How many scams are there in the world of cultivation? You encounter various traps at any time and in any place.
For instance, you try to buy medicine, only to get scammed out of every coin with the medicine vanishing into thin air; or you stop for a meal at a shady tavern and get drugged unconscious, waking up to find yourself already toiling away in a mining camp.
Then there is the time you buy a defective item at some shady shop, and when the owner refuses to take responsibility, you argue your case until he backs down and invites you into the back room to discuss a resolution.
Of course, he has no intention of resolving anything; a few martial experts waiting inside immediately knock you unconscious, clap a spirit-sealing ring on you, and before you know it, sell you off as a concubine to some old man.
Fortunately, she still had her swordsmanship to fall back on, and after beating that old man black and blue, she finally managed to escape with her life.
That is setting aside old folks and children suddenly appearing in desolate wilderness areas—who might merely be bait for evil cultivators, or outright disguises assumed by Evil Demons.
That skin-and-bones refugee begging you for food could easily be the puppet of an evil cultivator, ready to detonate the moment you get close...
Lixi had spent months trapped inside the State of Mind Trial array, tasting every bitterness life had to offer. She had been sold into servitude a full eight times, and died more than a dozen…
Chapter 85