prynovel Chapter 154 Black Clothes Lane
Chapter 154 Black Clothes Lane
Chapter 154 Black Clothes Lane
After leaving Wanbaolou, Chu Xuan went straight to the brokerage firm.
Money paved the way, and in less than two hours, a three-courtyard mansion was acquired, complete with artificial hills, flowing water, pavilions, and towers.
The Liu family had originally intended to provide him with a residence, but Chu Xuan politely declined.
It's better to keep some privacy, after all, there are some things he doesn't want to see in the light of day.
The reason Chu Xuan bought such a large house was that he planned to bring his mother and sister to live with him in the future, so he decided to buy it all at once.
It's very difficult to build a large house on several acres of land in Lingxiao City; at least a True Yuan Realm expert is qualified. But if you're just buying a house, there aren't so many restrictions.
As long as you have enough money, nothing is a problem.
Of course, it's expensive, really expensive!
This house cost Chu Xuan a full ten thousand taels of gold.
However, Chu Xuan lacks everything except money!
The gold notes he looted from the Qian family amounted to over ten thousand taels, which he hadn't included in his calculations before, because resources for cultivating Gang Jin were already very difficult to buy with gold.
But in the secular world, gold is still very useful.
In short: You can't spend it all, you simply can't spend it all!
After buying the house, Chu Xuan took advantage of the daytime to purchase some household items. By the time he had finished, it was already getting dark.
Chu Xuan then left the city and retrieved what he had hidden in the wilderness.
Of course, only a portion was taken, and these were mostly things without obvious markings, such as elixirs and pills.
As for the octagonal purple-gold hammer, it was naturally not retrieved.
This is just a trial run; let's see how good Wuyi Lane is before making any decisions.
If what Liu Chengzhi said is true, then the transaction can continue; if not, then it's a one-off deal.
Of course, Liu Chengzhi also reminded Chu Xuan that although Wuyi Lane does not ask about the origin of goods or care about the identity of customers, it is easy to be targeted when trading with them.
The next day, Chu Xuan spent the day exploring Lingxiao City, and after sending a letter to his family from the Qingcheng Guild Hall, he returned to his residence.
After dark, he changed into his night clothes, put on his mask, and headed straight for the location of Wuyi Lane.
Wuyi Lane is no smaller than Wanbaolou, except that one is in the north of the city and the other is in the south.
The entire tower in Wuyi Lane is predominantly black, giving it a somewhat eerie feel even during the day. Ordinary people dare not approach it and instead take a detour.
At night, red lanterns lit up the dark tower, making it look even more eerie and sinister.
"Does the customer want to buy or sell?"
At the counter, a clerk wearing a rat-face mask and dressed entirely in black looked at Chu Xuan and asked a question.
"Sell!"
Chu Xuan was also sparing with his words, but he couldn't help but marvel at it in his heart.
As expected of Wuyi Lane, even the front desk clerk doesn't show their true face.
However, Wuyi Lane is truly powerful; even this lowly clerk is a martial arts master!
"Sure! Let me see it." The clerk nodded.
Without wasting any words, Chu Xuan took out all the spiritual herbs from the package at once.
Since the other party was open for business, they probably wouldn't directly rob him, otherwise it would ruin their reputation. Therefore, Chu Xuan didn't have any reservations.
"Huh————"
The clerk's gaze swept over the medicinal herbs, and she couldn't help but let out a soft gasp. Her expression became more serious. "Azure Nether Grass, Flowing Cloud Moonflower Mushroom, Shattered Jade Ginseng, Cloud Heart Fruit, Nine-Turned Vine—"
There were thirteen kinds of medicinal herbs, and the clerk recited all their names in one breath.
Chu Xuan was speechless.
Niubi!
As a disciple of the Xuan Yang Sect, it took him a month to identify all these spiritual herbs. Yet, a mere Grandmaster-level clerk on the other end recognized them all at a glance, without a single mistake!
"The items are all high-quality, and they're in pretty good condition!"
The teller nodded and looked at Chu Xuan, "Is there anything else?"
Obviously, these are not all.
Chu Xuan didn't waste any words and took out a few more porcelain bottles.
The other party opened the bottle, sniffed each one lightly, and still accurately named them: "Qingxuan Pill, Crimson Blood Bone-Continuing Pill, Meridian-Nourishing Pill, Spirit-Awakening Pill, Azure Nether Barrier-Breaking Pill, Nine-Turn True Essence Pill —"
As he read on, his gaze toward Chu Xuan became strange.
It has all kinds of pills for healing, detoxification, increasing power, and breaking through realms; it's a veritable hodgepodge.
Could this guy have raided some family's treasure vault?
"What's wrong?" Chu Xuan asked, frowning.
The clerk looked away, gave a strange laugh, and said, "No, not at all! The pills are all quite good, all considered valuable items! How would you like to exchange them? Barter, gold tickets, or contribution points?"
Chu Xuan said directly, "Convert all of them into contribution points for me."
"Can!"
The clerk nodded, considered for a moment, and said, "The pills are more valuable, totaling 40,000 contribution points. As for these spiritual herbs, I'll give you 20,000 contribution points, making it 60,000 in total. How about that?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Xuan couldn't help but curse inwardly how ruthless it was.
These items, even if exchanged at the Xuan Yang Sect, could be worth 70,000 contribution points.
You can get more if you exchange it at Wanbaolou.
But this Wuyi Alley is even more corrupt than the Xuan Yang Sect. It's clear they know the items people come to exchange are shady, so they're taking advantage of them.
"Can!
'
Chu Xuan nodded.
The clerk took out something similar to a banknote and handed it to Chu Xuan: "This is Xuan Yang Sect's anonymous contribution points, a total of 60,000. You can exchange it anywhere within Lingxiao Prefecture, or even within Xuan Yang Sect."
After Chu Xuan took it, he carefully checked it and found no problems; there was no tampering with it.
"Is there anything you need to buy, sir?" the clerk asked.
Chu Xuan asked, "What do you have here?"
The clerk chuckled again and said, "Whatever the customer wants, we basically have it here. Even if we don't have it, we can get it for you! Of course, that's on the condition that you can afford it!"
"I want a semi-spiritual weapon, preferably a sword!" Chu Xuan said.
"Sure! Starting from 200,000 contribution points! We can even customize one according to your requirements, but of course the price will be higher, starting from 300,000 contribution points, with a deposit of 100,000!" the clerk said.
"Excuse me!"
Chu Xuan turned and left.
Damn, that's outrageous!
The starting price for the half-spirit weapon, the octagonal purple-gold hammer, auctioned by Wanbaolou was only 100,000 contribution points.
The teller chuckled and watched Chu Xuan leave without trying to stop him.
After Chu Xuan's figure disappeared, a gaunt old man approached, saying with trepidation, "Sect Master, how could I possibly allow you to condescend to come here? I am utterly terrified!"
"It's alright!"
The man with the rat-faced mask smiled faintly, "Anyway, I was just idling around, and I didn't expect to run into such an interesting person."
"An interesting person?" The gaunt old man was taken aback, but when his gaze swept over the spiritual herbs on the counter, he was immediately astonished. "This—these—could it be that the person just now was the martial artist who robbed the Qian family?"
The man with the rat-faced mask laughed, "It's almost certainly true!"
Because a large portion of the items on the counter were originally bought by the Qian family from Wuyi Lane, and now, after going around in circles, they've actually come back.
The gaunt old man said, "Sect Master, should I go follow him and find out his background?"
The man with the rat-faced mask said calmly, "If you want to die, you can try!"
"Huh?" The gaunt old man was taken aback.
The man with the rat-like mask said, "Qian Jiujiang, who had reached the peak of his internal energy cultivation and was wielding a semi-spiritual weapon, died at the hands of this opponent. Are you even more powerful than Qian Jiujiang?"
The gaunt old man gave a bitter smile.
Although he had also achieved the Great Perfection of Gang Jin, Qian Jiujiang had already stepped halfway into the True Yuan realm, not to mention he also possessed a semi-spiritual weapon, so naturally he couldn't compare.
The man with the rat-faced mask ignored him and sighed, "The Xuan Yang Sect's breeding of Gu over the years has really yielded considerable results; they're actually about to raise another Gu King! Given time, it might just be another Jiang Wang—"
the other side.
After leaving Wuyi Lane, Chu Xuan kept carefully sensing what was behind him.
He didn't mind that Wuyi Lane knew he was the one who robbed the Qian family, as long as the other party didn't have any other intentions.
To his surprise, no one was following him!
After walking around a few more times and making sure no one was following him, he used the Heavenly Roc Nine Leaps Technique to completely disappear into the night.
After returning to his residence, Chu Xuan put the receipt for the 60,000 contribution points he had obtained from Wuyi Lane directly into a cold jade box.
Besides its ability to preserve freshness, the Jade Box also has the advantage of isolating the object from external odors. This way, he wouldn't worry even if the other party tampered with the documents.
After finishing everything, Chu Xuan took out a bottle of Nine-Turn True Essence Pills.
These Nine-Turn True Essence Pills also came from the Qian family. There were ten bottles in total. Chu Xuan didn't dare to take them before, fearing that they had been tampered with.
During this transaction with Wuyi Lane, Chu Xuan casually took one bottle. Since there were no problems with it, the rest were probably fine as well.
He poured out a Nine-Turn True Essence Pill and put it in his mouth, then opened the panel.
[Energy Value: 3654/10000]
【Overlord Blade Technique - Minor Success (6363/10000)】
Chu Xuan directly added the essence value to the Overlord Blade Technique.
The moment his experience points reached their maximum, a flood of insights rushed in, as if Chu Xuan had practiced the Overlord Blade Technique for countless years.
His powerful internal energy suddenly surged, and his aura became even more fierce.
With an invisible blade's cry exploding in his soul, the Overlord Blade Technique finally broke through to its ultimate level.
He didn't raise his hand; with just a slight thought, the qi emanating from his body converged wildly, like all streams flowing into a single source.
The void trembled, and countless condensed, almost tangible, qi blades appeared out of thin air, their cold light chilling and their sharpness dazzling.
One cut, ten cuts, a hundred cuts —
In the blink of an eye, countless qi-infused longswords surrounded him, forming a continuously spinning circle of blades.
The blade spun faster and faster, emitting a continuous, sharp whistling sound, like a whirlwind whipping the blade, like thunder rolling across the sky.
As the blade passed, the air was torn apart, the bluestone pavement was instantly pulverized by the blade's energy, and the entire house creaked under the weight, as if it were about to collapse.
Chu Xuan quickly sheathed his sword energy, his face showing excitement.
This Overlord Blade Technique is truly powerful!
Even a beginner can condense sword energy when he reaches the level of mastery.
After achieving a certain level of proficiency, one can condense blade energy in the void without the aid of weapons.
Now that he has reached the Great Perfection stage, he can instantly condense countless blade energies, and the power of each blade energie is far greater than before.
Chu Xuan felt that even though he had now reached the second level of the Vajra Indestructible Realm, with bones as fine as refined gold, he still couldn't withstand a single strike.
If he were to encounter a formidable enemy like Qian Jiujiang again, even if the opponent still possessed a semi-spiritual weapon, he wouldn't need to unleash the Eight Desolations Suppressing Prison Force. With a hundred blades unleashed simultaneously, the opponent would absolutely not be able to withstand his attack!
Of course, it was also because he had cultivated the Eight Desolate Prison Suppressing Force, and the level of his internal energy condensation far surpassed that of other internal energy martial arts.
Otherwise, this move would definitely exhaust him to the point of collapse. If the opponent doesn't die, then he will be the one who dies!
After a moment, Chu Xuan suppressed his excitement and looked at the panel again.
[Energy Value: 17/10000]
【Overlord Blade Technique - Mastery (1/100000)】
My good mood vanished instantly.
Chu Xuan rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
"Holy crap! One hundred thousand?!"
He couldn't help but let out a wail; the Overlord Blade Technique required 100,000 experience points to progress from Great Completion to Perfection.
This is comparable to mastering the Eight Desolate Prison Suppressing Technique to its fullest extent!
That's absolutely terrifying!
In other words, he has a proficiency panel where he can see his progress. If it were anyone else, they would probably have practiced until they questioned their existence and never reached perfection in their lifetime.
However, this remains a difficult problem for Chu Xuan.
There are only so many exotic beasts in the Beast Garden, and he has already killed enough to last a year in advance!
If this continues, they'll really wipe out all the exotic beasts in the Beast Garden.
Moreover, besides the Overlord Blade Technique, there's also the Eight Desolate Prison Suppression Force, a huge gold-devouring technique. The speed at which that little bit of essence value accumulates is simply far from enough!
"Looks like I won't be staying at the Hundred Beasts Park for long either."
Chu Xuan sighed. If he stayed any longer, the harvest of essence points would be slow, and his cultivation speed would also be slowed down. He had to think of another way out.
Fortunately, there is still time.
At the very least, we should kill off all the exotic beasts that will be available in the Beast Garden for the next three years, right?
The next morning, Chu Xuan arrived at Wanbaolou on time.
If you're going to put on a show, you have to go all the way.
However, this auction lacked both the Myriad Manifestations Returning to Origin Pill and semi-spiritual weapons, resulting in a significantly lower attendance.
Chu Xuan did see a few familiar faces among the outer disciples of the Xuan Yang Sect, but he couldn't recall their names. He yawned the whole way as he watched the auction.
"Junior Brother Chu, take my carriage back; it'll be safer on the way."
After the auction ended, Liu Chengzhi handed him the Nine-Turn True Essence Pill that the Liu family had promised him.
"Then thank you very much, Senior Brother Liu!" Chu Xuan said with a cupped hand, without refusing the thanks.
Why not take advantage of a good deal? — No, it's definitely more comfortable to go back by carriage than by walking, not to mention it's safer.
He can also take this opportunity to let more people know that he has reached a cooperation agreement with the Liu family, which can reduce some trouble for him.
"Nephew Chu, please wait a moment!"
Just as Chu Xuan boarded the carriage and was about to leave, Liu Donglin's voice came from behind him.
"Is there something you need, Uncle Liu?" Chu Xuan asked.
Liu Donglin smiled and said, "It just so happens that I also need to return to my sect to visit some old friends. How about we ride in the same carriage?"
"That is my wish, but I dare not ask!" Chu Xuan cupped his hands and invited Liu Donglin to get into the car.
With Liu Donglin, a master of the True Essence Realm, by our side, it's safer, which is naturally a good thing.
The carriage traveled onward, heading straight for the outskirts of Lingxiao City. Once outside the city, the four horses galloped at breakneck speed, yet the massive carriage remained remarkably stable, with barely any shaking felt inside.
These four horses were no ordinary horses either. Chu Xuan heard Liu Chengzhi say that they seemed to have the bloodline of exotic beasts, and traveling a thousand miles a day was not a difficult task for them.
Inside the carriage, Liu Donglin and Chu Xuan chatted and laughed.
Of course, Chu Xuan was mainly listening, while Liu Donglin took the opportunity to give him a brief introduction to the distribution of various forces in Lingxiao City and the general situation of each family.
Liu Donglin's trip to Xuanyang Sect was not only to visit friends, but also to escort Chu Xuan.
It wasn't just because the Liu family and Chu Xuan had reached a cooperation agreement; the main reason was that the last auction had been a complete disaster.
After the Qian family won the bid for the octagonal purple-gold hammer, the family was ruined and everyone died.
Tao Ran, an inner disciple of the Xuan Yang Sect, bid for the Myriad Manifestations Returning to Origin Pill, but ended up severely injured and had to return to the sect, only narrowly escaping death.
Xie Lei, a genius on the popularity list, died so badly that his body was never found.
If something goes wrong after this auction, who will dare to participate in Wanbaolou's auctions in the future?
Therefore, Liu Donglin took advantage of this opportunity to visit a friend and personally escorted Chu Xuan back to ensure that nothing went wrong.
Meanwhile, in a mountain forest twenty miles away from Lingxiao City.
The White Protector sat cross-legged on a giant rock, eyes closed, meditating. He was still dressed the same, even wearing silk gloves, making it impossible to tell whether he was male or female!
Behind them, Pei Xiu and the other two stood respectfully, having already changed out of their Xuan Yang Sect disciple robes and into the attire of the Blood God Sect.
"They're here!"
Just then, Protector Bai suddenly opened his eyes and looked into the distance.