Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 49 - I'll fine you eight hundred
Bang! A head suddenly exploded, and the headless corpse slowly fell to the ground.

Lin Le expressionlessly holstered his gun and looked at the orphan and widow beside him: "Today I killed your husband and your father, do you have any complaints?"

The woman and the boy looked at Lin Le and the corpse beside him with complicated expressions, because that was their husband and father, but also a gambling addict who had gambled away his entire fortune.

"I don't resent it," the woman said first.

"I don't resent it," the boy replied.

"Find a good family to marry into as soon as possible, don't go looking for such a scoundrel." Lin Le took out thirty taels of silver and threw it to the woman, then glanced at the boy, "Don't follow your father's example, or he will become you in the future."

"Yes!"

Stared at by Lin Le's cold and indifferent eyes, the boy couldn't help but shrink back and move closer to his mother, shouting in fear.

Lin Le turned around and left the dilapidated house.

Three days later, Lin Le had used up most of the resources he had acquired.

In the Lingtai Secret Realm, as the last jade stone fell, an octagonal stone platform, one zhang high and nine zhang seventy centimeters wide, was completed.

Eight points of crimson spread across the eight corners, each forming a crimson tiger sculpture one foot high and three feet wide.

The first level of the spiritual platform signifies perfection.

'It's time to enter the second level.' Lin Le internally visualized the secret realm of his spiritual platform.

Knowing that his innate talent was too strong, which caused his cultivation to be slow, Lin Le decided to focus on cultivating his spiritual platform first.

He had asked Qingli about this, and as long as one is not advancing to the Golden Core stage, the different progress of the three cultivation paths does not have any impact.

However, to advance to the Golden Core stage, all three paths must be advanced simultaneously; otherwise, one can only focus on one path in the future.

Another drop of Qi and Blood Elixir fell, and the rate of True Qi generation increased again, with jade stones being placed in front of the blood-red tiger statue.

At this point, Lin Le had taken a half-step into the second level of the tower. However, Lin Le did not plan to take the remaining half-step now. He wanted to wait until the second level of the tower was fully built and then take the first step directly, saving time and effort.

The next day, Lin Le distributed the last land deed to a person who was still alive.

These days, he travels all over Qinghu Town and the surrounding villages, returning the land deeds in his hands to those in need.

His own human virtues also surged to 648, and his killing karma increased by more than 20 points.

Lin Le also unexpectedly gained five merits from the underground path. There were ghosts in two villages, one a starving ghost and the other a water ghost, which Lin Le naturally saved.

'Let's go back to Bailian County.' Lin Le thought to himself. He had plundered most of Qinghu Town's resources, and there was nothing left to kill around. It was time to return to Bailian County.

After taking a look, Lin Le headed towards Bailian County. He had already informed Qingli, and she should be waiting for him at the underground water veins of Bailian County by now.

Qinghu Town is not far from Bailian County. At Lin Le's current pace, he will be back in Bailian County in less than an hour.

"Name, place of origin," the soldiers at the city gate asked as usual, inquiring about the visitor's identity.

Lin Le did not answer, but simply raised a sign and poured his true qi into it.

Then the sign began to glow slightly.

The soldier's spirits lifted when he saw the sign, and when he saw that the sign was shining, he bowed respectfully and said, "Sir, please come in!"

Lin Le strode in, and the soldiers around him lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

Lin Le was holding a sign representing cultivators, and the fact that cultivators can move freely throughout the country, except in military strongholds, is an order written into national policy.

Whether the sign belongs to Lin Le or not is not important, because the fact that Lin Le can make the sign glow means that he is a true cultivator.

A true cultivator is someone these common soldiers can never afford to offend.

After finding a brokerage firm, Lin Le spent fifty taels of silver to rent a courtyard near the government office.

When paying the bill, Lin Le exchanged some loose silver with the broker and counted his cash, which amounted to about 34,000 taels of silver.

Lin Le then went out again, intending to sell some of his items.

Lin Le glanced at the signboard of Baishan Pawnshop and stepped inside. Although Lin Le was dressed in coarse linen clothes and had an ordinary appearance, a servant still greeted him politely.

Having seen a lot in this line of work, even the slightly older servants know that some cultivators like to disguise themselves as ordinary people. Some do it to avoid enemies, some to dispose of stolen goods, and some simply to enjoy life and play dumb to deceive others.

"Greetings, sir. What do you need?" the servant asked politely.

"To pawn something." Lin Le patted the box behind him, making a clinking sound.

"Alright, come with me." The servant led Lin Le to a high platform. "Master Mo, this guest is here to sell something."

Behind the platform, a refined-looking middle-aged man sized up Lin Le and asked, "Esteemed guest, would you like to pawn the item alive or with a final payment?"

"Living loan" is similar to a loan secured by goods, and the price offered is generally not high. "Dead loan" is a one-time transaction, and the price offered is generally 20% to 30% higher than that of a living loan.

Lin Le placed the box on the counter and said, "Absolutely right, take a look."

The middle-aged man opened the box and glanced inside; it contained magical artifacts, elixirs, and some land deeds.

"Selling counterfeit goods?" The middle-aged man immediately figured out the origins of these goods, but he wasn't worried. After all, the Baishan Pawnshop wasn't based in Bailian County, but in Yizhou City. What was there to fear about the unclear origins of these small-town pawnshops?

"A broken defensive magic artifact, a low-grade item with three forbidden attributes, worth 1,500 taels of silver," the middle-aged man began by offering a price for the small tortoise shield.

Hearing Master Mo's words, Lin Le's eyelids twitched involuntarily. Goodness, this bargaining was really ruthless, and the little turtle shield wasn't damaged at all.

The three forbidden magical artifacts are worth nine low-grade spirit stones, which translates to nine thousand taels of silver.

One thousand five hundred taels, less than two-tenths.

"The total price is six thousand six hundred and twenty-one taels. I'll round it up to seven thousand taels for you." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat, after all, he rarely saw such a large order.

"Fourteen thousand taels." Lin Le doubled the amount without changing his expression.

The middle-aged man feigned a frown: "The customer has raised the price a bit too high. How about seven thousand five hundred taels?"

"Fourteen thousand taels, fixed price." Lin Le sneered, "Don't use your rhetoric. An acre of fertile land is worth at least fifteen taels, but you're only offering three taels. No other pawnshop offers such a low price. This one alone has such a large markup. Don't tell me the others don't."

“But you bought it for six taels.” The middle-aged man also took out a land deed, pointed to a number and said, “I’ll give you three taels, which is already the highest price I can offer.”

“If you’re not sincere enough, I don’t mind going to other pawnshops or even trading companies.” Lin Le closed the box directly. “You need to understand that I came directly to the pawnshop because I was too lazy to go to multiple trading companies, and their purchase price is at least 70% of the market price.”

"Then go find a trading company." The middle-aged man gestured for him to go ahead. "Let's see if those trading companies will take your smuggled goods."

“As long as there’s money to be made, black goods can be sold as white goods, let alone my half-black, half-white stuff.” Lin Le picked up the box and left.

The middle-aged man watched Lin Le leave, mentally counting three, two, one. It was just a mental game; anyone could do that.

But when he counted to zero, Lin Le walked out of the small room without looking back.

Now it was the middle-aged man's turn to panic. If he could close this deal, he would get at least a thousand taels in commission, enough to buy a bottle of Huangyadan.

He hurriedly chased after them, shouting, "Fourteen thousand taels! Fourteen thousand taels, please!"

Lin Le, who was about to step out of the shop, pulled back his foot and glanced at him: "One price, sixteen thousand taels!"

"Why has the price gone up?" the middle-aged man frowned. "Fourteen thousand taels."

"Goodbye." Lin Le walked straight out of the store.

Then his hand was grabbed. Lin Le turned around and saw the middle-aged man holding his hand, looking constipated, and saying, "It's only 16,000 taels. It can't go up any further."

"Inspect the goods and pay." Lin Le handed the box to him directly.

"Okay." Holding the box, the middle-aged man looked at Lin Le with a resentful expression.

Lin Le said expressionlessly, "If you look again, I'll increase your fine by another eight hundred taels."

"Yes, yes." The middle-aged man immediately turned his head away. Sixteen thousand taels was already the bottom line; there wouldn't be any more than that.

Thank you to [LazyFallingBy] and [TangKouWuKouWu] for the 100-point reward.
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