Tian Chan Seeks an Audience

"Young Master Jiang! Even the creation of the Path of Evil Spirits... has the shadow of the Demon Ancestor behind it. He must have been the one driving it."

"Among all the great worlds in the universe, they are all built upon the Three Thousand Great Daos. However, this Path of Evil Spirits is a Dao independent of the Three Thousand Great Daos. It is an unpredictable variable. His schemes are absolutely massive."

Yu Chuan looked worried.

Jiang Che was getting a little confused. What the hell was this Demon Ancestor? He hated those old schemers who spent all day plotting for eternity the most.

Why couldn't they do something better instead of being a sneaky bastard? Wouldn't it be so much more comfortable to just pick up girls every day like him?

Working hard yourself is never as good as letting the system work hard for you!

It would be hilarious if this Demon Ancestor plotted for millions of years to set up an eternal scheme, finally stood before him, and then got blasted to death by one of his item cards...

"Alright, alright, tell me about the Travelers. How much do you know about them?" Jiang Che waved his hand.

"Young Master, speak cautiously! Some names cannot even be mentioned!"

"Just say it, it's fine," Jiang Che said.

Yu Chuan blinked twice. "I don't know much about the Travelers either. I only know that everyone in this organization is an existence that transcends the Dao. They call themselves travelers walking at the end of time."

"As far as I know, their most core members can even time travel, freely crossing through time and space, ignoring any karma."

"As for the members of the Travelers... I've only met one. He was my examiner... and also my creditor."

Yu Chuan grew too scared to say more as he spoke, but after seeing the look in Jiang Che's eyes... he continued.

"He calls himself the Moneylender, an official member of the Travelers organization. He can freely travel through all realms and has countless avatars lending money for him. His own strength might not be very great, but as long as he is in the process of lending out loans, he is an invincible existence, possessing conceptual-level methods."

Moneylender?

Jiang Che narrowed his eyes; he felt a sense of déjà vu.

Suddenly, a blue silhouette appeared in his mind, a square-faced man wearing a blue suit.

That Loan Man who gave loans to the Children of Destiny in the mortal realm?

Could the one he met back then have been his avatar?

"Back then, I took out a loan from him during a crisis and ended up working for him for a million years for nothing. I'm still paying off the debt now, and I haven't even paid off the interest..."

Jiang Che: "......"

That was a bit tragic!

As expected, Blue Star doesn't raise idlers.

He kind of wanted to meet this mysterious Loan Man. What a talent!

"Alright, from now on, you are my leek. One of my system's abilities is a scamming system; as long as I scam people, I can get points. You aren't clinging to my thigh for nothing."

"Scam—" Yu Chuan's scalp tingled. A scamming system?

No wonder he could feel an inexplicable force draining some kind of energy from his body earlier.

...

Midnight, on the immortal boat.

"Jiang Che... is... is what you said true? Was our meeting really orchestrated by him?"

Yu Wan'er nestled in Jiang Che's arms, a thin layer of sweat on her forehead as she gently bit her lip.

"Yeah, that Little Brat sent you to me to build a relationship with me. But that guy also had his own difficulties... He was being hunted by his enemies at the time and had no choice but to throw you into my world."

"After all, everyone knows my status is high!"

Jiang Che's confident look made Yu Wan'er laugh. "Bah, only a ghost would believe you."

Jiang Che felt softhearted and didn't tell Yu Wan'er the truth, but it didn't matter... because in the future, he wouldn't let Wan'er and Yu Chuan meet again. Given Yu Wan'er's personality... she wouldn't have any feelings for a biological father who gave birth to her but didn't raise her.

He just didn't want Yu Wan'er to know that she was born to be a tool.

"Do you still want to see him?" Jiang Che asked.

"No," Yu Wan'er shook her head decisively. "Even though he didn't intentionally abandon me, I still don't want to see him."

Yu Wan'er puffed out her little cheeks.

"Wan'er, it's actually right for you not to see him," Jiang Che said softly. "If you saw him... you would only treat him as a son, absolutely not as a father."

"Ah? I... what do you mean by that?" Yu Wan'er blinked in confusion.

"Literally. That Little Brat's true form is just a three or four-year-old kid."

"Pfft—" Yu Wan'er almost burst out laughing. "Really? Now that you say that... I actually kind of want to see him! I'll flick his butt hard when the time comes."

At the same time, far away in the Destiny Association, Yu Chuan suddenly sneezed.

......

"Young Master! Tian Haoran from the Heavenly Dao Palace has been waiting outside to see you for a long time!"

An ancestor of the Jiang family came to report.

"Heh... it seems she can't sit still anymore!" Jiang Che pursed his lips and smiled. This little Tian Chan was probably here to negotiate with him.

Resources on the frontline were tight, and the resources in her hands were simply not enough to buy enough Life-Extension Pills.

"Young Master Jiang, this girl Tian Chan really has it rough..." The space distorted, and Li Qinghuan walked out, followed by a little loli with her hair in twin buns. It was impressively her little sword spirit.

The formerly bratty sword spirit had now become Young Master Jiang's exclusive plaything!

"Rough? Do you think I have it easy?" Jiang Che snorted lightly. Sure enough, there was a huge difference between a woman who had been bedded and one who hadn't.

Taking the side of an outsider!

Li Qinghuan was speechless. During her time on the immortal boat, she had come to understand Jiang Che's methods better. She had personally seen the refinement process of the Life-Extension Pills.

It wasn't nearly as difficult to refine as the rumors said. It could even be said to have zero cost. By throwing in a few spirit stones, he could stimulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to form a heaven and earth furnace, and in just fifteen minutes, he could refine a huge batch of immortal pills.

The Life-Extension Pills, which cost only a few spirit stones to refine, were sold for prices as high as several thousand immortal-grade spirit stones!!!

The entire Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms had never seen such a highly profitable industry.

But it wasn't her place to say anything now; after all, Jiang Che was her prospective Dao companion.

"Hmph! Stinky woman!" The little sword spirit shook off Li Qinghuan's arm and threw herself into Jiang Che's arms.

This girl was like a clock; the tuned ones and the untuned ones were completely different!

"Let Palace Master Tian come in."

"Then... then we'll take our leave first!" Li Qinghuan grabbed the little sword spirit from Jiang Che's arms.

Who knew what kind of 'magic potion' Jiang Che had fed this girl to make the originally tsundere little sword spirit cling to him so much?

"Li Qinghuan, I'll bite you, believe it or not?" The little loli bared her teeth at Li Qinghuan.

...

Meanwhile, outside the immortal boat.

Tian Chan wore a snow-white robe, her long hair tied up with a hairband, and a headband resting on her forehead. Standing with her hands behind her back, she was strikingly dressed in men's clothing, her bewitching face making it hard to distinguish her gender.

"How strange. Where has Senior Li gone recently? I asked her to head to the Demon Realm frontline... why hasn't she arrived yet?"