Chapter 91: If you don’t take the elixir, you can’t lie (3rd update, 4000 words! 10,000 words today!)

The more Zhang Feifei thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became, the more he thought about it.

The competition is already annoying. Every year, those ranked 5,000th from the outer sect are stuck in jail, with resources neither going up nor down.

If there are no other accidents or opportunities, I will be stuck in this ranking for the rest of my life.

Originally, Zhang Feifei had already accepted that she would be stuck at the 5,000th place for the rest of her life and would not be able to move up or down.

Unexpectedly, the price of the elixir went up.

His world is falling.

It was just because he impulsively spent some extra spirit stones on the purchase of a new spirit sword three months ago, which resulted in his insufficient spirit stone reserves. He was several months late in buying elixirs, and when he came to buy them again today, he found that the price of elixirs had increased so much all of a sudden.

The Alchemist Alliance calculated that the Lingjian Sect would be holding a big competition soon, so they raised the price in advance.

What a profiteer! Without the elixir, what ranking can he strive for? Not to mention 5000, he may not even be able to maintain the 8000th place.

Zhang Feifei was so overwhelmed that his hair stood on end with anger.

The faces of his fellow disciples nearby were not very good either. Zhang Feifei was considered the strongest among them. His ranking dropped so much because he couldn't buy the elixir, let alone them.

Looks like I'll be in jail next year.

Some people sighed, feeling like the sky was falling.

At this time, a fellow apprentice carrying a blue fairy sword said, "Brothers, how about going to the ghost market?"

He said, "The genuine elixirs from the Alchemist Alliance are too expensive. I can't afford 79 spirit stones. I might as well try my luck at the ghost market. If I'm lucky, I might be able to find smuggled elixirs. Even if they're fake, they're better than nothing."

The ghost market mentioned by this Blue Sword Junior Brother is the street market that appears in Yunluo City after nightfall.

There is a mixed crowd inside, with all kinds of people, and there is also everything inside the ghost market.

Magic swords and treasures, elixirs and talismans, secret techniques, martial arts of spirit beasts...even the red-light district has them.

If you are lucky, you may encounter someone who specializes in reselling fake drugs in the ghost market. The so-called fake drugs are actually not all fake.

Most fake drugs are half real and half fake, that is, half or one third of the real drug is cut and spliced ​​with fake drugs. The efficacy is only half or one third of the real drug, or even less.

It's a little fake, but it's better than nothing.

If you are lucky, you may come across a second-hand real medicine that is about to expire but the customer cannot finish it and is selling it to make up for the loss. The price is much cheaper than that in the Alchemy Alliance.

After all, who can afford genuine medicine? With such an expensive price, after a big competition, all your savings and even your house will be gone.

Zhang Feifei and others nodded. Although the Ghost Market was not secure, this was the only way they could do it.

The group walked towards the ghost market.

…

At the same time, in a corner of the ghost market.

A scarecrow was sitting on the ground, with seven gourd brothers standing beside him. In front of him were two bottles of elixirs. Given this team configuration, one might think they were here to set up stalls and sell goods, while someone who didn't know would think that eight action figures were left here by someone.

Chen Nanxuan looked at the practitioners coming and going. He had been setting up his stall here for several hours.

Many people came to ask for the price. Every time Chen Nanxuan quoted a price, those with good tempers shook their heads and left, while those with bad tempers wanted to punch him on the head.

After all, when you ask about the price, 20 spirit stones for a bottle, who can afford it?

The authentic Liuwei Dihuang Pills cost 20 yuan per pill, but you sell them for 20 yuan per bottle. Even a fool would know that you are a fake drug dealer.

Even within the Alchemist Alliance, you can’t get medicine at such a cheap price. Even dogs would shake their heads at this price.

One Lingshi for one pill is cheap, but who would dare to buy such cheap medicine? A box of medicine in the genuine store is 20, and the roadside drug dealer gives you a sack of medicine for 20. What if someone dies from eating it? What kind of stupid straw man is here to steal money and kill people? Chen Nanxuan is almost crying sitting here.

This life... no, it has never been so difficult in either of my past lives.

In his previous life, he was brave and forge ahead, using any means necessary to overcome all difficulties without suffering any setback.

He was extremely unlucky in this life. He swore a solemn oath that he was here to provide welfare. If the pills were fake, he would pay ten times the price. No one dared to buy them even with his life as a guarantee.

The saddest thing was meeting a sharp-tongued aunt cultivator who asked him a soul-searching question.

"Ten times the compensation for fakes? Why would I spend money on eleven of your fake pills? And what do I need your straw head for? Just as a pillow?"

In his previous life, Chen Nanxuan practiced Taoism for 500 years and his heart had never been tense. But today, he was almost broken by just a few words from an old lady who was a cultivator.

Chen Nanxuan was furious: "Get lost! Are you drafting it?"

The immortal cultivator lady was furious. She rushed forward with her teeth bared and pulled the straw off Chen Nanxuan's head with her hands. She walked away cursing, "You stinky straw man selling fake medicine and you have a bad temper. Bah."

A straw man sits on the ground and loses his dream.

At this moment, Siwa next to him yawned, and several sparks flew out of his mouth, igniting a piece of grass above Chen Nanxuan's head. Chen Nanxuan was furious.

Just when Chen Nanxuan felt that his stupid head was about to explode, Zhang Feifei and others from the Lingjian Sect came over from the south of the Ghost Market.

Zhang Feifei walked while cursing the bad luck.

They came to the ghost market to try their luck and see if they could find some medicinal pills, but along the way, they found that every single person selling legitimate medicine was a fake drug dealer.

The most outrageous one I encountered was a skinny guy selling Qi-recovering pills for 40 spirit stones each. He said he had 100 pills in stock, which he bought at the lowest price last year. He knew that the Lingjian Sect would have a big competition soon, so he took them out to sell.

But he doesn't sell them individually, he sells them in packages of 100.

This was no small sum of money, so Zhang Feifei and a dozen other people discussed it and decided to pool their money and take over the entire package.

However, the fake medicine dealer did not expect that Zhang Feifei was a veteran and the goods in the ghost market were cheap but unreliable.

After buying the pills, Zhang Feifei asked his fellow apprentices to hold the sticky man hostage and not let him leave. He had his own way of testing the authenticity and efficacy of the pills.

That is to scrape a little medicine powder off each pill and test it on the spot.

When Zhang Feifei proposed to try the drugs one by one, the fake drug dealer started sweating on the spot.

When Zhang Feifei was halfway through his attempt, he was already sweating profusely and could hardly stand.

Zhang Feifei tried all the medicines, his face turned from black to red, and he almost exploded on the spot.

Because among these 100 pills, not a single one is real.

In fact, Zhang Feifei knew what was going on and knew that the ghost market could not be trusted. He was even prepared that half of the 100 pills might be fake, but he never expected that there would be 100 fake pills.

Zhang Feifei burst into laughter out of anger on the spot.

Others are trying to make a big profit with a small investment, taking risks and mixing fake things with real ones and selling them.

You are a kid who got something for nothing. I asked you to take a risk and walk on a tightrope. You are walking on a fan? The fake ones are mixed with fake ones? Who can stand 100% fake? The fake drug dealer was beaten up by Zhang Feifei and his gang on the spot, and his teeth were knocked out.

Naturally, the money used to buy the medicine was taken back, and the spirit stones from the fake medicine dealer were also robbed.

Although there are rules in the ghost market that money and goods must be exchanged, fighting is not allowed.

However, those products that are tested on the spot and found to be 100% fake by buyers are not protected.

All I can say is that the fake drug dealer is too bold.

Although Zhang Feifei and the others felt relieved, they were still troubled that they had come all this way without buying any real medicine.

If he really couldn't buy the elixir, what would he do for the competition in two days? Just when Zhang Feifei was anxious, fate made him see Chen Nanxuan's stall.

Zhang Feifei: “???”

A straw man with seven little kids with gourds on their heads selling elixirs? Although the straw man is strange, it will not attract much attention in this bizarre world of cultivating immortals.

The seven continents of the Qingtian World are huge, and there are tens of thousands of races in the Central Continent. Straw men are not uncommon, and they might be some rare form of substitution.

Looking at the two bottles of pills on the stall in front of Chen Nanxuan, there was a sign next to them that said "Instant Kill Pills".

Zhang Feifei stopped and looked at the sign.

"Instant Kill Pill? What kind of pill is this?"

I've never seen it before, it's a weird name.

Zhang Feifei led a group of outer disciples from the Lingjian Sect forward.

"Little Grass Man, what do you mean by this instant kill pill?"

Chen Nanxuan was furious when he saw a group of young cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage calling him "little straw men" as soon as they opened their mouths.

He was just scolded by an old lady, who also took away a lot of straw from him. He was already annoyed.

In the past, these Qi-refining practitioners would not even be qualified to carry his shoes, let alone serve as stepping stones for him. Yet, they were so rude.

It's like a tiger in plain water and a dragon in shallow water.

Although he was angry, Chen Nanxuan also knew his mission. If he couldn't sell the pills, would he still want to keep his physical body and holy body cultivation technique?

Chen Nanxuan took a deep breath and said, "The Instant Kill Pill is a secret medicine of our sect. It has a special refining method and is cheap. Currently, we sell only these two kinds of pills to the public. The Six Flavors Rehmannia Pill and the Nine Transformations Recovery Pill."

Chen Nanxuan introduced it again.

When Zhang Feifei heard this, his eyes lit up.

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Liuwei Dihuang Pills and Jiuzhuan Huiqi Pills were exactly the pills he needed.

In the Lingjian Sect's competition assessment, there is a section of the road that is a poisonous miasma area. The one who passes through the poisonous miasma the fastest and hunts enough poisonous insects in the poisonous miasma area can obtain certain points.

Although this level tests the purity of the spiritual energy in each disciple's body and their ability to resist poison, the poisonous miasma area is very large, and it will take one or two days to get through it even if one tries hard, not to mention that one has to hunt a certain number of poisonous insects in it, and even have to be on guard against ambushing and robbery by fellow disciples.

Only a stupid person would have to use his spiritual energy to fight the poison miasma the whole time. Even inner disciples would bring their own detoxification pills.

Those who are wealthy and powerful take medicinal pills throughout the whole process, and this is also tacitly permitted by the sect.

After all, having money is just a means to success, as it involves wealth, friends and land.

The cheapest detoxification pill costs 10 to 20 spirit stones each. If you want to take pills to resist the poison while traveling through the miasma, you will need at least several hundred pills. If you have the money, go ahead and take them.

Outer disciples like Zhang Feifei don't have much money, but they will prepare five or six detoxification pills every year in case of emergency.

But this year the price of genuine Liuwei Dihuang Pills has increased to 55 spirit stones per pill, so Zhang Feifei failed to buy it.

Unexpectedly, they found two kinds of elixirs that they urgently needed here. Zhang Feifei looked at his fellow disciples and asked about the price.

"How much do your pills cost?"

Chen Nanxuan stretched out two straw fingers.

"20 per piece? I'll buy one and try."

When Zhang Feifei saw Chen Nanxuan stretching out two fingers, he took out 20 spirit stones without saying a word and wanted to buy one to try. Anyway, he knew how to scrape off the powder, so if it was fake, he could snatch it back. If he bought a real one, he would make a fortune.

Seeing Zhang Feifei take out 20 spirit stones and throw them out, Chen Nanxuan's eyes lit up.

So simple?

After waiting for so long, I finally found something great.

Chen Nanxuan then picked up a bottle of Liuwei Dihuang Pills on the ground and handed it over. He put away the spirit stone and said, "Okay, this bottle is yours."

Zhang Feifei was stunned holding a whole bottle of pills.

?

"What do you mean? 20 Lingshi for a Liuwei Dihuang Pill, and you give me a bottle?"

What do you mean by asking me? Why does Zhang Feifei feel that his brain is not enough? Isn't this account quite simple? Chen Nanxuan said: "The instant kill pill we produce is like this, 20 spirit stones are one bottle."

Zhang Feifei: “???”

He looked around with the pill in his hand, bewildered, and was relieved to see that his fellow disciples were still there.

Zhang Feifei: If my fellow disciples weren’t here, I would have thought I had traveled through time.

Is this still the Qingtian World? 20 spirit stones per bottle? When did elixirs sell for this price? There was no such price even a thousand years ago.

Many fellow disciples of the Lingjian Sect shook their heads. For a moment, they could not tell whether it was Brother Zhang Feifei who was unlucky or the fake medicine dealer who was unlucky.

Bad news: All the medicines that Senior Brother Zhang Feifei bought along the way were fake.

The good news: Every time Senior Brother Zhang Feifei exposed the counterfeiting, he was able to get the money back, so there was not much loss.

But the fake drug dealers are in a miserable state, a severe beating is the lightest punishment.

These fellow apprentices looked at the straw man selling medicine.

I don’t know if this idiot can take a beating.

Zhang Feifei looked at the straw man in front of him. He said such an abstract price so seriously that he couldn't tell for a moment whether he was really brave or just tough.

Zhang Feifei asked, "20 spirit stones per bottle. Are you sure this medicine is authentic?"

Chen Nanxuan: "What are you talking about? I'm a medicine seller, how can I sell you fake pills?"

"Okay, okay, fellow apprentices, put this straw man here for me, and I'll see if it's real or fake. Don't blame me for not telling you in advance. If you have this fake medicine and dare to play tricks on me, don't blame me for pulling out all the straw in your stomach today!"

Zhang Feifei is a reasonable person.

At 20 yuan a bottle, Liuwei Dihuang Pills is indeed extremely cheap, and he has prepared himself mentally.

If there was one real pill in this bottle, he wouldn't say anything today.

But if it’s all fake, you won’t have any straw left today, all the ashes will be blown away.

Chen Nanxuan was held up.

Then, Zhang Feifei opened the pill bottle and poured out a pill from it.

The moment this Liuwei Dihuang Pill was poured out, a fragrant aroma wafted into the nose.

Zhang Feifei's pupils shrank.

This taste...

The junior brother from Lingjian Sect next to him turned green in the face.

"Brother, why don't you just chop it off? This is a fucking hook stone."

"Little straw man, what do you think we are? Is this your medicine? Don't you want this bellyful of straw?"

"Today I want to see what's in your head!"

The group of Spirit Sword Sect disciples laughed out of anger.

I've seen people with big guts, but I've never seen one as bold as this one. Others' fake goods at least look like the real thing, but the pills you pour out are all bumpy on the surface and look like rocks at first glance.

You are even bolder than the previous one who had 100 fake ones.

Just as they were about to attack, Chen Nanxuan said, "Wait, don't rush to attack. What evidence do you have to say that my pill is fake? Don't you know that the raw materials of Liuwei Dihuang Pills are like this? You can't judge the authenticity without tasting it. You beat people without even trying it? Is that reasonable?"

The Spirit Sword Sect's junior brother was furious: "You still want me, Senior Brother Zhang, to eat shit? You're courting death!"

A junior fellow student drew his sword and tried to poke a transparent hole in Chen Nanxuan's body.

At this time, Zhang Feifei said: "Wait a minute, what he said is actually not unreasonable. I did hear that the ingredients of Liuwei Dihuang Pills are like this. We haven't tried it yet, so we really don't know whether it is true or not.

I don't know if it's true or not, but beating someone without any evidence is really too much, don't move, let me taste it first!"

Junior brothers around: “???”

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