Chronicles of Celestial Origins

"Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​how far away is the place you mentioned?" Wang Wei asked.

Tian Qingzhi smiled slightly: "Don't worry, you have traveled a million miles from Yuanxian City to here, do you still care about such a small distance?"

Seeing that he refused to reveal anything and looked mysterious, everyone couldn't help but become more curious, but they didn't ask any more questions.

A few people fled tens of thousands of miles and traveled for two or three days before arriving at a remote mountain.

"Senior Brother Tian, ​​is this the place you mentioned?" Yuan Ye frowned and everyone looked at him.

Tian Qingzhi did not answer, but stepped forward and knocked on a huge black stone a few times.

After a while, the ground moved to both sides, revealing a huge passage.

A man wearing a black robe and a black mask walked slowly from the passage below. He looked at everyone and made a gesture of invitation.

Several people looked at each other in shock and doubt. There were many places for fireworks in the world, but they had never seen something so mysterious like this.

Isn’t it just a brothel? It's not a big deal. Instead of building nice pavilions, tall buildings and mansions, we did the opposite and chose to build them in the basement. It seemed like something shameful.

While several people were surprised, Tian Qingzhi had already walked down, and everyone looked at each other and followed behind him.

This passage is very wide, dozens of feet wide, and is paved with bluestone steps. After everyone entered, the ground closed with a bang.

"Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​is this really the place you said? Why does it feel different?" Wang Wei asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry! There's no problem. I thought it was strange when I first came here, but then I gradually got used to it. It's actually quite unique, isn't it?"

"Why did they build it in the basement? And keep it so secretive? Wouldn't it affect business? Shouldn't the more people know about a place like this, the better?" Tangning asked in confusion.

Tian Qingzhi said: "Who knows! Maybe it's to create a mysterious atmosphere! In the end, it's just a gimmick. But I promise, the stuff here is really good."

"Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​do you know who founded this place? It's so mysterious that even the people who come out to receive it don't reveal their true appearance."

"I really don't know which force it is specifically. Anyway, it's definitely not the Canglang Sect. I heard it has something to do with the Chamber of Commerce. Some people speculate that it is a high-level private property of the Chamber of Commerce, so I don't want to make it known to everyone."

"If it were a private property, this would make sense."

A few people were chatting while walking down. The passage became wider and wider, and from time to time they could meet a few monks coming up from the bottom.

After walking for about a thousand feet, a huge underground palace suddenly opened up in front of us. The entire underground palace was about ten miles in size, and the palaces were lined up one after another.

The red bricks and green tiles are resplendent and resplendent, giving it an imperial look.

In front of each palace, there are several men wearing black robes and masks standing guard.

"Fellow Taoist Tang, if you really don't want to enjoy it! You can also go to the gambling house to have fun. But I can tell you that the female cultivators trained here are really good. They are much better than those outside. Since it is rare for you to come, You should really experience it," Tian Qingzhi said.

"Oh? There's a gambling house here?"

"Not only are there gambling houses, but there are also gambling games occasionally!"

"Bet, what bet?"

"Of course it's a gambling competition among monks, I heard! The monks participating in the gambling competition here have irregular backgrounds, so they don't dare to open it openly."

Tang Ning said: "Is the monk's gambling game that Fellow Daoist Tian mentioned is similar to the spirit beast game? The ending is fight to the death?"

"It's almost the same! It's just that the spiritual beasts are replaced by humans, so the competition will certainly be more exciting. However, this kind of gambling competition does not happen all the time. It will be held about once a month."

"What does Fellow Daoist Tian mean by having irregular origins? Aren't these gambling games all held secretly? Is there anything else that can be said to be formal or informal? What's the difference between the two?"

Tian Qingzhi said: "Of course there is a difference. A formal gambling competition is a voluntary participation by both parties. For example, if you are very short of spiritual stones and you are very confident in your own strength, you want to win a lot of spiritual stones through the gambling competition."

"Or maybe a member of the chamber of commerce has made a mistake, and the chamber of commerce wants to give him an opportunity to participate in gambling competitions in its industries, and stipulates that he will be exempted from punishment if he wins as many games as possible."

"In short, anything that is voluntary is formal. On the contrary, being forced to participate in gambling games is naturally informal."

"For example, if you offend a certain force or a person with a high level of cultivation, they will sell you to the organizer of a gambling competition. You will be detained and imprisoned at all times, and the restriction on your spiritual power will only be released during the gambling competition. Forcing you to participate in a life-and-death gambling game."

"Or to be more direct, the organizer randomly grabs a few casual cultivators to participate in the gambling competition. This kind of thing is not impossible."

While the two were talking, they walked to a palace. The monks guarding the palace on both sides didn't look at everyone else. Several people entered the inner room, which was even more decorated with carved beams and beams and extravagant decorations.

Many rare toys are displayed in the vast hall, including rotating crystal palace lanterns, jumping jade horses, and agate lions with scarlet eyes.

There is also a stone bird with an ethereal voice. When the stone mouth opens and closes, a sweet sound comes out.

"Welcome to our Taoist friends, what do you need?" A woman in white gauze came to a few people, her face covered with a gauze scarf, and her snow-white skin was looming.

"We need a room with a sky-high size." Tian Qingzhi said.

"Okay, fellow Taoists, follow me." The woman said, leading everyone through the hall to a large courtyard at the back.

The main room inside is decorated like a woman's boudoir, with curtains of pink gauze hanging down, and the dim lights constantly changing colors, like a fleeting light, like a dream.

There are curls of smoke all around, and the whole room smells of fragrance.

As soon as everyone was seated, the woman asked, "Who do you fellow Taoists need to serve you?"

"Just find some whose cultivation is comparable to ours." Tian Qingzhi said.

"Okay, please wait a moment." The woman responded, turning out a flag in her hand and pointing it at it. The flag's surface shot out a ray of light, which reflected on the black stone wall.

But the stone wall was shimmering with light, and pictures were reflected on it. The stone wall, which was five or six feet long and two or three feet high, was engraved with many lifelike portraits of ladies.

In the painting, the ladies look like real people, naked and covered with white gauze, posing and posing in an extremely provocative manner. There are about dozens of women, each with different shapes and sizes.

"These are all the golden elixir female cultivators in this pavilion. Who do you fellow Taoists need to serve?"

"No. 17." Tian Qingzhi took the lead and pointed at a woman on the stone wall.

Several other people also designated a woman each.

Only Tang Ning, Han Qian, and Xu An shook their heads and said they didn't need it.

The woman collected everyone's spiritual stones and then retreated. The prices of the women displayed on the stone wall were different. The higher the cultivation level, the more expensive the price.

In the early stage of the golden elixir, only one hundred thousand spiritual stones are needed, in the middle stage of the golden elixir, two hundred thousand spiritual stones are needed, and in the later stage of the golden elixir, four hundred thousand spiritual stones are needed.

"Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​I'll take my leave now." Tang Ning stood up and said when she saw that they had each chosen a girl to accompany them.

"It's not that urgent. We have to wait a little longer! It's not too late to try two glasses of spiritual wine before leaving. The music here is not bad." Tian Qingzhi said.

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps sounded outside the house, the door opened, and a group of women and musicians dressed in white filed in. They held jade plates in their hands, placed them in front of everyone's desks, and then left.

There were many spiritual foods and spiritual wines placed on the jade plate. Everyone was sipping the spiritual wine, listening to the music of silk and bamboo orchestra, and chatting from all over the world.

About an hour later, several veiled women walked in. They were wearing looming robes. After entering, they pulled their hands and the robes fell off naturally, revealing their snow-white skin.

The six women are all different in appearance, some are charming, some are as cold as ice, some are pitiful, and some are asking for money. At this moment, they are all naked except for their faces covered with white gauze.

Several women gathered around the crowd, posing and dancing to the music.

There was an atmosphere of obscenity in the room, Tang Ning silently exited, and Han Qian and Xu An also exited one after another.

"The place Daoist Tian found is really good! Even I'm a little moved." Xu An said with a smile as several people walked side by side.

Han Qian said: "If Senior Brother Xu is interested, then why not enjoy it with fellow Taoist Tian?"

"I have no choice! I am practicing a technique that prohibits sexual intercourse between men and women. Before the technique is completed, there is no way to enjoy it." Xu An said: "Where do fellow Taoist Tang and Junior Brother Han want to go?"

Tang Ning said: "I'm quite interested in the monks' gambling games here. I want to take a look. I just don't know if they hold one. If not, I'm going to go to the gambling house to have some fun."

Han Qian said: "I'm also going to go to the gambling house."

"Then let's go together!"

The three of them returned to the hall and walked to a female cultivator who was receiving them. Tangning asked, "I heard that there are monks in your pavilion who are betting on games and watching them. I wonder where they are?"

The woman responded: "Our gambling competition is held once a month. If seniors want to participate, they have to wait until two days later."

"Where is your gambling shop? How to get there?"

"Senior, please follow me." The woman led the three people out of the palace and came to another majestic and majestic palace.

The decoration was the same as that of the previous palace. Tang Ning and the other three exchanged chips for fifty thousand spirit stones each in front of the cabinet, and then came to a stone room, which was only a few feet in diameter, with several men sitting there.

The three of them sat down directly and took their chips to place their bets.

This is a gambling method called "Flower Date". The rules are very simple. The gambling house staff distributes three stone tiles. Participants can place bets before each round of stone tiles are revealed. Whoever has the most suits will win. The higher the number of points, the better.

Tangning held chips of various sizes in her hands, raising bets or giving up from time to time. Everyone in the room remained silent and expressionless.

The chips are constantly flowing in everyone's hands. Those who have lost can either leave directly or continue to exchange chips.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and the three of them played in the dark room for two days, each winning or losing.

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After a round of card games, Tangning asked to go to the gambling game. Han Qian shook his head and was unwilling to move. He had lost the most. After losing 50,000 spirit stones, he exchanged them for another 50,000. At the moment, he only thought about Sakamoto.

However, Xu An was quite interested, so the two of them left the room together, exchanged the chips for spiritual stones, and asked about the location of the gambling match.

After leaving the palace, we came to a majestic and majestic hall.

The interior is very spacious, with carved beams and painted roofs, crystal palace lanterns hanging high on the roof, and jasper red walls all around.

There are many desks placed in the hall, and there are many people surrounding each desk. At a glance, there are at least hundreds of people.

He was slightly shocked. He didn't expect that there would be so many people in such an underground gambling competition. I guess most of them should be monks around Fengyun Pavilion.

From this point of view, this place is not a secret place. After all, so many people know about it. If it is passed down from one person to ten, and from one person to another, everyone who needs to know must know it. At most, it is hidden from outside monks like them.

Why bother! Since there are no restrictions and everyone can come and go at will, why do we need to make it so mysterious? Isn't it good to have high-rise buildings? It has to be done in the basement to make a fuss.

This made him a little nervous when he first entered the inner room.

Tangning now somewhat believed Tian Qingzhi's words. This might really be the private property of a high-ranking power, and those masked monks might be members of a certain power organization.

There is a battle information table placed on every desk in the hall. The entire gambling process lasted for three days. All the monks participating in the gambling game used pseudonyms.

During this period, everyone's cultivation level and previous matchup information are displayed, including odds of betting matches, etc...

A total of forty monks were displayed on the battle table, divided into twenty groups, with different time periods. Most of them were monks in the foundation-building stage, and only two groups were in the golden elixir stage.

If you want to bet on a matchup during the foundation-building period, the bet for each round must not be less than 10,000 spirit stones, and if you are a Golden Core cultivator, the bet must not be less than 100,000.

In other words, you must place a bet before you can watch the corresponding betting game.

The first match was between two monks who were in the middle stage of foundation building, and it started at the end of today.

One of them is a prince, and the other is a royal highness. They are obviously not their real names.

This prince has won two games before, while His Highness has only won one. The two should be relatively equal in strength, so the odds are similar.

"Fellow Taoist Tang, which one do you want to buy?" Xu An asked as they stood in front of a desk, looking at the battle table on the picture.

Tangning smiled and said, "I originally came to see the monks' gambling game. Winning or losing depends on your luck. As for which game to buy, the Jindan gambling game is too expensive, and the Foundation Building gambling game is more cost-effective. Even if you lose, It’s only ten thousand spirit stones.”

"I have never seen such a betting game. I have gained experience in the past, so let's buy the first one! I think this prince has won two games in a row, so he should have some strength. If you buy him, the winning rate should be higher."

Tangning nodded, and the two of them dug out a high-grade spiritual stone and handed it to the masked man at the desk: "Bet 10,000 spiritual stones on the prince to win."

"Okay." The man took the spirit stone, took out a book, wrote a few lines, and handed it to Tangning: "Senior, please sign this."

Tangning did as he was told and signed the book. The man pulled out a black number plate and handed it to him: "This gambling match will start at noon. Senior, please rest in the attic for a while. I will notify you when the time comes." senior."