Actually, Wandong didn't give Leng Yuecui any further information about debt collection, like whereabouts, the name of the debtor, etc. But Leng Yuecui didn't get to the bottom of it. For her part, it already satisfied her that Wandong allowed her to follow him. She simply didn't find it necessary to know where she was going and what she was gonna do. It also applied to Wu Yang. He had long been in a habit of acting on Xu Yaoting's instructions. And his submissiveness to Yaoting even got stronger these days.
"Yaoting, what kind of martial techniques did you use in the duel with Jin Mu and the drunkard? It was astoundingly mesmerizing!" Leng Yuecui asked. She changed the way she called Wandong as she had been increasingly intimate with him.
On hearing that, Wandong started to scrutinize his own body, trying to find out what exactly the wonder was.
Though it was Ma Yi who put the drunkard to death, Wandong had already absorbed at least 80 percent of the drunkard's spiritual energy prior to that. That was pretty fruitful. If Wandong could have transformed all his Taoist energy into the spiritual energy, he would have already reached the top level of martial cultivation.
It had never crossed Wandong's mind that he could have what it takes to raise his cultivation from the second level to the third. Such a striking speed was utterly unprecedented. To his surprise, a common bottleneck during the process of martial cultivation had never befallen Wandong, which might be attributed to his study of the Book of the Mighty Conception. He had never encountered such thing as a bottleneck through his martial cultivation. And all his breakthroughs, which, in essence, couldn't be termed as breakthroughs since there was no suffering at all, came out smoothly and quietly. If he hadn't paid attention to the progress, he wouldn't have been able to notice it. That was exactly where the wonder of the Taoist martial cultivation lay.
Seeing Leng Yuecui eager to know the facts, Wandong laughed at said, "Just forget about it. The martial techniques I acquired simply don't suit girls."
Leng Yuecui rolled her eyes at Wandong and blamed, "Boo! I won't care to learn them even if you plead me to."
As Leng Yuecui's family was closely associated with the Great Taoist World, Wandong couldn't for the life of him tell her the secret in the Book of the Mighty Conception. Actually, Wandong didn't fear that she might tell on him. However, it was not guaranteed that she wouldn't spill the beans.
Wandong skipped over it by telling a joke. And Leng Yuecui, being such a smart girl, didn't get to the bottom. As she was aware that Wandong was unwilling to tell her.
"That's it!" Wandong stopped abruptly.
Looking up, Leng Yuecui and Wu Yang got struck-dumb forthwith. In front of them stood a rather imposing building, brilliantly illuminated. It looked so grand that only the Qingyun Palace was superior to it in Yunzhong City. It seemed that the building was a household name in town.
"The Tianbao Mansion? Big Brother, so… so the owner of it owed you money?" Wu Yang stammered out of bafflement.
"Wu Yang, that is nonsense! As everyone knows, the owner of the Tianbao Mansion has treasures filling his home. There is no such thing as he being a debtor to anyone. It only makes sense the other way round!"
Wandong grinned and said, "Leng Yuecui, you're mistaken. The debtor is no other than the Tianbao Mansion!"
"Ah! How come?" Leng Yuecui went slack-jawed.
Wandong smiled and attempted to walk into it. But he got warded off by two arms stretching from both sides. Wandong lifted his head and saw two dark-faced guys standing right in front of him — which was rather unpleasant.
With the monographs of the Tianbao Mansion on their clothes, Wandong could tell they were gate keepers. However, their haughty demeaner made them look as if they had been the true owners.
"Stupid lad, don't you have a look at where you are? How dare you break in like that?" One guy asked in an insufferably arrogant manner.
"Isn't the Tianbao Mansion a place for running business?" Wandong asked in a cold voice, putting on a grim look.
"Of course. How can we make money from the Qingyun Empire if we are not open to business," the other gatekeeper responded.
"It sounds as if you are not a Qingyun citizen," Wandong added.
"You are not dumb. All the staff members here in the Tianbao Mansion are actually from the Tiezhan Empire. As we have abundant treasures here, we dare not employ Qingyun people. You know you guys are notorious for breaking the rules."