Rabbit Must Die
Chapter 190 - 189 The Conscientious Rabbit_1

Chapter 190: Chapter 189 The Conscientious Rabbit_1

The three crabs only felt an immense force pressing down, and then they knew nothing...

"Big bro... it seems like we stepped on something," Kui San said as he hopped around and looked down.

"Wowza! Big bro, I found a huge crab! Looks like it’s a goner!" Kui Er exclaimed, digging out a crab over ten meters long from a large pit beneath his feet...

"Big bro, I found one too, such luck!" Kui San shouted in response.

Kui Yi said with a serious face, "What’s there to brag about? I found one too! And it’s bigger than yours!"

"Big bro is mighty!"

Qin Shou looked at the size and shape of the crabs and couldn’t shake the feeling that they looked familiar...

Suddenly, Qin Shou realized where all those seafood he had eaten came from...

"Rabbit, Rabbit, wanna eat together?" Kui San waved the huge crab around like a big hammer, swinging it wildly.

Before Qin Shou could answer, Kui Er had already run over, slapped Qin Shou on the head, and said, "Eat with me, mine’s big!"

Kui Yi shouted, "Shut up, we have serious business to attend to!"

Qin Shou thought to himself: Finally, a bright one who knows it’s time to catch people!

Then he heard Kui Yi shouting, "Find a pot first!"

"Big bro is brilliant!"

Then the three big guys whooshed away, disappearing in an instant...

Seeing this, Qin Shou stood dumbfounded in place for a long while before he couldn’t help but shout, "What a pitfall!"

Due to this delay, Ao Sui was already gone without a trace. Qin Shou shook his head in resignation and gave up on chasing any further.

Just then, Tianpeng’s voice came from behind: "Rabbit, you’ve broken the rules, you sold a Cultivation Technique!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Shou’s ears twitched as he replied, "What Cultivation Technique? I just wrote down a passage of scripture, that doesn’t count for squat. I want to learn Cultivation Techniques myself... but not a single damn soul is willing to teach me!"

Qin Shou had long realized there was an issue. Ever since he attended the Mid-Yuan Festival and met the Jade Emperor, he was either thrown into Wenqu Palace or the Carpenter Camp. Even Wu Gang, who had the most reliable relationship with him, only taught him things like petty theft, farming, and cooking.

If it weren’t for his good luck in stealing from Wu Gang and obtaining the ’Eight-Nine Empyrean Art’, by now he would probably still be nothing but dregs...

With this thought, Qin Shou felt wronged and discontented, so he said, "Marshal Tianpeng, how about we change up the bet? If I can earn ten thousand Red Spirit Crystals with ordinary goods instead of using scriptures, will you teach me a Cultivation Technique? If I can’t do it, I’ll let you meet Chang’e, how about that?"

After finishing, Qin Shou’s eyes sparkled with immense anticipation as he stared at Tianpeng.

Tianpeng was indeed tempted upon hearing this, but then he chuckled and said, "Your offer is tempting, but I’m not going to fall for it!

You just want to learn my unique Cultivation Technique, don’t you?

Rabbit, abandon that thought sooner rather than later. The Heavenly Court does not allow taking personal disciples nor forming cliques.

My unique Cultivation Technique naturally can only be passed on to my direct Disciples... although it’s uncertain if I will ever have one, what if I do someday?

So, no, I definitely won’t give you an easy time!"

Qin Shou made a face and said, "Who wants to be your direct disciple? I don’t ask for much, just the most ordinary Cultivation Technique will do. Surely, you know some of those, right?"

Tianpeng gave a hearty laugh and said, "I, the grand Marshal Tianpeng, how could I possibly study such ordinary Cultivation Techniques? Not even worth a glance! That’s how arrogant I am!"

Qin Shou squinted his eyes at Tianpeng. Although Tianpeng sounded very confident, Qin Shou felt that everything this pig said was just an excuse to evade the issue.

Put simply, he just didn’t want to teach him!

"Rabbit, you said you can make ten thousand Red Spirit Crystals with ordinary items?" Tianpeng changed the subject.

Qin Shou nodded, "Of course."

Tianpeng said, "Alright, if you can make ten thousand Red Spirit Crystals with ordinary items, we’ll still honor our previous bet."

Seeing he couldn’t get the cultivation technique, Qin Shou just had to hold his nose and accept it, nodding, "Fine, let’s bet then."

After speaking, Qin Shou took Tianpeng back to the stall where they were before. When everyone saw that the rabbit had returned, their eyes turned red with excitement!

Shanye Immortal, with the help of what Qin Shou wrote, had broken through from a Human Immortal to an Earthly Immortal in one fell swoop. Everyone had seen it with their own eyes, the tangible benefits. Who wouldn’t be envious?

Many among the crowd had been stuck at the Human Immortal realm, unable to break through. Who wouldn’t want to advance?

Qin Shou felt uneasy under their gazes. Even now, he was unaware of Shanye Immortal’s sudden promotion... As for the terrifying heavenly phenomena earlier, he had simply thought some big shot was causing trouble and never considered that someone could advance their realm with just one-third of the Tao Te Ching from Earth!

He initially felt he had nothing of value to sell and after some thought, the only thing he could remember that fit the literary style of this world and was worth presenting was the Tao Te Ching that interested him in his past life.

That was something Old Master Qin had picked up from the trash...

As a cross-world scripture, Qin Shou figured that, even at the cheapest price, selling it for a thousand Red Spirit Crystals including shipping costs wasn’t too expensive. So he set up his stall with a clear conscience and never intended to deceive anyone.

But the problem came again. If he really brought out a book, no one could finish reading it at a glance, right? And flipping through it page by page with their hands would just be a waste of time!

So, Qin Shou had an idea and thought of the Dao characters. He didn’t know they were Dao characters, but he considered them a space-saving method of writing. Following the same logic, he integrated a Chapter of the Tao Te Ching into Dao characters based on his understanding.

However, his insight into Dao characters wasn’t deep enough to write the entire Tao Te Ching in a single character, so he ended up writing three characters, which were placed in three different directions. Even then, it was only one-third of the Tao Te Ching.

Qin Shou thought that the obviously triangular paper would make it clear that there were words on three sides and that people would realize this after reading that section.

However, the first person to come, Shanye Immortal, was prejudiced. Seeing a character on the paper, how could he look closely and realize this character’s distinctiveness under his preconceived notions? Let alone notice that the triangular paper had three characters... In his view, three characters and one character were no different – they were all scams!

The people who came after did the same, and each of them thought they had been tricked...

Which led to what happened next...

It wasn’t until Shanye Immortal looked carefully that he finally achieved a breakthrough.

But Qin Shou had never imagined that the Tao Te Ching from another world could have such a great effect in this world. If he had known, he reckoned no amount of Red Spirit Crystals would have convinced him to sell it for just a thousand.

Upon seeing this, Tianpeng asked in a low voice, "Rabbit, what exactly did you write with Dao characters to produce such miraculous effects?"

Qin Shou was startled and thought: Effects? What effects? That a bunch of folks thought they were scammed and were too proud to admit it? I never thought about these things...

But, if that were the effect, these people wouldn’t be looking at him as if they wanted to devour him... There must be something fishy going on!

Therefore, Qin Shou grinned, putting on a profound expression, and said, "I gave you all the chance, but you failed to grasp it, so blame me, huh?"

Once he said this, everyone was taken aback, then their faces turned red in embarrassment... and they thought to themselves: That’s true.

This rabbit charged conscientiously, a thousand Red Spirit Crystals for an item that enabled advancement! Such a bargain was unheard of anywhere else in the world.