If You Want to Cultivate Immortality, Pay Up

Xie Lingshi, a good young man from the 21st century, never expected to be bound to a System called "Die If You Don't Cultivate" after his death.

He also never expected the System to be such a pain in the neck.

What? He has to ascend to come back to life?

What? His golden finger is a gacha system?

What? He has to spend money to pull cards?

None of that matters. Comforting himself, Xie Lingshi found another way: fight fire with fire and open a card shop in the cultivation world.

At first, the cultivators thought nothing of it. What good stuff could a tiny, shabby place like that possibly sell?

Then the first person who refused to believe it went inside and came out clutching several cards.

Everyone asked, "Did they rip you off?"

But the man suddenly bolted. Before they could assume Xie Lingshi was about to get beaten up, they heard him yell:

"Someone! Go get all the spirit stones from my estate!"

A second skeptic went in, too.

When he came out, he tried hard to suppress a smile and told everyone, "There's nothing in there! Let's all go home!"

As if anyone would believe that!

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Before long, Xie Lingshi's card shop even became the standard by which different regions measured themselves.

"Huh? Pavilion Master Xie hasn't visited your continent yet? Maybe you should take a good look at yourselves."

"You want to know what this shiny gold card is? It's a VIP gold card from the Spirit Card Pavilion. Don't tell me you don't have one?"

"What, your continent's been blacklisted? Then let's not keep in touch. Don't drag me into this!"

And then there was: "When is Pavilion Master Xie moving his shop to xx Continent?"

Comments like these kept cropping up everywhere. Only Wuli Continent, which had risen from third-last to first place, smiled and kept quiet.

As long as Pavilion Master Xie's Dao Companion stayed in Wuli Continent, Pavilion Master Xie would always belong to Wuli Continent!

Meanwhile, Xie Lingshi was being pinned to the bed and kissed by the little one he'd brought home.

Help! Nobody told him spending money would get him a Dao Companion, too!

Core message: Keep striving to live your life.