148: Chapter 148 The Tyrannosaurus Rex with Double Standards! Shen Tianxian's Unspeakable Dilemma!

Inside the luxurious reception room on the top floor of the Tianshu Chamber of Commerce.

Traces of blood and battle had long been cleaned up by Withered Ghost.

Ying Yue'e had ordered the use of incense unique to the Great Qin imperial family, giving the entire hall an air of unconventional elegance and majesty.

"Bang!"

With a loud crash, the doors of the chamber of commerce were pushed open unceremoniously.

Shen Youchu, wearing her hair in twin tails and dressed in a red skirt, swaggered in. Following behind was the capable-looking Qing Lan, who held two brocade boxes filled with Heaven And Earth Treasure.

"Su Feng! You moved pretty fast, kid. I thought…"

Before Shen Youchu had even arrived, her resonant, dialect-heavy voice had already exploded through the air.

However, when she rounded the screen and her gaze fell upon Ying Yue'e, who was sitting next to the main seat brewing tea, Shen Youchu's voice came to an abrupt halt.

It was as if she had been hit by a binding spell.

Today, Ying Yue'e was wearing a deep purple palace dress, her hair styled in a noble Immortal Flying Bun. Her stunningly beautiful face, combined with the unique imperial destiny of her S+ grade Ziwei Saint Physique, gave her an aura of extreme dignity and maturity, exuding a breathtaking charm full of maternal radiance.

"Clatter."

The ferocious giant hammer that Shen Youchu prized like a treasure actually dropped straight to the ground, smashing a piece of high-quality jade brick.

Those big eyes of hers, which usually looked at everyone with disdain, were now staring straight at Ying Yue'e, her pupils flickering with undisguised amazement, and perhaps even a hint of... obsessed, lecherous admiration?

Others might not know, but Qing Lan knew very clearly.

The City Lord had crawled through mountains of corpses and seas of blood from a young age, so she always dealt heavy blows to stinky men and had an extremely foul mouth.

But towards good-looking people, especially elder sisters with gentle and mature temperaments, she had a nearly paranoid affection.

It was a compensatory psychology stemming from an extreme lack of maternal love.

At this moment, watching Ying Yue'e's smooth, flowing tea-brewing movements, an absurd thought popped into Shen Youchu's mind.

If I could call her 'Mom' all day long, it would be worth getting beaten up every day for the rest of my life!

"Ahem!"

A soft cough interrupted Shen Youchu's stupor.

Su Feng moved forward calmly, his tall frame blocking Shen Youchu's direct gaze, and a half-smile curled the corner of his lips:

"Celestial Immortal Shen, what a rare visit. Forgive my lack of a proper welcome."

Shen Youchu finally snapped out of it, and a rare flush appeared on her fair, tender little face.

She quickly wiped the non-existent drool from the corner of her mouth, bent down to pick up her giant hammer, and forced a stern face. However, her tone was significantly softer than when she faced the Demon Race earlier:

"Ahem... well, I'm just here to congratulate you on taking over the Tianshu Chamber of Commerce. This beautiful young lady... is she your Dao Companion?"

"I am Ying Yue'e, greetings, City Lord Shen."

Ying Yue'e rose gracefully and returned the greeting as an equal.

That gentle voice made Shen Youchu's bones feel half-melted.

"No need for formalities, no need. Please, sit, Miss Ying." Shen Youchu quickly waved her hand, nowhere to be seen was the shadow of the Sichuan Tyrannosaurus.

Watching this double-standard scene, Su Feng couldn't help but sneer and directly launch an attack:

"Congratulations are unnecessary. Celestial Immortal Shen, that top-tier jade token you gave me doesn't seem to work very well here in Tianshu City."

Su Feng threw the jade token onto the table with a crisp sound: "Your face as a dignified Heavenly Immortal is actually not as useful as the hundreds of thousands of Divine Crystals my wife generated. This Li family doesn't take you seriously at all."

This was clearly a complaint mixed with mockery.

According to Shen Youchu's usual explosive temper, if anyone dared to speak to her with such sarcasm, her giant hammer would have already greeted them.

But unexpectedly, not only was Shen Youchu not angry, she nonchalantly pulled over a chair to sit down, took the tea handed to her by Ying Yue'e, and drank it in one gulp.

"Good tea!"

Shen Youchu praised, then turned to look at Su Feng, a flash of extremely rational brilliance in her big eyes:

"Su Feng, do you think I'm some kind of idiot who can't even control her own subordinates?"

"Isn't that the case?" Su Feng retorted.

"Hmph." Shen Youchu sneered, her tone becoming deeper.

"I can't control them? With one swing of my hammer, the owners of Tianshu City could be changed! But what happens after I change them?"

"Who's going to give me money? Although the Li family skins people alive, they guarantee that the resources given to me won't be a cent short."

Shen Youchu pointed to the sky outside.

"But if you can't even get past the Li family, how will you fight against the giants of the Yao Race or the Heavenly Immortal of the Demon Race in the future? I want allies who can carry the banner with me, not flowers in a greenhouse!"

Su Feng was slightly startled, re-evaluating the loli in front of him.

These words truly had the stature of a lord ruling over a hundred thousand miles.

"Since you've passed the test, I won't hide anything from you." Shen Youchu leaned forward slightly, staring at Su Feng and Ying Yue'e.

"I've seen your wife's ability to make money. I need you, very much!"

"You are a dignified Heavenly Immortal, holding five immortal cores, why do you need so many Divine Crystals?" Su Feng threw out the question in his heart.

Hearing this, Shen Youchu's little face instantly collapsed like a deflated ball, and she irritably scratched her hair.

"You think I want to!!!"

Shen Youchu complained bitterly: "You just ascended, you probably don't know the broken rules of this Upper Realm. To Breakthrough above the Immortal Realm, one must condense an [immortal core]. Generally speaking, after the seventh stage of the Immortal Realm, as long as one has achieved Perfection in the comprehension of a certain Law, one can trigger the Heavenly Dao to bestow an immortal core."

"But!"

Shen Youchu pointed at her own nose, looking depressed.

"I was born with the [Battle Saint Physique]! My head is full of muscles. If you let me fight, I can beat the crap out of anyone at the same level, but sitting there comprehending the Laws of Heaven and Earth... is more painful than killing me!"

Su Feng held back his laughter: "So, back then, you relied on killing Heavenly Immortals to deprive them of their immortal cores to ascend?"

"Exactly!"

Shen Youchu slapped her thigh: "As long as you kill a Heavenly Immortal and seize their immortal core to refine, you can level up just the same! Back then, I relied on the Immortal Realm to hammer to death a Heavenly Immortal who had just ascended and was trying to act tough!"

"After fusing the immortal core, I hammered three more blind ones to death in one breath!"

"But..." Shen Youchu sighed, a trace of helplessness flashing in her eyes.

"This matter alarmed the Grand Unity Golden Immortal of the Yuchuan Realm. The Grand Unity Golden Immortal issued a decree stating that Heavenly Immortals are precious combat power for defending against the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, and strictly forbade Heavenly Immortals within the realm from killing each other to seize cores without cause."

"Whoever dares to disobey will be wiped out by the Grand Unity Golden Immortal personally!"

Su Feng suddenly realized. No wonder back at Blood Wither Ridge, those three Demon Clan Celestial Immortals kept mentioning the "warning of the Ancient Wood Golden Immortal". It turned out there was such a mandatory prohibition in the Upper Realm.

This was equivalent to completely sealing off Shen Youchu's most proficient "leveling route".

"Since you can't rob them, and comprehension doesn't work, can Divine Crystals buy immortal cores?" Su Feng asked.

"You can buy fragments of ownerless immortal cores! But that's an astronomical number!"

The steward Qing Lan pushed up its glasses and added with a bitter smile: "This is why City Lord Shen turns a blind eye to the Li family's extortion. We need massive resources to buy even a sliver of Law fragments from the black market or inter-realm chambers of commerce."

"Besides buying them with money, is there no other way?" Su Feng raised an eyebrow.

"There is."

Shen Youchu suddenly sat up straight, a trace of awe flashing in her eyes:

"One way is to join the intersection of the Three Thousand Upper Realms, which is the God-Demon Battlefield. There are immortal cores and fragments of ancient gods and demons there, but the mortality rate is very high. I went there once and almost died inside."

Then she pulled her gaze back and said.

"Another way is that the Saints of the Major Thousand Worlds have built a virtual network covering the Three Thousand Upper Realms — [Venerable Great Illusionary Realm]!"

"There, as long as you can break historical records or clear Hell-level challenges, the Divine Venerable will personally bestow massive amounts of Divine Crystals, and even complete, ownerless immortal cores!"

Speaking of this, Shen Youchu lowered her head like a defeated rooster:

"Unfortunately, it's full of monsters from the Three Thousand Upper Realms and even the Major Thousand Worlds who have come down to train! The records left by that bunch of monsters are simply impossible for a human to break!"

"I've tried a few times, couldn't even squeeze into the top 1,000, and even lost quite a bit of entrance fees."

"A while ago, there was even a supreme pervert who reached the Guixu Realm at 32! Not only that, he could actually kill those in the Immortal Realm while at the Guixu Realm!"

"Back then, I only lasted for one stick of incense!!!"

"Thirty-two years old!!! I'm really pissed off, at thirty-two I was still hammering Great Demons in the Lower Realm!!!"

Listening to Shen Youchu's frustration-filled complaint.

Su Feng, sitting opposite, had his lips curling wildly.

He picked up his teacup, using the action of drinking tea to hide the thick, strange, and playful look in his eyes.

"Break records? Venerable Great Illusionary Realm?"

Su Feng chuckled inwardly.

He really wanted to tell the violent loli in front of him that the "inhuman supreme pervert" she spoke of, the [anonymous holder] who smashed the Guixu Realm record and even killed an Immortal Realm phantom in one move.

Right now, was sitting right in front of her.