I attained immortality through meditation in the Great Qian Dynasty.

Inside the box were ingots of silver.

Ten thousand taels!

Su Mei's breathing suddenly stopped.

She was a businesswoman, welcoming and seeing off many people. She had witnessed transactions involving hundreds of taels of silver, and deals involving thousands of taels were considered big deals.

Ten thousand taels...

Accountant Sun managed to stay upright by holding onto the counter behind him.

In his entire life, he had never even dared to dream of having so much money, let alone seeing it!

Zhao Zian's gaze fell on Wang Cong's face.

I accept your apology.

Wang Cong was granted a general amnesty.

"Thank you, miracle doctor! Thank you, miracle doctor, for your mercy!"

"As for the second condition..." Zhao Zi'an paused.

"Go back and tell your father."

"Three days later, before noon, have him come to Jishetang in person."

"This is his chance to live, and also his chance to fulfill the second condition."

"No time limit."

"Yes! Yes! I will definitely pass on the message! I will make sure my father arrives on time!" Wang Cong nodded vigorously, afraid that Zhao Zian would change his mind.

"Get lost."

Zhao Zian waved his hand.

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll get out of here right away! I'll get out of here right away!"

Only after Wang Cong disappeared did Accountant Sun finally breathe a long sigh of relief.

Zhao Zian said to Sun, the accountant.

"Sun the accountant, close the box and carry it to the accounting office in the backyard."

"Huh? Oh! Oh, okay!"

Sun, the accountant, couldn't lift it by himself at all.

Zhao Zian called over two apprentices from the shop, and the three of them worked together to carry the box into the backyard.

"Ten thousand taels."

Zhao Zian spoke first.

"Let's keep it in the company account for now."

Su Mei was startled and raised her eyes.

"Public accounts?"

"Yes." Zhao Zian nodded. "Consider it capital for our Jishetang."

Su Mei's heart skipped a beat for no reason.

We...Jishetang?

He didn't consider himself an outsider.

"This ten thousand taels will be used to buy land," Zhao Zian continued.

Su Mei quickly replied, "Perfect, we've found a lead."

"I'll do as you requested, specifically looking for remote, unwanted land outside of town."

"I actually found one."

"Oh?" Zhao Zian became interested.

"At the west end of the town, near the mass grave, there is a sloping area of ​​about twelve or thirteen mu."

"That place is really weird."

Su Mei lowered her voice.

"It's said that it used to be the ancestral grave of a wealthy family. Later, that family committed a crime and their property was confiscated, and the grave was leveled. Then, a plague broke out, and the dead were buried nearby. So, the people in town say that the place is gloomy and unclean, nothing grows well there, and people who live there for a long time will get sick."

"In previous years, some outsiders didn't know any better and bought the land cheaply, intending to cultivate it. But what happened? Their cattle and sheep died suddenly, and their families kept having ghost sightings. In the end, they were so scared that they couldn't even sell it for half price and ran away overnight. The land deeds were listed in the real estate agency for several years, but nobody asked about them."

Just then, Accountant Sun came out from the backyard and joined in.

"The shopkeeper is talking about Ghost Cry Slope, right? That place is absolutely forbidden! It's incredibly eerie! At night, the wind blows across that slope, howling like a child crying. Who would dare go there!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zian's eyes lit up.

Is the yin energy too strong?

Nothing I plant grows well?

Strange?

There's no such thing as evil without a reason in this world.

What mortals perceive as eerie and ghostly, he might very well see as...

Spiritual energy!

However, this kind of spiritual energy has a yin attribute or a special form.

The human body cannot withstand it, nor can plants absorb it, which causes all sorts of strange phenomena.

"What's the price?"

Su Mei extended two slender fingers.

"Two hundred taels."

"The brokerage firm said that as long as you're willing to take it over, two hundred taels of silver, twelve mu of land, along with the land deeds and documents, will all be yours."

"Well done."

Zhao Zian smiled.

Su Mei touched a strand of hair at her temple.

"Two hundred taels for a piece of wasteland? I'm afraid you'll scold me for wasting money."

"No, your two hundred taels are more valuable than ten thousand taels."

Su Mei looked up.

What does that mean?

She wanted to ask again, but Zhao Zian had already turned away.

"Accountant Sun, take out two hundred and twenty taels of silver from the box."

"Twenty taels, that's for the broker's tea money. Tell them to get things done quickly. I want to see the land deed before sunset today."

"The remaining two hundred taels are for paying the land fee."

"Yes, miracle doctor! I'll get right away!" Accountant Sun ran back to the backyard.

Zhao Zian then looked at Su Mei.

"You can decide what to do with the rest of the money. Replace whatever medicinal herbs or equipment the pharmacy needs with the best ones."

I'm going out for a bit.

"Where are you going?" Su Mei blurted out.

"Let's go check out the land."

Zhao Zian strode out of Jishetang.

Zhao Zian headed west until he reached the end of the town.

Further on, the stone-paved road turned into a bumpy dirt road.

A cool breeze filled the air.

It wasn't that the weather was getting colder, but rather a chilling cold that seeped into your bones.

Ordinary people would feel a chill run down their spine if they walked here.

Zhao Zian quickened his pace.

The further you go, the stronger the chilling aura becomes.

The trees along the roadside have also become strangely shaped, with twisted branches.

The true essence within his body began to circulate spontaneously the moment he stepped into this area.

It dispelled the chilling energy that had invaded the body, and even brought a sense of relief, like rain after a long drought.

That's right.

The sinister aura that mortals fear like a tiger.

For him, a cultivator, it was nothing more than another type of spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

Soon, a gentle slope came into view.

The entire hillside was dark brown, the soil was compacted, and not a blade of grass grew.

This is Ghost Cry Slope.

The moment Zhao Zian set foot on this land.

A chilling aura, ten times stronger than usual, surged into his body from the soles of his feet!

Zhao Zian squinted his eyes in comfort.

The technique operates on its own, refining and transforming Yin-attribute spiritual energy into true essence.

He explored this land.

"Thin in the east, thick in the west..."

"Disorder in the south, convergence in the north..."

The distribution of this spiritual energy is highly abnormal.

It doesn't look like it was formed naturally; rather, it seems more like it was arranged by humans.

A formation!

A formation specifically designed to gather Yin energy!

He stood at the highest point of the hillside, overlooking the entire slope.

In my divine sense, invisible black currents of energy were converging from all directions.

The center of the vortex was in an inconspicuous depression in the middle of the hillside.

Zhao Zian walked over.

It was a deep well that had long since dried up and been abandoned.

He moved the stone slabs aside, and the bottom of the well was pitch black, piled high with all sorts of animal bones.

No wonder Su Mei said this place was eerie.

The sudden deaths of cattle and sheep were probably caused by their carelessness in getting close to the well, where the yin energy took their lives.

As for seeing ghosts...

Under such a concentration of yin energy, it's perfectly normal for someone with a slightly fragile mind to experience hallucinations.

Zhao Zian leaped and landed on the skeletons at the bottom of the well.

The well was not large, only about ten feet in diameter.

He scanned the surrounding well walls and discovered faint engravings.

Zhao Zian stretched out his finger and wiped away the mud.

The runes were revealed.

These runes spiral upwards from the bottom of the well, forming a complete system.