Chapter 1124: The Qin Qin Shi Huang

The several ancestors of the various families present, all possessing Sixth-Rank noble life-fates, looked at one another and fell into silence.

Do not be fooled by the fact that they all held Sixth-Rank life-fates; their status was worlds apart from that of the Sixth-Rank Judge Xi.

Not to mention the Fifth-Rank County Wei Chenghuang.

Yet the person before them was someone even the County Wei Chenghuang had to treat with utmost respect, standing in a subordinate position.

One look at such status told them this was not someone they could afford to provoke...

Their life-fates were all of the 'Fortune and Virtue' type; attacking them would naturally invite backlash from their destiny and a plummeting of their fortune. At the same time, the life-arts inherent to their life-fates were also of the sort that sought good fortune and avoided calamity, keeping to one's own station.

But even with Fortune and Virtue protecting their bodies, if Xi were willing to pay a certain price, he could still use the Book of Life and Death to erase their true life-fates and strike down their ghost-ranks.

In the Luo Tian Underworld, even with the existence of Life Cultivators and such heaven-defying paths,

it was, after all, the Underworld. Since it was the Underworld, the City Gods and Judges who held its authority were the supreme powers.

With the Book of Life and Death in hand, even Life Masters with life-fates a level higher would have their true life-fates struck down, let alone these people who possessed only meager hidden virtue?

How could the shallow hidden virtue of an individual or a family compare to an empire that ruled over the countless realms of the cosmos?

How could it compare to an Immortal Dynasty that established the Underworld and began managing the cycle of life and death?

Thus, upon being summoned to the County Government Office, these people's expressions changed drastically. They all wore bitter faces, yet had to try their best to conceal it so it wouldn't be noticed, even though Qian Chen had said he would pay to buy their Yin mansions.

However, in the Underworld, all wealth, cultivation, and treasures were meaningless; only the life of the next incarnation was real!

A Yin mansion could open up fields of fortune, and in these fields, one could plant Dew-Sweet Grass to condense Yin dew. This was the food for most ghosts; consuming it could extend their Yin lifespan, alleviate hunger, and increase the time they could linger in the Netherworld.

A Yin mansion could also condense fortune-treasures, adding a measure of fortune for one's next life and one's descendants!

It could be said that for most ghosts, a Yin mansion was the most important thing; with a Yin mansion, one had everything.

This was something no amount of wealth or treasure could exchange...

Therefore, although they knew the person before them must be a great figure, everyone kept their mouths shut, and not one dared to step forward.

They were terrified that the task of being forced to sell their mansions would fall upon them.

At this moment, the elderly man from the Ye family, whose lineage had been passed down through a single heir for nine generations, recognized Qian Chen.

He immediately thought of the massive upheaval from not long ago, and thought of everything that had happened after he left the Yin mansion of Master Chen... no, the Fu Fu Lao Mo Chen.

Countless threads had spread from the people around who had sought life-readings and life-alterations from Master Chen toward that Yin mansion, and then, right before his eyes, they were fished away alive.

People and life-fates alike, all lost in the bargain!

At this point, how could the Ye family elder not react? This Master Chen was definitely no good person.

Thinking back to the life-altering method he had given him, cold sweat poured down his back.

That secret technique not only required the heart-soil of his family's nine-generation Yin mansion, but also the eyebrow longevity-hairs of his nine generations of clansmen!

If he had truly succeeded!

The Ye family would not only have lost their nine-generation Yin mansion.

He didn't even know by what means the Fu Fu Lao Mo would have refined the true life-fates and ghost-ranks of himself and the others.

The Ye family elder's lips trembled with agitation. He decisively stepped forward, bowed deeply to the ground, and said, "Many thanks to you, my lord, for saving my entire clan. Many thanks to you, my lord, for saving the nine generations of the Ye family!"

He took out the Yin contract for that Eighth-Rank Yin mansion, offered it with both hands, and said, "If not for your intervention, my family's nine-generation ancestral virtue Yin mansion would have been schemed against by that Life Master, Fu Fu Lao Mo Chen. I know not what kind of witchcraft or curses would have been cast upon it, nor what end we would have met. This Eighth-Rank Yin mansion under the Ye family's name was originally prepared to be offered to that Life Master Chen. Now, I am willing to gift it to you, my lord, as a reward for your grace in saving us!"

Qian Chen picked up the Yin contract for the Eighth-Rank Yang Green Stone Shrine, shook it slightly, blew a breath of Qi onto it, and it fluttered back down before the Ye family elder.

"Eighth-Rank is too low; it is not worthy of me to set foot in. Sixth-Rank is best; at the lowest, it cannot exceed Seventh-Rank..."

The crowd of ancestors from the various families were all secretly shocked upon hearing this. This official had such a massive appetite; he didn't even look at Yin mansions below the Seventh-Rank for a greeting gift!

Without the status of a Sixth-Hundred-Shi salary position subordinate to a Commandery Wei Chenghuang, how could one have such a massive appetite?

Immediately, the others looked at one another, exchanged glances, and decided that each of them would bleed a little to fill this official's appetite first. As for who would provide the Yin mansion, naturally, it would be the Ye family.

In any case, they had already taken the initiative to get involved and owed a favor to an official!

Was an official's favor something that could be owed lightly?

If there were any benefits to this favor they had gotten involved in, they didn't want them either; they would treat it all as the Ye family's stroke of luck.

The ancestors of the several families exchanged glances, and one of them secretly used a life-art to transmit a message to the Ye family elder. The several families had pooled together one hundred taels of Heavenly Silver to buy a Seventh-Rank Yin mansion from the Ye family to gift to Qian Chen.

After this, everything else would have nothing to do with them!

Everything that happened within the Divine Domain naturally could not be hidden from Wei Chenghuang Song, who was drinking tea and watching the spectacle nearby. Hearing of the bribe of one hundred taels of Heavenly Silver, he nearly spat out his tea.

Heavenly Silver was a resource refined by deities from the faith and spiritual emotions of all living beings, and it held countless benefits for deities.

In the mortal world, it was a taboo of the highest order.

Any cultivator who dared to refine Heavenly Silver would invariably be targeted and hunted by deities. Only after a person died and became a ghost—because of the difficulty in distinguishing between ghosts and gods—could the longing, memories, emotions, incense, and sacrifices of their descendants be refined into Heavenly Silver in the Underworld.

This kind of Heavenly Silver was extremely difficult for most ghosts to use, but for Underworld deities, it was indispensable.

Thus, it had become a hard currency...

He, Wei Chenghuang Song, ruled over a county, and the Heavenly Silver he refined and secretly collected each year didn't even amount to ten taels!

Had he known that the many Fortune Ghosts under his jurisdiction had such abundant savings, he would have...

He couldn't have known! Had he known, he would have been dealt with by the laws of Great Qin!

The Ye family elder heard the transmission and also wore a bitter face. Heavenly Silver was the hard currency of the Underworld. The so-called 'one treasury of gold and silver' referred to one tael of Yin-Virtue Gold and one tael of Heavenly Silver.

But while Heavenly Silver was good, it couldn't compare to a Yin mansion!

It had always been the ghosts who painstakingly saved up Heavenly Silver to purchase Yin mansions from Underworld ghosts and gods—such as Wei Chenghuang Song or Judge Xi—to bribe ghost runners, or to buy off Life Masters.

But the ghosts themselves had no way to use Heavenly Silver, unless... they became gods.

On Great Qin's territory, to become a god without an Immortal Qin title and authorization was truly not wanting one's ghost-life anymore!

How was this any different from raising a banner of rebellion in the mortal world?

The Ye family had been passed down through a single heir for nine generations, and each generation had been filial sons, pouring out most of their family wealth to find Yin mansions for their fathers and grandfathers. But aside from the ancestor of the first generation who had made his fortune and was lucky enough to find a Sixth-Rank Yin mansion, for the remaining eight generations, the highest they had reached was two Seventh-Rank Yin mansions.

Now, to part with one, even though the Ye family elder had just escaped a great calamity, felt like his heart was being sliced by a knife.

But he was, after all, a person of Fortune and Virtue, and understood the way of giving and taking. Gritting his teeth, he bowed to Qian Chen again and said, "This lowly one also has a Seventh-Rank Yin mansion under my name, and I am willing to offer it to you, my lord!"

Having said this, he cut the Yin contract from his life-fate and handed it before Qian Chen.

Qian Chen glanced at the Seventh-Rank Yin contract and nodded slightly: "A 'Dragonfly Skimming the Water' site, a 'Green Bamboo Flourishing' land. 'Better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.' Although the Feng Shui is average, having a bamboo grove is enough for me to set foot in for a while!"

The implication was that he was still somewhat unimpressed...

The Fortune Ghosts present were all clicking their tongues at the massive appetite of this official.

Qian Chen leaned back and asked, "What do you want?"

The Ye family elder said respectfully, "This is to repay your grace in saving us, my lord; I dare not ask for anything more!"

Qian Chen's expression was indifferent: "Do you think I am coveting your things?"

He said lightly, flicking his finger against the Yin contract: "You think this Seventh-Rank Yin mansion can bribe me? You are wrong. Even Fifth-Rank or Fourth-Rank Yin mansions are not worthy of me setting foot in; Second-Rank or First-Rank Feng Shui treasure lands are not worthy of burying me! There is no Feng Shui treasure land in the world that can bury me!"

"The last burial soil that buried me was a Nether-land in the countless realms of the cosmos, with three thousand Nine-You demons and gods buried alongside me. This Luo Tian Underworld where you reside, this Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, can barely compare."

"My willingness to find a Yin mansion in Anlu County is your stroke of luck!"

"What you need to do is state your request, state any wish you can think of that matches the value of a Yin mansion. No matter what kind of wealth, destiny, or even rare treasures of the world, I can satisfy you."

"You think this is a bribe, a transaction? No, this is an offering and a prayer!"

"This is the only stroke of luck you will have in this life. To prevent you from misunderstanding, I have to be blunt. Is that clear?"

Qian Chen stood up, turned his back to the crowd with his hands behind his back.

Wei Chenghuang Song's body trembled slightly; his entire divine being was stunned!

He had not expected that as a citizen of Great Qin, someone would dare to say that the place where they were buried was not inferior to the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum.

To dare to mention himself in the same breath as the Qin Qin Shi Huang.

Not to mention a Marquis within the Pass, even a Marquis of Wu'an or a Marquis of Wucheng of the twenty-rank nobility would likely not dare to say such a thing. In Immortal Qin, only one person could be so arrogant before the Qin Qin Shi Huang, and that was Marquis Wenxin, Lü Buwei!

As for the others, they were muddled and ignorant, only feeling that this great official was truly boasting and arrogant, and must be a person of extreme power and status!

The hidden virtue on the Ye family elder's body stirred, and with a flash of inspiration, he held up that Seventh-Rank Yin contract and kowtowed, saying, "This lowly one is willing to offer the Seventh-Rank Yin mansion, only asking for a chance at Core Formation for my Ye family's nine-generation single heir!"

At this moment, the ancestor of the Shao family also stepped forward, raised the title deed for his own Sixth-Rank Yin mansion, and said, "My Shao family is also willing to offer our Sixth-Rank 'Gold Born from Beautiful Waters' mansion, only because my unworthy son, Shao Yong, had his ghost-rank stolen and his true life-fate broken by an evil Life Master. I beg you, my lord, to intervene and repair his life-fate!"

"That's more like it!" Qian Chen nodded. Seeing that no one else dared to seize the opportunity to step forward, he waved his hand and said to the Shao family ancestor: "Shao Yong has a connection with me. Regarding his true life-fate, let him come find me himself; you don't need to offer up your Yin mansion!"

He then asked the Ye family elder: "Does your Ye family have an Immortal Qin title through the generations?"

The Ye family elder said tremblingly, "Before the Holy Yong Dao Court, it was the Ancient Field Great World subordinate to Immortal Qin! My Ye family served as Immortal Qin craftsmen for generations, inheriting the craft of construction."

"Later, an Emperor of the Heavenly Court reincarnated as the Holy Emperor of the Dao Court, annihilated the remaining Immortal Qin forces in the Ancient Field Great World, and established the Dao Court. My Ye family then hid our names and infiltrated the common people! But we still inherited the identity of Qin people and secretly repaired various Immortal Qin legal structures, thus retaining our Immortal Qin title!"

Qian Chen nodded. With a thought, he molded a gold seal, a peach blossom, and a blade of grave grass: "These are three Sixth-Rank life treasures."

"The Immortal Qin Gold Seal, which secretly hides the title of Grand Physician!"

"Obtaining it can promote the true life-fate of your Ye family's nine-generation single heir to the Sixth-Rank, possessing the life-fate of a Core Formation True Person."

"Moreover, this fortune is connected to Immortal Qin and will guide him to the legacy left by Immortal Qin in this realm. If he is willing to bear the corresponding tribulations, this life-fate may not stop at the Sixth-Rank."

"Before promoting to the Immortal Qin Grand Physician title and becoming a Core Formation True Person, he will have no disasters or tribulations, and his path will be smooth."

"But beyond that, he will have to bear the karma of Immortal Qin!"

Everyone present widened their eyes, looking at that gold seal.

Wei Chenghuang Song was even more incredulous; it had taken him five thousand years of hard work to attain the title of Official Grand Physician.

Yet that Ye family member could promote to the Fifth-Rank Grand Physician title, second only to Official Grand Physician, just by relying on this gold seal! This was more than just a Sixth-Rank life treasure; even Fourth-Rank... no, Fifth-Rank could not compare to it!

Qian Chen continued:

"This peach blossom is also a Sixth-Rank life treasure! It can allow that nine-generation single heir of your Ye family to find a Sixth-Rank Core Formation Dao companion! Moreover, the couple's life-fates will be compatible, harmonious and perfect, and it also carries three parts of descendant fortune, three parts of husband-prospering appearance, and three parts of Salary Star fortune."

The Ye family elder opened his mouth wide and said, "My lord, you mean..."

"It can allow your grandson to live off a Sixth-Rank Core Formation True Person within ten years, and after marriage, his life will have three children, all of whom will be people of profound fortune. That wife of his will not only have cultivation reaching the Jin Dan, but also a profound background, which will help your grandson's official career. With her support, he will eventually reach Core Formation too!"

The ancestors of the various families stared fixedly at that peach blossom. Such a delicious meal of 'soft rice'—I want to eat it too!

Why leave it for a descendant?

Wouldn't it be better if I ate it myself after reincarnation?

The Ye family elder's hands trembled slightly as he looked at the last life treasure.

Qian Chen pointed at the plain-looking grave grass and said: "Six feet of grass on a grave can extend your Ye family's clan fortune for six thousand years, enough for your Ye family to develop and grow, with descendants spreading far and wide!"

"Clan fortune!"

The eyes of those present turned even redder. Someone couldn't help but say, "Back then, that Grand Duke Wang of the Jiang clan, with the aptitude of a sage, only extended the national fortune of Heavenly Zhou for eighty thousand years. To protect a clan's spread for six thousand years—who knows how many Core Formation True Persons could be produced, and how far the branches could spread!"

"For the next six thousand years, as generations of Ye family members return their souls here, who knows how much wealth and how many Yin mansions they will bring."

"Your Ye family exchanged all this just by relying on a Seventh-Rank Yin mansion; it truly is..."

The life treasures Qian Chen brought out were more heaven-defying than the last, but for him, they were just things he created with a wave of his hand. The Immortal Qin Gold Seal was something he had condensed using his own Immortal Qin title, remotely sensing the Immortal Qin fortune of the Ancient Field Great World, locking onto a wisp of it, and then condensing it with the True Illusion Dao Fruit.

Similarly, that peach blossom life treasure was also something he had calculated based on the various life-fates of that Ye family descendant, choosing the path where he and his wife would be most happy and perfect.

He also used the True Illusion Dao Fruit to condense a virtual life-fate and create a life treasure!

For Life Masters of the Netherworld, any life treasure required stealing someone else's true life-fate.

But for Qian Chen, true or false didn't matter at all.

The True Illusion Dao Fruit could mold countless false life-fates with a wave of his hand, then calculate the destiny, intercept the heavenly secrets, and drop them onto the false life-fates.

A genuine life treasure was born!

Likewise, Yin-Virtue Gold, Heavenly Silver, fortune-treasures, life treasures, Moral True Words, and even the Feng Shui Yin mansions themselves—he could create them all with a wave of his hand.

It wasn't just that the True Illusion Dao Fruit could refine the false into the true; just his savings in the Land of Reincarnation, the many moralities, and even the Si Chen world itself that Qian Chen had opened up.

As the Bright Venerable, he had countless believers, and he didn't know how much Heavenly Silver he could refine at every moment!

The Ye family elder almost snatched the peach blossom into his arms.

The ancestors of the various families around him cursed one after another: "Why choose the peach blossom life-fate? Choose the six feet of grave grass! Six thousand years of clan fortune is enough for your Ye family to become a great noble clan!"

"With generations of descendants over six thousand years, the Yin mansions will connect into one piece, and it's even possible to nurture a Fifth-Rank!"

"A Fifth-Rank Yin mansion can support a family god!"

"It would be better to gamble and choose the Immortal Qin Gold Seal. That world's Dao Court has already grown strong and is constantly suppressing the remaining Immortal Qin forces. If your grandson has the identity of Immortal Qin, his fortune will also drive him to constantly encounter the legacy and opportunities left by Immortal Qin. A Sixth-Rank life-fate is just the beginning; any bit of opportunity can constantly drive his fortune to skyrocket."

"Sooner or later, step by step, he could walk to a Fifth-Rank Yin God, or even a Fourth-Rank Yang God, or a Third-Rank Immortal position. A Second-Rank Primordial Spirit True Immortal is not unthinkable!"

"Are you stupid!"

"Immortal Qin has long since declined in the mortal world! Anything related to it carries evil in its life-fate. Even if he becomes a Primordial Spirit, I'm afraid he won't die a good death. Do you really think the Holy Yong Dao Court can't kill a Primordial Spirit?"

Someone spoke without restraint and sneered: "Even if his fortune is heaven-defying and he overthrows the Dao Court, hehe, there is still the Heavenly Court above! Even if he cultivates to a Primordial Spirit, he will sooner or later not die a good death!"

Wei Chenghuang Song's expression turned cold. He raised his hand and used his tablet to shave off three parts of the man's fortune, startling the old man into bowing repeatedly: "County Lord, forgive me, forgive me!"

Wei Chenghuang Song said coldly: "I know that each of you has secret connections with the evil path of Life Cultivation."

"But Great Qin is still the heaven here! What can be said and what cannot be said—you had best behave yourselves!"

Qian Chen waved his hand and dispersed the other two life treasures. The others had their eyes glued to them, and seeing the life treasures dissipate, they all let out a sigh together.

At this moment, everyone in their hearts felt endless regret, wishing they could beat their chests and stamp their feet.

It truly was a great stroke of luck.

A mere Seventh-Rank Yin mansion exchanged for a Sixth-Rank life treasure—if this isn't a great stroke of luck, what is?

Moreover, the effects of those life treasures were heaven-defying one by one; they were far more than just Sixth-Rank! An ordinary Sixth-Rank life treasure was a type of life-fate equivalent to a Jin Dan status.

Because the methods Life Masters used to refine life treasures invariably carried evil in the life-fate.

A Sixth-Rank peach blossom life treasure could also allow one to marry a Sixth-Rank Dao companion.

But it was inevitable that the couple would be disharmonious, suffer grievances in secret, and even carry descendant evil or peach blossom evil, with the fear of descendants being unpromising or rotten peach blossoms outside the family.

Sixth-Rank 'soft rice'—whether the couple eats it harmoniously or hinders each other—are two completely different concepts.

A Sixth-Rank life-fate also cultivates to a Jin Dan.

Whether it is a supreme-rank pill or a middle-rank pill are also two different concepts.

A Sixth-Rank life-fate has fortune without disasters or tribulations, and can also connect to the legacy of Immortal Qin, constantly encountering opportunities related to Immortal Qin on the path of cultivation.

It can even rely on this life-fate to find opportunities that carry evil and tribulation, continuing to drive the promotion of one's own life-fate!

Not to mention six thousand years of clan fortune!

Although it cannot guarantee that every generation will be prosperous, at least it can ensure it won't go extinct.

For a clan's fortune to not go extinct for six thousand years—even if the Fourth-Rank or Third-Rank ancestors in the Underworld Netherworld used all their strength and sacrificed themselves, it would still be difficult to achieve.

The life treasures Qian Chen gave, although they had no further help for those above Core Formation,

all the gifts had no hidden dangers.

They could be called the most perfect Sixth-Rank life treasures!

These ancestors of the various families watched with eyes burning with fire, secretly biting their teeth to pieces!

The Ye family elder was even more overjoyed, bowing and thanking Qian Chen repeatedly. Although, strictly speaking, the six thousand years of clan fortune from the six feet of grave grass was the most beneficial choice for them, and if one wanted to gamble big, the Immortal Qin Gold Seal was not out of the question.

But after all, he had watched his grandson grow up with his own eyes.

In that instant, the old man thought of countless things, and in the end, he still chose this life-fate that was best for him personally.

"Sigh, I don't ask for him to be rich and noble, nor do I ask for my Ye family to become a great noble clan. Passed down through a single heir for nine generations, he is the only treasure. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings; let him live a smooth, happy, and perfect life!"

The Ye family elder said this, but someone nearby suddenly spoke up: "This life-fate treasure can be used for more than just descendants. If I were you, I would use it for reincarnation to protect the life of my next incarnation."

"That Yin mansion you offered up is your burial site, right!"

"No blessing for children and grandchildren is as good as enjoying the blessing yourself... Think about it carefully!"

That person just sneered, and everyone present looked at the old man with strange expressions, wanting to see how he would choose.

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