Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Did Senior Brother Li teach you all these things?”
The corner of Chu Xiaolian’s mouth twitched, feeling as if a door to a new world had just been opened to him.
Three years ago, Senior Brother Li was only thirteen years old!
At the age of thirteen, he was already enlightened with the idea to seek talents at a brothel?
And even came up with this method of ascending to deityhood in broad daylight!
The eldest disciple of the Unyielding Sword Celestial Sect, Li Hanguang, what kind of legendary figure was he?
…
Jiang Shengxie’s eyes were brimming with adoration. “Yes, all that I know, I’ve learned from Senior Brother Li.
“The value of the words Senior Brother Li bestowed upon me back then exceeds that of visiting brothels for ten years straight.
“Unfortunately, Senior Brother Li never came down the mountain again after he went into closed-door training three years ago. I wonder if it’s because Senior Sister Ye is watching him too closely.
“For three years, I’ve been doing it alone. I’ve been too lonely.”
Chu Xiaolian seemed to have caught a whiff of something worth gossiping about. “Senior Sister Ye? Could it be that Senior Sister Ye and Senior Brother Li are Cultivation Partners?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded, then shook his head. “To be more precise, Senior Sister Ye’s affection is unrequited!”
The scent of gossip intensified further.
Yue Tai’a sent someone to bring him a new fruit plate and continued to gnaw at the fruits. “Senior Brother, please speak with caution!
“If Senior Sister learns that you’re gossiping about her behind her back, just wait, she might smother all kinds of poisonous insects and powers on your face!”
As if recollecting something horrifying, Jiang Shengxie gasped in horror and immediately sealed his lips.
“Senior Sister Ye?”
Chu Xiaolian’s face was full of doubt. “Senior Sister Ye looks so transcendent in appearance. Does she even have mastery over poison?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded in lingering fear. “In the Unyielding Sword Celestial Sect, all the five major elders have their own fields of expertise.
“For Elder Ye, in addition to his exquisite mastery over Sword Techniques, he is most famous for his dual cultivation in Poison Craft!
“Senior Sister Ye is talented and intelligent. The fact that she inherited Elder Ye’s medical skills and Poison Craft naturally makes her terrifying.
“In addition to that, she has been following Senior Brother Li for many years. Under his guidance, her medical skills and Poison Craft improved by leaps and bounds.
“Before Senior Sister Ye’s Poison Craft developed, even the terrible monsters at the peak of the Golden Core stage could hardly retreat.”
Even entities at the peak of the Golden Core stage could not stand Senior Sister Ye’s poison?
Ye Chengying’s chilling countenance once again appeared in his mind. Chu Xiaolian could not believe it.
Woman—it was true that they could not be judged by their looks!
Wait.
Chu Xiaolian suddenly noticed something and said, “Senior Brother Jiang, did you say under Senior Brother Li’s guidance?
“Could it be that Senior Brother Li knows medicine and Poison Craft as well?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded as if that was something obvious. “That’s for certain. Senior Sister Ye told me so herself.
“She said that when she studies medicine and Poison Craft, she will often encounter confusion and bottlenecks, but as long as she brings a pill to Senior Brother Li, she will be enlightened every time.
“This can only mean that Senior Brother Li’s attainments in medicine and Poison Craft definitely outweigh Senior Sister Ye’s!”
Senior Brother Li is proficient in medicine and Poison Craft too?
Chu Xiaolian was frustrated. “How is that possible?! How can there be someone like that in this world?”
Is there anything that he can’t do?
At that moment, Chu Xiaolian began doubting his own life.
…
The Embracing Moon Brothel’s madam had more than a dozen beautiful ladies walk into the room ever so elegantly while lining up.
In all honesty, this was Chu Xiaolian’s very first experience of the world of carnal pleasures.
The group of ladies were either pure, charming, enthusiastic, or gentle and whoever stood in front of him had him dazzled in an instant.
He even got the feeling that his former Cultivation Partner, Mu Yuehua, was nothing much in comparison!
It was not that Mu Yuehua’s appearance was not as good as these women’s, but that a woman’s attractiveness to men had never been as simple as just the appearance.
They would also have to be flirty and coquettish~
This was especially true for males that were young and healthy~
Looking at Jiang Shengxie and Yue Tai’a, their behavior this time was extremely calm.
Yue Tai’a was already gnawing on his third fruit plate. His eyes never settled on these women at all.
As for Jiang Shengxie, he seemed rather displeased.
He knitted his eyebrows. “Change all of them.”
A difficult expression was revealed on the face of the brothel’s madam. “Young Master Jiang, they are the only ones who are free now.”
These are all of them?
Jiang Shengxie’s complexion dimmed. “This is my Junior Brother’s first time. I want him to experience the best!
“The best experience, you get me?”
Madam said helplessly, “Young Master Jiang, it’s not that I don’t want to fulfil your request, but today’s situation is special. We have too many guests, and you didn’t book your slot in advance…”
“Book?”
Jiang Shengxie looked around the Embracing Moon Brothel that was crowded with people and asked curiously, “It’s true that you have quite a lot of visitors today. What’s going on?”
Madam said, “Today is Miss Mingyue’s 16th birthday, so she is showing up to play the zither.
“These guests are all here to have a glance at Miss Mingyue’s beautiful countenance.
“The other ladies have all been booked to provide company.”
…
I see.
Jiang Shengxian was absorbed in thought. “Oh, that’ll explain it.”
“Forget it, tell these ladies to leave us! Bring us better ones when they are free.”
Watching Jiang Shengxie dismiss more than a dozen girls at once, Chu Xiaolian revealed reluctance in his eyes. He wanted to say…actually, these would do.
After all, he came here to train, not to lose his virginity.
Chu Xiaolian said curiously, “Who is this Miss Mingyue?”
Jiang Shengxie filled his wine cup and emptied it at once. “Lady Mingyue is the oiran of the Embracing Moon Brothel.
“She’s not only beautiful, but she also has astonishing mastery over the zither. When she plays the song ‘Heart of the Moon’, it sounds like the singing of an angel.
“However, Miss Mingyue isn’t a prostitute who sells her body. She’s with the Embracing Moon Brothel only in name.
“These past three years, the total number of performances by Miss Mingyue may be less than ten. Junior Brother, you are really lucky to witness her performance on your first visit.”
Chu Xiaolian said curiously, “You can’t get Miss Mingyue even with your identity, Senior Brother Jiang?”
Jiang Shengxie shook his head with eyes full of awe. “You better not let those vile thoughts cross your mind, Junior Brother. Miss Mingyue is different from the other ladies.”
Chu Xiaolian became even more curious. “How is she different?”
Having finished his third fruit plate, Yue Tai’a interrupted, “She’s Senior Brother Li’s chunk of forbidden meat.”
Senior Brother Li’s chunk of forbidden meat?
Chu Xiaolian’s eyes widened. “She’s affiliated to Senior Brother Li?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded calmly. “Junior Brother, remember I told you that Senior Brother and I found a lady with a mid-grade Spiritual Root here?”
Chu Xiaolian was absorbed in thought. “Is she the one?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded. “Yes. Miss Mingyue is 16 this year. Three years ago when she was 13, she was a princess of a small country somewhere in the mortal realm.
“However, in the Eastern Desolation Realm, war and subjugation are very common.
“Due to her country being defeated, she lost her home. Thus, Miss Mingyue began her life of wandering in poverty. But she was lucky. As soon as she joined the Embracing Moon Brothel, she met Senior Brother Li.”
Yue Tai’a who was munching on a slice of watermelon interrupted, “Senior Brother Li not only redeemed her, but he even wrote a song for her.
“It is said that the song ‘Heart of the Moon’ was composed by Senior Brother on the spot three years ago.
“And once it was performed, the song became a sensation across tens of thousands of miles of land and was widely sung among all the refined scholars of the mortal world.”
…
Heart of the Moon?
Caused a sensation in the mortal world and sung in lands of tens of thousands of miles across?
Chu Xiaolian was startled. “Senior Brother Li is also proficient in music?”
Jiang Shengxie nodded. His eyes were full of fanatical worship. “After years of getting along with him, we, his Junior Brothers, have firmly determined one thing.”
Chu Xiaolian gulped and asked curiously, “Determined in what?”
Next to them, Yue Tai’a stopped chewing and said with an expression that was solemn and pious, “We all believe that Senior Brother Li is—
“—an absolute all-rounder!”