Chapter 56: Bustling Market

It was pitch black in front of him, the kind of black that completely absorbed even the light, which made people shudder at the sight. There was a whistling sound of fragmentation in his ears, and the world was spinning and turning upside down. With Shi Xuan's current physical condition, he felt very uncomfortable. Fortunately, there was the protection provided by the teleportation array itself, otherwise the space storm generated during the teleportation alone would have destroyed Shi Xuan.

This situation soon ended, and there was light in front of him again. After a while, Shi Xuan recovered from the dizziness and tinnitus and looked around.

This side was also a teleportation array similar to the one in the cave, but it was not in the cave, but inside a tall building. The top of the hall, more than three meters high, was supported by the thick stone pillars around the teleportation array. In addition, there was an ancient long table and three stools in the corner. The decorations and furnishings were all old and worn, as if they had not been used for a long time.

Shi Xuan came to a strange place, so he was naturally cautious. He first used the Golden Dragon Armor Spell, took the Soul-Bewitching Banner, and did not dare to move around casually. However, after waiting for a long time, no one came, so he had to leave the door of this hall and walk slowly along a straight road.

After walking about a hundred meters, there was a stone door in front of him. From it came the sound of talking and laughing. After hearing it, Shi Xuan quietly breathed a sigh of relief. At least there was no language barrier. However, he did not dare to be careless. He walked through the stone door slowly with caution. Suddenly, he saw a lot of humans in gorgeous clothes. They went to other stone doors in groups of three or two, talking and laughing. Shi Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief. Yes, they were humans. Then Shi Xuan walked into the hall neatly and mixed into the crowd while others were not paying attention.

Shi Xuan's biggest fear before was that after teleporting, he would find himself surrounded by spirit beasts and demon beasts. The second fear was that he would see a sea of ​​blood or a mountain of bones, and then be praised by a sinister monk with ghostly fire or blood all over his body, saying that he was a good material.

It's not that he didn't believe in Taoist Daoquanzi. Although the Taoist's cultivation was unknown and he looked like an ordinary mortal, from his knowledge and Chu Yuyan's description, there was no doubt that he was more than ten times stronger than himself. If he wanted to harm him, he could just do it easily, without any detours. What he was afraid of was that the Taoist might not have been back for dozens or hundreds of years, and it was unknown if there were some changes here.

At present, at least they are human beings. Judging from their attire, there are only one or two evil monks, and they are walking quickly towards another stone gate, not noticing Shi Xuan's appearance. Not only the evil monks didn't notice, but most of the other monks didn't have time to look at Shi Xuan who appeared quietly. They were busy chatting and laughing with their companions beside them, and walked towards their own stone gates at a fast pace.

When Shi Xuan walked into the hall and observed back and forth, a few people noticed Shi Xuan, but they didn't come to say hello. It seemed that they were not interested in Shi Xuan at all. Instead, they looked at the soul-bewitching flag in Shi Xuan's hand.

Shi Xuan silently observed this hall and those who noticed him. This hall was about ten times the size of the one he just came out of. There were ten stone gates on the left and right. He came out from the third stone gate on the left, and there was a big stone gate at each end.

These monks either came in from the big stone gate on Shi Xuan's right hand side, and then walked to the small stone gates on the left and right in a hurry, but most of them were concentrated in those two or three small stone gates; or came out from those small stone gates, chatting with their companions and slowly walked to the big stone gate on the right hand side. Most of them noticed Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan deduced with simple logic that the big stone gate on the right hand side should be the entrance and the exit. Behind those small stone gates is everyone's destination, but the big stone gate on the left hand side is unknown, and almost no one can be seen going there.

The monks in this hall, their clothes are bright, gorgeous, or elegant, and they are all expensive at first glance. The specific cultivation level, because most of them have the method of restraining their breath, Shi Xuan's Qi-reading technique cannot tell. Only a few nouveau riche dressed up, Shi Xuan can see that they are in the Qi-cultivation period.

In this situation, Shi Xuan naturally looked calm and leisurely, and calmly mixed into the large group of monks heading to the exit, but he did not dare to get too close to the monks around him, for fear of arousing hostility from others.

The exit stone gate is getting closer and closer.

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Two monks in black uniforms walked out of the big stone door at the other end. The shorter monk looked at the monks coming and going in the hall with envy on his face: "I say, Wang Qi, these monks are really rich. The spiritual stones for one teleportation are our income for more than a month."

The tall monk curled his lips: "How many cultivators in the Qi-nourishing and Out-of-Body stages can afford to use the teleportation array? Thousands of monks come in and out of this Tidal Square every day, but only a hundred people use it a day. Wu Laosi, you always sigh like this, why don't you think about how many of them are disciples of the sect, how many are children of big families, and those who get a chance and become rich overnight, it's good to have one out of hundreds."

Wu Laosi sighed: "I'm envious, aren't I? If I was born in a big family, oh, an ordinary family would be fine, why would I have to work hard every month to guard this teleportation array and earn those eight low-grade spiritual stones, which are not even enough for the monthly soup and medicine money. Damn, it's not even enough to use the teleportation array once!"

"Hey, you still want to use the teleportation array, Wu Laosi, you know that it takes ten low-grade spirit stones to go to the nearest Langya Island, not to mention the large teleportation array to the Western Wilderness, which requires at least one high-grade spirit stone. You may not be able to save enough in this lifetime. Let's go home and practice as soon as possible, and strive to make a name for ourselves at the ceremony of recruiting disciples for Penglai Sect and Yingzhou Sect in half a year. If we can enter the sect, we will be superior to others and don't have to work so hard every month." Wang Qi was a little fascinated at the end.

"Superior to others? Aren't the children of those families the majority of the three major sects?" This time it was Wu Laosi's turn to ridicule Wang Qi.

"Oh, who cares? Once you enter the sect, at least you will have good skills and good magic, which is better than the junks we bought at the market stalls. You may even get low-grade magic tools. Let's go home and practice." The tall Wang Qi is a man of action, and he pulled Wu Laosi to the exit.

Wu Laosi shook off Wang Qi: "Are you crazy? You don't want to guard the teleportation array? If you are discovered, half of the spirit stones for this month will be deducted!"

"What is there to guard? You know that we were excluded to guard the teleportation array from the Middle Earth. It is a dilapidated place where no one has teleported here for more than a hundred years, and no one wants to teleport there. Hey, it must be that when we were guarding the teleportation array of Hailong Island, the spirit stones rewarded by those rich monks made people jealous. Damn, there are more than ten low-grade spirit stones a month!" Wang Qi became more and more angry.

Wu Laosi also came to his senses after hearing this, and cursed a few words, and then said to Wang Qi: "Let's go home and practice. I have never seen anyone guard that teleportation array!"

The two walked towards the exit while cursing.

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As soon as Shi Xuan followed the monk in front of him out of the big stone gate, he felt his eyes bright and his spirit was shocked.

Above his head was a bright and refreshing blue sky, with a red sun in the middle. The sunlight was not dazzling, and it sprinkled warmly on his body, making people feel like taking a nap. A dozen feet away on the left hand side is a cliff. Below the cliff, the waves are rolling, constantly hitting the mountain wall, leaving white foam-like waves and bursts of thunder-like sounds.

Looking from here, the distance is still the boundless indigo sea, dotted with the shadows of other islands, unknown seabirds singing and flying back and forth on the sea, tall sailboats are rushing towards this island from the farthest distance at an incredible speed, and I think some formations are fixed, while some small fishing boats are dragging fishing nets in the distant and remote sea.

Smelling the damp and slightly fishy sea breeze, watching the monks flying to this island in the sky or driving magic tools, Shi Xuan's heart is broadened, taking the soul-bewitching flag, and walking to the stone road on the right.

This is a market built on the southernmost side of the island, stretching from the port to the cliff, so Shi Xuan, who walks down from the cliff, has a panoramic view of the layout of the entire market.

The layout of three vertical and four horizontal streets, plus dozens of stone avenues that spread out, formed an extremely prosperous market. The cultivators from the air, the sea, and other places on the island crowded the market. Of course, most of them were ordinary people. From the results of Shi Xuan's observation of Qi along the way, people below the Qi-cultivation stage accounted for four or five tenths. Because they were in the market of cultivation, most of them practiced some boxing and kicking, which could be considered the body-building stage.

People in the Qi-cultivation stage accounted for about three or four tenths, and the remaining one or two tenths were cultivators whose Qi Shi Xuan could not see, and they were estimated to be out-of-body stage and above.

Walking slowly on the stone avenue down the cliff, there were all kinds of extremely strange sights around. After coming out of the big stone gate, more and more people looked at him. As for why, Shi Xuan had no idea at all.

On both sides of the avenue were some cultivators in the Qi-cultivation stage who were setting up stalls. With a cautious attitude of watching and listening more, but not asking too many questions, Shi Xuan randomly found a young cultivator who looked very pretty, squatted in front of her stall, and picked up a beautiful feather and looked at it.

The pretty woman immediately introduced enthusiastically: "Senior, this cock-tailed monkey's tail feather is from a second-level monster. It is the best choice for refining self-defense feather clothes, and it is not expensive at all. It is only ten pieces for one low-grade spirit stone." While speaking, she looked at Shi Xuan with eager eyes.

Low-grade spirit stone? What is that? Shi Xuan looked through it calmly, put it down casually, stood up and prepared to leave.

The pretty woman stood up hurriedly and said anxiously: "Senior, senior, this can be reduced. Otherwise, you can take eighty crystal beads. If you don't like it, you can take a look at the others. I found them in the dangerous places on the west side of the island. They are very good for practicing magic tools and elixirs."