The Dao Heart! The Dao Heart!

Wang Jixuan walked more than twenty steps along the curved corridor, then turned another corner. The space ahead suddenly opened up.

Two young women in black-stockinged Bunny Girl outfits stepped forward at the same time, clasped their hands before their stomachs, and bowed in welcome, generously displaying the deep cleavage they had squeezed together.

These two young girls working here should have been relatively safe.

—Because hardly anyone came to the Pervert Zone of the City of Joy looking for normal sexual resources.

The layout of the establishment was not complicated. A dance floor and DJ booth occupied the center, with a performance runway and circular couches scattered throughout. There were not many customers at the moment. On the second floor was a row of floor-to-ceiling windows made of bulletproof glass, through which one could see those Unbearable to Look At scenes inside.

[Damage to Dao Heart: Minor.]

A Bunny Girl leaned close to Wang Jixuan's ear and shouted, "Do you have a reservation?"

"My uncle told me to find a broker named Goat's Ass."

"Is that so? Zhou Tiantian!"

The Bunny Girl's eyes lit up as she looked Wang Jixuan over from head to toe.

Wang Jixuan considered it slightly. He did not know whether he ought to sway his body a few times along with this clamorous music in order to better blend into the current environment.

This seemed to exceed his understanding of Worldly Heart Refining somewhat...

"Please wait a moment!"

The Bunny Girl raised her wristband to send a message, then lifted one end of it and took a photo of Wang Jixuan.

A few people approached from the entrance. They were likely gang members here to have fun. Two heavily built women walked in front, while three lean men chatted and laughed behind them. All five spoke with exaggerated voices and intonations.

Standard small-time gangsters.

One Bunny Girl immediately went to greet them, while the other raised her hand to signal for Wang Jixuan to wait at the side.

Wang Jixuan stood against the wall, making way for them.

One heavily made-up, "slightly plump" woman in a denim skirt and little leather boots stared at Wang Jixuan's face for a few moments, then smiled as she moved closer.

The two Bunny Girls immediately grew nervous.

One Bunny Girl wanted to step in front of Wang Jixuan, but just as she started to move, a vicious glare from nearby scared her back.

The slightly plump big sister walked up to Wang Jixuan.

"A new face? Just got here? You're pretty handsome. Your eyes are quite nice too."

Wang Jixuan frowned slightly. The other party's hands did not seem particularly clean.

He meant unclean in every sense.

The woman laughed. "Where do you run with? I've been short a girlfriend lately. Want to be with me?"

A Bunny Girl at the side said softly, "Brother Cauliflower, this young man is a client of our manager. You..."

"A client? Couldn't make it in Middle City, so you just came down to Lower City? No wonder you're giving off such a fresh young man's scent."

The slightly plump woman's eyes gleamed as she slowly moved closer to Wang Jixuan, on the verge of making physical contact with him.

Wang Jixuan silently recited the Heart Calming Incantation, doing his utmost to restrain the urge to strike.

What was that smell on this woman... Body odor?

Wasn't water free?

"Friend," Wang Jixuan said calmly, "I have someone I admire."

"Is that so? Tsk, tsk."

The slightly plump big sister's left hand slowly slid over the wall, then slowly reached toward Daoist Wang's vulnerable lower abdomen as she said:

"You've already come down here, and your old woman still follows you? Why not change your mindset? Be your brother's woman. Your brother will protect you, your brother will love you properly... Ah! It hurts! Let go!"

The people around them were clearly stunned.

They truly had not expected this skinny young man to strike directly!

The slightly plump big sister's wrist was gripped by a hand like an iron clamp and slowly twisted upward. Her skin rapidly turned bluish purple.

"Ah! Let go!"

Her expression twisted grotesquely, and her cries were full of pain.

The people behind the slightly plump big sister hurriedly rushed forward, immediately about to punch and kick Wang Jixuan.

But the slightly plump big sister's body was rather broad, and the two Bunny Girls were also desperately blocking them. For the moment, these gang lackeys could not get their hands on him and could only shout noisily:

"Let Brother Cauliflower go!"

"Are you fucking looking to die?"

"Let go!"

Wang Jixuan pulled with his left hand, then pushed. The movement took no effort at all.

The slightly plump big sister staggered backward three steps and crashed straight into the others, sending them all tumbling to the ground.

So weak.

Wang Jixuan did not wish to get further entangled and merely watched them with a frown.

This leather jacket of his had two inner pockets containing a compact silenced pistol, magazines, and several simple Bone-Piercing Nails he had made yesterday.

If they insisted on pestering him, he did not mind offending one or two more gangs.

The slightly plump big sister's face flushed red as she cursed. She lifted her short skirt, wide enough to span three feet at the waist, exposing the exquisite little revolver strapped to her thick thigh, and excitedly drew the gun...

Wang Jixuan narrowed his eyes.

Since that was how it was, then she could not blame him!

"Oh my~ Brother Cauliflower, what are you doing? Why are you pulling a gun?"

A shrill, saccharine male voice suddenly came from the side.

Wang Jixuan glanced over from the corner of his eye.

Several male servers carrying trays were watching them. Pistols or miniature submachine guns were hidden beneath their trays, all of them currently aimed at the slightly plump big sister.

Behind these waiters, a middle-aged man wearing tight jeans, a sequined off-the-shoulder sweater, and more than ten-centimeter stilettos, with a ring of stubble around his face beneath flamboyant makeup, hurried over in tiny quick steps.

No, wait.

A man?

Wang Jixuan had known before coming that the Pervert Zone of the City of Joy would contain things beyond the limits of his understanding, but this was too... too...

[Damage to Dao Heart: Moderate.]

This slightly plump woman, whose values had reached the ceiling of her category, was addressed as "Brother Something." Her self-reference and the genders she used when addressing others were all reversed, seemingly expressing some complicated inclination of hers.

And this man hurrying over appeared to be the broker he was looking for, Goat's Ass. This had already completely broken away from the ordinary gender framework.

A seductive, stubbled uncle.

Wang Jixuan spotted the badge on this flamboyant uncle's chest. It read "Manager Thomas" and the like, clearly not his real name.

The slightly plump big sister had her gun snatched away by her female companion, yet she still glared viciously at Wang Jixuan and pointed at him.

"Old Goat, stay out of this! I'm going to kill him today!"

Thomas stepped forward, tugging the slightly plump big sister's arm as he cried in a cutesy voice:

"Oh, Brother Cauliflower~ Why lower yourself to the level of a young man who just came to Lower City~ His uncle is quite an important figure too, from the Security Team on the eleventh floor."

The slightly plump big sister's expression changed slightly. The fat on her face trembled as she struggled to calm her breathing.

Wang Jixuan's eyes were filled with indifference.

Thomas continued smiling as he soothed her:

"All right, all right, don't be angry. I reserved the best private room for you, and I'll send you three bottles of good liquor tonight. It isn't easy for me to run a business either, so can you show your sister some consideration?"

The slightly plump big sister snorted and cursed, "I'm only doing this for your sake, Old Goat! How long can someone like him, who thinks he's so damn cool, survive down here?"

If not for the sake of maintaining his composure, Wang Jixuan truly wanted to retort, "At least eight hundred to a thousand years."

Thomas hurriedly said, "Oh my, young people just need to get some experience, that's all. Don't be angry, Brother Cauliflower. Tonight, I'll personally drink a few more glasses with you. Come, let's go this way."

"Kid! Don't let me find out where you live later!"

The slightly plump big sister cursed viciously, but her body obediently allowed Thomas to pull her away. They headed down another passage beside the noisy dance floor and quickly disappeared.

Several gang lackeys glared at Wang Jixuan before hurrying after them.

No one noticed a wisp of breath emerge from Wang Jixuan's nostrils. It split into five strands and coiled around the five gang members.

For the past seven days, he had been in Secluded Cultivation and had refined the remaining Blade Beast Blood from making talismans. Although the pure spiritual energy he ultimately obtained was not much, the aura within his body had increased noticeably. He was not far from having it fully replenished.

After the lackeys had gone far away.

The baby-faced Bunny Girl beside him said in a worldly tone:

"You've got quite a temper. You'd better rein it in a little in Lower City from now on. This place is different from up there. It's not enough to be ruthless to stand firm here. You need connections."

"Mm." Wang Jixuan smiled at the heavily made-up girl. "Thank you for the reminder."

"You're quite polite too. Is Middle City really so orderly and oppressive... Huh? It's already done over there? All right, Manager! I'll bring him over now."

The Bunny Girl pressed the earpiece in her right ear and smiled gently.

"This way, valued client. The manager has settled things over there.

"The manager seems very angry. I haven't heard him speak in his real voice for a long time."

Wang Jixuan did not understand what she meant.

He followed the baby-faced Bunny Girl around the edge of the dance floor and entered the corridor the five lackeys had just taken.

The path ahead twisted and turned, dim and murky. Then he suddenly saw a section of wall covered in warm red short velvet, with eight photographs hanging upon it, each illuminated by a spotlight.

The first few photographs were all handsome men and beautiful women, their faces and figures exceptional.

The baby-faced Bunny Girl noticed Wang Jixuan's curiosity and said with a giggle:

"Our establishment has been around for forty years. Every five years, we select a top seller. These are all of them."

"Top seller?"

"People from Middle City don't know about this?"

The Bunny Girl covered her mouth and laughed softly.

"As long as you have resources, you can exchange them for Joy Coins. With Joy Coins, you can spend them here. Everything here has a clearly marked price, such as spending a romantic night with them."

Understanding appeared on Wang Jixuan's face.

Courtesans from a brothel.

He had thought the bar's top sellers were something else... Hm? Wait?

Wang Jixuan looked at the sixth picture. It showed someone in workout clothes whose gender could not be distinguished, which was one thing... But the seventh picture was actually a robot?

Its body was made of silvery-white metal and possessed the rough form of a human woman, but no matter how he looked at it, it was a machine. The name beside it was "Military Medical Modification-11R."

So what was this eighth picture...

Wang Jixuan stood expressionlessly before the eighth picture, frowning, pressing his lips together, holding his breath, and staring at the large lizard being carried by two people in the image.

A lizard?

It had not taken Human Form?

Not a lizard spirit?

Just a pure lizard?

"What a pity," the Bunny Girl said with a regretful expression. "Brother A-San, the big shot who kept the eighth top seller, had an accident some time ago. Our establishment's entertainment revenue dropped by a huge amount."

Wang Jixuan: ...

He seemed to hear a tiny part of his Dao Heart shatter.

Infinite Heavenly Venerable!

It was difficult to give this an appropriate review from a cultivator's perspective!

After they turned another corner, the Bunny Girl raised a hand to stop Wang Jixuan, signaling for him to halt and remain silent.

Not far ahead, "Old Goat" Thomas was holding a rhinestone-covered flip Button Intercom, pinching his voice into a female imitation as he spoke with a male voice:

"Oh my, how could I just deal with them without asking? I absolutely had to get your permission first, Brother Ghost. After all, those five are subordinates of your subordinates... All right, all right, thank you for understanding. This is already the sixth time they've harassed my client. I really had no choice. They even showed guns today. Mm~ They scared baby to death... No, no, their accounts have all been settled. Brother Ghost, come visit my place more when you have time. Business at my little shop is not easy these days... All right, that's it for now. We'll chat another day, Brother Ghost. Muah, kiss kiss."

Click.

Thomas snapped the flip device shut, looked up at Wang Jixuan, and pursed his lips.

Then he revealed his real voice, which was unexpectedly a rough male voice, and frowned as he spoke into the Button Intercom on his collar:

"Fuck! Set up an appointment with the refinery! There's a pig bitch here to send over, the kind with a whole lot of fat! Don't sell her cheap! What the hell is this? Every damn day! Is it easy for me to land a big client?"

Still cursing, Thomas picked up the miniature submachine gun from a server's tray beside him, turned around, and kicked open the private room door behind him.

With one glance, Wang Jixuan saw that the five people who had just clashed with him were now hanging their heads drowsily, while smoke floated through the air.

Thomas tightly covered his mouth and nose with his right hand, held the submachine gun in his left, aimed at that slightly plump big sister, and forcefully pulled the trigger.

A rapid string of gunshots was masked by the pounding beat.

Several seconds later, Thomas turned and retreated, frowning at Wang Jixuan.

The baby-faced Bunny Girl who had brought Wang Jixuan over suddenly raised her hand, drew a silver pistol, and aimed it at the back of Wang Jixuan's head.