Hua Die Xianzi hadn't expected Mu Lingyao to bring up her past embarrassing incident, which left her feeling somewhat awkward.
Mu Lingyao, on the other hand, looked particularly pleased with herself, deliberately throwing a provocative glance as if to say, 'Who told you to reveal my secrets earlier?'
In response, Hua Die Xianzi could only shake her head with a bitter smile.
Mu Lingyao peeked inside the grand carriage and asked in a low voice, "Is he... still taking a bath in there?"
"Seems so."
"Can't deny he sure knows how to enjoy himself."
Mu Lingyao had just toured this luxurious grand carriage; inside, it was practically an all-purpose cave dwelling. It had an alchemy room for pill refinement, a bedroom for rest, a meditation chamber for cultivation, and even a bathing chamber. It was a chaotic mix of everything. Even she felt that owning such a luxurious carriage would be incredibly convenient. She sighed, "I heard that right after he won 1.8 billion in one go, he immediately went to the Great Sun Yi City and spent five or six billion to buy this carriage."
Although Mu Lingyao had spent several hundred million Immortal Stones over the years trying to conquer the Tower of Stolen Gold, that was over several decades since childhood. If she had to come up with five or six billion all at once, she truly couldn't. Not only could she not produce it, even if she could, she wouldn't be willing to spend that much money on such a luxurious carriage.
"I heard this guy not only spent two or three billion to outfit himself from head to toe, but also spent over a billion to buy that innate Blue Moon Sword that was on display at the Spirit Sword Pavilion in the Bright Moon Yi City."
"Mhmm, Little Drunkard gave that Blue Moon Sword to me."
Hearing this, Mu Lingyao was especially surprised. "He gave it to you?"
Qian Niao nodded and manifested the Blue Moon Sword she had just recently tempered. Looking at this exquisite sword, Mu Lingyao's eyes were full of envy, inwardly sighing that this Gu Qingfeng fellow was truly outrageously generous.
"With the way he's spending, that 1.8 billion is probably almost gone, right?"
"Little Drunkard said he spent it all the same day."
"Mother of heavens! He's too extravagant! He spent 1.8 billion in a single day?"
Qian Niao clicked her tongue secretly, even feeling a tingling sensation on her scalp. She looked at Hua Die Xianzi beside her and said, "Sister Hua Die, you're always saying I spend money recklessly. Compared to this Great Lord, can my spending even be called reckless? It's practically being stingy!"
Hearing that Gu Qingfeng had spent 1.8 billion in a day, Hua Die Xianzi was also astonished. She thought to herself, even if you won 1.8 billion in one go, you shouldn't squander it like that, right? This is way too extreme.
Mu Lingyao handed the Blue Moon Sword back to Qian Niao, signaling her to put it away, and sighed, "No wonder this guy calls himself a nouveau riche. Spending 1.8 billion in a day, he absolutely deserves the title of a big-shot nouveau riche!"
Just then, a voice came through: "Big sister, talking behind my back while I'm away, are you?"
Gu Qingfeng walked out from inside. His hair was still damp, as if he had just enjoyed a hot bath. He had taken off the previous Great Sun Radiance Robe and changed into a black robe. This robe seemed to be embroidered with nine vivid purple-gold pythons, looking quite imposing.
This immortal armor was named the Purple-Gold Black Python Robe. Like the Great Sun Radiance Robe, it belonged to the luxury items most loved by the nouveau riche.
"How could I? You are the Great Lord. How would a lowly girl like me dare speak ill of you? However... Great Lord, don't you have any other clothes?"
Mu Lingyao looked at the Purple-Gold Black Python Robe on Gu Qingfeng with great disdain. And the more she interacted with him, the more she felt this guy was nothing like a senior expert. Especially in terms of dressing, he had absolutely no taste.
"What's wrong with this robe? Isn't it impressive?"
"Impressive? Really? It's even tackier and more vulgar than the previous Great Sun Radiance Robe."
"Tacky and vulgar is just right. Your lord is a nouveau riche, and a very vulgar one at that. Naturally, I need to wear tacky and vulgar clothes to accentuate my noble temperament."
Mu Lingyao deliberately made a vomiting motion to mock Gu Qingfeng's so-called noble temperament.
"What were you all chatting about that made you so happy earlier?"
Gu Qingfeng sat down on the wide, comfortable chair, picked up a wine cup, took a sip, and said, "Say it out loud and let me have some fun too."
"We were just talking about the Tower of Stolen Gold."
Qian Niao walked over and said, "Little Drunkard, let's go challenge the Tower of Stolen Gold together later. Last time I tried it on my own, I got eliminated on the first layer. This time, let's try to get a few more layers up. I've never received any prize money from the Tower of Stolen Gold."
"Oh? There's prize money?"
"Of course there is."
"How much?"
"The prize for the second layer is twenty thousand Immortal Stones."
"Only twenty thousand? You're kidding, right?" Gu Qingfeng said. "Do you know that a single trip with my Nine-Headed Firecloud Crimsonflame Tiger Grand Carriage costs more than twenty thousand?"
"I haven't finished yet. Why are you in such a hurry? The prize for the second layer of the Tower of Stolen Gold is twenty thousand, but the prize for the ninth layer is a hundred thousand! The prize for the tenth layer is two hundred thousand, the prize for the eighteenth layer is one million... the twenty-seventh layer is ten million..."
"What's the highest layer?"
"Nine-Nine, eighty-one layers."
"Then what's the prize for the eighty-first layer?"
"The prize for the eighty-first layer should be a lot, right?"
Qian Niao had challenged the Tower of Stolen Gold a few times, but each time she was teleported out on the first layer. The ninth layer was as distant and unreachable to her as the Ninth Heaven. As for the Nine-Nine eighty-first layer, she didn't even dare dream about it, so she naturally had never cared about the prize for the eighty-first layer.
"Sister Lingyao, what's the prize for the eighty-first layer?"
The eighty-first layer was something Qian Niao didn't dare dream of, and the same went for Mu Lingyao. She had also never cared about the prize for that layer. She said, "This can be calculated, right? The prize for the thirty-sixth layer is one hundred million, the forty-fifth layer is one billion, the fifty-fourth layer is ten billion, the sixty-third layer is one hundred billion, the seventy-second layer is one trillion... As for the eighty-first layer, it should be ten trillion, right?"
"Heavens! Ten trillion Immortal Stones!"
Hearing the number ten trillion, Qian Niao immediately felt a dizzying sense of suffocation.
Not only did she feel suffocated, even Mu Lingyao, who came from a wealthy aristocratic family, thought ten trillion Immortal Stones was utterly terrifying. She sighed, "Even if you squandered a billion a year, it would take a hundred thousand years to spend it all."
Hua Die Xianzi also said, "In our Dual-Pole Celestial Domain, an ordinary Grand Luo Golden Immortal only needs a hundred thousand Immortal Stones a year to sustain themselves. Though not wealthy, they can live without worries. A thousand Grand Luo Golden Immortals would only spend one billion a year, ten thousand would spend ten billion, a hundred thousand would spend one hundred billion, a million Grand Luo Golden Immortals would spend one trillion... The Golden Crow Secret Realm has nearly ten million Grand Luo Golden Immortals. Ten trillion Immortal Stones would be enough to cover the expenses of the ten million Grand Luo Golden Immortals in the Golden Crow Secret Realm for ten full years."
Although Hua Die Xianzi possessed a transcendent state of mind and never cared much about the amount of Immortal Stones, facing an astronomical sum like ten trillion, even she couldn't help but feel somewhat stunned.