Mortal Seeking Immortal

It took only a moment for the ghost-faced monk to count the items Ye Zhou had brought out for trading. He stood up and said to Ye Zhou respectfully, "My dear guest, your items can be exchanged for a total of 35,000 medium-grade spirit stones."

Ye Zhou nodded to show that he understood, and stood up to wait for the ghost-faced monk to pay him the spirit stones. However, the ghost-faced monk said in embarrassment, "My dear guest, I don't have so many medium-grade spirit stones on hand for the time being. Can you wait for a moment? I'll go to the person in charge to get some medium-grade spirit stones?"

Ye Zhou knew that the ghost-faced monk would not disclose the transaction between them, so he nodded and said, "You'd better hurry up. I'm in a hurry."

With Ye Zhou's consent, the ghost-faced monk hurriedly bowed and turned to leave. After Ye Zhou waited for a cup of tea in the tent, the ghost-faced monk came in from outside with a storage bag.

Upon seeing Ye Zhou, the ghost-faced monk hurriedly and respectfully presented the storage bag in his hand to Ye Zhou: "Guest, there are a total of 35,000 medium-grade spirit stones in it, please count them."

Ye Zhou released his spiritual sense to glance into the storage bag. After confirming that the number of spirit stones was correct, he was about to turn around and leave the tent when he heard the ghost-faced monk hurriedly say: "Guest, please wait a moment. To thank you for taking care of my business, I have something to give you."

After the ghost-faced monk said this, he took out a black, wordless token from his arms and handed it to Ye Zhou. Ye Zhou took the token curiously, took it in his hand and checked it a little, and found that there was nothing special about this token except for a communication formation.

The ghost-faced monk explained: "This token is the entry token used when we hold internal transactions in our underground trading area."

Internal transactions?

Ye Zhou had not heard Hou Yuan mention this matter. The ghost-faced monk said, "Internal transactions are different from ordinary transactions held now. They are held privately for some monks who have items in their hands and need to sell them urgently."

"The items that can be traded at the internal transaction are all rare and good things in the world."

"But this internal transaction is not open to ordinary monks. Only some powerful monks will be issued this entry token, so most monks in the Spirit Beast Sect do not know about this."

"Because the monks participating in this internal transaction are all extraordinary, please rest assured that we keep the identity information of the guests participating in the transaction confidential better than here."

Speaking of this, the ghost-faced monk said in a proud tone, "So far, our trading area has issued no more than a hundred internal transaction entry tokens."

Ye Zhou was moved after hearing this. He remembered that Hou Yuan once said that the people who entered and exited this underground trading area included the disciples of the head and elders, as well as managers of all sizes. These people should be frequent visitors to the internal transaction fair. With their status and power, they will definitely get a lot of good things.

Ye Zhou was worried about where to get an identity jade certificate, and now this internal trade fair seemed to be a great opportunity.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou couldn't help but look forward to this internal trade fair, and couldn't help asking the ghost-faced monk when the next internal trade fair would be held.

The ghost-faced monk said truthfully: "The guest doesn't know that because the items traded at this internal trade fair are not always available, we usually hold it after accumulating a certain number of items, so the interval between holding is generally three months to six months, and sometimes even once a year."

"The guest came at an unfortunate time. We just held an internal trade fair last month. The next time will be held at least three months later."

Ye Zhou was not disappointed after hearing this. He has not yet found a way to remove the mark left in his body by the Sixth Elder, so it is useless even if he gets the identity jade certificate.

Ye Zhou thanked the ghost-faced monk, put away the token and walked out of the tent. He saw the ghost-faced monk respectfully escorting Ye Zhou to the door of the tent and said to Ye Zhou in an extremely enthusiastic tone: "Sir, please take care. Next time you have good things, please remember to take care of my business again. I am number two."

The trading area was full of people, and Ye Zhou could hear the voices of stall owners soliciting customers from time to time.

"Selling genuine monster bones, 15 medium-grade spirit stones for a stick of bones, 30 medium-grade spirit stones I'll give you two sticks, give you two sticks, don't leave, I'll give you another stick."

"Price-cutting pills, gaga useful pills, 10 medium-grade spirit stones for a bottle, 10 medium-grade spirit stones for a bottle, oh my god, they are so useful."

"Selling spiritual plants, selling hundred-year-old spiritual plants to make pills, babies eat to grow, male cultivators eat to cure kidney deficiency, female cultivators eat to beautify, middle-aged and elderly cultivators eat to prolong life."

"Come and see, all cultivators, I'm selling spirit beast eggs, I have eggs laid by spirit beasts here, buy them while they're hot."

Ye Zhou's eyes swept across the stalls, and finally stopped in front of the stall marked with Lingbao Pavilion.

I saw that the items sold on this stall were not sold openly like the items on other stalls, but each item was covered with a layer of black cloth to block the cultivator's spiritual sense detection for sale.

There was a small wooden sign beside the stall sign, which read: This shop sells genuine Lingbao Pavilion mid-grade foundation-building magic tools, each sold for only 100 mid-grade spirit stones. In the lower right corner of the wooden sign, it was also marked in small words: No returns once the goods are sold.

The market price of a mid-grade foundation-building magic tool is about 500 mid-grade spirit stones. Ye Zhou had never heard of buying a mid-grade foundation-building magic tool at the price of 100 mid-grade spirit stones.

Ye Zhou couldn't help but think of Hou Yuan's words. The items sold here were all defective products discarded by the shops in the market at the foot of the Lingshou Sect. Only a few of the magic tools in a batch were successfully refined.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou looked at the vendor's selling method again and couldn't help laughing. He then understood what Hou Yuan meant by "picking up a leak". It seemed that picking up a leak was simply relying on luck to bet that the magic weapon under the black cloth was a successfully refined magic weapon, not a defective product.

Ye Zhou looked at the few magic weapons left on the stall and guessed that the stall was very popular.

Ye Zhou walked forward for a distance and found that as long as the stalls with the names of major shops were operating in this way, and many of the monks who came and went stopped in front of these stalls, either watching others choose items or buying items. It was so lively.

Ye Zhou couldn't help but stop and watch for a while. He saw that among the monks who bought items in front of these stalls, most of them bought defective products that were destroyed by refining. Occasionally, there would be a lucky person who bought a non-defective product, which further stimulated the enthusiasm of the monks who watched to buy.

Ye Zhou shook his head and continued to walk forward.

After walking for a while, Ye Zhou saw a different stall.

This stall was not placed on the roadside like other stalls. This stall had a dark blue tent built directly. From time to time, the voices of many monks cheering or cursing could be heard from the tent. It seemed that the tent was full of people, and many monks hurried into the tent.