After angering Dong Xiaochai into leaving, Chen Shi'an sat cross-legged in the courtyard and continued cultivating the Great Evolution Saintly Art.
He cultivated until Hai Hour that night, when most people in the Earth Pill Sect had gone to sleep.
He stopped cultivating, left the courtyard, and quietly slipped out through the Earth Pill Sect's gates.
Even at Hai Hour, some streets in Desolate Suppression City remained ablaze with lights and bustling with voices.
Especially those areas where restaurants and pleasure houses clustered.
With a clear destination in mind, Chen Shi'an went straight to Desolate Suppression City's largest money pit, the Pleasant Fragrance Courtyard.
The Pleasant Fragrance Courtyard was renowned for its courtesans. At the end of every month, a new courtesan would make her debut and receive her first patron.
And that night, a courtesan was making her debut, offering the city's powerful nobles and wealthy gentry a perfect opportunity to scatter gold like dirt and flaunt their extravagance.
Naturally, an occasion like this could hardly do without the city's spoiled, privileged young scions.
When he entered the Pleasant Fragrance Courtyard, Chen Shi'an used the Hundred Transformations Bone-Shedding Art to transform into an ordinary-looking young man, blending unobtrusively into the crowd.
By the middle of Hai Hour, the atmosphere inside the Pleasant Fragrance Courtyard reached its peak.
The men inside were all visibly excited, their eyes shining.
The new courtesan was making her debut, and who would become her first patron would soon be decided.
When the appointed time arrived, the new courtesan slowly ascended the raised platform in the center of the hall.
Her willow-slim waist swayed, her curves outlined by a close-fitting pink gown, and every step was gracefully alluring.
The only flaw in this perfection was the thin veil covering her face, revealing its general outline