Chapter 20: The Heart Stone
"The Way of Pain?"
Zhang Tude looked at the stall owner who stopped him, the stall owner was wearing gray cloth all over his body, no skin was exposed, only a pair of eyes could be seen, listening to his voice seemed to be an old man, and the things sold in his stall Zhang Tude knew a few, which were torture instruments used to torture people, and there were some blood stains on them.
The stall owner saw that Zhang Tude did not speak, so he asked again
"Fellow Daoist, is the way of pain on your body sold?"
There are only three transcendent items on Zhang Tude's body, the human flesh lingzhi on his left hand, the book on natural disasters, and the few black spirit stones given to him by Chen's father and daughter.
"Pain? Suffering? Zhang Tude thought of the wounds on Chen Yu'an's body, and the only thing related to the pain was those black spirit stones, so he took out a spirit stone and asked the stall owner
"Fellow Daoist, is this what you're talking about?"
"It turned out to be a Rongxin Stone pretending to be painful, yes, that's what I'm talking about, do you sell it?"
Zhang Tude thought about it, anyway, it's useless to keep this thing for himself, so it's better to sell it, so he replied
"Sell, I don't know how much you're willing to pay."
"It depends on how many Taoist friends there are."
Zhang Tude had a total of six black spirit stones on his body, he left one as a souvenir, and the rest were taken to the stall owner.
"Well, some are missing, if there are twenty, I am willing to give a Yangshou Pill to Daoyou, but there are only five, and I don't have anything like ancient coins on me, so I can only buy it with silver."
"Six taels of silver and a stone, what do you think?"
"Okay."
The black spirit stone is worth more than Zhang Tude imagined, so the Chen father and daughter have not met someone who knows the goods, otherwise even without Zhang Tude's help, they can make a good life by selling this black spirit stone.
The stall owner took out thirty taels of silver and put it in front of Zhang Tude, but Zhang Tude did not immediately go to receive the silver, but said to the stall owner
"Fellow Daoist, can you tell me what this Rongxin Stone is and what it is for? I can ask for less. ”
"Oh? Daoist friends don't know? The stall owner was a little surprised
"Well, it's actually something from the next friend, and it's just sold for him." Zhang Tude casually found a reason.
"That's fine."
The stall owner took back ten taels of silver, and then spoke
"This heart stone is a kind of container of ten emotions and eight sufferings, which can store emotions such as pain, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness."
"If a person has the Great Thousand Records or the Sutra of Grievances, even if he is a mortal, he can also use the emotions in this Rongxin Stone, and he can use some less powerful supernatural powers without paying any price, and if he is a cultivator, he can also use the emotions inside to cultivate."
"Then may I ask Daoyou, do you know where you can get this great record and grievance?" Hearing that ordinary people can also use supernatural powers without paying a price, Zhang Tude suddenly became interested.
"I don't know too much about the Grievance Sutra, you can ask the people on the other side of the Mourning Palace and the Crying People's Gate, Daqianlu I have a ready-made here, do you want it?"
The stall owner pulled out a strange roll of reddish bamboo slips
"No one has used this Daqianlu yet, so let's sell it cheaper, as long as seven Yangshou Pills."
Zhang Tude looked at the red bamboo slip, he really wanted it, but he didn't have any of Yang Shoudan, he hurriedly asked
"Fellow Daoist, I don't have so many Yangshou Pills on my body, do you think it can be exchanged for silver?"
The stall owner shook his head and took Daqianlu back, but he also told Zhang Tude where to get Daqianlu
"If you want Daqianlu in the future, you can go to the Zoro Jingjiao, but remember that in front of the people of the Zoro Sect, don't use the Rongxin Stone to use the Daqianlu supernatural powers, that is a stain on their faith, they will hunt you down to death."
Zhang Tude listened to the stall owner's words, thanked him and then took the silver and left, this trip to the ghost market is the right one, not only gained knowledge, gained an important piece of information, but also earned the entrance fee back.
Zhang Tude continued to walk forward, but gradually, there were fewer and fewer stalls on both sides, and passers-by were the same, and there were only two people left in front of Zhang Tude.
The two men were dressed somewhat similarly to Zhang Tude, both dressed in black and wearing the masks of ordinary hawkers, and one of them carried a long, white cloth-wrapped thing behind his back, somewhat like a coffin.
That thing seemed to be very heavy, and the person carrying the thing had to stop for a moment every time he walked for a while, panting for breath, without the appearance of a cultivator, while the other person walked freely, and kept urging the person who carried the thing, and the two seemed to have a master-servant relationship.
Zhang Tude followed the two of them in this way, and he did not stop until the two men came to a city gate, and he saw several people standing at the gate who were also dressed in black robes, just like the two people in front of the small house, except that there were two more giants on the left and right sides.
The two giants were three stories tall, their arms reaching their knees, their bodies were dressed in black armor, their skin was very pale, and the giants' faces were taped with a yellow rune paper that matched their size, and both giants stood motionless as corpses.
Zhang Tude saw that the two people took out a black token, and the black-robed man glanced at it and let them go, there was another area of the ghost market, it seemed that the token was needed in the past, Zhang Tude didn't have it, and the two giants made him feel uneasy, so he turned around and went back, ready to go shopping again.
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"Uncle Tian, you said that we should go to Hualou for the night after we finish our errands, and I will pay for the money." Bule said to Tian Gui, who was carrying things next to him
"Ouch, second young master, you still dare to go to Hualou, if you let the master know, it would be a trivial matter if my life is gone, I'm afraid that he will lock you in the room like everyone else, and won't let you out."
"What are you afraid of, I'm not my unlucky big brother, what's wrong with going to a flower building." Speaking of the dead eldest brother Buhuan, Bu Le not only did not look a little sad, but was also very happy.
"But speaking of which, it's the first time I've known that there is such a strange place in Weishan County, and it's much more fun than other places."
Bule looked around curiously, the scene here was obviously different from the previous one, there was no bustle in front of it, there were few people on the street, and there were no stalls, instead there were strange houses.
Tian Gui is not as leisurely as Bule, he wants to finish his business early and leave this infiltrating place.
"The stone statue of the person covering his eyes, Second Young Master, has been found."
The two came to a house with a stone statue in front of it, which covered its eyes with its hands and seemed to have something like cotton stuffed into its ears.
Tian Gui stepped forward and knocked on the door, and then said respectfully
"Immortal Master, we're here."
"Come in."
The door seemed to be blown open by the wind, and an old voice came from inside, and the two men went in, and when the people in the house lit the lamp, they saw the appearance of the man who spoke, and when they saw the appearance of the man, they were startled, and saw only a strange old lady in the room.
Just looking at the face, the old lady's face is full of wrinkles, and there are not a few teeth left in her mouth, although her eyes have been closed, but it is normal, but the old lady's figure is very strong, not inferior to the starting tiger.
"What do I want? Did you two bring it? The old lady spoke, and though her eyes were closed, she seemed to be able to see.
"Immortal Master, bring it, it's here." Tian Gui glanced at Bu Le, and after Bu Le nodded, he put down the things on his back.
The white cloth wrapped a coffin-shaped box, but it was not as wide as the coffin, and after Tian Gui opened the box, he and Bule were surprised to find that the thing inside was a hand that was almost as long as a whole person, although the front part was like a longer human hand, but the part of the palm was like a pig's trotter, and the pig's trotter had five fingers.