My Fairy Growth System

Chapter 279 The Second Step of Collecting Interest

Floating World Immortal City, the most important immortal city of the Red Dust Demon Sect.

The Red Dust Demon Sect, while called a sect, is also a cultivation nation, and it wouldn't be an overstatement to call it the Red Dust Immortal Nation.

Floating World Immortal City is the capital of the Red Dust Immortal Nation and the location of the Red Dust Demon Sect's main gate.

After arriving at the Floating World Immortal City, Xi Luo did not linger; instead, he boarded a flying boat and headed in a certain direction.

Yu Qingtan leisurely purchased a house in the Floating World Immortal City, set up a formation, left a Soul Marking Seal, and then followed after him.

Several days later, Xi Luo finally reached his destination.

It was Anren Immortal City in the Lake Guang administrative province of the Red Dust Immortal Nation.

Apart from its directly governed territories, the Red Dust Immortal Nation had four major administrative provinces: North Ridge, Liaoyang, Xikang, and Lake Guang, all of which were Nascent Soul level powers, under the jurisdiction of the Red Dust Demon Sect, but with a high degree of autonomy.

Inside each province, autonomy was mainly held by the various great immortal cities.

Anren Immortal City was a large immortal city within Lake Guang province, with several Nascent Soul True Monarchs stationed within.

Yu Qingtan followed Xi Luo and watched him enter the City Lord's Mansion of Anren Immortal City, her face full of cold smiles.

Before he entered, Yu Qingtan withdrew the Divine Sense imprint from him.

After purchasing another courtyard in Anren Immortal City, Yu Qingtan settled down comfortably for two days, getting to know the local customs and culture of Anren Immortal City.

Anren Immortal City bustled with residents living happily and smiling with contentment, as if inhabiting a prosperous era of the Mortal Realm.

But the Red Dust Sect wasn't called the Red Dust Demon Sect for no reason.

The system implemented by the Red Dust Immortal Nation was not feudalism but slavery.

The prosperity of Anren Immortal City only pertained to the Inner City.

The Outer City was home to a large number of lower-class slaves. They were not Loose Cultivators; they were merely property of the city residents, subject to arbitrary killing and exploitation.

The immortal cities of the Red Dust Demon Sect did not employ a housing loan policy because it was wholly unnecessary.

Did slaves really think they could live in the Inner City by their own efforts? What a joke!

The slaves within the city were all servants, maids, coachmen, and the like for the city's residents.

After Xi Luo entered the City Lord's Mansion of Anren Immortal City, he did not come out again.

Through the Blue Clear Spiritual Pupil Technique, Yu Qingtan saw that there were many strong auras within the City Lord's Mansion.

"Two Nascent Soul Late Stage True Monarchs, two Mid-Nascent Soul True Monarchs, six Early Stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs. Misty Rain Tower indeed has formidable strength!" remarked Yu Qingtan.

Yu Qingtan decided not to stir up trouble too soon as her current strength was not enough to contend with so many True Monarchs.

Thus, Yu Qingtan temporarily left Anren Immortal City.

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Suiyang Immortal City, one of the direct subordinate immortal cities of the Tri-Sun Sect.

The Tri-Sun Sect is a Nascent Soul level power within the sphere of influence of Wendao Immortal City, with Sunset Gate being one of its outer subordinate powers.

Yu Qingtan, using an Innate Divine Power Shadow Clone, arrived at Wendao Immortal City, then took a flying boat to Suiyang Immortal City.

Pei Songzhi had instructed her that Misty Rain Tower's largest branch within the Wendao Immortal City sphere of influence was located in Suiyang Immortal City.

In the same vein as before, Yu Qingtan bought a residence in Suiyang Immortal City and left a Soul Marking Seal.

Yu Qingtan planned to acquire a property in every immortal city across the Lichuan Cultivation World. On one hand, this would facilitate the use of her Shadow Clone Divine Skills, and on the other, it would satisfy her past life's little wish of owning many properties.

Suiyang Immortal City, Pleasure Red Pavilion—the city's largest brothel and the target of Yu Qingtan's journey this time.

However, after a thorough investigation, Yu Qingtan was surprised to find no Nascent Soul experts within, only eight Golden Core Real People.

Employing the same tactics, Breath-Concealing Technique, Invisibility Technique, under the Stabilizing Spirit Spell, the seven Golden Cores cultivating quietly in the basement of the back courtyard were subdued by Yu Qingtan, who then extracted their Golden Cores.

The last Golden Core practitioner, a beautiful female cultivator and the top courtesan of the Pleasure Red Pavilion, posed as one at the initial stage of Foundation Establishment and was entertaining a client.

Yu Qingtan sneaked into her room and waited for her to reach the peak of her ecstasy.

"Stabilizing Spirit!"

The Golden Core practitioner and her client were fixed on the bed, unable to move. Enjoy more content from empire

Two Golden Sword Techniques flew out: one knocked the Foundation Establishment stage client unconscious, while the other aimed straight at the female Golden Core cultivator's Dantian.

However, what the Golden Sword ejected was not a Golden Core but a fake core made from a refined Third Stage Demon Core.

"A fake core practitioner—no, this is just a clone!"

Yu Qingtan furrowed her brows, then unleashed hundreds of Golden Sword Techniques that shot towards the Foundation Establishment and Qi Practitioners of the Misty Rain Tower.

Based on the contents of the storage equipment of the Golden Core practitioners, Yu Qingtan was almost certain that the entire Pleasure Red Pavilion was a branch of the Misty Rain Tower.

Immediately, the Pleasure Red Pavilion was filled with continuous screams, staining it with a layer of blood.

Many guests ran out of the Pleasure Red Pavilion in terror, most of them disheveled, some with their trousers not even pulled up.

In three breaths' time, all the Misty Rain Tower's Qi and Foundation Establishment assassins were annihilated.

As Yu Qingtan collected the spoils of war, the Protective City Formation of Suiyang Immortal City activated, and an old Daoist in a brocade robe with an ethereal demeanor appeared above the Pleasure Red Pavilion.

At the same time, several elite teams from the Suiyang Immortal City Enforcement Team rushed over, surrounding the Pleasure Red Pavilion.

"Who dares to commit murder within Suiyang Immortal City? Surrender at once!"

"City Lord Pei, this Pleasure Red Pavilion is clearly a branch of Misty Rain Tower. I am merely removing a harm for the people."

Yu Qingtan, still dressed in black and wearing a mask, appeared above the Pleasure Red Pavilion and threw down three heads.

They were the Golden Core assassins whom she had just killed, all notorious figures on the wanted list.

The brocade-robed elder who had arrived was none other than the City Lord of Suiyang Immortal City, Pei Songzhi the True Monarch of Pine Staff, an Elder of the Tri-Sun Sect, and a Mid-Nascent Soul Cultivator.

"Hiding your head and showing your tail, a slanderer spouting blood. Suiyang Immortal City is a place of goodness; how can there be so many Misty Rain Tower assassins here?

Quickly state your name and confess honestly, and you might still have a chance to live," the True Monarch of Pine Staff declared loudly, at the same time producing a pine staff, his Lifebound Artifact, in his hand.

Yu Qingtan's mind raced with a possibility, and she spoke up, "I do not disclose my identity merely to prevent being targeted by the Misty Rain Tower. City Lord Pei, such a stance—could it be that you are colluding with the Misty Rain Tower?"

"Humph, baseless accusation. It seems you will not surrender willingly. In that case, be suppressed!"

The True Monarch of Pine Staff's expression remained unchanged, but his tone grew colder. The pine staff in his hand shone brightly with a green light, which also activated the Protective City Formation to shoot down beams of green light, forming a green cage, ready to lock down Yu Qingtan's position.

The Protective City Formation of Suiyang Immortal City was a mid-grade Fourth Stage Greenwood Sky-holding Formation; now using the Greenwood Prison Cage, the True Monarch of Pine Staff was confident that this black-clothed individual who swiftly dealt with several Misty Rain Tower Golden Core practitioners—even if they were at the Early Nascent Soul stage—would not be able to escape.

Yu Qingtan frowned, cast the Dao Technique Bleeding Thousand Miles and instantly disappeared from the spot. She then employed the Breath-Concealing Technique, Invisibility Technique, and Earth Escape Skill to go into hiding.

The True Monarch of Pine Staff furrowed his brows and used the Protective City Formation to search the entire city several times, but failed to find any trace of Yu Qingtan and was forced to give up.

Meanwhile, Yu Qingtan returned to a house she had purchased and disposed of this clone.

She suspected that the True Monarch of Pine Staff was the actual person in charge of the Misty Rain Tower here; it was the body of the female Golden Core assassin that she had destroyed who had informed him, allowing him to arrive so quickly.