【Slew Spirit-Transformation Savage-Mountain Boar Emperor. Total lifespan: 83,000 years. Remaining lifespan: 27,000 years. Absorption complete.】

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 59,000 years】

Shen Yi looked at the notifications on the panel, feeling a faint flush of delight.

He hadn't expected this stroke of unlooked-for fortune to come so soon.

He had the Gold-Eyed Lion Emperor to thank — it was the one who'd handed him a pretext for the kill.

Once he'd left the Thousand Demon Den, he could reward it with another two Demon Origins.

Playing demon emperor for the first time still took some getting used to.

He didn't quite know what he was supposed to do.

Shen Yi asked the question in his mind, and the Gold-Eyed Lion Emperor promptly gave an honest reply: "If no other demon emperor summons me, I generally do exactly what my lord is doing right now."

As a demon, with the passing of years, one's cultivation would naturally grow so long as one devoured enough of the world's rare treasures.

And the Thousand Demon Den was hardly short on treasures.

There was no need to go deliberately seeking anything out, which was how toying with the female demons had become the daily routine.

"Other demon emperors?" Shen Yi lifted an eyelid.

"Reporting to my lord, the Thousand Demon Den has its factions too. I had four or five demon kings under my command, for instance — though by now they've probably all scattered."

"Both I and old Savage-Mountain Boar took orders from the Seventeenth Den's demon emperor, but under ordinary circumstances, so long as no one from the immortal sects comes stirring up trouble, it rarely bothers itself with us."

Shen Yi listened carefully to the Gold-Eyed Lion Emperor's explanation.

The Seventeenth Den.

That put it on par with the Dark-Tail Demon Emperor in cultivation.

Which made it a genuine threat to his own life.

"Enough. Get down there."

Shen Yi swept the assembled female demons off him with a hand — this caliber of massage kneaded a man half to death.

Keeping up appearances only had to go so far.

A perfectly…