Chapter 336: Trade Fair, News From Ancestor Hong (4000 Words)
After Jiang Yun walked into the "Qingshuang Residence", his face showed a little surprise.
Jiang Yun only glanced slightly and discovered that there were many stone caves behind the counter, which contained a large number of magical objects and magic weapons.
Each magic weapon is restricted and has small formations.
It's just a magic weapon, but there are seven or eight finished magic weapons for sale, which is relatively rare.
Jiang Yun also observed some interesting things with his spiritual pupils.
"Is that resentment and death? Hey, it seems that these magic weapons have changed at least several owners and have suffered accidents."
Looking at the inconspicuous black and red aura wrapped around these magic weapons, Jiang Yun snorted in his heart.
"That's all, I'm just here to buy souls. What does the source of these magic weapons have to do with me."
The shopkeeper in the shop is a beautiful woman with a plump figure wearing a red fairy dress. She is calculating the accounts at the moment.
Otherwise there were only two young women in pink skirts sorting the shelves.
After seeing Jiang Yun, one of the young women wanted to receive her, but the shopkeeper glanced at Jiang Yun and then whispered to the woman: "I will receive this senior."
"Yes, uncle!" The young woman bowed and continued to work.
The beautiful woman walked to Jiang Yun's side and performed a blessing ceremony, and said with a bright smile: "Junior Xu Qing has met my senior, what do you call me?"
Jiang Yun, who had spiritual eyes, could see through the woman's true identity with just one glance.
"The foundation building is complete, but the vitality, blood and spiritual power have been greatly reduced. This has been replenished recently. The maintenance is good, but the foundation is not good. It is estimated that it will age rapidly in a few years."
Because the female shopkeeper was so close and her saluting movements were all white, everything could be seen.
Jiang Yun's expression did not change at all. Jiang Yun, who had four daughters and enjoyed all the blessings of his family, could not stand the rotten food in front of him.
"No need to be polite, I am Ye Gucheng." Jiang Yun said in a deep voice with a serious look.
"It turns out it's Senior Ye. Xu Qing is polite. When I first saw Senior, I felt a sense of awe-inspiring sword aura and dominance with one sword. He really lives up to his name."
I am worthy of being a shopkeeper, and the amazement and sincerity on people's faces when I praise him seem to be genuine.
Jiang Yun is so cunning and cunning, such compliments have no effect. He just hummed and asked doubtfully:
"I am a little curious. Fellow Daoist Foundation Establishment Master has placed so many magic weapons in the shop. Aren't you afraid that someone will come over and do business without capital?"
Hearing this, the beautiful woman covered the corners of her mouth with her sleeves, laughed twice, and explained: "Senior, this must be your first time to Qiyuan Island, right?"
Jiang Yun did not deny it and nodded directly.
The beautiful woman had a genuine expression on her face and continued:
"Our Qiyuan Island is very special in this chaotic star sea. It is a neutral force. Neither the Star Palace nor other major forces can extend their tentacles here. The reason is that Qiyuan Island is composed of several forces with the power of the Nascent Soul stage. Established together.”
"This shop is not talented. It is the business of Mingluo Sect, one of the Nascent Soul forces behind Qiyuan Island. In addition, there is a Nascent Soul monk stationed on the island all year round. It was the turn of our ancestor of Mingluo Sect just more than ten years ago. "
Jiang Yun suddenly understood that his Yuanying ancestor was on the island, and anyone who dared to rob this store would be seeking death.
"That's it. Thank you fellow Taoist for clarifying my doubts."
The beautiful woman pursed her lips and smiled, and said softly: "All the monks who have lived on the island for some time know these things, and they are nothing.
I wonder what seniors come to the store to buy? Although our store mainly sells magic weapons and magic weapons, it also dabbles in other things. "
Jiang Yun repeated what he had said in countless shops before.
"I want to seal the weapon spirit for my natal flying sword. I need the essence of a metallic dragon. The minimum requirement is level six, and level seven is the best. Spirit stones are not a problem."
Hearing this, the beautiful woman shook her head and said: "Our store only has a few fifth- and sixth-level essences, but they are not the essences of dragons and other heavenly and earthly beasts. What's more, the seniors also require that they must be metallic, and I'm afraid there are none in the entire Black Rock Island. "
Jiang Yun was not surprised at all by this answer. He had heard it countless times before.
"Since it's such a bother."
Just when Jiang Yun turned around and was about to leave, the beautiful woman walked up to Jiang Yun and stretched out a hand to block the way and said.
"Senior, don't be anxious. This junior has thought of something that may help senior. Will senior be willing to listen to the little woman?"
"Oh? Come and listen to me. If it's useful, I won't hesitate to pay you."
Although Jiang Yun was a little wary of this store and the Ming Luo Sect behind it, after all, the supply of goods in this store was not from the right source. But it never hurts to listen to what the other person has to say.
"Remuneration is not necessary. Senior, I don't know. There will be a Dan-formation-level trade fair three days later at Haishi. The location is..."
Three days later.
Qingluo Island, a small island more than four hundred miles away from Qiyuan Island, Jiang Yun had arrived in just a cup of tea.
"It should be right here, there are quite a lot of people."
Jiang Yun landed in front of a rock wall covered with vines on the island.
Through his spiritual pupil, he saw nearly thirty spiritual light points a hundred meters underground, and more than half of them had reached the elixir formation stage.
After observing the surroundings, I found that there were no other formations arranged on the entire island, only a small magic formation in front was arranged to cover the entrance of the cave, so I walked towards the rock wall ahead with confidence.
After Jiang Yun approached the rock wall, his figure twisted and disappeared.
What came into view after entering the cave entrance were several maids who were in the Qi training period.
When Jiang Yun stepped in, the maids glanced at the orbs on the table. Then one of the maids came forward and bowed.
The maid didn't ask any questions, she just said respectfully, "Senior, please" and led the way.
After hundreds of steps, Jiang Yun followed the maid to a vast underground space.
This space is not a dark and hidden secret room like Jiang Yun imagined, but a small manor.
The top of the cave is an instant sunstone, which illuminates the entire underground space into daylight. There are houses, green plants, and gardens in the manor, but they are not large in scale.
After the maid brought him, she performed a blessing ceremony and then left. Jiang Yun walked into the manor.
There are many stone tables and chairs placed in the garden of the manor, and the monks sit in twos and threes and chat.
One of them, an old man with white hair and a childish face, dressed as a Taoist priest, was talking to a fat monk next to him.
The old Taoist priest's eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Yun. He stood up and greeted, "This fellow Taoist looks familiar and it must be his first time here. If you don't have anyone you know well, you might as well sit with us."
Jiang Yun glanced at the old Taoist priest and the fat monk next to him and found that they were both in the early stages of elixir formation and had average spiritual power. They were obviously not from any major sect, so he walked over with confidence.
Jiang Yun walked to the stone table and clasped his fists and said, "Ye Gucheng has met two fellow Taoists."
"Just call me Mr. He."
"Jin Li."
After the three of them exchanged names, Jiang Yun sat down.
The old Taoist priest looked at Jiang Yun carefully and asked, "Is this fellow Taoist a sword cultivator? I wonder which sect he studied under? Is it the Kuiyun Sect or Lingyue Sword Pavilion?"
"Fellow Taoist, I have misunderstood. I am just a casual cultivator." Jiang Yun shook his head and replied.
The old Taoist priest and the fat monk glanced at Jiang Yun in surprise. Although they didn't say anything, their expressions probably showed disbelief.
Jiang Yun didn't care and asked: "Fellow Daoist He, this is my first time to participate in the trade fair here. Friends, do you know who organized it? It's surprising that so many monks in the alchemy stage can be gathered."
After hearing Jiang Yun's question, the old Taoist priest stroked his beard and began to introduce.
"Friend Taoist, you don't know. The trade fair here is run by Taoist friend Ziyun. The time of the trade fair is variable, sometimes once every ten years, sometimes once every thirty years.
This is my second time as a Taoist. There is still an hour before the start, and there should be many Taoist friends participating. "
"This fellow Taoist Ziyun is amazing. Although his cultivation is only in the early stage of pill formation, he has done a lot of business in Black Rock City. I heard that it is because of a certain Yuanying old monster on Qiyuan Island who has a deep connection. Therefore No one dares to provoke him, and business goes smoothly.”
The old Taoist priest said this with a look of envy. Although he is also an alchemy cultivator, as a casual cultivator and without a backing, I am afraid that ten of his own belongings are far inferior to others.
Jiang Yun knew clearly that there was a backstage.
The old Taoist priest was obviously a very talkative person. He quickly adjusted his mentality and started chatting about recent current events.
"There are too many big things that have happened recently, but the biggest thing is the new demonic giant Bloodbra Old Demon that has emerged in recent months!"
"I heard that this old demon of the Blood Temple is extremely petty-minded and extremely vindictive. He is not only a casual cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage, but also a physical cultivator.
There are so many forces that have been bullied by him in the past few months! However, the small forces can only be flattering, and the big forces with the Nascent Soul Monster can only be polite. No one dares to offend. "
Jiang Yun looked strange when he said this.
"Master has been out of contact for several months. Could it be my master?"
The people at the table next to them were originally communicating, but their attention shifted after hearing the old Taoist priest's words. One of the middle-aged female nuns even echoed with sadness and anger on her face:
"Who says it's not the case? My disciple has suffered from his abuse!"
"At that time, this old monster came over with a tail of a transformed dragon and said he wanted to sell the scales to get some money for us to drink."
"Our sect didn't dare to offend the old monster because we didn't have a Nascent Soul. We thought it was nothing more than just doing business. But this old monster actually offered five thousand spiritual stones for one dragon scale!"
"These are just ordinary scales. Even the scales of transformed monsters don't have this price! In the end, they sold us fifty pieces forcefully. What can our sect do? We can only buy them with a smile."
The monks around him also told each other the evil deeds that the old demon of the Blood Temple had done recently. Its content shocked Jiang Yun.
One of the biggest things is that the old devil of the Blood brake is eyeing the Qing'an Merchant Alliance.
It was the old devil of the Blood Temple who first ran to Tianxing City and valued several precious elixirs from the Qing'an Merchant Alliance, one of the four major merchant alliances. Each one was worth more than 20,000 spiritual stones.
According to the description of a monk who was in the shop at the time, the young master of the Qing'an Merchant Alliance received him respectfully and expressed his willingness to give one or two coins to the senior to create a good relationship.
As a result, the old demon of Blood brake threw a piece of the tail bone of an eighth-level dragon to express that I never like to take advantage of others, so I would use this piece of dragon bone to exchange for these pills. The young master could hardly keep his smile at that time.
In fact, it is understandable that what the Qing'an Merchant Alliance is best at is using elixirs to make people owe favors and create a karmic relationship.
Unexpectedly, when meeting someone as shameless as the old devil of the Blood Dragon, not only did he not get any favors, but he also lost a large sum of spiritual stones. Although the dragon bone was precious, its value was only equivalent to that of a pill.
The young master of the Qing'an Merchant Alliance was also considered an outstanding person, and he decisively expressed that he was happy with the transaction. As a result, the old blood brake demon said that he would come again in a while.
It is said that the face of the young hostess is very wonderful, and she obviously understands that she has been blackmailed by this old monster for a long time.
Later, the Qing'an Merchant Alliance could only invite a Yuanying guest elder to mediate.
This guest elder found the Blood Killing Demon and said that the Merchant Alliance was willing to offer 10,000 spirit stones to the Blood Killing Demon every year in the future, hoping that the Blood Killing Demon would patronize the other three merchant alliances.
The Blood Killing Demon was immediately furious and said that he looked up to the Qing'an Merchant Alliance for trading, and was he the kind of person who coveted these spirit stones?
He even directly fought with the Yuanying elder, and as a result, the Blood Killing Demon was safe and sound after the fight, and the Yuanying guest elder broke an arm, and thus announced that he would not interfere in the affairs of the Merchant Alliance.
From then on, the Qing'an Merchant Alliance was visited by the Blood Killing Demon every ten days or half a month, and each time it suffered heavy losses, but the other three major merchant alliances and large merchant alliances were not patronized.
Because the Blood Killing Demon only focused on this one to extort money, other forces watched the show happily, and many large merchant alliances second only to the four major merchant alliances were waiting to fill the position after the Qing'an Merchant Alliance fell.
The Qing'an Merchant Alliance was cheated so badly that its boss, the old Yuanying cultivator Huang Yun, who had been in seclusion for many years, could no longer sit still and took action himself.
After a big battle, both sides were seriously injured and left.
Huang Yun had a short life span, and this battle seriously injured him. After returning, he closed the life and death gate, but there were also rumors that he was seriously injured and could not recover.
Seeing this, the other two Yuanying guests not only did not help but began to erode the industry of the Qing'an Merchant Alliance, and were no longer satisfied with collecting offerings.
Half a month later, the Blood Killing Demon had recovered most of his injuries and came back.
At this point, the Qing'an Merchant Alliance fell into decline.
Other major forces gloated over the misfortune and happily divided up the various resource points under the Qing'an Merchant Alliance, while secretly deciding not to offend the Blood Killing Demon.
The rumors about the Blood Killing Demon became more and more outrageous. At first, it was said that he liked to drink the blood of monsters and eat monster meat raw, and he would eat half a monster for a meal.
The rumor originated from the fact that the Blood Killing Demon often asked people to inquire about the news of the transformed monsters.
Later, it was gradually spread that the Blood Killing Demon liked to eat young women, and the more voluptuous the figure, the more he liked to eat.
Later, it was spread that he liked to eat children.
"Don't cry! Be careful that the Blood Killing Demon heard you and caught you and ate you!"
When the parents said this, the children stopped crying immediately in fear. From then on, the Blood Killing Demon had the ability to stop children from crying.
Originally, other forces were worried that the Blood Killing Demon would come to their door to force a sale, but after the matter of the Qing'an Business Alliance was over, the Blood Killing Demon took the Star Palace's teleportation array to the outer sea and disappeared.
It is said that the Star Palace also tried to win over this Yuanying old monster to become a guest elder, but was rejected.
There are also rumors that the Tianxing Twin Saints and the Blood Killing Demon met, but no one knows what they talked about.
Although Jiang Yun's face did not show any expression, his heart was mixed.
"Master, Master, I didn't expect you to be so open-minded! You looked a little embarrassed when I suggested it before."