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They've just finished a round of four matches, and each family has lost a total of about 20,000 jin of spirit stones to Su Yan.

Although they were wealthy as earth immortals, they couldn't withstand losing spirit stones like that. In one night of gambling, they would lose 300,000 to 400,000 catties of spirit stones. Who could bear that?

What's most surprising is that Su Yan managed to completely outplay them without cheating.

"Gambling is harmful to health."

Thinking of this, the True Lord of Hatching Chicks felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He forced a smile and said, "Five or ten catties is too much of a bet. How about one or two catties?"

"You didn't say that last year! You were still muttering about why it wasn't fifty or a hundred!"

My aunt, with a smug look on her face, pushed over the dominoes in front of her that weren't all in a set, reshuffled them, and lewdly said:

"Win as much as you can, little fox, until she's broke. Then you can take her back to the brothel to warm your bed and pay off her debts!"

Firefly Taoist: "."

Fellow Daoist Insect, what you've done is unethical! I was in seclusion last year and didn't come here, so how did your feud get dragged into this?

Su Yan glanced at his aunt, then at the Chick Hatchery True Lord whose forehead was already beaded with cold sweat, and looked down at his own hand, which seemed to be called "Pure Suit".

"Auntie, is this called 'Mixed Colors'?"

"No, this is a pure hand of Earthly Branches!"

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About half an hour later, Hongling returned from the city lord's mansion.

Upon returning to the Huang clan's territory, they saw the Chick Hatchery True Lord lying on the ground, his face serene, his spirit seemingly having entered a transcendent state.

"Waaah, Hongling, you're finally back!" When the Chick Hatchery True Lord saw Hongling return, it was as if he had seen a savior. He grabbed Hongling's arm, pointed at his aunt and Su Yan, and complained, "They're so cruel! They almost won my bellyband!"

Su Yan is a fast-paced player; he has already completed ten rounds in half an hour.

This was only after the third round when the Chick Hatchery True Lord started cheating and deliberately delaying the time; otherwise, Hong Ling would have finished sixteen rounds in the time it would have taken to make one round trip.

"???"

Hongling was completely bewildered. It was just a few dollars for casual mahjong, why was it being described in such an exaggerated way?

"Don't listen to that little chick's nonsense. We never intended to win her bellyband; we were just helping her quit gambling."

My aunt retorted confidently, "As long as you don't feel like you're winning, you'll naturally quit."

"."

Su Yan looked at the nearly 700,000 jin of spirit stones he had won in his storage ring. He didn't dare to speak, fearing that his aunt's friend would turn against him and sneak into his dormitory in the middle of the night to rob him.

After Hongling returned, Su Yan, who was just there to make up the numbers, naturally got off the mahjong table.

Seeing this, the True Lord of Hatching Chicks and the Firefly Taoist couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It's not that they can't afford to lose hundreds of thousands of catties of spirit stones, but they would still feel a pang of heartache at such a waste.

There's no gambler who loses from the moment they sit down at the table; there's absolutely no tension or excitement in gambling!

Playing cards with Su Yan is a nightmare; only Su Yan is having a good time, while the other three players are suffering terribly. It's so frustrating.

"Sister Hongling, how is the situation with the Nightmare Suppressor?"

Su Yan squatted on her aunt's lap and looked at Hong Ling to ask about the situation of the Nightmare Town followers in Blackwater City.

Their actions were truly depraved. If the City Lord's Mansion did nothing, Su Yan probably wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. He would probably keep thinking about the "black-haired wild boar" on the chopping board and the "pig fetus dragon seed" hanging on the edge of the wooden basin.

Su Yan was terrified by that butcher Kong tonight.

"The City Lord's Mansion is summoning its retainers, preparing to wipe out the Sleeping Dragon Path tomorrow morning. Their actions have crossed the line, and all their followers will need to be detained and their memories extracted."

As Hongling spoke, she prepared to draw a card, but her aunt's call for a winning hand interrupted her.

Auntie won with an eight-point winning hand, and Firefly Taoist's eyes twitched slightly. He glanced at Su Yan sitting on Auntie's lap and silently complained to himself:

"This thing isn't some lucky fox spirit; it's practically a bandit who openly robs people."

"All of them...to be imprisoned and have their memories read?" Su Yan muttered to himself as he considered the punishment for the followers of the Sleeping Dragon Path.

“Yes, the followers of the Sleeping Dragon are mostly ordinary people. After their memories are read to confirm that they did not participate, they are all sent to prison for unified ideological education,” Hong Ling said.

The Sleeping Dragon Path of the Imperial Capital Mountain is considered a relatively large religious sect in the area. The Blackwater City administrators could not possibly wipe out all of them, so the encirclement and suppression was mainly aimed at those Nightmare Town followers who had infiltrated the sect.

Tomorrow morning, the City Lord's Mansion will not only crack down on the Sleeping Dragon Path, but will also announce the bloody crimes committed by the Sleeping Dragon Path.

There are quite a few pregnant women missing in Blackwater City, and there are similar cases in Seaside City as well. Even some pregnant livestock have gone missing.

What were originally just a few isolated cases have now all been put together, with hundreds of pregnant women missing.

Among them were some low-level cultivators who went missing, and at first no one associated them with the Nightmare Town followers.

Compared to the Xia Dynasty or the coastal city, Blackwater City was, to put it bluntly, a poor, rural place.

Anyone with skills will leave. There are no valuable resources here; the people here are just poor folks who live off the land and rivers. There is nothing here that the demons can covet.

Blackwater City had been peaceful for hundreds of years, living in a secluded corner and never getting involved in any trouble. This was truly the first time that the Nightmare Town had been disturbed, and the old city lord was completely baffled by it.

Fellow villagers, you're all poor. What are you after? Even the city lord's mansion can't squeeze any money out of the people. You're just causing trouble here to suffer poverty with me, aren't you?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 227 Power Unknown, Grows Stronger When Facing Stronger Opponents

"Auntie, I'm going to change my clothes."

Sitting in the card room, Su Yan learned that the Nightmare Suppressor of the Sleeping Dragon Path would not live to see noon the next day, and stopped paying attention to those guys who made him feel physically uncomfortable.

"By the way, Auntie, could you keep these spirit stones for me? After deducting the portion returned, store the rest in my ledger for when I marry a wife."

Su Yan had just left the card room when he seemed to remember something and hurriedly ran back. He raised his fox paw and presented it to his aunt, revealing the storage ring hidden in his fur, preparing to transfer all the spirit stones he had just won to his aunt.

As a mere Golden Core stage fox, it's really not suitable for me to carry too many spirit stones when traveling the martial world. Keeping around two thousand catties of spirit stones is enough. If I carry too many, Su Yan worries that the True Monarch, who is hatching chicks, will sneak into my dormitory in the middle of the night.

Su Yan could tell that the Chick Hatchery True Monarch really wanted to take those spirit stones back from him.

There's no way she'll spit it out; it's because she won so much at cards last year that her aunt almost had to eat porridge and pickled vegetables.

"My dear nephew!"

With a beaming smile, Auntie reached out and took the spirit stones from Su Yan's storage ring. She then gently rubbed the little fox's head, causing ripples of flesh to rise on its cheeks. "Don't worry," she said, "Auntie will keep a good record of everything in the ledger."

"Esteemed seniors, I shall take my leave now." Su Yan said once more before turning and making his escape.

The Chick Hatchery True Monarch shifted his gaze from Su Yan to his aunt's storage ring, and said indignantly, "He really is my aunt's good nephew, even knowing to return the way he came!"

Seeing Su Yan return the money to his aunt, the already bad mood of the Chick Hatchery True Lord worsened.

Compared to Zhenjun's indignant expression, Hongling asked with considerable curiosity, "I remember that during Xia Yu's martial arts demonstration, the little fox won quite a few. Did you entrust all those spirit stones to you for safekeeping? You didn't misappropriate them?"

The aunt quickly waved her hand and said, "No, those spirit stones were for the little fox to marry. How could an elder misappropriate those spirit stones?"

She didn't touch Su Yan's spirit stones. The only time she borrowed them was after she had asked Su Yan to let her know and wrote an IOU. Her aunt used all those spirit stones for cultivation.

"Although I, Chong, am poor, I am not so despicable as to embezzle my nephew's wife's money!" Auntie solemnly assured her on the surface, but in her heart she couldn't help but mutter, "Embezzling five hundred, no, including tonight's five hundred thousand, that's nearly six million catties of spirit stones. I couldn't pay it back even if I sold myself."

"If that big fox finds out, he'll tie me up tightly and force me to get married that very night, treating me like family."

My aunt is very self-aware; she knows very well that she's not very good at making money, and there are some things she can't start.

Once you've had your fill of pleasure, there's no going back. How can someone who's gotten used to a life of luxury possibly go back to eating coarse food?

"Oh? How much did you deposit?"

Having witnessed Su Yan's extraordinary abilities and heard from Hong Ling that Su Yan had participated in the Imperial Martial Arts Competition, True Monarch, who was hatching chicks, couldn't help but wonder how many spirit stones his aunt had earned for that black-hearted old worm from the little fox she had picked up.

"How much? Not much. Just enough to marry a few princesses from different countries," my aunt complained. "I don't know what kind of women he wants to marry right now."

"Perhaps he's planning to marry the princess of Xia Yu?"

"Sister Insect, have you considered selling the little fox? I have some of my savings for my funeral. No, there's no need to be so heartless as to sell it. Just give it to me."

"Don't even think about it, I'll tear your mouth off!"

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Su Yan, who had already left the card room, was unaware that her aunt was proudly showing off her. The obedient, sensible little fox, who could also earn money to support the family, and was also a pleasing sight to behold, was something her aunt adored.

"call out--"

A streak of red light sped from the horizon and landed directly in the Huang clan's territory.

The crimson eye on the Red Jade Hairpin Sword visibly revealed a look of resentment and discontent, expressing strong grievances against Su for abandoning him in the flower region and leaving alone via the teleportation array.

It wasn't that she cared about Su Yan; Hongyu Hairpin Sword simply didn't want to leave the side of the Great Fox Immortal.

As the immortal's most loyal protector, Hongyu Hairpin Sword is willing to defend the immortal's glory to the death!

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"Is this really a good thing, Senior Su? Won't it make me seem disrespectful to you?"

Huang Yin looked at Senior Su, who jumped into her arms and carried her towards the guest room, and asked with slight hesitation.

Such a large Senior Su, and you actually let me put my arms under my armpits and hug him? That's so disrespectful.

"What's this about respect or disrespect?" Su Yanshun climbed up Huang Yin's arm, flipped over, and hung directly on Huang Yin's shoulder, looking ahead as she spoke:

"You're actually relieving my worries now!"

Huang Yin felt that she was disrespecting her senior, so she put her hands under her armpits and picked her up.

But in Su Yan's view, there was no such thing as respect or disrespect. He was too lazy to walk and was afraid of getting his paws dirty, so he just hung on Huang Yin and hitched a ride to his room.

Not only here, but even in Xia Yu, when Su Yan was too lazy to walk, he would reveal his ageless form and hang on other elders or friends to hitch a ride.

Having someone carry you along the way is much more enjoyable than running on your own.

Su Yan was too scared to run away during the famine years, so when there was nothing to do, it was more comfortable to be a mere accessory.

"Is it really to relieve my worries?" Huang Yin had a feeling that Senior Su was fooling her, but she didn't think anything was wrong.

"Definitely!" Su Yan said confidently, then added, "By the way, it's best not to go out tomorrow. Sister Hongling just told me that the City Lord's Mansion has discovered the Nightmare Town criminals who have committed numerous bloody crimes, and they are preparing to start a purge of those involved tomorrow morning."

"A follower of the Nightmare Suppression?"

Huang Yin showed a slightly puzzled expression; the name "Nightmare Slayer" was somewhat unfamiliar to her.

"You can think of them as thugs in the cultivation world. They don't do anything productive all day but think about doing beastly things. They're the kind of people who would kick down the door of a demon widow at night or defecate on the grave of a respected senior cultivator." Su Yan explained the Nightmare Suppression gang to Huang Yin in a simple and easy-to-understand way.