Immortality begins in the Great Wilderness Grotto Heaven

"Let you go? It's not impossible."

In the dim light, Zhou An looked at the woman in front of him who was terrified and desperately covering her mouth. He deliberately lowered his voice, making it hoarse and deep.

"But on the condition that you find out about Boss Peng's assets for me."

"This servant...this servant is not entirely sure either."

Looking at Zhou An's face hidden under the black cloth, the woman's chest heaved violently. After a short, rapid breath, she quickly spoke.

"I am just a singer at Cuihongju. Apart from being summoned to serve him every now and then, I have no special relationship with him at all."

However... however, once when Boss Peng was drunk, I saw that he seemed particularly nervous about that position.

"I only had the slightest thought of getting closer, and he gave me a severe beating."

Seeing Zhou An suddenly step forward, the woman who called herself a songstress was afraid that he would change his mind, so she quickly pointed to a certain place at the foot of the bed and said hurriedly.

"Find it."

Zhou An turned to the side, gesturing for the woman to come forward.

"If you find the item, will I be able to live?"

The woman swallowed hard, hesitated briefly, then mustered her courage and said hesitantly.

"When the Wild Wolf Gang does business, we never kill innocent people... provided you can find the item."

When you're out in the world, you give yourself your own identity.

The Wild Wolf Gang and the Chang Le Gang are both gangs in the shantytown, so it's not surprising that they fight each other.

"Thank you so much, sir."

Hearing this, the woman felt relieved. Ignoring her exposed skin, she scrambled to the foot of the bed and began to carefully feel around.

Murder in the dead of night.

Everyone knows that evil spirits lurk in the darkness, even though this is the outer city, not a shantytown.

Before this, women would hardly imagine that someone would choose to commit murder in the dark of night when evil spirits roam.

That's why she was so terrified when she saw the masked Zhou An kill Boss Peng.

They even thought it was the arrival of evil spirits.

"Found it...found it."

Before long, Zhou An, who had been keeping a close eye on the woman's every move, saw her pull out a hidden cabinet from the foot of the bed amidst a surprised exclamation.

Zhou An lit the oil lamp.

As the woman covered her face in terror, she saw a pile of gleaming silver coins inside the cabinet.

In the hidden compartment at the bottom, there were five gold ingots and a long gray box.

"Judging from this amount, it must be at least two hundred taels of silver."

With just a simple scan, Zhou An's breathing became rapid.

"You can leave now."

Zhou An waved his hand.

"Walk?"

Upon hearing this, the woman was overjoyed and instinctively looked outside.

However, when her gaze swept over the corpse outside the door and saw the darkness beyond the lantern, which stretched like a tide, she froze on the spot.

The fierce man before her might not be afraid of the evil spirits lurking in the darkness, but she was not.

"Very well, if the Chang Le Gang comes looking for us tomorrow, you can pass on a message to my Wild Wolf Gang."

Seeing the woman's hesitant expression, Zhou An packed up all the gold and silver in the cabinet and said in a deep voice.

Tell them, tonight is just interest.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou An immediately walked outside.

"Sir...sir."

As Zhou An stepped across the threshold, the woman instinctively called out.

"By the way, since you helped me find the silver, before you send the message, you should think of a way to survive."

After all, you're the only one who didn't die.

With that, Zhou An vanished from the courtyard in a flash.

He could tell that the woman in front of him had no martial arts skills whatsoever.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been used as a punching bag by Boss Peng.

That's why Zhou An chose to let the woman go.

But what happens next is something they'll have to figure out for themselves.

"Finding an excuse... that I'm the only one alive?"

Watching the figure disappear quickly into the darkness, the woman left in the house glanced at the three corpses outside the door and inside the house, and then she trembled.

go.

We must leave here as soon as possible.

After a brief moment of hesitation, the woman disregarded her fear of the dark, dressed herself, and quickly left.

In fact, to prevent anyone from discovering that they had been there, they even erased all traces of their presence.

.......

East of the city, Willow Lane.

After returning home, Zhou An comforted Guan Qiaoqiao, who was guarding the house, and then went back to his room.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

As the dim oil lamp lit up inside the room, ingots of silver rolled out of the bundle.

Even though I had already looked at it before, when I finally felt at ease and counted again...

The dull yet crisp sound still made Zhou An's heart race.

"A total of 387 taels of silver. If you include the five gold ingots, it's a full 887 taels of silver."

"I've struck it rich."

Zhou An's eyes widened instantly upon seeing the gold and silver on the table.

The martial arts practitioners who practice blood cultivation at the martial arts school, after taking up a temporary post, only receive a monthly salary of a dozen or so taels of silver, with the better ones receiving twenty or thirty taels.

Even if you don't eat or drink for a whole year, you'll only earn about a hundred taels of silver.

But this Boss Peng had actually amassed a fortune of nearly 900 taels of silver.

"A bowl of Guiyuan Soup costs 8 taels of silver, and a serving of rhinoceros meat costs 15 taels of silver. How many bowls of Guiyuan Soup and how many servings of rhinoceros meat can you buy with that?"

"With this money, the resources needed to reach the first stage of Qi and Blood Transformation will no longer be a problem."

Although he hadn't calculated it in detail, Zhou An knew that this was a sure thing.

Thinking of this, Zhou An immediately opened the long gray box that he had obtained along with the gold and silver.

The fact that Boss Peng could hide this box so well suggests that what's inside is definitely not ordinary.

As the iron lock on the box came off, the contents of the box came into Zhou An's view.

Those were sheets of paper with black writing on white paper.

With just a cursory glance, Zhou An's initially excited expression instantly turned gloomy.

IOU, indenture, and population receipt.

"This bastard not only lends money at exorbitant interest rates, but he's also secretly trafficking people."

No wonder he, a martial artist at the Blood Refining Realm, possesses such a substantial fortune.

Looking at the sheets of paper with black and white text in front of him, Zhou An subconsciously glanced at the gold and silver that had rolled onto the table, and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

Murderers and arsonists wear golden belts, while those who build roads and bridges leave no trace.

"When we're ever short of money, just keep an eye on these people and kill them. You can't go wrong."

Upon thinking of this, Zhou An's eyes turned cold.

"Um?"

Just then, Zhou An's eyes flickered.

Because after removing the written debt notes and records of human trafficking, there was a hidden compartment at the bottom of the long box.

If he hadn't investigated so carefully, he would have almost missed it.

Before long, as the hidden compartment opened, a martial arts manual wrapped in black cloth appeared before Zhou An's eyes.

"Layered Wave Palm!"

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