I Killed Gods and Demons in Song Dynasty

Chapter 48 Taotie
Li Qingyun came back to his senses and was suddenly startled when he heard the woman's question.

What does she mean? Will others lose control and go crazy if they observe this golden tablet carefully?
The next thing that came to his mind was the first rule of the mysterious world that Lu Zhen mentioned this morning:

“Thou shalt not look directly at God.”

Is it possible that the image on the golden tablet is of a god, so it cannot be looked at directly?
Then why didn't I lose control on the spot, and instead gained a lot of additional knowledge from it?
No! If this is the complete form of the god, then not only me, but everyone present today would have died on the spot when the woman took out the golden tablet and displayed it on the stage just now.

He denied the woman's idea and carefully sorted out the knowledge he had gained from visualizing the golden tablet. He found that although most of it was unclear due to his insufficient level of life, he at least understood what the image carved on it was.

It is a life that only exists in myths and legends, a species conceived by divinity in the ancient world, a natural alien body that is half mortal and half divine.

gluttonous!

……

"Speak quickly!"

An angry shout was sounded, and the woman's eyes were cast over as if facing a great enemy. The sleeves of her wide cloak hung straight down, revealing the shiny tip of a gun with silver light flashing on it, as if she would suddenly attack at any time if there was any mistake.

Li Qingyun had calmed down by now. He leaned lazily on the chair, met her gaze, and said in a deliberately hoarse voice:

“I’m just an ordinary person. I’m not a real immortal or god here. At most, I can be considered… a demigod.

"This is the second clue. You still have to pay."

Demigod... Hearing this, the woman muttered to herself, and suddenly she understood and said:
“No wonder I once looked directly at it and didn’t lose control, but just kept getting dizzy.

"Is it because I am not at a high enough level that I can't gaze at you for as long as you can?
"I am a warrior at the third level, 'Spirit Refining'. How about you? Are you at the fourth level, or... the fifth level?"

The person sitting in front of you is actually a genuine rookie in the first realm... Li Qingyun didn't expect the woman to be so frank. Before he could use any words to extract any information, she had already started to introduce herself.

This innocent girl doesn't look like one of those lawless lunatics of the Wu Shi Religion. But if she wasn't a cultist, why would she spend a huge amount of money to buy that puppet?

Thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, but his eyes remained clear and lucid. He chuckled and said:
"This question seems to have nothing to do with our agreement."

"But……"

The woman wanted to say, "But I have already told you my realm and cultivation path," but she finally felt that it was inappropriate to say so. She sighed and said, "Okay, then which 'demigod' do the symbols and patterns on this golden tablet represent? I can pay for this information."

Ah, this silly and cute aura that comes to my face is really hard to bear... Li Qingyun said calmly:
"This piece of information is worth five hundred taels. Together with the previous two pieces of information, the price is one thousand taels. You also need to answer one question for me."

"it is good!"

The woman said nonchalantly.

Still a rip-off, no, it should be less... Li Qingyun regretted that he had offered too low a price, but in order to maintain his image as a master, he still gritted his teeth and continued in an unfathomable tone:

"The carving on it is the mythical beast 'Taotie'. You should know its origin."

The woman seemed to be thinking about something, and murmured to herself:
"It turns out to be a species from the ancient times, the "Monster King" of the seventh level among the monsters, a divine beast that is only one step away from becoming a saint. No wonder it has divinity, but can only be described with runes, and cannot be stared at for a long time..."

Thank you very much, thank you very much, now I understand, but could you please explain what "Middle Ages" means... Li Qingyun got the origin of "Taotie" from the other party and completed the knowledge that was not on the golden tablet, and he was in a very good mood.

He continued:
"Now you have to answer me a question. Where did you get this golden tablet?"

Li Qingyun did not ask questions about the puppet, for fear that the other party was really a member of the Wu Shi sect. Such questions would alert the enemy. It would be better to secretly do divination to find out later. Anyway, he had already left his aura on it.

As for the golden tablet, it involved the seventh level beast, so he didn't dare to divine lightly, lest he accidentally drain his blood and turn himself into a dried-up human. The woman hesitated for a moment, then said hesitantly:
"This golden tablet belongs to me... my family."

The one at home... turns out to be a rich second generation, probably a prodigal son... Li Qingyun had an idea and continued to ask:
"So where did your family get it?"

"I... I don't know..." The woman shook her head and suddenly glared, "No, I only agreed to answer one question, this is the second one..."

"Okay." Li Qingyun did not ask too many questions, so as not to arouse the other party's vigilance and hinder his further investigation. "Give me one thousand taels of silver, and we'll be even."

The woman nodded, picked up the four treasures of the study on the table in the room, wrote them on them with great fanciness, and handed them to Li Qingyun:

"Here, here you go."

Li Qingyun didn't know what her intention was. He reached out to take the note and took a look at it. He was so angry that his nose almost got crooked.

The handwriting on the paper was crooked, with lines sometimes thick and sometimes thin, like a child's graffiti:

"This is one thousand taels of silver."

Fuck...

Li Qingyun almost cursed, but suppressed his anger and asked:

"Girl, what do you mean?"

The woman laughed awkwardly:
"I left in a hurry and didn't bring any money..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the anger in Li Qingyun's eyes, and quickly added: "Take this to find the people from Xuanwu Pavilion. They promise to cash it in silver, and you won't lose a penny."

How can this be possible? This woman is so proud that she can make Xuanwu Pavilion willingly pay out one thousand taels of silver just by writing a few crooked words. What is her identity?
Li Qingyun became more and more curious, picked up the note and said with doubt:
"I'm going to find Du Huairen now. He'd better make good on his promise."

He bowed and said goodbye, then pushed the door open and walked out.

……

At this time, the transactions outside the door had ended and the free trade period had begun. Many people in the venue spread a piece of cloth on the ground, set up a temporary stall, and sold their things.

As the crowd surged back and forth, Li Qingyun spotted the middle-aged man in brocade clothes, Du Huairen, at a glance, and went to find him with the note.

When Du Huairen saw the note, he immediately said with a smile on his face:
"No problem. Since that person has given the order, I will follow his orders." He then nodded to the servant next to him and said, "Give this young master a thousand taels of silver. Also, don't charge him for protection fees for anything he buys tonight."

This is called knowledge is power, knowledge is money. A few simple words are actually worth a thousand gold coins... Li Qingyun took the ten silver notes worth one hundred taels and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He didn't expect money to come so easily.

Even though he had a large sum of money in hand, he did not stay here any longer, because he knew that he had become a celebrity today. If he rashly bought martial arts techniques and weapons, it would be easy for someone with ulterior motives to use these conspicuous things to infer his identity in the future. So he restrained the urge to spend, found Song Ke through the secret code agreed in advance, and took him away.

On the way back, he noticed that the other person had a palm-sized cloth bag in his hand. He didn't know what was in it, so he asked curiously:
"What did you buy?"

Song Ke's handsome face flushed, and he faltered as he explained:

"This is not mine. Deputy Gang Leader Yun asked me to buy it..."

……

(End of this chapter)