Dongguan came to the nearest stall and looked at the shopkeeper, who was shrouded in colorful mist that exuded a trace of dreamlike aura.
This was an aura the other party had deliberately displayed, and it also indicated the main category of goods they sold.
"I need soul-type rare treasures, preferably ones inclined toward dreams," Dongguan stated his requirements.
The shopkeeper said nothing, merely waving a hand to bring forth several projections, clearly leaving him to choose for himself.
Dongguan browsed them. These projections contained only information, not actual objects.
Clearly, just as he could tell that this black market was not far from its demise, so could the other party.
However, this kind of "large black market" also meant more traders, and with them, opportunities.
"What would you take for these? Hunyuan crystals?" Dongguan asked.
"Hunyuan crystals will do," the shopkeeper replied.
"Then, the time and place for the trade-"
The two parties agreed on a location and a time.
When the time came, they would move elsewhere to trade.
And if the trade succeeded, that trading location might become the seed of another "new black market."
Black markets could "breed." This was also one of the reasons they kept appearing without end.
Unless a Hunyuan Lord imposed a complete ban, even writing it into the rules of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, the factions in the cities that conducted sweeps because their interests had been affected could never eradicate every black market on their own.
Of course, successfully establishing a "new black market" was not that simple either.
Only when the two trading parties were a Hunyuan lifeform and a cultivator respectively would a "new black market" have potential.
Afterward, they would each bring in other beings from their own camp, ensuring trust as much as possible, but