"Master, on this Outer Domain Dead Sea, the most common thing is murder and robbery! When you encounter a fat sheep, you can settle it in a few moves and throw it into the sea, as if it never happened.
However, martial artists who can reach the Vein Forging Realm or the Establishnt Realm have roots and backgrounds. So things are inconvenient to handle openly, hence the appearance of this black market!"
"Moreover, due to the reason of collecting wealth, the various islands have quite high taxes. So items are officially purchased, but the prices are quite poor. That’s why this black market ca into being.
For outsiders wanting to enter this black market, they must have a familiar person vouch for them. With here, Master, it’s not so troubleso!"
Along the way, Shii Bei kept introducing things to Ye Zhen.
In fact, to put it frankly, this black market on Ancient Demon Island also has a bit of an official background. Everyone understands the principle of channeling instead of blocking; otherwise, this black market wouldn’t brazenly be set up in the bustling area of Demon Spirit Square in Ancient Demon City.
Under the guidance of Shii Bei, Ye Zhen crossed at least three layers of guardian formations and entered a rather large underground space.
In the underground space, more than a hundred martial artists with overwhelming auras sat scattered around, and in front of each person, there were so items displayed.
These martial artists, regardless of the strength of their aura, all had one characteristic, which was that their faces were always covered with a thin layer of spiritual energy, masking their true appearance.
Additionally, hundreds of martial artists with varying cultivation levels were walking around, occasionally staying in front of a particular stall to pick and choose.
At the very back of the underground space, there were two rows of eight shops, with martial artists occasionally coming in and out.
"Master, if you want to buy a sea map, it’s best to go to that mariti shop at the very back. The owner of this shop is actually the organizer of the black auction.
This mariti shop is also the only place in this black market where you can buy a sea map," Shii Bei said.
Shii Bei wanted to take Ye Zhen directly to the mariti shop to buy a sea map, but Ye Zhen was not willing. Instead, he frequently stopped at several stalls to make purchases.
Each stall didn’t have many items displayed, ranging from cultivation technique manuals, spiritual artifacts, to various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, as well as pill talismans. The variety was enormous.
However, as Shii Bei ntioned, from just the items for sale, Ye Zhen could tell that most of the things displayed here were spoils from murder and robbery.
Otherwise, the variety wouldn’t be so mixed, and the quantity wouldn’t be so uneven.
But this didn’t stop Ye Zhen from choosing. After roaming the Jianghu for so many years, Ye Zhen had long adapted to the rule of the survival of the fittest.
Ye Zhen himself was an artifact refiner, so those spiritual artifacts and spirit armor didn’t catch his eye. What Ye Zhen looked at the most were cultivation technique manuals.
Recently pursued by the Dragon Alliance, Ye Zhen’s cultivation techniques and the spiritual artifact equipnt were not lacking, but the huge gap in cultivation made him extrely passive, making him desperately eager to quickly improve his cultivation.
And the martial skills here mostly ca from slaying Establishnt Realm Kings and Vein Forging Realm martial artists. They were mostly very exquisite, and the grade was quite high. Ye Zhen wanted to see if there were any martial skills suitable for him!
If his cultivation could be raised to the Fifth Stage of the Vein Forging Realm, the situation would be slightly better than now!
Passing by several stalls in succession, Ye Zhen didn’t find any divine power martial skills but collected a few rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures needed for artifact refining, although he selected dozens of divine power martial skills manuals. There were quite a few Heavenly Level High Grade ones, yet none that Ye Zhen needed!
Ye Zhen’s current Spirit Palace plan after the Establishnt Realm was the Five Elents Yin Yang Spirit Mansion, where the Five Elents are the foundation, and one vein of Yin or Yang can be chosen at will.
The first Sword Vein is of Gold attribute, Black Dragon Martial ridians of Water, Earth Primordial Palm Vein of Earth, Xuan Fire Spirit Vein of Fire, with the remaining two veins, one must be of Wood attribute divine power martial skill, and either Yin or Yang attribute can be selected as the other.
Ye Zhen originally had quite high standards when selecting divine power martial skills, and having to et these conditions made it incredibly difficult.
Even though Ye Zhen had handled more than a dozen Heavenly Level High Grade martial skills, there wasn’t a single one he favored.
"Mirage Clone Technique, a Heavenly Level High Grade body technique martial skill. If successfully cultivated, it can condense an illusion clone in the body that is indistinguishable from the real one. The distance the clone can operate depends on the strength of the Divine Soul Power.
Once the Mirage Avatar is refined, it can emit the sa spiritual energy aura and Divine Soul Pressure as the true body. Unless the divine soul cultivation is far superior to the spell caster, it’s almost impossible to see through....."
Ye Zhen, however, was interested in this Heavenly Level High Grade Mirage Clone Technique, and it also fits Ye Zhen’s Spirit Palace cultivation plan.
The Mirage Avatar is not among the Five Elents, attributed to Yin, which makes it suitable.
According to the description, if practiced successfully, it would definitely be a life-saving skill!
However, after just reading the introduction, Ye Zhen placed it back aside.
For a reason, cultivating this Mirage Clone Technique requires heavenly materials and earthly treasures that are hard to find, needing the mirage energy from the mirage pearl condensed within the mature Mirage Beast, to assist in practicing this Mirage Clone Technique.
The difficulty lies here, the Mirage Beast is an Ancient Fierce Beast. Not to ntion the True Spirit Domain, it hasn’t been seen on the entire True Profound Continent for over a thousand years.
The stuff is good, but there’s nothing to be done without the heavenly materials and earthly treasures needed for cultivation!
Seeing Ye Zhen putting the Mirage Clone Technique aside, the vendor couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed.
In the few days of setting up the stall, thousands of martial artists had looked at this Mirage Clone Technique, yet no one was willing to buy it, which made him quite disappointed.
But in the next mont, the stall owner’s expression froze. The young martial artist who had just left returned, and not only returned but also picked up the Mirage Avatar Technique that he had put down.
"Senior, what’s the price of this Mirage Avatar Technique?" Ye Zhen asked again upon returning. The reason Ye Zhen returned is that he recalled sothing as he was leaving earlier!
"This is a Heavenly Level High Grade martial skill, and it’s an extrely rare avatar illusion type. The Mirage Avatar Technique is priced at four million mid-grade spirit crystals!" the stall owner said.
"Four million mid-grade spirit crystals? Hey, brother, you’re robbing!" Before Ye Zhen could say anything, Shii Bei, who was behind Ye Zhen, picked up the Mirage Avatar Technique and sneered.
The stall owner’s expression halted, "This is a market price for a rare Heavenly Level High Grade martial skill!"
"I say brother, how many days has this Mirage Avatar Technique been here? How many people have asked about it, how many have actually asked for the price? You should know best."
"Market price? Go ask around, if anyone wants this martial skill for ten thousand mid-grade spirit crystals? This thing is precious, but where are you going to find the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the Mirage Pearl, needed for cultivation?"
"One million mid-grade spirit crystals, if you can produce a Mirage Pearl, I’ll imdiately buy it for one million mid-grade spirit crystals and then spend four hundred thousand mid-grade spirit crystals to buy this secret manual!"
"Isn’t this just ripping people off? Hmph!"
With that, Shii Bei pulled Ye Zhen, "Brother, it’s your first ti at the black market, don’t fall for such a blatant scam! This thing, in the future, will only be useful as toilet paper, buying it is useless, let’s go!"
Ye Zhen, however, didn’t move and instead turned to the stall owner, "Five hundred thousand mid-grade spirit crystals, I’ll take it back to ponder over, will you sell it?"
The stall owner’s lips trembled, about to haggle, when Shii Bei spoke again, "Five hundred thousand, that’s just because my brother’s foolish. If you don’t sell it, we’ll really leave!"
"Alright, deal!"
......
"I say, Lord, although you bought a Heavenly Level High Grade secret manual for five hundred thousand, you really have been duped. I saw this Mirage Avatar Technique just two days ago, it can’t be cultivated at all, it’s a trash book." After leaving the stall with the Mirage Avatar Technique, Shii Bei continued to complain.
"It’s nothing, just wanted to try an idea. Who knows, it might just work!"
Despite Ye Zhen’s calm words, he actually wanted to find a place to try his idea imdiately, if he didn’t have to go buy the sea map.
If his idea really ca true, then he would have truly stumbled upon a treasure.
Ye Zhen’s thought wasn’t really a secret.
The most difficult part of the Mirage Avatar Technique lies in needing the mirage energy from the Mirage Pearl for assistance during cultivation, but on the True Profound Continent, Mirage Beasts have already been extinct for a thousand years, let alone Mirage Pearls.
However, when he first gave up, Ye Zhen suddenly thought of a possibility — doesn’t he have a Mirage Dragon Pearl within him?
The power within this Mirage Dragon Pearl, could it be mirage energy or related to mirage energy?
Then, if Ye Zhen tries to cultivate this Mirage Avatar Technique using the Mirage Dragon Pearl, might it actually work?
This guess is the real reason why Ye Zhen turned back to buy the Mirage Avatar Technique.
Of course, Ye Zhen didn’t have much confidence; if it didn’t work out, he would consider it as spending five hundred thousand mid-grade spirit crystals to buy sothing fresh.
However, speaking of which, this Shii Bei is truly a marvel. Just a few words brought the price of a rare Heavenly Level High Grade martial skill down to five hundred thousand mid-grade spirit crystals.
Ye Zhen estimated that if he hadn’t bid so quickly, twenty or thirty thousand would have been possible!
After acquiring the Mirage Avatar Technique, Ye Zhen picked out nearly a hundred Divine Power Martial Skills, but wood attribute Divine Power Martial Skills are few, and the ones he liked were even fewer.
Helpless, Ye Zhen let Shii Bei take him directly to the mariti shop.
However, when entering the mariti shop, Ye Zhen followed Shii Bei inside as planned on the way here.
After all, Shii Bei was a local, acquainted with people!
Upon hearing Shii Bei wanted to buy a sea map, the steward was very surprised, "Why, Old Shi, sitting here with your profits not making more, are you going elsewhere to make fortunes? Have you found so good opportunity?"
"Not at all, mainly because my cultivation has stagnated without improvent for a long ti. Recently, I’ve gathered so floating wealth and heard there’s going to be a Pill Convention on Shuili Island, so I want to take a look, get so pills, and casually..." With that, Shii Bei rubbed his hands with a smile.
"A sea map of Shuili Island? I’ve heard of Shuili Island too; it’s one of the renowned islands of the Outer Domain Dead Sea and supposedly located in the Skywind Domain waters.
Here, we only have the sea map up to Heavenly Wing Island within the Skywind Domain waters, see if you want it or not!" the steward said.
"Lord, there’s only a sea map up to Heavenly Wing Island in the Skywind Domain, should we take it?" Shii Bei used Divine Soul Telecommunication to ask.
As Ye Zhen was about to respond, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
The sense of crisis lingering in his heart suddenly began to intensify rapidly at that mont! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welco to vote for it on Qidian (qidian) and give recomndation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.)
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