Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 612 - 552: The Ten Calamities, The Fox’s Shadow

Chapter 612: Chapter 552: The Ten Calamities, The Fox’s Shadow

Cloud Tower Ghost Market.

With the promotion of the Member System at the Money Box, as well as the application of a series of advanced commercial concepts such as membership, promotional discounts, overseas purchasing agents, and hungry marketing...

The place had become increasingly bustling.

In this era of chaos, a trading venue that could guarantee absolute safety and fairness to all customers was naturally coveted by all sorts of powers.

Incredible treasures piled up like mountains and oceans, while buyers flowed endlessly like rivers.

"Limited-time discount! This unique Deceit Object, Rouge Button, which ensures undying devotion from the opposite sex, isn’t three or four thousand, nor one or two thousand.

Just 998! You heard that right, only 998!

First come, first served. Three, two, one, bang, start grabbing!"

"To give back to our main market’s senior members, Three Flavors Bookstore is now launching Daoist Skill blind boxes.

It’s all down to luck what you’ll get, be it from the Yellow Department, Mystical Department, or even the elusive Earth Department Taoism, which the Tao Lineage treasures as if it were their life.

This could be your chance to achieve the status of the Green Seal Sage—an opportunity that could make a fortune!

A blind box is only 199 silver, with a daily limit of one hundred, sold until they’re gone."

"..."

Today happened to be the monthly shopping festival held on the eighth day, which takes place at the Cloud Tower.

Stores offering overseas purchasing services like the "Tower Ship Treasure Pavilion", "Long Hair White Building" where you could exchange Yin Morality for longer life, and the "Three Flavors Bookstore" specializing in various Daoist Skills...

"Divine Weapon Workshop", selling all kinds of Firearms, Magic Artifacts, and Deceit Objects...each major shop was thriving with visitors.

It’s worth mentioning that ever since Old Black couldn’t help but keep licking toads, resulting in complaints from customers that the Elixirs they refined were addictive, the Ghost Market had long stopped selling low-cost Black Dog Blood.

Instead, under the ruthless direction of Manager Tao, they began to directly resell the Top Grade Toad Venom from the body of Yellow Seal toads.

As for those customers, mainly those belonging to canine demon species, what they did with their purchases was none of Manager Tao’s concern.

Of course, self-run shops only made up a small part, with many external merchants setting up shop instead; a significant portion of the Deceit Market’s income came from taxes levied on both buyers and sellers.

As long as merchants did not violate the Precept Taboo of "fair trade," did not pass off inferior goods as superior, or cheat one another, the Ghost Market wouldn’t intervene in anything else.

This resulted in countless regular and demon patrons, with the true identity of the Deceit Market’s owner remaining elusive over a long period.

Atop a pavilion on the street below, a portly Junior Brother Qian pointed excitedly at a few shadows below and said:

"Manager Tao, Manager Xing, that’s them!

’Lust Dust Tao’ branch ’Wine Color Wealth Qi Tower’ Sect Master Marshal, also our former Uncle Tian Feng.

This person secluded himself after advancing to the Earth Essence realm.

Today, he has especially donned a cloak that conceals Divine Sense and even altered his figure, disguising himself quite superbly.

Probably only those closely related and extremely familiar, like us, could confirm his identity through his mannerisms.

Presumptuously, I’d deduce that among ’Lust Dust Tao,’ only the Fanglin Master would be accompanied personally by someone with such a low profile as Tian Feng!"

Senior Brother Song Qian’s abilities as a leader in the fiercely competitive ’Wine Color Wealth Qi Tower’ of Junzhou, notable for his business acumen, were certainly without question.

Ever since hiding in Wang Yuan’s sleeve and escaping back to the Mortal World...

Old Master Wang had graciously spared them from returning to the "Sewing Machine Hell" to do the most grueling work of pushing the grindstone.

Rather, he tied them deeply to the Money Box, assigning them as managers in the Deceit Market.

Until their Ghost Life ran out, they would be sent for reincarnation in the six paths.

However, considering their roles in Yellow Millet Village, Wang Yuan had even promised them:

Whenever they could accumulate Yin Morality equivalent to the entry level of the Nine Soldiers, he would grant them the right of Cultivation again, guiding them onto the Ghost Path of cultivation.

The two, who had suffered enough in Sewing Machine Hell, how could they possibly give up this sole opportunity to escape the sea of suffering?

They were constantly thinking of how to atone and earn Yin Morality.

Senior Brother was also looking at the entourage, his eyes red with greed, as if he saw a moving mountain of gold.

"Both Shopkeepers, if we’re wrong, you can have us gouge our eyes out for you to step on.

Act fast, don’t let them get away!"

Their apparent loyalty and initiative were clearly not feigned.

As for whether betraying their own sect troubled their conscience?

Well, the moral baseline has always been quite flexible for the culturally enlightened traitor.

Loyalty: "Better to be a shattered vessel of jade than an unbroken piece of pottery!"

Betrayal: "A good bird chooses the tree it nests in; a wise official chooses the lord he serves!"

Loyalty: "Times of peril reveal the minister’s resolve; a chaotic world distinguishes the loyal and the good!"

Betrayal: "As a great man living between heaven and earth, how can one willingly be subservient for long?!"

Even more with Lü, Ding, and Dong Zhuo, who turned Loyalty into "Filial Piety": "I have drifted half my life, only regretting not meeting a wise ruler. If you do not disdain me, I would pledge myself to you as an adopted son!"

With such rationalizations, even as they had become Wang Yuan’s Straw Dogs, Senior Brother Song and Junior Brother Qian’s minds were somewhat relieved.

Lady Peach Fairy and Xing’er followed their pointing to look in that direction.

Mingling in the Ghost Market crowd, the group of four cloaked figures included Tian Feng, a woman suspected to be Fanglin Master, and behind them, two individuals clad in Armor, the Dao Generals.

They gave the unintentional impression of being from some inconspicuous minor vassal.

If Senior Brother Song and Junior Brother Qian hadn’t actively signaled, it’s likely that these figures would pass without drawing a second glance from the two shopkeepers even as they left.

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