"That's true, but I really don't have any clues right now!" Ye Chuxiao added.

The idea of 'money finding people' isn't about sitting at home waiting for wealth to fall from the sky.

It's about making necessary exchanges of benefits using monopoly or power.

In reality, it's not much different from robbing money, the difference being that the former gives you something in return to make you feel like you haven't lost out.

This kind of thing isn't something ordinary people can do.

But with the Six Doors' banner, it's just right.

Jin Sanniang wasn't in a hurry either, and upon hearing this, she readily said, "Alright! You need to familiarize yourself with the environment first. After all, the Six Doors is different from a prison."

"Later, when a few of my Silver Badges in Shenjing arrive, we'll go drinking in Pingliang Ward together and get to know each other."

"Huh? Going to a brothel for drinks right after starting a new job, isn't that inappropriate?" Ye Chuxiao asked in surprise.

Jin Sanniang rolled her eyes: "Are there no normal restaurants in Pingliang Ward?"

"That, I haven't really noticed," Ye Chuxiao said with a smile.

A few jokes subtly dispelled the slightly heavy atmosphere from before.

As the moon rose above the willow branches and dusk fell, Jin Sanniang, along with the four Silver Badges under her command who were in Shenjing, rode their steeds into the bustling Pingliang Ward.

Pingliang Ward had no curfew, so the later it got, the more lively it became, as if all the restless people in Shenjing City flocked to Pingliang Ward at night.

As the lanterns were lit, all kinds of carriages merged into the traffic flow, crowding the originally wide streets.

The noisy and chaotic sounds, the scent of rouge from the brothels on both sides, and the smell of sweat and horses from the crowded people were completely intertwined, giving people a strong sense of suffocation.

Ye Chuxiao and Jin Sanniang, the five of them on horseback, were also stuck at the entrance of the ward, but they were wearing the Six Doors constables' special black and red uniforms, and the guards at the entrance dared not stop them, allowing them to squeeze through the crowd and cut in line to enter Pingliang Ward first.

However, even after squeezing in, it wasn't much easier.

Jin Sanniang had to take out her horse-restraining牌 (pái, plaque) to put away the horses, and the five of them walked together.

There were formations operating within Shenjing City, and flying was usually prohibited.

So even those cultivators who had the means to fly in the air mostly couldn't use it at this time.

As for briefly leaping high, although it could be done, one still had to come down, and jumping around on the rooftops wasn't very elegant.

Besides, Jin Sanniang was wearing a skirt.

"There are so many people! If everyone gave me just one tael of silver for free, I'd be rich," Silver Badge Zhao Sibai said, looking at the lively and crowded heads around him, tugging at his beard.

This man had a leopard's head and ringed eyes, a face full of stubble, and was black and strong. Without his official skin, he looked more like a bandit than a bandit, a perfect template for the Black Wind Stronghold's chief.

He was skilled in using a pair of pumpkin hammers and was a good hand at frontal assaults.

"We could cover our faces and collect protection money later. As long as we hide it well, who would know it was us? Those wine-bags and rice-sacks on duty in the capital wouldn't even dream of catching a trace of us," another Silver Badge, Qiao Wuqi, looked at the crowded people around him with an eagle-like gaze, as if he were looking at a flock of fat sheep.

His eyes were particularly bright, even seeming to glow in the night.

According to Jin Sanniang's introduction, Qiao Wuqi was once a sharpshooter in the border army, walking the path of archery cultivation under the martial arts branch.

Such cultivators not only had the terrifying ability to snipe from extremely long distances, but their close combat skills were also not weak at all.

Anyone who thought that archers were all glass cannons in game settings, helpless when approached, would be underestimating the physical requirements of a sharpshooter.

In the five-person team, another female, Silver Badge Cui Yu, interrupted, "Enough! This is Shenjing, how can you be so presumptuous?"

Her tone was serious, even slightly stern.

Her serious interruption instantly made Ye Chuxiao feel that what Zhao Sibai and Qiao Wuqi had just said wasn't a joke.

Jin Sanniang was slightly embarrassed upon hearing this, glanced at Ye Chuxiao, and then forcibly saved face by saying, "What are you saying? You can't do that even outside Shenjing City!"

Ye Chuxiao lowered his head and remained silent. It was best not to say anything at this time, so as not to make Jin Sanniang even more embarrassed.

The five of them ultimately didn't go to a tasteless regular restaurant.

Instead, they entered an elegant brothel with song and dance performances.

There was also a Jiaofang Division (government-run brothel) in Pingliang Ward, but only officials could enter.

The entertainment inside was quite refined, but none of the five, despite being officials, were enthusiastic about it.

Brothels were better!

Vulgar enough!

Just watching the song and dance performances in the brothel's lobby was more interesting.

In order to attract customers, industries competed with each other, and the brothel's lobby performances were always eye-popping and eye-opening.

Due to the influence of transendent factors, men and women were almost equal in strength. The distribution of strength affected the distribution of rights in all aspects. Affecting places like brothels, that meant the employees and service personnel inside were not limited to women.

If there were female customers, heavily made-up pretty boys would come to help pour wine.

Of course, whether or not to develop further was entirely up to the female customers themselves.

After dismissing the serving men and women, the five ate and drank, and the somewhat unfamiliar relationship gradually warmed up at the table.

After they opened up, Zhao Sibai began to complain constantly.

In the end, it was still the problem of the severely reduced merit rewards.

Techniques and martial arts manuals were good, but they couldn't stand being used to deal with them every time.

Ordinary cultivators had limited energy. Even if they specialized in one path, how many techniques could they learn and how many methods could they practice?

The so-called hundreds of cultivation paths were all products of repeated division and subdivision within a few major categories.

"Alright! Let's not talk about these unhappy things today."

"Cultivation is still good in the Six Doors, better than those sects hiding in remote mountains and wretched rivers. They sound glamorous, but they're actually very poor. They turn into vicious dogs when they smell a bit of meat," Qiao Wuqi said.

Ye Chuxiao understood the meaning, but he didn't take the bait.

Instead, he asked, "It sounds like everyone is short of money now, but in my opinion, this is the time when we shouldn't be short of money the most, so... where has all the money gone?"

Money was actually a code name for resources.

Daheng was not barren to begin with, and cultivators from all realms had crossed over, bringing a large number of resources from other worlds.

According to common theory, the market should be more active.

"Of course, it's the aristocratic families! They collude with the transmigrators, and some aristocratic families themselves have a you-in-me, me-in-you relationship with the transmigrators. Through the connection of all realms, they exchange what they have for what they need, forming a monopoly on some scarce resources and gaining a lot of profits," Qiao Wuqi said.

Ye Chuxiao understood this.

The last time he crossed over, if he hadn't had the identity of the Wang family's young master, his start and development would not have been so quick and smooth.

Transmigrators customize the identities of high-ranking families, and then use the other-world resources in their hands to trade with the wealthy families associated with their identities. The benefits behind this are clear.

"Are there people like this in our Six Doors?" Ye Chuxiao asked.

This time, Jin Sanniang explained, "The Six Doors doesn't recruit cultivators from other worlds. We have ways to identify all transmigrators from other worlds."

Ye Chuxiao's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

"Is this identification method complicated? I mean... can it be promoted and popularized?"

Jin Sanniang said, "It's not too complicated. It's actually some tracking methods. Transmigrant cultivators usually don't have a long-term history of living here, only disguised identities and memories."

"Using the Six Doors' vast intelligence network, combined with some specific tracking methods, we can roughly determine whether the identity of a transmigrator is true."