Misery: There is a pawn shop here

Chapter 26 The Final Deal
The same decoration, the same pawnshop, and the people wearing the same clothes. The only change was that in the arms of the broken man, there was a dead woman in blue lying quietly.

The man in love knelt on the glazed floor tiles. The scorch marks and scarlet blood on the temples of the woman in blue in his arms, together with the scarlet blood flowing from his heart, drew a strange double lotus on the jade tiles.

"I promise you." A hoarse voice echoed in the dome. Qingsha looked at Li Xuanxiao opposite him. Facing the price offered by Li Xuanxiao, Qingsha agreed without any hesitation.

"Soul, anything else, as long as you can let the goddess live, I will agree to it. Please, please save the goddess."

Looking at Qin Juexian, who was still held tightly in his arms by love, Li Xuanxiao had an indifferent expression. He just raised his hand and several light shadows emerged from Qin Juexian's body.

"This is Qin Juexian's current situation. The drummer's almost full-strength blow destroyed his internal organs and shattered his will. Now you are a dying man who will die within moments of leaving the pawnshop. The only thing that can save Qin Juexian is your soul, and that only buys him three years. This is the limit of what you can trade for your soul. Have you really thought it through?"

"Three years, only three years?" Qingsha shuddered at the words. He looked at the beauty in his arms, then at Li Xuanxiao. "Is there any other way to make the goddess live longer? No matter the price, Qingsha will agree."

"Hmm?" Li Xuanxiao raised his eyebrow slightly, "You are so devoted to Qin Juexian. If that's the case, you still have a choice."

"What way?"

"Pawning everything you have and becoming the pawnshop's wish could extend Qin Juexian's lifespan by over ten years, but you will also have to abandon everything in your past and be forced to act according to the pawnshop's will." Li Xuanxiao said leisurely, "Be thankful. Thanks to the previous transaction, you have become so valuable that you have the opportunity to become a pawnshop's slave."

Upon hearing this, Qingsha suddenly chuckled, his laughter shattering the blood clots on his clothes. He remembered the lightning flashes that exploded when the drummer frantically beat the drums, and the fluttering blue skirt of Qin Juexian as she entered the fray. All gifts had already been priced in. If it weren't for that first transaction, ha...

"Okay." Qingsha agreed, even though he also harbored an incomparable hatred for the drummer in his heart, but this hatred was not worth even a fraction compared to Qin Juexian's life and death.

"As long as you can save the goddess, you can take anything, even if it means killing her soul for passion or making me your puppet. I just want the goddess to live!"

"What an infatuated person! Love is the true original sin of the world."

As Li Xuanxiao waved his hand, a blood contract floated down in front of Qingsha from thin air. Qingsha didn't hesitate for a moment and wrote his name directly on the blood contract.

The next moment, the ancient bell vibrated, and the sound echoed softly in the pawnshop. Qingsha only heard a sound in his ears -

"The contract has been signed."

As Li Xuanxiao raised his hand, an ancient bell vibrated, the galaxy in the sky swirled, and an emerald glow poured down from the Celestial Realm. Qin Juexian's pale lips stained a vibrant crimson at a visible speed. As Qin Juexian recovered, Qingsha felt a drastic change begin to take place within him. A cold thread ripped from his bones, as if something vital was being stripped away. His consciousness, called Qingsha, gradually faded. But Qingsha remained silent, straining his eyes wide to engrave the woman's trembling eyelashes into his soul.

"Goddess, I'm sorry."

The warmth touched by his fingertips made him shudder, and he seemed to be back to the day they first met, on the shore of the Acacia Sea.

"This is all a result of a self-indulgent act of passion that has led to the current situation. You must live well, you must..."

His last consciousness was still the hope that his beloved could have a fulfilling life. When Qin Juexian recovered, Li Xuanxiao sent Qin Juexian out of the inn with a wave of his hand. Looking at the "love murder" in front of him that had changed greatly, Li Xuanxiao shook his head and waved his hand to open a passage.

"I never thought you'd be the first employee to arrive at a pawnshop. Go to Pawnshop No. 02, take this token, and bring back your predecessor."

Qingsha said nothing, took the token silently, and turned to leave.

……

...The flickering bronze lamplight illuminated Linghu Shenyi's trembling white beard. He witnessed the golden thread piercing the soul of the murderer and laughed maniacally as the drummer's soul was dragged into the scroll.

"You are worse than the devil!"

While the drummer and the love killer were making the deal, they were completely unaware that there was another person who witnessed the entire process.

Linghu Shenyi was powerless to do anything as he watched his blood relatives, nephews, reincarnate into monsters. He knew that even if Li Xuanxiao put him in front of Qingsha, he could not stop Qingsha from agreeing to this deal.

Li Xuanxiao didn't care. He just waved his hand to retract the projected image and looked at the old man opposite.

"So, master of swordsmanship, divine treasure, have you made up your mind? Will you pawn your Heart of Yu Yi and your forging skills in exchange for a glimmer of hope for those seriously injured in Ju Feng, or will you simply leave?" Li Xuanxiao looked at Linghu Shen Yi with a smile. "Such a small pawn item can save so many lives. This is the most generous thing I've ever done since the pawn shop opened."

Linghu Shenyi didn't say anything. After witnessing the last pawning of the drummer and the murderer of love, he knew very well that the pawnshop in front of him was a real hell.

Once the desire in a person's heart is aroused in the first transaction, it will be difficult to turn back.

Linghu Shenyi also understood this truth, but when the same choice fell before him, he also found that the choices in life were so difficult.

"I cannot possibly pawn my heart. Linghu Shenyi will not allow himself to become a puppet of his own thoughts. If you want my forging technique, take it."

"Hmm?" Li Xuanxiao nodded. "Okay, but the chances of survival for the people in Jufeng might have to be slightly reduced."

"You!" Linghu Shenyi's expression changed when he heard that.

"Why should you be so nervous, sir? After all, the suffering of the residents of Jufengli has nothing to do with you. You don't need to bear such a heavy psychological burden."

"That's enough, I promise you!"

Linghu Shenyi couldn't do it after all, and watched everyone in Jufeng die. He finally understood what Gu Xiao had said before.

Yes, when such an opportunity is placed in front of us, who would not be tempted, and how many people can resist such temptation? Everyone has their own weaknesses and desires.

"As you wish." Li Xuanxiao nodded slightly, and a blood contract emerged out of thin air and floated down.

"By signing this blood contract, hundreds of lives in Jufeng will have a chance of survival."

Linghu Shenyi said nothing, but stretched out his hand to the pen. Just when he was about to put pen to paper, he suddenly stopped.

"What if I were to save the compassion killing as well?"

Li Xuanxiao looked at Linghu Shenyi and smiled.

"Well, this is quite expensive..."

(End of this chapter)