Cultivation Kill

Qin Jing, lying at the entrance of the secret realm in the distance, slowly opened her eyes.

"What happened? Didn't I lose?"

Qin Jie won by sheer luck six months ago, but unfortunately she lost this time.

She looked at Qin Jie not far away: "Jie-mei, what brings you here? Ah—I understand, you saved me!"

"No, it wasn't me, it was Shen Zige who saved you, sister," Qin Jie explained.

"Shen Zige?"

Qin Jing then noticed a dashing young man standing in front of her, his long robe billowing in the wind, like an immortal descending to earth.

"I almost didn't recognize you! You've changed so much in just one year!" Qin Jing said. "I will work hard to earn money to pay you back."

“You don’t need to work hard to earn money, you just need to work hard to cultivate,” Shen Zige said. “Becoming a cultivator is more important than making money in this world.”

"If you cannot condense your spirit, every cultivation-slaying secret realm will be a death calamity for you. You can dodge it once, but can you keep dodging it forever?"

After Shen Zige finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the Arena City. The secret realm of this city was outside the city, and it was still some distance to return to the city.

The two Qin sisters hurriedly followed.

Qin Jie walked to Shen Zige's side: "I already have a job and points, so I don't need to participate in the Immortal Cultivation Killing Secret Realm."

"What kind of job?" Shen Zige asked.

"I was guarding the teleportation array in a competitive city ranked 500th," Qin Jie said. "When I applied for the job at the Star Realm Company, there happened to be a vacancy there. There were two colleagues, working three shifts, eight hours a day. If I wanted to take a day off, I could only ask my colleague to cover my shift."

"In that case, you don't have much time to cultivate, yet you've still managed to reach the third level of the Condensation Realm in a year. That's truly impressive," Shen Zige said.

Cultivating immortality and venturing into secret realms—unless you're a monster, nobody wants to participate in this life-or-death game. If you can avoid it, you should. So, going to work is the right choice for Qin Jie. If you don't like working, you can just lie around and wait for six months or a year, and then see how lucky you are to survive.

"Brother, have mercy! Can you compensate me for my resurrection attempts?" A down-on-his-luck young man lunged at Shen Zige, trying to grab his clothes.

Shen Zige took a slight step to avoid the down-on-his-luck young man's hand.

Qin Jie stepped forward, standing between Shen Zige and the down-on-his-luck young man: "We don't have any resurrection chances, go find someone else!"

There are beggars like this. It's like a beggar on Earth asking a passerby if they can donate a private jet. I doubt anyone would give it to them!

"Waaah, how heartbroken my mother would be if she knew her most precious son was going to die here!" the destitute young man cried. "Before I came into this world, my mother cooked all my meals and washed all my clothes. My father died early, and I'm her only son!"

Another bearded middle-aged man who passed by Shen Zige and his group said sadly, "I'm even worse off than you. Although I'm a man, I consider myself a woman. I'm also a vegetarian and an albino black person. But the Star Realm Company doesn't give me any preferential treatment and discriminates against me. They even made me participate in this damned Immortal Cultivation Killing Secret Realm!"

Shen Zige and the other two quickly left, leaving the two of them there to hug each other and cry.

The city gate is already in sight.

Three expressionless men on the road suddenly turned around and walked towards Shen Zige.

“Three cultivators at the late stage of Spirit Condensation.” Shen Zige glanced at them with his divine sense and then paid them no mind.

"You're Shen Zige?" The blond man standing in the middle, a toothpick dangling from his mouth, said in a drawn-out, strange tone, "I thought you were some kind of superhuman? Turns out you're even younger than me!"

The other two burst into laughter.

The visitor seemed to have ill intentions, but Shen Zige remained calm: "What are you?" Since the other party was there to cause trouble, Shen Zige naturally wouldn't be polite.

"Kid, listen up, stand still, don't pee your pants!" The blond man spat out a toothpick. "I am Tian Liu, the young master of the Wuding Merchant Alliance!"

"Oh."

Shen Zige remained completely calm.

Tian Liu remembered that the old beggar he had met last time was the one who had harmed him. It seemed that the old man had been forced to abduct his daughter-in-law and kill his son, leaving him with no choice but to beg.

"You two sisters, step back."

Shen Zige gestured for Qin Jie and Qin Jing to leave. One of them was a mortal and the other was at the third level of the Spirit Condensation Realm. If they really fought, they would only be easy targets.

"You can't even protect yourself, and you still want to be a protector of a flower?" The blond man, Tian Liu, suddenly changed his expression and shouted at his two subordinates, "Attack!"

According to information from the Wuding Business Alliance a year ago, Shen Zige was only at the first level of the Spirit Condensation Realm. The three of them, who were at the late stage of the Spirit Condensation Realm, or three cultivators at the seventh level or above, should have been able to take down Shen Zige very easily.

Two flames generated by the Five Elements magic flew towards Shen Zige—

Shen Zige's golden shield appeared in the air and split in two to block the flames.

Heat waves spread outwards, flames exploded, and a sword light appeared simultaneously, slicing open the throats of the two attackers before they could react.

Tian Liu's two men collapsed, their throats gurgling.

Tian Liu had intended to watch the show without intervening, but he was frightened and retreated in terror.

Shen Zige took two steps forward and held a sword to his neck: "Any last words?"

In his panic and fear, Tian Liu seemed to have forgotten how to use spiritual power and magic. His whole body was weak, and he trembled as he said, "The leader of the Wuding Merchant Alliance is my father. You can't kill me. I'll give you money—yes, money. Let me go. You can have as much as you want!"

"Weren't you very arrogant just now? A young master of the Merchant Alliance, what a useless good-for-nothing, even weaker than the big-eared blue-eyed little demon."

Shen Zige gently slashed Tian Liu's neck with her guiding sword, then used her divine sense to retrieve Tian Liu's storage bag.

The owner of the storage bag is dead, and the spiritual imprint left inside has dissipated, so it can be opened at will.

"More than three thousand spirit stones, that's quite wealthy." Shen Zige could tell how many spirit stones there were just by glancing at the size of the pile of spirit stones in the storage bag.

It's still faster to make money by robbing the rich to help the poor. His cultivation killing experience shop has now reduced its prices, and he can only earn two spirit stones a day. It would take him 1,500 days and more than four years of continuous training to earn three thousand spirit stones, but now he can earn them in just a few seconds.

"Let's go back to the city."

Shen Zige waved to the Qin sisters.

The Qin sisters covered their noses and carefully walked around the corpses of Tian Liu and the other two into the city.

Passersby who saw them quickly avoided Shen Zige and his companions, terrified.

The guards in the city avoided Shen Zige, fearing that she might kill them with a single sword strike if she was displeased.

Of course, even people from the Star Realm Corporation cannot kill people indiscriminately in the city; they must have a legitimate reason.

Shen Zige couldn't help but sigh as she recalled the arrogant attitude of the city guards on the first day she transmigrated.

Shen Zige poured the two thousand spirit stones from the storage bag into her own storage ring, and threw the remaining one thousand spirit stones and the storage bag to Qin Jie.

"Take it. This storage bag is useless to me. This thousand spirit stones is enough for you to cultivate to the peak of the Spirit Condensation stage."

Qin Jie accepted the money without hesitation. Her idea was that Shen Zige spent money extravagantly, so she had to keep some spirit stones for him. She could return them to him when she ran out of spirit stones. Anyway, she had a salary, and if she was careful with her money, it would be enough for her cultivation.

Upon arriving at the teleportation array, Shen Zige stopped and tossed a spirit stone to the employee in charge of the array.

"I'm going to Ninety-Nine Cities to participate in the Immortal Cultivation Kill. You all go about your own business. Goodbye!"

A teleportation light appeared, and Shen Zige disappeared.