I Can Save You, But It'll Cost Extra!

"Junior of the Dragon Clan, what kind of person do you take this Daoist for?"

Lu Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back, the radiance of the Mysterious Yellow Shield forming a faint halo behind his head, making him appear all the more sacred and inviolable.

"This Daoist cultivates purity and non-action, and my deeds are those that conform to the Heavenly Dao. Such vicious demonic methods are beneath me."

Having said this, Lu Changsheng sighed.

"You are severely wounded, your origin is exhausted, and even the immortals could not save you."

"This Primordial Land is filled with the Sha Qi of the Tribulation of Measure. If you were to perish here, your corpse and resentment would inevitably pollute the Earth Veins for a hundred miles, once again damaging the world that I have just repaired."

Lu Changsheng paused, his tone turning compassionate and solemn.

"Meeting is fate."

"Today, this Daoist shall perform an act of kindness and personally ferry your soul. I will use Great Dao Merit to wash away the karmic retribution upon you, ensuring your true spirit remains untainted so you may enter the cycle of reincarnation in peace."

Upon hearing this, a flash of incredulous light erupted from the Golden Dragon's dim eyes.

Washing away karmic retribution with Great Dao Merit?!

This was the highest level of funeral rites in the entire Primordial Land!

One had to know that those who died during the Tribulation of Measure carried enough killing karma to ensure their true spirit suffered endless torment in reincarnation, with a high probability of being reduced to nothingness.

If one could use Great Dao Merit to wash away that karma, not only would they reincarnate smoothly, but they might even be born with a pure foundation in their next life, making their path of cultivation far smoother!

"Many thanks for your great kindness, Senior! Your mercy is boundless!"

The Golden Dragon was moved to tears; had its body not been paralyzed, it would have kowtowed to Lu Changsheng tens of thousands of times.

"Do not be so quick to thank me."

Lu Changsheng shifted his tone, a hint of shrewdness creeping into his voice.

"The Great Dao Merit I consume to ferry you is precious. This karma is not insignificant."

"Since you have already offered to surrender all your treasures, this Daoist shall reluctantly accept them."

"This is not robbery, nor is it taking advantage of your plight."

Lu Changsheng said righteously.

"You use these worldly possessions to settle the karma of my service, and you shall depart clean and unburdened."

"I take this compensation to continue repairing the Primordial Land. We each take what we need, with the Heavenly Dao as our witness, and we shall owe each other nothing. How about it?"

The Golden Dragon nodded repeatedly.

It was about to lose its life, so what did it care for worldly possessions? Furthermore, to trade these magical artifacts and spiritual materials for a clean chance at reincarnation was a deal that was incredibly profitable!

"This junior... is entirely willing!"

The Golden Dragon used its last ounce of strength and opened its maw.

With a "wah" sound, a storage dragon pearl the size of a house, radiating brilliant golden light, was spat out and hovered silently in mid-air.

This was the entire net worth of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal-level powerhouse of the Dragon Clan!

By comparison, the storage bags of the four Mystic Immortal remnants from before were as pathetic as a beggar's broken bowl.

Lu Changsheng looked at the dragon pearl shimmering with countless treasures, suppressing the urge to pounce on it and kiss it, maintaining his demeanor as a high-level expert while giving a slight wave of his hand.

The Storage Dragon Pearl landed steadily into his sleeve.

"The transaction is complete."

Lu Changsheng's expression turned serious.

He sat cross-legged on the edge of the deep pit, forming seals with his hands.

A strand of brilliant golden light of Great Dao Merit shot out from between his brows, like a spring breeze bringing rain, enveloping the dying Golden Dragon.

Under the baptism of this pure merit, the violent Sha Qi and killing karma on the Golden Dragon began to dissolve rapidly.

Its massive, broken body gradually turned into specks of golden light rain, merging into the Earth Veins below, actually nourishing the very land it had once destroyed.

Half an incense stick later, the Golden Dragon's physical body had completely dissipated.

In its place remained only a pure, flawless, and untainted true spirit.

The true spirit danced around Lu Changsheng three times, as if bidding a final farewell and expressing gratitude, before turning into a stream of light and vanishing into the void, heading off to reincarnate in peace.

"Phew... that was a satisfying job."

Lu Changsheng stood up and clapped his hands.

Not only had he obtained a massive, unimaginable fortune, but in the process of ferrying the Golden Dragon and purifying its karma to nourish the earth, the Lord of Heavenly Dao had generously bestowed another cluster of merit as a reward.

This turn of events was a total victory, gaining both fame and fortune—he had won big!

"It seems my previous line of thinking was far too limited."

Lu Changsheng gazed at the flickering lights of war in the distance.

"Hiding at home only allows me to rely on the Heavenly Dao for a meager subsistence. But this battlefield outside? It is practically a super gold mine, overflowing with riches that no one dares to excavate!"

He stroked the Storage Dragon Pearl tucked into his sleeve and felt the increasingly profound Origin of Merit within his body.

An unprecedented sense of ambition quietly stirred in the heart of a practitioner of the Dao of Cowardice.

"With the Mysterious Yellow Shield to protect my body and Great Dao Merit to reflect damage and frame others."

"As long as I don't actively kill anyone and focus solely on these cleanup tasks of performing last rites, looting corpses, and repairing Earth Veins."

"What is there to fear from this Primordial Land Tribulation of Measure?!"

Lu Changsheng was no longer in a rush to return home.

He plastered a thick stack of Breath Concealment Talismans onto himself, suppressed the radiance of the Mysterious Yellow Shield to the absolute limit, and transformed into an inconspicuous streak of light.

Following the traces of the fractured Earth Veins, he moved unhesitatingly toward the core of the Primordial Land's west, where the fires of war were densest and the Tribulation of Measure was at its most tragic.

The closer he drew to the west, the more heart-stopping the brutality of the Tribulation of Measure became.

The outskirts of Mount Sumeru, once shrouded in immortal mist and teeming with spiritual roots, were now an impenetrable ocean of blood.

Countless immortal mountains, ten thousand zhang high, had been snapped in two, and the fires of the Earth Veins raged everywhere like fountains.

Fragments of broken Dharma treasures and shattered divine weapons lay scattered about like refuse.

As for the beings crazily slaughtering one another in the sky and on the ground, even the lowest in cultivation were at the Mystic Immortal realm.

Golden Immortals were as common as dogs, and Taiyi Immortals were everywhere.

"Good heavens... this is practically a meat grinder."

Lu Changsheng hid behind a mountain peak that had been sliced in half, poked his head out, and watched the dense, tangled mass of the three clans' armies slaughtering each other in the sky. He couldn't help but swallow hard.

Although he had decided to become a battlefield scavenger, the rationality of a practitioner of the Dao of Cowardice remained online.

He would absolutely not touch the central regions where tens or hundreds of thousands of troops were locked in chaotic battle.

Even with the dual insurance of the Mysterious Yellow Shield and his Great Dao "framing" ability, getting dragged into the affairs of those powerhouses who had lost their minds to bloodlust and were preparing to self-detonate would be a troublesome karma.

"Cleaning up a battlefield is also a technical skill. One must find areas where the fighting has finished, the targets are thoroughly dead, and preferably, the region is heavily polluted."

Lu Changsheng activated the detection function of the Cowardly Immortal Vine, precisely controlling the range to within a fifty-mile radius.

Soon, he locked onto a target.

In a deep valley about three hundred miles to his left, a faint fluctuation of mana emerged, accompanied by an extremely dense aura of death and Sha Qi.

Lu Changsheng crept over cautiously.

This was a massive concave valley, which originally should have been the location of a rather rare Ethereal Wood Spirit Spring.

But at this moment, the spirit spring had been completely polluted into an ink-green color; the water boiled, emitting a pungent, toxic gas.

And in the center of the spirit spring.

Over a dozen massive corpses lay sprawled in a tangled heap.