Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 48 Return of the Land Deed
On a narrow path, the fat man asked the thin man, "Brother, what are we going to do about our errand?"

"What kind of job is this? We're about to lose our lives, and you're still talking about jobs!" the skinny man said in a tone of disappointment.

"What do you mean?" The fat man scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

“I know that kid. A few months ago, he was just an ordinary person who hadn’t even practiced martial arts,” the skinny man said. “But now, he can actually kill a cultivator at the third level of the martial arts realm. Do you think he has someone backing him?”

"Even if no one is around, do you know how terrifying this talent or the external forces required behind it are?"

The fat man realized the seriousness of the situation: "What should we do?"

"Run!" the skinny man said irritably. "That kid has a grudge against the Xiang family. If we stay any longer, we'll definitely get dragged into this. Do you want to die?"

"No," the fat man shook his head.

“That’s it,” the skinny man said. “We can’t stay in this county anymore, we’ll go to another county.”

He also noticed that the imperial aura was slow to gather, suggesting that there were more external factors at play.

"But what about the Xiang family's savings?" the fat man asked, somewhat reluctantly.

"Give us back our savings!" The skinny man slapped the fat man on the head. "That kid said the Xiang family is connected to the demon race. If we fail, who knows if we'll be fed to the demons? Do you want your money or your life?"

"Oh no!" the fat man cried, clutching his head.

"By the way, as long as the green hills remain, there's always firewood to burn. It's just a few hundred taels of silver, look at how stingy you are." The skinny man pulled the fat man away.

Inside the courtyard, Lin Le looked at the underground lotus seeds in the interior and couldn't help but stroke his chin. Although the scale of the conversion was different each time, the total amount of underground merit points after conversion was always ten for everyone he had killed.

'Restrictions?' Lin Le thought to himself.

First kill people, then create ghosts, and finally guide them to salvation. Heaven clearly wouldn't leave such an obvious loophole for people to exploit; otherwise, those demonic cultivators who walk the path of ghosts would probably all accumulate merit.

'So you can only get all the merit by converting other people's sins?' Lin Le recalled that when he converted the Lu family, although he got thirteen points, he guessed that he should also get a share of the mass grave.

The lotus seeds evaporated, and a year passed in an instant. Lin Le diligently cultivated the Golden Light Divine Mantra.

Coming to his senses, he saw Qingli gracefully bend down and whisper her head in his ear:

"Lin Le, it's time to share your yang energy today."

"Understood." Lin Le placed his hand on Qing Li's chin and extracted the true yang energy from the Yellow Court Secret Realm, transferring it into Qing Li's body.

The yang energy we had before could only be described as internal energy, possessing the properties of yang energy, but the yang energy we can extract now is the true yang energy.

When yang energy is introduced, it is like a raging fire meeting ice, quickly dissolving the yin energy accumulated in Qingli's body.

Through the tempering of Yin and Yang, Qingli felt that her bloodline power had made a slight improvement.

The cultivation paths of the demon race and the human race are slightly different. Although the direction is the same, the demon race uses not only true qi to lay the foundation for the Qi Refining stage, but also the power of their bloodline.

Qingli had already reached the twelfth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and its Dao Foundation had long been completed, but it was unwilling to enter the Foundation Establishment Realm just like that.

Although it possesses a spirit-level bloodline, it is merely a low-grade Xuan Shui Yin Python.

To strengthen or evolve one's bloodline, one must either use higher-grade demon blood essence or rare and precious materials with specific effects.

Qingli, however, knew that the Qi Refining Realm offered a chance for low-level demons to rise to the top and reach the stars.

Standing on the twelfth floor, he leaped into the air, breaking through the limits of the secret realm and seizing that incredible fortune.

Many outstanding individuals and great demons began to rise to prominence at this stage.

Originally, Qingli was only about 30% confident in her ability to pick stars, but with his help...

Looking at the young man before her, Qingli was about 80% confident that she had the upper hand.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Lin Le noticed the change in Qing Li's gaze and asked curiously.

"You're beautiful," Qingli said casually. "At least among the humans I've seen, you're one of the best."

"Thank you for the compliment." Lin Le coughed lightly, a little embarrassed.

After transferring the yang energy, Lin Le released his hand: "Alright, that's all the remaining energy." "Here's the yin energy for you." Qing Li exhaled a breath of air and released a pill, which, unlike the gray ones of the past, was a pure black.

Lin Le swallowed it down in one gulp.

"Don't you store it in a jade bottle?" Qingli couldn't help but ask in confusion.

Since Lin Le broke through, it has seen that Lin Le has been swallowing Yin energy without storing it. Logically speaking, it should have stored it up for use when building the Seven-Story Tower.

"No need," Lin Le shook his head. "I have my own way of storing it."

"Alright then." Qingli didn't ask any more questions. "I'm going to rest now."

"Hmm." Lin Le nodded, and after watching Qing Li sink to the bottom of the well, he sat down again.

Looking inward through the inner vision of the divine power, I focused on the second lotus leaf. The essence of the sun and moon transformed into the Yin-Yang Sword. No more essence of the sun and moon was born here, because all the absorbed essence of the sun and moon was used to supply the growth of the Yin-Yang Sword.

However, while the Sun and Moon Spirit Elixir was gone, after Lin Le entered the Qi Refining Realm, a new type of spirit elixir appeared here, called the Primordial Spirit Elixir, which was formed by gathering the Qi of Heaven and Earth.
With a thought from Lin Le, the Primordial Spirit Elixir was divided into seven equal parts, each of which was further divided into Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements Qi, and all of them were of the highest quality.

Lin Le didn't touch the mixed spirit elixir again, intending to save it for future use in building.

From the second to the eighth level, the goal is to refine Qi and Qi into one, to build the most solid foundation, which requires using the best Qi.

The best Qi comes from where cultivators refine it, and the methods of refining it in the Yellow Court and the Spirit Platform are different.

The Huangting Dao emphasizes the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements, and the best way to cultivate the corresponding qi is based on the attribute of one's spiritual root.

For example, wood spirit roots are best suited for refining wood energy. Low-grade wood spirit roots can easily refine mid-grade wood energy, and those with minor mastery of Qi Refining can refine high-grade or even top-grade wood energy. However, low-grade fire spirit roots face many difficulties in refining low-grade wood energy, and even those with major mastery may not be able to refine mid-grade wood energy.

Because there is no spiritual root to enhance the spiritual path, the Qi refining technique proceeds step by step: beginners refine low-grade Qi, those with minor mastery refine mid-grade Qi, those with major mastery refine high-grade Qi, and those with perfect mastery refine top-grade Qi. As for perfect mastery, it is said that some people have achieved it and seem to be able to refine top-grade Qi with 100% success rate.

However, Lin Le didn't need to be distracted by learning this, since the Lotus Divine Power had already been prepared for him.

As for special Five Elements Qi, Lin Le did not seek it out. The Dao Guiding Qi Refining Chapter said that using top-grade Yin-Yang Five Elements Qi to build a building was already the best way to fully unleash a person's potential.

Using special elements of the five elements always specializes in one aspect of potential while damaging other potentials. For example, transforming a nine-section wood spiritual root into a nine-section lightning spiritual root, although both are nine-section spiritual roots, the cultivation efficiency of the acquired lightning spiritual root is not as good as that of the innate lightning spiritual root or even the original wood spiritual root. It only has an advantage in combat.

For example, replacing the ordinary five elements of yin and yang balance with the five elements of yin stems to build a building may be beneficial for cultivating yin-attribute techniques, but the lifespan will not be as long as that of ordinary cultivators.

Shifting his gaze to the lotus, Lin Le consumed two one-patterned human lotus seeds and spent six years focusing on cultivating the Dao Guiding Technique.

Coming to his senses, Lin Le exhaled, "Dao Yin Qi Refining Chapter, Great Success."

It feels like it will take another ten years of hard work to achieve perfection.

The next day, as Lin Le stepped out into the morning sun, the golden light within his body grew stronger, and the Qiankun Ring also developed a fourth minor restriction.

Take out a thick stack of papers; those are land deeds.

Lin Le took the land deed, found a small courtyard according to the address on it, and called out, "Li Dashan."

A woman, her body weak, came out and said, "Dashan went to chop firewood. Young master, is there anything I can help you with?"

Seeing that Lin Le looked like a celestial being, the woman couldn't help but use respectful language.

"You're from the Zhang family?" Lin Le glanced at the land deed, which stated:

Li Dashan, the person who has severed ties with his wife Zhang, is ill and struggling financially. He wishes to sell one mu of his ancestral fertile land for five taels of silver.
"Yes," Zhang nodded.

"Here you go." Lin Le flicked his finger, and the paper, like a sword, pierced into the soil in front of Zhang's eyes. "Tear it up."

Zhang was stunned. She bent down and pulled out the paper. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the land deed her husband had used to sell the land.
Torn apart? Zhang's heart skipped a beat. If it was gone, it meant there would be no way to prove anything, especially since the buyer, Master Cai, was already dead, and no one knew that his family had ever sold land.

Wait a minute, Zhang suddenly realized a horrifying fact: wasn't the very young master in front of her the one who destroyed the Cai family?!
She looked up, only to find that Lin Le had already gone far away.

"Thank you so much, young master! Thank you so much, young master!" Zhang bowed her head and kowtowed in the direction Lin Le had gone.

Such scenes continue to occur.

Of course, this isn't the only scenario.

(End of this chapter)