From the highway toll station to the ancient town was only about ten kilometers. The three cars soon arrived near a large waterwheel outside the north gate of the ancient town.
Su Yang was the first to park his car in a roadside parking spot, and the two cars behind also found their own empty spaces to park.
Afterwards, everyone got out of their cars. The girls stood by the roadside stretching their limbs, while Su Yang took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and walked towards the two cars that had just parked.
Once both cars were parked, Su Yang handed out cigarettes to the guys.
"What's the plan for tonight?"
Meng Wenzhou got out of the car, took the cigarette, lit it, and took a deep drag. "Coming here, I think we should stay at an inn~"
"That's what I was thinking too. Have you been here before?" The two of them walked onto the sidewalk as they talked.
"Been here many times. I know Li City very well~"
"Any good inns in the ancient town you'd recommend? I'll book the rooms."
"No need, I'll handle it. You booked in Er City, I'll book in Li City~"
Su Yang smiled faintly, not arguing with Meng Wenzhou. Their relationship was very good now, and neither cared about such things.
Plus, everyone had money, so who booked the rooms didn't matter~
Meng Wenzhou leaned against a tree, took out his phone, and opened Tuan Tuan to search.
Just then, the others also got out of their cars and walked over.
"What are you guys up to?" Zhang Ziming exhaled a puff of smoke and asked with a smile.
"Booking rooms~"
"Oh, right. If we're booking inside the ancient town, I actually have an inn to recommend."
"What's it called?" Meng Wenzhou looked up and asked.
"Let me find it. It's been too long, I can't remember the name. But it might not even be there anymore. Let me check first." Zhang Ziming said, opening his phone to search.
At that moment, the four girls from a few dozen meters away also started walking towards the six guys.
As they approached, a cloud of secondhand smoke drifted right into Meng Qianyu's face.
She quickly waved her hand to disperse it, then pointed at the cigarettes in the six guys' hands with a 'ferocious' look. "You're smoking again! You seize every chance to smoke. Is it really that good?"
However, her expression looked exceptionally funny and cute, not ferocious at all~
Meng Wenzhou, leaning against the tree, tilted his head and gave Meng Qianyu a sidelong glance. "Adults are smoking, what's a kid doing meddling? Go play somewhere else~"
"You!! Fine, fine! I'll tell Mom and Dad you bullied me when we get home!" Meng Qianyu ran to Meng Wenzhou's side and punched him twice with her small fists.
"Go ahead, tell them. You think I'm scared?" Meng Wenzhou teased Meng Qianyu with a laugh.
Seeing this, Meng Qianyu took a deep breath and turned to look at Pan Ning. "Sis!! Look at him!!"
Pan Ning looked helplessly at Meng Wenzhou. "Put it out."
"Sure thing!!" Meng Wenzhou quickly took one last drag and threw the cigarette into a nearby trash can.
Hearing this, the other guys also threw away their cigarettes in unison.
This scene left Tang Ziyun and Su Qingci dumbfounded, their mouths slightly agape as they stood there stunned.
"Sister Pan is awesome!!"
"Of course~ My sis means what she says!" Meng Qianyu said proudly.
"Let's not stand here. Let's go for a walk up ahead while they book the rooms~" Pan Ning said, starting to walk down the street.
"Okay." The other three girls quickly followed like little attendants.
After the girls left, Liu Bo took out another pack of cigarettes and distributed them to the guys.
"Heh, only got two puffs last time, didn't even satisfy the craving. Let's light up again, again."
The guys smiled knowingly, took the cigarettes, and lit up once more.
Two minutes later, Zhang Ziming looked at Meng Wenzhou. "Finally found it. Damn, it's still there."
"What's the name?"
"Li City Shuiyuntian Inn."
"Shuiyuntian, let me search." Meng Wenzhou entered the inn's name into Tuan Tuan.
The inn did exist, with a high rating. He clicked in to check the reviews, which were also very good.
Then he looked at the photos of the inn.
"Take a look, guys. If it's good, let's book this one."
Su Yang took the phone, looked at a few photos, and nodded in satisfaction. "Yeah, nice environment. The room layout looks good too. Much better than the place we stayed at in Shima Town last time."
"I remember the inn we stayed at in Shima Town was pretty nice too." Liu Bo said.
Su Yang handed the phone to Liu Bo. "That was you guys. My room felt like staying in a graveyard."
"Whoa, that exaggerated?"
"Hey, I told you guys back then, didn't I?"
"Don't remember."
"Forget it, never mind that. You guys take a look too."
Liu Bo smiled, nodded, and swiped through the various photos of the inn on the phone.
After looking, he passed it to Ji Bo beside him. "I think it's great. Maybe we should just book this one without further looking."
"Sure, sure." Ji Bo handed the phone back to Meng Wenzhou with a smile.
"Hey, I haven't seen it yet~" Chu Qiunan quickly grabbed the phone to look and also nodded in satisfaction.
Meng Wenzhou took the phone back. "Then it's settled. Ten rooms."
Liu Bo chimed in, "Shouldn't nine rooms be enough?"
Meng Wenzhou immediately realized and laughed. "One room per person. Old Su can go over if he wants to, it's not like he can't. Did you forget what this city is called?"
"The City of Encounters!!!"
"Damn, Brother Meng, you really know how to plan!" Liu Bo looked at Meng Wenzhou with admiration.
"That's the plan. Anyway, we're here now. Everyone depends on their own luck. If you can have an encounter, have one. But don't go overboard, especially you, Old Su and Ziming. Got it?"
Su Yang nodded with a smile. "Understood~"
Zhang Ziming, squatting on the ground, looked up at Meng Wenzhou. "A general in the field is not bound by orders from the court~"
"Is that how you use that phrase?"
The guys exchanged smiles. Su Yang suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh right, there's something I need to tell you guys."
"What?"
"Remember that video of me singing?"
"Of course. What about it?"
"Wasn't there someone looking for me in the comments back then?"
After thinking for a couple of seconds, Zhang Ziming suddenly stood up. "Don't tell me the person looking for you was a girl, and she's come to Li City to find you."
Su Yang smiled wryly and nodded. "Bingo~"
"WHAT???"
The guys looked at each other, stunned.
"You... Old Su, you... what kind of insane peach blossom luck is this!?"
"I don't know either." Su Yang briefly explained his chat with Zhong Qing last night.
"And then she booked a flight. She's probably already at some inn around here by now."
"......"
Listening to Su Yang, the guys were speechless.
"Crap! Does that mean it's over before it even began??" Chu Qiunan said, looking utterly deflated.
Ji Bo looked at Su Yang. "And that girl is from Hai City? Is she pretty?"
"Right, she must not be pretty, right?" Chu Qiunan's eyes lit up as he asked.
Su Yang took out his phone, opened Zhong Qing's Douyin profile, and randomly showed him a video.
Chu Qiunan looked at the girl in the video, then turned away like a deflated balloon. "Don't show me, I don't want to see."
"Let me have a look~" Liu Bo took the phone, watching and smiling.
The others also leaned in to look.
Meng Wenzhou exclaimed in shock, "Holy crap? She's this pretty?"
"She's practically on par with our four beauties!! Comparable to that girl back in Lin City."
Su Yang took the phone and said, "That's the situation. She's going to come find me later. What should I do?"
Meng Wenzhou laughed, "What else can you do? You can't exactly kick her out. Since she's coming, she can just hang out with us. Consider it making a new friend."
"Yeah, Yang. Don't overthink it. It's not like you invited her. She decided to come on her own, so what can you do?"
"Right, hurry up and check if she's replied. See where she is now," Ji Bo chimed in with a smile.
Su Yang opened his chat dialog with Zhong Qing. She had already sent two messages three hours ago.
"I've arrived in Licheng."
"Since you said you won't be here until noon, I'll find an inn to stay at first. Contact me when you arrive."
Su Yang read the two messages out loud as he looked at them.
Hearing this, Meng Wenzhou said, "Alright then. Let's head to an inn ourselves first. We can figure things out after we get settled."
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transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
