(Also, thanks to book friends Yichi Honglian and Meiniu Qing Liubu for their repeated tips. I'll add this extra update first, and try to add another when I have time. If subscriptions pick up, I can actually speed up my updates too. Those who can subscribe, please do. Many thanks.)
"Come one, come all! Place your bets! The mysterious cultivator versus the top Golden Core Late Stage expert, Old Eaglecliff Monster. A match you only see once in ten years!"
At that moment, a middle-aged cultivator with a fat face and a portly build, dressed like a wealthy landowner, was loudly calling out. He brought out a table and spread a large cloth over it. The odds had already been written out; all he had to do was add the names of the mysterious cultivator and Old Eaglecliff Monster.
"Shao Fatso, this isn't your Yufeng Trading Company's turf. You actually dare set up a betting table on my turf? Are you looking to challenge our Deyun Hall?" Another dark-faced man pointed at the fat, middle-aged cultivator and shouted angrily.
"Heh heh. Ill-gotten gains are for everyone to share. There are plenty of people gathered here, and this all happened so suddenly that your Deyun Hall can't swallow it all on your own. Besides, nobody said this area near the War Immortal Tower belongs exclusively to Deyun Hall." The chubby cultivator surnamed Shao chuckled.
"You just wait and see." The dark-faced man from Deyun Hall glared at him.
The fat-faced man didn't take it to heart. Wearing the genial expression of a man who believed in making money through peace, he continued to call out, "One's a mysterious newcomer to the Golden Core realm. The other is a veteran of many years, Old Eaglecliff Monster, whose strength is enough to put