"I say, Sister Yanran, where should we go? What fun places are there here?" Xiaoyao asked.

"Speaking of fun places, yes, there's a very entertaining place," Qi Yanran said. Thinking of a place, she pulled Xiaoyao along.

Heavenly Demon City had an area called Devil's Paradise, which contained many places that were very entertaining for the Demon Sect, various forms of entertainment. The most famous was the arena, followed by gambling houses, then brothels.

However, this was also a very dangerous place. People who came here were all rather violent types who would attack at the drop of a hat. Though they couldn't kill, they could injure.

Where did Qi Yanran want to take Xiaoyao?

"The arena, of course! What an exciting scene..." Qi Yanran's choice was quite violent. Xiaoyao had guessed this beforehand, she would choose the arena with ninety-nine percent certainty, just as the Young Miss would choose brothels. This hardly needed saying.

"Is the arena people versus people, people versus monster beasts, or monster beasts versus monster beasts?" Xiaoyao asked.

"All of them! I most like watching monster beasts versus monster beasts, people versus people is too boring," Qi Yanran said.

After hearing this, Xiaoyao felt Qi Yanran was relatively normal, thinking she couldn't bear to see people killing each other. But he soon realized he was wrong.

...

"Human blood is just that little bit, not good to watch at all. Monster beasts are different, their blood sprays like fountains, very spectacular," Qi Yanran said with a smile.

"..."

Fine, I take back my previous thoughts. This woman isn't tender-hearted, she's too bloodthirsty.

"I'm not very interested. Might as well go to the gambling house and win some money," Xiaoyao said.

"That's good too, a little gambling for pleasure," Qi Yanran said.

Qi Yanran soon understood this thought was wrong. Could Xiaoyao's gambling be called "little"? It was complete high-stakes gambling. Even she thought it was high-stakes gambling, let alone others.

Though Xiaoyao's ten thousand taels hadn't been recovered yet, he had several dozen taels with him. With his gambling skills, he quickly multiplied these dozens of taels dozens of times over. What followed was round after round of high-stakes gambling, making his capital snowball larger and larger.

Suddenly, the two became the focus of the entire venue. This time Xiaoyao didn't restrain himself at all, attracting others' attention didn't matter. He was going to make a fortune and leave anyway.

"You two should probably stop now!"

The gambling house people appeared, but their attitude was very respectful, without any intention of driving them out, because they recognized Qi Yanran. Their gambling house couldn't afford to provoke this great deity.

"About enough..." Xiaoyao nodded.

"Far from enough! Such fun, why not continue? Bankrupt them all!" Qi Yanran had the opposite opinion from Xiaoyao. She was very excited and wanted to continue until people went bankrupt.

"..."

The gambling house people immediately broke into cold sweat. If they continued, there was nothing they could do. After all, they ran a gambling house, not letting people gamble would be unreasonable, especially when facing such powerful people they couldn't refuse.

Fortunately, Xiaoyao didn't really want to continue. He had gambled for a while and won a lot of money.

"Alright, let's go. Continuing here would just be winning money. Only winning money without spending it is boring, let's go spend money now," Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"That's true. Let's go spend money! I have many things I want to buy, you have to buy them for me," Qi Yanran changed her mind when Xiaoyao said this. Spending money was indeed more interesting than just winning money. Neither was the type of miser who only wanted money without spending it.

Afterward, Qi Yanran pulled Xiaoyao to a place not far from the gambling house, also within Devil's Paradise, a place meant for spending money.

"Boss, bring out your best jade, jade bracelets, jade pendants, even jade stones are fine," Qi Yanran shouted loudly. This was a place selling accessories, and she loved jade. All her accessories were jade.

The boss immediately brought out his precious jade items, all top quality, for Qi Yanran to choose from.

"Oh no, I like them all, what should I do?" Qi Yanran looked at the jade items, wanting to choose, but choosing meant giving up others, and giving up any of them felt heartbreaking.

"In that case, buy them all," Xiaoyao said extravagantly.

"The young master is right, money can't buy what your heart desires. Since the young lady likes them all, buy them all. I'll give you a discount," the boss's eyes lit up. He had thought he might sell a few good items today, but hadn't expected to sell all these good items.

"How much?" Xiaoyao asked directly.

"For everything, one thousand taels!" The boss gritted his teeth, seeming to make a difficult decision, looking pained as if this price was selling at a huge loss.

"Do you take me for a sucker? These things are worth about one hundred taels at most," Xiaoyao replied directly. I have money, but not so much that I can be cheated.

Just these things together wouldn't need this much at regular prices, let alone discounted. This was obviously trying to cheat money.

One hundred taels? That seems a bit low.

Qi Yanran thought to herself. She was also very knowledgeable about jade, otherwise she couldn't say she liked it. These jade items weren't worth one thousand taels, but at least they could be worth five or six hundred taels. Xiaoyao's price was cut very low.

Though Qi Yanran thought this, she made no sound. Since Xiaoyao had spoken, she wouldn't voice anything. The two of them only needed one voice.

"Young master, that's too harsh, this money wouldn't even cover costs," the boss said with a bitter face. He hadn't expected Xiaoyao to bargain like this.

"I don't know what your costs are, but I can be certain these things are worth at most one hundred taels," Xiaoyao shook his head.

"Young master, you can't say that. If you're going to bargain, at least give me some room to raise prices. My little shop can't handle such bargaining," the boss said somewhat unhappily.

"Do you think I'm bargaining?" Xiaoyao asked back.

This statement left people somewhat confused. If you're not bargaining, what are you doing?

The boss didn't understand this question, and neither did Qi Yanran.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm appraising, not bargaining. Do you understand?" Xiaoyao said.

"Appraising? If it's appraising, then I can only say you don't know goods," the boss immediately said.

"I don't know whether you don't know or are pretending, but these things aren't what they appear to be," Xiaoyao looked at the boss, wanting to know if he was pretending not to know.

"What do you mean?" The boss was confused, not understanding Xiaoyao's words.

This boss probably really didn't know. If he was pretending, his acting was too good.

"Seems you really don't know. Let me tell you, this one, this one, and this one are all fake," Xiaoyao pointed to three jade items. These three had the highest prices. If these three were removed, Xiaoyao's bargain to one hundred taels wasn't too excessive.

"You're joking. How could items in my Treasured Goods Pavilion be fake? Moreover, I personally acquired these three and verified them many times, they're definitely genuine. If you want to find an excuse, please find a better one," the boss said disdainfully. He felt Xiaoyao was deceiving him, thinking this was Xiaoyao's bargaining ploy.

"If you don't believe it, forget it. Excluding these three, we'll buy the others," Xiaoyao was too lazy to argue with the boss. Since he didn't believe, let him not believe. No need to reveal the mystery for him.

"Aren't you afraid these others are also fake?" the boss said somewhat sarcastically. "If you can't afford so much, don't pretend to be wealthy. How dare you pursue someone like this?"

In the boss's understanding, Xiaoyao was doing this because he couldn't afford so much or was reluctant to buy so much, so he found such an excuse.

"Pursue? You're really funny. He's my little brother, he can buy whatever he wants. Does he need to show off in front of me?" Qi Yanran couldn't help laughing. "You should look at your own things. If my little brother says they're fake, they're definitely fake."

She wasn't angry not because she hoped people would misunderstand this, but because if they misunderstood this, at least it showed she still looked young. Even matching with Xiaoyao would be no problem.

"Impossible. I've verified these, they're definitely correct. Though I'm not top-tier in this industry, I'm experienced. I couldn't miss even the slightest problem," the boss shook his head. If he saw any problems he would doubt, but he couldn't see any issues at all, that's why he didn't doubt.

"It's normal you can't tell. These things are counterfeited at a very high level, definitely by an expert," Xiaoyao smiled. "If you ask me to authenticate, I'll tell you how to authenticate. The authentication fee is the other jade items, how about it?"

"Little brother, can you be any more shameless?" Qi Yanran said directly. Xiaoyao's current idea was very shameless, wanting to get these jade items without spending a cent.

"What? There should be rewards for effort. I'm teaching him how to authenticate things and helping him avoid being cheated in the future, this is like giving him money. Taking some tuition is very normal," Xiaoyao said somewhat innocently, then continued to the boss: "If you're unwilling, forget it. Here's one hundred taels for the other jade items."

"This... I'm willing!" The boss gritted his teeth. What was one hundred taels? If these were really counterfeits, he must learn authentication methods, and such methods could be said to be worth a thousand gold pieces.

However, if they weren't counterfeits, wouldn't he lose everything?

"If they're not counterfeits, then you have to buy these jade items, one thousand taels, no second price."

"No problem. Let me tell you where these three jade items' flaws are. These three are actually by the same person. His counterfeiting technique can almost be called perfect, but he seems to deliberately leave a small flaw for people. This isn't because he wants people to discover it, but because he thinks this flaw won't be noticed," Xiaoyao said while picking up one of the jade items.

(End of Chapter)