Tao Kang and Chu Jiayi went back to their room in silence, there was some tension between them. Chu Jiayi felt a little guilty about the current situation and Tao Kang, of course, felt very jealous because of the Devil princes' attention to his fiancé.
"What is the deal between you the devils of the Kingdom of Acacia?" asked Tao Kang directly, after Chu Jiayi finished dressing and looked as elegant as a flowering lily.
Ah, beauty seemed to shine even brighter in good clothes.
"Well...Wait, how do you know these devils are from the Kingdom of Acacia?" Chu Jiayi asked with a bit of surprise to Tao Kang.
The Devils were of the Demon Race, they were divided into realms that lived in a constant battle for power. Of course, the Demon race went far beyond demonic beasts and Devils, but on the surface, the Devils and demonic beasts were the most "dangerous" representatives of the Demon race.
The Kingdom of Acacia is a Devil kingdom that is the closest to the region of humans, living in the inner part of the Forbidden Forest, the world of Devils is practically a dimension apart from this small world.
Devils live in the dimension called the Old Kingdom, many legends claim that the dimension is actually a prison that was created in the Age of Gods, who imprisoned the losers of battles. Devils are descendants of these losers, but they are allowed to live alongside human cultivators.
There are 13 kingdoms of Devils, the Kingdom of Acacia is the third most powerful kingdom, but this is only disclosed among those of the same race. Humans have no idea of the Devil's hierarchy and don't know that Devil's forces are divided by realm.
"When I delved deeper into the Forbidden Forest, the Sect of Heavenly Thunder had already established a command post in Devils territory. They had defeated the devils of the Kingdom of Acacia. At the time they were issuing missions to many martial cultivators to hunt down the main pillars of the ancient Kingdom of Acacia that had fled after or during the sect's attack," said Tao Kang simply. Since he had already established that he was a reborn person, then making such an explanation was very quick and easy.
Chu Jiayi thought about the plot of the book he had read, but he had given up on the original work after Tao Kang killed Chu Fang and took Chu Lifen to his harem. Before that happened, the hero had not gone deep into the Forbidden Forest.
"What Tao Kang said is 50% right, the Devils of the Kingdom of Acacia were pursued by the Heavenly Thunder sect. However, the cause of defeat and death for a large part of the kingdom was caused by hunger. The lack of Yin energy in the environment made the Devils have to hunt martial cultivators to suck the Yin energy from their dantins, which made the sects feel angry and the general public repudiated the Devils even more. Which led to the Devils' hunt years later," Karla-03 said upon seeing Chu Jiayi confused.
Chu Jiayi sighed as he received the information from his system. He already knew that Devils needed Yin energy to survive. Chu Jiayi had gone to the Acacia Realm by chance and realized that the amount of yin energy was abnormal in the devil realm.
Devils, at least in the Acacia realm, males and females have very strong Yang energy, so they needed to feed very often with Yin energy.
Of course, if the Devils survived that long, they must have some safe source of Yin energy.
The source was an ancient matrix that had some unknown diamond-shaped stones that emitted Dark Yin energy, so the Devils of the thirteen realms could survive.
One of the reasons humans can't fight the Devils directly was because of the black clouds made with Dark Yin energy, which made the environment inhospitable to humans.
Unfortunately, there was a traitor among the Devils who stole one of the diamond stones that made up the matrix, that stone disappeared almost 10 years ago. With the matrix incomplete the Dark Yin energy gradually diminished and weakened the Devils.
Who was most harmed was the Kingdom of Acacia, which borders the human world very closely. This proximity allowed pure Yang energy to infiltrate the Acacia Realm, further accelerating the loss of Dark Yin energy.
Almost three years ago when Kannaria found Chu Jiayi with his injured younger brother near the entrance to the Kingdom of Acacia, it was like finding hope. Since Chu Jiayi was a natural producer of Yin energy.
Initially, Kannaria wanted to take Chu Jiayi's dantin and configure that dantin as the new Dark Yin diamond. Fortunately for Chu Jiayi, the abnormal production of Yin energy had more to do with his soul than the Dantin of the original body. yin energy production.
Of course, Kannaria wanted to bind Chu Jiayi's soul to replace the stolen dark yin diamond. Unfortunately for Kannaria, this was impossible thanks to the Karla-03 system, Chu Jiayi's soul could not be moved.
In the end, Kannaria wanted to imprison Chu Jiayi in order to extract the Yin energy from his body. Only the Queen of Acacia, Katrina, didn't allow this crazy idea. It's not that the queen was magnanimous, but she knew the risks of trapping a human cultivator, as this could attract the fury of other human cultivators, which would be a good excuse for humans to start a war and an indiscriminate hunt against the devils.
Due to the scarcity of dark yin energy in the environment, the kingdom's nobles split into factions to fight for power, taking advantage of the weakened royal family.
A war with human growers could signal the end of the Kingdom of Acacia.
But there was a lot of temptation for Chu Jiayi's power, which could solve the most serious problems in the Kingdom of Acacia. That's when Chu Jiayi suggested a deal, as he was being plagued by yin energy two days a month, the Devils could send someone to collect this yin energy that leaked from his body to try to build a new dark yin diamond stone.
Chu Jiayi said that he was studying matrices and was investigating the ancient ruins so that he could learn more about the matrices used in the Age of Martial Prosperity. In the agreement, Chu Jiayi promised to help the Devils restore the Dark Yin matrix, in exchange for the Devils and the Chu Family to become allies.
It wasn't a bad idea and Queen Katrina preferred to risk letting Chu Jiayi go to his house with Kannaria as the Devil's envoy than to trap the human and bring disaster to the realm.
Kannaria would be responsible for the security of Chu Jiayi and would harvest the Yin energy, sending it through commercial caravans to one of the undercover stores belonging to the Kingdom of Acacia that was established in the port city.
They would utilize some stones and energy-absorbing items, which were normally used to collect the Devils' Yang energy, which they "smuggled" into the markets of human growers.
This was also where the wealth of the Devils of the Kingdom of Acacia comes from. They produced yang energy in large quantities and could easily be stored and sold, the yang energy from the devils' bodies is very refined and the stones eliminate the devil's dark imprint, making them a hot product that martial cultivators use and abuse in martial cultivation.
Many martial sects purchased large supplies of Yang Stones or Yang items for martial cultivation, as well as distributing Yang essence for Alchemists to produce quality pills.
Chu Jiayi was one of those people who needed to consume a lot of Yang energy, so the Kingdom of Acacia was very rich and prosperous.
Of course, this information would shock human cultivators, who have always seen the Devils as a great evil who want to destroy humanity and that they were inferior and dirty.
Devils in the human view are a complete evil to be eliminated.
No one would have imagined that they themselves (righteous cultivators) were sustaining the luxurious lifestyle and military might of the Devils of the Kingdom of Acacia.
Probably human martial cultivators would vomit blood in anger and frustration if they knew about this.