[Killers and arsonists get rich; bridge and road builders die penniless. Slay one person. Reward: seven strings of Sin Coins.]
[Killers and arsonists get rich; bridge and road builders die penniless. Slay one person. Reward: six strings of Sin Coins.]
Eight prompts appeared one after another.
They were all Mid-stage Jade Liquid Cultivators, but the round-faced woman holding the Magical Artifact clearly had a higher Cultivation. She was also worth one more string of coins than the others.
A total of forty-nine strings of Sin Coins swiftly appeared beside him.
"Tsk."
Lin Shu glanced at the small mountain of copper coins. He was pleased, but also felt it wasn’t satisfying enough.
Mainly because he couldn’t just sweep them into his sleeve like before, it somehow lacked a certain something.
The moment that thought occurred,
forty strings of the Sin Coins suddenly disintegrated into a black mist. It then rapidly converged, reforming into a total of four small, pitch-black, ten-tael silver ingots.
Lin Shu looked over, slightly surprised. He then swept the silver ingots into his sleeve.
That’s more like it.
He put the blood-stained Cyan Umbrella into his Storage Bag, then took out his Life Plate. Eight wisps of Life Blood flew from the surroundings and landed on the Golden Disc.
Meanwhile, the Chen Family disciples emerged from the ruins, their faces blank with confusion.
Perhaps because the entire Magical Combat was so brief, coupled with the fact that the Glazed Sword Array was shattered and the Divine Soul Formulas had instantly controlled all the enemy cultivators, not a single Chen Family disciple had died.
The most severely injured was the Red Face Cultivator, followed by several Qi Cultivation Cultivators who had been bloodied by the collapsing Signal Tower.
[Life and death are determined by fate, a life snatched from Yama’s grasp. Save one life. Reward: six strings of Merit Coins.]
[Life and death are determined by fate, a life snatched from Yama’s grasp. Save one wretched life. Reward: two hundred twenty Merit Coins.]
Of the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators, the most valuable was worth six strings. The rest were worth three strings, and the cheapest, at one string of coins, was likely Yan Jin, who had just broken through to Foundation Establishment.
The eight Qi Cultivation Cultivators added up to another one and a half strings.
Another seventeen and a half strings of Merit Coins earned.
"When the Steward calculates the merits, you’ll get a twenty percent share. If there’s anything you want to exchange for, you can come and tell me."
Lin Shu put away the Golden Disc and looked at Yan Jin.
These merits could not only be exchanged for Elixirs and Magical Artifacts, but also determined how many wisps of Inheritance Spiritual Light the little one could obtain. They would definitely be credited to Yu Sheng’s name.
A disciple who crushed a Child Stone couldn’t earn merits for their Master, but they could receive tangible benefits themselves.
Lin Shu wouldn’t be stingy about such matters.
With sufficient incentive, these disciples wouldn’t necessarily crush the Child Stones only in life-or-death situations.
They could secretly come to the inn to get a Child Stone, crush it quietly if a situation looked bad, and then come back to collect their reward in private. They wouldn’t have to worry about their identity being exposed at any point.
There was another advantage to this.
He could maintain the initiative.
With these people helping to probe the enemy’s strength, he could gather some general information before deciding whether or not to make a move.
"Whew."
Feeling the plentiful supply of Merit and Sin Coins, Lin Shu finally felt a sliver of security.
Of course, he also knew he couldn’t keep earning money this way for long.
To say nothing of how furious the Immortal Descendants, whose vital interests were being affected, would become.
The more he acted, the more certain it was that the Great Shun Dynasty would react.
They might even send a Great Cultivator to assassinate him.
But Lin Shu never intended to stay at Yongzhou Pass for long anyway. His plan was to accumulate enough strength and merits as quickly as possible, and then, of course, run to a safer place.
As his thoughts drifted,
Yan Jin’s mind was also in a state of turmoil.
She had never known how the three dragons of Black Water City had died.
Only now had she seen with her own eyes just how effortlessly Lin Shu could handle Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
It was a complete one-sided slaughter!
"It... it wasn’t me who crushed it..." Yan Jin shook her head honestly.
As her voice fell,
the surrounding disciples slowly recovered from their mingled shock and fear, their expressions turning slightly odd as they looked at Senior Brother Red Face on the ground.
"Huh?"
Lu Yun was slumped on the ground, the piercing wound on his shoulder still bleeding.
Seeing the young man’s gaze fall on him,
he couldn’t help but tremble, his expression a strange mix of tears and laughter. "Thank you for saving my life, Daoist Brother! I just crushed it casually. I wouldn’t dare claim credit. Please give the reward to Junior Sister Yan."
"Right, right! If Junior Sister Yan hadn’t taken out the Child Stone and asked Senior Brother Lin to intervene in time, we would have been buried here today."
The other disciples hurriedly chimed in with their agreement.
It was clear that Lu Yun was well-regarded among his peers, as everyone wanted to help him cover this up.
If this ruthless Daoist Brother Lin found out that Senior Brother Lu’s real intention was to make him come all this way for nothing,
he might not hesitate to add another life to his kill count, especially in the heat of the moment.
"Sigh."
Yan Jin looked at the nervous expressions of her fellow disciples and sighed softly in her heart.
She had met this young man right after he came out of the South Suburbs.
Although he was decisive and ruthless in killing, he absolutely wasn’t the type to slaughter the innocent indiscriminately.
"Senior Brother Lin."
With that thought, Yan Jin walked closer and whispered a few sentences in his ear, explaining what had happened.
Lin Shu glanced at Lu Yun on the ground, a peculiar look in his eyes.
’It sounds like this Cultivator has most likely seen other disciples with experiences similar to Gu Nanzhi’s, and it has left him traumatized.’
’This means that such situations are by no means rare.’
He withdrew his gaze and said lazily, "Whatever. You can arrange the merits as you see fit. But the Signal Tower is on them."
’It’s a good thing he crushed the Child Stone early. Otherwise, with my speed, even if I went all out, I would have earned a lot fewer Merit Coins.’
’A happy accident, I suppose.’
"No problem! Please rest assured, Senior Brother Lin! We will definitely repair it completely!"

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