Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Just stepping out of his room, Li Guanqi leaned on the railing beside the staircase and looked down.

Watching the diverse crowd below, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

He never imagined that a place where humans, demons, and ghosts could coexist actually existed in this world.

Nether River… truly a magical place.

The waiters in this tavern were all ghost cultivators, and Li Guanqi noticed that when ghost cultivators paid, they didn't use spirit stones.

Instead, they used a thumb-sized, jet-black crystal.

Upon a slight probe with his divine sense, Li Guanqi sensed that the crystal contained pure Yin energy.

That ghost cultivator was not weak, and after sensing Li Guanqi's aura, he looked up and smiled at him.

“Damn it, why is this guy staring at me… Did I offend him?”

Just as this ghost cultivator was pondering, Li Guanqi suddenly walked down.

However, Li Guanqi didn't approach him, and instead left directly.

After Li Guanqi left, the atmosphere in the entire tavern became more lively.

After all, what Li Guanqi did at the city gate had already spread, and many people had come for the sake of Pengluo.

However, they dismissed the idea after seeing Li Guanqi.

After all, they hadn't lived enough…

Leaving the tavern, Li Guanqi walked aimlessly down the street, and the cultivators walking towards him gave way.

Buying a map of Nether River from a shop, Li Guanqi then realized…

“Hiss… Isn't the scope of this Nether River a bit too big?”

Indeed, if described strictly, the scope of the Nether River in this map was almost the same as the entire Azure Cloud Continent.

This Nether River City was just the entrance to the Nether River, and the real core area was further inside.

Nether River has also become the preferred place for many ghost cultivators and ghost cultivator forces.

Looking at the bustling scene on the street, Li Guanqi casually walked into a shop.

This shop was very large, with several floors, and the decoration was extremely luxurious.

Above the shop door hung a huge plaque, which read:

‘Nether River Myriad Treasures Pavilion’

Below these large characters was a line of small characters.

‘Three thousand year old shop, number one in the city.’

Li Guanqi couldn't help but smile when he saw this.

“This shop… is a bit interesting!”

“Myriad Treasures Pavilion, they really dare to take the name.”

However, the dim green candlelight in the hall made him quite uncomfortable.

But thinking about it, this was Nether River after all, with many ghost cultivators, so they had to consider the majority of ghosts.

The most conspicuous thing was the super large wooden sign at the entrance of the shop.

It said…

“Please tidy up your appearance before entering.”

Li Guanqi was slightly stunned, and muttered, “Appearance? Is it a typo? Shouldn't it be attire?”

At this moment, a white-clothed human maid slowly came to Li Guanqi.

She bowed slightly and said with a crisp voice and a light smile.

“Distinguished guest, you are right, it is appearance.”

Li Guanqi asked curiously, “Why?”

The girl also seemed quite helpless, and said bluntly, “This is Nether River after all, you can't just come in with a face full of blood and gore.”

Li Guanqi thought about the scene in his mind…

“Well… that makes sense.”

However, Li Guanqi suddenly seemed to have thought of something, turned his head to look at the girl and whispered, “The owner of this shop wouldn't be a human cultivator, would he?”

The girl's eyes showed a slight hint of surprise, although she didn't say anything, the answer was already clear.

Li Guanqi smiled slightly, raised his foot and walked into the shop.

As soon as he entered, he sensed that the blue bricks on the ground were covered with dense black stones.

The icy yet gentle feeling made him very uncomfortable, but the Yin Nether Mysterious Fire in his body was particularly active.

It even wanted to burst out and devour the power under his feet.

Moreover, he also found that the ghost cultivators in the shop were slowly absorbing the power below.

The maid explained softly when she saw this.

“The blue bricks are covered with Underworld Stones, and guests can absorb them at will.”

Li Guanqi praised, “The boss is good at doing business.”

The maid smiled slightly, seemingly enjoying others praising their boss.

However, Li Guanqi's voice then came to the girl's ear.

“Really absorb at will?”

The maid obviously didn't know the seriousness of the matter, after all, Li Guanqi was now a human cultivator.

Logically speaking, even if he absorbed it, it would be useless, and absorbing too much would affect him instead.

“Distinguished guest, please rest assured, since our shop dares to say it, we won't set any restrictions.”

Li Guanqi smiled slightly, and the power of the Yin Nether Mysterious Fire in his body began to surge wildly.

With the operation of the cultivation technique, he began to absorb the Yin Nether power below.

As the thin Yin Nether power entered his body, Li Guanqi immediately felt refreshed, but almost all of these powers were absorbed by the Yin Nether Mysterious Fire.

As the absorbed power increased, the original fire seed of the Yin Nether Mysterious Fire actually grew a little.

This made Li Guanqi couldn't help but be shocked, he didn't expect that the power of Heavenly Fire could be strengthened by this means.

He immediately absorbed it even more happily, and he also asked the maid beside him to take him around.

Soon Li Guanqi discovered some problems, because he could only absorb a trace of Yin Nether energy.

Divine sense probed slightly downward, it turned out that there was a formation engraved under the blue bricks to suppress the power of the Underworld Stone.

Li Guanqi curled his lips, not going too far.

After all, he was just here to look around, and it would be a little unkind to break their formation.

Soon, two things on the counter caught Li Guanqi's attention.

One was a jet-black yet slightly crystal clear bead, the size of a thumb.

The other thing was a black robe sealed in the cabinet.

The maid introduced, “This is the Mind Clearing Bead, a very special existence in the Nether River, which may appear only after killing a fifth-order Nether Beast.”

“It has the effect of calming the mind and soothing the nerves, and holding it in your mouth can resist the suppression of the Nether River Mist on divine consciousness.”

“If someone is dying, it can be crushed to fix their soul for a hundred years.”

Li Guanqi's eyes suddenly lit up.

“Good stuff…”

Even if he doesn't use it for others, he can use it himself.

“How much?”

The maid hesitated and stretched out two fingers.

“Two thousand high-grade spirit stones.”

Li Guanqi was a little surprised when he heard this, it's a bit expensive…

He has more than 30,000 spirit stones on him now, but he still thinks it's expensive.

“Can it be cheaper?”

Suddenly an ear-piercing voice rang out beside Li Guanqi.

“If you're poor…”

Bang!!!

Before everyone could react, Li Guanqi kicked the person away.

The force of this kick directly knocked the man unconscious, and then, in the horrified eyes of everyone, a terrifying black flame suddenly ignited in the fallen youth's body.

The flame instantly engulfed him, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a puff of ashes and dissipated in the air.

He didn't even land!!

Li Guanqi said with a look of annoyance, “Why are there always so many idiots…”

After saying that, he directly bought the Mind Clearing Bead and the Underworld Robe, giving a total of four thousand high-grade spirit stones.