Chapter 180 New Year's Big Sale
Inside the Sanqing Hall.
The old Taoist looked serious, looked at Lin Ye, and asked, "Have you met anyone from the third pawnshop?"
“Yeah.” Lin Ye nodded. “Yes, I did. He asked me if I had anything to pawn or anything I wanted, and he would help me get it. As soon as I heard him, I knew he was bragging, so I ignored him.”
"He's not bragging, he really has this ability, but it's a good thing you didn't make a deal with him." The old Taoist looked a little complicated, "It's like a quagmire, once you step in, you will only sink deeper and deeper."
After hearing what the old Taoist said, Lin Ye knew that he asked the right question. However, the real world and the alien world are two different worlds. Is the third pawn shop's business so extensive?
Or is it just a pawnshop with the same name, just like there are Buddhism and Taoism in the real world, there are also the same in this world.
But thinking of this, Lin Ye became even more curious about the third pawnshop. You know, Buddhism is a huge system, it is a cultivation inheritance. How can a small pawnshop be compared with Buddhism?
"Master, what is the origin of this third pawn shop? It looks very mysterious."
"Heaven is one, earth is two, and the pawnshop is the third. Do you think it's amazing?" Seeing Lin Ye's puzzled expression, the old Taoist explained, "I have never seen the third pawnshop, but it is recorded in the classics of our Taoist temple. When the third pawnshop appears, it is known as the twilight of gods and demons."
"What's the meaning?"
"The third pawn shop will only appear in the Dharma Ending Age, but now is not the Dharma Ending Age. How strange."
The old Taoist muttered something, and Lin Ye answered in his heart that the other world is not the Dharma Ending Age, but the real world is.
It seems that this third pawnshop is also cross-world, but it only appears in the Dharma-Ending Age.
"Master, why did the Third Pawn Shop appear in the Dharma Ending Age? Did they have enemies in other eras?"
"Master, I don't know either, but the Third Pawnshop is mentioned in the classics of our Qingfeng Temple. Whenever a Third Pawnshop appears, it must mean the coming of the Dharma Ending Age. And every Third Pawnshop owner will look for others to trade with and obtain their souls in the Dharma Ending Age in order to recast new gods."
"Recast a new god?"
Lin Ye was really stunned this time. Is the mission of the Third Pawn Shop so powerful?
"In the Dharma Ending Age, the gods have disappeared and people have lost their faith in them. Only by selecting the purest souls can the gods be summoned again. For the Third Pawnshop, what it needs is the purest souls."
The old Taoist looked at Lin Ye and said, "The reason why I said that your refusal is a good thing is that once you are targeted by the Third Pawn Shop, it means that your soul is the most valuable in his eyes, and what you want is just dispensable and can be given away at will in the eyes of the Third Pawn Shop. Even if the first trade you offer is not for your soul, once you have tasted the sweetness of the trade, you will trade your entire soul again and again in the end."
"Is it true? If I can achieve any request, what if I want to be immortal?"
"You can do it as well, as long as you can pay an equivalent price." The old Taoist looked very serious and continued, "Don't think that your master is deliberately scaring you. The strength of the Third Pawn Shop is beyond your imagination. There was a strong man who wanted to use force on the pawn shop, and the final price was that the entire sect was expelled overnight."
"Master, you also said that the Third Pawn Shop only appeared in the Dharma Ending Age. I don't think the strong men at that time were that strong."
Lin Ye seized the loophole in the Taoist's words and refuted, but the Taoist sighed and said: "Human desires are endless. Although the Third Pawn Shop is mysterious, it is recorded in the classics of our Qingfeng Temple. Other major forces also have it. The Third Pawn Shop only appeared in the Dharma Ending Age, but it does not mean that it disappeared in other times. It is just hidden. Many people are looking for the Third Pawn Shop for various reasons."
“Isn’t this the same principle as Qin Shi Huang’s quest for immortality?” Lin Ye muttered.
"Qin Shi Huang?"
"What I mean is that just like the emperors of some dynasties, if they want to gain immortality, they may go to the third pawnshop to trade."
"That's right, but compared to the immortality of the secular emperor, more cultivators want to find the Third Pawn Shop. According to the records in Qingfeng Temple, there was once a big sect with many powerful people. The sect leader was said to be only one step away from becoming an immortal. The sect leader searched the world for the whereabouts of the Third Pawn Shop, and it is said that the sect really found it."
"And then?" Lin Ye asked.
"Then, everyone from the sect leader to the new disciples disappeared overnight, and the entire sect was expelled. People found a token at the sect's mountain gate with the word 'third' engraved on it."
"So exaggerated?"
"Exaggerated? Gods may fall, but the Third Pawn Shop will last forever. Remember what your master said. Since you have escaped, don't deal with the Third Pawn Shop again. Of course, there is a high possibility that you have encountered someone pretending to be the Third Pawn Shop."
"Are there any pretenders?"
"The martial world is treacherous. Ordinary practitioners may not have heard of the Third Pawn Shop, but it is no secret to some powerful forces. Naturally, some people will want to impersonate it for personal gain."
Lin Ye thought about it and understood what the old Taoist meant.
For example, emperors of all dynasties pursued immortality, so naturally there would be so-called fraudulent Taoist priests appearing. When people face desires, they will unconsciously lower their IQ.
"Just let me know about the third pawnshop. Regardless of whether it's true or not, since you've been rejected, the other party won't come to you again in the short term. Your master has an important matter for you to handle."
"No, Master, you should leave it to the eldest brother."
Hearing what the old Taoist said, Lin Ye quickly refused. What a joke! It was impossible for the old Taoist to think of him when doing something good.
"I originally wanted to hand it over to your senior brother, but after thinking about it, I think it's more reliable for you to do it. This is a great thing. Today is New Year's Eve. We in Qingfeng Temple have enjoyed the incense and worship of the people in the city for a year. Today is the day of gratitude. I have drawn 300 amulets. Disciple, you will give these amulets to the people in the city."
"That's it?"
Giving amulets to ordinary people is a good thing, but Lin Ye always feels that things are not that simple.
"That's it. By the way, do you have any small change?"
"What do you need that for? I only carry banknotes with me."
Lin Ye was very pretentious. He usually carried silver notes on him, the lowest being ten taels and the highest one thousand taels.
The old Taoist's mouth twitched. He knew that his disciple was rich, but he didn't expect him to be this rich.
Finally, Lin Ye agreed to the Taoist's request. Sending blessings and giving year-end feedback to customers were good things.
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An hour later.
Lin Ye walked out of a house in the city with the smile on his face gone. It turned out that the old Taoist had cheated him after all.
Sending blessings is indeed a good thing, but he can't resist the people who pester him to perform rituals. Just now, the grandson of this family fell down the day before yesterday, and the old woman kept asking him to check if there was anything dirty in the house. Even after he said there was nothing, she still didn't believe him and insisted that he walk around with the peach wood sword.
The family in front was considered a wealthy one. They didn't ask him to check if there was any dirt in their house, but instead asked him to check the marriage horoscopes of their children. He was a Taoist priest, not a fortune teller.
Lin Ye finally understood that this was not a New Year's gift, but a year-end promotion.
No wonder the Taoist priest didn’t send him off himself, he was afraid of being exhausted.
However, after visiting these dozen households, Lin Ye had a clear understanding of the situations of these families.
It took Lin Ye four hours to deliver all the amulets, and at the end he almost just dropped them and ran away.
Qingfeng Temple.
The old Taoist looked at the exhausted Lin Ye and said with a smile: "My disciple has gained a lot this time."
"I gained a lot. I even learned what kind of man Widow Li from the east city wanted to take over. I recommended a master to her, and she was quite satisfied."
"Nonsense."
"You also know how to fool around. Is this a job for humans?"
Lin Ye glared at the old Taoist priest, who smiled and said, "There is nothing I can do. You are rich. If I let Daogu go, I am afraid he will not be able to accomplish anything."
After listening to the old Taoist's words, Lin Ye was silent for a moment. He understood what the old Taoist meant.
This time when he was delivering amulets, he also met many poor people with poor conditions. Some of them originally had good family conditions, but something bad happened to their family, such as family members being sick or having accidents, and the whole family no longer had the joy of celebrating the New Year.
When facing these families, he gave them both amulets and silver bills.
In these few hours, he spent nearly a thousand taels of silver, and now he understood why the old Taoist asked him if he had any silver.
"These are all Buddhists who support our Qingfeng Temple. Now that they are in trouble, we should return the money they donated to us and not be implicated in this karma."
The old Taoist sighed, and Lin Ye curled his lips. It was true that the old Taoist was afraid of death and didn't care about cause and effect, but he couldn't find any fault with the old Taoist's behavior.
There is great love in my heart.
It's better than those Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries where you can only enter but not leave.
"Wulian Tianzun, how much did you give out this time?"
"About one thousand three hundred taels." Lin Ye thought for a moment and replied.
The indifferent expression on the old Taoist's face disappeared, replaced by a face full of heartache: "Fuck, you prodigal son, who told you to give so much? Our Qingfeng Temple only received less than two hundred taels of incense money a year. I asked you to give back a little, but I didn't ask you to give back so much. If I had known earlier, I would have let Daogu go. We are a Taoist temple, not a charity."
Seeing the old Taoist's furious look, Lin Ye felt that he should take back his previous evaluation of him.
After leaving Qingfeng Temple, Lin Ye returned home and before he could even sit down, another guest came to his house.
"Is Junior Brother Daoji here?"
Lin Ye: “Not here.”
