It just so happens that the reputation of Lisboa has been growing in the past two years, but the court seems to have no intention of cracking down on it.
This also caused the Lotus Sect to become increasingly reckless and unrestrained, completely treating this place as a place to make money and win over people's hearts.
But Zheng Wanxiu always felt a little burdened and felt that this matter would not be so simple.
Zheng Lingzhou: "Sister, you are a woman after all. Sometimes you can be a little too cautious."
"It's true that Prince Su is the only one in the court who is openly cracking down on our Lotus Sect, and he has always been the most brutal and severe. But do you really think that there aren't any spies from the court among these people?"
"But the daily revenue from the Lisboa Casino is now greater than that of half of Jinling City combined. Gold and silver are flowing in like water. Do you think there won't be anyone envious of such overwhelming wealth?"
"It's just a game of chess between the two sides. Neither side is willing to give up this piece of fat meat for the time being. How could it be easily exposed to the world and collapsed and destroyed?"
"You don't know that quite a few people in the Daliang Dynasty have already got their hands on this gambling house, trying to muddy the waters here, all hoping to get a piece of the pie."
"The imperial court will not care, and will allow this place to rot... But if one day they completely turn against us, that will be the outcome of this game."
"But what does this have to do with us? It's just a gambling house of unknown origin. We in the Lotus Sect can abandon it and escape at any time."
Zheng Wanxiu whispered, "But this is the leader..."
Zheng Lingzhou: "As long as the Daliang Dynasty continues to decay and rot, it will naturally get closer to the ideal kingdom in the leader's mind. What's the harm in just a gambling house?"
Zheng Wanxiu listened with a frown on her face until she suddenly heard a sharp cough behind her.
She immediately turned around and went back to Jingchuan: "Xiaochuan, are you okay? Come, add more fuel to the fire!"
"It's all my fault, mother. I wanted to bring you here to see the excitement today, but I didn't expect you to have caught a cold in the Pei Mansion dungeon that day. Your body is seriously damaged. This ordeal is causing you more suffering."
Jingchuan shook his head.
"Mother, I'm fine. It's an old illness, don't you know? When the weather gets warmer, your son can go out for a walk."
Zheng Lingzhou watched silently without saying anything.
Jingchuan suddenly asked, "By the way, has that pink fleshworm down there changed in any way?"
Zheng Wanxiu and Zheng Lingzhou looked down together.
Zheng Wanxiu took a look and gasped: "That bug... the bug has grown bigger!"
Li Qingluo also saw it.
After the pink fleshworm was put into the big wooden barrel, it grew rapidly in just a moment and filled the barrel.
The people sitting on the first floor were even worried that it would continue to grow and slide over the edge of the barrel.
Fortunately, this did not happen.
I saw the pink fleshy worm's body coiled into countless circles, with no head or tail visible, and it was swimming around in the barrel without any eyes.
Everyone held their breath, looking at the scene in shock and disgust.
"What the hell is this?"
"How can it get so big?"
"It doesn't look like an eel. It looks even more disgusting than an eel!"
At this moment, the masked young man finally spoke up to introduce the large pink fleshy worm: "This is the blood poison worm."
"Bloodworm? What is a bloodworm?"
"Yeah, what on earth is this thing? It looks pretty weird."
"I don't know. I wouldn't want it anyway. It's disgusting."
But then the masked young man continued, "The so-called blood insect is a kind of insect that is fed with blood."
"This is a very ancient type of Gu worm that has been lost in Miaojiang for a long time. Everyone, do you want to know how many years this blood Gu worm in my hand has lived?"
Everyone started whispering about it, and then someone shouted, "Five years!"
“Three years!”
"A year, maybe? How could a worm possibly live that long? A year is already the limit."
The masked young man smiled and said, "No. It has lived for at least fifty years."
Everyone gasped when they heard this.
"How is this possible?"
"That's right. How could a worm possibly live that long?"
"Isn't that older than me?"
"You're kidding us! And even if it can live for fifty years, so what? We can't possibly buy such a weird insect and take it home to raise, right?"
"Exactly, what's the point of raising it? To make it so it can't eat, or is it some rare treasure for people to see?"
The masked young man said: "Everyone, what if I say that this insect can make people immortal?"
The hall fell silent in an instant.
Everyone looked at each other and dared not speak.
Immortality! ?
Is this also a lie that can be made up?
And if there really is something so good that it can be put up for auction, why not keep it for yourself?
But then the masked young man explained: "Of course I know that this is a rare treasure that is unique in the world today, but it is not something that ordinary people can persist in raising this blood insect."
"Because raising it not only costs money, but also costs lives."
"It is precisely because I cannot do this that we have to reluctantly take it out and try to find a true home for it."
"If you don't believe it, please read it."
The young man clapped his hands as he spoke, and then a person wrapped in black gauze and sitting on a chair was carried out.
When the black veil was completely removed, everyone could see clearly that it was an extremely beautiful woman from the Western Regions!
However, the woman looked as if she could no longer move. She just sat stiffly in the chair without moving an inch.
Only when her eyes moved occasionally did people believe that she was indeed still alive.
The masked young man said, "The person you see before you is the former owner of this blood-infested insect, a woman from the Western Regions named Zaina."
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