Unsheathed

In a narrow and deserted alley with no one else...

A man leaned against the wall and gulped in apprehension. It appeared like the young sword immortal in white hadn't chased after him?

It was truly challenging to earn that single lesser heat coin.

Even though the official immortal who had been his point of contact hadn't appeared like someone who could produce a lesser heat coin, immortal coins weren't something that could be forged. In any case, he would have been killed if he hadn't accepted this task, so he had been left with no option but to obediently do as he was told.

He had found a petty official in Imperial Accompanying City, and similar to how he had been bribed and threatened, he had also offered a pouch of silver coins to the petty official and threatened him with death if he didn't accept the task. The petty official wasn't stupid, so he had helped the man find the deplorable couple in Sprouting Alley. It was thanks to this that the young woman had been able to cause a commotion in front of the ghost residence just then.

The vagrant cultivator retrieved the lesser heat coin and smiled widely, murmuring that the official immortal was truly someone who didn't treat money like money. He wished that he could partake in such a transaction again.

"You're quite impressive as well, not treating human lives like lives," someone chuckled beside his ear.

The vagrant cultivator rigidly turned his head around, only to see the otherworldly immortal in white standing several paces away and rocking his folding fan back and forth. He hadn't detected the sword immortal's presence at all.

The vagrant cultivator's voice was quivering as he replied, "No, I'm not impressive at all, Great Sword Immortal. I was forced to do this, and I had no option but to comply. The official immortal from Blissful Dream Peak who instructed me to do this simply didn't want to dirty his own hands with this kind of matter. In reality, he's even more of a vagrant cultivator than me, and he's even more dismissive of the lives of ordinary mortal humans."

He forced a smile and continued, "Great Sword Immortal, you might not know this, but the young woman from Sprouting Alley has a truly sinister mind, with her late husband being even more detestable and deserving of death. Thankfully, this mortal couple had poor cultivation aptitude and could only roll around in the muddy mortal world, or else they would have truly been impressive in their sinister ways if they had embarked on the path of cultivation."

Chen Ping'an smiled faintly and commented, "I'm not asking about your thoughts, and I'm simply observing your actions. Otherwise, how many people in the world can get away? What do you say?"

The vagrant cultivator nodded earnestly and replied, "Yes, yes, yes, Great Sword Immortal is correct."