Douluo ice demon Yuhao

The entire underground black market is very prosperous, and its liveliness is not inferior to the large-scale formal stores owned by the royal family.

Unlike the Xingluo Starlight Auction House or Shrek City's Treasure Pavilion, which have official intermediaries, all transactions here are direct between buyers and sellers.

Buyers and sellers just sat on the floor, or stood there, writing down what they wanted to buy or sell aside, and quietly waiting for others to come up and ask the price.

Those who don't set up stalls just wander slowly in the black market, searching for possible buyers and sellers.

Soul guides, elixirs, rare metals, and even soul bones... the variety of items you can buy here is not inferior to that of large stores, and the prices are also the same.

The extremely spacious underground space was not properly planned at all, but everyone set up stalls on their own initiative, making it appear chaotic and overcrowded.

There are also some stalls that are more formal, placing the goods neatly, paying with one hand, and delivering the goods with the other. The owners of these stalls have more strength and manpower. If they dare to do this, they are obviously not afraid of being robbed by others.

"What a mess." Huo Yuhao thought to himself as he walked in the narrow corridor.

The first impression of this underground black market is very bad. There is a soul guide lamp, but the light is not bright.

Logically speaking, it does not require too much technical content to use soul guide lamps to make such a large underground venue extremely bright, but Xishui Alliance did not do this.

It seems as if the organizer hates the bright environment and did it deliberately.

Not far away, at an official booth, a transaction had just been completed.

A middle-aged man lowered his voice and asked the bearded stall owner: "Why has the price of mithril increased again?"

The bearded stall owner hummed: "Rare metals are already under control, but recently there is news from above that the royal family will tighten controls. If you want to buy, it's better to buy them early. I think the prices of these rare metals will skyrocket in the future."

The middle-aged man let out a helpless sigh, but took out his soul guide card and swiped it at the stall owner before getting back a small and exquisite box.

There is only a small piece of mithril in the box, no more than a hundred grams at most.

He quickly put the box into the storage ring and quickly left the underground black market.

Huo Yuhao used mental detection to witness the complete transaction process between the middle-aged man and the bearded stall owner, and he couldn't help but sigh.

As expected of a black market, the prices here are really crazy.

He has seen some accounts of Mingde Hall. According to Mingde Hall's accounts, the price of one hundred grams of mithril only fluctuates around four hundred to five hundred gold soul coins.

On this black market, the price paid by the middle-aged man just now was even five times more than the official guide price of Mingdetang.

He should be a free soul mentor, otherwise he wouldn't have paid such a high premium to get the mithril.

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For him, it seems that it is easier to obtain so much mithril on the black market than through formal channels.

Huo Yuhao sighed again.

The rare metal quota that Mingdetang gives a student to use every month includes one hundred grams of mithril. They are really willing to spend money on students.

However, only Mingdetang can be so wealthy, and other forces cannot learn from it, because most of the rare metal industries are firmly in the hands of the Sun and Moon royal family, and the royal family will directly supply Mingdetang with rare metals at low prices.

Metal.

In the transaction between the two people just now, Huo Yuhao also captured an important piece of information.

The Imperial Family of the Sun and Moon wants to increase their control over rare metals, causing the prices of rare metals to continue to rise.

Why are they increasing control? Maybe they are really preparing for war in advance.

In addition to the situation of paying one hand and delivering the goods, there is a second trading model.

Huo Yuhao raised his eyes and looked to the other side, where two empty-handed people were talking.

The owner of the stall was a slightly chubby middle-aged man, and the buyer who was inquiring turned out to be an extremely unfamiliar-looking young man.

The boy should be no more than fifteen years old, but he actually already wears a second-level soul engineer badge on his chest.

At this moment, he asked the stall owner with an uncertain look: "Uncle, if we go out to trade, can you really give me a hundred gold soul coins cheaper?"

The middle-aged stall owner said in an extremely sincere voice: "Of course. We, the independent traders, who trade here have to hand over 30% of our profits to the Xishui Alliance. If you follow me outside the black market, I will definitely give you an advantage.

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The young man was hesitant. Learning to engrave soul guides required a large amount of rare metals. He planned to go to the black market privately to buy some rare metals and then make them into soul guides and sell them to earn some extra money.

As a young soul mentor, he is not rich yet. If he can save a hundred gold soul coins, he can buy more rare metals.

The stall owner's expression was sincere, but the greed in his eyes gave him away.

Moreover, in the box containing rare metals in his hand, only the top layer was made of fine gold, while the bottom layer was all made of extremely cheap rough iron.

Huo Yuhao shook his head helplessly.

The stall owner obviously thought that this young man was not familiar with the world, so he tricked him out so that he could use his gold soul coins.

He didn't dare to cheat in the black market, probably because the black market was the territory of the Xishui Alliance, and he had to abide by the rules. When he got outside, he could just cheat and leave. The young man couldn't catch him even if he wanted to.

Even cheating students out of their money, this stall owner is somewhat wicked.

Not only this stall owner, but other stall owners around were looking at the place with sneer eyes, as if they were waiting to see the boy take the bait.

"Let's remind him." Huo Yuhao quietly began to use mental agility and mental illusion.

After much hesitation, the young man agreed to the stall owner's request.

"Okay, uncle, let's go trade outside the black market."

The stall owner was immediately overjoyed, and while leading the young man out, he said enthusiastically: "Seeing that you are a second-level soul engineer at such a young age, you should be a student of Mingdu College or Sun Moon College, right? Uncle, I will treat you a little cheaper today.

hehe."

The two of them left the black market all the way to a three-story building, where they handed over the money and delivered the goods.

The fat stall owner pretended to be: "Haha, young people like you should avoid coming to the black market. Fortunately, you met uncle me, otherwise you wouldn't even know you were deceived. If you need rare metals in the future, you should apply to the academy."

"Okay, thank you, uncle." The young man still didn't know anything and said gratefully.

"Great, the fine gold quota provided by the academy has been used up. With this fine gold, my research can continue for a long time."

The young man looked excited and was about to put the box containing fine gold into the storage ring. Suddenly his hand slipped and he dropped the box to the ground.

The metal inside rolled out, and underneath a layer of fine gold was black-gray rough cold iron.

The boy shrank suddenly and picked up the thick iron on the ground. Only then did he realize that he had been deceived. He hurried back to the black market to look for the fat stall owner again, only to find that the stall owner had disappeared long ago and had been replaced by a new one.

other people.

The liar had disappeared long ago, leaving only the young man with an annoyed look on his face regretting his actions.

"this……"

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The young man's eyes suddenly lost focus. After a few seconds, his eyes refocused.

After a brief moment of confusion, he suddenly slapped the box off the stall owner's hand, revealing the thick cold iron inside, and asked: "What is this!"

Before the stall owner had time to answer, he said "I won't buy it" and ran towards the exit of the black market.

"This..." The smile on the stall owner's face froze. He had no idea why the boy who was about to take the bait suddenly changed his mind and let the hundreds of gold soul coins he was about to get disappear.

Huo Yuhao smiled happily at the side.

This is his attempt to create illusions for others. Through the three major mental influence soul skills, mainly mental agility and mental illusion, he can let others go through the illusion for a long time in a few seconds.

Just now, he allowed the young man to experience an unforgettable lesson in his life, and he learned a lot from it. I believe he will not be deceived so easily in the future.

Using the two continuous soul skills of mental agility and mental illusion at the same time consumes a lot of soul power, but the effect is unexpectedly good.

Huo Yuhao discovered that many of his soul skills were continuously consuming, such as mental detection, mental sharing, mental suggestion, etc.

When these skills are used individually, the consumption of soul power is minimal, but when used continuously at high intensity, it is also a consumption that cannot be ignored.

"Um?"

Huo Yuhao suddenly froze and turned his head to look in one direction.

Right at the end of the black market, there was a familiar aura of the evil soul master.

Huo Yuhao's face turned cold and he slowly walked over there.