Volume Five: The Wide World, Chapter Fourteen: Even Good Kids Learn Bad Habits (Part Two)

Luo Qian was a businessman: he left others alone if they left him alone, but he believed even more firmly in paying back blood for a tooth. Once he had decided Sean was a blight on the Demon Realm and a grave threat to him, he saw no reason to be polite. Of the thirty-two thousand captives turned slave soldiers, more than twenty thousand remained after the ten thousand wounded were set aside. Luo Qian dispersed fifteen hundred Demonic Cultivators among them, left two thousand men to guard the hotel, and took the rest out to harass Sean. They seized military supplies wherever they went, until rations and Demon Energy Coins filled the hotel. Sean, meanwhile, was besieged by three Devil Kings and could barely keep his head and tail together. When would he have time to deal with the Sun Wukong in Princess Iron Fan's belly?

Sean controlled half the Blood-Washed Plains Belt and was now the richest Devil King in the Demon Realm. Luo Qian had made himself a tidy profit from the war. While he was out raiding, Sophia worried at the hotel: there was nowhere to put all the supplies. At last, a Demonic Cultivator suggested having the slave soldiers excavate beneath the Luo Hotel and build an Underground Palace divided into small storerooms. The Demon Realm's mages could then work together to turn each one into a large Storage Space, vastly increasing its capacity.

Luo Qian was pleased when he heard. He had plans of his own: in wartime, those honeycomb-like storerooms could hold supplies; in peacetime, they could hold goods for speculation and resale.

With a warehouse that large, Luo Qian's thoughts turned to other possibilities. Word had it that His Highness Sean had military supply depots in this city and that city, packed