Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 99 If you hadn't said that, I might not have gone to Feng'ao Mountain (Fifth Update)

Lin Jiang, unperturbed by the dirt on the ground, swept away the fallen leaves with his sleeve, sat cross-legged, and looked at the accountant.

The accountant remained silent for a long time, as if weighing his options carefully, before continuing:
"Young master, you probably don't know how corrupt officials bring disaster to the country. Officials in the Northwest can embezzle 100,000 taels of silver in just three years. The barren land is already impoverished, and now people are even eating each other."

Lin Jiang didn't speak, but continued to listen to the accountant read aloud.

Seemingly sensing that his words had had an effect, the accountant's tone became even more enthusiastic than before:

“Raising the banner of righteousness requires soldiers, horses, money, and provisions! Without enough food and warm clothes, how can we fight against the corrupt officials and the imperial court? Feng Aoshan merely collects some funds from various villages. As for what his subordinates have done, I know nothing about it.”

Lin Jiang suddenly chuckled.

This excuse of "not taking responsibility for the actions of subordinates" is exactly the same as the statements made by some companies in the past.

"Why are you laughing, young master?"

"It's nothing, I just remembered something happy."

Lin Jiang waved his hand and said:
"You mean, you are the greatest heroes?"

"I dare not call myself a chivalrous person, but I only wish to punish the corrupt officials."

"How exactly do these corrupt officials exploit people?" Lin Jiang asked with a smile.

"That's absolutely wicked! They're trying every trick in the book to siphon money out of ordinary people's homes, forcibly abducting women in the streets, raising rents, and forcing farmers to hand over 70-80% of their wheat!"

"That's absolutely terrible!" Lin Jiang sighed in frustration.

“Yes!” The accountant’s eyes were sincere. “Exactly! Seeing that you, young master, also have a chivalrous heart, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we traveled together?”

"Aren't you also exploiting the people?"

"what?"

“You’ve raised bandits and sent them around to rob people. If they don’t pay you, you kill them,” Lin Jiang clapped his hands. “You guys are pretty wicked.”

The accountant's face stiffened, and he suddenly gritted his teeth: "You're playing me!"

"Yes, I was just messing with you." The smile on Lin Jiang's face gradually disappeared.

"Feng Ao Mountain lets bandits collect money, and Ta Yunxia feeds spiders to amass wealth, yet you dare to talk to me about chivalry? Even if corrupt officials force you to become outlaws, you turn around and raise bandits to prey on the villagers. How are you any different from parasites?"

The accountant took several deep breaths, suppressing his anger.

"What do you want in return for letting me leave? Do you want gold and silver? Or magical treasures?"

"Tell me the specifics of Feng'ao Mountain, explain it in detail, and I might be able to let you go."

“Feng Aoshan, Feng Aoshan…” The accountant suddenly sneered: “I see now, you’re a lackey of the imperial court!”

"I have nothing to do with the imperial court."

"If you're not a lackey, why are you so relentlessly attacking? Do you really have a chivalrous heart and want to sweep away all injustice in this world? You think you have that ability? Bah!"

The accountant, no longer wearing a pleasant expression, turned to look at Tai Nanzi.
"You old Taoist, are you a Taoist priest who rides the clouds? It seems this person helped you kill that spider, and you blindly believe him? How foolish! This person is clearly using you as pawns to test the waters ahead!"

Tai Nanzi did not reply to him.

"Mount Feng'ao is full of heroes. Although I am not talented, I am one of them. I left my soul tablet on the mountain. If I die, the soul tablet will crack in the middle, and everyone on the mountain will know the news. At that time, this handsome young master can leave without a care, and you Ta Yunxia will be slaughtered by my brothers!"

These words finally made Tai Nanzi's eyebrows twitch.

The accountant keenly noticed the change in Tai Nanzi's eyes and a cold smile appeared on his face.

really,

If the soft one doesn't work, then use the hard one.

This young master is probably not afraid of Feng Aoshan's threat. He is alone, so it is difficult for him to trace the trail or find the root cause. Threatening him will not have much effect.

But the Taoist priest next to him was different.

Even if you ride the clouds, you can't escape.

As long as I can intimidate them and get them to let me go, I can still tell my brothers when I get back to the mountain.

When the time comes, everyone will come together, wipe out this sect, and establish a new puppet to support it!
But then Tai Nanzi slowly approached, squatted down, and looked at him straight ahead.

The accountant frowned and leaned back.

Tai Nanzi's tone was very calm:

"For the past twenty years, Ta Yunxia has been trapped by demons and helped mountain bandits do many absurd things. Now that I have broken free of my shackles and been reborn, if I were to fear your intimidation again, wouldn't all the suffering of these past twenty years be a joke?"

"You motherfucker..." Before the accountant could finish cursing, he suddenly felt Lin Jiang's hand cover his skull.

The accountant, feeling the warmth emanating from Lin Jiang's palm, panicked for a moment:
"What are you doing?!" Lin Jiang didn't speak to the accountant, but instead took out a tiger robe from his sleeve.

"Young master, I really can't eat anymore." The dead tiger's head on top of the tiger robe was now even damp. "If I eat it, it might explode."

"Just one, just one, please put it in."

"The last one, after you've refined it, you must let me rest a bit."

As Lin Jiang and Tiger Robe spoke in cryptic terms, the accountant's eyes widened slightly.

"Transform the accomplice into a soul!"

"Your knowledge is indeed extensive; this is precisely the method you've mastered."

"If you dare to kill me, the brothers on the mountain will not let you off!" The accountant was still making a last-ditch effort.

“If you hadn’t said those things, I probably wouldn’t have gone to Feng Ao Mountain. It’s not on my way there, and it would have been a waste of time to go through all that trouble to go to Feng Ao Mountain.”

Lin Jiang slowly applied pressure, and the accountant's neck creaked under the strain: "But since you have so many good brothers, if I don't eradicate that place completely, wouldn't it be troublesome for your good brothers to run into me in the martial arts world later?"

The accountant kept his words to himself, staring intently at Lin Jiang with unspeakable resentment in his eyes.

Ignoring the accountant, Lin Jiang pressed down hard with his hand.

His neck snapped to the side, and he was completely dead.

After doing this, Lin Jiang covered the accountant with the tiger robe. The tiger robe sighed deeply, but still began to gnaw on the corpse slowly.

But after eating only half of it, Tiger Robe suddenly stopped and smacked his lips twice.

"What's wrong? Can't you eat anymore?" Lin Jiang touched his robe.

"No, something's not right." The man in the tiger robe finally figured it out: "I know! This body has no soul!"

"No soul?"

"Yes." The man in the tiger robe was very certain: "When I refine the cougar, I will definitely taste its soul. I can tell whether there is a soul in the flesh and blood body immediately."

"But if he didn't have a soul, how could this person have traveled all the way from Feng'ao Mountain to here?"

"I don't know. If there is some kind of treasure that can store the three souls and seven spirits in that place in advance, it might achieve the same effect."

Lin Jiang pondered silently.

Sure enough, there are probably quite a few "treasures" inside this Feng'ao Mountain stronghold.

……

The wind blows from the mountaintop, all the way to the northwest.

When the swirling wind merged into the storm cloud, Huang Daozi also lifted the curtain of the carriage and poked his head out to look outside.

Dark clouds covered the mountain peaks in the distance, the wind whipped them into gullies, and grime settled on the cloud-covered mountaintops.

Faintly, one could even hear the thunderous roar coming from within the dark clouds, which was both terrifying and alarming.

In the distance lies Feng'ao Mountain.

Suppressing his thoughts, Huang Daozi drove to a town near the mountain, a notorious bandit town in the area. Once inside, he would be able to contact the heroes of Feng'ao Mountain.

After another full day of travel, the exhausted Huang Daozi finally arrived at his destination. After getting off the carriage, he had no time to rest and could only hurriedly arrange for his two concubines to be placed in the homes of trustworthy families.

Then he hurriedly went to Feng Aoshan's stall.

He handed his letter of introduction to the hero drinking at the stall, and seeing that the hero was on his way to Feng'ao Mountain, Huang Daozi waited there.

I couldn't sit still, so I had to stand up and walk around the room. After walking around twice, my mind was in turmoil again, so I could only press my temples and sigh deeply.

Finally, after leaving his footprints in every corner of the room, the hero who had just climbed the mountain came down:
"You're from that chaotic place, aren't you?"

"Exactly."

"Come up the mountain with me."

Although the hero said this, his expression was not very pleasant.

Huang Daozi keenly noticed the anomaly. He lowered his voice and asked in a low voice:
"Dude, what's going on?"

"Li Qi went to collect debts in the chaotic area, but the spirit tablet was shattered," the hero said coldly.

"what?"

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