Unorthodox methods, cultivating immortality relies on rich women

Meeting Jiang Yuangui's expectant gaze, Shen Qingzhou didn't immediately reveal his solution. Instead, he asked, "What does your son look like? Do you have a picture of him on your phone?"

"Yes, yes..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuangui quickly took out his phone and opened his photo album.

Shen Qingzhou took the phone and looked at it carefully. The person in the photo had an ordinary appearance, but looked about seven or eight parts similar to Jiang Yuangui.

Then I returned the phone to the other person.

"How is it, Master? Have you figured anything out?"

"Oh, I see, your son isn't very lucky with women," Shen Qingzhou said.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuangui gave an embarrassed smile, "Master, you don't need to look at me, I can see it myself."

His son looks a lot like him when he was young. Doesn't he know whether he was popular with girls when he was young?

Shen Qingzhou smiled, took out a small wooden plaque, which was very exquisitely crafted, and handed it to the other party. "This is a love charm, also known as a peach blossom charm. Have your son wear it, and it will be effective in half a month."

"Effects? What effects?"

"It will bring him good luck in love, but it will be bad luck. It will make him very popular with women for a short period of time, and he will have more choices, so he won't be so attached to his current girlfriend. However, he can't wear it for long, at most three months, otherwise he will be plagued by bad luck in love later, which will be very troublesome."

"Okay, okay..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuangui's face lit up with joy, and he thanked her repeatedly. He reached out to take the item and examine it closely, but Shen Qingzhou withdrew her hand and said earnestly, "There are some things I need to explain to you beforehand."

"Please speak."

"You need to remember two things. First, you must clearly tell your son about this; you can't hide it from him. Second, if any woman talks to him, don't ignore her. After all, my 'Entangling Love Charm' only serves an auxiliary purpose; it's not meant to force other women to like your son. If it were that easy, I wouldn't use it myself; I'd sell it to you. Don't you think that makes sense?"

"That makes sense, that makes sense..."

Jiang Yuangui reached out to take it again, but Shen Qingzhou handed the love charm to Jiang Xinyue, who was standing to the side.

Jiang Xinyue accepted it with a puzzled look on her face.

Shen Qingzhou said earnestly, "The peach blossom charm must be obtained from a woman to bring good fortune."

Jiang Yuangui was the first to react and reached out to Jiang Xinyue to ask for it. Seeing this, Jiang Xinyue quickly handed over the love charm she had on her hand.

Jiang Yuangui took it, and without even having time to examine it closely, immediately asked, "How much?"

Shen Qingzhou said, "This thing wasn't easy for me to make, so give me 8,888 yuan."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuangui said, "I came here today to thank the master for his guidance. Now that I have received such a benefit, let me round it up to 30,000 yuan. The extra amount can be considered my thank-you gift."

Shen Qingzhou didn't refuse and directly gestured for Jiang Xinyue to collect the money.

Jiang Xinyue was slightly taken aback and quickly picked up her phone.

After paying, Jiang Yuangui carefully examined the talisman in his hand. Seeing that its craftsmanship was indeed excellent, he was even more delighted. So he stood up and said, "Then I won't disturb you any longer, Master."

He was eager to go back and put the love charm on his son. Given the effectiveness of the treatment he had given his child, he had no doubt about the charm's authenticity.

After seeing the person off, Jiang Xinyue turned back and asked with some curiosity, "Is that talisman really that magical?"

"Bullshit, I smuggled that thing from Durenzhai. It sold for fifty, but I bought it for five." Shen Qingzhou said.

Jiang Xinyue: ...

"Is it okay to lie to him like this? Will Mr. Jiang cause trouble for us later?" Jiang Xinyue asked with some concern.

"That's why I mentioned those two points to note. You could tell from the day I went to Old Man Jiang's son's house that his family is probably not short of money. And regardless of how bad his daughter-in-law is, with her overseas background and her graduation from Madison School of Journalism, she's not someone an ordinary family can afford to marry..."

"Although Old Man Jiang's son is of average appearance, he's rich. As long as you're rich, you'll never lack women. So his luck with women is not bad. It's just his own problem. If he were just a little more proactive, there would be too many women chasing after him..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xinyue suddenly realized how clever Shen Qingzhou was.

At this moment, Shen Qingzhou casually added, "Besides, am I someone who hates trouble?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xinyue was even more delighted. This kind of intelligent and assertive man would be fatally attractive to any woman.

"Yes, I'll transfer this 30,000 yuan to you." Jiang Xinyue remembered this and quickly took out her phone.

Shen Qingzhou waved his hand and said, "No need. You sold that talisman. Keep 8,888 yuan as living expenses, and transfer the rest to the orphanage's account."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xinyue hesitated for a moment, "Aren't you going to keep some for yourself?"

She had been with Shen Qingzhou for almost a month and knew all too well about his financial situation. He often went hungry and lived a miserable life. The clothes in his closet were all worn out, especially his underwear, which was practically full of holes.

She couldn't stand it anymore, so she secretly bought a few new ones and put them in the closet.

"I won't keep them," Shen Qingzhou said.

Seeing that Jiang Xinyue was still puzzled, Shen Qingzhou thought for a moment and said, "You can think of this as a kind of cultivation. I can't touch money."

Jiang Xinyue suddenly understood upon hearing this. Although she still had some questions, she did not ask any more.

Since it involves cultivation, it must be a matter of great importance, so it's not appropriate to ask in detail.

In fact, Shen Qingzhou was not just giving her a perfunctory answer. It was true that he was working hard to make money to support the children in the orphanage, but these were just appearances. His real purpose was for his own cultivation.

With his current abilities, the ability to transfer illness energy alone is enough for countless wealthy people to treat him as an honored guest, support him for life, and give him whatever he wants. He doesn't need to take on jobs everywhere for money.

Let alone supporting one child in an orphanage, there are plenty of people willing to pay to open ten more orphanages.

His real purpose was to resolve the cause and effect.

Buddhism teaches cause and effect, while Taoism teaches karmic retribution.

In Buddhism, one reaps what one sows; if one does not receive retribution in this life, one will receive it in the next.

The Taoist concept of karmic retribution either brings blessings to one's descendants or brings misfortune upon them.

But in essence, there is not much difference; they are both cause and effect.

Shen Qingzhou himself is a remnant of the previous version, a "virus" of the system. Although the world has no will, its instincts have always wanted to eliminate him.

But what is the best way to prevent a virus from being eliminated?

It will infect other files, of course.

When you try to delete it, you'll either get a message saying that other files are in use and you can't delete it at all, or those other files will become infected with a virus.

This is actually a kind of causal entanglement.

Therefore, among the five deficiencies and three lacks, Shen Qingzhou avoided two of them, leaving only the lack of wealth, which he neither could avoid nor dared to avoid, because money is the best medium of cause and effect.

It is no exaggeration to say that money has connected people in this world.

He works hard to earn money, but not for the sake of money itself; he works for the cause and effect between people.

The more entangled he becomes with the world through cause and effect, the more difficult it becomes for the world to remove him.

Even when he was hit by a car, he managed to escape using a substitute talisman. The reason he was so difficult to kill was because he exploited the rules of cause and effect.

He can be resurrected through cause and effect, and he can use cause and effect to make others die in his place.

The one he used as a substitute last time was the green-haired turtle. After the world's will noticed him, he swallowed the green-haired turtle's soul to prevent this.

Some might wonder, since the green-haired turtle was already dead and a ghost, how could it be used to take someone else's place?

But the death here is not physical death in the literal sense. The will of the world has always been to obliterate the soul, so ghosts are the best material to take the place of death.

The more people entangled in cause and effect, and the deeper the entanglement, the harder it is for him to kill.

It's even possible that killing him could cause the entire world system to collapse.

Of course, Shen Qingzhou's current causal numbers are not enough to achieve this, but it is also his primary goal in life.

The reason Shen Qingzhou tried so hard to live and didn't want to be eliminated was that he wanted to find out where all the people from the previous version went.

Why is the world updating? Is there a problem?

Computer system upgrades are always done by patching or iterating on the existing system; there's no such thing as directly replacing it with a completely new operating system.

Besides, is the world a self-changing version, or is it "human-made"?

Shen Qingzhou felt that the answer should be in the "underworld," not in reality.

This is the main reason why he has always wanted to explore the underworld.