Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman-Chapter 206 - 149 Win-Win

Chapter 206: Chapter 149: Win-Win!

Chapter 206: Chapter 149: Win-Win!

“I’m telling you, this business is doable!”

“You see that old black head? Why did he recently have Spirit Stones to consume Spirit Pills and even married a woman from a prestigious family that was beyond his reach before?”

“Isn’t it because he took a job here and completed it, earning the reward?”

“Don’t be scared off by places haunted by Evil Spirits, we’re not going to those Blood Sacrifice grounds, we’re just skirting the edges, helping owners find their lost items.”

“The mortality rate isn’t high!”

“At most, you get infected by Evil Qi, which is harmful to your path.”

“But let’s be honest with ourselves, if we don’t earn Spirit Stones, do we even have a path to speak of?”

In the teahouse, a middle-aged Cultivator, acting as the reward intermediary, spoke eloquently and convincingly.

Several Loose Cultivators sitting in the teahouse were indeed persuaded, showing expressions of being tempted.

Then, as a few Loose Cultivators gritted their teeth and stood up, they loudly cursed that they would rather be eaten by Evil Spirits than die of poverty!

Afterwards, they registered with the middle-aged Cultivator, and about a third of the Loose Cultivators were influenced to sign up, collect the materials, and agree on the next meeting time and place.

About ten minutes later, the middle-aged Cultivator, stroking his small mustache proudly, walked into a certain alley and then started scolding the three Loose Cultivators who had been waiting there.

“How many times have I told you, keep your expressions natural, your tones too, don’t you know at least half the crowd knows you’re just a plant!”

“Thank goodness these are hard times, even White Crane True Man has mercifully allowed us Loose Cultivators a reprieve from various miscellaneous fees.”

“Living well and Cultivating is just too hard.”

After the middle-aged Cultivator finished scolding, he took out a bottle filled with Low Tier Pills and distributed them among the Loose Cultivators.

Spirit Stones are precious, and for the lowest-tier Cultivators, a single Spirit Stone can purchase a substantial amount of frequently consumed Low Tier Pills.

After sending these people away, the middle-aged Cultivator leisurely changed into a different outfit.

Then, he prepared to leave the Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop, heading to another, larger workshop with more variety to spend his time.

Suddenly, an imposing pressure descended from the sky.

Seeing a white shadow appear before him,

even without a clear view, the middle-aged Cultivator’s expression had drastically changed as he fell to the cold stone ground, begging for mercy.

“Get up, you have nothing to worry about as long as you haven’t lied.”

Su Ping approached the middle-aged Cultivator slowly and spoke indifferently.

The middle-aged Cultivator, drenched in sweat, hurriedly said:

“In front of White Crane True Man, I dare not lie… I may love money, but I know the principle of rightful gaining. Although I used some minor tricks, everything I told those Loose Cultivators was true!”

“In other workshops, there are people like me too, and Cloud Mountain Workshop has an officially co-organized Reward Hall.”

“True Man… a simple inquiry will confirm it!”

Su Ping didn’t confirm or deny it but took all the materials from him.

After going through them meticulously, Su Ping finally understood.

The rewards were mostly personal offerings from Immortal Cultivation Families who had fled the locality.

They couldn’t bear to forget the things they left behind, yet they weren’t willing to risk encountering Evil Spirits or getting invaded by Evil Qi themselves.

So, they simply offered maps, markers, and rewards, hoping to find someone to bring their items for them with the incentive of Spirit Stones,

Besides the rewards, whatever those people gained during the time naturally belonged to themselves.

This was also considered a tacit benefit for those Loose Cultivators willing to take the risk.

Having the map markers also made it easier for them to find valuable items.

In a sense, it was a win-win situation.

And just as this man said, the destinations were all on the periphery of dangerous areas, not within Blood Sacrifice zones.

One reason was naturally that Loose Cultivators were there to make money, not to die; another was that no Cultivator who entered a Blood Sacrifice zone came out alive to issue a reward.

Su Ping was not interested in the rewards.

But seeing that so many Cultivation Families had left so many books and antiques out there,

moved his heart, so he decided he still wanted to help.

Through the middle-aged Cultivator, he obtained more map information.

Then, after an afternoon of rapid flying,

Su Ping saw a completely withered and blackened mountain range, averaging over ten thousand meters in height, lying in front of him.

And inside the continuous range, from time to time, streaks of black gas burst out with eerie howls, echoing across the wilderness.

“Past this mountain range lies the Mu Character Domain of the Immortal Sect,”

“The recent outbreak of the Evil Spirit happened in several locales close to the mountains within the Mu Character Domain.”

“The nearest to me… must be Wood Spirit City!”

“Unlike Golden Sparrow City, Wood Spirit City, due to historical origins, was built on a Second Tier Spirit Vein, so many Cultivation Families reside there,”

“making it one of the areas with the most mixed habitation between Cultivators and non-Cultivators.”

“It was also one of the places where a Blood Sacrifice was successfully carried out.”

Su Ping didn’t enter the mountains but found a place to hide,

then summoned the Exorcism Mage Yun Kong and Fire Knight Elvin using the Memory Wand.

Next, multitasking, he sent the two Memory Illusions speeding in different directions.

In the blink of an eye, they had both vanished into the black mountains.

Occasionally encountering Evil Spirits along the way, the powerful ones were avoided, while the weaker ones were directly confronted and cleaved with a sword!

Even without deliberately hunting these weaker Evil Spirits,

by the time they emerged from the mountains, both the Exorcism Mage and the Fire Knight had collected double-digit numbers of Evil Spirit remains.

Then, the Exorcism Mage Yun Kong headed to the smaller family estates in the less dangerous peripheral areas,

while Fire Knight Elvin headed towards Wood Spirit City.

If there were any precious materials or inheritances left in this area,

they definitely belonged to the areas surrounding the Blood Sacrifice sites.

Those places were affected first following the successful Blood Sacrifices, and most Cultivators hardly had a chance to take their belongings before they perished.

Evil Spirits or Evil Gods, he was uninterested in such things.

As long as they hadn’t been disturbed, they were highly likely still in their original places.

This made Su Ping feel he could take a chance.

There was no helping it, who made his foundation still too weak, not even enough to fill a large library with transcendent related books?

He could only trouble the Memory Illusions to pick up what others discarded to supplement his own foundation.

Several dozen minutes later.

A mansion enveloped in black fog, where no Loose Cultivators dared to scavenge.

Suddenly, a Cold Ice Giant Sword descended from the sky, shattering the tranquility of the past.

With the emergence of the Ice Array, cold light soared into the sky.

The evil spirits inside the mansion melted within the array like ice cream under glaring sunlight.

Afterward, the white-haired young man, having confirmed that no Evil Spirits would bother him, began collecting what he needed from house to house.

This was already the third mansion with Cultivators he had searched for in a short time.

The first two mansions had no black fog, and the harvest was scant, mainly consisting of books and some antiques, ancient paintings, and other artworks.

However, upon opening a basement in this mansion, Su Ping, from afar, couldn’t help but exclaim.

It turned out that within this basement, there was conspicuously a strange-looking wooden Buddha Statue.

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At the same time, there were scrolls of Buddhist Scriptures enveloped in black qi in the room.

“These Buddhist Scriptures look ominous; their contents must also count as some sort of transcendent knowledge, right?”

“Tsk, this Cultivator Family seems not to be the good guys either. Maybe the black fog in the mansion is a fallback, to prevent being discovered by those Loose Cultivators?”

“Let me see, the master of this mansion seems to be the Wood Spirit Mo family!”

Su Ping was recalling the map.

Suddenly, he noticed that, as the Exorcism Mage Yun Kong put the Buddhist Scriptures into his storage bag—

The wooden Buddha suddenly opened its three eyes on its face.

A voice came out through it:

“Who enters the secret chamber!”

“You are…”

Before he could finish speaking, Exorcism Mage Yun Kong had already slapped it, directly shattering the upper half of the wooden sculpture!

Then, he activated the Cold Ice Array, purifying the remaining fragments of the statue.

After that, Exorcism Mage Yun Kong quickly left the basement, without any hesitation, heading for the next location.

As for the obviously problematic Mo family—

It would be Su Ping acting as a good Samaritan to report them.

Simultaneously.

Nearby a workshop located in the mountains and not far from the Mo family mansion, their Old Ancestor suddenly burst into a rage.

Soon, the only remaining Foundation Establishment member of the family took more than a dozen Late Qi Cultivation family members aboard a small Immortal Boat and disappeared into the sky.

Meanwhile, on a mountain outside the original site of Wood Spirit City.

The Fire Knight, Elvin, stood on the summit gazing into the distance.

He could see that the original city no longer existed, having turned completely into a circular crater.

It was unclear whether it was the work of an Evil God or the cleanup done by the Golden Core Great Powers.

Yet around the perimeter of the crater, many ruins were still visible.

Among them were ruins shaped like tall towers.

“Along the way, the danger does not seem as great as I imagined.”

“But this is also thanks to the blessing of the Unyielding Will and the Evil Exorcism Punishment Stone Lion, which wards off all sorts of evils.”

“If it were another Cultivator, even a Foundation Establishment one, coming here would also feel the spiritual pressure and Divine Soul burden brought by the invasion of Evil Qi, right?”

The Fire Knight took note of the aerial view in his mind.

He then leapt down directly, landing in one of the high tower ruins.

With a sweep of his Divine Sense, he immediately saw a storeroom that had only collapsed halfway.

Pulling out a specially prepared large storage bag—

The Fire Knight Elvin entered the ruins and began packing items into his bag.

So, making a full round along the edge of the crater—

The storage bag brought by the prosperous Fire Knight was already eighty percent full.

Most of it was various books.

This pleasantly surprised Su Ping, even if most of the contents were duplicates.

It should also meet the minimum requirements of a large library.

Just as Su Ping was happily planning to search for the next target for the Fire Knight—

He suddenly noticed an Immortal Boat flying overhead.

And from the direction the Immortal Boat was heading, he surmised it was likely the location of the Mo family mansion.

While it was only a guess—

But… as soon as Exorcism Mage Yun Kong discovered the basement and destroyed the Buddha Statue,

an Immortal Boat had rushed over there in such a hurry.

It was too much of a coincidence, right?

After all, that place was filled with Evil Qi.

Even the Immortal Boat trade convoys of large commercial alliances would choose to avoid that airspace, not passing through to increase the risk.

But, with just this small Immortal Boat and a small Cultivating family’s maneuver forces…how dare he?

Wait, it seems this illusion of Yun Kong appears to be in the Late Qi Cultivation?

Well… that does make sense!