Chapter 76: Thirty-Sixth Floor of Warm Jade Building

  When he saw the Butterfly Thief Girl, Chu City suddenly felt a chill in his heart and his first reaction was to turn around and run.

  "You little brat, if you dare to run, don't regret it later! This is my territory, and I won't let you off! Butterfly Thief Girl shouted loudly: "This isn't Shancheng City, just watch me play you to death!"

  Chu Cheng's heart skipped a beat, and he turned around with a wry smile, facing the Butterfly Thief girl. He smiled bitterly and said, "Hey, let's talk this out, haha, don't resort to violence, absolutely do not use force!"

  Butterfly thief, he's not someone you want to mess with!

  The ninth-ranked Butterfly Thief among the top ten thief groups, seemingly low in ranking, is actually because their cultivation realm can't compare to the other eight major thief groups. However, when it comes to influence, even the Wangdu Thief, renowned for its great influence, wouldn't dare claim a sure win.

  Due to the special nature of the Butterfly Bandits, all members of the gang are young and beautiful women, making it easy for them to infiltrate the inner circles of high-ranking officials. Many wives and concubines of city masters and nobles are actually members of the Butterfly Bandits.

  The most terrifying thing in the world is women, especially those from the Butterfly Gang. They stir up trouble and make everyone's head ache.

  The Butterfly Thief girl in front of me, seems to have a pretty good status among the Butterfly Thieves, who knows what kind of energy she has, maybe she can even get involved with some big shot. Didn't even old man Chu Tian Ge give her three points?

  Thinking of this, Chu Cheng could only admit that he was unlucky. How did he end up in the capital city, a place like hell, and still manage to run into this troublesome little devil?

  "Hmph! You little brat, return my crystal card to me!" The Butterfly Thief Girl, Lian Bu, lightly fluttered over and arrived in front of Chu Cheng, stretching out her small, delicate hand. Her big eyes sparkled with spirit.

  "Cough, you said it yourself, the king is your foundation, I have to hold onto something, right? If I give you the crystal card, you'll get rid of me in the blink of an eye, what would I do then?" Chu Cheng chuckled and shrugged his shoulders with a look of innocence.

  "Cut, you should have been taken care of long ago, back in the Mountain City. Aunt Lan had already settled you then, why wait until now? Hmm, I don't know what Aunt Lan was being cautious about, not taking action..." The Butterfly Thief girl muttered to herself, her last sentence barely audible.

  However, Chu Cheng's ears were very sharp and he immediately understood.

  Aunt Blue? Consideration?

  The one being cautious was naturally Old Man Chu Tian Ge.

  What's with Blue Auntie, could she be one of the twelve consorts in the Butterfly Lovers?

  It should be that if it were an ordinary nine-colored butterfly, the authority would not be enough to investigate the old man's background. As the saying goes, "the ignorant are fearless", and they wouldn't have any reservations about the old man.

  Only a queen, three consorts and twelve concubines of this level may have access to sufficient secrets. Also, only they are strong enough to see that the old man is absolutely not just a five-element boundary strongman.

  This butterfly thief girl is actually related to a king, three queens and twelve concubines?

  It seems this girl is not simple after all.

  Chu Cheng's mind turned around, and after thinking for a moment, he smiled apologetically: "Butterfly Thief Girl, how about this? If you need to spend money, come find me, I'll accompany you to buy it, and I'll pay for it. How about that? As for the crystal card, I'll take care of it for you, okay?"

  This beast has a good idea, claiming that all the crystal cards are fake, actually wanting to pull up the Butterfly Thief Girl's line and maintain a good relationship with her, definitely having benefits in the future!

  Don't be so wicked!

  But Butterfly Thief Maiden was no fool either, her eyes flashed with understanding as she guessed eight-tenths of the truth, and coldly snorted:

  "Think again! How about this, I'll take you to a great place, consider it compensation for you, and you return the crystal card to me, can't you?" The Butterfly Thief Girl said with a sly face.

  "Where is it?" Chu Cheng smiled slyly and decided to play along.

  "I'm taking you to a great place, of course. If I didn't take you there, you wouldn't be able to get in anyway! And besides, there are real beauties there, a hundred times better than the women from the Golden Powder family. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"

  The butterfly thief girl stared at a certain part of Chu City with ill intentions: "It's just unknown whether you have that ability or not."

  Men can belittle everything except for one thing. Chu Cheng was stirred up by her words and immediately said loudly: "Of course there is!"

  "Is that so?" The Butterfly Thief girl showed a face of disdain: "Aunt Lan was right, men are all ** cats, every good thing!"

  Chu City: "......"

  "Brat, all you know is to talk big. And don't call me Butterfly Thief Girl, how unpleasant! I have a name, my name is Ling Die'er." The Butterfly Thief Girl snorted and turned around, saying: "Follow me!"

  The city of Chu is speechless, can only follow up.

  He certainly wouldn't be so easily stirred up, just taking advantage of the situation to go and see what good places Ling Die'er's mouth had, after all.

  Ling Die'er indeed grew up here and is very familiar with this area. Chu Cheng couldn't help but suspect that this guy was a habitual offender in these parts...

  After turning several streets, Chucheng followed Lingdie and came to a bustling place.

  This is a very prosperous street, with people coming and going everywhere, and each one has strong blood and energy, and their cultivation is not weak.

  On both sides of the street, there are pharmacies, traditional Chinese medicine shops, armor shops, and weapon shops. Everything you need to eat, wear, or play with is available.

  "We're here," said Ling Die'er.

  Chu Cheng looked up and saw that it was an extremely tall building, at least 200 meters high, with over thirty floors, each about six meters high... This wasn't considered high because in the imperial capital, there were many people with strong auras who stood three to four meters tall.

  The city wall of King Chu's capital is over 10 zhang high?

  The first floor of the building has a plaque, made of purple sandalwood, carved with dragons, phoenixes and qilins, symbolizing good fortune. The top is decorated with purple gold, engraved with three large characters "Warm Jade Building".

  These three words, "Dragon Flying Phoenix Dance", seem to be written by a superior person, containing warm intentions. Just by taking a glance, Chu Cheng felt warmth in his heart and the stifling air instantly dissipated. Compared to those texts that contain sword energy and killing intent, this is at least a hundred times more brilliant?

  Chu City had seen such words, the old man Chu Tiange loved calligraphy, and the characters he wrote were majestic and atmospheric. At a glance, it was like seeing high mountains and flowing water, as if standing in front of an endless deep abyss.

  The words here and those in "Chu Ci Tian Ge" are each unique and cannot be compared.

  "This is the 'Warm Jade Building', a very famous place, an ancient shop that has been around for thousands of years. It's a favorite haunt of geniuses and extraordinary talents who love to chat and make friends. Every genius who enters the imperial capital likes to come in and have a cup of tea or a pot of strong wine. The tea and wine here are extremely famous."

  The little swallow fluttered her eyes, and her words were full of smiles: "Those three characters 'Warm Jade Building' on the signboard were written by Shen Junxia, the master of the Shen family, in person. How about it, not bad?"

  "Shen Junxia!"

  Chu Cheng took a deep breath of cold air.

  That Shen Junxia, is the third-ranked master of the four major families in the imperial capital, and one of the top ten strongmen in the mountains and seas of Chu State, ranking second. His strength is even stronger than that of Shan Yin City's Chu Longyuan... but it's hard to say who's stronger or weaker compared to Old Master Bao?

  "It turned out to be his handwriting after all, no wonder." Chu Cheng was lost in thought.

  Ling Die'er said: "The Warm Jade Building has a total of 36 floors, each representing different levels of combat power. Floors one to nine represent the first level of Transcending Mortality. Floors ten to eighteen represent the second level of Transcending Mortality. Floors nineteen to twenty-seven represent the third level of Transcending Mortality. Floors twenty-eight to thirty-six represent the complete level of Transcending Mortality."

  Transcending the ordinary is perfection, it's refining one's skills to the extreme, it's being a peerless genius.

  Ling Die'er continued, "Below that it's still okay, there are many people coming and going non-stop. However, from the 25th floor onwards, the number of people suddenly decreases sharply. As for above the 27th floor, normally there are very few people who go up, because true geniuses are indeed too rare."

  Prodigy!

  How many more extraordinary talents can Chu State produce every five years?

  "Of course, this is just a small step. Even the Nine Blood Essence cultivators may not necessarily be able to reach the 28th floor." Ling Die'er suddenly smiled and said.

  "What did you say?" Chu Cheng asked curiously.

  "In the Warm Jade Building, there is a wonderful restriction. Every time you step up to another floor, you have to bear even greater pressure. Generally speaking, people with nine drops of blood essence can't withstand the pressure on the 28th floor. But there are always extraordinary people, aren't there? Of course, there are also those whose strength doesn't match their cultivation realm and can't even stay on the 27th floor." Ling Die'er smiled:

  "Little brat, it's only been a short month and you've made such rapid progress, even condensing seven drops of Blood Essence? I wonder if you can reach the 26th or even 27th level. You won't be stuck on the 25th level, will you?"

  This was another provocation, but Chu Cheng remained unmoved and instead asked: "So to say, entering this Warm Jade Building is just a matter of strength? Then whether I can enter or not has nothing to do with you. Can you make me reach the 36th floor?"

  "You... of course can't! Nuan Yulou has a deep background, who dares to be presumptuous? However, if you don't have the ability, I can also take you to the 27th floor! Are you going in or not?" Ling Die'er's small face stiffened, and she was about to cry.

  "Alright, alright, I'm going in, isn't that enough?" Chu Cheng's face was expressionless as he stepped into the Warm Jade Building.

  This warm jade building, indeed does not allow anyone to enter. Only you have the ability and also have money, can enter at will. Even if you stepped on the thirty-sixth floor, no one cares about you.

  The entire Warm Jade Building, is not as it seems on the surface, the lowest level is less than 10,000 square meters. In fact, the Warm Jade Building itself is a peculiar spatial artifact, like the Infinite Treasure Pavilion, after being refined by a high-ranking cultivator, just the first layer, the internal space is at least hundreds of millions of square meters? Accommodating tens of thousands of people is no problem.

  As soon as he entered, Chu Cheng felt a faint pressure. This pressure, just condensed the first bloodline, would definitely not be able to withstand it, only those who had stabilized the first bloodline could bear it, and might not be able to bear it for too long.

  Looking around, most of the guests staying here are very young, some are only five or six years old, obviously all prodigies.

  "Come on, there's nothing good to see, let's go up." Ling Die'er urged repeatedly.

  Chu Cheng smiled slightly and went up the stairs.