Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Chapter 378: 218, am I also a part of your play?

In Skeleton City, Tan Shuchang had fully integrated into this place. Holding a pot of tea, he stood by the street like an old man, contentedly watching a cultivator argue with a mortal.

The cultivator possessed a great amount of red Yin Spirit Power, while the mortal was a street vendor. The cause of their dispute was a debt of two points of moral merit that the cultivator owed the vendor and had not yet paid. The cultivator wanted the vendor to extend the deadline, but the vendor refused, as it had already been more than a year.

Compared to Tan Shuchang, there was a little girl who still hadn’t adjusted to this place. Watching this scene, she couldn’t help feeling a bit shocked.

A mortal dared to argue so boldly with a cultivator?

Even though that was just a Red-ranked cultivator, he was still a being with special powers!

“Why, hard to understand?” Tan Shuchang asked with a smile.

“A bit.” Dongdong admitted her thoughts. After all, she had grown up in a world where the strong prey on the weak. Not to mention among mortals, even among cultivators, there was a clear hierarchy.

Loose Cultivators belonged to one tier, Immortal Sect disciples to another. Among Immortal Sect disciples, those with less than thirty years of cultivation were one tier, and those with less than a full sixty-year cycle of cultivation yet another, with centenarians being the final tier.

“The core of everything here is moral merit. The only way for a cultivator to get it is by entering the Ghost Realm. But in the Ghost Realm, cultivators aren’t much better off than mortals, and sometimes because certain eerie creatures won’t harm mortals, the mortals might have a higher chance of survival and can even help the cultivators successfully escape the Ghost Realm.” Tan Shuchang explained carefully, realizing that this little girl’s cultivation was truly sealed.

What he could easily learn, this little girl probably still found baffling.

Hearing this, Dongdong seemed contemplative. She could understand this point, but it was hard to adapt to so quickly. After all, she wasn’t like a certain Demon Cultivator who not only had crossed realms but could travel across many.

She looked young because she was truly young, while a certain Demon Cultivator was someone who had lived two lifetimes already.

This little girl and that certain Demon Cultivator looked like childhood friends only three years apart, but in reality, it was like a young girl and an old man.

Yet because she was young, she was somewhat rebellious. Thus, Dongdong pouted and said, “Don’t those sects give moral merit to their cultivators within?”

“Where do you think that moral merit from those sects comes from?” Tan Shuchang rolled his eyes.

The sects themselves couldn’t directly create moral merit, so, evidently, the cultivators here had many ways to acquire it, such as joining sects, completing bounties, or doing business, but ultimately there was only one pathway.

After all, even the value of moral merit was set by the Ghost Kings within the Ghost Realm.

“So, what are we going to do next? Earn moral merit or spend it?” Dongdong asked again, noting she still had fourteen points of moral merit left because she had spent one to pass a cultivation gate. As for the toll, those four people had been tricked by a certain Demon Cultivator with a hastily sketched land deed, so naturally, they hadn’t asked for it.

“You add a few Divine Skills slots.” Tan Shuchang suggested.

“What about you?” Dongdong asked casually, since this Demon Cultivator also still had fourteen points of moral merit after spending one on the cultivation gate and another on the pot of tea.

“I will watch you add.” Tan Shuchang didn’t disguise his intentions.

That made Dongdong narrow her eyes and then give a sideways glance at the Demon Cultivator.

“I have already tested it. I was the first to pass the cultivation gate, and this pot of Spiritual Tea was also for me to try.” Tan Shuchang stated, indicating it was time for a different little guinea pig to take a turn.

Hearing this, the little girl nodded her little head promptly.

So, the little girl bounced off to purchase a Divine Skills slot immediately.

The various infrastructure plans in Skeleton City were chaotic, yet this also made some special places easy to find, like that cultivation gate.

Although there was just one, the location was very clear.

Because it was surrounded by a large empty space.

The location to add Divine Skills slots was the same.

It was a statue of a man with a single horn on his head.

This was the likeness of a Ghost King.

Dongdong approached this Ghost King statue, then saw in front of the statue, which was not even ten feet tall, many Yin Spirit Power cultivators were bowing and paying respects.

“Do we have to bow to add Divine Skills slots?” The little girl immediately became unhappy.

She was a cultivator of immortality!

To be asked to bow to a ghost, did this ghost not fear being killed by her?

“That’s not necessary, but the Red-Horned Ghost King is known for his generosity. If you bow and pay respects while adding a Divine Skills slot, it’s possible that right after, you could be granted a Divine Skill.” A warm-looking young woman answered.

After explaining this, the young woman looked at the little girl and couldn’t help but praise, “Little sister, you truly are brave. At such an age, not only daring to enter the Ghost Realm but also daring to cross that cultivation gate.” @@novelbin@@

Dongdong was enlightened, and she first said thanks, then pointed to the belatedly arriving Demon Cultivator and declared, “I was dragged into the Ghost Realm by that person.”

Upon hearing this, the young woman instantly showed a look of anger towards Tan Shuchang.

After all, once one became a cultivator, it meant having to face various powerful and eerie beings.

“The little girl is mute; she doesn’t speak well. Please forgive her.” Tan Shuchang saw the little girl shamelessly lying with her eyes wide open, so he decided to copy her and casually promoted himself a generation.

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