I have the best bloodline

Su Yan sat on a cultivator's shoulder, watching Yu Yanning emerge victorious in the arena, and silently criticized her in his heart.

Su Yan originally thought Yu Yanning was a fierce person, but now it seems that Miss Yu is not a fierce person at all, but a tyrant!

Whose daughter chose a magic weapon with a tiger-finger fist design, especially one with the explosive fire element among the five elements?

No wonder this young girl is so superstitious, believing that foxes can protect her marriage. She even went so far as to touch her own bell all the way to pray for a good marriage. It seems that Yu Yanning is quite sensible and knows that she will have a hard time getting married.

Su Yan watched the arena match from above, while the middle-aged, burly cultivator who had offered his shoulder cautiously glanced at Chong Qiong, observing the adult's expression. Only after confirming that the adult was not planning to continue slapping him did he breathe a sigh of relief.

The girl in front of him, who appeared to be fourteen or fifteen years old, possessed extremely profound and powerful cultivation. He couldn't even see through her. If Chong Qiong had really slapped him just now, the middle-aged man would probably have been able to move horizontally for more than ten miles.

Chong Qiong never talks about her cultivation level. When Su Yan asks her about her aunt Chong Qiong, she only answers him: "Enough."

Because in Chong Qiong's opinion, it was really just enough, and there was nothing particularly worth showing off.

Cultivators start from the Body Refining stage, then progress to Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deity Transformation. Finally, they reach the special realm that Chong Qiong is in now, a realm where she has passed the Heavenly Tribulation of the Deity Transformation stage but has not yet reached the Body Integration stage.

A realm known as the half-step terrestrial immortal!

This is a realm that requires accumulation. Only by transcending the mortal body can one enter the Integration Stage in a completely new form and be revered by the world as a god living on land, whose every breath is like a natural disaster.

Because of the enlightened atmosphere of the Xia Dynasty and the presence of an emperor comparable to an immortal, many small sects or demons who could not bear the monotony of the forest would choose to settle down in Xia Yu and spend their time in the realm of half-step earth immortals.

As long as Emperor Yu the Great doesn't get into trouble, minor sects and those on the verge of becoming immortals don't need to worry. Major sects can suppress you or take advantage of your weakness to kill you directly.

However, in the Xia Dynasty, the emperor was the law, and Xia Yu prohibited high-level cultivators from fighting in the city.

They can peacefully survive until they reach the realm of terrestrial immortals.

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With Yu Yanning's departure, Su Yan gradually lost interest in the arena matches.

The battles between low-level cultivators are not very grand, and for those who do not place bets, they are not very entertaining. They are mostly martial arts skills, with no scenes of magical attacks.

After watching for a while, Su Yan got off the kind uncle's shoulder and thanked him.

The burly man almost kowtowed to Su Yan in return.

"My foul mouth."

After Chong Qiong left with Su Yan, the Sky-Soaring cultivators who had been watching the battle like normal spectators were now gloating over the burly man who had slapped himself in the face, laughing merrily: "Look at you, so capable! You think you're the only one with a mouth? You think you're so smart!"

"Slap it harder, slap that lousy mouth until it's swollen."

Su Yan squeezed his way from the back to the front. Although he kept saying "excuse me" and "thank you" along the way, the cultivators present who could fly were all at least at the Golden Core stage. They wouldn't let Su Yan pass even if they tried their hardest. But after they noticed Chong Qiong's presence, they all kindly made way for Su Yan and helped him squeeze to the front.

Only the burly man who had just lost money was shouting.

Chong Qiong raised her hand to slap him, but the burly man quickly changed his mind and helped Su Yan onto his shoulder to watch the game.

A slap from a near-immortal is more effective than the charm of a young nine-tailed fox.

This slap will surely be earth-shattering.

The cultivators all wanted to see Chong Qiong make a move, but unfortunately, the burly man chickened out too quickly, and they didn't even get to see the blood flowing like a river.

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Su Yan was unaware of his aunt's little scheme and simply believed that the Xia Yu Kingdom was enlightened, prosperous, and strong, and that the people there were generally friendly due to their abundant material life over the years.

Following the address given by Xiao Jin, Su Yan actually found a tailor shop. After asking the shopkeeper's name, he confirmed that, as Xiao Jin had said, the shopkeeper's surname was Yu. Su Yan took out the spider silk from his storage ring and asked the shopkeeper if he could weave the spider silk into cloth.

Shopkeeper Yu looked at it for a while before replying to Su Yan that she could weave it, but it would take three days.

They also offer custom-made clothing. If he needs one, they can make a sample first and he can pick it up in five days.

Su Yan thought for a moment, then used a charcoal pencil to draw her rough ideas about stockings and some concepts about sexy clothes on the paper, creating a rough sketch.

These pictures left Manager Yu stunned. Such sexy and interesting clothes would be hard for ordinary girls to wear on the street. Even female cultivators of the demonic path might not be as daring as those in Su Yan's paintings.

But the shopkeeper didn't care; as long as the money was there, she would accept even if he asked her to wear a bikini for the service.

"Come back in five days for a sample. If there are no problems, I'll cut it out for you that same day."

Manager Yu patted his chest and assured her, while also glancing at Chong Qiong and taking a look at her figure.

I sighed inwardly: Young people really know how to have fun.

"I'm his aunt, why are you looking at me like that?"

After being scanned by Manager Yu's gaze, as if being measured from head to toe with a measuring tape, Auntie glared at the tailor's chest, making Manager Yu look embarrassed.

After dealing with the fabric matter, Auntie took Su Yan away from her place of sorrow.

Six hundred stones of spirit stones!

A whopping 60,000 catties of spirit stones! Becoming an official in the imperial court would be far more lucrative than being a mountain bandit like us!

Thinking about this still makes my aunt feel heartbroken, and she doesn't want to linger in that sad place at all.

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"By the way, Auntie, I know that passing the imperial examination means you can become an official in the court, but what about passing the military examination? Will all the candidates become military officers in the court?"

Su Yan asked with great curiosity.

He was riding in one of the examination caravans, which carried over a hundred examinees. This was just one caravan; Su Yan had seen other caravans along the way, each carrying over a hundred examinees heading towards Xia Yu's main city.

After passing the imperial examinations or military examinations, what one could do was a matter of common sense for the people within the Xia Dynasty's territory; there was no one who would specifically answer or explain this.

But for Su Yan, an outsider, there was simply no answer.

"Military examination? After passing the military examination, you can roughly be divided into three levels, right? The best candidates go to the Demon Suppression Division, the next best go to the border army as leaders, and those who only pass the examination will be assigned to various counties and townships or to the command of vassal kings."

"Joining the Demon Suppression Division is equivalent to serving as a royal bodyguard. If you do well in the future, you can become close to the emperor. Those who are assigned to the army can return to the court if they are capable. As for the rest, you can only say that they will end up in all sorts of ways. Whether they are successful or not depends entirely on their own abilities."

"Passing the imperial examination makes one a civil official, but where one is assigned depends on one's performance and luck."

Are you interested in taking up a government post? If so, your aunt suggests you marry into a princess's family. The officials in the court all live incredibly long lives, and the current Three Masters are among the first generation of officials to serve under the first emperor.

"I'm afraid that even when you're old and gray, you won't outlive those old folks."

The thousands of people participating in the martial arts competition are all those who passed the provincial and imperial examinations.

The imperial court will select the thirty best people to be assigned to the Demon Suppression Division, which is directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, to be responsible for border inspections. Two hundred people will be assigned to the border army for training, and the remaining three hundred will only be given a title and then sent home.

A title of "Juren" (a successful candidate in the imperial examinations at the provincial level) is not worth much, but it is true that working in local government offices can lead to a raise. So my aunt said that the rest of the people end up in all sorts of different situations, it all depends on their abilities.

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Chapter 15 Zhou You

At night, when the brothels are open for business.

“Madam, this won’t do. If your husband goes to brothels every day, what if he catches some kind of disease? It won’t look good for your reputation. Why don’t you just designate that he can only come to our place?”

"You can see the environment here. Moreover, we cooperate with the Ministry of Rites. Unlike those brothels that use the name of a brothel to conduct brothel business, we are open to inspection by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Justice!"

"Leaving aside matters of men and women, to put it more broadly, our organization never evades taxes; we are perfectly legitimate!"

As always, when the brothel was open, Su Yan sat on a table for people to pray for blessings. Unlike in the past when people came to pray for marriage or children, today, he occasionally saw a few ladies who came to pray for harmonious marital relations.

After listening to their prayers, Su Yan roughly knew what had happened. It was nothing more than that the husbands of the ladies in front of him were spending all their time playing in brothels, which made their wives unhappy. So they invited three or five women to the Fox Fairy Temple to pray for blessings.

Seeing an opportunity, Su Yan immediately began to promote her brothel to the ladies, tirelessly explaining how legal and compliant it was, and guaranteeing that their husbands would not be able to eat any meat when they came here.

The talented women of the brothels were different from the women of the night, especially for the female relatives of the court officials.

The brothels under the Ministry of Rites were the last vestige of dignity for the women of the court. Their family members had entered the court as officials, and they might have embezzled for some reason, but as long as they hadn't committed any fundamental errors, their faction leader would give their women a final favor out of consideration for their past relationship.

If the officials of the Ministry of Rites find out that these scoundrels have made indecent advances towards the talented woman tonight, they will be caught within three days and have their hands broken. If they commit any indecent acts against powerful figures in the court, they will be made to float their corpses on the river.

There's some truth to the saying that men in the Xia Dynasty didn't like brothels. It was not uncommon for them to get drunk and then have an accident or be blackmailed by talented women.

Drinking with prostitutes and risking your life is terrifying.

Only those poor, pedantic scholars loved this kind of thing, fantasizing about one day winning the heart of a beautiful woman, or gaining the favor of the faction leaders behind talented women.

These were things Su Yan didn't know before. Later, when he decided to expand the brothel business, he gradually learned about these unspoken rules of the brothel from the talented women.

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"A busy day is finally over."

Seeing that the ladies had all moved to the next room to play mahjong, Su Yan got off the altar, stretched, and sighed.

So be it, a fox spirit temple! At least the talented women can now get some hope of receiving a reward.

Su Yan has gained experience in acting as a deity statue now, and he is no longer as flustered as before, struggling frantically as the ladies tried to pull at his pants. Now, when the ladies stuff reward money into his clothes with their left hands, Su Yan opens his storage ring with his right hand and stores the reward money into the storage ring.

I will never again feed someone into a ball.

"Huh? What are you doing here?"

Su Yan got off the altar and was about to go up to the fourth floor to find her aunt and Jiao Nanwu when she inadvertently caught a glimpse of a handsome man carrying a black sword box sitting in a corner of the brothel, drinking alone.

Su Yan recognized the handsome guy; he was Zhou, the one who shamelessly jumped out last night and ended up getting kicked by his aunt, causing him to slide down his knees and collide with the doorpost.

Seeing him here surprised Su Yan slightly.

Because Zhou was not just a pretentious young master; he was a true cultivator with real cultivation.

It's truly a rare occurrence for cultivators to drink at the official brothel of the imperial court instead of going to the Wan Hua Ge (a brothel known for its beautiful women).

"I don't have germs! No need to bring a broom!"

Zhou You seemed to still remember Su Yan. Upon seeing Su Yan, he bluntly complained, "I, Zhou, have been traveling the world for three to five years and have stayed in all sorts of shady places, but I have never seen anything like this in your brothel. You sweep people with brooms and then spit on me and call me a germ!"

Zhou You was unaware that Su Yan's use of "you jun" (有菌) meant bacteria or fungi, implying that he had a filthy mind. However, based on Zhou You's knowledge and experience, he interpreted the phrase as referring to fungi.

In other words, in Zhou You's eyes, Su Yan not only chased him out of the brothel, but also, as if to say disdainfully, "Heh, you dog of a man."

This made Zhou You extremely dissatisfied.

What's wrong with me? Aren't you a man? Don't men live for money and women?

Don't you like young ladies?

Zhou You originally wanted to curse Su Yan like that, but after a brief encounter, he really couldn't bring himself to do it, especially watching Su Yan flitting among the ladies of various styles.

His effortless movements, his ability to navigate through crowds of women without a trace of makeup on his clothes, made Zhou You realize that the young man in front of him probably didn't lack wives or money.

He was born to be a womanizer, and arguing with such a chosen one about wives and money is simply humiliating.