Afternoon.
The scorching sun blazed overhead.
Linglong Mountain Villa, Grand Tutor's Villa.
This villa was one of the four most luxurious villas within Linglong Mountain Villa, its interior configuration could be described as extravagantly opulent. One could rest upon a thousand-year cold jade bed, or soak in the hot springs of the Queling Gui Water Pool. Both the thousand-year cold jade bed and the Queling Gui Water Pool were rare cultivation resources in the world, priceless and unavailable on the market. Using them for cultivation yielded twice the results with half the effort, and they had endless wondrous uses for tempering the Nascent Soul and Dharma Form.
What was even more rare and precious was that the Grand Tutor's Villa contained the natural colored Spiritual Energy.
That's right.
It was precisely the colored Spiritual Energy that appeared during the natural spiritual transformation when the Heavenly Mandate descended nine years ago.
This stuff was hailed as the Spiritual Energy among Spiritual Energies, the essence among essences. If it weren't so, in just a few short years, it wouldn't have caused the cultivation of many practitioners in the world to advance by leaps and bounds, even ushering in the prosperous cultivation era of the Present-Ancient Era.
Of course.
The colored Spiritual Energy that appeared when the Heavenly Mandate descended was due to the natural spiritual transformation.
As for the colored Spiritual Energy in the Grand Tutor's Villa, it was extracted using colored crystal stones. Although it was far from being as pure and dense as the overflowing colors that filled the sky when the Heavenly Mandate descended, this was already extremely rare. After all, it was the colored Spiritual Energy hailed as the essence of Spiritual Energy. Even if it wasn't pure or dense, it was far beyond what other Spiritual Energies could compare to. Cultivating within it also progressed much faster than absorbing other Spiritual Energies.
However.
This Grand Tutor's Villa was not open to the public. In other words, no matter how much money you had, if Sister Hong didn't nod, you couldn't even dream of staying inside for a day.
Fei Kui had stayed inside for a few days before.
Not because his face was big, but because he had stayed for a few days following Black Buddha Lord.
Today, he had entered again. Sister Hong hadn't nodded; he had barged in following Gu Qingfeng.
At this moment.
Gu Qingfeng lay reclined on a soft and comfortable grand tutor's chair, eyes closed, basking in the sun. At least a hundred formations enveloped his surroundings. Some of these formations were like spring breeze, some like sunlight, and others like ice and snow. All sorts of mysteries were contained within, encompassing everything, leaving nothing to be desired.
Reclining on the grand tutor's chair, the feeling was truly extremely comfortable, an indescribable comfort that refreshed the mind and pleased the heart, giving a sense of floating bliss, utterly wonderful.
"The master who arranged these formations is absolutely a damn genius!"
Gu Qingfeng sighed with admiration while enjoying himself.
To be honest, although these formations were quite sophisticated, in his eyes they were nothing special. However, the interplay between the formations, the coordination between the mysteries, was truly perfect and exquisite. Whether it was the spring breeze, sunlight, ice and snow, or other mysteries, everything was just right—a bit more would be excessive, a bit less would be insufficient.
Gu Qingfeng had always considered himself someone who absolutely knew how to enjoy life, effortlessly employing the mysteries of various formations. But today he learned that there is always a sky beyond the sky, and people beyond people. The master who arranged these formations was definitely someone who knew how to enjoy life even more than he did.
"Young Master, this set of formations is also called 'Floating in Bliss.' It's said Sister Hong personally arranged it."
Beside him, Fei Kui stood obediently, holding a wine pot, pouring wine from time to time.
"Floating in Bliss?
Now that you mention it, it really does have that meaning."
Gu Qingfeng lay on the grand tutor's chair, swaying back and forth, quite at ease. Hearing about Sister Hong, his originally closed eyes couldn't help but open as he asked, "Just who is this Sister Hong? She seems to have quite a background. What's her name?"
"Sister Hong's original name is Chu Jiaohong. As for exactly who she is, this humble one doesn't know either. Sister Hong has a lot of face; whether it's the Yanluo royal family, the Immortal Court, or the Crimson-Letter Sect, they all give her great respect. Moreover, Sister Hong's strength is unfathomable. It's said she can annihilate an immortal with a snap of her fingers."
"Is that so..." In Gu Qingfeng's mind, if a person wanted to get by smoothly, they either needed powerful strength or a powerful background. He just didn't know whether the so-called Sister Hong possessed powerful strength or a powerful background, or perhaps both.
"This humble one once heard Black Buddha Lord mention that this Sister Hong was very famous in the Ancient Era. Back then, she was also an extremely formidable figure."
"The Ancient Era?"
The history of the Ancient Era was very long, during which countless influential figures emerged. Who could possibly keep track of them all? Gu Qingfeng had cultivated in this world for a full two hundred years at most. Combined with his own lack of interest in this world's history, he had never paid attention to the influential figures of this world during the Ancient Era, so naturally, he had never heard the name Chu Jiaohong.
"By the way, Fei Kui, have you been following Dong Laohu all these years?"
Fei Kui nodded in response. "After Elder Huode recommended this humble one to Black Buddha Lord, I've been following him, handling some business matters for him. He has also taken good care of me."
Thinking of that gluttonous, lazy, and greedy bald fatty Dong Laohu from back in the day, Gu Qingfeng couldn't help but want to laugh. That fatty's childhood dream was to become a big tycoon who spent money like water. He truly hadn't expected that after three hundred years, not only had this guy become a tycoon, but he'd also damn well become the richest man in Yanluo Kingdom.
In his impression, that Dong Laohu was absolutely a sleazy fatty, as lecherous as they come, as shameless as they come... he didn't know if he was still the same after becoming the richest man in Yanluo. When he asked, Fei Kui hemmed and hawed, not knowing how to respond to this question.
"Young Master, this humble one merely runs errands and handles affairs for Black Buddha Lord. I don't know much about his character. Moreover, Black Buddha Lord has always been very busy; it's usually hard to see him. In the eight or nine years I've been in Yanluo Kingdom, the number of times I've seen him can be counted on one hand."
"From the sound of it, if I went to see him now, I might not even be able to find him?"
"This...
Young Master, Black Buddha Lord is not in Yanluo Kingdom right now."
"Not in Yanluo Kingdom?
Where did he go?"
Gu Qingfeng had originally planned to go see Dong Laohu and incidentally inquire about that guy lurking within Yanluo Kingdom impersonating him. He hadn't expected this guy to not even be within Yanluo Kingdom.
"Where Black Buddha Lord went, this humble one doesn't know either. I only know he left several months ago."
"Damn, is Dong Laohu's business really that big?
Can't Yanluo Kingdom satisfy him?
Does he still want to become the richest man in the Divine Land?"
"This...
Young Master."
Fei Kui hesitated for a moment, then said, "Black Buddha Lord's trip out this time wasn't for business, but for the Crimson-Letter Sect."
"For the Crimson-Letter Sect?"
Hearing about the Crimson-Letter Sect, Gu Qingfeng's eyebrows couldn't help but rise. "What's the situation?
Is the Crimson-Letter Sect in other places in danger?"
"Not other places, but the Crimson-Letter Sect in Yanluo Kingdom."
"What's going on?
Is the Immortal Court going to deal with the Crimson-Letter Sect in Yanluo?"
"It's not that the Immortal Court is going to deal with the Crimson-Letter Sect, but...
the Crimson-Letter Sect in Yanluo Kingdom has run into problems, and they are very big problems."