coobybook Chapter 89 What young master? He'll just crush him!
Chapter 89 What young master? He'll just crush him!
After killing the fiendish wolf, Shen Yun headed straight for Hongda Auto Repair Shop in the city.
The black market for illegal practices in Jiyang City is located underground in the auto repair shop.
This place is extremely secluded and very difficult to find without the help of a heretical cultivator.
Shen Yun knew about this place only because he encountered a cultivator who practiced Gu cultivation when he was on the run.
He almost got himself into a deadly situation back then, but luckily he stumbled upon this person practicing Gu in his courtyard and helped him get rid of the cultivators chasing him.
At the time, he was thinking that he might as well become an apprentice and learn the art of Gu poison, since it's a deadly and mysterious method that could be used for self-defense.
Unfortunately, the other party didn't think much of his talent and ended up giving him a nearly dead Bloodthirsty Gu, telling him to just come to the black market to buy some spiritual materials to raise it.
'Unfortunately, by this time, Li Youran's family had already been slaughtered by the evil cultivators...' Shen Yun murmured to himself.
Li Youran was the cultivator who practiced Gu poison. If she hadn't been studying at the academy three years ago and escaped this calamity, she would have suffered the same fate as her family, being sacrificed by evil cultivators.
This person entered the path of Gu cultivation, hoping to quickly improve his strength and avenge his blood feud. He was not inherently bad, but was forced to move forward by the ways of the world.
Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Shen Yun took out a prepared black robe and mask from his beast-taming space and put them on.
Only hereine cultivators are allowed into the black market. His reputation is too great; if people go there, they'll think it's a raid on their property.
A moment later, Shen Yun arrived outside Hongda Auto Repair City.
Bai Xian'er had already transformed into a small creature and slipped into his sleeve.
As he walked into a car repair shop, the staff member smoking at the entrance glanced at his clothes without seeming surprised, merely raising an eyebrow.
"Closed today, Thursday."
Shen Yun took out fifty yuan from his pocket and handed it to him:
"I'm here to participate in the event."
The man took the money and slightly turned his head to indicate, "Let's go, but don't cause any trouble inside."
Clearly, the conversation just now was a black market code.
After passing through the auto repair area, Shen Yun followed him to a hidden compartment in a restroom, and then down the stairs to the basement.
The dimly lit passage, more than ten meters long, was only audible by the footsteps of two people.
But at the end, a vast and bustling underground trading market came into view.
Eight bunny girls dressed as rabbits with two heart-shaped smiley faces stuck on their faces stood at the entrance.
As Shen Yun entered, one of the women smiled and stepped forward:
"Sir, what would you like to buy? I can be your sales assistant."
"A magical artifact of the Soul-Devouring Banner type." The hoarse whisper, coupled with the item's name, sent chills down one's spine.
The Soul-Devouring Banner is a magical artifact that specifically absorbs people's souls. It is crafted using the power of living souls, and its victims are prevented from entering the cycle of reincarnation. The method is extremely ruthless!
"The... Soul-Devouring Banner." The bunny girl chuckled dryly, quickly withdrawing her hand that had been reaching for Shen Yun's arm and leading the way forward.
"This way, please. Old Yao's shop should have them."
The city center of the Black Market is a bustling area with hundreds of stalls.
Apart from the entrance, the surrounding walls are lined with shops set up by various evil cultivation factions.
If you didn't come to the black market for evil cultivators, who would have thought that the evil cultivators hiding in the shadows had already taken shape?
A short while later, Shen Yun was led by the bunny girl to a dimly lit shop:
[Bloodlust Sect: Old Demon's Shop]
"Shopkeeper, there is a customer here who wants to buy the Soul-Devouring Banner."
The shop owner was a one-eyed old woman. After glancing at Shen Yun, she got up and went to a counter:
"The Soul-Devouring Banners are all magical artifacts that can grow in size. I may have some, but I don't know if the guest can afford to pay for them."
The old woman took out a brocade box and opened it, revealing a long banner shrouded in purplish-black light lying inside.
"A mid-grade, first-tier Soul-Devouring Banner, according to the price in the Xuan Tian Continent, costs twenty thousand low-grade spirit stones." The old man patted the brocade box, looking at Shen Yun with a smile:
"Of course, we don't have that many spirit stones here. You can exchange them for ten low-grade second-tier spirit materials, or one hundred first-tier spirit materials. The better the quality of the spirit materials, the fewer the quantity, how about it?"
"So expensive?!" The bunny girl standing nearby was shocked.
Currently, cultivators are using spiritual materials from the mountains, or demon beast crystals and materials, as currency. This amount of spiritual materials is already enough to exchange for a second-tier top-grade magic weapon.
"Twenty thousand?" Shen Yun raised an eyebrow. He did have two top-grade spirit stones, but he was saving them for his breakthrough.
After thinking for a moment, he pretended to reach into his robes and took out a plant root from a corner of his beast-taming space:
"I only have the root of this mid-grade fourth-tier dragon blood flower. I don't know if that's enough."
Xian'er had gnawed this thing down to just the old root, so she figured she was too lazy to keep gnawing on it and decided to take it out and see if she could exchange it for a magic weapon.
'A mid-grade fourth-tier dragon blood flower?!' The old woman's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and she quickly looked at his open palm.
But a root, about two fingers wide and the length of a palm, was covered with bite marks and not a single dragon blood flower was visible.
"Alas! What a pity it was wasted!" the old woman said with a look of regret.
The root was obviously too hard, and the monsters that were gnawing on it didn't bother with it. It just so happened that this evil cultivator picked it up.
But then I thought, even if there really were a perfect fourth-tier Dragon Blood Flower, it wouldn't be possible to exchange it for her first-tier Soul Devouring Banner!
It's a scrap of fourth-grade spiritual material, so its medicinal power is much stronger than that of ordinary second-grade spiritual materials.
"The appearance is a bit lacking." The old woman, very professionally, put on white gloves, picked up the root and examined it for a moment, then nodded.
"I was thinking of asking you to add ten more first-grade spiritual materials, but since you're not a regular customer, I'll pass. Please come and patronize my business often in the future."
The old woman was quite good at attracting customers, Shen Yun nodded slightly.
"That's natural."
Just as the old woman picked up the brocade box, a voice called out from the doorway:
"slow!"
Everyone turned around and saw a man in a purple suit take off his sunglasses and smile:
"Shopkeeper, I'll take this Soul-Devouring Banner!"
Seeing Shen Yun staring at the man, the bunny girl leaned closer and whispered, "Sir, this is Xiao Tian, the young master of the Soul Refining Sect. No one dares to mess with him. I've heard they're backed by the ancient sect, the Evil Soul Hall, and are incredibly powerful! Why don't you buy the Soul Devouring Banner from another sect?"
The bunny girls receive a commission, and providing services such as guiding and reminding guests are also part of their services to prevent new guests from causing trouble.
The young master of the Soul Refining Sect is treacherous and ruthless. It would be extremely unwise for him to rashly confront the other party over a magic weapon.
"Oh. This little girl has quite a keen eye." Xiao Tian glanced at Shen Yun as he approached, then reached out and grabbed the smiling face sticker that was pressed against the girl's chest.
With each exertion of force from his five fingers, the bunny girl turned deathly pale and trembled all over, but dared not utter a sound.
Xiao Tian, seeing that she was quite attractive, smiled wickedly:
"Come to my private room tonight, I have a project worth hundreds of millions to discuss with you."
The bunny girl dared not refuse, and whispered in a trembling voice:
"Thank you... thank you for the reward, Young Master Xiao Tian."
"Hahahaha!" Xiao Tian laughed heartily, not caring whether Shen Yun would bid or not, and picked up the brocade box containing the Soul-Devouring Banner from the table.
suddenly!
A large hand swiftly gripped Xiaotian's cheek, whispering softly:
"Don't you even understand the rule of first-come, first-served?"
"You!!" The old servant behind Xiao Tian's face darkened.
"Fellow Daoist, let's talk this out!"
Who would have thought that a low-level cultivator who bought a low-grade magic weapon would suddenly rise up?
Moreover, his strength seems quite formidable; he was so fast that even someone at the first level of the Qi Condensation Realm couldn't stop him. He must be a high-level Qi Condensation Realm cultivator!
'It's true that business is first-come, first-served, but the question is also about identity and background!' Xiao Tian remained calm. This person had to hide his identity to come here, so he was probably just a rogue cultivator with no real background. It was already a stroke of luck that he had reached the Qi Condensation Realm.
There are quite a few experts of this level in his sect, not to mention his powerful backer, the Evil Soul Hall!
'I'll kill you and take the Soul-Devouring Banner after you leave this place!' Xiao Tian concealed the killing intent in his eyes, smiling as he placed the brocade box on the table.
"Since you want it, I'll give it to you. Why ruin our friendship?"
However, this remark to ease the tension had no effect.
"Harmony?" Shen Yun's tone was indifferent, but his five fingers suddenly exerted force:
"There's no need to be polite to someone like you."
Snapped! ! !
A loud explosion.
Xiao Tian's head was smashed into pieces like a watermelon crushed by a truck!