The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 229 - 226: Acquiring a Magic Artifact; Greed Grows with the Desire for Gain

Chapter 229: Chapter 226: Acquiring a Magic Artifact; Greed Grows with the Desire for Gain

Chu Yan spoke again, "The inscription says that the greed soul must attach itself to a human body, drawing on the power of greed in order to survive, and then it slowly strengthens itself.

Jing Hui left something behind that can help eliminate the greed soul."

"What is it?"

When Qin Zhao finished asking, she saw Chu Yan take a small hammer out of his bag, ready to smash the skeleton.

"Hey? Isn’t this a bit much?"

Chu Yan innocently replied, "He hid a Shariputra inside his skull."

Then he smashed Jing Hui’s skull with a hammer and quietly apologized. From the pile of broken bones, he found the Shariputra, white as jade.

"There really is a Shariputra! It looks quite nice."

The Shariputra in Chu Yan’s hand was translucent and snow-white, with the quality of jade, and using the Qi Observation Skill, one could see a rich golden light swirling around it, indicating extremely pure yang energy.

"If we encounter the greed soul, the Shariputra will react."

"Then give it to me, I’ll test Ye Qian and Old Li. The one in the shabby suit and Kang Xingkuan both died underground; only Ye Qian and Old Li could be possessed."

Qin Zhao reached out to take the Shariputra, but Chu Yan put it away.

He looked at her coolly and said, "I’ll go with you, and after we find them and get rid of the greed soul, I’ll give it to you."

Qin Zhao: "....."

Was this guy afraid she would run away from him again?

"There is another passage in the main tomb chamber; it’s written how to open it."

Chu Yan walked to a corner of the main tomb chamber and triggered the mechanism to another exit.

Qin Zhao picked a few magic artifacts. Although they were all Buddhist, she and Shangguan Qiu could still use them, which was better than confronting those ghosts and goblins unarmed.

After taking the items, she properly thanked him, "Master, thank you for your magic artifacts. If the greed soul escapes, I will definitely help you eliminate it."

"Thank you, Master."

Chu Yan took a very inconspicuous sandalwood bracelet, which neither Qin Zhao nor Shangguan Qiu had taken a fancy to.

He wore the bracelet on his wrist, his skin pale and smooth.

Chu Yan was dressed in a silver-grey hiking jacket today—casual and sleek, but it couldn’t hide his noble and aloof demeanor. Wearing a Buddhist sandalwood bead bracelet on his hand added a touch of transcendent ethereal charm.

"Why are you taking this? This bracelet must have been used by the master for chanting sutras, at best it serves as a protective charm, maybe it’s not even as useful as my peace charm."

Her peace charm could even attack ghosts!

Shangguan Qiu nodded in agreement with Qin Zhao’s words.

This sandalwood bracelet contained almost no spiritual energy.

Chu Yan replied, "I don’t know, I just liked the look of it."

During a subsequent joint expedition, Qin Zhao and Shangguan Qiu saw the use of this bracelet and almost regretted their previous disdain, and it was the first time Qin Zhao realized that Chu Yan was damn lucky.

They left the tomb through the new exit.

As soon as he emerged, Chu Yan felt something odd about the Shariputra in his pocket.

He took out the Shariputra and saw that the snow-white, transparent Shariputra had turned a blood-red color, and the pearl emitted a burst of heat, as if it were signaling something.

Chu Yan’s expression grew somber, "The greed soul really got out."

According to what was written on the inscription, this reaction from the Shariputra meant it was sensing the aura of the greed soul.

Qin Zhao and Shangguan Qiu’s gazes both focused on the Shariputra.

"Let’s go find Old Li first. To prevent him from escaping earlier, I left a Tracking Technique on him; we should be able to find him quickly."

Qin Zhao spoke briskly, then used the Tracking Technique to sense Old Li’s location.

Before long, she felt where Old Li was.

"Let’s go find him!"

The underground tomb was vast; because the direction they came out from was opposite to the direction Old Li had left, Qin Zhao led the other two using a Godspeed Talisman in order to catch up as quickly as possible.

Old Li and Ye Qian sat by the side of the road, covered in dust and bloodstains, looking very exhausted.

After they rescued the man in the suit, Qu Chunbin, he was hanging by a thread, and they called for an ambulance.

Fortunately, there was a small town nearby, and the ambulance quickly arrived.

"That money bag, just like that, it was lost inside."

Although Ye Qian had received quite a bit of gold, she still felt a sense of regret. Ye Qian was not only highly intelligent, having been admitted to Imperial University, but she was also smart about other things.

She observed that the money bag was very small, yet it could drop out a lot of gold, and guessed that maybe the bag was like a magical money pot that could endlessly produce gold?

What a pity, such a good thing was now buried underground.

At this moment, Ye Qian wasn’t thinking about her boyfriend, Kang Xingkuan, who had died at the hands of the monster; her mind was full of the money bag and the gold she had acquired.

Old Li, however, remained silent upon hearing Ye Qian’s words, his eyes flickering.

After they had rescued Qu Chunbin, Ye Qian had also searched him but still couldn’t find the money bag.

The little girl was quite cautious.

It wasn’t until now that Ye Qian finally believed that the money bag was lost inside the tomb.

"I’m leaving first."

From a distance, Old Li saw Qin Zhao’s figure.

His expression changed, and he stood up and ran in the opposite direction.

Naturally, he couldn’t escape, and Qin Zhao quickly caught up and pushed him to the ground.

Qu Chunbin’s pale green Spiritual Power turned into ropes, binding Old Li securely.

Chu Yan hurried over and Qin Zhao asked him, "Does he have it on him?"

The Shariputra had returned to its snowy, transparent state, and when it came near Old Li, nothing unusual happened.

Shangguan Qiu pulled Ye Qian over, and Chu Yan also brought the Shariputra close to her, but again, nothing unusual occurred.

"How can this be? Didn’t it escape?"

"What are you doing?"

Ye Qian struggled dissatisfiedly against Shangguan Qiu.

"You have the right to grab him, but you have no right to grab me, right?"

Ye Qian looked warily at these people, fearing that they wanted to rob her of her gold.

Qin Zhao stared at the Shariputra in Chu Yan’s hand and couldn’t help but frown.

Chu Yan scrutinized the two of them more carefully and asked, "You don’t have wounds on your bodies, so why is there so much blood on your clothes?"

"We encountered a wild wolf, and we killed it together."

Before Old Li could speak, Ye Qian suddenly interjected.

She concealed the matter of rescuing Qu Chunbin because she didn’t want Qin Zhao and the others to know. Otherwise, they would definitely suspect that she and Old Li had the money bag.

Even if not, they would probably covet the gold she and Old Li had.

"Yeah, it’s all the blood of the wild wolf, and I also have some injuries."

Old Li’s thoughts aligned with Ye Qian’s, and he said in cooperation.

Qin Zhao and Chu Yan looked at each other, clearly sensing they were hiding something.

If they really had fought a wild wolf, how come there were no scratches on their bodies? Nor were their clothes damaged.

"I’m leaving; I’ve been scared to death today, I have no energy to argue with you here."

Ye Qian turned to leave, and although Qin Zhao didn’t stop her, he left a Tracking Technique on her.

Although he couldn’t sense where the greed soul was, he could still tell from their facial expressions that Old Li and Ye Qian were bound to encounter bloody misfortune soon and therefore, the greed soul must be related to them!

Chu Yan conducted a search on Old Li, and this old Tomb Robber was quite slick. He managed to get hold of the money bag, but instead of hiding it on his person, he hid it somewhere in the mountains.

So Chu Yan only found some gold, "Where did these come from?"

"I picked them up when I was escaping."

"The monster didn’t escape, and your companion died inside, so how could there be gold dropping?"

"Maybe it dropped when I escaped last time, the place where I picked up the gold was not the same as last time."

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