Picking Up a Skill Leak, Swallow's Three Water Skims

These days, Bai Yu focused on performing funeral rites, practicing martial arts, and learning to draw talismans.

Once he had a decent grasp of talisman-making, he decided to visit the Black Market again to sell some Essence Nourishing Powder.

That evening, he entered the Black Market with practiced ease.

He set up his stall next to Old Diao, who sold antique books.

Over time, he had become quite familiar with Old Diao, knowing that the only genuine thing in his stall was the cloth he used to display his wares.

He casually picked up a book from Old Diao's stall.

Old Diao said grumpily, "Look, but don't touch carelessly. This is a Shang-Zhou antique."

Bai Yu chuckled, "You mean last week's, right? Look at this one, Spring Breeze Pavilion Anecdotes. The Spring Breeze Pavilion of Jiang City existed in ancient times? Could you make it any more fake?"

"And this one, Biographies of Beautiful Female Ghosts. What kind of nonsense books are these? Let me give them a good critique."

Old Diao didn't bat an eye. "Can you call something an antique fake? If you don't notice, it's real."

As they were talking, someone spotted Bai Yu and immediately shouted, "Cai Kun, the Essence Nourishing Powder seller, is here again!"

Instantly, a crowd swarmed over.

"Brother Kun, give me a packet."

"Me too."

"Kun-Kun, I want five packets."

"Boss, I'll pay five hundred coins per packet, I'll take them all!"

Bai Yu was a little taken aback.

His Essence Nourishing Powder could be said to be of excellent quality and low price, very popular among low-level martial artists.

Every time he came to sell, he could quickly sell out.

Even Old Diao next door benefited from Bai Yu's popularity.

Young and vigorous martial artists, after buying Essence Nourishing Powder, would occasionally buy a copy of White Fox Erotic Tales or similar artistic works to critique.

But this time, business was too booming.

Bai Yu didn't take the opportunity to raise prices, but sold all twenty packets of Essence Nourishing Powder, then waved his hand to indicate that he was sold out.

Some even asked if he could make more, but he shook his head, saying he was powerless to do so, and could only produce twenty packets a month.

Money is endless, but it's not worth getting into trouble for it.

After the crowd dispersed, Bai Yu couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Diao, why is it so strange today? Everyone's so crazy?"

Old Diao said, "You don't know? Jiang City has been quite turbulent lately."

"The Black Wolf Gang and the Divine Strength Sect are at each other's throats."

"These martial artists are all under pressure. Things like Essence Nourishing Powder that can enhance strength are being snatched up like crazy."

Bai Yu's heart stirred slightly. It seemed the Mortuary's business was about to boom again.

He wasn't in a hurry to leave, and instead casually flipped through the antiques on Old Diao's stall.

Whether they were antiques or martial arts books, almost nothing on Old Diao's stall was genuine.

But you never know, you might get lucky and stumble upon something real.

And wouldn't you know it, Bai Yu flipped through them and actually found something real.

[Swallow's Three Water Skims (Fragment), Yellow-Rank High-Grade Lightness Skill.]

He pretended to casually pick up a few books, including Swallow's Three Water Skims and White Fox Erotic Tales.

He asked, "Uncle Diao, how much for this book?"

Old Diao said with a straight face, "That book is a treasured cultivation technique passed down from the Taiyi Sect. I won't ask for too much, eighty thousand!"

Bai Yu was speechless, "Old Diao, enough already, you're still playing this game with me?"

"How many customers have I brought you every time? Your yellow book business has increased several times over."

Old Diao said solemnly, "Nonsense, what yellow books? Those are antiques, they're art."

"You wouldn't understand the art world."

Bai Yu quoted a price:

"One hundred copper coins."

"Deal!"

The old rascal earned eighty copper coins with tears in his eyes.

Just then, another man came along.

He also picked out a few books, casually slipping in a copy of Yin-Yang Miscellany.

He gave Bai Yu a knowing look, and they exchanged a smile.

Bai Yu was about to leave with the books when a young man in white clothes clumsily bumped into the old rascal's stall.

It was just his bad luck that he broke a vase.

The old rascal immediately lost his temper, grabbing the young man and shouting:

"This is a vase from the ancient Zhou Dynasty! You broke it, so the price is eighty thousand!"

As soon as the old rascal shouted, the surrounding people immediately gathered to watch the commotion.

The young man in white seemed to wake up from a dream and hurriedly said:

"I, I didn't do it on purpose, I just spaced out for a moment."

The old rascal didn't care about that:

"Your spacing out is none of my business. You broke my antique vase, so you have to pay for it."

The young man stammered, unable to speak.

Bai Yu, who was standing to the side, noticed something was amiss.

The young man in white had a darkened space between his eyebrows, clearly a sign of being possessed by malevolent energy.

He strode forward and asked:

"Brother, have you been feeling a lack of energy lately, often spacing out for no reason, and feeling confused when doing things?"

The young man hurriedly said:

"Yes, yes, how did you know, brother?"

Bai Yu took out an Evil-Suppressing Talisman from his pocket and stuck it on the young man.

The young man shuddered all over, and even his eyes became much clearer.

He looked at Bai Yu in disbelief.

"This, this, this… I feel much clearer in my head."

The surrounding people were stunned by how magical it was, and the area fell silent.

Bai Yu said:

"Brother, you are being plagued by malevolent energy."

"It will make your luck worse and your mind become muddled."

The young man nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and hurriedly said:

"That's right, that's right, that's how I've been lately, inexplicably unlucky."

"Brother, do you have any way to solve this?"

Bai Yu smiled faintly:

"I have a Banishment Talisman, an Evil-Suppressing Talisman, and a Transformation Talisman."

"Burn the Banishment Talisman and drink it with water, carry the Evil-Suppressing Talisman with you, and stick the Transformation Talisman on your bedside. After three days, the malevolent energy will dissipate on its own."

The young man hurriedly said:

"Master, how much do you charge for these? I'm willing to pay to buy them."

Bai Yu didn't expect to make a profit here and said:

"Let's say one tael of silver then."

The young man was very excited and quickly took out one tael of silver to buy the three yellow talismans, as if afraid that Bai Yu would go back on his word.

On the other side, the old rascal started shouting again when he saw this.

The young man in white had no choice but to spend three hundred copper coins to compensate the old rascal for the vase.

The old rascal made two hundred and eighty copper coins with tears in his eyes.

Bai Yu saw that the matter was over and prepared to push through the crowd and go back.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone else asked:

"Master, I've also been having bad luck lately, feeling drowsy all the time. Master, please take a look at me, I'll pay too."

"Me too."

"Master, I want to buy that set of talismans as well."

Bai Yu looked around and discovered that there were indeed quite a few people surrounded by baleful aura.

He didn't hesitate and sold all the yellow talismans he had on him.

After this round, he actually made more than ten taels of silver.

Only when Bai Yu explicitly stated that the yellow talismans were sold out did the crowd disperse.

Bai Yu couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"What's going on? Why are there suddenly so many people surrounded by baleful aura?"

He vaguely felt that something seemed to be wrong.

A sense of urgency arose in his heart; it seemed he needed to seize the time and cultivate the Skin Tempering realm to perfection.