Afternoon.

The entire prison had been dismantled by a third.

After all, building is difficult, dismantling is easy.

Moreover, the cultivators of this world are all immensely strong, having trained the Five Elements, making them naturally skilled at moving bricks.

Even without cultivation, their physique would be akin to a superman compared to someone from Earth.

"My heavens?"

"How could this prison be...."

Li Youyou, the prison warden, wandered around, watching people dismantle buildings everywhere.

Moreover, he found that the prisoners held in the prison had all disappeared one by one.

Each was moved to the neighboring "prison" for temporary residence, leaving him somewhat angry.

His source of amusement was gone.

He stormed off to find trouble with the blacksmiths, but the Food God blocked his way:

"Brother, you're so handsome and promising, surely you're a high-ranking official in the prison."

"Let me treat you to a drink." The Food God opened a jar, using the aroma of wine to quell his outrage.

As a ghost, his instincts were drawn to flesh and blood.

The Shadow Spirit Rice Wine before him was no less tempting than the flesh and blood of living beings, and he was immediately enticed, starting to drink without bothering to get angry.

Then, a few blacksmiths gathered around him.

"Colleague, though we all work for the government, compared to you, we are simply..."

They began using an already highly practiced psychological attack, activating the "praise group" mode, showering him with erratic compliments.

Life, appearance, cultivation, family background, talent, attire...

From every tricky angle, attacking comprehensively.

Especially those pretty loli blacksmiths who were also here to move bricks, talking with enchanting voices.

With calls of "mister" and "handsome," one could easily lose themselves.

Li Youyou drank, already dizzy from the praise, feeling that these colleagues from the Civil Engineering Department were rather eloquent.

He gradually felt that they were not enemies, all working for the government, rebuilding the prison was their duty, and he probably didn't need to be angry.

Besides, when away from home, having more brothers in the government was not bad either.

The Civil Engineering Department was a lucrative institution, befriending them would be beneficial for his career too.

One cannot hit a smiling face, he felt embarrassed to speak up, starting to drink and laugh with them.

"How are they so skillful?"

A Shi Family girl silently watched this scene, muttering a curse.

Those damn Blood Separation Flower families used this trick too, bombarding their young lady Shi Youyou with flattery the first time they met.

Poor Shi Family, at the time, thought those people were quite nice.

Turns out, they just used the same trick on everyone.

What beasts they were!

Very well, we have also learned this trick.

In the future, when our team camps in the wild and encounters other groups, whether they're friends or foes, we'll swarm them with compliment volleys.

What?

Face?

It's no longer important; shameless flattery is all it takes.

We're already writing books on snow consumption education, preparing to cultivate a young generation of readers.

She had a thought and joined the blacksmiths in praising Li Youyou enthusiastically.

The effect wasn't bad.

That Li Youyou saw her as the most beautiful girl among them, and she praised him so much that he beamed with joy.

This trick slowly filled the Shi Family girl with a huge sense of accomplishment.

——Why worship the Blood Separation Flower family? We will surpass them!

Their techniques, we've been secretly learning bit by bit, and today we've used them to dazzle them with clothes and grave-robbing tools!

The few blacksmiths witnessing this exchanged glances, their hearts instantly filled with fear:

"Damn, they're learning our techniques again, probably will use this technique on us in a while."

"Boohoo, isn't there intellectual property in this world, I'm applying for patent protection."

"I'm disgusted, is this really a Demon Cultivator family? So scary."

...

The blacksmiths shivered with fear, feeling this game was unplayable at all.

In no time.

Li Youyou was drunk, dizzy from drinking, and started boasting wildly:

"My ancestor is powerful, a City Guard! He manages everyone in your city! All your local noble families have to watch his face."

"How great is your ancestor?" A blacksmith feigned ignorance.

Li Youyou fell for it, starting to narrate his ancestor's abilities and experiences.

In the warden's office.

Li Ming quietly watched this scene, frowning slightly.

These people were gathering intelligence on him.

Though he found it odd, after some thoughts, he couldn't think of anything specific.

Because, in his view, he was still alive, living in his own era, still in control of a city.

His information, the major families in the city basically knew already.

If they wanted to inquire, let them.

Probably the young generation's gossip.

It was these young people in front of him, diligent and capable, far better than the good-for-nothings in his family.

If only his descendants would be so eloquent and diligent.

Li Ming continued listening to these flattering words, feeling quite pleased.

After all, in the past, the various families often flattered him too, but none as fresh and refined as now!

No one dislikes being praised, especially behind their back; Li Ming was no exception.

Only, he suddenly listened and his expression stiffened.

The Food God listened with an expression of admiration, suddenly furious: "Where there's a will, there's a way. Our family's weakness only means we have plenty of room to grow stronger!"

"Tell your ancestor not to be too proud because our three ancestors are motivated by shame and are already working hard to become stronger!"

?

Li Youyou was momentarily stunned, unable to react.

I was boasting about how formidable our family is, shouldn't you be saying you'll strive to become stronger as a young person? Why is it that you're asking your ancestors to work harder?

This sudden shift to relying on ancestors really caught him off guard.

Step, step, step!

The Shi Family Patriarch, Shi Youxing, passed by, clutching his head, watching the two "children of officials" bragging to each other, secretly impressed by how quickly they could build relationships.

They can really act like anyone.

Shi Youxing pondered for a moment, then walked upstairs and knocked on the door of the Warden's office.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Come in," said Li Ming.

Shi Youxing was wearing a form-fitted earth-colored official woman's uniform, posing as a high-level member of the Civil Engineering Department, "I'm here for some personal business to discuss with you."

"What business?" Li Ming asked.

"We want to exchange some resources." Shi Youxing got straight to the point, expressing interest in the prison's Spirit Plants area.

Li Ming frowned slightly.

To him, the most valuable part of his prison was the Spirit Plants area.

It held countless Spirit Plants aged thousands, even tens of thousands of years, and there was even an ancient fruit forest.

Though his self-perception completely rationalized the fact that, despite not having lived so long, he possessed such mature Spirit Plants.

"That won't be cheap," Li Ming said casually.

"We only need some of the lower-aged ones." Shi Youxing offered a polite smile since higher-aged Spirit Plants are more likely to be contaminated.

Some estimated hundreds, thousands of years; these recent growths were still usable.

"A few can be spared."

Li Ming chuckled, "I'll take you to see them."

Shi Youxing gave an affirmative nod and followed into the depths of the Spirit Plants area.

After all.

She was about to start a deception, and needed to sort out the Spirit Plants transactions early.

Otherwise, once they'd dismantled his prison and it's discovered, it would be harder to get the Spirit Plants.

Rustle, rustle!

Opening the array, there was nothing but mist.

A fruit forest surrounded them, with numerous spiritual objects covering the vicinity.

As a professional scam artist, Shi Youxing glanced around and showed regret, what a pity, truly a pity.

Spoiling so many good things.

She sighed inwardly, using her family's wealth of grave-robber experience, she roughly judged how many usable Spirit Plants were there and was mentally prepared.

"We would like to exchange them for Pill Medicine." Shi Youxing grinned, checking with Li Ming on the number of Spirit Plants she wanted to purchase.

Her Pill Medicine, of course, was not genuine.

It was pill medicine stolen from a grave, heavily contaminated with Yin Qi to the point that living people couldn't consume them.

But just as Ghosts can't recognize contaminated Spirit Plants, they also can't distinguish problems with contaminated pill medicine.

It was initially their own pollution, and they have a cognitive deficit regarding this.

Thus, the Shi Family often employs this strategy.

Shi Youxing secretly calculated:

"I'll trade unusable funeral pill medicine for usable Spirit Plants."

"Previously, the Blood Separation Flower family indicated they wanted these Spirit Plants, so after acquiring them, I'll sell them at a slightly lower price."

"This not only earns a favor but also makes a significant profit from them."

In this way, they've practically looted all the funeral's [building], [prisoners], [Spirit Plants], concluding perfectly.

Now they could start withdrawing!

Leaving the funeral's owner, who eventually discovers the truth and sees the cave stripped of every brick, would be no more than impotently enraged!

Indeed.

Isn't the funeral's owner useless afterwards?

There's still value!

He would probably revert to his previous routine, continuing to cultivate this [Spirit Plants area].

The Shi Family just needs to return regularly, use the stolen funeral goods to trade, and exchange for the Spirit Grass they plant.

The other side becomes effectively their serf!

And this serf model, they have thousands of small subdivisions.

Only they know the location of these graves.

These funeral owners help the Shi Family regularly cultivate spiritual objects in the graves.

However, unfortunately, the Spirit Plants they plant top off at hundreds, or thousands of years.

Anything more risks heavy contamination and becomes completely unusable!

The output of Spirit Plants forms the backbone of their legacy alongside the Blood Separation Flower family!

After all.

The Blood Separation Flower family has fixed income from the Magic Copper mine.

Without fixed income, how could their grave Spirit Field compare?

Shi Youxing sighed lightly:

"However, the Blood Separation Flower family had fixed income previously from the Meat Field Beast Fighting Arena, but after escaping, they were powerless."

"If it weren't for this generation having ruthless individuals, declining like that, forcefully leading an assault on the Jiao Family Stronghold and occupying the Magic Copper mine, they would have fallen already, far weaker than our Shi Family."

Shi Youxing could only lament the uncertainty of the world.

Indeed, the opposing family now has quite a batch of talents, appearing to be on the verge of an explosive rise.

This makes Shi Youxing somewhat envious and jealous of this friendly intermarried relative.

This is human nature.

Fearing your brother's suffering, yet also fearing him driving a Range Rover.

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