Elsewhere, Ice Hell.
This was a hell of extreme cold, filled everywhere with icebergs and snowy plains. Gales howled, blizzards ran rampant, and even dripping water froze into ice. All was a vast expanse of white, as though even demons could be frozen solid.
At this moment, Kexilai, the invincible demon Hellhound, arrived in this place.
Inside a palace, more than a dozen, perhaps twenty, demons who had reached the Invincible Realm had gathered. They were all invincible demons of Ice Hell, high in status and great in power, and also Hellhound Kexilai's drinking buddies and fair-weather friends.
"Kexilai, you said you came back to Ice Hell this time to make us rich, to go together to that Green Lotus Hell. Is that true? You're not trying to swindle us, are you?"
An invincible demon looked doubtfully at the impassioned Hellhound Kexilai beside it. Though they were old acquaintances of Kexilai's, they still did not quite dare believe that this fellow would be so kind as to bring them along to get rich.
It would already be good enough if he did not fleece them for their money. As for getting rich, they did not even dare dream of it.
"Swindle you? Why do you say I'm swindling you? You make it sound as if taking you along to get rich is somehow meant to harm you. Think carefully—with your intelligence, and my abilities, could I possibly swindle you?"
Hellhound Kexilai shouted.
"That makes some sense. With our intelligence, there's no way you could swindle us."
The group of invincible demons nodded, all feeling that this was quite reasonable.
"Exactly."
Hellhound Kexilai said, "I already told you that Green Lotus Hell is a high-level hell plane, one on the verge of advancing into a Demon God plane. If I were