Hearing Dong Lin's generous words, the honest-looking young man hurriedly took out a brand-new detector and handed it to him.
"My lord, three gold coins."
The young man held out his hand, palm up, in front of Dong Lin.
Dong Lin froze, then laughed at himself. "I've been fleeced!"
The young man pretended not to hear his self-mockery. He kept his honest-looking smile and left his outstretched hand exactly where it was.
Dong Lin did not particularly mind being fleeced. He readily took three gold coins from his pocket and placed them in the young man's hand.
Along with the coins, a gray aura flashed and vanished.
Tonight, barring any surprises, this outwardly honest but inwardly greedy young man would be turned into a mindless skeleton by Dong Lin's methods...
"Thank you, my lord!"
The instant the young man received the coins, he loudly thanked Dong Lin, then turned and ran deeper into the street. The detector he had sold Dong Lin was his last one.
Dong Lin looked down at the detector. As it happened, the reading displayed on it was the cultivation level of that honest-looking young man.
[Tier One, Level One]
Indeed, what the young man had sold Dong Lin was a first-generation detector, a model that had long since become obsolete...
"Not a bad little thing."
Dong Lin muttered, put away the detector, and walked toward the caravan, preparing to accompany them to meet the City Lord of Goodness Home.
Along the way, Dong Lin occasionally used the detector to check the cultivation levels of the people around him.
He was quite pleased with the results, as they mostly matched his estimates.
As he followed the caravan through the streets of Goodness Home, their arrival drew pointing and commentary from most of the