"This old man has finished. That is the secret I have hidden for over ten years, and now I have told you everything."
"Please show mercy, Exalted Immortal, and spare my daughter's life. Then this old man can die without regrets."
With the look of a dying man whose words were good and true, Mayor Chen calmly awaited death.
Qing Chen, however, did not quite believe the old bastard would give in so readily. He asked, "You said Deng Zhiping was at the third layer of Qi Refining?"
The old mayor replied, "Yes, the third layer of Qi Refining. He went out to sea seeking a breakthrough, but unfortunately, fortune did not favor him. He did not enjoy your flourishing immortal fortune, Exalted Immortal."
Qing Chen asked again, "Your daughter embarked on the path of cultivation because of him, and broke through to Qi Refining second layer using what he left behind?"
The old mayor pleaded, "Yes. Let this old man repay the sins he committed. My daughter is already a cripple. Please show mercy, Exalted Immortal, and leave her a way to live! This old man will gladly accept death!"
Qing Chen's expression did not change. He remembered the storage pouch he had taken from Chen Zhu'er earlier.
He probed it with his spiritual sense, and a surge of pleasant surprise immediately rose within him.
Inside the storage pouch, apart from some clothing commonly worn by women,
there were actually over eighty spirit stones, two jade slips, several Ten-Thousand-Li Voice Transmission Talismans, four or five spiritual talismans, and two bottles of pills.
Of the two jade slips, one contained a basic low-tier yellow-grade cultivation method;
the other contained a high-tier yellow-grade cultivation method, which Qing Chen did not particularly care about.
Of the two bottles of pills, one held