"Okay. Shall we start now?" Chen Zhou asked directly.

The middle-aged vendor was still resting comfortably, showing no sign of wanting to start right away. Unexpectedly, after Chen Zhou finished speaking, the middle-aged vendor sat up and placed his token on the table in front of Chen Zhou and the middle-aged vendor. Only then did Chen Zhou glance at it and notice the amount of magic coins on it!

"1000!"

The middle-aged vendor had a whopping 1000 magic coins! This really startled Chen Zhou!

"You have so many magic coins, aren't you afraid of being discovered?" Chen Zhou asked directly.

"What am I afraid of? The loophole wasn't discovered in Shanghai, which means my magic coins came from legitimate channels. What reason do they have to punish me?" the middle-aged merchant said directly, then added, "The 1,000 magic coins I have here can be exchanged for items at the Shanghai store. Shall we go together now?"

Indeed, now that the middle-aged merchant has 1,000 magic coins, he can directly enter the Magic City Shop. The items in the Magic City Shop probably won't cost thousands of magic coins; they'll likely cost a few hundred magic coins each.

Chen Zhou had never been to the so-called "Magic City Store" before, so he naturally didn't know how to do it and was very curious at the moment.

Chen Zhou immediately replied, "Okay!"

"Entering the Magic City Shop isn't as simple as it seems. Since we're currently in this inferno, we can't enter the Magic City Shop in person. We must pay the corresponding amount of Magic Coins to enter. A teleportation array will appear beneath us and take us directly into the Magic City Shop," the middle-aged merchant explained slowly.

"Then how do we get back?" Chen Zhou asked.

“After we pay the relevant magic coins, it’s considered a round trip. When you want to come back, you can naturally use the teleportation array. The teleportation array will disappear immediately after two round trips, so the price of this teleportation array is quite expensive,” the middle-aged merchant continued to explain.

"How many magic coins?" Chen Zhou asked tentatively. He was only asking tentatively because the middle-aged merchant must have paid for the teleportation array.

"100 magic coins each," the middle-aged vendor said.

"So expensive, then I only have 94 magic coins left..." Chen Zhou murmured, meaning that he didn't even have enough magic coins to get into the Magic City store.

“If you don’t have enough magic coins, then you can only leave the Burning Ground and go find the Magic City Shop. Actually, you can leave after entering the Burning Ground, but each time you leave, a corresponding venue fee will be deducted. This is calculated based on the time you have been in the Burning Ground, and the price is quite expensive. I estimate that you have stayed for so long, and if you want to leave, the venue fee you have to pay is probably more than a dozen magic coins.” The middle-aged merchant said.

Chen Zhou already knew that the Burning Grounds were accessible, but he hadn't expected the entrance and exit fees to be so exorbitant. No wonder no one from the tenth floor had left after entering. Those middle-aged merchants who had stayed in the Burning Grounds for so long must have paid even higher fees...

Chen Zhou simply couldn't imagine the cost.

"So, for example, some of the old guard from the Advanced Alliance, if they wanted to leave the Burning Ground now, the fee they would have to pay would be several thousand magic coins." The middle-aged merchant said slowly. When magic coins were mentioned, one should have immediately changed their expression, but given the middle-aged merchant's special skills, he really didn't care about magic coins.

All he cared about were the items in the Magic City shops that could be exchanged using Magic Coins.

“No wonder you all chose not to leave the burning site, so that’s why.” Chen Zhou nodded slowly and said.

"That's exactly why we chose not to leave the burning site. Are you ready? Get ready to enter the burning site now!" the middle-aged merchant said excitedly.

Hearing the middle-aged merchant's words, Chen Zhou thought for a moment. He didn't have anything to prepare, so he checked his weapons and tokens again and put them away. Then he said, "Ready."

As soon as Chen Zhou finished speaking, the middle-aged merchant picked up the token he had placed on the table again. The next moment, the middle-aged merchant tapped his magic coins several times with his finger until a screen made of black energy slowly appeared in front of him. The middle-aged merchant tapped it a few more times, and soon two formations appeared under Chen Zhou and the middle-aged merchant's feet.

Chen Zhou looked at the formation that had appeared and felt extremely excited.

Isn't this a formation?

Chen Zhou couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen an array formation. Seeing it again now, he felt a great sense of familiarity.

Moreover, this formation is entirely composed of that black energy, which is demonic energy. However, Chen Zhou cannot use the demonic energy within his body at all; otherwise, Chen Zhou could also set up the formation.

This is also Chen Zhou's limitation; once inside Shanghai, his array formations are completely useless.

"The teleportation array has appeared! Do you see it? That strange array under your feet is the teleportation array!" The middle-aged merchant loudly reminded Chen Zhou. Little did the merchant know that Chen Zhou was an array master on the Tianyun Continent and knew more about arrays than he did. His reminder was completely unnecessary.

Chen Zhou was not at the point where he didn't even recognize the formations.

However, Chen Zhou still nodded to the middle-aged vendor. The middle-aged vendor looked at Chen Zhou, and the two of them stood up, standing right in the center of the formation. With the middle-aged vendor clicking again, the screen composed of black energy disappeared in the next moment.

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