Imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill, the Trading Begins

Wearing a mask Law Treasure, Lin Xiye walked through the enormous stone gate. Only after following a gloomy underground passage for half an hour did he truly enter Guyuan City's "underground black market"!

This "underground black market" was even larger than the Three Origins Immortal Market opened by the Qian Household!!

But Lin Xiye would never believe that this "underground black market" had nothing to do with the Qian Household!

The sources of the various resources sold at the Three Origins Immortal Market were generally transparent, and fakes rarely appeared. Even if someone did buy a fake, the shops in the Three Origins Immortal Market offered returns and exchanges...

As for this "underground black market," it was called a trading market, but it was actually more like a place to fence stolen goods.

Some of the resources here had been obtained by killing people and seizing their treasures, some were fakes passed off through trickery, and others were a mixture of genuine and fake...

"Slaves! Strong slaves! Fifty Spirit Stone fragments apiece!!"

"Beautiful female cultivators, only three hundred Spirit Stone fragments! Buy one and you've struck gold!"

"Blood Refining Realm vicious beasts... come take a look! Blood Refining Realm vicious beasts that can fly, only two hundred Spirit Stone fragments apiece!"

The black market had yet to officially open, but quite a few immortal cultivators had already set up stalls and begun hawking their wares.

Whenever a truly valuable treasure appeared in the black market, it was almost always traded for another item! After all, anything worthy of being called a great treasure generally had a price but no market.

The entire "underground black market" was laid out like a vast square!!

Since it had been built underground, there were no buildings here; all trading was done at stalls.

Compared with the Three Origins Immortal Market, the underground black market was larger, but its layout was chaotic and disorderly, giving it a thoroughly oppressive appearance.

"Sob, sob... please, let me go..."

"Is there anyone kind enough to save me?!"

In the black market, there were cultivators bound in specially made iron chains and reduced to slaves, and vicious beasts trapped in cages, breathing flames...

The Jin Kingdom's immortal cultivation world claimed to be a land of the righteous path. On the surface, it prohibited both the slave trade and the spread of evil techniques.

In reality, however, in an "underground black market" like this one, never mind evil techniques and slaves... sometimes even Evil Cultivators set up stalls!!

Lin Xiye walked around, finding that the goods at most stalls were either exorbitantly expensive or fakes!

In the end, Lin Xiye stopped wasting his effort. He simply found an open spot and sat cross-legged to wait for the market to officially open...

Once the market officially opened, the market master of Guyuan City's "underground black market" would usually bring out a few great treasures to kick off the trading!

As the opening time drew nearer, the number of cultivators in the underground black market grew larger and larger!!

Before long, the once nearly empty underground black market was packed with cultivators wearing "mask Law Treasures"!

Seeing this gave Lin Xiye a new appreciation of the resources at the disposal of Guyuan City's "underground black market."

At least several thousand cultivators had gathered here!!

Yet even so, there was no shortage of mask Law Treasures.

Those mask Law Treasures were, after all, Spirit-Nurturing Grade Law Treasures!

Compared with a proper Spirit-Nurturing Grade Law Treasure, the materials used to refine a mask might not even amount to a tenth as much.

But the resources needed to refine several thousand mask Law Treasures were probably more than even a Foundation Establishment cultivator could produce...

Just as Lin Xiye was deep in thought, several incomparably powerful presences suddenly swept out from the distance!!

Their sources included both men and women. Some were dressed in splendid robes, some had a cold and fierce bearing, and some had the unworldly air of immortals...

None of them wore mask Law Treasures. The instant they saw these people, numerous underground black market stewards prostrated themselves and called out in reverence,

"Welcome, Market Master! Welcome, seniors!"

"Welcome, Market Master! Welcome, seniors!!"

The underground black market stewards spoke sincerely, their eyes filled with awe for those people!

Clearly, those people were all Spirit Nourishing cultivators!

Although they had not deliberately released their pressure, their every casual movement alone was enough to make many immortal cultivators of the Four Body Tempering Realms feel immense pressure!!

As Spirit Nourishing cultivators, these people disdained to conceal their appearances! Not only were they powerful in their own right, but their identities... every one of them was extraordinary!

For instance, the old man beside the black market's master was one of the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's Spirit Nourishing Realm stewards!

When he was in the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, Lin Xiye had seen that old man more than once...

Of course, though Lin Xiye knew who the old man was, the old man had no impression whatsoever of Lin Xiye, an outer sect disciple.

"Jie jie jie!!"

"I hear Market Master Liu has refined another batch of Life Pills. This old man must have a proper taste this time..."

The Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's Spirit Nourishing Realm steward gave a strange laugh. The Life Pills he spoke of worked on essentially the same principle as the "Life Pills" the Zhao Household's old ancestor had secretly refined back then!

However, the "Life Pills" refined by the Zhao Household's old ancestor had all been made from cultivators' Essence Blood!

The Life Pills refined by the black market's master, on the other hand, were made by combining Demon Beast Essence Blood with various treasured medicines!!

"The usual rules... item for item!"

"This time, I have brought not only three batches of freshly refined Spirit-Nurturing Grade Life Pills, but also an imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill!!"

As soon as the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's Spirit Nourishing Realm steward finished speaking, the black market's master took four jade pill bottles from his storage ring!

The moment they heard "imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill," the entire underground black market erupted!!

For Spirit Nourishing Realm cultivators, Spirit Nurturing Pills had almost no practical value...

But the immortal cultivators who came to this underground black market were mostly cultivators of the Four Body Tempering Realms!!

In particular, those at the Organ Refining Realm and Organ Refining Perfection... their fervor for a Spirit Nurturing Pill surpassed even their desire for any other supreme treasure!

After all, no matter how good other treasures were, they could hardly allow them to break directly through to the Spirit Nourishing Realm!!

Although the Spirit Nurturing Pill brought out by the black market's master was only an imperfect one... even an imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill could increase an Organ Refining Perfection cultivator's chance of breaking through to the Spirit Nourishing Realm by around ten percent!

That mere ten percent was not to be underestimated. Often, let alone a ten percent increase in the chance of a breakthrough, even an increase of one in a thousand could allow a cultivator to break through successfully!!

"Senior Market Master, what kind of supreme treasure would I need to offer in exchange for the imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill in your possession?"

A cultivator with a deathly air, leaning on a cane, was the first to ask the black market's master.

Hearing this, the black market's master replied calmly,

"Hundred-year-old treasured medicines, Spirit Nurturing Law Treasures, special formations, or special cultivation methods... as long as the value is sufficient, they can be exchanged for the imperfect Spirit Tempering Pill in my possession!"

"If none of the treasures offered are valuable enough to exchange for this imperfect Spirit Nurturing Pill, then after all the trading is over, I will sell it at auction."