Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"You\'ve had it tough these past few months..."

"It\'s okay."

With an expression hard to read, Fat Long shook his head, "I\'ve always said that only those who don\'t believe they can become strong feel humiliated by yesterday\'s kneeling."

"It doesn\'t matter."

"These setbacks are the trials I must endure on the path to becoming a significant figure, they are the Heavenly Dao\'s tempering of me."

Chen Qiu nodded complicatedly without saying anything else. He had to admit that Fat Long\'s mentality was truly admirable. An ordinary person, having transmigrated and gone through a series of shitty events, would probably be mentally disturbed by now, but when he first met Fat Long...

Fat Long was still intent on stealing his pig-head meat to eat.

That was a bit heartless and thoughtless.

"By the way—"

Chen Qiu looked towards a woman surrounded by several young men in the distance, his brow slightly furrowed. He did not have a good impression of those young men who were closely guarding Ma Yinxue in the middle, their eyes full of hostility toward all the other men around.

It was as if they were terrified that more rivals in love would pop up.

"What\'s the effect of that Ma Yinxue\'s beauty ranking?"

"It allows one\'s husband to be favoured by the Heavenly Dao, enabling the husband to ignore the Secret Realm\'s restrictions and increase his Cultivation by three small realms within the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, and also to randomly gain two time-limited entries."

"Understood."

Chen Qiu nodded thoughtfully, "So there\'s only a beauty ranking? No rankings for handsome men?"

"There\'s no ranking for handsome men."

"The beauty ranking includes men. According to the intelligence I received a while ago, there are twelve men on the beauty list. These men are also Heavenly Dao Beauties, but the ranking is updated in real-time, so I don\'t know if it\'s still twelve now."

"Once someone is fortunate enough to become a Heavenly Dao Beauty, they\'re basically not taken off the list unless they die, after which a new Heavenly Dao Beauty will replace them."

"Those men are also surrounded by groups of women. These twelve men are also known as the Twelve Beauties of Da Xia."

"Of course, in private, everyone calls them the Twelve Public Livestock of Da Xia."

Just then—

Ma Yinxue in the crowd suddenly noticed Chen Qiu and Fat Long standing under a pine tree. The corner of her mouth turned slightly upwards, as if she was thinking of something, and she gracefully waved her sleeve and slowly walked towards Fat Long.

The flower guard servants by her side also followed closely behind her, their faces full of vigilance, like those of competent house slaves.

Almost everyone\'s gaze was on the girl in the pink dress, and Ma Yinxue also seemed to enjoy the feeling of being watched by everyone.

"It looks like she\'s walking towards you, and the posture doesn\'t seem like she\'s here to catch up with you," Chen Qiu said in a low voice as he watched Ma Yinxue approaching them.

Fat Long nodded, his voice a bit hoarse, "If she mocks me later and I talk back, can you protect me, Brother Qiu?"

"Are you so sure she\'s going to mock you?"

"Yeah, that\'s just her character. In my previous life when my company was doing well, she was good to me. But after the company\'s performance declined, her attitude did a complete 180."

"Just these few people? No problem, you can say whatever you want, just don\'t criticize them as a group. "

"I can\'t beat so many people at once. The scholar and the others are still in Fufeng City, so it\'d be tough to run away."

"I understand, I\'ve got it now."

...

"Long time no see, Fat Long."

With each step Ma Yinxue took, a plum blossom appeared on the ground beneath her feet, her cat-like steps gracefully brought her to Fat Long\'s side. She raised her hand with a mocking smile and gently slid it across Fat Long\'s cheek, finally resting it on his Adam\'s apple, her voice saccharine to the point of dripping.

"This Heavenly Dao Secret Realm has a Cultivation cap of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment. Are you here to try your luck as well?"

"Tsk, you\'re still the same as before, addicted to gambling."

"Didn\'t I tell you that deal was no good and you still went through with it? What was the outcome? Didn\'t you lose everything? Why do you always think you\'re invincible, as if everything you do is right?"

"Seeing me again, do you feel any regret? If you had humbled yourself and clung to me instead of insisting on making me your virtuous wife, maybe now you would have the qualifications to stand among these men behind me."

Fat Long emotionlessly swatted Ma Yinxue\'s hand away and coldly said, "A few days apart and you\'ve become as flirtatious as a prostitute?"

"Did you get stabbed in the head? Did it scramble your brains too?"

...

Chen Qiu, who was originally standing to the side, playing with a Jade Feather Fan and watching the commotion with glee, suddenly had his smile stiffen on his face. He then silently slipped the fan into his Storage Ring and prepared to draw his sword for battle at any moment.

It seemed a fight was inevitable today.

The crowd that had been gathering around to watch the excitement quickly dispersed with tacit understanding; the area under the pine tree, previously crowded, was now deserted.

The stage was set for them to perform, and the rest was up to their own devices.

While the crowd dispersed, every face was filled with a gossip-hungry look. This kind of gossip about the Heavenly Dao Beauty was always irresistible, especially new gossip.

No sooner had Fat Long\'s words fallen than the several men standing behind Ma Yinxue drew their weapons in rage and pointed them at Fat Long.

"Audacious!!!"

"Who gave you the courage to speak to Sister Xue in such a manner?"

"You\'re courting death!!!!"

"We\'ve never even held Sister Xue\'s hand, how dare you so brazenly tarnish her reputation!"

Just as the men seemed ready to charge in fury and slay the insolent Fat Long right there, Ma Yinxue, with a flash of coldness on her face, gestured for the men behind her to stop and whispered into Fat Long\'s ear, articulating each word.

"I once heard a saying—"

"A man\'s money is not for a woman to spend, but for her to gaze upon."

"I think it makes sense."

"A woman\'s charm is not for a man to use, but for him to look upon."

"As long as I choose not to pick a husband, every man wants to possess me, and I can make use of all these men. But you, what do you have? I will let you see that my decisions have always been right, and men like you, arrogant and ignorant, can only rage impotently."

"Your heart filled with regret and frustration, you\'ll shiver with realization and then have to face reality once more, continuing to hide in a filthy gutter."

"That\'s right."

Taking a step back, the woman suddenly laughed, pulled out ten porcelain bottles from her Storage Ring, and tossed them in front of Fat Long: "These are the Potions you gave me back then; I\'m returning tenfold."

"Didn\'t you say you worked day and night for over ten days to earn the money for this Potion? You had to mention it every single day, as if you wanted me to be indebted to you for a lifetime over this, a thing worth a few hundred coins. Do you intend for me to remember it for the rest of my life?"

"Is returning tenfold enough for you?"