Chapter 1395: Thick-skinned people become friends

Only people with thick skin can be friends together.

Chen Guanlou is like this, and Pure Yang Zhenren is also like this!

The two can be considered birds of a feather.

Doing nothing, as soon as it got dark, the two headed straight to the brothel, ordering a group of beautiful girls to serve them. Singing songs, accompanying them for drinks, pounding legs...

Anyway, Chen Guanlou paid the bill, and Pure Yang Zhenren was not polite at all.

After three rounds of drinks and five flavors of food.

Pure Yang Zhenren put down his wine glass and waved his hand; the girls filed out.

"You say you, you have money to invite me to drink flower wine, but no money to pay back your debt. Are you still human? You're not short of that little bit of money; just blackmail a criminal official, and the money would be there. Unlike me, with a large group of people under my hand waiting to open their mouths to eat, the pressure is high!"

Chen Guanlou sneered. "Who doesn't know who between you and me! Do you have the nerve to call yourself a poor Daoist?"

"Whether I have money or not doesn't conflict with me being a poor Daoist. You must pay back the eight thousand taels; you are not allowed to default on the debt." Pure Yang Zhenren was angry; him calling himself a poor Daoist is the rule, why point fingers? Just because he has a little money?

This is going too far!

Chen Guanlou began to quibble. "Old Daoist, you are truly despicable! Do you know how much suffering I endured when I went to the Great Wilderness, how much bitterness I ate? I was almost drugged and slaughtered to be made into human meat buns.

As a representative figure of the Great Wilderness, I didn't ask you for mental damage fees; that's already out of consideration for us being brothers from different fathers and mothers, being exceptionally lenient. You actually have the nerve to ask me for money. The little bit of pills you sold me are worth at most two or three thousand taels; you charged me ten thousand taels and it's still not enough, and you want me to make up the eight thousand taels—doesn't your conscience hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt! This poor Daoist has no conscience. This poor Daoist recognizes money, not people."

Chen Guanlou clicked his tongue twice, his expression exceptionally disgusted.

"I'm different from you; I not only recognize money, I also recognize people. Based on our friendship, those pills should have been at least half price, which is nine thousand taels. Calculating it this way, you still owe me a thousand taels."

Pure Yang Zhenren was almost driven crazy.

He considered his skin thick enough, but didn't expect someone to have skin even thicker than his.

"Chen Guanlou, do you want your face? You won't pay back the money, and you want me to return a thousand taels—why don't you just rob me?"

"If you agree, it's not impossible for me to go to Yuquan Palace to rob you right now."

"You are truly astonishing, breaking the lower limit. It's a pity I regarded you as a brother."

"If we are brothers, give me half price." Chen Guanlou climbed up the pole.

Pure Yang Zhenren rolled his eyes. "Dream on! In short, you owe me eight thousand taels, and I will keep this account in mind."

"As you wish!"

Chen Guanlou decided to be a deadbeat and refused to settle the account.

Pure Yang Zhenren snorted twice. "This poor Daoist must have done too much evil in his past life to be friends with you in this life. You, you, my cultivation and self-cultivation have all been ruined by you. You ruined my Dao heart and made me want to kill."

Chen Guanlou ate peanuts, drank small sips of wine, and said with a smile: "Come, come, let's have a go; I'll give you a hundred moves."

It's infuriating!

Pure Yang Zhenren picked up his wine glass and drank in silence.

After his emotions stabilized, Chen Guanlou continued: "Old Daoist, you say, does our world have the conditions for cultivating immortality? For example, cultivating immortality requires special environmental conditions, which I call spiritual energy. Do you say this land has places where spiritual energy exists?"

"Everything is possible."

Speaking of serious matters, Pure Yang Zhenren was still very serious; one look and you could tell he was an enlightened expert with boundless magic power.

"Expand on that."

"Do you know how big our continent actually is?"

Chen Guanlou shook his head, indicating he didn't know.

The maps he could see were only within the Great Qian territory. As for places outside Great Qian, let alone maps, the government didn't even know clearly which countries and tribes existed, only having a rough route map.

Pure Yang Zhenren pondered for a moment and said: "As far as I know, some people have traveled west for at least forty or fifty thousand miles and still cannot see the edge of the continent. To the south, past Xizhou, is Nanzhao; south of Nanzhao, it is said there are tens of thousands of miles of jungle, which people call the Savage Wilderness.

To the north, ten thousand miles away is the ice field. How big the ice field is, no one knows to this day. To the east, a few thousand miles away is the ocean; what is on the other side of the ocean, whether there are other continents or other countries, no one knows to this day.

However, there are also some continents on the sea; although they cannot compare to Great Qian, they cannot be underestimated. Maritime trade is mainly with these countries. With such a large land, it is entirely possible that there are one or two places that possess the spiritual energy you speak of."

"According to your analysis, our continent might have hidden immortals." Chen Guanlou carefully guided the topic.

Pure Yang Zhenren took a sip of wine and subconsciously shook his head. "This poor Daoist believes there won't be immortals hiding and cultivating in this domain. Just take spiritual energy; the spiritual energy in our domain, no matter how good it is, definitely cannot compare to the cultivation world. Otherwise, our land would have been occupied by cultivators long ago. My speculation is correct, right?"

Chen Guanlou nodded. "Whether it is martial arts or cultivating immortality, the essence is the struggle for resources."

"That's right, the essence is the struggle for resources. This little bit of resources is not enough for cultivators to plunder. Presumably, any cultivator with a bit of pursuit wouldn't look down on the sparse spiritual energy of our land. Don't fantasize about meeting a cultivator one day."

"That makes some sense." Chen Guanlou nodded.

Pure Yang Zhenren was a bit proud. "This poor Daoist has been in the Great Wilderness for so many years, studying alchemy while flipping through various documents and ancient books. I dare not say anything else, but regarding the cultivators of the Great Yu Dynasty, this poor Daoist still has some understanding, plus some bold guesses, I can also say a thing or two.

For example, why in the early Great Yu Dynasty, whether in documents or ancient tomb murals, there were rumors of immortals descending. The most important reason must be that in the early Great Yu Dynasty, there were some resources that cultivators coveted.

Later, it is possible that these resources were plundered by cultivators, and this continent became a land abandoned by God, so since the middle and late Great Yu Dynasty, there have been no more rumors of immortals descending. Later, the laws of Heaven allowed people in this world to find another way, to practice martial arts, another kind of 'cultivating immortality'!"

"You believe martial arts is also cultivating immortality." Chen Guanlou's eyes lit up.

All along, he had similar suspicions.

Could it be that the wording is just different, but the essence is the same? Is cultivating immortality martial arts?

However, in this world, there are no spells to match martial arts cultivation; there are no this-technique or that-technique, everything relies on strength. It's a bit like a martial arts world, winning by moves and cultivation.

But a martial artist's lifespan increases with martial arts cultivation, which fits with cultivating immortality. The essence of cultivating immortality is to see through life and death and pursue longevity. Spells are for strength and self-preservation. Martial arts, in essence, is also for pursuing a longer lifespan. ===== CHAPTER 1396 =====