Filthy Cultivation: I Pierced the Heavens with the Merit System

"How to gain my trust is your business, why are you asking me?"

Upon hearing this, Li Fuyao chuckled softly. Seeing that the voice seemed to be choked and remained silent for a long while, she smiled slightly and said understandingly:

"Of course, if you're worried about making things worse, I can give you some pointers on how to perform."

Hmph, what a clever little girl!

Hearing her say this, even in the face of the urgency of the situation, Li Tianqing couldn't help but feel a touch of appreciation. He stroked his beard and nodded in agreement.

"As long as your request is reasonable, feel free to make it."

Seeing that he agreed, Li Fuyao no longer stood on ceremony and immediately asked:

"Since our goal is the same: to eliminate evil spirits and save those corrupted cultivators, as fellow members of the righteous path, I suppose you can fulfill my three modest requests, which are not unreasonable?"

Hearing the confident "hmm" from that voice, she felt a slight sense of relief and smiled:

"As an elder of the Yanjian Sect, if you can find me, then finding others should not be difficult for you."

"My first request is that you help me find someone."

Upon hearing this, Li Tianqing smiled faintly, stroked his beard, and asked gently:

"Are you looking for that young boy with the lightning-type Heavenly Spiritual Root from that day? If I remember correctly, he's your older brother, Bai Suifeng, right?"

"Yes, yes, it's him."

Li Fuyao nodded, then sighed, half-threatening and half-helpless:

"I need you to find a way to contact him and safely bring him to my side in this illusion. Otherwise, worrying about his safety will make me distracted and prone to making mistakes, which could affect your plans."

"Besides, you know his talent. Who knows, he might be able to help me if he stays by my side. More people mean more strength, right?"

This young lady is quite loyal and devoted!

She herself is tainted, yet she still schemes against me because she cares about her brother!

Thinking this through, Li Tianqing spoke again with a hint of testing Li Fuyao's strength. He stroked his beard and said, "..."

"That makes sense, but because of the incident with the Blinding Heart Stone, any cultivator who has reached the Foundation Establishment stage cannot enter, even if their cultivation is sealed. Therefore, I cannot send him to your side."

"But this stone forest is actually outside the illusion, and everyone's illusion is the same in both the inner and outer realms. Why don't I tell you where that kid is, and you can go find him yourself?"

That statement contains a lot of information!

While secretly pondering how to utilize the information he had just obtained, Li Fuyao clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction and said with a look of disdain:

"Alright, but this is far from what I wanted. You have to give me some compensation, otherwise I'll be at a disadvantage."

"What a greedy little girl!"

Upon hearing this, Li Tianqing admired the little girl's cleverness even more, but the increasingly chaotic sounds in the square made him feel less at ease.

He was impatient, and his tone contained a hint of warning as he jokingly urged:

"Just say what you want, and make sure you also state your other two requests!"

"The situation outside is urgent, you girl, stop dawdling!"

Seeing that he had achieved the desired effect, Li Fuyao glanced at the slowly passing mission time and soul power, chuckled, and decided to stop while he was ahead.

She stopped rambling and crossed her arms, becoming serious.

"What I want in return is that, no matter what method you use, I want you to significantly replenish my spiritual power, or even enhance it."

"As for those two requests, one is that you tell me how to control the illusion, and the other is that you find a way to control the movement of the souls of other cultivators in the illusion before things get chaotic. I don't ask for their help, I just ask that they don't cause trouble for my actions later."

Upon hearing this, Li Tianqing paused in stroking his beard, narrowed his eyes, and asked:

"I can give you the benefits you want and the method to control the illusion, but I only need you to help me pass on a message for a while. There's no need to control the souls of so many cultivators."

"I can grant your third request, but let me ask you, little brat, what exactly do you intend to do on your own later?"

You have no sense of propriety. I don't even know who you are, and you're already asking me questions like this?

Do you think I can tell you?

Li Fuyao closed her eyes, leaned against the stone wall with her hands in her pockets, raised an eyebrow lightly, and asked in return:

"You don't need to know that. I have my reasons for doing things this way. You just need to know that I won't do anything reckless. But why are you asking me these questions, you unknown fellow?"

"Could you be some kind of filthy evil spirit that bewitches people and comes here to probe my secrets?"

Li Tianqing snorted a few times, both amused and annoyed, but didn't mind, considering that her high level of vigilance in this environment was a good thing.

He silently activated the magic incantation for a while, and soon sent the location of Bai Suifeng that he had just found, along with most of the control methods of the Bewitching Illusion, to Li Fuyao using his divine soul. After sensing that the little girl had finished checking, she took action again, and Li Tianqing used a secret method to transfer a large amount of divine soul power to her.

After Li Fuyao looked at her soul power bar, which had returned to full, and called for a stop with satisfaction, he asked in a somewhat annoyed tone:

"Little girl, now you should believe I'm not a bad person, right?"

"Do not believe."

Li Fuyao, with an air of shamelessness that betrays all trust after losing his bowl, chuckled as he manipulated his illusionary self with hand seals to rapidly teleport towards Bai Suifeng:

"Giving a little something makes you a good person? Who knows if that little bit of benefit is just bait thrown down by evil spirits!"

"Hey, you've definitely never been to a casino, have you?"

The scenery around her stretched and distorted as it moved rapidly. Amidst the howling wind, Li Fuyao chuckled softly and nonchalantly:

"In order to lure gamblers into losing everything, casinos usually give you a taste of success first to gain your trust. Once you become greedy and unable to control yourself, and you increase your bets under the drive of greed, you will start to lose money and then fall into the casino's trap step by step, into an abyss from which you cannot escape."

"Tell me, how could I entrust you with my trust for a pittance if I'm not completely certain you're an elder of the Yanjian Sect?"

Upon hearing this, Li Tianqing's century-long composure nearly crumbled.

He took two deep breaths, gripped his beard, and laughed angrily, shouting:

"I've agreed to everything you asked for, and I've given you what you wanted. Do you know how hard it is to get these things outside? And now you call these petty gains?"

"The situation is really urgent right now. I don't have time to fool around with you. How can you not tell what's important? If you weren't the only one behaving strangely in the whole square, do you think I would have wanted to linger here for so long?"

As Li Fuyao listened to his outburst and frowned at the familiar figure approaching, she slowly stopped her hand seals and lazily replied:

"Calm down, calm down. Judging from your voice, you're quite old, aren't you? As you get older, you should be cultivating your mind and body. Why are you so impatient?"

As she spoke, she landed on the ground and, without the slightest hesitation, stepped over the ruins, her eyes darkening as she walked toward the blood-red mass emanating black energy in the corner:

"Don't speak yet, it's time to verify your identity."