Cultivation World 22 Anti-theft Formation
Exchange.
Not all monks like to sell their hard-earned materials to shops at low prices, so this place for mutual trading was created.
Here, you can sell your things at a stall in the morning and go treasure hunting at other stalls in the afternoon.
Xuan Ling had just left Qingyan Sect, and everything he saw was new to him. He had already been wandering around for more than ten days.
She roughly divided the items on the stalls into several categories.
There are people who sell secret manuals, most of whom verbally claim that they are peerless secret manuals or rare and incomplete copies, but in fact the quality of the manuals is very poor, and they are just trying to fool the ignorant casual cultivators.
There are spiritual plants for sale, but most of them are of poor quality and the shops won't buy them. I come here to try my luck and see if I can catch one or two alchemists to sell them to.
There are oracle bones of monsters that have just been hunted. This thing also has its pitfalls. Snake bones are called shark bones, and royal grass is disguised as queen of flowers. You must keep your eyes open to avoid being deceived.
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Of course there are exceptions. Xuan Ling just bought a pair of third-level demon snake gallbladders for a hundred spirit stones. The seller didn't know the value of the goods and let her take advantage of him.
She put away the demon snake gallbladder and continued to shop on Taobao. Today she saw a few unfamiliar faces, who must be the monks who had just arrived.
"Space Gourd, do you want to take a look?"
Xuan Ling's eyes met that of a stall owner, and she heard him shouting at her with a smile.
Xuan Ling:!!!
Space gourd? Was it the space gourd she was thinking of?
"Real or fake?" Xuan Ling didn't believe he could produce the real thing.
The instrument maker behind this has not shown up yet. There are only so many gourds on the market, so it is not his turn to sell them casually.
The stall owner remained calm in the face of the questioning. He replied calmly, "If you don't believe me, you can always ask a skilled craftsman to come take a look. You'll have to pay for it yourself, though."
Xuan Ling himself is a weapon master, so he wants to see it immediately.
The stall owner said: "You can only look, not touch."
"How can I know if it's real or not if I don't touch it?"
The stall owner spread his hands and said, "If you touch it, you have to buy it. Don't you know? Nowadays, many people come under the guise of looking at space gourds. When they touch a gourd, they drip blood to claim ownership, then take it and run away. Poor us sellers, we can't get it back even if we try."
Xuan Ling: "...then bring it closer."
She was about to take a closer look when a man came over and asked, "How much is this gourd?"
The stall owner was amused: "Why don't you check first to see if it's real?"
Tao Zhuo said, "I am Tao Zhuo, a disciple of Venerable Ling Ye of the Tianlang Immortal Sect. I can tell the real from the fake. Fairy, if you are still unsure, please give me this gourd."
Xuan Ling hesitated for a moment and asked about the price.
"I'm in urgent need of money. How about this, if you really want it, I'll sell it to you for 2,000 spirit stones."
Xuan Ling knew the current price of space gourds. She asked more questions because she thought the stall owner didn't know the value of the goods. Since the stall owner knew the value of the goods, the price might not be lower. Although she was rich, she was not so generous.
"I don't have enough spirit stones with me, forget it."
Tao Zhuo paid for the goods without blinking, and left, walking straight to the next stall.
Xuan Ling felt strange and followed him quietly, only to find that this man was specifically looking for people selling space gourds. He didn't care how many gourds the stall owner had or whether the price was two thousand or two thousand seven, he would buy them all.
It’s really extravagant, but why did he buy so many space gourds?
Tianlang Immortal Sect, the disciple of Venerable Lingye, is still missing a space magic weapon?
Even if there is an anti-theft formation, the magic weapons in their hands are like free of charge. Is it possible that someone can steal anything from them?
When she thought about it carefully, she felt that something was wrong, so she hurried back to Qingyan Sect's temporary residence, Huaxinfang, to report to her senior sister.
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Xiaoyuan Mountain is where the Tiangang Sword Sect settled.
"Senior Brother Xue! Is Senior Brother Xue here?"
On a secluded mountaintop, Xue Ji sheathed his sword, flew down the mountainside, and said coldly, "What's the matter?"
The disciple reporting in was extremely apprehensive and bowed, saying, "Senior Brother Xue, several people at the exchange are selling off their space gourds today, but the price has already been quoted at nearly three thousand spirit stones. Should we still buy them?"
Xue Ji was silent for a while, holding the yellow-grade top-grade sword that he had bought for two thousand spirit stones.
This sword has been with him from Qi training to foundation building, and has been repaired many times. Now that he has advanced to the early stage of Golden Core, the sword can no longer keep up with his cultivation, but he has never had the spare money to replace it with a new one.
Unexpectedly, an ordinary space gourd could be sold for three thousand spirit stones.
Xue Ji closed his eyes and suddenly asked, "There are so many space gourds at once. Have you carefully checked to see if there are any fakes?"
"It should be true. I saw the disciples under Venerable Ling Ye check each one of them. They also asked where the person came from and whether they knew the craftsman who refined the gourd. I think money can attract people, and the price has risen. It's normal for cultivators who are short of money to sell their space gourds to exchange for more important items."
"Have you asked the weapon master?"
"Well... we don't have any clues yet, but since Venerable Ling Ye is also interested in this person, we will probably find him soon. We just need to keep an eye on the Tianlang Immortal Sect to see if there are any new faces recently."
Xue Ji said: "We just need to find someone, and then the sect will customize the space gourd. The price can be negotiated, and those who ask for a higher price don't have to pay attention to it."
"Yes, Senior Brother Xue."
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Vientiane Building.
Manager Wantong clapped the list in his hand, unable to believe what he heard.
"I just finalized the list of lots for auction, and you told me that there are a lot of space gourds appearing on the market recently?"
The subordinates were also trembling when reporting: "These are some people who showed up today, scattered here and there, setting up stalls to sell one or two. I only realized something was wrong after I bought two."
"Where are the gourds?"
"Most of them were bought by Tao Zhuo, some were picked up by monks from other sects, and people from Qingyan Sect also came."
Wantong slammed his hand on the table and said in a stern tone, "So, those buyers I prepared for this gourd already have them, right?"
The people below wanted to argue that there were still many monks who didn’t have them, and that someone would definitely buy them when the time came.
But the atmosphere was too serious and he didn't dare to say a word.
Wan Tong's mind was full of thoughts about how he had spent a lot of time evaluating the value of the space gourd. He had finally been ranked in the middle level, which was aimed at the proud disciples of the big sects. When the time came and there was a scramble for it, it would surely fetch a hefty price.
Now they all have it, and they only spent two or three thousand to buy it. If the auction price is high, they will definitely not buy it again, and it will only be left to those second-rate disciples to bid.
If a mid-level item is finally sold at a lower price than the ones in the front row, his vision for confirming the order will certainly be questioned. To put it more seriously, it is hard to say whether he can keep his current position.
The only solution now is to either move the gourd forward or remove it altogether...
There are only five days left until the auction! Any changes will lead to a series of troubles!
"With so many gourd sellers, isn't there a single gourd-refining craftsman?"
"There are too many scammers nowadays. They open their mouths and claim to be craftsmen who refine gourds. Some even directly say their surname is Xie and that they are surviving descendants of the Xie family. They tell everyone that gourd-making is a technique that the Xie family has not passed on to outsiders. In the end, they were exposed by the disciples of Venerable Ling Ye."
They are all trying to take advantage of the situation and get a piece of the spoils.
If you tell too many lies, no one will believe it even if a true one comes out.
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"Throw it out!"
With a loud shout, a cultivator was thrown out of the Four Symbols Treasure Pavilion.
The vague gazes from all directions came at me.
The monk rolled twice on the street, ignoring the pain of broken bones, and quickly left with his sleeves covering his face.
The Four Symbols Treasure Pavilion is the property of the Wanxiang Tower, where disciples of the Tianlang Immortal Sect live, and Venerable Lingye is naturally there as well.
The intimidating shout just now was clearly from Venerable Ling Ye. The people around knew it and thought it was probably another person who recommended himself but was not chosen.
This was the tenth time that Ling Ye was full of hope and completely disappointed.
"Master, I see that person has good skills. The magic weapons he brought out are all worth considering. However, he doesn't know how to refine the space gourd. It might be a good idea to leave him for a test..."
"You get out too!"
Ling Ye was too lazy to listen and just kicked the person out.
When Tao Zhuo came back, he saw his junior fellow apprentice being driven away again with a gloomy look on his face. He quickly composed himself and stepped forward to bow, "Master, I have collected ten more space gourds."
"Put it down first." Ling Ye looked at the pile of gourd debris in front of him that he had dismantled, and he really couldn't muster up the energy.
Tao Zhuo also knew the pain of disassembling a magic weapon and tracing its refining method. What was even more unbelievable was that even his master could not replicate it. The formation on this space gourd was truly strange.
"What are you still doing here? Are you waiting for me to kick you out?"
Ling Ye was in a bad mood. He didn't like everyone and even cursed at a passing dog.
Tao Zhuo paused, then reported, "Master, I met a weapon cultivator at the exchange..."
Ling Ye got furious when he heard this: "Another liar who claims to be able to refine a space gourd and asks for a meeting, then comes to me and starts confessing that he just wants to become my disciple? I won't meet him!"
"Uh..." Tao Zhuo didn't know what to say.
He recalled the situation when he met that person. The person was sitting there setting up a stall. The stall was filled with some common small magical instruments. It could be seen that the workmanship was a bit rough, but there was an inexplicable ingenuity in it. Some of the instruments looked very interesting.
He also had two space gourds on his stall, and the price was about the same as others. After Tao Zhuo introduced his name, he showed no flattery or attempt to curry favor with him, nor did he ask to see his master.
Just like other stall owners, customers come and go as they please.
The reason why Tao Zhuo felt strange was that there was a wooden bottle on the stall, the worst kind of wooden bottle used to hold inferior elixirs.
But there was a formation drawn on it, the same formation as the space gourd.
Tao Zhuo was initially drafted by his master into the army, where he decomposed the anti-theft formation and became familiar with the pattern.
He was sure that it was the same formation, but the crystals on it were different.
Out of curiosity, he bought it, and the more he looked at it on the way back, the more it looked like it.
Thinking of this, he took out the wooden bottle and placed it in front of his master. All the words were on the wooden bottle.
Ling Ye's eyes were originally blank, but when his gaze swept across the wooden bottle, it suddenly focused and he stood up.
"Where did this come from?"
Ling Ye held the wooden bottle in his hand and compared it to the gourd. The more he looked at it, the deeper his smile grew. "I see, I see! I was mistaken. Hahahahaha."
Tao Zhuo was also delighted: "Is this also an anti-theft formation?"
"Yes, although the crystal is different, the usage is the same. The direction has changed, but the general idea is the same." Ling Ye continued to ask: "Where did this wooden bottle come from?"
Tao Zhuo then told the whole story of how he saw the wooden bottle.
That night, a powerful Yuanying-stage master arrived in Xie Yunsui's courtyard.
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