Above officialdom.
Gu Sheng kept galloping, always paying attention to the mountains and forests on both sides. Although this was not the first time he entered the city alone, Gu Sheng was still as cautious as ever, wary of ambushes by bandits.
Jade Skin stage is not invincible. There is still a certain danger if it is besieged.
Fortunately, Gu Sheng's perception ability exceeds that of ordinary jade-skin warriors.
However, ordinary bandits don't dare to offend Gu Sheng. At least they must be led by Jade Skin stage warriors, otherwise they will just deliver food. Gu Sheng is actually looking forward to the bandits who are good at it, so that they may be able to earn more extra income.
Fortunately, there were no surprises along the way.
Within an hour, Gu Sheng had already arrived outside the city of Canghe County. He gathered his breath, lined up according to the rules, paid the money and received the directions, and Gu Sheng entered the city smoothly.
Today is the second year of Guangxing.
After Liu Yuanhu became the acting magistrate of the county, he caused quite a stir. To put it bluntly, he gave away some benefits to make the people at the bottom live a little more comfortable. The faces of the people coming and going in the county were obviously better than before.
Gu Sheng is familiar with the road.
Instead of following Gu Family Village into the city, he had to find a place to stay by himself. He randomly found a small inn as a place to stay, and Gu Sheng took tiger skins, tiger bones and other goods for sale and walked towards several large companies that he was familiar with before.
The quality of Gu Sheng's leather has always been good. After setting up a stall in the market several times, he opened up several channels and expressed his willingness to buy Gu Sheng's leather at a high price.
But Gu Sheng is used to being careful.
The value of the goods this time was too high, at least sixty taels of silver. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he divided the tiger skins, tiger bones, tiger whips, etc. into several houses for sale. He tried his best to choose those from well-off families to avoid causing others to be greedy.
But even so.
Gu Sheng still felt that the butlers from two families looked at him in a somewhat subtle way.
Depending on the family, one or twenty taels of silver is also a considerable amount of wealth.
Gu Sheng silently paid attention and returned to the inn.
He counted the cash he brought this time.
Except for some of the jewelry buried in the yard of my home, I brought the remaining half of the silver over. Including the money from this sale, there are about 120 taels!
Blood Nourishing Powder is not cheap, it costs five taels of silver per portion. This may seem like a lot of silver, but in fact it is only enough to buy more than 20 copies.
And Gu Sheng also needs customized arrows and weapons.
Even if you come across a suitable Body Tempering Martial Arts, you still need to buy it.
Thinking about it this way, Gu Sheng suddenly felt that he was still very poor.
"Martial arts is a gold-eating beast!"
"If we measure it in terms of money, even if you are talented, becoming a skin refining warrior requires a minimum of a hundred taels of silver. Blood Refining Realm costs at least a thousand taels of silver, or even more."
Gu Sheng Just thinking about the consumption of ordinary warriors makes me speechless.
The daily consumption of meat nourishment and various ointments and ointments are all holes where water can flow without bottom. Fortunately, Gu Sheng does not need to consider the resources stuck in the bottleneck. The resource consumption of others breaking through the bottleneck is even more exaggerated.
For this alone, Gu Sheng can spend more than 60% less resources than others, or even more.
Because according to what Gu Sheng learned from the black market, such as Blood Refining Realm.
Blood Nourishing Powder only costs five taels of silver.
But Blood Strengthening Pill, which can strengthen Qi and blood and increase the probability of breaking through the bottleneck, requires a full five hundred taels of silver.
Moreover, it has no market price at all, and rarely ends up on the market. Most of them are prepared by self-prepared materials and asked to be refined by alchemists of Alchemist Ge Qing's level.
Gu Sheng was thinking in his mind.
I feel that it is time to find a new way to obtain resources. Otherwise, after I break through and become Blood Refining Realm, hunting will not be able to support the consumption of training. Even now, I can't make ends meet. After all, hunting tigers depends entirely on luck.
Time passes slowly.
Night falls.
Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art activated, Gu Sheng's face changed, his body became shorter, he put on his night clothes and ran towards the black market.
The black market recognizes cards but not people. Showing the black market wooden card, Gu Sheng successfully entered the familiar black market.
Under the dim torches, masked men sat selling and setting up stalls.
There were patrolling warriors around from time to time to maintain order, and no one dared to cause trouble.
This is Gu Sheng's third visit to the black market.
In order to kill Li Yu last time, I made some preparations, and the mist was bought from here.
After coming here a few times, Gu Sheng has become a lot more familiar, not as unfamiliar as the first time.
"Don't miss it when you're passing by, Fangzhongshu! Wonderful Fangzhongshu! Let you be the groom every night!"
"Body Tempering Paste, look at Body Tempering Paste!"
"Family-inherited magical skill, Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art! A must-have item for traveling around the world. It can easily change your appearance. When you practice to a high level, it will strengthen your muscles and bones. It has wonderful benefits for bone refining!"
Gu Sheng suddenly stopped.
I heard the familiar cries. I didn't see it the last time I came here, but I didn't expect to see it again this time.
The body is much shorter than ordinary people, and the voice is different from the first time I saw it.
But Gu Sheng is sure that this guy is definitely the one who sold Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art to him for the first time.
"This person's Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art should also be at the Dacheng state, otherwise he wouldn't be able to shrink his body."
He watched silently from a distance for a while, and as expected, after a while, newbies were fooled, and someone stopped in front of the stall and started haggling.
Shake his head.
Gu Sheng saw a familiar figure sitting down to set up a stall, taking out weapons one by one. He didn't sell much, he just sat there. Gu Sheng had set up a stall in that place the three times he came here. He had also seen other people come to him to customize weapons, so he was relatively more reputable.
The stall owner who bought a four-stone bow for the first time.
He walked over slowly and said straight to the point:
"Customized weapons, what's the price?"
The stall owner still had the same attitude as before, unenthusiastic and not talkative.
"Tell me the requirements. Pay a 20% deposit first, and pay the balance after the weapons arrive."
The stall owner briefly looked at Gu Sheng, and then his eyes rested on the bow behind him for a moment.
Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
For a 20% deposit, neither high nor low, he slowly took out a drawing with two types of arrows drawn on it.
"Ten of each of these two types of arrows."
The stall owner's eyes flashed with surprise. He took the drawing and couldn't help but look up at Gu Sheng.
I saw it on the drawing.
One type of arrow has a long and slender arrowhead with a cross-cut edge, which is extremely lethal to armor at first glance. The other type of arrowhead is very large, with thorns and blood grooves, and looks extremely cruel.
And it is specially marked that the arrow shaft needs to be extremely tough.
Obviously, this is not an arrow that ordinary people can use. No one outside would dare to take such an order. This is why Gu Sheng chose to come to the black market.
These are the armor-piercing arrows and heavy arrows that Gu Sheng wants to create based on the memories of his past life.
The former has a better armor-breaking effect, and combined with the power of First-order Penetration's archery, the skin-refining warrior has absolutely no chance of blocking it. The latter has poor armor-breaking ability, but is more lethal. Even if it does not hit the vital point, it can greatly reduce the enemy's combat effectiveness.
After pondering for a moment, as if considering the difficulty of making it, the stall owner finally said:
"Each arrow costs one tael of silver. Please pay a deposit of four taels of silver first. Come and pick up the goods in three days."
"Okay."
Gu Sheng didn't ask stupid questions like what to do if you ran away. Since you chose to customize weapons on the black market, you naturally need to take some risks. Four taels of silver is still within the tolerance range.
Moreover.
He observed that this person's stall has always been relatively stable, and he will not destroy his sign just because of a few taels of silver.
"Change another bow. Which is the strongest bow here?"
"This is a six-stone bow. It needs to be customized. The price is not low." It seems that because Gu Sheng customized the arrows, the stall owner was a little too talkative.
Gu Sheng nodded slowly.
The six-stone bow is almost the limit of the Jade Skin stage warrior. After that, the role of archery against warriors of the same level will become smaller and smaller, because the warrior's perception ability will become stronger and stronger, unless it is Archery Martial Art who has learned a lot.
"Recycle the bow?" Gu Sheng pointed at the four-stone bow behind him.
"Another eight taels of silver can be exchanged for a six-stone bow."
Gu Sheng couldn't help but be stunned. The six-stone bow was nearly twice as expensive as the four-stone bow!
He did not hesitate and chose replacement.
Unsurprisingly, he will not continue to change bows for a long time. After the Blood Refining Realm, his archery skills will slowly fail to keep up with the rhythm. It is fine for shooting low-level warriors, but higher-level warriors are not so easy to shoot.
Twelve taels of silver were handed over, and the money and goods were collected.
Gu Sheng stroked the string of the six-stone bow, with joy in his eyes. Such a large bow was not something ordinary people could use. It required both extreme strength and superb archery skills.
He felt that most of the eyes that were originally on him disappeared in an instant.
People in the black market are not fools, and they know how to pick the weakest persimmons.
Gu Sheng After visiting the black market a few times, he knows that a rookie who comes to the black market for the first time can easily tell the difference. The subconscious tense nerves and sensitivity to the external environment are completely different from those of experienced players.
Everyone will be a little different when they first arrive in a new environment, no matter how calm they appear.
That's why Gu Sheng was attacked last time.
Weapon done.
Gu Sheng walked to the main target this time, Blood Nourishing Powder!
There are only two or three companies selling high-end medicinal powders like Blood Nourishing Powder on the black market. There are very few independents selling them, and even if they do, they are only a few copies.
Gu Sheng walked to a familiar stall.
There is a big flag with the word "ge" written on it.
Obviously.
This is the stall owned by Alchemist Ge Qing.
Like the previous stall that sold Body Tempering Paste for Alchemist Ge Qing, this stall owner also revealed his true appearance. He was a middle-aged man with a rich face. He was not wearing black clothes, but wearing a military robe.
Seeing Gu Sheng stopping in front of the stall, the man smiled and said:
"Just take a look at what you need. The product produced by Alchemist Ge Qing must be of high quality. Blood Nourishing Powder costs five taels of silver each. If you need to refine elixirs, you can also ask Lord Ge to help."
You can actually ask Alchemist Ge Qing to make elixirs?
Gu Sheng felt something in his heart.
But he doesn't have that need now, he just keeps it in his heart silently.
He picked up a portion of Blood Nourishing Powder and smelled it, and a vaguely strange fragrance hit his nostrils.
"Come to Shifen Blood Nourishing Powder."
Gu Sheng lowered his voice.
Ten servings are enough for the time being. Use it first and wait until you have a rough estimate of the effect before purchasing. Also, buying too much at once can easily attract covetousness.
The stall owner's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Good!"
He packed ten copies of Blood Nourishing Powder and put them in a small black bag and handed them to Gu Sheng. Gu Sheng took out fifty taels of silver and handed them over without asking anything else.
People who often hang out in the black market will know that Alchemist Ge Qing has a fixed stall here, which is very fair. Generally, only novices will be careful in front of such stalls.
The first time I bought Gu Sheng, I didn't know the unspoken rules when I bought Body Tempering Paste, which exposed me as entering the black market for the first time and attracted covetous attention.
Buy Blood Nourishing Powder.
The only one or two glances that were left disappeared. Gu Sheng smiled secretly in his heart. Everyone knows what kind of strength Blood Nourishing Powder needs to be used.
At least it's Jade Skin stage!
People in the black market like to plunder and steal, but they don't rush to die. Jade Skin stage is at the top of the black market, and Blood Refining Realm rarely comes to the black market.
After buying Blood Nourishing Powder, Gu Sheng continued to circulate in various stalls.
It's a pity.
I still haven't seen any suitable martial arts secrets. Most of them are fake, or they are incomplete and cannot be practiced at all, or they have various flaws like Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art.
Last time Gu Sheng didn't have enough money, so he just watched for a while.
But now if you look carefully, you can find that many cheats priced at more than ten or twenty taels are actually fakes.
It can also deceive some ordinary people or warriors with poor eyesight.
Now that Gu Sheng Iron Stone Fist has reached the state of perfection, he still needs this bit of discernment, which he feels a little sorry for.
Suddenly.
There were angry quarrels nearby.
"Fake goods! You idiot, you actually sold me fake goods! Pay me back, your secret book is useless at all, I spent ten taels of silver to buy such a crappy thing!"
Many people looked at it, Gu Sheng was no exception, and then they suddenly felt enlightened.
The place where the quarrel came from was the stall selling Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art. At this time, a sturdy masked man looked at the stall owner angrily. It was obvious that he was a victim.
Gu Sheng has some pity in his eyes. Although Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art is not a fake, to ordinary people, it is almost the same as a fake. This guy is also a fool, and he actually spends ten taels of silver to buy it.
The stall owner picked his ears nonchalantly.
"I said, brother, this is my first time dealing with you. Don't try to blackmail me. There are so many people selling this thing. Who knows where you bought it from. It doesn't make sense to say it's a fake if you can't practice it yourself."
"It's you, I don't care, just pay back the money quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"
The burly man didn't want to hear it.
The stall owner's eyes gradually turned cold.
"I'll tell you fine and you won't listen, but you should try to touch me, you poor guy! If you are really rich, go to Black Market Auction. There are a lot of genuine secrets there. If you think you can't pick them up, who do you blame? If you interfere with my business again, be careful that Lord Wang will tear your bones apart!"
He crossed his arms and felt confident.
This is a black market and no trouble is allowed.
The strong man's expression froze, and when he saw that the patrol in the distance seemed to be approaching this way, he gave the stall owner a vicious look, then sat down silently in the distance and stared at this side.
It is foreseeable that there will be a bloody battle after leaving the black market.
Gu Sheng Listen.
A noun made his eyes move.
"Black Market Auction?"
Naturally, he couldn't just ask someone casually here. If he had to ask, he would have to ask a black market contact, such as Old Xu.
This Black Market Auction sounds like a more high-end place than the black market. Just by listening to a few words from the stall owner, you can probably tell that the resources there will be more secure, but it will probably require a lot of money.
Gu Sheng kept an eye on it, walked around for a few more times, and then left the black market.
Now, unlike when he first became a warrior, he didn't need to be too careful. He had vaguely shown his strength before, and he didn't blindly want to rob.
The journey was uneventful. Gu Sheng came out of Black Dog Alley and returned to the inn smoothly.
The next day.
Gu Sheng came out of Old Xu from the black market connector, and immediately had a general understanding of Black Market Auction.
"The so-called Black Market Auction is, in a sense, the essence of the black market. A regular auction is held every three months and a large-scale auction is held every year."
"Magic weapons, secret books, elixirs, secret techniques, etc., appear from time to time, but they are worth a lot of money."
Gu Sheng looked at another black wooden sign in his hand and twitched his mouth. This thing is the certificate to enter the auction.
Two taels of silver.
Ridiculously expensive.
It's simply a business with no capital and huge profit.
But there is no way, because the resources are in the hands of others.
"This regular auction has just been held. It will take two or three months. We have to find a way to get some money, otherwise we won't be able to buy any suitable martial arts secrets when we see them."
Gu Sheng was thinking in his mind.
Maybe it should be appropriately bolder.
Three days later.
Gu Sheng enters the black market again.
Today is the day for the delivery of customized arrows. Fortunately, there were no surprises.
The stall owner arrived as promised and did not run away. Otherwise, the loss of four taels of silver would be a small thing, but it would be very troublesome to have to find a new channel for customized weapons after missing a channel.
"The arrow you wanted."
The stall owner took out two bundles of arrows. Gu Sheng's eyes lit up and he reached out to touch them. The arrow shafts were made of fine iron wood, both tough and light. The arrowheads were also made according to Gu Sheng's requirements, shining with a cold light.
It can even be said that it exceeded Gu Sheng's expectations.
This stall owner's skills are indeed good, better than many weapons shops that Gu Sheng has inspected before.
Gu Sheng handed over the remaining sixteen taels of silver, and both of them were in a good mood.
"A pleasure to work with."
"Next time if I want to continue customizing weapons, I'll come to you."
Gu Sheng put the arrows into his quiver, turned around and left.
However, Gu Sheng was not in a hurry to leave the black market. After walking around in the dark corner for a few times, no one noticed, and Gu Sheng changed his image quietly.
The face is covered with a black scarf, and a pair of peach blossom eyes can be vaguely seen. The face is slightly fair when exposed, and it can be seen that he looks like a young man, and he has a vaguely extraordinary bearing.
The arrow was covered by the night clothes, and Gu Sheng slowly wandered in front of various stalls. Even when he turned to the stall where the arrows were customized before, no clues were found.
He occasionally took action and bought some Jinchuang medicine or medicinal powder. He looked like a newbie in the black market. He just had the words "I am a fat sheep" written on his face. There are a few people like this in the black market from time to time, so it's not too surprising.
After a while, he could feel the eyes on him, with greed and prying eyes.
Gu Sheng pretends not to know.
Stopping in front of the Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art stall, the stall owner was shouting loudly. When he saw the fat sheep arriving, he couldn't help but call out enthusiastically:
"This young master, let's take a look. Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art, a unique skill passed down from the family, only costs ten taels of silver!"
Gu Sheng chuckled and said:
"Ten taels of silver is so cheap? Is it a fake?"
The stall owner was not angry but happy, and became more and more enthusiastic.
"Look at what this young master said, there is absolutely no water in it. I also think that I am destined to you, young master. I sell the others for twenty taels of silver! If you don't believe it, you can buy it and try it on the spot. If it is fake, I will compensate you ten times!"
Unexpectedly, Gu Sheng was dismissive.
"The secret book may be true, but the effect may not be true. Don't treat me as ignorant. Your secret book should have a matching secret technique or secret medicine. I think your secret book is indeed interesting. In this way, if you sincerely sell it to me together, how about I give you a hundred taels of silver?"
Gu Sheng suddenly lowered his voice and said.
As soon as these words came out, the stall owner's heart skipped a beat.
One hundred taels of silver, how many people have to be killed!
But he still suppressed the heat in his heart very well, and just smiled and said:
"Where is the secret medicine and secret technique? This is the real secret book. If you want it, Master, I will give it to you for eight taels of silver!"
My score is probably just over 1,000. Let's see if I can write a chapter tonight to make up 25,000 words. Ka Wen's card is amazing.