"Chapter 52: The Black Market in Pallas"
A morning passed quickly, a morning Luica was refining the second transformation refining body elixir, before Luica was worried about whether the refining potion would fail, but in the end he found that he was worried in vain, after his spiritual power was transformed into mental power, the refining of the medicine was exceptionally smooth, refining the second transformation refining body elixir was even easier than when he was refining the first transformation refining body elixir before, and the speed was very fast, most of the time was spent on refining the essence of medicinal materials, and in one morning, he refined 20 bottles of the second transformation refining body elixir, and none of them failed。
Just when Luica continued to prepare to refine the remaining ten blood lotus seeds into a potion, someone suddenly knocked on the door outside, Luica had to stop what she was doing, and after opening the door, she found that the person who came was Mu Lin, and the dark circles under her eyes were finally gone after resting all morning, and the whole person was in a good state.
"Master Luffy, I've rested, can I start refining alchemy potions?" asked Mu Lin looking at Luica expectantly.
Seeing her so eager, Luica smiled, and then said, "Of course, come in, I'll teach you to refine a refining potion today, you can remember this recipe!"
"Uh-huh, remember!" Mu Lin nodded.
"Just remember, then I'll start teaching you, I just bought a lot of medicinal materials for the body refining elixir yesterday. After saying that, Luica first taught Mu Lin the functions and use of these alchemy tools, but after teaching them once, Mu Lin said that he had memorized them all, and since he knew that this girl had the ability to never forget, Luiga did not waste her saliva, and took out a medicinal herb for refining a refining elixir and began to demonstrate.
Luiga has now refined the second-turn refining elixir, a real second-turn alchemist, and it is not an ordinary second-turn alchemist, refining the first-turn refining elixir is naturally hand-to-hand, all the processes are extremely smooth, the whole process from refining to medicine is completed in one go, he explained to Mu Lin while refining, and Mu Lin on the side just nodded all the time and did not speak.
After the medicine was completed, Luica looked at Mu Lin and smiled: "How is it, remember?"
"Young Master Luffy, I have memorized everything, your technique is really good, exactly the same as what is said in the book!" Mu Lin looked at Luica with some admiration, looking at the adoring eyes of the girl in front of her, Luica was very satisfied, and said to Mu Lin: "Since you have memorized everything, then you can try it, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth!"
"Can I really do it?" asked Mullin weakly, although there was a slight lack of confidence in her tone, but it was clear from the expectant look in her eyes that she wanted to give it a try.
Luiga stepped aside, gave up her position to Mu Lin, and said with a smile: "Come on, try it first, I also failed many times before refining successfully, be confident!"
Mu Lin nodded, and then stepped forward, first fiddling with the alchemy utensils in front of him, then took a deep breath, and began to refine medicinal materials like Luica did before, although the technique was still a little rusty, but on the whole it was still okay, Luica watched from the side and did not speak.
Soon the medicinal materials were all refined, Mu Lin began to add other auxiliary medicines to the blood lingzhi essence, looking at her serious look, Luica smiled with satisfaction, he didn't expect that he had taught an apprentice not long after learning alchemy, and from the current performance of this apprentice, it can be roughly inferred that he can definitely become a great alchemist in the future, thinking of this, Luica couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.
Luica kept smiling as Mu Lin added adjuvants to the blood reishi essence, he was ready to come forward to comfort her when she failed, because he knew the difficulty of refining the medicine for the first time, but before he could laugh for long, his face slowly changed and became surprised, Mu Lin had already added fifteen kinds of auxiliary medicines to the blood reishi essence, everything went surprisingly smoothly, and after a while, Luica's face turned into ugly again, looking at the girl in front of her, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, because there was only the last adjuvant Mu Lin left to complete the entire process of refining。
Finally, the last auxiliary medicine was added, the red light in the blood lingzhi essence flashed, and the refining elixir was successfully refined, at this time, Luiga seemed to have received 10,000 points of damage in his heart, and complained in his heart: "I'll go, little girl, are you so perverted, my brother is ready to comfort you, what is your success called, you must know that my brother has failed a few times to succeed, okay, you are too shocking like this!"
Mu Lin picked up the medicinal herbs he had just refined, turned around and looked at Luiga excitedly and said, "Young Master Luffy, I succeeded, I succeeded!"
Mu Lin saw that Luica did not show a happy look, but the corners of her mouth kept twitching, and asked suspiciously, "Young Master Luffy, is there anything wrong with the potion I refined?"
Luica reacted at this time, and smiled awkwardly: "The potion you refined is no problem, Mu Lin, you are really a genius, you actually succeeded in one time, you are the best alchemy talent I have ever seen, congratulations on officially becoming an alchemist!"
After getting Luica's affirmation, Mu Lin was very happy, and her little face was flushed with excitement, Luiga pointed to those medicinal materials and said to Mu Lin: "Since you can already refine a turn of alchemy potion, then these medicinal materials will be handed over to you, refine all of them into a turn of alchemy potion, and your brother will be able to use them in a few days!"
"Okay young master, don't worry, I will definitely refine these medicinal materials into alchemy potions as soon as possible!" Mullin assured Luica.
After that, Luiga moved the medicinal materials and alchemy utensils to Mu Lin's room, and after these things were handed over to Mu Lin, Luica relaxed, he was ready to start cultivating, and there were 23 rune stones on his body, and 20 bottles of alchemy potions, Luiga was ready to use up these resources first, and then go out to find a way to make money.
In the past few days, Luica will still take the time to cultivate the power of runes, his current rune power has reached 32,800 guels, as for the power of qi and blood, it is still 33,560 joules, without the assistance of body refining elixirs, Luica did not waste time to practice physical arts.
In the next few days, all the people of the Straw Hat Thieves Group spent their time in crazy cultivation, the cyan energy that Luiga injected into their bodies could last for a day, and it would disappear after a day, Luiga regularly injected them with cyan energy every day, and the rest of the time was used for cultivation, as for Mu Lin, he had been refining a refining potion in the room.
Three days have passed in a row, Luica's rune stones have been exhausted, and his rune power has now reached 36,480 guerels, and the power of qi and blood has also reached 37,060 joules, and Luica has no intention of continuing to cultivate.
In the past three days, Xia Zuo and each of them have eaten a lot of the meat of the Berserk Demon Rhino, and when they finished eating the third one, they finally completed the foundation of their bodies, and the power of their bodies was transformed into the power of qi and blood, Luiga was very satisfied with their cultivation speed, these people all had a crazy energy, and they didn't need Luiga to force them to cultivate at all, everyone was trying their best to cultivate, and their strength had improved too much in just three days, and they had been suppressed for so many years, and this feeling of strength improvement made them crazy.
After completing the foundation of the body, Luica handed over the first form of the Ancient Body Strengthening Technique to them, and asked these people to start taking a turn of alchemy potion to cultivate, just when these people used a turn of alchemy elixir for the first time, they all cried wolf and screamed again and again, Mu Lin on the side thought that there was something wrong with the medicine he refined, and he was extremely anxious, Luica looked at these people and said coldly: "Can't bear such a little pain? If that's the case, then you just go to death, and you still want to take revenge like this?" There is no free lunch in the world, if you want to get power, you have to pay a price, if you can't hold on to this little pain, then you don't deserve to have power. ”
As soon as Luica's words came out, the group of people below all retracted their screams, gritted their teeth one by one and began to practice the first form of the ancient body strengthening technique that Luica taught them, and then they could clearly feel that the power of their qi and blood was slowly increasing, and the cyan power that Luica injected into their bodies was constantly repairing their damaged tendons.
Although Luica's words were a little ugly, he was still sure of the willpower of these people, and he had personally experienced how painful it was to take this enhanced version of the body refining potion, but after surviving the first time, the remaining problems should not be very big.
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In a dense woods, a figure suddenly flashed by, and when he walked in, he saw a middle-aged man with a full mouth and beard, his skin was dark, and he also wore an eye patch, it was a one-eyed dragon, this person was played by Luiga, this is the camouflage technique he learned in the Assassin's Chapter, the reason why he wanted to disguise himself like this, Luiga was going to go to the Pallas black market to sell all the runes seized from the Eugene bandits, the location of the black market was told to him by Xia Zuo, disguised like this, for fear of being targeted by Eugene's people, with his current strength, if Eugene's people found out that he killed Chester and others, then his little life is estimated to be explained。
Soon arrived at the door of the black market, compared with the black market in Mandetown Town, the black market in Pallas is much larger, and the guards are more stringent, a row of guards at the door has the strength of a third-level rune master, and the cultivation of the captain of the guard has reached the fifth level rune master, and the fifth-level rune master can establish a medium force in Pallas, but such a person is willing to be a guard in the black market, which shows how strong the background of the Pallas black market is.
Luiga was just about to go in, but the captain of the guard stopped him and said lightly: "Friend, you need to buy a pass to enter the black market, and the price is ten rune stones!"
"I'll go, ten rune stones, are you sure you're not blackmailing?" Luiga looked at the captain of the guard in disbelief, he had guessed that this Pallas's black market must be the same as that of Mandel Town, and that a certain toll fee was required, but he didn't expect the fee to be so high, 10 rune stones, no different from robbery.
Hearing Luica's words, the captain of the guard looked at Luica with a cold look, looked at Luica unkindly, and said: "The rules are like this, if you want to go in, you will pay, and if you don't have money, please leave!"
Luica is very depressed now, he doesn't have a single rune stone on his body now, and he can't get in for the time being, Luica has to leave there first, there is no way, a small guard captain in this black market has the strength of a fifth-level rune master, and there may be some masters in it, if you come hard, it is no different from looking for death.
The location of the Pallas black market is very special, set up in a valley, there is only one way from Pallas to the black market, Luiga did not return to Pallas directly after leaving the black market gate, but chose to find a place to squat and guard, since the black market even requires 10 rune stones for a pass, then the people who can come must be rich people, Luiga is ready to do a vote here, anyway, he is easy to be here now, and no one can guess that he did it when the time comes to change his face, even if the people in the black market want to pursue him, they can't find him head.
Luica was sitting on a big tree at this time, looking through the gap in the branches, looking at the road below, he had been waiting for an hour, Luica still didn't wait for someone to pass by, just when he was about to give up, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Luica fixed his eyes, between a carriage slowly coming, the carriage was very luxurious, in addition to the coachman, there were four guards outside, Luica quietly released his mind to feel the cultivation of these four guards, and found that they were all third-level rune masters, and one of them was about to break through to the fourth-level rune master。
Luiga stood up, he didn't do it immediately, but stood on a high place and looked around to see if anyone else was passing by, he was blocking the door of the black market to rob, if it was exposed or something went wrong, the black market would definitely not let him go, now he obviously couldn't stand the revenge of the black market, glanced around, and saw that there was no one else Luiga completely relieved, his eyes looked closely at the group in front of him, and then a column flew down directly and stood on top of the carriage.
This sudden scene startled the group, and then the four guards drew their weapons one after another, and the one with the highest cultivation raised the long sword in his hand and shouted loudly at Luica: "Where did you come from, madman, dare to stop our son's carriage, you are impatient!"
Maybe he heard the movement outside, the people in the carriage hurriedly got out, and what came out was a man and a woman, the man was about twenty years old, wearing a brocade robe and looking extremely rich, but his face was a little unhealthy pale, and he looked overindulgent, the woman next to him was extremely exposed, although her appearance was not stunning, but she was also a beauty, after the man came out, he saw Luiga standing on top of his carriage, and immediately became angry, pointing at Luiga and scolding:" Where did you come from, dare to stand in the way of the master, it seems that you are dying!"
Luica was not angry, this man knew at a glance that he was a rich man, eighty percent of the rich people in Pallas were not good birds, Luiga robbed him without the slightest psychological burden, Luica glanced at these people, and said lightly: "What is the noise, haven't you seen the robbery?
As soon as Luica's words came out, the man laughed instead of being angry, he laughed very arrogantly, the woman next to him and the guards looked at him and laughed, and laughed, the man pointed at Luica and sneered: "You fool came out of which horn, the robbery actually hit me, do you know who I am?" Master, I'm the major general of the Pegasus Army, and I've always had to rob others of the Palas, but today I actually met a fool like you, and the robbery hit me, haha, how do you want to die and tell me?"
Luica was a little depressed at this time, he casually robbed on the road, but he didn't expect to meet these people, the Pegasus Legion He knew that he probably had some understanding of Pallas's forces these days, there were four major forces in the main city of Pallas, in addition to the Pallas Chamber of Commerce Alliance, there were three bandit groups, namely the Eugene bandit group, the Pegasus bandit group, and the lion bandit group, these four forces control the main city of Pallas, and the strength is equal to the top.
"I don't care what kind of major general you are, there was a fool who told me what kind of major general he was, and he was not slaughtered by me, and he wanted to hand over all the finances on his body to me for his life, otherwise Lao Tzu would kill you and take it yourself!" Luica looked at a few people and said coldly.
The man was furious, he didn't expect that he had already reported the name of the Pegasus Legion, this person actually dared to say such a thing to him, he suddenly felt that he was humiliated, his eyes were red, and he said to the guards: "What are you still stunned for, slaughtered this fool for me, I want to chop him into meat puree and feed it to the dogs!"
After these people heard the order of the young general, they immediately attacked Luiga with weapons, the strength of these people are all third-level rune masters, Luica is naturally not afraid, and reached out to grab the wrist of the guard with the highest cultivation, the guard did not expect Luica's speed to be so fast, and suddenly burst out of the power of the runes in his body, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but where would Luiga let him go, grabbed the guard's hand and instantly slammed it, only to hear a click, the guard's arm was crushed by Luica, Luiga snatched the sword in his hand, ignored his screams, and with a wave of the long sword, the guard was cut to the ground and died directly。
When the other guards saw this scene, their faces were shocked, and their first reaction was to withdraw and retreat, but where would Luiga give them this opportunity, and hurriedly performed a step forward slash, and several jumped over, and the three guards only felt a cold neck, and then fell to the ground and died.
From Luiga's shot to the death of the four guards, it only took a few seconds, the major general of the Pegasus Thieves Regiment was no longer rampant before, his face turned pale with fright, and the woman who was held in his arms before was also let go by him, he looked at Luiga in horror, and asked tremblingly: "Who are you? You actually dare to kill my person, are you really not afraid of death?"
"Hehe, why should I be afraid, can you make me afraid? Your strength is not even as good as these guards who were killed by me, you are qualified to make me afraid?" Luiga smiled faintly, and then slowly walked towards the young general with his sword.
Seeing Luiga walking towards him, the young general's face became even more ugly, and he stretched out his trembling finger to Luica and shouted: "You can't kill me, I'm the major general of the Pegasus Legion, if you kill me, you can't leave Pallas alive!"
"I don't know if I can leave Pallas alive, but you definitely won't survive today!" After speaking, Luiga waved his long sword, and a sword qi slashed at the major general of the Pegasus bandit group and the woman next to him, and the next moment the two of them died directly, and the major general of the Pegasus Legion couldn't believe that Luica really dared to kill him until he died, and his eyes widened, obviously not blinking.