Fortune Gambling House.
One of Changning Guard's three great money pits.
It was said that Fortune Gambling House had already stood upon this land when Changning Guard was first being opened up.
After some of the pioneering ancestors earned their fortunes, they would often squander a thousand gold in the gambling house. Naturally, most met with tragedy in the end.
The true owner behind Fortune Gambling House was extremely mysterious. Some said it was the Celestial Huangfu Clan, some claimed it was the Celestial Lei Clan, while others said the first city lord had secretly controlled it from behind the scenes.
Yet none of them admitted it.
After all, making money through a gambling house was considered a stain upon those lofty aristocratic clans.
In short, Fortune Gambling House possessed an unfathomable background. To this day, no one had ever managed to owe it money and refuse to repay it.
Outside the gambling house, Wang Zongwei's carriage slowly came to a halt.
It was a three-story pavilion with a considerable footprint, its carved beams and painted rafters a blaze of splendor. The towering vermilion-painted archway at its entrance was equally imposing. At first glance, it looked more like a restaurant than a gambling house.
Only the cloth banner hanging beneath the archway, embroidered with the character "Gamble" and swaying faintly in the cool early-autumn breeze, revealed its true identity.
At the entrance, several burly men clad in the gambling house's uniform stood with their hands behind their backs on either side of the threshold. They were Xuanwu cultivators specially raised by the gambling house to guard the premises and deter petty troublemakers. Their cultivation had reached around the fifth or sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage, making them far from weak.
Before Wang Zongwei had even stepped down from