Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Golden Eyes woman was being so nice to Jiang Chen because of his Celestial Venerable state. It was easy for a Star Venerable to hide his state. Jiang Chen was still very young. If he was found to be a Star Venerable, it would cause a big disturbance.
Jiang Chen disguised himself for convenience. He would rather have disguised himself as an insignificant guy of the Reaching Heaven State. However, on Golden Ship, not just anyone could be guided by a pretty woman. Normally, the women here would lead the clients into a hall and then they would leave. Only important clients would get the treatment Jiang Chen was getting.
On his way, Jiang Chen saw many people he recognized, including some big shots who had shown up in the Holy Martial Arts City. At the moment, they did not look like strong practitioners at all. They just looked like what they were— some libertines looking for women.
The Golden Eyes have understood all the humans’ weaknesses.
Suddenly, Jiang Chen found himself in a noisy hall. Numerous men and women in luxurious clothes were standing around the tables there. They looked extremely excited. Even young ladies from aristocratic families had lost their manners, shouting and yelling loudly. This was a casino, a grand one.
The pillars in the hall were all made of rose gold and jade and carved into the form of dragons and phoenixes. The lavish gambling devices were either gold-plated or silver-plated.
“My client, this is our most popular entertainment facility. Anyone, regardless of state, can come here to entertain. Each gambling chip here costs 5 million upper-grade yuan stones. My client, how many do you want?”
Jiang Chen knew this was a crucial moment. If he made a shabby impression on her, this woman would leave right away.
“I will take 1,000 for the moment,” Jiang Chen said in a casual way.
The people around cast him a surprised look after hearing this. There were not many young people who were this rich in the Realm of True Force. At the same time, no one on the scene could recognize who he was.
The woman beamed. She started to treat him more warmly.
All of Jiang Chen’s fortune had been kept by the Icy Spirit, but as the Realm Lords of the Realm of Milky and the Realm of Nine Heavens and thanks to the elixirs he had refined, he still had quite a big fortune with him. Soon, the woman brought him 1,000 gambling chips and led him into the casino. She told him her name was Xiang Lan.
There were all kinds of ways to gamble in the casino. If classified by players, there were two ways. The first one was bets between clients. The second one was bets between clients and Golden Ship.
Jiang Chen was observing everything while walking around. The woman was introducing the most popular games to him. There was another floor in the casino, from which one could overlook the hall and see every corner of it. An attractive woman was standing there, with her delicate hands on the rail.
Someone came up to her and whispered something.
“Really?” The woman was surprised. She looked at Jiang Chen quickly. They have such a young Celestial Venerable in the Realm of True Force? He is so generous. Maybe he is from the Three Middle Realms? She talked to herself.
Then she said, “Keep an eye on him. Pay attention to everything he does.”
“Yes.”
On the ground floor, Jiang Chen felt someone was staring at him, but since there were too many people in the casino, he could not tell who it was. When he passed by a table, a youngster cursed, suddenly got to his feet, and turned around. He collided with Jiang Chen.
“Who is this? Don’t you have eyes?”
Jiang Chen did not turn a hair, but the young man was sent flying. He cursed due to the pain.
Jiang Chen stopped walking and looked toward him. The youngster looked familiar to him. However, he was sure he had never seen this guy before. It took him a while to realize that this guy looked like someone he knew. It must be someone he knew well to give him such a feeling. It was true. That person was Tang Shiya. Although the youngster was a man, he and Tang Shiya looked very much alike. They must be relatives.
“Young Master Tang, are you all right?” The woman next to him called him by his family name in a caring tone.
“How were you leading the way?” Then the woman scolded Xiang Lan. At the same time, she threw Jiang Chen a quick glance, which could hardly be noticed, with her phoenix eyes.
Xiang Lan hurried to say, “Young Master Tang, I’m really sorry. It’s my bad.”
Jiang Chen was very surprised. These two women were obviously play-acting. They were trying to calm this Young Master Tang down without offending Jiang Chen.
“Get away!” Young Master Tang pushed the two women away. Coming up to Jiang Chen in anger, he questioned him, “I was asking you. Do you know how to walk?!”
Pah.
Jiang Chen slapped him across his face without speaking.
Young Master Tang was struck dumb, as if it was not him who had been slapped. Then he involuntarily touched his cheek. When he realized it had been real, he flew into a rage.
“What….”
Without giving him any time to speak, Jiang Chen slapped him across the other side of his face.
Everyone around stopped doing what they were doing and looked over. After seeing who had been slapped, they cast Jiang Chen an odd look.
“My client!” Xiang Lan stood between them, trying to stop Jiang Chen.
However, Jiang Chen did not listen to her. He kept walking ahead, pushing Young Master Tang to retreat. Hitting him on the head, Jiang Chen said, “You don’t have eyes or I don’t have eyes?”
Young Master Tang stretched out his arm to protect himself. Seeing Jiang Chen’s slap coming, he hurried to cover his face.
“You know who I am?!” Covering his cheeks with both hands, he shouted loudly. It was an amusing scene.
Jiang Chen punched him in the stomach. When he moved his hands away from his face involuntarily, Jiang Chen slapped him again.
“You don’t have eyes or I don’t have eyes?”
He repeated the same question. His punch was neither too heavy nor too light. It would not disable his rival, but it did hurt.
“My client, please don’t fight here!”
At the same time, the soldiers of the Golden Eyes arrived in a hurry to subdue the riot.
“You know who my elder sister is?! Do you think yourself great just because you’re a Celestial Venerable. My sister is very powerful in the Three Middle Realms. It would be a piece of cake for her to kill you!” Young Master Tang snarled in anger.
“Tang Shiya? An insignificant person in the Three Middle Realms, but you are talking about her as if she is extraordinary,” Jiang Chen said with a cold smile.
Naturally, the onlookers assumed he was from the Three Middle Realms too.
Young Master Tang even stopped shouting for a while. “My friend, I don’t think you know the Three Middle Realms well.”
“The Three Middle Realms are composed of big and small desolate lands, Ten Prefectures, Nine Territories, and the Realm of Spirits. Forces in higher layers of the hierarchy have a higher position.”
“Our young lady has her stand in the Realm of Spirits. You can’t look down on her like this!” By then someone from the Tangs had arrived, threatening him in a tentative manner.
It turned out that Tang Shiya somehow had had a meteoric rise over the past year. As a result, the Tangs were also getting more and more powerful in the Realm of True Force. This Young Master Tang was called Tang Tianjun. He was Tang Shiya’s cousin. Counting on his cousin’s power, he was running amuck in the Three Middle Realms.
“Realm of Spirits? How great.” However, this did not intimidate Jiang Chen either. He had mopped up the Realm of Spirits on his own. Tang Shiya only had a stand in the Realm of Spirits. How powerful could she be?
The Tangs did not act on impulse since they knew nothing about Jiang Chen’s background yet.
The world had been changing really fast. Various races had showed up. It was not wise to antagonize anyone.
