Seeing the person lying inside, Xu Qionggui burst into tears.
After a long while, Xu Qionggui, having cald down, nodded. "Alright, thank you, shopkeeper!"
Returning to the table and sitting down, Xu Qionggui returned Teng Hongchang's storage bag to Xu Ning. "I'll take the letter, but the things inside are his reward to you. I won't take them."
Xu Ning accepted it without pretense. "Then I won't be polite!"
Xu Qionggui said, "Shopkeeper, I only have ten years left to live. I have so things to take care of. When I return, please bury with him!"
"Nobody wants him, but I want him!"
Xu Ning was stunned upon hearing this and slowly nodded. "Okay!"
Then, Xu Qionggui got up and left hurriedly.
Xu Ning watched her retreating figure and couldn't help but sigh. "Her lifespan is more than ten years!"
The thatched hut said, "It's her own choice, so don't interfere!"
Xu Ning continued, "Love is such a strange thing! In Teng Hongchang's eyes, he's utterly worthless, a flawed person whom no one wants, his inferiority complex reaching its peak."
"But in Xu Qionggui's eyes, he's full of virtues. She could rattle off several in one breath!"
The thatched hut added, "Actually, most mortals are like that. They feel worthless, but when they et that special soone, even without any life-saving grace, the other person will see many of their shining qualities!"
Xu Ning thought, "Perhaps I was like that in the mortal world too! I t many people who saw my shining qualities! Or perhaps, my own charm is just too great!"
The thatched hut said, "I think you should upgrade your mirror!"
Xu Ning asked curiously, "What for?"
The thatched hut replied, "To give you a good look at your thick skin!"
Xu Ning got up, went to the backyard to fetch Tie Dan, and then took out the oxcart he used to use.
Speaking of which, this oxcart had been forgotten in the hut after it was built and upgraded once.
Now that it saw the light of day again, it couldn't help but complain. "Xu Ning, you still rember ?"
Xu Ning replied, "Uh! You can carry things around in the back of the thatched hut, so I forgot about you!"
Actually, it wasn't really necessary now, but to attract custors, he decided to take the coffin out as a formality, and that's when he rembered the oxcart.
After tying the coffin up, Xu Ning, leading Tie Dan, pulled the coffin towards the edge of town.
Teng Hongchang had no descendants, so Xu Ning didn't bother choosing an auspicious burial site for him and just found a random place to bury him.
Back at the coffin shop, Xu Ning went to the backyard and opened the storage bag left by Teng Hongchang.
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There weren't many things inside: a dozen or so low-grade spirit stones and so miscellaneous spirit-grade materials.
It was about what Xu Ning had expected, just the savings of an ordinary cultivator.
He sorted and lted the materials and threw them into the thatched hut. The storage bag was directly lted into materials.
For the next half month, Xu Ning's coffin shop had almost no business.
He wasn't too concerned about it. After all, the coffin shop was for burying cultivators, but how many cultivators actually returned to the mortal realm? Most cultivators died unexpectedly in the cultivation world, and very few returned peacefully when their lifespan was almost over.
As for ordinary custors, they bought coffins to bury their elderly relatives, and Xu Ning didn't care much about them, since he wasn't short of money.
In the blink of an eye, five years later.
Xu Ning's coffin shop business remained sluggish.
That night, there was a knock on the door of the coffin shop.
Xu Ning was forced to stop his cultivation to open the door.
The door opened, and a pale-faced cultivator stood at the door.
Xu Ning was also taken aback. "What is this, sir?"
"Ahem! Hello, shopkeeper, I want to buy a coffin!" the young man coughed a few tis before speaking.
Xu Ning looked at the young man and couldn't help but frown. "You're buying a coffin? For whom?"
The young man replied, "For myself!"
Xu Ning was taken aback. "For yourself? You're so young!"
The young man smiled sadly. "I've been frail and sickly since childhood, and my days are numbered."
Xu Ning turned around. "Co in!"
The young man followed Xu Ning to the table and sat down.
Xu Ning raised his hand. "Give your hand!"
The young man was taken aback. "Shopkeeper, although I don't have much money, it should be enough to buy a coffin. I don't need to trade my hand for it!"
Xu Ning was stunned for a mont, then glared at him. "I ant give your hand, I'll take your pulse!"
The young man then realized and quickly raised his hand. "I didn't expect you to know dicine, shopkeeper!"
Xu Ning placed his hand on the young man's wrist to take his pulse. "I know a little!"
Taking his pulse, Xu Ning frowned in thought, puzzled. "Your pulse is very strange!"
The young man gave a bitter laugh. "Shopkeeper, don't waste your energy. I've seen all the doctors in town, and none of them can help!"
Xu Ning withdrew his hand. "Wait a mont!"
After saying that, Xu Ning got up and went back to the backyard, then picked three leaves and ca back. Holding the leaves in his hand, he flicked his wrist and threw them out.
In Xu Ning's eyes, a golden beam of light suddenly shot out from the young man's body, heading straight for the roof of the coffin shop.
Xu Ning's eyes first flashed with amazent, followed by a puzzled frown.
The golden pillar of light represented divine-grade fortune. Since Xu Ning began cultivating the Heavenly Observation Technique, he had never seen a golden pillar of divine-grade fortune.
Even the fortune pillar of the Ice and Snow Sect was not golden. It was rely an extrely red and exceptionally active pillar.
Yet, this young man before him possessed a golden pillar of divine-grade fortune he had never seen before.
Xu Ning frowned because the young man's pillar of fortune had many gaps.
This was the first ti Xu Ning had seen such a thing, so he was very puzzled.
Unable to figure it out, he asked the thatched hut.
"Thatched hut, what does it an when there are gaps in the pillar of fortune?" Xu Ning asked softly.
The thatched hut replied, "I'm not very clear about the pillar of fortune, but there's one possibility that fits what you're saying!"
Xu Ning quickly asked, "What possibility?"
The thatched hut said, "His talent is heaven-defying, and the Heavenly Dao is jealous, hence the gaps!"
Xu Ning was surprised. "Heaven-defying talent? The Heavenly Dao is jealous? How can the Heavenly Dao be so petty?"
The thatched hut explained, "The so-called jealousy isn't real jealousy, but rather a balance. Because the young man's talent has disrupted so balance, sothing is removed to restore equilibrium!"
"Just like legendary and divine items above the Spirit level, their appearance already disrupts the balance, so a tribulation of lightning descends. This can actually be considered a rule of the Heavenly Dao."
Xu Ning understood. "I see!"
After saying that, Xu Ning took out a mirror for testing spiritual roots, shone it on the young man, and then showed a puzzled expression.
Damn it! No spiritual roots! A golden pillar of fortune, yet no spiritual root! Could the missing parts of the fortune be the spiritual root?
Watching Xu Ning take his pulse, toss leaves, and now suddenly pull out a mirror to look at him, then frown and ponder, the young man was montarily at a loss.
"Um, shopkeeper, how about I don't buy this coffin today? I can co back another day!"
Xu Ning glared angrily. "You can't skip buying it today, you have to buy it!"
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