Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 39: The Great Serpent Qingli
Seeing that the bone shield was failing to hold, Cai Xiuyong immediately sent out another magical artifact, a bronze bell.

The death knell tolls, a death sentence!
The bell rang, and a wave of energy surged toward Lin Le.

But a faint golden light appeared on his body.

It was the Golden Light Mantra that worked.

boom!
Lin Le swung his gun down again.

Cai Xiuyong's face showed shock: "You actually repaired the Heavenly Gate!"

He didn't see the golden light. After all, it was broad daylight, and the sunlight was shining on Lin Le. The golden light was faint, and he couldn't tell whether it was sunlight or golden light.

Therefore, Cai Xiuyong mistakenly believed that Lin Le had cultivated the Heavenly Gate, and only someone skilled in soul refining could have such strong resistance to his Soul-Sinking Bell.

boom!
Ignoring Cai Xiuyong's shock, Lin Le swung his gun down again.

*Crack!* Cracks appeared on the bone shield.

Damn!

Cai Xiuyong, no longer caring about concealing himself, roared, "Kill!"

Suddenly, a white bone sword flew out from his sleeve and stabbed straight at Lin Le.

Lin Le swung his spear down again, this time with a scorching, fiery force.

The spear's momentum was so fierce that it actually knocked the White Bone Sword off its hinges.

Cai Xiuyong also coughed up blood, his eyes filled with disbelief, because the ghost he had hidden in the sword had vanished.

Logically speaking, one should not be able to control objects with divine power before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage. However, he took a different approach. If he cannot control objects, can he not control ghosts?

Using ghosts to control objects was Cai Xiuyong's most prized method.

The ghosts he used to control objects were all sentient ghosts, and were equivalent to the first level of Qi Refining.

But just now, Lin Le actually killed the ghost he had hidden in the sword with a single shot.

A martial artist of the fourth level destroying a ghost of the first level? What kind of ridiculous joke is this? He has never heard of it before!

Lin Le raised an eyebrow; he had just received five points of human virtue and ten points of killing karma.

Ghost?

Lin Le immediately found the answer, and then couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He didn't expect that killing ghosts directly would result in killing karma instead of earthly merit. He was currently more lacking in earthly merit.

run!
Cai Xiuyong made a decision immediately. As a Yellow Court cultivator, without the support of ghosts, he had no effective spells to use, especially since it was still daytime.

Thinking of this, Cai Xiuyong felt a pang of heartache. He had been too arrogant, getting used to dominating this small town and forgetting the vigilance he should have had in his younger days.

He possessed three magical artifacts, which even posed a threat to the town mayor, but he never expected to encounter someone as illogical as Lin Le, resulting in one being severely injured and the other being killed.

Thinking of this, Cai Xiuyong felt even more heartbroken.

Then he realized he was truly heartbroken, because his heart had been pierced by a gun.

when?
Cai Xiuyong stared blankly at Lin Le, not even realizing he had been shot.

Fighting Heaven Second Form, Breaking Through the Sky!
Lin Le watched Cai Xiuyong die quietly, then drew his spear, which was imbued with the force of lightning.

While killing the stable boy, Lin Le ignored the shocked expressions of the residents on the street and dragged Cai Xiuyong's body inside.

They found a well, knocked on it nine times, and the giant snake emerged from the well. It glanced at the corpses scattered on the ground and couldn't help but complain, "Are you some kind of murderous star reincarnated? You wipe out entire families at the drop of a hat. Aren't you afraid that your karma will be too heavy and that heavenly tribulation will strike you down in the future?"

“Killing evil people doesn’t count as accumulating karma, it’s accumulating merit,” Lin Le replied. “Do you want these three magical artifacts?”

Lin Le gave Cai Xiuyong's three magical artifacts to the giant snake.

The giant snake glanced at it, its snake face revealing a human-like disdain: "Trash, I wouldn't even consider it too much for a low-grade spirit stone." "Then can you help me fuse it into my weapon?" Lin Le took out the tiger bone spear, the shaft of which already had cracks.

The material is still a bit too brittle for him now.

"A simple reinforcement is possible, but don't even think about turning it into a magical artifact. I don't know how," the giant snake said.

"As long as it can be reinforced, that will be fine," Lin Le nodded.

The giant snake glanced at Cai Xiuyong's corpse: "But isn't your combat power a bit too extraordinary? You actually managed to kill a cultivator at the second level of cultivation."

“He practices ghost cultivation. In broad daylight, he’s about on par with a first-level cultivator,” Lin Le said.

It was precisely because he knew that Cai Xiuyong practiced shady magic that he came knocking on his door in broad daylight.

The giant snake flicked its tongue and pulled out a brocade pouch: "A storage pouch, it's really strange that it appears on such a minor cultivator."

"Is it very rare?" Lin Le asked curiously.

"It's not exactly rare, but even the lowest grade one costs a hundred low-grade spirit stones." The giant snake seemed to glance at the brocade pouch. "This one is four feet tall and wide, so it's probably worth two or three hundred."

Seemingly having discovered something else, the giant snake exclaimed in realization, "So that's why this little cultivator has a storage bag. It turns out he inherited the legacy of his predecessors, but he's just a demonic cultivator."

The giant snake emptied the brocade pouch, revealing several items on the ground: a large amount of gold, silver, and valuables, along with some bottles and jars, five milky-white stones, and three booklets.

The giant snake flicked its tongue and took the five stones away: "These five spirit stones are mine now, consider it a payment. This storage bag is yours."

"You don't want it?" Lin Le asked in surprise.

"I have something better, why would I want something inferior?" The giant snake swallowed the spirit stone. "Give me your gun, and I'll reinforce it for you."

"Okay." Lin Le handed the gun to the giant snake.

The giant snake exhaled a breath of white vapor, which instantly billowed like flames, enveloping Cai Xiuyong's three magical artifacts and the tiger bone spear.

Then it inhaled again, absorbing all the essence from the corpses in the garden.

Lin Le, somewhat puzzled, asked, "Speaking of which, what's the difference between absorbing essence and directly eating people?"

“Of course,” the giant snake said. “I absorb the essence of the dead, which is just pure essence. But absorbing the essence of the living is different. It absorbs essence, energy, and spirit. That’s eating people.”

"The difference between the two is that one sucks human blood and the other eats human flesh, right?" Lin Le concluded.

"More or less." The giant snake thought for a moment and nodded. "What's wrong? Do you look unwell?"

"No, not at all." Lin Le shook his head. "It's just bloodsucking, and it's a way to make use of waste, so there's nothing uncomfortable about it."

"If you don't want to, then I won't suck anymore," the giant snake said. "I only suck it to fill my stomach anyway, but you'll have to prepare more meat for me in the future, I don't want to go hungry."

Lin Le was taken aback and looked at the giant snake with a strange expression.

The giant snake, feeling a little embarrassed and annoyed by Lin Le's stare, said, "Hey, what are you looking at me for?"

"No, I just suddenly realized you're quite pretty." Lin Le turned her head, a thought gradually fading from her mind.

"Eh, really?" The giant snake lowered its head slightly, seemingly genuinely embarrassed.

"Seriously, you're the most beautiful snake I've ever seen!" Lin Le exclaimed in an exaggerated tone.

"That's it!" The giant snake couldn't help but raise its head.

"Speaking of which, what's your name?" Lin Le asked the giant snake. "Let's get to know each other formally. My name is Lin Le, Lin as in two trees forming a forest, and Le as in optimism."

Lin Le's figure was reflected in the pale golden snake eyes, and the giant snake also revealed a human-like smile, saying, "My name is Qing Li, Qing as in clear and pure, and Li as in thorough and vivid."

"Hello, Qingli," Lin Ledao said.
"Hello, Lin Le," Qingli nodded, her eyes like crescent moons.

Thank you to [问道于盲] and [我是个诚真人] for the 100-point reward.
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