Mortal Seeking Immortal

Ye Zhou hurriedly took out the jade talisman from the storage ring, and Hou Yuan shouted at the exit: "Wait, we have a guarantor."

As soon as Hou Yuan finished speaking, the two cold rays that shot towards Ye Zhou suddenly stopped in mid-air, revealing their true appearance. They were actually two cold and sharp foundation-building top-grade flying swords.

A spiritual power swept over from the exit in front, and quickly took away the jade talisman in Ye Zhou's hand.

After a moment, as if confirming that the spiritual mark in the jade talisman was correct, the two flying swords that stopped in mid-air suddenly turned around and flew towards the exit. At the same time, a loud male voice sounded from the exit: "Come in, the two of you."

Hou Yuan hurriedly took Ye Zhou to the exit in three or two steps. When he stepped out of the exit, Ye Zhou saw two monks wearing black robes and wearing the same hideous ghost mask on their faces, hiding their cultivation.

The two of them stood at the exit, one on the left and one on the right, holding flying swords. One of the monks was holding the jade talisman that Ye Zhou had just taken out.

Seeing Ye Zhou and the other two come out, the cultivator holding the jade talisman threw it to Ye Zhou and said coldly: "Old rules, newcomers need to pay three medium-grade spirit stones to enter, two of which are for the identity token, and the other is the entrance fee."

Ye Zhou paid the spirit stones in full, and also paid Hou Yuan's entrance spirit stone.

After receiving the spirit stone, the ghost-faced monk standing on Ye Zhou's side took out a black stone token similar to Hou Yuan's from his arms and handed it to Ye Zhou, admonishing: "Take it, this is your key to enter the underground trading area. We only recognize tokens and not people here."

After receiving the token, the ghost-faced monk on Ye Zhou's side said: "When entering the underground trading area, you must abide by the rules here. You must not make trouble or hurt people. If there is a dispute, you can find our law enforcement team to deal with it."

"If there is a violation, no matter who you are, the token will be taken back and you will be immediately expelled from the underground trading area and will never be allowed to enter. Do you understand?"

Ye Zhou nodded and glanced at the trading area in front of him. There, Ye Zhou saw some monks wearing ghost-faced masks similar to the two of them, shuttling between them, as if they were maintaining order. Ye Zhou immediately understood that they should be the so-called law enforcement team.

After admonishing Ye Zhou, the ghost-faced monk said no more, turned sideways and continued to look at the passage in front of him, waiting for the next monk to enter.

Seeing that it was getting late, Hou Yuan led Ye Zhou to the trading area ahead.

The so-called trading area was just an open space in the forest covered by a formation. It was not large in area, but there were many monks setting up stalls. Ye Zhou took a quick look and estimated that there were probably hundreds of monks setting up stalls here.

Everyone set up stalls on both sides of the open space, leaving only a slightly wider passage in the middle for monks to buy items.

Monks wearing various masks were either walking around looking for items of interest, or stopping in front of the stalls to bargain with the stall owners. It was very lively.

Some monks just spread a piece of cloth in front of them casually, with a few items scattered on the cloth for sale. These items were generally unknown elixirs, unknown plant roots, dim spiritual instruments, etc., which made people not want to buy anything.

Some monks were in teams of two or three, and set up a stall in front of them.

There were many things on the stalls, mostly demon beast inner pills, demon beast bones, bloodshot spirit beast eggs, spirit insect eggs, various elixirs, magic tools, and some vibrant spirit plants. In addition, there were some strange and bizarre gadgets that Ye Zhou had never seen before.

Some monks put small signs in front of their stalls, which read "Spiritual Treasure Pavilion Authentic Magic Tools for Sale" or "Miao Dan Hall Authentic Elixirs for Sale". There were dozens of such signs.

Ye Zhou found that the monks who came here to buy things often stopped in front of these stalls with signs, and he couldn't help but wonder what the origins of Lingbao Pavilion and Miao Dan Hall were.

Perhaps noticing that Ye Zhou was interested in these signs, Hou Yuan on the side took the initiative to introduce them to Ye Zhou without waiting for Ye Zhou to ask: "Junior brother, you don't know, this Lingbao Pavilion is the largest shop selling magic tools in the market at the foot of our Lingshou Sect, and Miaodan Hall is the largest shop selling elixirs."

"These two shops have the best refiners and alchemists, so the magic tools and elixirs they sell are of the best quality and are highly sought after by disciples in our sect. However, correspondingly, the prices are more expensive, which often makes many ordinary disciples in the sect sigh."

"Later, I don't know since when, some disciples got the inferior quality refining products from these shops through their own channels, and sold them here at a lower price. The stalls were sold in the trading area, attracting many disciples to buy them. "

"Seeing this, other disciples followed suit and got a lot of defective products from other shops to sell inside the door. In order to let the disciples who came to buy know their source of goods, they put up the signs of these shops. Because they were sold privately, these shops did not pursue it. "

After hearing this, Ye Zhou lost interest in these stalls and nodded, "So that's it."

Hou Yuan said again, "Junior brother, don't underestimate these defective products. Sometimes you can find bargains from them and buy high-quality elixirs and magic tools."

Ye Zhou looked at Hou Yuan in confusion, and heard Hou Yuan say, "Large shops like Lingbao Pavilion and Miaodan Hall generally refine magic tools and elixirs in batches."

"As long as most of the elixirs and magic tools in a batch are destroyed, this batch will be considered unqualified and will be treated as defective products. But they often don't know that there are still a few magic tools and elixirs that have been successfully refined. Buying these high-quality magic tools and elixirs at a low price is not a bargain, right?"

Ye Zhou nodded and said, "I'm taught you."

Hou Yuan said, "But it's not so easy to find a bargain. You will know it yourself later."

Ye Zhou asked again, "Brother, how many spirit stones do I need to set up a stall here?"

The fastest way for Ye Zhou to exchange for medium-quality spirit stones here is to sell things here.

Hou Yuan said, "It depends on how big a stall you want to set up."

Hou Yuan pointed to the small stalls that were only half a meter long and said, "A stall like this needs to pay three mid-grade spirit stones for one day. A stall twice as big as this needs to pay five mid-grade spirit stones. A stall that is even bigger needs to pay eight mid-grade spirit stones."

After Hou Yuan finished speaking, he turned around and asked Ye Zhou curiously, "Junior brother, why do you suddenly want to sell things here? Because this is the last half day of the trading area being open, most of the cultivators who come here to buy items have left, and it is not suitable for setting up stalls. If you want to set up a stall, you need to come earlier next time."

Ye Zhou did not hide it from Hou Yuan and told him that he wanted to exchange some mid-grade spirit stones here.