Li Qingxian Builds Up His Marriage Fund

After everyone had left, Zhou Chunfeng sighed and said, "This matter has its pros and cons. The con is that we've been targeted by Great Eerie, but the con is that if you show this to a lesser Eerie Demon, they'll hesitate to kill you."

"Is it a good thing to hesitate for a while?" Li Qingxian asked.

"There's nothing we can do. Eerie Demon are different from humans; they don't have a hierarchy. Of course, if it's Eerie Demon that's attached to the Yellow Springs Emperor, it probably won't harm you, but... it might capture you and offer you up to the Yellow Springs Emperor."

"It's not healed," Li Qingxian said. "Can the mark be removed?"

"I've never heard of a cure, but... if you're tough, you really don't need to worry."

"Why?" Li Qingxian asked.

Do you know who founded the Black Lantern Bureau?

Li Qingxian shook his head.

"The Grand Fate Arts Master Li Xuzhong, do you know how many of these Great Eerie marks he has?" Zhou Chunfeng asked, pointing at Li Qingxian's wrist.

Li Qingxian shook his head.

"Fourteen."

"Great Eerie gathered on his body? And he's still not dead?"

"Not only did he not die, but he's also preparing to collect even more. Do you know why the Eerie Demon can't do anything to him?" Zhou Chunfeng asked.

"Why?"

"Because every time Eerie Demon comes looking for him, he will inevitably encounter another Eerie Demon, and then Li Xuzhong will sit back and watch the fight. After this happened so many times, even the Great Eerie got too lazy to pay attention to him, but he got excited and took the initiative to harass the Great Eerie. The True Person hate him and the demons despise him," Zhou Chunfeng said.

"No wonder he's one of the Grand Fate Arts Master, his life is really tough..." Li Qingxian said in disbelief.

"Let's go. Li Xuzhong said that this thing might not necessarily be a bad thing." Zhou Chunfeng patted Li Qingxian's shoulder affectionately.

"I believe you." Li Qingxian felt a little better. Since Grand Fate Arts Master could solve it, he could also solve it as long as he had enough Fate Star and Fate Arts.

Li Qingxian instructed the guards at the Imperial Prison to bury the ox on the spot, and to move the Ox Tomb seven days later to a normal burial ground.

Back at Chunfeng Residence, Li Qingxian shook the things out of his arms and placed them on the table, quickly taking inventory.

Two bottles of Spirit Metal, a Lower Rank artifact called "Nine-Flower Umbrella", a low-grade Lower Rank artifact called the Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant that Yu Ping, some miscellaneous gold, silver and jade items, a total of 3,700 taels of silver notes, more than 100 taels of loose silver, and more than 6 strings of copper coins.

"Uncle Zhou, could you help me calculate the price?" Li Qingxian said.

Zhou Chunfeng said, "Two bottles of Spirit Metal are worth 20,000 taels of silver, ordinary Lower Rank artifacts are worth about 3,000 to 5,000 taels of silver, this Nine-Flower Umbrella is good for both offense and defense, and is worth at least 5,000 taels of silver. The Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant is rare and expensive, and is worth at least 10,000 taels of silver. Daren Xu always keeps his word, and 10,000 is 10,000. All those gold, silver and jade artifacts are worth a little over 2,000 taels of silver."

"Over 40,000? Is solving ghost stories really that profitable?" Li Qingxian asked.

"But you have to be alive to enjoy them," Zhou Chunfeng said.

"Sigh, I wish I had a storage magic item." Li Qingxian glanced enviously at Zhou Chunfeng's Luck Silver-Fish Pouch and slowly tidied up the items on the table.

Zhou Chunfeng pointed to a book box on the table and said, "Since this is your first time hunting demons, I don't have anything special to give you. I've had some miscellaneous items prepared for you to carry with you on your hunting journey."

Let me see.

Li Qingxian opened the book box and took out each item to examine it. It contained a large bag of the Dao Sect items, including expensive gold talisman paper, fine cinnabar, magic brushes, copper water basins, and other items. There were also some specially made dried food, copper water bowls, tinderboxes, and other miscellaneous items. At the bottom was a book called "Complete Compendium of Basic Daoist Spells".

When Li Qingxian opened the book, he saw that it contained basic Daoist techniques that he should learn, such as the Water-Creation Formula, Fire Ignition Technique, Mist-Creation Technique, and Guiding Technique.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhou."

As Li Qingxian spoke, he picked up the carved orchid-patterned Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant, hung it on his waist, secured the Nine-Flower Umbrella to the back of his book box, repacked the book box, took out a thousand taels of silver notes and loose silver, wrapped them in talisman paper to prevent moisture, and put the Divine-Pattern Flying Sword he carried as a dagger inside.

Li Qingxian looked around, entered a side room, took out a small box made of huanghuali wood with a tiger head and a copper lock, emptied the contents, walked back to the living room, put the silver notes and other gold, silver and jade items inside, closed the lid, and patted it.

"Uncle Zhou, it's inconvenient for me to put things here, so I'll leave them with you for now. If you need money, feel free to use it... um... take a little, this is for my future wife's dowry, and as her uncle, I should add a little something." Li Qingxian looked at Zhou Chunfeng with a righteous expression.

Zhou Chunfeng rolled her eyes at Li Qingxian.

"Can I go to the Imperial Prison Bureau now to retrieve my Fate Material?" Li Qingxian asked.

Zhou Chunfeng glanced at the sky and said, "It's late, let's talk about it tomorrow. Write down what you need, and I'll have someone pick it up tomorrow."

"Good."

Li Qingxian picked up a pen and paper and wrote down the Fate Material needed for the two magical tools, the Fortune Measuring Ruler and the Fate-Setting Scale. Many future Fate Arts would rely on these two Fate Artifacts.

After writing it down, Zhou Chunfeng held the paper in both hands, his brows furrowed. He looked at it for a while and said, "Read it aloud, and I'll check it against my work."

Li Qingxian had no choice but to read it aloud again, and Zhou Chunfeng, after comparing it, copied it by hand himself.

When Li Qingxian returned to Jia-Nine Office, he heard Yu Ping lying on the bed snoring softly. Han Anbo sat up and asked in a low voice, "Are you done with work?"

"Don't even mention it, we've been tricked," Li Qingxian said in a low voice.

"What? What happened?"

Li Qingxian briefly recounted the events at the Imperial Prison.

"Thank goodness, but don't worry too much. Lord Daren is right. Being caught in a trap is harmful to us, but for Fate Arts Master, it's a mixed blessing. If the Yellow Springs Strange Land appears again in the future, you can dispel the trap. With this experience, your status will rise significantly."

"I hope so," Li Qingxian said.

"We're going out to hunt monsters tomorrow afternoon, go to sleep."

"I can't sleep. I still need to make talismans, and I have to refine Fate Artifact tomorrow morning. Sigh, I still Life Buying, but I don't have time," Li Qingxian said.

"That's easy to handle. You've just been caught in a strange situation, so it's a special case. Just tell Daren Zhou, and you can join the demon-hunting team the day after tomorrow. The Demon-Hunting Office isn't just sending out teams tomorrow; they'll be dispatching them whenever any trace of Demon Race is discovered in the near future."

"Oh, I see. Then I'll postpone it by one day. By the way, Brother Han, you know all sorts of people, is there anyone willing to risk their life for you? I'm not picky, good or bad fate doesn't matter, I mainly want to accumulate experience in the Fate Arts."

"They're easy to find. Those beggars and scoundrels all complain about their bad luck. If you offered to buy their lives, they'd be overjoyed, they'd even give them away for free."

"That won't do, how about one hundred taels?" Li Qingxian said.

"No, no, if you really give a beggar a hundred taels of silver, he'll surely be lying dead in the street the next day. How about this, I'll find some honest, poor people, give them only a few taels of silver, and then pay them to find some suitable work. If you really feel bad about it, you can help out some money if someone in your family suffers a disaster in the future. Besides, you might not even succeed in Life Buying, so giving him the silver is like giving it away for nothing," Han Anbo said.

"I'll leave this to Brother Han. After all, I'm young and don't understand these things," Li Qingxian said.

"Tomorrow I'll take him to a vacant house near Night Guard Street, and you Life Buying."

Li Qingxian thought for a moment and said, "I may need to buy some Fate Material often in the future. It's not suitable to keep them in Jia-Nine Office. Could you help me rent an ordinary detached house nearby and put up a Night Guard sign?"

"Okay, let's do it together tomorrow," Han Anbo said.