After leaving Lanke Village and boarding a carriage, Li Zhao looked back at the ramshackle village receding into the distance, then lowered the curtain over the rear window.
"You don't seem attached to your hometown at all." Li Ming removed her mask, revealing her true face.
Li Zhao froze for a moment, then said, "Everyone I knew back home is dead, so there's nothing to miss. Besides, I have a feeling I'll make a fortune by following you."
"Why do you like money so much?" Li Ming's companion also removed her face covering, revealing a gentle, round face as she asked in confusion.
Li Zhao took a handkerchief from her pocket. Wrapped within were fifty Gold Soul Coins stained with black filth. "This is the inheritance my parents left me. They died because of money, so the message they wanted to pass on to me must have been this: make money! In this world, only money will never betray you!"
Li Ming: "..."
This little sister had gone down the wrong path!
"Money certainly won't betray you, but don't you think it's a little sad to live solely for money?" Li Ming asked. "People should have other goals in life."
"I'm not a Soul Master. I haven't even awakened a Martial Soul. I'm just a scavenger. My goal in life is to make money, nothing more."
Talking to her about goals beyond money?
Li Zhao felt that there was something wrong with Li Ming's head.
Sure enough, Li Ming fell silent.
Li Zhao continued, "You want to use the contents of the book I memorized to accomplish something, don't you?"
"Not exactly."
Li Ming shook her head. "I merely want to use it to remember the past. But honestly, the upper-ranking disciples of the Star Crown Sect have always wanted