Cultivation of Immortality: This is what unorthodox methods are like.

The back alley of No. 95 compound is actually the hutong that Wang Quan mentioned.

Ma Qingqiu and the others looked at the back door they had just come out through, then at the dark alley in front of them, and said in astonishment, "Hey, we want a place in this courtyard, a three-bedroom, two-living-room house."

"We won't go deep into the alleys!"

"My friend said it's dangerous deep in the alleys!"

Fang Ya rolled his eyes: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"A place? With your meager virtue of a few thousand units, you can't even buy a place in this back alley, let alone in a grand mansion."

"The three of you can only manage to get enough for one jar at most."

Ma Qingqiu blinked: "What is a jar of land?"

Fang Ya laughed: "You'll find out soon enough."

"Let's go, we have to hurry."

call out!call out!call out!

Ma Qingqiu and his two companions followed Fang Ya as they ran through the alleyways.

The alley became increasingly dark as you walked; only near the back gate of the house did a faint glimmer of light appear.

As the darkness deepened, Ma Qingqiu and the others smelled a strange, foul stench.

"Why does it smell so bad?"

Fang Ya laughed and said, "Because this is a back alley!"

After walking for a while, Ma Qingqiu and the others felt a sticky sensation under their feet, as if they were stepping on mud with every step: "What's on the ground?"

Fang Ya laughed: "The ground is dirt!"

They continued onward, the surrounding darkness almost swallowing up the light from the back door of the house.

A large number of beings from the underworld entered and exited through the narrow back door.

Under the interplay of light and shadow, their faces appear distorted and ferocious.

Ma Qingqiu and the others shuddered, the three of them holding hands, not daring to separate: "How much longer do we have to walk?"

"Be patient, we'll be there soon."

Ma Qingqiu gritted her teeth:

"We actually don't want to buy a house here anymore."

Fang Ya laughed: "If you don't buy houses, how will I get kickbacks?"

Ma Qingqiu and the others were speechless for a moment.

Keep going: Light emerges from the darkness.

However, the light here is neither the light of blue skies and white clouds, nor the light of candlelight.

Instead, it was a lush, ghastly green light.

Clusters of phosphorescent light drifted in the air.

There are skulls nailed to both sides of the alley, occasionally spitting out bursts of phosphorescent light, serving as an atmosphere and lighting unit.

There are skeleton spiders, centipedes, and other creatures, with phosphorescent flames emanating from their mouths, noses, and toes, appearing and disappearing in the darkness.

The hairs on Ma Qingqiu and the other two stood on end.

At this moment, the property manager pointed to a wall and said, "Look, this is your property!"

The three of them stared intently, then fell silent.

Fang Ya blinked: "Why aren't you all excited?"

"Let me tell you, I had to use my connections to save this property."

"Otherwise, it would have been snatched away by some other guy long ago!"

As they were talking, Ma Qingqiu and the others heard arguing coming from the side.

They saw a gigantic minotaur pointing at the property the man had described, roaring and growling, "I want this house!"

"I'll pay more!"

"They won't give me more money!"

Ma Qingqiu looked at the densely packed urns piled up against the wall. One of the urns had a piece of paper pasted on it with the words "For Sale" written in large characters.

Clearly, this urn is the industry that Fang Ya was talking about.

"Brother, let's give this business to the minotaur brothers!"

"What?"

The two mammoths, plus a minotaur, all glared angrily at Ma Qingqiu.

The next moment, the minotaur grabbed Ma Qingqiu by the neck, lifted him up with one arm, and growled, "You fucking don't want it anymore?"

"If you don't want the house, then all my acting has been for nothing?"

Ma Qingqiu was stunned and speechless.

Fang Ya coughed beside him, and the minotaur scratched his head: "Was I too impulsive? Shouldn't it be the two of us bidding next, and once we reach a certain price, we let this sucker take the fall?"

The mammary teeth nodded vigorously.

The minotaur chuckled, "Sorry, I forgot; let's try again!"

Ma Qingqiu said, trembling, "No need!"

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"If we don't start over, how can we possibly exhaust all your good karma?"

"Listen to me, let's try again. You bid, I'll raise the bid, and we'll..."

Ma Qingqiu looked up, a half-smile on his face, then suddenly roared, "I said—no need!"

"what!"

The next moment, Ma Qingqiu reached out and grabbed the minotaur's wrist:

boom!

The minotaur's wrist exploded, blood and flesh splattered, and bone fragments flew everywhere.

Flesh and blood fell to the ground and turned into mud.

The bone fragments clanged against the urn.

Many urns were opened, and angry roars echoed: "What the hell are you doing?"

boom! boom! boom!

Ma Qingqiu plugged the urns one by one.

Then, he turned to Fang Ya, gritting his teeth, and said, "I trust you, that's why I let you help me find a house!"

"So, you just lied to me like that? You played me for a fool?"

"It's one thing to lie to me, but why hire such an unprofessional conman?"

"Do I look like an idiot?"

"Am I that stupid?"

Fang Ya retorted, feeling wronged: "You guys are all idiots!"

"You clearly have the status of servants in a grand mansion, and you should be enjoying all the good things in that mansion!"

"Why bother buying a house?"

"Besides, all of you combined only have a few thousand merits."

"With such a paltry amount of good karma, you expect to build a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment? Ha! A cremation urn will suffice for you."

"Keep going deeper into the alley. Those guys don't even have bone jars. They only deserve to sleep hanging on ropes like cured meat."

"I'm only asking for a tiny bit more money than you need; it's not really cheating you!"

Ma Qingqiu was stunned: "With our accumulated virtue, we only deserve to live in this place?"

Fang Ya nodded: "Yes!"

Ma Qingqiu took a deep breath: "You're lying to me!"

"without!"

Ma Qingqiu... remained silent.

Fang Ya coughed and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, try to think positively."

"Do you still want this house?"

Ma Qingqiu shook her head: "No, thank you!"

"I'm not dead yet, I don't want to live in an urn!"

Fang Ya laughed: "That's true. You're a servant in a grand mansion now. Even if you live in the worst conditions there, it's still better than being cremated in an urn!"

"Hmm... Even though you don't want the house anymore, you still need to pay a one-third service fee!"

Ma Qingqiu raised an eyebrow.

The minotaur with the severed hand grinned and said, "You have to pay a service fee, otherwise my hand would have been severed for nothing!"

Ma Qingqiu and his two friends grinned maliciously: "Do you really think we're made of clay? That we can be bullied as we please?"

Ma Qingqiu rolled up his sleeves and said, "Our good deeds didn't just fall from the sky!"

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

In the darkness, one after another, creatures of the underworld emerged; the urn opened, and plumes of black smoke billowed out, as bizarre and wondrous creatures peered out: "Fang Ya, do you need help?"

"Kill him, and we'll collect two-thirds of the good karma!"

Fang Ya smiled and looked at Ma Qingqiu and the others.

The two cultivators took a deep breath, formed hand seals, and prepared to release spells in Daoist language.

Ma Qingqiu suddenly laughed: "You're threatening me?"

"Um!"

"Although I am not as intelligent as Wang Quan, the Flower-Scattering Taoist, and I do not have as much authority as him."

"but......."

The next instant, smoke rose from beneath Ma Qingqiu's feet, carrying the three of them on his back.

Then, he formed a hand seal, and a phantom of a blue lotus flower bloomed from between his hand seals:

"But... I'm more ruthless than royalty!"

"No one can humiliate me and then blackmail me with impunity!"

"It didn't exist before, and it never will!"

despair!despair!despair!