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The aunt folded up the bill, looked at Su Yan's innocent yet embarrassed face, and clicked her tongue in amazement, saying, "I never imagined that there could be a business in the world that makes money faster than robbery! Amazing!"

"And what about a return gift?"

"The sentiment is enough. The princess is so wealthy that she won't care how expensive our return gift is."

After accepting Princess Wuxi's gift, Auntie's tone changed drastically, and she started referring to Wuxi by her title instead of calling her a rascal.

The aunt sensed the princess's profound politeness, so she also addressed her with greater courtesy.

"My nephew is incredibly brave!"

After overhearing her aunt's conversation with Su Yan, Hua Yu understood what had happened and exclaimed how amazing Su Yan was.

The spirit stones earned from a night of hard work were higher than the annual revenue of the Wanhua Pavilion in Xia Yu's main city.

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"Let me make one thing clear first: we do not offer refunds at the original price. If you have any items you don't like, our appraisal agency can buy them back at a high price, but we can't offer the original price because that price includes tax and an auction premium."

“The Treasure Appraisal Pavilion would lose money on taxes if it bought back the items at the original price, and the taxes for Xia Yu Auction are not low.”

After delivering the goods to Ruchun Garden, Manager Huang checked them repeatedly to make sure there were no mistakes. Then he waited at the door for his aunt and her group to return. Manager Huang gave some instructions on follow-up matters before turning around and heading towards the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion.

"Come on! Move them all to my training room."

Seeing Manager Huang push the cart over instead of putting the items in his storage ring, Auntie roughly knew that some items couldn't be stored in the ring. So she used her magic to take most of the goods, leaving the rest for Hua Yu and Su Yan to take.

"Be careful not to bump or damage it. We'll take it all apart and sort it out, then sell the unwanted items back to those unscrupulous merchants at the appraisal pavilion."

"Why are they all called unscrupulous merchants?"

"Because the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion can pay in cash immediately," my aunt complained. "I'd rather sell it for a lower price than let the spirit stones just grow legs and run away."

As bandit leaders of Pingfeng Mountain, the arrogant insects believed in quick ins and outs; nothing was more reassuring than having spirit stones in their own pockets.

As the saying goes, "wealth doesn't count if it's tangible," and this applies to the arrogant worms of Pingfeng Mountain as well.

"stop!"

Upon arriving at the door of the cultivation room, Auntie seemed to sense something was amiss. She raised her hand to stop Su Yan from pushing the door open, and knocked on the door with a look of exasperation on her face.

"Hey big cat! We're coming in!"

"Oh oh oh"

There was some noise in the cultivation room. A boy dressed in a white floral bib and trousers, looking like he was in pajamas, opened the door and looked at his aunt and Hua Yu with surprise: "What are you doing? Why did you buy so many New Year's goods?"

Instead of answering the boy's question, the aunt, her face full of exasperation, asked, "How did you end up settling in my cultivation room?"

"Since your guest rooms are for business purposes, I feel a bit bad taking up one myself, so I'll just make do and sleep on a makeshift bed on the floor in the training room."

The Zouwu people originated in the desert region of western China and are a kind of demon race that loves warmth from the bottom of their hearts.

My aunt's house has underfloor heating installed. Moreover, the water heating system in Ruchunyuan uses a pressure difference to circulate the system, so the higher the floor, the higher the temperature of the underfloor heating.

My aunt's training room was the warmest room in the entire brothel, with the ground temperature remaining at a high level of thirty-eight to forty degrees Celsius. Such a wonderful temperature in winter attracted the covetous eyes of the young boys.

The boy didn't even want a bed; he just cleaned up the wooden floor of the training room and started rolling around on it.

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Chapter 105 As expected of you!

"So many things."

The boy opened the door to the training room, and Auntie and Huayu remotely controlled the goods, stuffing them into the training room in large quantities. The room, which was over 100 square meters, was almost half-filled with individually placed items.

Fortunately, the boy placed the bedding near the warmer water inlet/outlet; otherwise, she wouldn't even have a sleeping area.

Su Yan was also carrying two large boxes. When she entered, she glanced at the boy and showed a surprised expression.

Senior Zou, aren't you being a bit too formal?

"what happened?"

Seeing Su Yan's shocked expression, Zou Tong seemed not to have noticed anything wrong. He looked down at his own attire and asked Su Yan in confusion if there was something on him that made him look surprised.

A simple undergarment and trousers.

"Nothing's wrong."

Su Yan immediately turned her head away, refusing to look at the bulging, snow-white fabric squeezed out of her upper body. She obediently moved the goods to the side of the training room and put them down, glancing at the training room, which had not changed much in the past.

Apart from the water inlet and outlet, the addition of a makeshift bed, and some scattered balls of yarn, the training room that had become Senior Zou's temporary boudoir remained largely unchanged.

"Oh, right! This is for you, my little nephew."

As if remembering something, the boy took out a token from the Demon Suppression Division cloak hanging at the door and placed it in Su Yan's hand, saying, "In the past, I would sell it to help your aunt. This year, I think I can use it, so I didn't sell it and plan to give it to you as a New Year's gift."

"Give me a handout? That's your food allowance!"

The aunt rolled her eyes and immediately refuted the boy's utter nonsense.

Because of her busy inspection work, Big Cat only has time to come a few times a year, but every time she comes, her aunt will treat Zou Tong to a meal. She has quite a large appetite.

The cost of a single meal can wipe out one-tenth of my aunt's monthly pension.

"what is this?"

The token given by the boy was made of black iron, with some decorative patterns on the four sides. The two large characters "Xia Yu" were vertically engraved on the token. Su Yan examined it for a while but still couldn't find any use for it, so he directly asked the boy what it could do.

"The Imperial Martial Arts Qualification Token is an extra reward from the Demon Suppression Division, in addition to the year-end performance bonuses. The top performers will receive this token, which can be given to a younger family member or sold," Auntie said.

One hundred people were selected through the preliminary rounds of the Imperial Martial Arts Competition, and the ten winners were chosen to receive rewards from Emperor Wusheng of Xia Yu.

However, apart from the 100 people selected in the preliminary round, there are actually 50 more people to be counted. All of these people are cultivators from within the Xia Yu system. The extra 50 people will not be able to receive the final 10 rewards, but they are not aiming for the royal family's rewards.

Those who excel among the fifty Black Iron warriors will receive personal guidance from Grand Tutor Xia Yu.

"Simply put, no matter how good the outside population is, it's not as good as the ones raised at home. The purpose of these fifty people is to go up and show the martial prowess of the younger generation." My aunt said with a face full of grumbling, "Of course, compared to those high-sounding reasons, I feel that the purpose of these fifty cultivators is to control the market and increase the odds on the outside, so as to ensure that Xia Yu's profits can be hugely successful!"

"If you like it, go play with it. If you don't, just throw that token into the appraisal pavilion and sell it. It's worth tens of thousands of spirit stones!"

While royal rewards may attract cultivators, it is difficult to entice cultivators from the upper-class clans of the Xia Yu system to participate in battle.

The royal family doesn't care about the rewards, but it's always outsiders who stand on the arena, which is in accordance with the Xia etiquette.

Thus, the Martial Arts Black Iron Token was created. At the end of the year, the royal family would send fifty Black Iron Tokens to the Six Departments of Xia Yu, the Demon Suppression Division, and the kings of different surnames.

Being able to get in touch with the Grand Tutor is a great way to demonstrate one's abilities and help one's family or clan get promoted.

Even if the younger generation doesn't want to go, the elders can force them to the ring to compete.

"Then, the big shots gave us the Black Iron Tokens as year-end performance rewards."

The boy spoke nonchalantly about court secrets: the royal family had given black iron tokens to various departments in the hope that they and the kings of different surnames would select strong young talents to bring glory to the country. However, the six departments of Xia Yu and the Demon Suppression Division simply gave away the black iron tokens they had obtained for free as year-end performance rewards.

Successfully increasing revenue and reducing expenditure for his department, he was able to save tens of thousands of spirit stones in cash bonuses each year.

As for where those saved spirit stones went, that's not something we officials need to worry about.

"I must say, he truly lives up to his reputation as Xia Yu?" Su Yan muttered, his face full of black lines.

Combining what his aunt and Senior Zou said, Su Yan felt that the so-called Black Iron Token should actually have a line added on the back: "Seeking powerful henchmen to help us control the situation."

As the largest faction in the imperial court, Grand Tutor Xia Yu should be able to gain quite a bit from this, right?

Otherwise, why would they be willing to come out and guide outstanding individuals?

"If you don't like going there, sell it."

My aunt sat on the ground and began unpacking the goods, while Hua Yu sat beside her with a very attentive expression. She brewed tea and placed snacks on the low table, and held a booklet and charcoal pencil in her hand to help my aunt record the names, prices, and uses of the goods.

“Selling it would be such a waste. Grand Tutor Ao Jin is a powerful figure in the Crimson Dragon Clan of the South Sea. My nephew should be able to gain some benefits if he can meet Grand Tutor Ao Jin.”

Hua Yu, whose intelligence network extends throughout Xia Yu, advised Su Yan that he should participate in the competition:

"Grand Tutor Jin, like your father, ran away from the South China Sea Dragon Clan in his early years. However, he was much luckier than your father. He didn't have to run away for many years before he managed to get close to Emperor Yu of Xia, who was expanding his power at the time."

The scales of the various dragon clans in the Four Seas are all different colors. Su Yan's father, Ao Renlin, comes from the Black Dragon Clan of the North Sea. The Black Dragon's talent contains the virtue of water and the harshness of winter. Similarly, the Red Dragon Clan of the South Sea's talent contains the ability to control water and the heat of summer.

The dragon race is divided into groups based on their body color and the supernatural power contained in their innate abilities.

Otherwise, no matter how much a creature resembles a dragon and can spit out dragon pearls, the dragon race would not acknowledge it as a true dragon.

As for Su Yan, a fox who doesn't look like a dragon and whose ability to spit out dragon pearls is unknown, as long as he has the ability to control water, then he is a genuine dragon!

Although not a pure-blooded true dragon, it still qualifies to be included in the genealogy of the North Sea Dragon Clan.

Dragons identify their kind based on their talents, not simply on their appearance.

"With my cultivation level, do you think I can win?"

Su Yan looked up and saw his Earth Immortal Aunt, Nascent Soul Stage True Person Hua Yu, Nascent Soul Stage Senior Zou, and Golden Core Stage Jiao Nanwu, who had just brewed tea and brought it to the cultivation room.

In Xia Yu City, Foundation Establishment cultivators are everywhere, and Golden Core cultivators are even more common. It's as if you're not qualified to open a shop in Xia Yu without Nascent Soul cultivation.

If I were to advance using my Foundation Establishment cultivation level, wouldn't I be subjected to a brutal beating by all sorts of monsters, prodigies, and chosen ones of heaven?

Forget it. You spent tens of thousands of spirit stones, only to get a beating in return.

"Your cultivation level isn't too bad! For a demon, it's already quite excellent. Besides, there's a forty-year age limit for the Imperial Martial Arts Competition. The strongest you'll ever encounter is only at the Golden Core stage. Just move around more, dodge more, and then use the divine power inherited from your parents to kick a Golden Core cultivator in the groin and you'll win."

Hua Yu smiled and encouraged Su Yan, saying that while it was good to have self-awareness, there was no need to favor one over another.

In terms of cultivation level, Su Yan is indeed at the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, the physical strength of the demon race cannot be ignored. Apart from their innate supernatural abilities that grow stronger with cultivation, the demon race's true greatest strength should be their physique.

“A little fox like you, if you kicked a human cultivator in the crotch with all your might, Aunt Hua Yu guarantees that both men and women would clutch their crotches and fall to the ground howling in pain.”

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