"Young Master Jiang... I am the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Dao Palace, and this is my token."
Li Qinghuan took out a token.
"How about we put this on the Heavenly Dao Palace's tab for now?" the woman asked in a low voice.
According to her usual personality, she would just run away after stealing someone else's immortal wine. As Sword Venerable Qinglian, she had never paid for her drinks, but she didn't dare to default on Jiang Che's wine bill.
"Heavenly Dao Palace?" Jiang Che seemed to have heard some kind of joke.
"How interesting. When your Heavenly Dao Palace does business with me... it's always thousands of immortal spirit stones at a minimum. Right now, the Heavenly Dao Palace still owes me hundreds of immortal spirit stones."
"Who knows, maybe your Heavenly Dao Palace's entire fortune will be emptied by me in the future. I don't care... I don't accept IOUs!"
Jiang Che crossed his arms, his face arrogant. He was now the creditor of the Heavenly Dao Palace, and even that Tian Chan had to look at his face now.
The ancestor of the Jiang family had even sent him a message, saying that the Young Palace Master of the Heavenly Dao Palace was coming to talk to him.
This obviously meant that the guy couldn't sit still anymore.
"Uh..." Li Qinghuan scratched her head. It was actually true!
The Heavenly Dao Palace was currently struggling to protect itself, let alone pay her bills. The value of this jar of Wangchuan Guest wine would probably not be less than a hundred immortal spirit stones!
But soon, she thought of a solution!!!
She had been sold out by her old friend Immortal Chef Hua, so why couldn't she follow suit... and sell out little Tian Chan???
I am such a genius!!!
Li Qinghuan instantly revealed a smile, "Young Master Jiang, please calm down first. I know that drinking your immortal brew makes you very angry, but I have a piece of news here that is enough to shake the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms. I wonder if you want to hear it?"
Jiang Che: "..."
Alright then, this is human nature, so damn ugly, selling each other out, huh?
Plastic friendship!
"Oh? What news that shakes the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms? You wouldn't be trying to tell me... that your Young Palace Master is actually a woman, right?" Jiang Che said half-jokingly.
Li Qinghuan: "..."
She was stunned. How did this guy guess so accurately?!!!
Seeing this, Jiang Che deliberately acted surprised, "No way? Did I guess right? The Young Palace Master of your Heavenly Dao Palace is really a woman?"
Li Qinghuan pondered for a moment, then nodded, "This is a top-secret matter of our Heavenly Dao Palace, please do not spread it."
Jiang Che: "..."
Originally, there were less than ten people in the Nine Heavens who knew the news that Tian Chan was a woman, but after it reached Young Master Jiang's ears... now all his girls knew about it.
"She is a girl I watched grow up since childhood. She has a resolute character and upholds the righteous path. She is very silly and naive. With your means, it should be very easy to abduct her... She has merged with the origin of the righteous path, and will become your right-hand woman in the future..."
However, before Li Qinghuan could finish speaking, Jiang Che burst into laughter.
"Alright, you don't really think that this one piece of news alone can offset the value of the immortal brew Wangchuan Guest, do you?"
"I already know about Tian Chan's matter!" Jiang Che waved his hand.
"This—" Li Qinghuan's eyes widened. This Jiang Che actually knew even this kind of secret of the Heavenly Dao Palace?
Too terrifying!!!
No, he was backed by a supreme Immortal Emperor, that Taiqing Sword Immortal... a supreme Sword Emperor whose sword Dao surpassed hers!
It made sense that he knew about Tian Chan.
Thinking about it, she started to feel a little creeped out.
She seemed to understand why Jiang Che sold the life-extending immortal pill to the Heavenly Dao Palace at a high price. His purpose might not just be to extort money, but also to target Tian Chan!
"Young Master Jiang! To tell you the truth, I have been poor my whole life, and I don't even have a single top-grade spirit stone in my pocket..." Li Qinghuan spoke helplessly.
"Poor?" Jiang Che looked Li Qinghuan up and down, "Heh... I don't think you are poor at all."
Li Qinghuan: "..."
She was a Sword Venerable, the pinnacle that all sword cultivators in the entire Nine Heavens dreamed of. Normally, a petty Nirvana stage cultivator like this wouldn't even have the right to look up to her, but Jiang Che actually dared to speak insolently and tease her?
Li Qinghuan stood stiffly in front of Jiang Che, her brows furrowed as if thinking about something.
Eventually, her brows relaxed, "Young Master Jiang, do you still have any more of this Wangchuan Guest?"
"Gone!" Jiang Che said cleanly and neatly.
"Oh~~~" Li Qinghuan's expression looked a bit disappointed. She thought that by staying by Jiang Che's side she could continue to taste the immortal wine. This way, even if she sold herself, it wouldn't be a huge loss.
"Wangchuan Guest is a peerless immortal wine. To be able to taste it once is already..."
While Li Qinghuan was consoling herself, she saw Jiang Che take out another wine jar from his system space!
This wine jar was completely different from Wangchuan Guest. It was pitch black all over, looking like an alchemy furnace. The jar, made of immortal iron, was carved with countless vengeful spirits and ghosts. Even through the jar, one could feel an evil, sinister aura permeating the air.
"Wangchuan Guest is temporarily out of stock, but I have several jars of this in my wine cellar," Jiang Che grinned, his smile revealing a hint of slyness.
Temporarily out of stock, wine cellar, several jars...
"This... this is... this is!!!" Li Qinghuan's expression was incredibly excited, hesitating to speak. "What kind of fine wine is this? I have never seen it before!"
With the vision of an Immortal Venerable, even if she had never seen this kind of immortal brew, she could be sure that... it was definitely not inferior to the Wangchuan Guest from just now.
Moreover, he mentioned a wine cellar? Didn't this mean that Jiang Che still had many jars of this fine wine in his hands!!!
"Ghost Market Elixir! The origin of this wine is too ancient... you wouldn't understand even if I told you. Coincidentally, I actually obtained the other half of the ancient Heavenly Court's legacy, which contains a complete wine cellar from the ancient Heavenly Court era, storing tens of thousands of immortal brews..."
"Is this true?!!!!"
Hearing this, Li Qinghuan could no longer remain calm. She was already unable to carefully discern whether Jiang Che was lying. Alcoholics and gamblers share a similar psychological state.
"Husband! From now on, you are my husband."
Li Qinghuan had absolutely no shame and directly started calling him husband.
It even made Jiang Che laugh. Her calling him husband held no affection at all; it was entirely driven by her thirst for alcohol!
"Be that as it may, my immortal wine is extremely expensive. Every jar drank is one jar less."
"Husband... how about I perform a sword dance for you? Or compose poems and couplets?"
Sword dancing and composing poetry were both her strong suits. She had no choice... for the sake of immortal wine, this Immortal Venerable could only personally perform.
Ever since drinking an immortal brew of the Wangchuan Guest's caliber, other immortal wines were hard to swallow, tasting like mere dregs!
Jiang Che chuckled softly. Sword Venerable Qinglian had been teased enough; it was time to put the prop away!
Saying so, he stored the immortal wine 'Ghost Market Elixir' back into his system space. The value of this jar of immortal wine was even higher than Wangchuan Guest, costing a full four hundred million points. Legend had it that after drinking it, one could dream of entering the Fengdu Ghost City, as it was brewed from countless vengeful spirits of the Hell Ghost King level.
Of course, once he truly won over Li Qinghuan in the future, he wouldn't be feeding her empty promises anymore.
Want to drink immortal wine? Do it yourse... oh wait, earn it yourself!
She could suffer and grind for the points herself. After all, Immortal Venerable-level cultivators easily cost hundreds of millions or even billions of points!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
