"That old hag committed countless crimes and brought calamity to the region. At least now she's finally been completely reduced to ashes," Yan Chixia said with a sigh.
Hao Shuai paid no heed to Yan Chixia's lament. Instead, he summoned Xiaoqian and said, "Xiaoqian, I've already destroyed the Tree Demon. Do you know where its treasure vault is?"
"Mm~ Ah~?" Xiaoqian had only just appeared, and she hadn't quite processed the news that Tree Demon Grandma was dead. She only answered instinctively, "Grandma didn't have a treasure cave."
"What? There's no treasure cave?!" Hao Shuai exclaimed in surprise.
"That's right. At least, I've never heard her mention one," Nie Xiaoqian said, not entirely sure.
Unwilling to give up, Hao Shuai pushed his Divine Thought to its utmost range and scanned the cavern thoroughly, from top to bottom, two or three times. Only after finding nothing did he finally believe Xiaoqian.
"Damn it, this Tree Demon is way too poor!" Hao Shuai scoffed. "It's an insult to the name of a thousand-year-old demon!"
Actually, the Tree Demon had been pretty hard done by~~
Unlike other demons, it had taken form from a tree. Since its true body couldn't move, it had remained near Lanruo Temple ever since it gained sentience. Under those circumstances, where could it possibly find heavenly treasures or other such riches?
And since it couldn't leave the area around Lanruo Temple, it naturally couldn't recruit underlings or collect protection money. It could only scrape by with a few female ghosts to put on a show.
So you could say that demons born from flowers, plants, and trees were the most pitiful of all demons. They also had the weakest foundations and were the least powerful among those of the same realm.
Since there was no treasure vault, Hao