Chapter 118 Washing incense is like washing money; who is the best at washing money?
Chapter 118 Washing incense is like washing money; who is the best at washing money?
A wisp of Ganesh's divine soul was sealed into the [White Elephant Suppressing the World Map], but this was, after all, just ordinary brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. On the canvas, the lifelike divine statues emitted a radiant light, actually pulling the flat canvas directly into three dimensions. The entire eighteen-story Fortune Tower also became shaky and on the verge of collapse due to the recent battle and the destruction caused by the [Treasure Elephant Devouring the Heaven Array].
A beam of divine light flew out from the small world of the bamboo box, transforming into the appearance of a peddler. Holding a treasure box in his sleeve, he flung it at the pillar supporting the Fortune Tower.
The small world merged with this building, filling the gaps in the [Treasure Elephant Devouring Heaven Array] and stabilizing the foundation here.
Then the peddler took out a jade seal from his pocket, stamped it on Ao Peng's painting, and wrote the four characters "Emperor's Seal".
The seal formed by the vermilion ink carried a strong imperial aura, directly suppressing Ganesh's divine soul, which wanted to break free of the portrait, and causing it to transform back into the ordinary [White Elephant Suppressing the World] painting.
The painting depicts a white elephant with an elephant's head and a human body, a large belly, a single tusk, and an angry gaze. Each of its four arms holds a ritual implement, and it sits regally on a pure gold lotus throne, exuding majesty. Unfortunately, it is already a god in the painting.
Ao Peng stared intently at the jade seal in the peddler's hand. What a treasure!
With this in hand, he could seal the true god even using only ordinary white paper and ink.
Besides, I helped Lord Tianlu capture such a large town this time. Even if I didn't make any great contributions, I must have put in a lot of hard work, right?
Lord Tianlu wouldn't be so petty.
When Tianlu Shenjun saw Ao Peng glancing at the "Emperor's Seal" in his hand, he knew what the boy was thinking. He quickly put the seal back into his pocket and said, "This is my livelihood; I can't give it to you."
In ancient times, the Yellow Emperor bestowed upon the Pixiu Tianlu the title of auspicious beast. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, when China was at its peak, Emperor Wu conferred upon Tianlu the title of "Imperial Treasure," specifically to guard the royal treasures, among which the Imperial Seal was the most important treasure.
This is one of Tianlu's most important divine powers, and it certainly cannot be granted to Ao Peng at will.
"mean."
Ao Peng muttered something to himself, but he knew that Tianlu Divine Lord would not treat him badly later, so he went to collect the other spoils of war first.
He first came to the side of Su Motan's body. After Su Motan died, his blood turned into incense chips. However, these incense chips were completely stained with an extremely dark black color, which looked extremely ominous!
This incense has been polluted by the Five Turbidities. Moreover, Su Motan just recalled all the Qingfu, which gathered almost all the incense in Shoucai Town. Ao Peng glanced at it and found that there were 4 million incense offerings. This was because the Kitchen God had just set fire to the incense, burning most of the Qingfu and almost half of the incense offerings.
However, these incense sticks obviously cannot be used casually, and even the leader did not give them to him directly.
"They're restless even in death!"
Ao Peng cursed.
At this moment, amidst the ruins of the stands nearby, the logistics manager, protected by Boss Ma, rushed to the pile of blackened incense sticks, as if he had lost his own mother.
How am I going to explain this to them?!
Ao Peng turned to look at Tianlu Divine Lord. He had been a divine lord for so many years, he must have a way to deal with the incense offerings.
Tianlu Shenjun looked around the Zhaocai Tower with great interest, thinking about how to renovate it. Anyway, the surrounding treasure elephants and flying apsara paintings were going to be removed, as they were considered unlucky.
Then, sensing Ao Peng's pleading gaze, He slowly walked over, pointed to the logistics supervisor, and said, "Have him take them all back."
Ao Peng glanced at Tianlu Shenjun with a puzzled look.
Lord Tianlu laughed, "Have you ever heard of money laundering, kid?"
Although Ao Peng had never seen money laundering, he had certainly heard of it.
He seemed to be deep in thought. Although incense is not the same as money, it is similar to money in many ways.
Tianlu Divine Lord chuckled and patted Ao Peng on the shoulder, "That settles it. Tell me, who in the world is the best at money laundering?"
Ao Peng understood instantly.
People say that Wall Street in the United States, London's financial district, or the shopping streets of Zurich in Switzerland are the best places for money laundering, but they've overlooked a master money launderer.
Seeing that Ao Peng understood, Tianlu Shenjun smiled and continued to explain, "This money and incense both contain 'fire energy,' which is also called 'fire poison.' This fire energy and fire poison come from the karma of the human world. If one person were to bear it, even a god or Buddha couldn't withstand it. But if it rolls around in the human world a few times, letting billions of people bear it, even if it's reduced from ten to four, it's still a huge profit!"
Ao Peng certainly couldn't take all 4000 million incense offerings before him, but if he handed them over to the Empire and let the Empire cleanse them slowly through the flow of national fortune, and then replenish Ao Peng's incense offerings through merit compensation, although it would be much less, it would all be clean incense offerings.
However, Ao Peng was still somewhat reluctant to leave, and couldn't help but sigh, "Money laundering is really incredibly profitable!"
Tianlu Divine Lord laughed heartily. This was the allure of the empire. Otherwise, why would the immortals who had already achieved immortality and lived carefree lives still descend to the throne after so many dynastic changes? It was because if they bet on the right treasure, the reward would be far more than just the incense offerings they received. The incense offerings were merely an extra bonus.
Although the world has changed, the principles of human relationships remain the same. For example, the Heavenly Lord of Destiny has already decided to continue betting on Ao Peng.
Tianlu Divine Lord pointed at the incense that had been tainted by the five turbidities, and a golden light swept up all the incense and stuffed it into the pocket of the logistics department head.
Inside the polling bureau, the head of the logistics department saw a new line of system text.
[The Heavenly Lord of Destiny has temporarily suppressed the Five Turbid Incense Offerings and placed them in your inventory. He has also taught you a spell, the Law of Karma and Reincarnation of the State, which can only be cast through the altar of the State.]
The head of the logistics department saw this line of text, which indicated that the person in question wanted to connect with Tianlu Zhenjun, a deity close to the empire. The empire naturally wanted to win him over and find out the current status of the deities and the factions within them.
You tried to get close to Lord Tianlu, but he ignored you and threw you out of Shoucai Town.
The head of the logistics department was immediately sent to the player temple in Shoucai Town. He was carrying a huge sum of 40 million incense offerings and dared not run around. Even if he wanted to get close to Tianlu God, he had to hand over this public money first.
So the head of logistics immediately teleported to the new tomb raiding town, returning to the player's main city established by the empire first.
Without the interference of the logistics department head, Ao Peng continued to search the corpses.
Amidst the burnt remains of the Qingfu, two Qingfu wobbled and flew up.
One was pure gold, and the other was pure black. Both of the blue cicadas had six wings, like cicadas in summer, and each of their delicate wings had a perfect pattern.
In the final battle, almost all the Qingfu were burned to death by the Kitchen God's flames. Only these two Qingfu, one from Ao Peng's heart and converted by Ao Peng, and the other from Ao Peng's supernatural powers and controlled by Ao Peng, were protected by the Kitchen God's flames and thus were not burned to death.
After the two green tadpoles took flight, they wobbled and landed on Ao Peng's shoulder, next to the green lamp that had changed shape.