Mortal Seeking Immortal

The shopkeeper looked at Ye Zhou with a smile on his face and said respectfully: "Hello, senior. Please come in."

After the shopkeeper said that, he picked up a copper bell on the counter and shook it gently. With a clang, a white light shot out from the wall behind the shopkeeper and shot directly to a brick floor in front of Ye Zhou.

The white light sank into it, causing ripples. With the brick as the center, a magic circle that could accommodate one person appeared.

Ye Zhou stepped into the magic circle without any hesitation.

The next moment, a dazzling white light was released from the magic circle, wrapping Ye Zhou in it. When the white light dissipated, Ye Zhou's figure had disappeared in the magic circle.

Seeing that Ye Zhou had been teleported away, the shopkeeper standing behind the counter lost his smile on his face, and he breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he reached into his sleeve and took out a black beetle the size of a pigeon egg. On the back of this beetle, there was a pattern similar to a human eye.

This black beetle is called the Spiritual God Eye Beetle. It is a rare spiritual insect in the world of immortal cultivation and can keenly sense the dangers of the outside world.

Because of this characteristic of the Spiritual God Eye Beetle, it can provide early warning functions for cultivators, so it is highly sought after by some cultivators.

However, the Spiritual God Eye Beetle is divided into larval stage and adult stage.

The larval stage of the Spiritual God Eye Beetle can only sense the danger within a few feet around the body. For cultivators, such a short distance cannot serve as an early warning, so ordinary cultivators will not raise the larval stage of the Spiritual God Eye Beetle.

The adult stage of the Spiritual God Eye Beetle is very valuable and is not affordable for ordinary cultivators. Only a very small number of insect cultivators have one or two.

The Spiritual God Eye Beetle in the shopkeeper's hand is a larva, which can only sense the danger within a few feet around.

At this moment, the black beetle is lying in the palm of the shopkeeper, curled up into a ball, and even the head is retracted, obviously in extreme fear.

When Ye Zhou entered the store just now, the shopkeeper noticed that the psychic beetle hidden in his sleeve curled up into a ball, and he was shocked.

He carried this psychic beetle with him every day and never left it. He had seen many Jindan cultivators with him. Even when he met a late Jindan cultivator, he had never been so flustered as today.

Although Ye Zhou had hidden his cultivation, from the reaction of the psychic beetle, the shopkeeper could easily guess that Ye Zhou was either above the late Jindan stage, or he had killed many powerful monsters and spirit insects, which made the psychic beetle so scared.

In either case, the shopkeeper could not afford to offend Ye Zhou, so he did not dare to neglect him and received Ye Zhou very politely.

The shopkeeper extended an index finger and gently stroked the back shell of the psychic beetle for a few times. A few strands of spiritual power were released from the shopkeeper's fingers and entered the body of the psychic beetle.

After being comforted by spiritual power, the psychic beetle slowly relaxed and its body stopped curling up.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper put the psychic beetle back into his sleeve.

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At the other end of the magic circle, after the white light in front of him dissipated, Ye Zhou released his spiritual sense and quickly looked around.

At this moment, he was in a slightly old stone house. The stone house was built with green stones as a whole. There were no doors or windows. The walls around and the ground under his feet were all set with restrictions.

There was a long black stone table only two feet away from Ye Zhou. Behind the stone table sat a black-robed man whose cultivation level could not be seen. Opposite the black-robed man was a stone bench.

The black-robed man placed his hands on the stone table. On his left hand was a huge black book and on his right hand was a black wooden box.

From the moment Ye Zhou appeared in this stone house, the black-robed man's eyes fell on Ye Zhou.

The black-robed man extended his hand to invite Ye Zhou, saying, "Sir, please take a seat."

Ye Zhou walked to the stone bench opposite the black-robed man and sat down.

The black-robed man asked, "What news do you want to know?"

Ye Zhou lowered his voice, and a slightly hoarse middle-aged man's voice came out of Ye Zhou's mouth: "I want a list of monks who have left Xianliu City recently."

After hearing this, the black-robed man put his left hand on the black book, and a spiritual light emerged from the black-robed man's hand, and a black light suddenly emitted from the black book.

At this time, the black-robed man stretched out his right hand, reached into the black wooden box, grabbed a blank jade slip, and placed it on the black book.

A black light flew out from the black book and shot into the jade slip.

Seeing this, the black-robed man retracted his left hand, and the black light on the black book dissipated.

The black-robed man placed the jade slip on the stone table, looked at Ye Zhou and said, "Here is the list of cultivators who have recently left Xianliu City. This information is worth fifty mid-grade spirit stones."

Ye Zhou took out fifty mid-grade spirit stones and placed them on the stone table. He reached out and grabbed the jade slip, and released his spiritual sense to probe into it. After detecting three names, Ye Zhou quickly glanced at the date they left Xianliu City, the day after tomorrow.

Ye Zhou withdrew his spiritual sense and was about to destroy the jade slip, but unexpectedly, the jade slip broke by itself.

The black-robed man put away the spirit stone and said, "The information sold in this store is only for viewing once. I wonder what other information the customer would like to know?"