Uncle Nine: Pawn Evil Spirits, Collect Demons, and Trade Them for Immortal Arts

Ren Xiaolin transmigrates into the world of Mr. Vampire and binds himself to a magical pawnshop System: he can pawn living people for silver dollars and ghosts and monsters for immortal arts. By day, he fleeces the rich; by night, he collects vicious ghosts. After three years in business, he has gone from a clueless teenager to Ren Family Town's biggest nouveau riche, though his cultivation is stuck at the peak of the Mage realm.

When Uncle Jiu captures a vicious ghost at Old Wang's teahouse, Ren Xiaolin whips out his treasure gourd and snatches it right from under his nose. He drags Uncle Jiu back to the pawnshop. "Uncle Jiu, you have no use for this ghost. Why not let me take it off your hands for good?" The System registers his reward: the Sunfire Body Tempering Art breaks through, and the Thousand Transformations of Godslayer is unlocked. Uncle Jiu stares at the magical treasure that appeared out of nowhere, then falls silent for a moment. "This pawnshop of yours... can even take ghosts?"

Old Master Ren bursts from his coffin as a green-hair zombie, and Uncle Jiu sets up a formation to hold it off. Ren Xiaolin squats on a wall and watches the show. When Uncle Jiu is backed into a corner, he jumps down, trapping the zombie with his treasure gourd in his left hand. He is halfway through the summoning incantation for the Burning Ruins Heaven-Silencing Wolf when he turns to grin at Uncle Jiu:

"Uncle Jiu, I'll take this old zombie off your hands. Since it's your family's goods, I'll give you a twenty percent discount."

Uncle Jiu looks at the ancestral zombie that has just been pawned, the corner of his mouth twitching.

"Master Ren is going to try to kill me."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.