Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

To be precise, he's gone mad.

You can't blame him. He's just a minor manager, not the true owner of the underground fighting arena. Although he handles a lot of gold coins every day, what he actually gets is just a trickle in the ocean.

So when he saw the gold coins neatly piled up like mountains in his storage ring, he was so shocked that he stood there like a puppet.

One million five hundred thousand.

Yes, Ye Yuchan, this girl, bet 1.5 million on herself right away.

The young man was dumbfounded. He looked at Ye Yuchan with a mixture of confusion and anticipation, hoping to see even the slightest hint of a joke on the face of this powerful young lady—but he saw nothing but a face that screamed, "I'm going to get rich!"

Damn it, they're going to wipe them out!

Perhaps people can really unleash their extraordinary potential in a crisis. The young man felt his mind suddenly become exceptionally clear. His expression changed slightly, and he awkwardly hunched over.

"I'm sorry, Miss Ye, our martial arts arena has a rule that each bet cannot exceed 500,000 gold coins. Yours... is a bit too much."

"What? There's such a rule?" Ye Yuchan was surprised, her first reaction was to question, "Are you kidding me?"

The young man quickly lowered his head humbly, trying to hide his unpleasant expression from Ye Yuchan. "How could I? How could I dare to lie to Miss Ye..."

—Actually, he was lying to Ye Yuchan. In fact, that person did not set any betting limit.

The problem is, if we don't stop Ye Yuchan now, who knows if she'll suddenly pull out three million and lower the odds to 1:1. Even if she does, if she wins, their underground martial arts arena will have to pay Ye Yuchan three hundred thousand gold coins.

Miss Ye is going to empty this martial arts arena!

No, we absolutely cannot let this girl continue like this!

"Ugh, this is such a hassle... I thought I'd found a way to instantly become a millionaire."

Ye Yuchan felt a little irritated and scratched her head. Although she wasn't sure if she could really win all the way, she was still confident that if everyone was like the second and third sons of the Huo family, she could win five games in a row.

For some reason, Ye Yuchan felt that these people with higher cultivation levels than her were all quite weak, except for their spiritual energy.

Not to mention the slow speed, the fighting seemed to lack any strategy. I originally thought the opponent would at least unleash a few sword or saber techniques, or even demonstrate a martial skill, like Junior Sister Luo Kui's Snow Condensation Slash.

However, after these two matches, Ye Yuchan didn't even have a decent opponent... The second brother of the Huo family's ink-writing flying brush technique was quite interesting, but it was still surprisingly weak.

This made Ye Yuchan wonder if she was just too strong.

……

"too strong……"

Qin Shishi swallowed hard, finding it hard to believe what was happening before her eyes.

In her opinion, Ye Yuchan was the master painter's apprentice, so she should be very skilled in painting, but her martial arts skills might be a bit lacking.

The close combat skills and terrifying archery techniques that Ye Yuchan has shown have impressed Qin Shishi. She even suspects that Ye Yuchan is capable of fighting against an opponent at the Transformation Peak Realm, even if it means crossing a major realm.

With such strength, even if placed within an empire, with a little training, he would likely become a pillar of the empire and a powerful figure in his region.

"Hehehe, Sister Shishi, look, Junior Sister Yuchan is really amazing, isn't she~"

Lin Yuan's face was filled with a joyful smile. Watching her junior sister shine in the martial arts arena, she was naturally very happy.

Qin Shishi nodded with a wry smile, "I had heard you say that your senior brothers were all very capable, but I didn't expect that your junior sister would be such a genius as well."

"Hmm, I also have two very capable junior sisters~ but they went to other places..."

"Yes, that lady who used a knife... was terrifyingly strong."

"Sister Shishi, you mean Junior Sister Luo Kui, right?" Lin Yuan immediately realized and moved closer to Qin Shishi to speak up for Fan Luo Kui, "Sister Shishi, Junior Sister Luo Kui is actually very cute. She's just always so cold that she looks scary, but actually, she's really cute when she's shy!"

Qin Shishi quickly gave a wry smile. She wasn't particularly interested in the affairs of their sect, and besides, it involved other people's privacy, so it was best not to ask too much.

Just then, she suddenly felt a sway beside her. When she turned around, she saw that the little monk Zhuang Hai had an extremely gloomy face, with faint black lines appearing on his cheeks.

A chilling, unstable aura swept across Qin Shishi's face like a cold wind. She stared at Zhuang Hai, who was slowly leaving his seat and walking away into the distance, and couldn't help but want to call out to him.

"Hey, Zhuang Hai, what are you doing?"

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Hai paused, turned around, and saw scattered dark spots around his pupils.

However, he did not reply. He simply walked off the stage with a cold face.

Qin Shishi instinctively wanted to chase after them, but after seeing Lin Yuan beside her, she gritted her teeth and quickly turned back to Lin Yuan, saying, "Yuan'er, I have something to do, so I have to leave for a bit. You stay here, and no matter who talks to you, don't pay any attention, okay?"

Lin Yuan seemed to notice Qin Shishi's sudden panic. She looked at Zhuang Hai, who was walking away, with some confusion. "Sister Shishi, what happened to Master?"

“He…” Qin Shishi’s face showed a slight struggle. She bit her lower lip and shook her head violently twice. “I’m not quite sure either. In short, I have to go and bring him back first.”

"I don't think you can bring it back."

"what?"

Qin Shishi looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the boy had somehow sat in the spot where the little monk had been sitting.

He sat upright, his face serious, unlike before. He didn't look at Qin Shishi, but instead looked towards the martial arts arena.

Qin Shishi stared at the young man with suspicion. From the beginning, she did not think that the young man was an ordinary person, and even had considerable wariness towards him. "What do you mean by that?"

"The surface meaning." The boy didn't even glance at Qin Shishi, pointing ahead, "He's already on stage."

"What?!!"

The moment the words "go on stage" were uttered, Qin Shishi's heart skipped a beat.

Her worst fears came true.

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37. That pudding, he leileleile

Qin Shishi was trembling all over, her face deathly pale, and she rushed out in a panic.

She couldn't let Ye Yuchan face Zhuang Hai. The difference in their cultivation levels was too great, and she could see and sense that Zhuang Hai was no longer the little monk he once was; he had changed.

From the chilling aura emanating from his body, a murderous intent that made people afraid to approach as if a barrier had been activated, it was clear that the little monk was serious; he was serious about killing Ye Yuchan!

No, she couldn't let Ye Yuchan continue like this. She had to persuade Ye Yuchan to give up the duel right now!

But the boy suddenly stepped forward and stood in front of Qin Shishi.

"What are you doing?!"

Qin Shishi was shocked and subconsciously used three-tenths of her strength to pat the boy's shoulder, trying to push him away.

But as soon as she unleashed that palm strike, she regretted it.

He was a cultivator at the Transcendental Stage, and although three-tenths of his strength wasn't much, if it hit those unsuspecting Profound Gate Stage cultivators, it would probably kill them!

But his hand had already been swung out, and it was too late to stop.

So, it was impossible for the boy to be sent flying like a kite with a broken string under the power of Qin Shishi's palm strike. Just as the palm was about to touch him, the boy made a barely perceptible sidestep, and at the same time used some unknown method to forcibly dissipate the force of Qin Shishi's palm strike.

This indirectly caused Qin Shishi to swing her palm at the air, and she lost her balance in the next second. If she hadn't reacted quickly, she would have almost fallen on the boy.

This surprised Qin Shishi. The seemingly ordinary young man in front of her, apart from his unusual identity, was probably no less skilled than her!

The boy smiled and waved his hand, as if nothing had happened. "Don't get so agitated. You can't possibly go up and stop it."

"……Why?!"

"Do you think those guards down there will let you in? They're all at the Transformation God stage. You may be quite powerful, but surely you wouldn't dare to kidnap someone in front of so many Transformation God stage cultivators?"

"..."

Qin Shishi glanced down and indeed, there were four Transcendent Realm cultivators standing on the outer edge of the arena. If they were Peak Transformation Realm cultivators, Qin Shishi was confident she could step forward and stop the fight between Ye Yuchan and the little monk, but if they were four Transcendent Realm cultivators…

She couldn't do it; even getting close to the fighting arena became an unattainable dream.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but grit her teeth and curse this damned ninth-level musician!

It should be noted that these Transcendent Stage cultivators could not possibly be from Maple Leaf City. Although Maple Leaf City is more prosperous than the neighboring Jinglin City and its sects are stronger, Transcendent Stage cultivators are not commonplace. These four Transcendent Stage cultivators are clearly the guards of that ninth-level zither player.

Are we just going to watch the little monk and Ye Yuchan fight?

This won't do!

What level of cultivation does the young monk possess? He's at the Lesser Completion stage of the Transformation Realm! He's more than a whole major realm ahead of Ye Yuchan.

Qin Shishi admitted that Ye Yuchan was indeed very strong. Perhaps, in a desperate fight, she could fight against a cultivator who had just entered the peak of the Transformation stage, and might even win in the end.

But the little monk is different. The reason I was able to suppress the little monk was because of my own cultivation at the Transformation God stage. If I were also at the Lesser Completion of the Transformation Peak stage, I might not even be half as strong as the little monk!

It's impossible to win—Qin Shishi had already made that judgment.

Qin Shishi shook her head and looked at the young man seriously, "I have to go, this guy... he'll definitely try to kill Miss Ye!"

“I can see that now, the Divine Sea Golden Feather Scripture… and it’s incomplete.” The young man pinched his chin, frowned, and said with a sigh, “He probably only cultivated the first half. This little monk is quite pitiful.”

"You know about the Divine Sea Golden Feather Scripture?!" Qin Shishi was shocked again. She had thought that only she and the city lord knew about it.

Unexpectedly, in a short period of time, in addition to that artist, a mysterious young man also learned about this matter!

Moreover, they all knew the little monk's identity with just one glance.

why?

Qin Shishi didn't understand.

The young man didn't seem to notice Qin Shishi's shocked expression. In fact, he was already tired of seeing the girl's shocked face ever since she came in.

"You can tell this just by looking at it—an incomplete Divine Sea Golden Feather Scripture can easily cause inner demons to be born prematurely. Right now, this little monk is clearly bewitched by inner demons and is almost being controlled by them."

"You...you even knew that?!"

Yes.

Qin Shishi had already noticed that the young monk was different from before.

Moreover, his change occurred after Yunping and others appeared. In the painting gallery, the little monk harbored resentment towards Yunping for making him kneel. Although he was amazed by Yunping's terrifying painting skills, a seed was still planted in his heart.

At the same time, his desire for the Divine Sea Golden Feather Scripture gradually caused him to lose his reason.

Ultimately, the inner demon was born, which is why his personality has changed so drastically recently. The inner demon's favorite thing is negative emotions. Ye Yuchan's performance obviously made Zhuang Hai very dissatisfied. The negative emotions accumulated and became the inner demon's most delicious food.

Nowadays, probably 70% to 80% of young monks are already controlled by their inner demons.