Purple Mist Dao Master

Chapter 214 - 184 Swindling in the Black Market! The Fragile ’Miracle Item’!

Chapter 214: Chapter 184 Swindling in the Black Market! The Fragile ’Miracle Item’!Yingze City, Southwest Suburb.

Chaotic Stone Forest, a black market.

It’s called a ’black market’, but in reality, it’s already semi-open and semi-visible. However, the majority of visitors are still New Martial Artists.

Academy!

Officials!

Military!

A mix of all kinds!

Private transactions are explicitly prohibited by the court, so most people wear cloaks to hide their bodies and faces, not wanting to be recognized, adding to the mystery, and making the ’black market’ live up to its name.

Yan Chuan was also in a black robe, walking among them, browsing around.

At this time, the Nine Counties gathered in Yingze City, and Jian Province’s New Martial Artists almost all assembled. For the ’Jian Province Competition’ and the ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’, the Inner Court Elders and top elite of the academy urgently needed ’secret medicine’, ’Essence Stones’, and other cultivation resources, including surprise weapons that can enhance strength, and were willing to buy at high prices.

The academy has its needs.

Other New Martial Artists also have needs—

Either the painstaking ’secret techniques’ and ’secret skills’, not widely taught or shared, but can improve strength.

Or resources and materials from the Mountain and Sea Realm, either for personal use or for resale, all valuable.

Because of this, the black market could gather many people.

Yan Chuan, coming to the black market for the first time, noticed that although it was still daytime, the chaotic stone forest appeared dark, and among the trees and stones, martial artists hid and revealed themselves, either walking or occupying an area. Though not easy to see clearly, through breathing sounds and sensing human presence, there were no less than three to five hundred people.

"Quite a number."

Yan Chuan first walked past one temporary stall after another, seeing a dazzling array of various materials, herbs, and even stalls selling secret medicine slightly below the official price, targeting the willing.

But the secret medicine sold was at most at the ’Dragon Tiger Great Pill’ level. There was no sign of ’Heavenly King Pill’, nor could he see ’Essence Stone’. Resources comparable to ’Monkey Wine’ and ’Water Essence’ were also hard to find.

Mostly, there were various materials—

Ore!

Metal!

Alien Beast materials!

And various strange herbs.

Yan Chuan first took a rough look, then circled around again, squatting at different stalls for a closer look—

"This is ’Gold-plated Silk’, used to weave inner armor, with astonishing defense. There are twelve strands here, priced at twelve hundred taels, or equivalent goods."

A stall.

The stall owner introduced.

Yan Chuan leaned closer to take a careful look—

[Miracle Item·Golden Silk Silkworm Armor (Level 10): Woven with silkworm silk, hair, and golden silk monkey hair, it effectively prevents damage from sharp weapons like swords and spears, reduces damage from blunt objects like staffs, fists and feet, heavy hammers, and special traits like Qi-Blood and strength. (Traits: tenacity, resistance, light and thin, evasion.)]

(Not upgradable for now.)

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Sun Wang pulled Helian Ba, rushing to chase.

Helian Ba followed but was confused: "What is happening exactly?"

"Brother Helian!"

"This Thousand-mile Mirror is fake!"

"I just spent fifty taels of gold, a vial of ’Heavenly King Pills’, and added six pounds of Essence Stone to trade with that person for a similar one. It was indeed useful. But not long after I left the black market, the Thousand-mile Mirror shattered!"

Sun Wang explained hastily.

"Thousand-mile Mirror!"

"Shattered?"

Helian Ba was baffled, eyes fierce. He looked at the ’Thousand-mile Mirror’ in his hands, confused: "Perfectly fine, how could it shatter—"

Snap!

Before Helian Ba could finish his sentence, the ’Thousand-mile Mirror’ in his hand shattered, breaking into six or seven pieces!

"???"

Helian Ba quickly caught all the fragments of the Thousand-mile Mirror, his eyes widened, finally realizing: "Scoundrel!!!!"

The scoundrel does not act like a human!

He was deceived too!

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