"Come on over and take a look! Top-quality blank talismans and spirit animal skins, freshly made!"
"Three new bottles of top-grade elixirs are available, only six spirit stones!"
As soon as the voice came out, a large number of independent cultivators rushed over to grab it, "I was here first!"
"Bullshit! I was the one who came first!"
"Everyone, come and see. I made it out of Ghost Gorge alive and brought back a magical treasure..."
Another group of onlookers gathered around.
“…”
Lu Zhu stared at the street scene in amazement, muttering to himself, "This is the cultivation market? Why does it look no different from the secular market..."
Xiang Sheng was also slightly surprised, but he quickly suppressed his expression and patted Lu Zhu on the back. "Don't look around. Are you afraid that others won't know this is your first time here?"
Lu Zhu quickly lowered his head and followed Xiang Sheng obediently.
Xiang Sheng casually looked at the roadside stalls, walking and stopping, but his attention was actually all on places outside the street.
The cultivation market here seems to be hidden in the secular market in the city, and is covered by some kind of formation, making it difficult for mortals and cultivators to find it from the outside. They can only enter through the Mingyun Tower.
Seeing through this, Xiang Sheng continued to walk inside. Not long after, he finally heard what he wanted to hear. He stopped at a roadside stall and pretended to squat down to choose.
The old stall owner smiled brightly when he saw someone stop by. "My fellow Daoist, you have a really good eye. The things I have here are all top-grade treasures fished out from the Ghost Stream. Each one costs only one spirit stone. Take your pick!"
Lu Zhu, who was standing next to Xiang Sheng, couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard this.
What kind of treasure only costs one spirit stone? Could this liar be any more fake?
If even those at the first level of Qi training can come out of the Ghost Gorge alive, can it still be called the Ghost Gorge?
"Let me take a look first."
Xiang Sheng nodded in response and selected things slowly. At the same time, the conversation between two wandering cultivators behind him reached his ears.
"The news of the Lu family's ancestral land has spread all over the city. How could I not know about it? But what kind of place is Xuanwang City? Don't you know? If the two of us brothers go in, it would be like seeking death."
"The two of us can't do it, but there's strength in numbers! I heard another cultivation family came to recruit people today, and they're in the Tianqing Pavilion ahead."
"I'm not going, no matter what I say!"
“…”
Xiang Sheng's heartbeat quickened slightly. He threw down a spirit stone, picked up a piece of gold paper from the stall, and stood up to leave.
Lu Zhu came back to his senses in shock and hurried to catch up.
"Sister, you've already predicted that some independent cultivators would go to Xuanwang City? Is that why you brought me to the market?!"
He asked as he walked, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Xiang Sheng clearly showed a hint of admiration.
He carefully placed the gold paper into the blood ring, glanced at Lu Zhu, who was full of excitement, and said lightly: "I just came here to try my luck. You are lucky."
As he was speaking, Xiang Sheng suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at the original stall, only to find that the stall owner, the old man, had disappeared at some point, and was replaced by a middle-aged monk.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Zhu noticed something was wrong and immediately asked.
"What about the old man?"
"What old man?"
Lu Zhu looked bewildered. Seeing that he didn't seem to be pretending, Xiang Sheng could only add, "It's that stall owner."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lu Zhu was even more confused. "Sister, what are you talking about? Isn't the stall owner always that middle-aged monk?"
Xiang Sheng's pupils suddenly contracted, and a chill instantly spread throughout his body.
That gold paper is no coincidence!
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
It was the first time that Lu Zhu saw Xiang Sheng with such a serious expression, and he also panicked.
"Nothing, just thinking about some past events and misjudging the person."
Xiang Sheng exhaled lightly, his expression returning to normal, "Let's go to Tianqing Pavilion."
"That's good, that's good..."
Lu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and nodded to follow.
A moment later, the two arrived outside the Tianqing Pavilion, only to see that the place was surrounded by three circles inside and three circles outside, filled with wandering cultivators who wanted to go in.
Seeing this, Lu Zhu was a little dumbfounded, "Are these people all going to Xuanwang City?"
As soon as these words came out, a casual cultivator nearby was immediately aroused and couldn't help but said, "My two fellow Daoists, you just came to the market today, you don't know yet, right?
The families recruiting in the market this time are incredibly generous! Anyone selected will not only be able to ride a spirit boat to Xuanwang City, but each person will also receive a free bottle of valuable, high-grade elixir! My cultivation is low, so I'm just here to watch the fun. If you two have sufficient cultivation, you can go in and try."
"real?"
Lu Zhu was surprised and delighted, and grabbed Xiang Sheng's sleeve, "Sister, if we can get on the spirit boat, we won't be afraid of being robbed and killed outside the city."
Xiang Sheng hummed, "Then go and try it."
She pulled Lu Zhu through the crowd of onlookers and was about to step into the gate of Tianqing Pavilion when her eyes inadvertently swept across the face of a person in the pavilion and her body froze instantly.
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