Cultivation Kill

The next day.

Shen Zige woke up in the temporary room of Zhuyue Tower. He had drunk a bit too much last night, and his head was still a little dizzy when he got up.

Fortunately, he has already reached the peak of Spirit Condensation and does not need to cultivate. He only needs to wait for an opportunity to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Don't underestimate the importance of this opportunity. Most cultivators who reach the bottleneck of the Perfection stage will get stuck at this point and will never be able to establish their foundation.

Of course, Shen Zige could forcibly condense his qi into liquid using Shen Ziming's method, but this would be like pulling up seedlings to help them grow. If he doesn't find a solution later, such as finding a potential fruit or a qi-stabilizing pill, he will lose his potential, leading to endless troubles.

For ordinary people, being able to reach the Foundation Establishment stage is already quite good, so why worry about future troubles? For Shen Zige, his dream is not just to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, but to first achieve freedom and then become an immortal!

For ordinary cultivators, becoming an immortal is as difficult as an ordinary worker wanting to become the world's richest person! No, Shen Zige thinks it should be even more difficult. His master said that the path to immortality had been cut off for over a million years. Even a powerful figure like him, who dominated the infinite star field, fell at the last step, leading to the destruction of the Heavenly Sword Palace by many enemies!

"Zige, are you up yet? Time to get to work!"

Shi Yuan's voice pulled Shen Zige's wandering thoughts back to reality.

The two of them agreed last night to launch an operation against the True Artifact Sect and the Top Merchant Alliance today. As the saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate!

Shen Zige opened the door, and Shi Yuan quickly walked in and closed the door behind him.

"This is a spiritual artifact I obtained by chance in the Bamboo Kingdom's palace, called the True Meaning Earring." Shi Yuan took out a delicate and small earring from his storage bag. It was white and crescent-shaped, radiating a clear light. "Wearing it on your ear and activating your spiritual energy will grant you protective power."

“The True Meaning Earring, how come there’s only one?” Shen Zige said, “You were in the palace… right, the royal family has the most magical artifacts there. You must have seduced a princess, made a promise of three lifetimes, and after the princess fell for it, she gave you the earring as a token of love. The other one must be with that princess. The True Meaning Earring, true feelings exchanged for false intentions!”

Shi Yuan's face flushed red, and he said urgently, "Get to the point. We're talking about how to earn spirit stones, not those irrelevant things. Besides, your reasoning isn't entirely correct. She's not a princess, but the prime minister's daughter. And it's not a token of love; I borrowed it. Borrowed items have to be returned, do you understand?"

"What if Qin Jing goes to Zhang Kun, who can sing, breakdance, and play basketball, again?" Shen Zige felt that Shi Yuan's anxious explanation made him look like a liar who had been exposed.

“Hmph, Zhang Kun has already been sent to work in another country by me, and no one can find him!” Shi Yuan said. “I will take this True Meaning Earring to the pawnshop of the True Artifact Sect to pawn it and agree to redeem it within ten days. I will only pawn it for 100,000 spirit stones, so the redemption fee will be one-tenth, which is 110,000 spirit stones.”

"Earning 10,000 spirit stones in ten days is really profitable!" Shen Zige said. "I also want to open a pawn shop in the future, only accepting valuables."

"Don't interrupt, here comes the important part," Shi Yuan continued, "The pawn tickets of the True Artifact Sect are divided into main tickets and stub tickets. The main tickets are kept at the pawn shop, and the stub tickets are given to the customers."

"The stub is printed with the True Artifact Sect's pattern, the shopkeeper's temporary signature, and a seal containing unique spiritual power."

“I can imitate the patterns and temporary signatures, and I can also make the seals, but the spiritual power inside requires a foundation-building level or higher to imitate. So I’m assigning this task to you. I know your spiritual power has reached the foundation-building level, so don’t deny it.”

Shi Yuan patted Shen Zige on the shoulder, took out a seal and threw it over.

"So you were prepared all along!" Shen Zige took the seal. "But what should I do? The divine sense on it must be very unique; it will be difficult for me to replicate it."

“I’ve studied it. Everyone’s mental frequency is like a fingerprint; almost no two are the same,” Shi Yuan said. “When I get the duplicate tickets, I’ll analyze the mental frequency of the seal on them, and then I’ll teach you how to imitate it and input it into the fake seal. If you succeed, we’ll have a whole stack of duplicate tickets!”

“Even if you have a bunch of supplementary tickets, it’s useless. You still only have one main ticket.” Shen Zige patted her groggy head. “You can only exchange it for one True Meaning Earring.”

“The Wuding Business Alliance can use the True Artifact Sect’s notes as collateral,” Shi Yuan said. “That’s their loophole.”

Shen Zige suddenly realized!

“Understood. The Wuding Merchant Alliance has shops in hundreds of cities. We just need to pledge the promissory notes to them,” Shen Zige said. “Promissory notes for spirit artifacts worth 100,000 spirit stones, guaranteed to be genuine. We only need to pledge 30,000 to 50,000 spirit stones. I believe they won’t refuse.”

“Who wouldn’t want to do a business that can make money?” Shi Yuan said. “So, the most important thing is that our Zhenqi Sect pawnshop’s promissory notes just need to be made to look exactly like the real ones.”

The two were action-oriented, and after discussing the plan, they immediately got to work.

Shi Yuan had already prepared the other materials, and now the two of them went to buy disguise supplies, which was actually a women's cosmetics store.

Shen Zige stood at the store entrance and saw Shi Yuan fleeing in panic with a pile of cosmetics in his arms. The store clerk behind him looked at him as if he were a pervert.

"Luckily, I insisted that I didn't know anything about disguise and that going into the shop would be useless and I couldn't help at all." Shen Zige was glad that she was quick-witted, otherwise she would have been mistaken for a pervert as well.

Shi Yuan thought to himself that Shen Zige was probably secretly laughing to himself, but he would make sure Shen Zige wouldn't be laughing later.

The two went to a nearby restaurant and rented a superior room for one spirit stone a month. After entering the room, they began to put on makeup.

Shen Zige couldn't laugh at all—Shi Yuan had disguised him as a middle-aged beggar!

"Who would believe a beggar is carrying a pawn ticket worth 100,000!" Shen Zige said to the bronze mirror. "Aren't you insulting the intelligence of the Wuding Merchant Alliance and the Zhenqi Sect?"

“They’re not very smart either.” Shi Yuan came over and helped Shen Zige redo her makeup.

Now, Shen Zige is disguised as a wealthy young master, with a pale face, dark circles under her eyes, and her hair covered in hair oil.

"Twice now, did you do it on purpose or by accident?" Shen Zige asked Shi Yuan.

"I did it on purpose, because most rich kids are like that," Shi Yuan explained, suppressing a laugh as he wiped away Shen Zige's dark circles.

"It looks a little more normal now." Shen Zige observed the bronze mirror. "It only looks slightly distorted, not as drastically distorted as before!"

"You need to come up with a fake identity and a story, otherwise you'll easily be exposed." Shi Yuan picked up his water glass, took a sip, tossed a world map over, and said to Shen Zige.

"I am Long Aotian, the young master of the Long family from the ninety-six cities of Xingguo." Shen Zige carefully studied the map and quickly made up an identity.

On the map, Xingguo and Zhuguo are separated by several countries and have little contact. In Zhuguo, there is not much information about Xingguo.

Shi Yuan spat out a mouthful of water onto the ground and almost choked to death.

"Don't use the name Long Aotian. This name has been ruined by transmigrators and has become infamous."

Shen Zige thought to herself, "You've ruined this name, haven't you!"

“Then my name is Shi Dayuan,” Shen Zige said. “The eldest son of the Shi family in Xingguo City 96.”

“My name is Shen Xiaoming,” Shi Yuan said. “The third young master of the Shen family in Xingguo Ninety-Six Cities.”

After the two finished preparing, they left the guest room and headed to the Zhenqi Sect pawnshop.