Chapter 540 - 170: [It’s Lit] (6100)
Chapter 170 [Light!]
Lin Xianyu, that star-born top-tier actress of the Demon Race!
Aside from group photos with some children, she sent some other pictures.
Photos with elderly villagers, with local leaders, with construction workers, in the nursing home with the disabled...
Almost a month has passed since the last time I met Lin Xianyu, this demon visitor has indeed followed my instructions and put the act of donating merit into practice.
And indeed personally, not just running to some organization, dropping off a check, and leaving.
Chen Yan felt a jolt in his heart and suddenly remembered what Old Man Lin Qingquan next door had once said.
In this Inspection Bureau position, the real reward wasn’t the three elixirs given out each quarter by the bureau.
The true reward is what the Heavenly Dao grants!
"So... merit?" Chen Yan clicked his tongue, full of surprise.
Doing good deeds is merit, persuading others to do good deeds is also merit...
So, by having Lin Xianyu, this outsider, donate her wealth, returning the fortune she occupied in this world to the people of this world...
Has the Heavenly Dao shared some of this merit with me?
Wait a minute, hold on!
Chen Yan quickly calculated the logic in his mind.
Lin Xianyu, a small demon from the Domain Realm, occupied the fortune of this world; the Heavenly Dao of this world needs to reclaim from the Heavenly Dao of the Domain Realm.
By having Lin Xianyu return the fortune to the people of this world, it means helping the Domain Realm’s Heavenly Dao avoid a loss.
So, the Domain Realm’s Heavenly Dao shared a portion of this profit (avoided loss) with me.
This damn... isn’t it just a ’commission’?!
So what Lin Qingquan said back then about putting a name down for me in the Domain Realm’s Heavenly Dao was for this commission?
Damn!
If that’s the case, it’s a good name to have!
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Chen Yan simply got up, dressed, didn’t bother going downstairs, and jumped straight out of the third-floor master bedroom window, landing in the yard, then quickly ran towards the wall and jumped over it.
Bang bang!
He knocked hard on the door of Lin Qingquan’s villa.
Very soon, after the door opened, Old Man Lin looked at Chen Yan with a helpless look: "I say, have you gotten used to jumping over walls?"
"Is the Heavenly Dao’s salary just an increase in cultivation?" Chen Yan asked bluntly, without beating around the bush.
Lin Qingquan looked at Chen Yan and smiled: "Has the salary arrived?"
"Yes, it has." Chen Yan took a deep breath: "But... how did merit turn into cultivation?"
Lin Qingquan waved his hand: "The Heavenly Dao granted you..."
"I mean, how can it directly become my cultivation? Isn’t cultivation supposed to be gained slowly on one’s own, and can the Heavenly Dao just give it to me?" Chen Yan asked with wide eyes.
Lin Qingquan gave Chen Yan a strange look: "I thought you should have suspected this a long time ago."
"...Hmm?"
Lin Qingquan pointed at Chen Yan: "You’ve only been cultivating for half a year in total, and you’ve already reached the Guiyuan Realm! Never mind in this world with sparse Primordial Qi, even in the Domain Realm, being born in a prestigious family, having ample resources for cultivation, and possessing outstanding talent like those noble family cultivators... for example, the women from the Gu Family, didn’t you ask her how many years it took her to reach the Guiyuan Realm from scratch?"
Chen Yan was taken aback.
"I have a Spirit Gathering Array at home..."
"Haha!" Lin Qingquan sneered: "Primordial Qi is originally sparse in this world, even if you use the Spirit Gathering Array, it only slightly boosts the Primordial Qi in your home, but in the Domain Realm, the Primordial Qi is already abundant—moreover, don’t those powerful families and clans have their own arrays and methods for gathering Primordial Qi?"
"Uh..." Chen Yan was shocked, suddenly speaking in a low voice: "Is it because... I’m Chen Yan, am I... the son of that person?"
"For specifics, ask your grandmother." Lin Qingquan shook his head with a firm expression: "I don’t know the answer. But I do have a piece of advice for you."
"What is it?"
"Don’t tell anyone that your ’salary’ is an increase in cultivation. Don’t tell anyone!"
Chen Yan’s eyes lit up: "Isn’t others’ salary cultivation?"
"Nonsense! Like you just asked me, isn’t cultivation supposed to be achieved slowly by oneself, not simply granted by the Heavenly Dao."
"Then what’s up with me?"
"I’ve told you, ask your grandmother. I don’t know the answer." Old Man Lin spread his hands.
Chen Yan squinted at Old Deng.
His instincts told him that the other party wasn’t telling the truth.
"I can tell you now, others’ ’salary’, including your team leader Ouyang, their ’salary’ isn’t cultivation, but fortune.
By helping the Heavenly Dao with acts, when succeeded, the Heavenly Dao rewards them with ’fortune’."
That makes sense now!
The fortune saved for the Domain Realm’s Heavenly Dao should indeed be returned to me as fortune.
But others get fortune in return.
Why did I directly get cultivation?
"How can I meet my grandmother? Or at the very least, is there a way to contact her?" Chen Yan asked Lin Qingquan again.
This question had been asked before, but Old Deng had refused.
And this time...
"Unless you go to the Domain Realm." Lin Qingquan shook his head.
But then his expression turned serious: "But I advise you, unless you reach the cusp of a Realm Breakthrough, don’t go to the Domain Realm."
"Why?"
"Again, ask your grandmother when the time comes." Lin Qingquan saw Chen Yan wanted to ask something more, showing impatience: "I’ve already been entangled in much karma with your family’s matters, don’t get me in trouble! There are some things, I dare not intervene, nor want to be deeply involved with. Do as much as you’re paid for!"