Ch 52: No More Challengers
The sun set in the west.
Today was an incredibly frantic day for White Cloud City.
Valley of Unfeeling lost.
Many people lost everything.
Others, however, made a fortune.
Needless to say who I’m referring to.
Holding a large number of banknotes, Li Hanzhou only then felt a sense of security.
Through Ye Yun and Hundred Flowers Residence selling high-priced tickets, plus the flower basket reward activity, Li Hanzhou earned nearly one million taels.
In the casino, Li Hanzhou bet one million taels of silver, and it directly returned five times the amount.
At this time, Li Hanzhou’s small treasury already had six to seven million taels of silver.
This sum of money was a huge sum for many sects and noble families.
Longevity Temple, in particular, had never fought such a wealthy battle.
In the past, they lived in hunger, even eating meat was a luxury; now they have completely turned their lives around.
Ye Yun, following Li Hanzhou’s bets, also turned his one hundred thousand taels of silver into five hundred thousand taels.
This made Ye Yun, the City Lord’s son, extremely happy.
Although he didn’t lack money in his daily life, who would dislike having more money?
Moreover, the recent White Cloud City construction also required a certain amount of money. After Ye Qingbei was attacked by the Dream Demon, Ye Qingbei also recruited some experts from Jianghu to garrison White Cloud City.
Money was needed everywhere.
Ye Yun felt that the money he earned could help his family.
The Immortal of Unfeeling originally wanted to leave Longevity Temple and return to Valley of Unfeeling, but Li Hanzhou’s accounting delayed some time. After giving the Immortal of Unfeeling her share of the profits, it was getting late. In addition, the Immortal of Unfeeling’s use of the Ten Thousand Miles of Snow move had depleted her True Qi, causing some backlash. Li Hanzhou was also worried that the Immortal of Unfeeling might have an accident on her way back.
After all, only a few girls came from their Valley of Unfeeling.
Currently, the Immortal of Unfeeling could not fight for a short period of time, so Li Hanzhou asked the Immortal of Unfeeling to stay at Longevity Temple first and wrote a letter to Valley of Unfeeling, hoping that someone from Valley of Unfeeling would come to pick them up.
Otherwise, such a beautiful woman, now with damaged True Qi, if she encountered some kind of lecher, it would be truly terrible.
After pondering for a moment, the Immortal of Unfeeling agreed.
So she stayed at Longevity Temple.
There were many rooms in Longevity Temple, so Shi Ming was casually asked to clean up a few rooms for the disciples of Valley of Unfeeling to live in.
Shi Ming was meticulous in his work, cleaning every part of the room very thoroughly.
“The rooms are cleaned up. Although it’s a bit simple, it’s very clean,” Shi Ming turned around and saw the Immortal of Unfeeling standing in the courtyard, so he walked over and said.
“Thank you,” the Immortal of Unfeeling said, then walked into the room.
After looking around, it was indeed very clean.
So she took out a silver ingot and handed it to Shi Ming, saying, “Keep this to buy some food.”
Seeing the large silver ingot, Shi Ming shook his head and said, “I was just following Martial Uncle’s instructions to help you clean the room. I can’t take your money. Please rest first, and I’ll bring you dinner later.”
After saying this, Shi Ming left without looking back.
Seeing that Shi Ming didn’t take her money, the Immortal of Unfeeling felt somewhat surprised, because she could tell that Shi Ming’s cultivation level was not high, and he didn’t seem to be rich.
This silver ingot was enough for a family of three for a month’s expenses.
This young person didn’t have any thoughts of being moved at all.
Entering the room, she sat in meditation, circulating her True Qi to recover from her injuries.
After an unknown amount of time, a knock came from outside.
“Come in.”
The door opened, and Shi Ming walked in, carrying some small dishes and rice. Shi Ming placed the meal on the table and said, “Simple food, Immortal, please eat a little.”
“Did you make this?” The Immortal of Unfeeling looked at the food; it was incredibly delicious, seemingly even better than what was made in restaurants outside.
“Yes.” Shi Ming nodded.
“Your cooking skills are surprisingly good.” Although the Immortal of Unfeeling had a cold personality, it was only towards those who had designs on her. She saw no lust in Shi Ming’s gaze, only utter clarity, so she was somewhat willing to speak to him more.
“I’ve been learning from Martial Uncle recently; Martial Uncle’s cooking is very delicious.”
“If you like it, eat more.”
“I’ll go out now.”
Shi Ming nodded and left.
In the following days, the matches continued.
Liu Dongyue defeated several sects one after another, and Longevity Temple also obtained many treasures.
Tang Sect’s Three Prodigies came to challenge. Because one person was missing, they couldn’t make up the numbers, so Liu Dongyue simply didn’t compete, leaving the Tang Sect people extremely frustrated. Later, they randomly found someone to make up the numbers, and then the four of them were beaten up by Liu Dongyue in the arena.
After that, Fang Beixian, the personal disciple of Luo Jinyi from Divine Peak Mountain, challenged Liu Dongyue.
Fang Beixian’s sword technique was superb; he was practically a Sword Immortal in the making.
However, he ultimately lost to Liu Dongyue.
No one expected that Liu Dongyue could actually remain undefeated after so many matches.
Their membership cards couldn’t be refunded either.
However, with Fang Beixian’s defeat, only a few previously registered sects came to participate in the challenge. After the disciple of Upper Clarity Sect also lost, no more sects registered.
Even the allure of the Autumn Burial Saber couldn’t attract anyone.
No kidding.
Valley of Unfeeling, Divine Peak Mountain, Upper Clarity Sect—they all lost. Other sects’ disciples wouldn’t be so arrogant as to think they were stronger than Fang Beixian and Song Yitao, would they?
These two could be considered the peak among youths under the Transcendent Realm.
Liu Dongyue was unbelievably strong.
“Martial Uncle, no one else has signed up,”
Yun Qianzhu said dejectedly to Li Hanzhou after returning one day, “I set up a stall all day today, and not a single person came to sign up. It seems like these sects don’t dare to challenge Second Senior Brother anymore.”
Li Hanzhou didn’t mind; this was already within his expectations.
“Now your Second Senior Brother is the Number One Under the Transcendent Realm. Who would want to be beaten by him for nothing? He’ll beat them up, and they’ll have to hand over their sect’s treasures,” Li Hanzhou said with a smile.
“Makes sense.”
Yun Qianzhu nodded.
Li Hanzhou put down the talisman paper, then looked up at Yun Qianzhu, surprised and said, “Sixth Rank?”
“Yes.”
Yun Qianzhu said with a cheerful smile, “I had some free time today, so I broke through.”
Li Hanzhou: “…”
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Li Hanzhou had also been diligently cultivating recently, but after all these days, he only felt that his Qi Refining Stage level two cultivation had loosened, heading towards the third level.
Li Hanzhou himself couldn’t say when he would break through.
“Martial Uncle, the Immortal of Unfeeling is leaving.”
At this time, Shi Ming ran over.
Seeing Shi Ming’s slightly breathless appearance, Li Hanzhou said curiously, “They’re leaving? Why are you so nervous?”
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