Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 189 – dark market (1)

Those who had never heard of the name of the dark market, would never have thought that there would be such a vast underground plaza right under the ground of Mengyu County City.

Although the dark market was the majority, the majority of the cultivators there were still Mortal Realm cultivators. Cultivators who came and went often wore robes or masks, this was also an unwritten rule in the dark market, after all, the dark market was outside the jurisdiction of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. Although it was impossible for a mask to hide one’s identity from the Martial Realm Cultivator’s Spirit Sense, it still did not reveal one’s identity, so it would not leave any traces for others.

Although the dark market was targeting the Martial Realm Cultivator, they did not have many Martial Realm Cultivator s inside, and most of them were instead Mortal Realm cultivators. In fact, how many Martial Realm Cultivatoad gathered together, in the entire Mengyu County? How many of them knew about the existence of the dark market?

There were all sorts of transactions in dark market. Some directly placed stalls in this underground plaza to sell, some went around looking for people to sell, and some people who were in urgent need of money went around auctioning them off.

However, all these methods of trading could not be considered the true foundation of the dark market. The true foundation of the dark market was because there was a Sound Transmission Hall within each of the dark market s.

The Sound Transmission Talisman Hall did not sell cultivation resources, but it walatform for passing down trade information. Usually, the nearest dark market s would be connected together, and cultivators who needed it would be able to order talismans through the Sound Transmission Hall. Similarly, cultivators who wished to sell their treasures could also place a price within the Sound Transmission Hall.

This way, even if the dark market didn’t have anything that cultivators needed, they could still use the Sound Transmission Talisman Hall to search the nearby dark market. This would increase the scope of the material search and would give them a greater chance to obtain it.

And when cultivators were searching for the required items through the Sound Transmission Talisman Hall, the two sides often didn’t meet face to face with each other and only contacted each other through the Talisman Hall’s sound transmission talisman. Even if the transaction was a success, there would be a middleman that would deliver the required items to each other.

This dark market existed in almost every single county, and the reputation of the dark market had been accumulating since the moment it was established. In the countless years that it had existed, it had already caused the cultivators who entered the dark market to form a habit of trust.

Some people believed that the Heaven-Shaken Sect was actually the Heaven-Shaken Sect, while some other cultivators believed that there was an even greater power hidden behind the dark market, because the existence of the dark market was not limited to just the Yuxian. In the Zhang County, the Xi’an County, the Yao County, and even the entire Yuzhou, all of the dark market had traces of the existence of the dark market, and they often had connections with one another, so if it was just the Heaven-Shaken Sect controlling from behind the scenes, then it was impossible for the dark market to travel across counties like this.

After Yang Junshan entered the dark market, he walked past a few stalls, but didn’t discover anything he needed. In reality, he didn’t have much hope towards this, so he went straight to the Sound Transmission Hall.

The shopkeeper wore a large, smiling face mask within the Sound Transmission Hall. He looked somewhat similar to the shopkeeper from before, but the surging aura of his peak martial arts realm made it so that cultivators entering and exiting the Sound Transmission Hall didn’t dare to be impudent in the slightest.

Yang Junshan bowed towards the shopkeeper who wore a smiling mask and said: “Greetings, senior.”

The shopkeeper glanced at Yang Junshan, and laughed: “Is this your first time here? Do you want to sell it or do you want to find a treasure? ”

Yang Junshan nodded his head: “This junior has just arrived in dark market, if there are any matters that I am unable to comprehend, senior, please enlighten me, this junior is here to find a treasure.”

The shopkeeper nodded his head, and placed a jade tablet on the counter: “Ten Jade Coins, you can use this jade tablet to enter the Treasure Seeking Hall to check the sales news along with the surrounding dark market, it will only take two hours, but if you use the array glyphs to bargain with the seller, you will have to pay one Jade Coins aime, so this old man wants to remind you, bargaining will take a very long time, because the selling information will be announced for seven days, thus the seller cannot always stay in the dark market to wait for other buyers to respond.”

Yang Junshan’s face revealed gratitude, and said: “Thank you senior for your guidance!”

After he finished speaking, Yang Junshan handed over the ten Jade Coins s, then took the jade tablet and headed towards the direction indicated by the shopkeeper.

Yang Junshan placed the jade tablet onto his palm and the spirit energy in his body circulated. The jade tablet was instantly activated and a white light screen instantly melted the light screen in front of him, revealing a door for Yang Junshan to enter and exit alone.

Yang Junshan strolled through the door as the light barrier behind him closed once again. What appeared in front of him was a small region, completely isolated by the light barrier.

At the same time, there were also a few fish swimming happily in the water, jumping up the moment they arrived in front of Yang Junshan. If Yang Junshan were to grab hold of them, then the fish would transform into a sound transmission talisman, and Yang Junshan would be able to know what the seller had left behind in the talisman. If he was unable to catch hold of the fish, then the fish would disappear withourace once it fell into the water.

If it really was like this, then he would feel like he was looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if Yang Junshan sat here for a day, he might not even be able to find the thing he was looking for.

It was fortunate that Yang Junshan was actually extremely familiar with these techniques. He took out five Jade Coinnd threw them into the water one by one, but every time a Jade Coins fell into the water, a fish would jump out and swallow the Jade Coins whole.

When the five Jade Coins s were finished, the fish jumped out of the water and turned intalisman. Yang Junshan left a message on the talisman saying “As long as it is a high grade spirit material”.

After that, the number of fishes that jumped out of the water was much lesser, but every time one jumped out from the water, Yang Junshan would grab hold of it.

Yang Junshan caught dozens of the fish consecutively, but the high-grade spirit materials sold were not what Yang Junshan needed, and a little less than an hour had already passed, so Yang Junshan was a little anxious. An hour’s time was enough for him to see all the news regarding high-grade magic materials sold in the Mengyu County, and if he was unlucky, he would have to come back in seven days, because the information sold in the dark market would usually only be updated seven days later.

Just then, a golden little fish suddenly jumped out from the water. Yang Junshan took a look at the contents and was slightly startled.

The Tian Huang Stone had actually come across this item!

This item was not either of the two top grade spirit materials that were needed to repair the Spirit Origin, but if Yang Junshan’s own spirit artifact, Mountain Monarch Seal, wanted to upgrade it to a middle grade spirit artifact step by step, then raise it to the high grade, then it would need the top quality spirit material, the Tian Huang Stone, as the base.

Change it or not?

Yang Junshan looked at the conditions required by the seller of the item, and saw that it was written: “High quality spirit material Tian Huang crystal is nine inches square, and urgently needs thirty crystal coins, I will only exchange it for crystal coins, do not disturb others.”

Tian Huang Crystal, nine inches square. Since it was sold in the dark market, then the quality of this spirit material must have surpassed the eyes of the people in the dark market’s Symbol Hall. Its quality should not be wrong.

The total value of the thirty crystal coins were equivalent to five thousand Jade Coins, and exchanging for a full set of high grade spirit materials was acceptable, but Yang Junshan still planned to try to push down the price.

Yang Junshan left a message below the contents of the talisman and said: “There are three pieces of Jade Crystal Stone, which can cut about twenty crystal coins. I wonder if it’s possible to cut them?”

After placing the talisman into the water, she turned back into a fish. However, this fish still hovered around Yang Junshan’s body, and only after Yang Junshan threw the other five Jade Coins s into the mouth of the fish did she move her tail and head, swimming along the light river until they disappeared.

Half the time had already passed and the number of fish in the water was dwindling. However, there was still no news of the two high grade spirit materials needed to repair the spirit source.

Just then, another grey fish jumped out of the water. Yang Junshan casually grabbed it, and it suddenly said: “High quality spirit material spirit nectar bottle, in exchange for the same level spirit material, Flowing Light Wood, do not disturb me!”

This was one of the two top grade spirit materials that was needed to repair a spirit source, and the words that came after the talisman caused Yang Junshan to immediately stop thinking about it. For a spirit material of the same level, Flowing Light Wood Yang Junshan naturally did not have suching, and a single “Do Not Disturb” would prevent other cultivators from wanting to trade using other methods.

Regretfully, she placed this Symbol Fish into the water flow. At this time, the number of fish that jumped out of the water was already becoming fewer and fewer, and the interval between them was also getting longer and longer. Yang Junshan was already considering whether he should come back in seven days.

Just then, another small fish jumped out from the water, Yang Junshan tried to catch the small fish again, only to see the talisman on top of read: “One high grade spirit material for one spirit stone, two thousand five hundred Jade Coins s will be exchanged, quickly!”

After Yang Junshan saw this, he did not even have the time to raise his eyebrows in joy. He gathered all of the Jade Coins s on his body and barely gathered 1200 of them, then cruelly picked out two of the smallest Jade Crystal Rocks from the storage bag s that were worth around thirteen crystal coins. Then, he wrapped them all up in a ball with the fish’s talisman in his hand and threw them into the water to create a large bubble.

Right after the fish jumped back into the water, a ray of light rose from the water and poured into the jade tablet in front of Yang Junshan, condensing inted imprint.

After making this deal, Yang Junshan thought that he had not wasted his time here, that there was still two hours of time left. Although no fish had jumped, Yang Junshan dropped another five Jade Coins s, preparing to inquire about the sales of the other items.