It took a while for Haoren to comfort Akeno, who had been broken by Nakagawa Yu, and began to torture the prisoners as usual.
Of course, when it comes to asking for torture, it actually means just asking a few questions, and it doesn't take much effort.
Lord, Akeno showed no intention of resisting at all when his guard was broken. Instead, he answered his questions very obediently and honestly.
"What do you mean? I am a defector from the Tengu clan. Because Xiao Yuezi can't cross the east, I want to find a demon rift as a stronghold?"
"Woo... If he is a defector, he will not be able to survive in the clan. He will be too poor and be kicked out. Otherwise, he will want to move around human society and get some resources."
"It turns out that he just ran out and met two very powerful humans, like some spiritual generals from the Taishi Bureau. They almost killed him. He escaped and they chased him all the way, and finally escaped with great difficulty.
"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
, so he..."
Akeno, who was crying with pear blossoms and raining down on her, told her the details of her life and what happened in those days as if she was complaining.
After hearing this, Haoren nodded in understanding.
"Well...that's it."
No wonder Akeno would chase down those group of spirit generals from the Taishi Bureau. I wonder if they had been chased by the Taishi Bureau's spirit generals before, and there they met Nitta and the others who were planning to destroy the rift.
So old and new grudges are overlapping each other, so they keep chasing them.
And the demon that Akeno was driven out is a wandering demon, so Nanguwai wants to occupy a demon crack as a stronghold.
After understanding Akeno's situation, Haoren had some doubts.
"I just said that I was kicked out because I was poor. What happened?"
What the devil calls poverty actually does not mean little food or lack of resources.
Many monsters eat meat, and most of them feed on humans or animals, but there are also a few monsters like Tengu who are vegetarians.
If a monster is mainly carnivorous, it would make sense to have less food. After all, if it was an era dominated by humans, it would be basically impossible for monsters to hunt and kill humans wantonly.
However, Tengu are not vegetarians, not to mention that monsters that reach the level of Monster King actually eat very little.
So when Akeno talks about being poor, he definitely does not mean having little food.
Then there may be a shortage of resources.
"He owed too many demon stones to his tribe, and he couldn't bear the debt. The leader of the tribe didn't support him, so he was kicked out by the tribe..."
Although there is no currency in the demon society, if you can barter, there is a thing called demon stone that can replace the currency.
It's a bit like how ancient human society used shells or other things to trade when they didn't have royal coins.
Demon stone is not a common resource that demons need to use during daily cultivation, nor is it a consumable that the demon clan can produce. It is generally found outside the demon clan.
Unlike humans, the demon race has a long lifespan, but the shortcomings brought by the long lifespan are that they are very slow in cultivation.
On the other hand, although human beings have short lifespans, after mastering the extraordinary power of spiritual power, it takes only twenty or thirty years for highly talented humans to develop to A-level strength.
And if a demon can only rely on its own cultivation, it may take a hundred or two hundred years, but its strength will not change much.
Therefore, monsters usually need to use various resources or other methods to increase their strength.
In an era when demons rule the world, some demons will practice some relatively evil magic, such as absorbing blood, absorbing essence, collecting tonic, and even sacrificing living beings to increase their own strength.
But since humans defeated the demons, the demons hiding in the demon cracks and trying to use those evil methods to increase their strength have become a hundred times more difficult than before.
Because as soon as the current demons appear in human society, they will be killed by the exorcists.
Therefore, things like demon stones were developed by the demon clan, and became the most common resource among the demon race in the past two hundred years, and it could also be a substitute for currency.
"How can I, a demon king, owe Dong so much debt?"
Haoren sighed, always feeling that the demon king Akeno was very bad at it.
It stands to reason that the Demon King is considered a high-ranking figure in the Demon Clan. How could Ke Ke be like Akeno and be in debt to Dong?
When Zhu Nao picked Donglai up, Haoren's doubts were quickly solved.
"Let's just say, he usually doesn't have any bad habits, but he likes to gamble with other monsters..."
"Okay, I'll stop talking!"
I bet that guy is a gambler...
After saying this silently in his mind, Haoren quickly stopped Akeno from continuing to talk about going east.
After thinking for a while, he continued to ask:
"He came to ask me if I always lose in bets?"
"Huh? How do I know? In fact, it's not like he always loses every bet. He has won two or three times..."
"Then the only two or three times I won, were there any relatives or friends who died in the family?"
"Huh? How do I know that? Fox demon, am I good at divination?"
"Is my bust more than 106cm?"
"Well……"
Akeno was slightly startled, then Teng Yidong blushed and quickly lowered his head.
The surprise in her heart quickly overcame her shyness, and she raised her head again.
"How do I even know that?"
Of course he knew!
I thought I was just asking casually, but I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.
Did I once serve as the village chief of a ninja village?
Haoren complained slightly in his heart, but Haoren naturally didn't ask that question.
Now that he has found out what he wants and knows that Nyotengu's purpose does not conflict with his own, Haoren is ready to show off his cards directly.
"Well, he knows the purpose of my coming here. He will come to the gap to find two things and will not snatch my gap.
When Jie Dong came, I followed him obediently, not asking for trouble. He would let me go after he found something, and he could even give me some demon stones as compensation...
If the premise is no, I don’t want to cause trouble to those spiritual masters!”
If I remember correctly, there were a lot of things like demon stones that Yukihime gave him in Tamamo-mae's inheritance.
In addition, Xue Ji also has some collections.
Because he lives in human society, he doesn't usually need those demon stones.
So I beg the nyotengu to stop harassing the spirit exterminators after she is released, and then it’s okay to give her some compensation.
However, contrary to Haoren's expectation, Akeno did not show any gratitude or relief after hearing what he said.
Instead, he frowned deeply.
After a long while, she took a deep breath and said timidly:
"I...what do I want to do?"
"?"
"He told me that he, Akeno, is a money-minded person. I want to use the magic stone to seduce him. It's absolutely wrong!"
From Akeno's point of view, she had already fallen into the fox demon's lap. How could the fox demon let her go so easily?
That must be a trap!
Wrong, it must be that the fox demon wants to use money to lure her into corruption.
Has she ever heard that in human society, there is a kind of woman who is dedicated to making money and looking for a rich man? I heard that she is called a "nanny".
Damn it, do you look down on him that much?
I thought he, Zhu Naifu, was someone who would fall for money?
Thinking of that, Akeno spoke again:
"How can I hope to support him?"
After thinking for a while, Akeno added another sentence.