"They eat upper-tier demon kings? Do they have Spirit-Transformation cultivators of their own?" Shen Yi was somewhat surprised.

"Nothing like that — their culinary arts are simply extraordinary, and deeply beloved by many powerful figures. That demon king, for instance, was sent by Wutong Mountain's Mysterious Sword Perfected Master. After Nie Jun had taken what he needed from it, the Eight-Direction Dining Hall held another banquet with the remainder — and several demon emperors from the Thousand Demon Den attended."

Qinghua's wording was tactful.

But Shen Yi arched an eyebrow anyway. Wasn't this just eating someone else's leftovers?

To have demon emperors willingly eating table scraps — the culinary skill was absurd enough on its own... but then there was also that Perfected Master, who apparently just needed his name attached to something to have a pack of savage demons happily accepting what he'd left behind.

Tsk.

Shen Yi shook his head with something like wry respect.

Here he was, not even daring to let anyone see his Mixed Origin cultivation, and someone else could already make a group of demons submit through reputation alone.

Still not enough of a fist on him.

"Master's divine power knows no equal — given time, you will surely astonish the world. Even the Mysterious Sword Perfected Master will bow his head and attend at your side!" Lady Qinghua bowed reverently.

"If you dare say that outside, don't expect to see the light of day again."

Shen Yi looked at her quietly. The last thing he wanted was to go out and accumulate a pile of inexplicable enmities before he'd even left.

That said, the Eight-Direction Dining Hall was somewhere he'd definitely be going.

Qinghua's grasp of the bigger picture was hazy at best.

Why cultivator cave estates appeared specifically in the Thousand Demon Den's territory, what kind of cultivators had left these estates and where they'd gone, what stance the Thousand Demon Den and the immortal sects took toward independent wandering cultivators — on all of these, she had nothing.

But one thing could be concluded from all of it.

Even immortal sect…