"A great personage?
Just how great?
Isn't she just the chairman of this gambling city's Oversight Committee?"
"Great Old Master! Isn't the chairman of the gambling city's Oversight Committee great enough?
Moreover, Bai Susu isn't just the chairman of the Oversight Committee; she's also the deputy city lord of this gambling city, the chief manager of the bank, and concurrently holds over ten other positions like elder of the Resource Management Committee and the Auction House... She's even a council elder for the entire Fengyue Small World...
Her authority is immense, practically governing half of the Fengyue Small World."
"That impressive?"
"Absolutely! And this Bai Susu is also a Nine Heavens Immortal conferred by the Immortal Dao. Not only does she govern half of the Fengyue Small World, but even in the vast Dual-Pole Celestial Domain, she's a figure of significant weight. In our Dual-Pole Celestial Domain, whether it's cave heavens, blessed lands, or Profound Heaven Secret Realms, they all give her some face. Tell me, isn't that a great personage?"
"She can indeed be called a great personage, but...
Why does the name Bai Susu sound so familiar?"
Gu Qingfeng thought for a moment, vaguely recalling that on the way here, Qianling had taken out a token that scared off Li Fengyan, and the owner of that token seemed to be Bai Susu.
"Familiar?
Great Old Master, it should be thunderously famous! Go ask around, who in our Dual-Pole Celestial Domain doesn't know the great name of Bai Susu? She's incredibly formidable."
Horse King advised, "So, when you meet Bai Susu later, you absolutely must observe proper etiquette. Don't act recklessly. Bai Susu is not someone that scoundrel Li Fengyan can be compared to. If you anger her, forget about whether you can survive in the Dual-Pole Celestial Domain; whether you can leave the Fengyue Small World alive is an unknown."
"Is it really that exaggerated?"
"My Great Old Master! What I'm saying isn't exaggerated in the slightest! That Bai Susu is definitely a demon immortal of unfathomable strength. How powerful exactly, I don't know, but I've heard that once when someone caused trouble in the Fengyue Small World, Bai Susu waved her hand, and those Great Luo Golden Immortals were instantly reduced to ashes on the spot. I've even heard that some Great Desolate Spirit Immortals were severely injured."
"Hearing you say that, does that mean I can't avoid meeting her?"
"Of course not! You must meet her, you have to! Can you not meet her?
Such a great personage, we can't afford to offend her either."
Although Horse King suspected that Gu Qingfeng might have once been a Great Old Master who shook a region, it was only a suspicion. Leaving aside whether the guess was correct, even if Gu Qingfeng had truly been a region-shaking Great Old Master in the past, that was just the past. In the Great Desolate, where the strong are revered, it doesn't matter if you were once a Great Old Master who shook a region; even if you were once the Emperor of Heaven himself, if you've lost all your cultivation, you can only play the part of a lowly subordinate.
"That's true. For such a great personage, I should pay my respects."
"Alright then, Great Old Master, you go ahead. I'll wait outside."
"You're not coming?"
"I don't dare."
"What's there to be afraid of?"
"Great Old Master, please spare me. I'm timid; seeing a great personage like Bai Susu would probably scare the piss out of me."
Horse King truly didn't dare to go.
He truly didn't dare to meet a great personage like Bai Susu.
"Fine, wait here then. When I come out, I'll take you drinking at the brothels."
Just as Gu Qingfeng was preparing to follow Xiao Ya to meet the legendary Bai Susu, Xiao Ya, walking ahead, suddenly stopped. She glanced at Horse King and said, "Hey, you big oaf, what are you standing there for? Do you need this young lady to find someone to carry you?"
"Me?"
Horse King pointed at himself, somewhat disbelieving.
"Chairman Bai wants to see you too. And Steward Li, you come along as well."
Upon hearing that Bai Susu wanted to see not only Gu Qingfeng but also himself, both Horse King and Steward Li were startled. Their hearts immediately began to panic, especially Horse King, whose face turned pale with fright. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't dare utter a word. He glanced at Steward Li, who also glanced back at him. The same question seemed to arise in both their minds.
Was it possible that Chairman Bai of the Oversight Committee had discovered some problem from the Mysterious Light Mirror?
Otherwise,
why would the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, for no apparent reason, want to see the three of them?
Could it be an interrogation?
Heavens!
What should they do?
Horse King had heard plenty of stories before about gamblers colluding with casino staff, cheating and falsifying to deceive the Oversight Committee and defraud gambling funds. He'd heard that those caught were thrown into the Black Prison, where they could neither live nor die.
Thinking of this,
Horse King's heart pounded wildly, his legs going weak with fear.
He glanced at Steward Li, then at Gu Qingfeng, as if trying to guess if the two of them had secretly colluded.
But then he thought, that wasn't very likely.
Steward Li had high prestige in the gambling city and was famously fair and just, never bending the law for personal gain.
Moreover, Gu Qingfeng didn't seem like someone who would cheat. If he had really cheated to win so much, he would have kept a low profile. Why would he act so ostentatiously, even daring to scatter millions in lucky money?
But if the two of them hadn't secretly colluded, then why did Bai Susu want to see the three of them?
Not only did he not know, but even Steward Li wore a worried expression. He also didn't know why the Chairman of the Oversight Committee wanted to see the three of them for no apparent reason.
Horse King was scared, and he was scared too.
Although he was upright and had never colluded with outsiders, just hearing that Bai Susu wanted to see him filled him with fear.
"This...
Steward Li, do you know why Chairman Bai wants to see us?"
Perhaps too frightened, Horse King's forehead kept sweating profusely, and even his speech became somewhat halting and stammering.
Steward Li shook his head. He didn't know either.
"Then... what do you think it could be about?"
Steward Li shook his head again.
"Could it be that Chairman Bai suspects something and wants to interrogate us?"
Steward Li looked at him and shook his head silently.
Good heavens!
Horse King swallowed hard, hurried to catch up with Gu Qingfeng ahead, and sent a secret voice transmission: "Great Old Master, for the sake of me giving you that thousand chips, could you give me an honest answer?"
"An honest answer about what?"
"You...
winning eighteen hundred million in one go, did you...
cheat?"
Gu Qingfeng stopped and looked at him, smiling. "You guess."
"Great Old Master!
We're at this critical juncture, please don't make me guess anymore!"
Horse King was so scared he was almost crying. "I'm timid! Don't scare me, alright?"
"What happens if you cheat?"
"Tendons pulled, skin flayed, bones picked clean, the five viscera and six bowels boiled... refining the immortal spirit, burning the soul...
Every single legendary method of the Black Prison would be tried on us."
"That vicious?"
"Exactly!"
Horse King said with a choked throat, "So if you really did cheat, then the two of us are finished!"
"If I cheated, then I'm the one who's finished. What's it got to do with you?"
"You make it sound easy! I was the one who gave you that thousand chips!
They'll definitely suspect we're in cahoots!"
"Just say we're not in cahoots."
"They'd have to believe it first!"
"Don't worry. If the sky falls, I'll hold it up for you."
"You say that, but if the sky falls, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold it up!"
Horse King said with a tearful face, "Great Old Master, did you really cheat or not?!"
Gu Qingfeng shushed him, pointing at Xiao Ya ahead. "Be careful, walls have ears."