Following the caravan of the Zhao family for a full day, at dusk, we came to a small town called Fengxiang. Seeing that it was getting late, Great Elder Zhao Qian decided that the caravan would spend the night here today, have a good night's rest, and set off early tomorrow morning. Due to the large number of caravans, it was inconvenient to enter the inns in the city, so they had to camp outside the city.

The second uncle decided to separate from the caravan here, so he said goodbye to Zhao Gan with great gratitude, and when he left, he also told him not to tell the rest of the caravan about our whereabouts.

Although Fengxiang City is a small city, it is an important throat town connecting the interior of the empire with the northeast region, and most of the merchants who come and go choose to stay here for a while, either to purchase goods or to sell goods. When my second uncle and I entered the city, it was already night, and we inquired about several inns, but we were told that there were no rooms, so let's go to another house.

Eventually, a small inn was found on a remote street, but only one room remained. I didn't want to live with my second uncle, to exaggerate, his snoring can make a dog within a radius of several miles not stop all night, but at the moment I can't choose. According to the second uncle's words, if you don't want to, then go to live in the stable.

The second child in the store led us to the room, I glanced up and down a few times, fortunately, the room was very clean and spacious, enough for me and the second uncle to live for a night. The little second in the shop brought some wine and food, saying that if we needed anything, just tell him.

After eating and drinking, I looked at my second uncle and recalled what happened in the Zhao family before. At that time, the second uncle said that he hadn't decided where he was going, but in fact, it was very likely that he just let Zhao Ding know. I know the character of the second uncle very well, he will never make any decisions blindly and hastily, on the contrary, as long as he decides to do something, it is all deliberate. So, I'm sure the second uncle must have planned the place he was going to a long time ago, but I don't know why the second uncle didn't plan to tell me until now.

Just when I was thinking about it, the second uncle asked on the side, "What are you staring at me all the time?"

When I was asked by him, I came back to my senses in an instant, and said that if you don't tell me, then I'll take the initiative to ask you.

So he asked, "Tell me honestly, where are we going? Now that there are no outsiders, you can tell the truth, right?"

The second uncle debunked his thoughts, laughed, and said to me, "That's good, I've become smarter." “

"This is not what you taught, Second Uncle. “

"Gotta get it, don't put a top hat on me, you kid, I don't eat this. “

"Then tell me where we're going?"

The second uncle suddenly whispered, "We want to go back to the Demon Beast Forest." “

"What? Demon ......"

I was so surprised that I almost shouted, but the second uncle quickly made a silent gesture and whispered to me: "What do you shout, be careful that the wall has ears." “

I also lowered my voice and said to him, "Didn't you say that we escaped from the Demon Beast Forest ten years ago? “

"You know, this is the most dangerous place and the safest place, and those people would not have thought that we would go back again. And don't you want to improve your cultivation as soon as possible? There are countless large and small demon beasts in the Demon Beast Forest, and it is an excellent place to practice. “

"Second uncle, you don't want me to fight those demon beasts, how can I beat them?"

"If you want to be the best, these are the things you have to go through. In the future, you will encounter enemies that are more powerful than those demon beasts, and only by desperately defeating them will you have a chance to live, understand?"

"Ah, I understand, second uncle, when are we leaving? “

The second uncle nodded, stretched, and said, "It's not early, let's rest quickly, tomorrow we will buy some things in the city and set off immediately." With that, he yawned as he walked towards the bed.

There was a single bed in the room, and when I saw the second uncle fall asleep on the bed very unceremoniously, I hurriedly protested, "You sleep on the bed, so where do I sleep?"

"The floor. “

“......“

Early the next morning, my second uncle and I left the inn. Before leaving, I asked the inn where there is a market, and the second told me that the market in Fengxiang City is the most complete and the best is the Phantom Soul Workshop, which is the largest market in the city, if you want to buy something, you can go there, go out and turn left, and walk along this street.

The Fang Market is different from ordinary shops, and most of the items sold in it are more precious things, such as the Inner Dan of Demon Beasts, cherished medicinal materials, and even Taoist cheats, etc., in short, all the things needed for cultivation, except for extremely rare divine objects, are basically sold in the Fang Market.

According to Xiao Er's guidance, my second uncle and I came to the front of the Fang Market in the east of the city.

I scolded casually, "Fuck, this is the biggest market in Fengxiang City? “

I saw a very dilapidated small shop in front of me, no matter what, it didn't match the first Dafang City, if it weren't for the three big characters of Phantom Soul Fang written on the plaque at the door, I really thought I was in the wrong place.

The second uncle didn't react, and said lightly: "He has no reason to lie to us, let's go and see it first." "I walked in with my feet up, and I followed.

As soon as I entered, I only smelled a faint fragrance, and when I looked around, I found that there was not much space in the store, and there was nothing else, except for a counter in the center, on which a small incense burner was placed, and white smoke was emitting.

At the counter sat an old man with a book in his hand, and behind him was a huge screen. When the old man heard someone coming in, he didn't get up, but just glanced at us, and then looked down and read to himself. I said in my heart, how can this person do this business, and he won't entertain customers when they come.

Seeing this, the second uncle gave me a look, I would care, and stepped forward and asked, "Is this Fang City?"

The old man raised his head again, but instead of answering my question, he asked, "Are you outsiders?"

"Oh, we're passing by here and want to go into the market to buy something, you guys are in the market, aren't you? Why didn't I see the goods?"

"Of course it is, five taels of silver per person, and exactly ten taels for two people. “

The old man suddenly said something so clueless that I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked, "What kind of silver?"

"Knowingly, if you want to enter Fang City, of course you have to pay the entrance fee. “

I said that you still have an entrance fee for your broken shop, I'm afraid I don't know that my second uncle and I are outsiders and want to blackmail us.

"The first time I heard that I had to pay an entrance fee to enter Fang City, why haven't I encountered it before?"

"The little doll is still afraid that the old man I can't lie to you, this place has its own rules, and I don't know about other markets, anyway, this is the rule when it comes to us. “

"Hey...... What kind of rule is this......"

I wanted to have a few words with him, but the second uncle stopped me. He took out ten taels of silver from his clothes and put them on the counter, and said to the old man, "Give you the silver, and take us to the fang market quickly." “

When the old man saw the silver, he smiled, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth, "Hehe...... Gotcha. He put the silver on the counter and took out two more wooden plaques for us. I took the wooden sign and looked at it, and found that there was only one word "phantom" written on it, and it was gilded throughout, and there was nothing special about it.

The old man said, "Take the sign, go behind the screen, and remember to return the sign to me when you come back, please." “

After the old man said this, he picked up the book again, and left us alone. My second uncle and I looked at each other and felt strange, but we still walked behind the screen.

Bypassing the screen, a big iron gate appeared in front of me, and a big man stood on each side of the door, and when he saw us coming, one of the big men said coldly: "Brand." “

I handed the two signs, he glanced at them, then turned around and pressed them a few times on the iron door, as if he had activated some mechanism. The iron door slowly opened, revealing a diagonal downward passage leading to the underground corridor.

"Let's go in, the first basement floor is the market, and the second floor is the auction house, don't make trouble after you go in, otherwise you will bear the consequences." “

The dim corridor goes all the way down, and I don't know how deep it leads. The more I walked, the more strange I became, so I asked my second uncle: "Second uncle, why did they build the Fang Market so deep underground? Could it be that the boss here is a rat spirit and likes to dig holes in the ground?"

The second uncle said: "Fart, have you ever seen which monster dares to come to the world easily? The reason why the Fang Market was built underground is because we are afraid that someone will rob the property in the Fang Market, we have now gone down ten zhang deep, and we have not yet reached the end, in such a deep underground, even if someone robs something, it is impossible to escape from here smoothly, which also shows from the side that there must be something extremely precious in this Fang Market." “

"Oh, I see. “

We went down to a depth of about fifteen zhang, and suddenly there was a flat under our feet, and the downward road came to an end, and there was a right-angle bend to the right in front of us.

This is the real place of the Phantom Workshop, and everywhere you can see is all kinds of stalls, and there is a surge of people between the stalls, the sound of selling, and the sound of bargaining one after another, so lively. There is a huge magic circle running slowly on the roof of the market, emitting a dazzling white light, illuminating the entire underground market as if it were day.

The Phantom Soul Workshop is worthy of being the largest market in Fengxiang City, there are all kinds of items in it, everything is sold, and even I saw a few stalls selling small demon beasts.

The second uncle looked left and right as he walked forward, as if he was looking for something, and finally he stopped in front of a stall selling Dan furnaces.

I feel very strange, does the second uncle want to buy this, the Dan furnace is a special utensils used by alchemists for alchemy, and the second uncle and I are not alchemists, what is he buying this for?

I asked him, "Second uncle, what are you buying a Dan furnace for, do you want to learn alchemy and want to be an alchemist?"

"I didn't buy it for myself, I bought it for you. “

"Ah? Do you want me to learn alchemy? Who taught me? You don't know how to practice yourself, so do you want me to be self-taught? Don't you know that this alchemy is not so easy to learn. “

The second uncle suddenly looked at me with disdain, and said: "Who said that I can't do alchemy? What's so difficult about this alchemy, is it in your eyes that the second uncle has this ability, tell you, I am an all-round talent." “