Chapter 190 - Chapter 190: Chapter 185: Struck It Rich_1 (2/2)

“Submit to me and I shall immediately grant you a great opportunity, aiding you in advancing to become stronger. Otherwise, you have no chance of survival,” Qin Niu was certainly not joking with it.

If it dared to resist and couldn’t be subdued, death was the only end it faced.

The Golden Toad naturally didn’t listen to him and dismissed his words as nonsense.

It struggled even more fiercely.

“I don’t speak the language of beasts, but since you possess a certain level of intelligence, you should understand human speech. I know you are unwilling to submit easily because you think I am not strong enough. This tree is merely a trinket of mine. You can try to escape, using the area covered by this tree as the boundary. If you manage to escape, I will let you go. If you cannot, then you will submit to me. How about that?”

Qin Niu stared at the Golden Toad.

Under his mental command, the golden snake temporarily ceased its assault on it.

It was clearly contemplating.

At this moment, fine threads of blood began to appear on the surface of its body, and it seemed to be in extreme pain.

“Your time seems to be running out. As soon as you agree, I will allow you to vomit the poison within your belly first. Although we humans are cunning, a true man stands between heaven and earth, and his word is his bond. You can trust me this once—it will also be our first mutual trust.”

Qin Niu looked at it sincerely.

He really went to great lengths to subdue this Golden Toad, brazenly claiming that the Ancient Banyan Tree was his trinket.

Others wave a tiger’s banner to claim kingship, but he is even more exaggerated and shameless, treating the treasure of the world as his private property.

With his current strength, he might not even be one ten-thousandth as powerful as the Ancient Banyan Tree.

The Golden Toad was pushed into a corner.

If it didn’t agree, the thing in its stomach would soon claim its life.

If it agreed, at least there was a glimmer of hope for survival.

Its toad eyes shifted slightly, probably assessing the range of the Ancient Banyan Tree’s coverage.

“Croak!”

In the end, it actually lay down and nodded its head three times, agreeing to Qin Niu’s proposal.

“Just let the golden light enter your body. I can control the golden light not to attack your soul right away, until after you’ve vomited the poison from inside your belly,” Qin Niu said to it.

Mutual trust was mutual trust, but he couldn’t let himself be played by a toad.

As long as the golden light entered its body, even if it reneged later, it would be much easier for Qin Niu to subdue it.

The Golden Toad stopped resisting, and the golden light rapidly entered its body.

True to his word, Qin Niu didn’t rush to subdue it.

Just like in a relationship between a man and a woman, it all starts with establishing initial trust and then gradually deepening it, until feelings develop.

“Nowyou can exert all your strength to vomit the poison inside you,” Qin Niu said as he noticed the fine threads of blood on its body becoming more and more numerous.

It probably had started to take effect.

It couldn’t wait any longer and began retching to vomit the substance from its belly.

Qin Niu waited patiently.

Looking at Old Master Huang’s corpse, he didn’t waste time and instructed the Termite Army on him, “Fourth, take some termites and investigate to see if these silver notes and the surface of that corpse are poisoned.”

Under Qin Niu’s command, Fourth led a group of termites to quickly investigate.

“Master, there is no poison,” Fourth reported back to Qin Niu after completing the investigation.

“Very well, come back,” Qin Niu said before bending down to pick up the scattered silver notes.

Counting them, there were a total of thirteen thousand and seventy taels.

The smallest denomination was silver notes worth ten taels each.

The largest were gold notes worth a hundred taels each and silver notes worth a thousand taels each.

Although the exchange ratio between gold and silver remained stable at ten to one, there were occasional fluctuations.

When the price of gold was low, one tael of gold could only be exchanged for nine taels of silver.

To avoid losses, many people chose to exchange for a thousand-tael silver notes.

All these silver monies were Old Master Huang’s entire fortune.

He really was wealthy, having over ten thousand taels in cash.

Now, all these riches fell into Qin Niu’s hands.

In the past, when he saw that young master paying five thousand taels of silver for a scroll of Dragon Chant, he could only long for it enviously.

Now, he could buy two scrolls and still have money left over.

But he had no intention of buying a cultivation technique.

The Medicine King Sutra and the Everlasting Spring Technique he was currently practicing were already enough.

Biting off more than one can chew is never good.

Practicing too many cultivation techniques is not advisable.

Practicing multiple techniques simultaneously could lead to conflicts, especially if one technique cultivated water attribute energy and another fire attribute energy. The incompatible forces would clash within the body.

At best, one might experience deviation in cultivation; at worst, it could cause the body to explode and lead to death.

Furthermore, clashing cultivation techniques might result in stagnation of one’s cultivation level or slow progression.

Generally, practitioners stick to cultivating techniques that are similar or derived from the same source.

Qin Niu planned to save the silver to purchase land and farms.

Having a large amount of land resources would allow him better opportunities to research planting and breeding.

It would also provide a continuous stream of income.

Though thirteen thousand taels of silver might seem like a lot, if he only spent without earning, it would quickly run out.

But by acquiring land, whether leasing it out or hiring others to cultivate, he could continuously earn silver.

Look at the Yan Family and other such noble clans; which among them didn’t possess their own industries?

Only with a steady income could he support the considerable expenses of his cultivation.

“Let’s see if there’s anything valuable on the body!” Qin Niu said after he finished picking up the silver notes, approaching the corpse that had been split in two.