At the end of the busiest street, sitting by the window of a teahouse, Fat Long looked at the furnace embedded in the table in front of him, huffed cold air, and shivered while holding a cup of hot tea, "Isn't the temperature in Fei City too low?"
"It's my first time seeing a teahouse with a furnace embedded in the table."
"No wonder everyone here is so fat."
"Any mortal who's a bit thinner might have trouble surviving this winter."
"Speaking of which, Scholar, why did you insist on bringing us here? Didn't you say you wanted to show us a great treasure? Where's the treasure?"
The scholar, with eyes brimming with excitement, looked down at the bustling street below, pointed at a woman sitting in a sedan chair, and said with a smile, "This is the Heavenly Dao second beauty. I'm sure you've never seen her. Not everyone gets the chance to see the Heavenly Dao second beauty. Don't you want to take a look?"
The street was lively, and there was the sound of gongs and drums.
Hearing the scholar's words, Fat Long suddenly became interested. He stuck his head out the window and saw a woman sitting in a large red sedan chair being carried down the street by eight robust men, each step leaving a deep footprint, and their foreheads beaded with more sweat.
They were followed by a group of people beating gongs and drums, making it quite lively.
It was as if a wedding procession was approaching from afar.
The woman in the sedan chair was so overweight that she seemed to combine the size of eight or nine women, slumped inside, and with every movement forward, you could see her excess flesh shake like waves.
No legs, no chest, and not even a stomach could be seen.
All you could see was a smiling face and a large mass of fat.
Fat Long pointed out the window at the woman in disbelief and exclaimed, "You call this the Heavenly Dao second beauty? Are you sure she ranks second on the Da Xia beauty rankings?"
"With that physique, if you slaughtered her, you could feed the whole country. There'd be enough meat for the entire population of Da Xia Country to indulge for three years!"
"Unless that thing is three zhang long, even if you were in bed with her for three years, she'd still remain a virgin – believe it or not?"
Chen Qiu, sitting opposite Fat Long, expressionlessly picked up his Jade Feather Fan and swatted away Fat Long's hand that was pointing out of the window, "Talk all you want, but don't point at people."
No matter what her appearance was, since she could be the Heavenly Dao second beauty, she definitely must have suitors.
He didn't want Fat Long's words to cause any trouble here.
It wasn't that he was worried about not being able to fight.
But having less trouble was certainly better than more.
"That's exaggerated."
The scholar shook his head and clicked his tongue, "No need for three zhang, three feet should be enough. It's said that this woman was once an ordinary girl who one day saved enough potion money, broke through to the first layer of the Qi Refinement Realm, and suddenly became the Heavenly Dao second beauty."
"Back then, the original Heavenly Dao second beauty became the third because of her."
"It's all about that power."
"Then overnight, suitors filled her doorstep. It was like she had achieved great success in one step."
"Originally, due to her extreme obesity and ugliness, she was extremely unpopular among her neighbors, and they despised her in their conversations. Because she was unwilling to go out and stayed at home every day, she got fatter and fatter."
"And then suddenly, she became a Heavenly Dao beauty, turning into a golden phoenix overnight. Every day at this time, she has to be carried around the city in her sedan chair with gongs and drums. She also needs to find a husband, claiming she wants to find one who truly loves her and is willing to protect her."
"But to put it bluntly..."
"What good man could truly fall in love with a pile of fat? To kiss her, you'd still have to use your hands to forcefully pull open the dangling fat around her mouth sitting on her chest; otherwise, you couldn't even find where the mouth is. So despite becoming the Heavenly Dao second beauty and gaining wealth and honor, she still hasn't found her ideal husband."
Hearing the scholar, Chen Qiu also became somewhat interested in the woman making her rounds in the sedan chair outside the window. Although her body was indeed exaggerated, she had a very gentle smile.
Not the kind of smugness seen in petty people who suddenly get their way.
It seemed more like... just a very happy smile.
It was visibly apparent that the people around were used to it, with hardly anyone giving the woman much attention. Meanwhile, some foreigners stood on Green Stone Street, watching with wide-eyed amazement, finding it quite strange.
"What's the effect of this woman's Heavenly Dao beauty status?"
Each Heavenly Dao beauty has a unique effect, and anyone truly loved by a Heavenly Dao beauty will gain that effect.
The second Heavenly Dao beauty must have a good effect.
The scholar, somewhat gleefully, pointed at a few men following the sedan chair procession: "That one looking lifeless in the light blue robe on the left is the top true disciple from Capital's 'Jade Medicine Sect,' the middle-aged man forcing a happy face is the Great Elder from 'Purple Moon Palace's' Outer Sect."
"And that old man is the Inner Sect Third Elder from 'Medicine King Mountain.'
"Medicine King Mountain is also an Alchemy Cultivation Sect renowned in Southern State, and those people behind them are all followers of this Heavenly Dao beauty, hoping they might someday take this Heavenly Dao beauty home."
"These sects, without exception, are all Alchemy Cultivation Sects, with the highest number of Alchemy Cultivators, and are also known for their Alchemy."
"Naturally, the effect of this Heavenly Dao beauty is—"
"To give her husband a success rate of one hundred percent whenever he refines pills."
"A straightforward and brutal effect of a Heavenly Dao beauty."
"Otherwise, do you think these Alchemy Cultivators, who are so high and mighty that it's hard to even meet them, would chase after her ? That Inner Sect Third Elder from 'Medicine King Mountain' used to be quite domineering. When you asked him to refine pills, you had to provide three sets of ingredients yourself, two of which would be his, and if it was a rare pill formula, you'd need five sets of ingredients."