Clay Figurines

On the roof of the Bookstore, Ma Feifei lay prone, with the entire long street in front of him. With his sharp eyes, Ma Feifei spotted Yun Qingyang walking from the Bookstore toward the Wantong Trading Market across the street.

"Strange, is there anything in the market that would catch Qingyang's eye?" Ma Feifei wondered, watching Yun Qingyang walk away.

Who is Yun Qingyang? First of all, she is a dragon, and secondly, she is a dragon who particularly loves Spirit Crystal. In other words, Spirit Crystal are her favorite things. You might think it's possible to exchange Spirit Crystal for other treasures with her, but it's basically impossible for Yun Qingyang to exchange Spirit Crystal for other treasures.

Not to mention that Yun Qingyang's spatial ring contains a huge treasure left to her by her father, probably filled with divine artifacts. There are only nine divine artifacts on the Azure Dragon Continent, and they are all national treasures and religious treasures. How could such things possibly appear on the market?

Since a divine artifact is impossible, what else could possibly pique Yun Qingyang's interest and make her willingly exchange it for Spirit Crystal?

This alone piqued Ma Feifei's curiosity, not to mention that Zhang Caicai and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey Ba Jiu seemed to follow the same path.

Thinking of this, Ma Feifei jumped off the roof and went into the Bookstore.

Looking around, Zhang Yunji and Luan Feng were both diligently performing their duties inside the shop, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey at the entrance was also there, but the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey kept its eyes fixed on the trading market across the street.

"What could it be?" Ma Feifei became increasingly curious. Without making a sound, she returned to the backyard, used her supernatural powers to change her appearance, and went out through the small gate in the yard, heading towards the Wantong Trading Market.

After nearly a year of development, the Wantong Trading Market has become a well-known trading market. It not only has local merchants from Dubian Town, but also merchants from all over the Great Chu, and even from other countries.

The shops in the market are so expensive that there are hardly any buyers. Even the stalls on the first floor have a daily rent of over a thousand Spirit Crystal, which shows how popular the Wantong Trading Market is.

According to extensive data analysis from the Wantong Trading Market, Dubian Town now boasts nearly one million cultivators, while the average daily foot traffic at the Wantong Trading Market reaches a staggering two hundred thousand.

In other words, cultivators who enter and exit the Wantong Trading Market every day account for one-fifth of the entire Dubian Town.

With such a large flow of people, you can imagine how terrifying the daily profits of Wantong Trading Market must be; even the idiom "making a fortune every day" doesn't quite capture its essence.

Ma Feifei, disguised as a middle-aged man, had just stepped into the Wantong Trading Market when a wave of Heat Wave hit him.

As more and more people gathered, the road became increasingly narrow, eventually becoming completely congested.

"Excuse me... excuse me..."

"Don't push, don't push..."

The sounds of pushing and shoving rose and fell.

"A top-grade seventh-tier spirit sword, only three million Spirit Crystal!" The loud-voiced stall owner shouted from the other side.

"An eighth-grade martial arts technique, sold for ten million!"

"A complete pelt of a seventh-tier Luminous Beast, take it or leave it for the money!"

"..."

The entire Wantong Trading Market was filled with all sorts of noises, which gave Ma Feifei the feeling of returning to the farmers' market his mother used to take him to when he was a child in his previous life. Although it was noisy, it had a unique charm.

However, with so many people, finding Yun Qingyang is not easy, because the Wantong Trading Market has the same rules as the Mysterious Bookstore: cultivation is not allowed in the market, and even shouting cannot contain any Spiritual Power.

Of course, the Wantong Trading Market doesn't have the 'god-level array' of the Mysterious Bookstore, so it can't automatically suppress cultivators who want to use Spiritual Power. However, there is an array in the market that detects fluctuations in Spiritual Power. Once someone uses Spiritual Power, the array will be triggered and the person will be marked. Such people will then be punished, and those who use it more than three times will be directly banned from entering the Wantong Trading Market.

After such a long period of development, although this situation still occasionally occurs in the Wantong Trading Market, they have established a set of rules to maintain this practice. This has made the Wantong Trading Market, like the Mysterious Bookstore, a place where no one who enters can use Spiritual Power.

Ma Feifei expressed his appreciation for this, given that the trading market is crowded and chaotic.

"Hmm?" As Ma Feifei walked, he seemed to sense something. He glanced to the left, but the dense crowd blocked his view, and he couldn't see anything. However, Ma Feifei frowned slightly and turned to walk in the left direction.

"Excuse me, brother..."

Excuse me, could you please move aside?

"Hey... where are you going, young lady...?"

"..."

After a journey of stops and starts, Ma Feifei finally arrived at his destination.

This was a corner, and because of its less-than-ideal location, the number of people at the stalls here was far less than in the center of the hall. However, the view was also much more open, and Ma Feifei immediately spotted Yun Qingyang, Zhang Caicai, and Ba Jiu squatting in front of a stall in the corner.

"There was definitely something wrong," Ma Feifei thought to himself. Of the four people who had asked him for money, all of them except for the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey were present.

"What could be so interesting to them?" Ma Feifei curiously glanced at the stall in front of Yun Qingyang and the others, and found that it was full of lifelike little clay figures.

"A clay figure?" Ma Feifei looked puzzled. What was so special about this thing?

Looking up again, Ma Feifei glanced at the stall owner and discovered that it was Lian Yi!

"Here you go, Caicai, here's the clay figurine you wanted." Just then, Lian Yi had just finished making a clay figurine and handed it to Zhang Caicai.

Zhang Caicai excitedly accepted the clay figure, then rummaged through her spatial bag, took out another spatial bag and rummaged through it again, finally handing one to Lian Yi, saying, "Sister Lian Yi, this contains 50,000 Spirit Crystal. Please keep it safe."

Lian Yi reached out and took the spatial bag. Without even glancing at it, the bag vanished in a flash of light. She turned to Yun Qingyang and Ba Jiu and asked, "Who wants to go first?"

"Let Sister Qingyang go first," Ba Jiu said obediently.

Yun Qingyang shook his head and said calmly, "Let them massage first."

"Alright, let's make one for Ba Jiu first." Lian Yi smiled and looked at Ba Jiu, asking, "Ba Jiu, what kind of one do you want?"

Ba Jiu scratched his head sheepishly and said, "Sister, why don't you make one for the monkey first? Is he coming now? Ask me to bring one for him."

Lian Yi nodded and said, "Okay, did Brother Monkey say what kind he wants?"

"He wants a female monkey," Ba Jiu replied after a moment's thought.

Lian Yi had just picked up a puddle of fluorescent mud when she heard what Ba Jiu said and was immediately stunned.