This golden toad was probably a Fortune-Transferring Golden Toad with a hundred years of cultivation. With its current cultivation, it should have been able to bring people a little windfall of under ten thousand yuan.
But this passive kowtowing effect... Qi Gu had never heard of anything like it.
He had never heard of such a strange direction for cultivation.
Qi Gu closed his eyes, then opened them again to examine the threads on the golden toad.
He soon spotted a thick red thread extending from the top of the Golden Toad's head into the pitch-black sky, its end nowhere in sight.
Qi Gu reached out and lightly plucked it, cutting off the connection between the red thread and the golden toad.
With that, Mu Xingchen's knees, which had just buckled, immediately straightened again, leaving him standing ramrod straight.
Qi Gu had expected this, so he simply lowered his eyes and asked calmly, "You have a hundred years of cultivation, and you haven't done evil in all that time. Someone must have been keeping you in their home and making offerings to you. Why did you stop working for that family?"
The golden toad immediately bobbed its triangular head, kowtowing nonstop. "Your most just and honorable lordship! That's exactly right! I really haven't done anything evil. Ever since I started cultivating, I've been putting my initiative and talents to work, giving little windfalls to humans whose luck was temporarily down but whose character wasn't bad, to help them get through their rough patches sooner... But as you know, gig work is such a hassle. Every time, I have to vet the boss's character from scratch. So I simply found a family with accumulated merit and signed a long-term labor contract with them. They were responsible for making offerings, and I