Their commission was suspicious.

Wouldn't that mean we could get a lot of raw stones?

Then the question arises: if I were to steal the Immortal Ancestor's Dharma Body and leave, how many Primal Stones would Keqing be willing to commission?

Chen Luo's eyes were shining as he looked at Ke Qing.

"W-What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Seeing Chen Luo's intensely strange gaze, Ke Qing, who had been aggressive, subconsciously took a step back.

Is there something wrong with this person?

"Anyway, just pay the fine first." Ke Qing realized her mistake after taking a step back, so she took another step forward and said to Chen Luo.

"A fine? Didn't you come here to check me out?" Chen Luo asked after a moment of surprise.

"What's there to question? I've been watching you ever since the Seven Stars Summoning Immortals Ceremony. Do you think I don't know what you've been up to?" Ke Qing said, pursing her lips.

"Hmm, now that you put it that way, I really don't know whether I should be happy or sad," Chen Luo said, feeling a mix of emotions.

"And it always seems like you don't have much enthusiasm for questioning the people. At the same time, you don't seem very sad about the Emperor's passing," Chen Luo countered.

“I am naturally heartbroken over the Emperor’s passing, but… heartbreak doesn’t mean I have to keep showing that emotion. As for the first question about the interrogation… I don’t think ordinary people have the ability to assassinate the Emperor, so as long as they honestly accept the interrogation and don’t run away out of guilt, there won’t be any problem,” Ke Qing said.

"Hmm, so guilty they ran away..." Chen Luo paused for a moment, then glanced at the two figures, one big and one small, trying to escape out of the corner of his eye.

Honestly, Chen Luo didn't understand why the two of them wanted to run away. Don't you trust the omnipotent Mr. Chen Luo anymore? Are you there? Why not post a request? Or do you think I'm barely able to protect myself?

However, Chen Luo was too lazy to stop him.

After all, nothing dangerous will happen, and being wanted is probably a way to experience life.

At least Chen Luo was never wanted by the police.

Oh, no, Chen Luo was wanted by Destiny.

"So pay the fine now." Ke Qing stretched out her hand to Chen Luo again.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

【fine】

Reward: 20 Primogems

Difficulty: Minor

"...How much? Give me a number," Chen Luo said after a moment of silence.

“10% of the proceeds from the illegal sale of goods,” Ke Qing said.

"21,100 Mora, here you go." Chen Luo counted out a bag of Mora and placed it in Ke Qing's hand.

"Huh? How could it only be 21,100 Mora? Did you actually sell items worth over 21 Mora?" Ke Qing looked at the fines with disbelief.

"You might not believe it, but I really only sold a little over 21 worth of items," Chen Luo said helplessly.

The 5 Mora compensation paid by the younger brother of that so-and-so group leader is not included, because that guy didn't take the goods away, so it doesn't count as a transaction, and naturally it doesn't count as income from selling the goods.

"how is this possible?"

“Why is it impossible? I’ve only been setting up my stall for a little over an hour, and 21 is already a huge transaction amount,” Chen Luo said firmly.

"Putting everything else aside, just look at that super-large, super-detailed version of the Liyue Millennium Chessboard that Ningguang said you personally carved for her, engraved with Celestial Inscriptions. Although Ningguang provided the wood for the chessboard, the processing fee, based on market prices, must have been at least 50 Mora, right?" Keqing said incredulously.

After all, it has immortal inscriptions, so even selling it for 100 million Mora wouldn't be a bad deal.

"Actually, it's only 1 Mora. If you don't believe me, go ask Ningguang," Chen Luo said, shaking his head.

"Ten thousand Mora? Who are you kidding? Such a huge project, and you're only selling it for ten thousand Mora? How are you going to make a profit?" But Ke Qing didn't believe it at all.

“Sorry, I don’t sell things based on the amount of Mora. I look at whether there’s [Original]. If there’s [Original], everything is negotiable, and I’ll only charge a maximum of 10,000 Mora. If there’s no [Original], the price will be much higher. And Ningguang happens to be one of those items that has [Original],” Chen Luo said.

After all, there are so many raw stones...

"Then show me the bill."

"To be honest, how could I, running a small business, have invoices?" Chen Luo shook his head.

"...How can you sell handicrafts without a receipt?"

"Please, this is my first time setting up a stall."

"You can't just set up a stall for the first time. What if you lose money in business if you don't keep a record of your income and expenses?"

"Don't worry about that, I won't lose money. I'm an artisan, so I have zero costs. I'm selling my own craftsmanship," Chen Luo said, shaking his head.

"But timber costs money too. If you don't have any costs, where will you get the money to buy timber?"

"I just chopped it up by the roadside on my way here?" Chen Luo replied.

"What? You actually deliberately destroyed trees? Do you have a logging permit?"

"..."

Wait, what is a logging permit?

And what right do you have to interfere with the trees in Jueyun?

"So?" Chen Luo asked tentatively.

“Keep fining me. Let me think how much it should be… How much did you cut?” Ke Qing asked, rubbing her forehead.

Ke Qing wasn't originally concerned with fines in this regard, but since the person was right in front of her, she felt it wouldn't be right not to impose a fine.

Of course, this money will eventually have to be handed over to the relevant departments.

"Emmm..." Chen Luo glanced at the various trees that took up 10 slots in his backpack and fell silent for a moment.

Chen Luo's backpack contains items of the same type that can be stacked.

The 10 squares represent 10 types of wood, and each type of wood has at least 20 trees.

That means Chen Luo cut down at least 200 trees.

"I only cut one down," Chen Luo said confidently.

Chapter 325 Chen Luo: I can help you deliver messages, but you have to pay back the fine.

“Although I have a feeling you may have cut down more than one, but… I’ll just give you 10000 Mora,” Keqing said after a moment of contemplation.

After all, the more important matter right now is the assassination attempt on the Emperor.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"Okay, I'll submit it." Looking at the request, Chen Luo swallowed back his words of objection.

1 Mora for 20 Primogems, what a steal!

And so, Chen Luo lost 31,100 Mora during his second conversation with Ke Qing.

"Um, Miss Keqing, Chen Luo, and Shen He, Lady Ningguang requests your presence." Just after Chen Luo finished paying the fine, Senior Sister Gan Yu, whom Chen Luo had been eagerly awaiting to come to his rescue, finally arrived late.

"Hmm? Oh." Keqing nodded and walked towards Ningguang and the others who were standing next to the corpse of the Rock King.

Before leaving, Ke Qing glanced at Chen Luo again, not quite understanding why she had to call him over.

However, since it was Ningguang's decision, Keqing didn't bother to interfere. Ningguang herself would explain later.

After a moment of surprise, Chen Luo nodded, then shifted his gaze to Ning Guang and paused.

Those currently surrounding the corpse of the Geo Archon belong to a small group of people with high status in Liyue Harbor.

Having a high position is not enough; one must have a very high position or be a related person.

Chen Luo was quite curious about what Ningguang had asked him to do.

However, after glancing at Shen He and Chen Luo, who seemed indifferent to everything, Chen Luo probably guessed what was going on.

Chen Luo and Shen He walked in that direction. Gan Yu glanced at Xiao Xilin sitting on Chen Luo's shoulder but didn't say anything.

Gan Yu just hoped that the gray-haired woman who had been with Chen Luo earlier wouldn't follow, since Ning Guang hadn't called her.

When Gan Yu turned around, she found that the gray-haired woman had disappeared from the spot at some point, and she couldn't find her anywhere else.

"never mind."

After gently shaking her head, Gan Yu quickened her pace and led Chen Luo and the others through layers of guards toward Ningguang.

"A Luo, you've arrived." When Chen Luo walked near Ning Guang, he saw the Herald of Knowledge sitting on the head of the Rock King Emperor's corpse.

What's strange is that even though the Herrscher of Knowledge did something so excessive and disrespectful to Lord Iwa, no one around her pointed it out or criticized her.

"Okay, help me pick out a few pieces from the other person's body. I'll see if I can soak them in alcohol when I get back. Don't take too much." Chen Luo greeted the Herrscher of Knowledge and then walked towards Ningguang.

"Understood." The Herrscher of Knowledge nodded, then stood up from Morax's head, her gaze sweeping over the other's body as if considering where to begin.

Or... should we just chop their head off?

The only one who could so openly ride on the head of Lord Rock's corpse is probably the Herrscher of Knowledge.

Even for a young master like him, if he wanted to extract the heart of the dead Rock God, he would have to wait until the very last moment before he could make his move.

No one dared to openly steal the heart of the Rock King, after all, although the Rock King was gone on the surface, there were still many immortals.

“Chen Luo, you saw what happened. The Emperor was assassinated for some unknown reason…” Ningguang said slowly as she saw Chen Luo approaching.

“I can vouch for him; he really didn’t do anything during the invocation ceremony,” Ke Qing said.

To put it bluntly, during the Seven Stars Invitation Ceremony, Ke Qing didn't notice the Emperor; instead, she kept staring at Chen Luo.

Because Chen Luo is indeed a suspicious person and needs close attention, not just because of the fine or anything like that.

“That’s not what I meant, and I don’t suspect that he is the murderer of the Emperor. I called him over mainly for another reason.”

“Chen Luo, if possible, could you please help me contact True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng? After all, such a major event as the Emperor's assassination attempt certainly requires someone to inform all the immortals. However, these immortals usually don't concern themselves with worldly affairs, and their residences are quite remote. If we send someone to notify them, it will inevitably cause some delays,” Ningguang said to Chen Luo.

After all, immortals aren't so easy to meet.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Dispatch Request]: Go and tell the True Lord Liuyun Borrowing Wind exactly what you saw about the assassination attempt on the Emperor.

Reward: 100 Primogems

Difficulty: Two stars

"Hmm, wait a minute, why should we send him?" Ke Qing asked curiously.

“Yes, Keqing, didn’t you know? The young lady next to Chen Luo is named Shen He. She is the disciple of Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun, and Chen Luo’s immortal inscription engraving technique was also learned from Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun. We just discussed this, which is why we asked Gan Yu to call the two of them here,” Ningguang said.

Just as Ke Qing went to Chen Luo to ask for a fine, Ning Guang and the others were discussing how to handle this enormous problem.

At this moment, Gan Yu suggested that Chen Luo could act as a messenger, and also explained Shen He's situation.

The reason why Shen He was the disciple of Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhen Jun, but Chen Luo was chosen to do it, was mainly because Chen Luo clearly held the dominant position in this group.

To put it simply, Shen He is inexperienced and trusts Chen Luo, so Chen Luo makes all the decisions.

Of course, another reason is that Shen He's expression was too indifferent. Ningguang and the others were worried that Shen He would ignore them, so they planned to open a passage through Chen Luo, who seemed quite easy to talk to. Naturally, they were willing to pay some price for this.

This isn't about bullying honest people; it's just that a transaction can only be successfully completed when someone has a need for it.

At least Ningguang knew that Chen Luo still owed Shen He money.

"Hmm? This... I really don't know." Ke Qing shook her head.

"But this makes things much more convenient."

Keqing also knew that immortals were not easy to meet. Although the other party would definitely come if they knew about such a big thing, the key was that the other party could not possibly know.

Jueyunjian is located in a remote area. The places where the immortals live are all kinds of hellish places, such as Hulao Mountain and Aozang Mountain, which are extremely high.

Furthermore, even if you arrive at the other person's cave, you might not be able to find them, because they might be traveling instead...

How can one word describe how tragic it was?

The Seven Stars didn't send Chen Luo to avenge themselves or Ningguang, because they knew that the Seven Stars were responsible for this matter and couldn't escape involvement, since it was the Seven Stars' Invitation to Immortals ceremony.

Even if you speak out of the blue, once the immortals find out about this, they will inevitably come to hold Seven Stars accountable.

Therefore, Qi Xing only hoped that Chen Luo would try to be as fair as possible in telling the story.

"I can help you go and tell True Monarch Liuyun about this." Chen Luo nodded. After all, with the request in front of him, how could he refuse?

"Moreover, although Shen He's master is the True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng, he has a good relationship with other immortals. He has also received guidance from other immortals, so if nothing unexpected happens, he can help you speak to the other immortals," Chen Luo said, pointing to Shen He.

Of course, although Chen Luo said that, he would definitely find the person himself and wouldn't bother Shen He.