Theft Had Reached the Old Devil's Door

In truth, the Purgatory Devil King, who was about to obtain the Flame Essence, had already begun to regard the various races of Purgatory as his own forces. They were no longer merely competing with one another for resources as they had been before.

The Purgatory Devil King also didn't want King Chi Gui and that kid Lei Dong to become too hostile toward each other. After all, the kid was not only powerful in his own right, but seemed to have extraordinary ties with a number of powerful figures in the Netherworld Ghost Domain.

There was no need to mention Netherworld Old Ghost. When the kid sought someone to witness the deal, he had actually asked Evil Phoenix of the Nether Phoenix Race. Even the Purgatory Devil King was a little surprised by that, since he knew the Nether Phoenix Race and the Ghost Race were enemies. Their two Spirit Transmutation Experts were hardly on friendly terms, either.

If the kid was on good terms with both sides, might the two races end their hostilities because of him? And if they joined forces instead, the situation throughout the Netherworld Ghost Domain would change in an instant.

The more the Purgatory Devil King thought about it, the more mysterious and uncanny the kid seemed. So even after being shaken down by him, the Purgatory Devil King instinctively didn't want to become his enemy. As a representative figure of the Purgatory Domain, he often had more to consider than other people. At the very least, he had already paid such a steep price to obtain the Flame Essence. Why make an enemy of Lei now? Looking at things from a different angle could lead to entirely different ideas and outcomes.

Rather than become Lei's enemy after suffering a heavy loss, he