Chapter 35: The Drunkard's Jar
The central and western parts of Nanling are more than a billion miles apart, and it is difficult for manpower to cross, ** told Guo Yi that there was a shortcut to Nanling at the Void Wharf, so the two went all the way to the Void City.
After nine days of traveling, the Void City was already shaky, and the last time I took the Wanjiao Flying Boat, I also passed by here, but because I was in a hurry to participate in the Battle of Shengwu, I didn't enter the city. This time is relatively free, Guo Yi also wants to enter the second largest city in Nanling to have a look.
The Void City was suspended in the sky, and the entire city was made of white stone, which looked like a huge piece of white jade hanging from the sky. A flying ancient car in the void speeding through, there are white Jiao flying boats shuttling on the street, above the city is suspended a number of spirit palaces, spirit mountains, countless cranes, Qingluan flying in the sky, as well as the dragon swallowing clouds and spitting fog, strange beasts roaring in the sky, entering the city to feel a fairy breath rushing to the face.
"The Void City is the second largest city in Nanling, with a population of hundreds of millions, suspended above the void three thousand meters above the ground, and the main street is 30,000 miles long, capable of accommodating ten dragons running side by side. ** and Guo Yi are both dressed in white, walking side by side in the city, walking on the lively street, listening to the endless shouting in their ears.
** Seems to be very familiar with the Void City, and said: "This is also a city of cultivating immortals, there are many sects of cultivating immortals in the city, but there are few who are really powerful. ”
Guo Yi was worried about Li Xiaoyan in his heart, but he didn't have much heart to wander away from this 10,000-year-old ancient city, and asked, "I don't know where the shortcut to the west of Nanling is that Brother Liu said?"
"It takes going to someone. "Mystical Dao.
Guo Yi asked, "Who?"
"Drunkard jar. **Dao.
"Drunkard altar?" Guo Yi didn't understand what it meant.
"This man's name is 'Jar', and he is known as 'Drunkard', and no one knows his real name, except that he has lived in the Void City for two hundred years. ”
Guo Yi smiled: "Then where does this drunkard live now?"
"The black market in the west of the city. ”
Every city has a dark world, it is a microcosm of the shadow side of humanity, and wherever there are people, there is a dark place.
To the west of the Void City is such a place, known as the "Black Market".
You can meet all kinds of people here: ghosts, thieves, killers, gamblers, prostitutes...... As long as you can't see the light, it's the most normal thing to be there.
You may see a saint of the Spirit Palace under the man's body coquettishly**;You will see gamblers pressing their heads on the gambling seat, and after a gamble, they will be cut off;You may also see the stolen treasures of a certain immortal cultivator family being auctioned off with swagger,You may also see a world-famous killer coming out of a broken house。
In a word, it's a place where you can't see the sun.
Guo Yi smiled: "Why does this drunkard live in such a smoky place?"
"Because there are the most beautiful women in the city, the best wine, and the beauty and the wine are the only two mouthfuls he has, and he doesn't live in the black market, so where does he live?"
** Handed Guo Yi a white mask, he brought one himself, and said, "It's better to bring a mask when you go to the black market." If a person's face is often exposed, it will inevitably be remembered, especially in the black market, if it is remembered, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble. ”
Guo Yihe** wore a white mask, found a tiger beast tooth car, and went to the black market.
Where are you going?" The driver who drove the car was an old man who had cultivated as a martial saint.
Guo Yi said: "The black market in the west of the city. ”
The old man's face changed slightly, and he said, "Five times the price, a total of fifty spirit grass seeds." ”
** Seems to understand the price, he directly took out a bag of spirit grass seeds from the storage spirit palace and handed it to the old man, and said in a low voice: "Get off at the side door of the black market." ”
"Understood. The old man sped away in a tooth cart.
The Storage Spirit Palace is the third palace on the path of cultivators' cultivation of immortals, as long as they reach the third palace, they will have such a storage palace in their bodies. Each palace of the spirit has a special role, the first palace is volleying, the second house is cultivating spiritual sense, the third palace is storing, the fourth palace is thousands of miles of sound transmission, the fifth palace is armored, and the sixth house is refining......
Guo Yi has now opened six spirit palaces and already has these first six abilities.
The tiger cart ran for about two hours, stopped in front of a strange dark building, and the old man who drove the car said, "The side door has arrived." ”
After coming here, it was unusually quiet, and no one around me could see it. In front of me is a black building resembling a monster's head, and a flock of huge crows are carved above the building, each with a small sword in its mouth, and I don't know what its meaning is.
Passing through the mouth of the monster, it turned dark in front of me, as if I had arrived in a strange world. There is still a sky overhead, and there are many houses on the ground, and the streets are wide, but here it is only night, and most of the people walking on the streets are dressed in black, and many of them have masks on their faces. The white clothes on Guo Yi and the others seem a little out of place with this world.
"This is the black market?" Guo Yi looked up at the sky and read, "This is really a world without sunlight. ”
The black market is a very chaotic place, and before a street can go out, five fights are heard, and the smell of blood is very pungent.
In the streets and alleys, a group of men surrounded a young girl, leaning against the wall and wantonly **, until more than a dozen big men vented their desires, and the girl was dead.
Guo Yi and ** are both top geniuses, they won't cause unnecessary trouble for themselves, and they can't afford to provoke them, compared to the entire black market, they seem too small.
"Passing through this alley, it's the drunkard's dwellings, but you have to be prepared. This is a weirdo who, when in a good mood, can take nothing. When you're in a bad mood, you'll have to pay a lot of money to get him to do you a favor. ** reminded.
Guo Yi smiled: "Then I can only hope that he will be in a better mood today." ”
But his luck doesn't seem to be very good, this drunkard jar is more angry than a cow today.
The drunkard's hut was arguably the most dilapidated and filthy place in the entire black market, and before he even approached it, he could already smell a pungent smell, and when he approached, the smell was almost stunning.
The hut was only five feet high, made of a few planks, and was so simple that it was almost uninhabitable, and at first glance it looked like a mound bag.
When Guo Yi and the others arrived, there was already a person standing outside the hut, this was a woman dressed in blue, with a mask carved from white bones on her face, and she was holding a bone bead in her hand, and there were blood bubbles in the bone bead.
The ghost-faced woman's body was a little illusory, and her body exuded a cold aura, like an iceberg that could not be dissolved, she glanced at Guo Yi and the others lightly, and then continued to shout to the wooden house: "The junior has something important to go to the White Bone Mountain, please ask Mr. Drunkard to show you a shortcut?"
"Fuck off, it's useless for anyone to come today, don't waste your tongue, get out. An old voice came from the cabin, still a little drunk.
"Then don't blame the juniors for being unkind. A ghostly aura overflowed from the blue-clothed woman's body, turning into a ghostly hand and grabbing it towards the wooden house.
Guo Yi exclaimed: "Shadow Ghost Hand!"
Guo Yi saw this ghost technique in "Ghost Book", which is one of the eighteen stunts of ghost cultivation, except for the core characters of the ghost gate, it is difficult for ordinary people to learn it.
"You have a bit of knowledge. The ghost-faced woman glanced at Guo Yi coldly, and at this time, the ghost hand was withdrawn from the wooden house, and a sloppy old man had already grabbed her hand.
The old man had a fanged monkey's mouth, a short hunchback, and although he had been grabbed by the neck, he still held a wine jar in his hand.
"Tell me where the shortcut is, or I'll kill you." The ghost-faced woman, with her slender fingers, grabbed the drunkard by the throat and lifted him in mid-air.
The drunkard is indeed a drunkard, even if he is about to die, he still pours wine into his mouth, and giggles: "Even if you kill, kill me, you can walk to the White Bone Mountain." It's not far, it's only a billion miles away, and it only takes a few years to control the dragon, but there are so many demons and monsters along the way, and I don't know if I can reach the White Bone Mountain alive. ”
There is no Wanjiao flying boat in the world that dares to sail to the west of Nanling, and it is said that there is only one shortcut opened up by the ancients to step into that evil land the fastest, but there are not many people who know this shortcut, and there is only one drunkard in the entire Void City.
Guo Yi was really afraid that the ghost-faced woman would strangle the drunkard to death, so he stepped forward and said: "This girl, let's let him go first, I believe that the drunkard senior is a person who cherishes his life." ”
The drunkard raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Boy, you also threaten me." I'll tell you, it's not impossible to ask me for help, but you have to help me do two things. ”
The ghost-faced woman let go of her fingers and asked Guo Yi at the same time, "What two things?"
"Don't be too happy, these two things are very difficult to do, just the first one can stump the people of the ninth floor of the Void City. The drunkard picked up the wine jar and poured a sip of wine into his mouth, and said with a smile: "The Guhua auction house will auction an ancient wine from 100,000 years ago today, this jar of ancient wine is dug out of a fairy ruins, and the legend is that it was brewed by the wine fairy Wu Zhiwei himself, if you can send me this jar of ancient wine, it will be regarded as the first thing you have completed." ”
** frowned, and said: "The Guhua Auction House is the number one auction house in the world, and the business is all over the Guxuan Domain, and the cheapest auction item can be bought at a sky-high price, unless it is a large immortal cultivation sect, it can't afford it at all." ”
"What is this so-called sky-high price?" Guo Yi asked, and the ghost-faced woman also shifted her attention.
"A thousand spirit grasses are equivalent to the value of a thousand spiritual weapons, this is only the lowest auction price, and the ancient wine brewed by the wine fairy is probably more than ten times this price. Said conservatively.
"Damn, why don't you rob it. "Guo Yi really wants to kick the drunkard's two feet, let alone a thousand spirit grasses, he can't take out a single spirit grass now.
The ghost-faced woman also had a sinister face, and said sharply: "A thousand spirit grasses are enough to buy an immortal cultivation family, how many people in the world can come up with so much money, let alone tens of thousands of spirit grasses." "Saying that, the ghost-faced woman is going to strangle the old drunkard with one claw.
Guo Yi hurriedly stopped her and said, "Since I can't afford it, I'll grab it, I don't believe that I can't even grab a jar of wine." ”
"Don't do it. ** hurriedly said: "There are top masters in the Guhua auction hall, and once a spirit of the ninth palace was killed in the auction hall. ”
"Damn, it's just that the first thing is so difficult, you drunkard, tell me what the second thing is?" asked Guo Yi.
"The second thing is 10,000 times more difficult than the first thing, and you still do the first thing first and then tell you. The drunkard took the jar and slipped into his shabby hut.
The ghost-faced woman wanted to slaughter the drunkard jar several times, but in the end she couldn't help but make a move, and asked coldly, "Is there a way for you to get that jar of ancient wine?"
Guo Yi smiled: "Since you can't rob it, and you can't afford it, you can only steal it." Steal the wine before it is auctioned. ”