Some time ago, an independent cultivator had exchanged heads at Tiantong in Ginkgo Market and obtained a token. He wanted to sell it.
Tiantong had only offered two thousand to buy it—though the price had now risen to three thousand, that had been the price at the time.
The independent cultivator felt Tiantong's offer was too low, so he went to hawk it in the market. In truth, he had a fairly good idea of what it was worth, but he had no use for it at the moment and wanted to exchange it for spirit stones.
He had asked for five thousand spirit stones and peddled it for over ten days before someone finally bought it for four thousand five hundred spirit stones. The buyer was only at the Qi Refining Stage, however, and was targeted and killed outright.
The man selling it was one of the members of a murder-and-robbery gang. It was perfectly normal for an item bought for four thousand five hundred spirit stones to be resold for fifteen thousand.
When Kong Ziyi asked where he had gotten it, why had he not dared tell her? Because he had heard of certain vile deeds committed by disciples of major sects.
Out in the wilderness of the Cultivation World, there was no such thing as murder requiring repayment with one's life. As long as no one caught you in the act, it was impossible to convict you. You said I robbed him? I could just as easily say he tried to rob me and I killed him in self-defense.
The seller had worried that if he honestly admitted he had obtained the item through murder, the other party would say, "One of my fellow disciples disappeared. Looks like you did it."
If someone wanted to accuse you,