The Transaction

The Crooked Path Demon Realm had once been a desolate region of the Primordial Demon Realm.

No native treasures of the Demon Realm had ever appeared here, nor were there any natural conditions that could help devils grow stronger.

No devils were interested in this place.

So after the Primordial Demon Realm shattered, when the Crooked Path Demon King occupied this place, it attracted no covetous attention from the other Demon Kings.

Gu Qingshan killed two devils and walked down the corridor toward the depths of the palace.

After only a few steps, a group of Crooked Path Devils tasked with guarding the palace came to meet him.

They were pitch-black from head to toe, looked much like the Human Race, and had long, spiked tails trailing behind them.

The captain of the guards shouted, "Demon King, you cannot enter the palace. Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to be rude."

Gu Qingshan ignored him.

He passed the guards and continued onward.

Strangely, every guard stood still. No one stepped forward to stop him.

Only after his figure disappeared did a violent gale of sword wind surge through the entire corridor. All the guards turned to scraps of flesh and blood and burst apart in the gale.

Gu Qingshan walked on for a while longer, and another group of devils appeared ahead.

These devils were clearly stronger than the previous group.

The devil at their head advised him, "Your Majesty, you can't go any farther. If our mistress finds out what happened here, you'll lose your allowance for next month."

Gu Qingshan stopped.

"An allowance..."

He pressed a hand to his forehead, utterly speechless over the Crooked Path Demon King.

As a Demon King, he was under his wife's thumb in every way. He couldn't even go home, and had