"The War Family? An earth-shaking ancient art?" At the mention of the War Family, the arrogance in Luo Jiuxiao's eyes vanished, and his attitude changed abruptly.
He hailed from the Heaven-Treading Dynasty in the Golden Roc Ancient Domain.
He was the