Xi Liuzi said: "Speaking of the 36th Route Anti-Army, one of them has recently risen in our area, and this anti-army is located in the 'Ghost Face Cliff' about 300 miles away from our Yunmeng City. I heard that the rebels of this 'Ghost Face Cliff' are extremely ferocious, killing countless people, slaughtering villages and destroying villages wherever they pass, leaving no chickens and dogs, and the surrounding prefectures, counties, towns and towns within a radius of hundreds of miles are harassed by them and miserable. It is said that most of the refugees who are now in the city have abandoned their homes to escape the killing of the 'Ghost Face Cliff'. ”

After hearing this, Lu Zhan felt very angry in his heart, and asked puzzledly: "Such a ferocious bandit, why didn't the imperial court exterminate them and protect the people?"

One of the guards sneered: "The imperial court is now too busy to take care of itself, and the 'Ghost Face Cliff' is only ranked nearly thirty-fifth in the last place in the Thirty-six Route rebel army, and it has already stirred up this land within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the blood is flowing like a river, not to mention that the Thirty-sixth Route Army is rioting all over the country. And those ferocious neighboring countries are also constantly invading the borders of our Great Chu State, and the army of our empire is now sloppy and extremely weak, and Ping Suli will only bully the common people. ”

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice: "Also--I heard a relative who was doing business in the capital say that there are rumors in the capital that the current emperor has been seriously ill for a long time and may be dying; ”

While they were talking, they had already walked onto a dilapidated side street.

This small street is located in the northwestern corner of a bustling market, next to the Tianxu River in the Yunmeng Three Rivers, which has many small docks and is very busy with shipping.

So the street is crowded with small traders, sailors, fishermen, dock porters, etc., and the streets are bustling and seem a little crowded.

Lu Zhan followed the courtyard through the crowd of people, walked through the winding streets, and came to a row of dilapidated bungalows.

The row of bungalows looks like a small workshop for carving stone statues, and more than a dozen sturdy workers are ping-pong carving stone statues in the open space in front of the houses.

With just one glance, Lu Zhan could already see that those workers were actually martial arts masters, at least in the middle stage of the body refining realm. The workers only glanced at the outsiders who walked into the workshop, and no one came out to stop them.

Xi Liuzi whispered to Lu Zhan: "This secret workshop has a very hard backstage to support it, and I am not afraid of messy people making trouble here, and the first rule in the secret workshop has always been - only trading is allowed here, and unauthorized fights are never allowed." If anyone doesn't have a long eye and breaks this rule, the guys who carved the stone statues will rush in and kill the perpetrator without hesitation, no matter how big he is. ”

The courtyard walked through a pile of stone lions, pixiu, land lords and other stone statues scattered in the courtyard, and walked to a small dilapidated door behind the workshop.

Xi Liuzi raised his hand and knocked on the door a few times, and soon the door was opened a crack, a middle-aged woman poked her head out to look at them, Xi Liuzi smiled at her, "We also want to buy a statue of the God of Wealth." ”

The woman nodded, and looked at Lu Zhan with vigilant eyes, Xi Liuzi hurriedly said: "He is a newly moved family, and he also wants to buy a statue of the God of Wealth for his family." ”

The woman opened the door and let them in.

Xi Liuzi told Lu Zhan: "What I said to that woman just now was a code word. If you can't say anything, the other party won't let you in, and you will have to ask the workers who carved the stone statues outside to beat you up. When I said I wanted to buy a statue of the God of Wealth, it means that we are just trading in general. If you have a particularly good product to trade, tell her that you want to buy a dragon king statue, and they will open another channel for you to receive you as a VIP. ”

Behind the door was a small, dilapidated and dirty room, with an old staircase that continued to lead downwards to the ground.

From the outside, the bungalow is shabby, small, and inconspicuous.

But after walking down the stairs, it suddenly became clear that there was a huge underground world with many rooms below. I saw that the flow of people in this underground world was shuttling, and the clothes were fragrant and the temples were shadows, and they were actually crowded with all kinds of characters.

Lu Zhan didn't expect that the popularity in this secret workshop would be so strong, not only martial artists like them, but also rich people in brocade and grossaline, beautiful beauties with beautiful eyes, and those gorgeously dressed nobles.

This is a veritable underground exchange, people who come here either have a lot of money in their pockets, or all kinds of goods worth trading, anyway, this is not the world of the poor outside, those who have empty pockets, hunger and cold, will never step into this underground world.

In the outermost trading hall of the underground exchange, there are several large-scale shops, which are marked with signboards such as "Blade Shop", "Armor Shop", "Dan Pharmacy", and "Sundry Shop".

Lu Zhan glanced at the blade shop, and saw that the shop was full of various weapons, but when he looked closely, there were no particularly eye-catching high-level divine weapons.

Xi Liuzi told him in a low voice: "The goods that are put in the shops for sale are actually ordinary goods, but because the source is unknown, it is inconvenient to take them to the shops on the ground to sell, so they are placed here for sale." Captain, this fifth-level steel knife of yours can only be regarded as an ordinary commodity in the secret workshop, because the handle of the knife is stamped with the mark of the Lu Mansion, and it can only be sold here. The real good goods are basically traded in the form of auctions. ”

As he spoke, he looked into the large rooms at the back of the exchange, "Do you see a few rooms there? That's the true essence of this secret workshop." All the transactions of great value are carried out in those rooms. Those rooms are also divided into three levels: 'Body Refining', 'Bone Forging', and 'Qi Condensation', as for 'Transformation Strength', because it is only a legendary top-level existence, and this kind of master does not bother to trade in this ordinary place, so there is no special place for them to auction. And people like us in the Body Refining Realm are only allowed to enter the auction room dedicated to the 'Body Refining' realm transactions. There are also those two," Xi Liuzi pointed to the two black doors in the corner and said: "That is a special room for VIPs to conduct secret transactions, and the transactions in it are all superb, and you can't go in without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver." ”

Lu Zhan secretly wrote down some information in this secret workshop.

He walked to the counter of the shop where the blades were traded, and a middle-aged man greeted him and asked, "This boy is invited, what kind of transaction do you want to make?"

Lu Zhan handed him the fifth-level 200 refined steel knife in his hand and said, "I want to sell this knife." ”

The middle-aged man took the steel knife, first carefully examined the scabbard, then pulled out the knife, flicked the blade, looked at the blade, stroked the knife surface, carefully identified it, and then said to Lu Zhan: "Guest, you are a fifth-grade stainless steel knife with two hundred quenching and two hundred refinements, worth two thousand five hundred taels, are you sure you want to sell it?"

"Yes, I'm sure. ”

The middle-aged man asked again: "Then are you going to trade directly with silver taels or with pills?"

Lu Zhan was stunned for a moment, "What? Can the pill also be traded?"

"Yes, guest. The middle-aged man said: "You can change it to an equivalent pill, but you can only change it to a primary pill." ”

"Then I'll change "Yangyuan Dan". Lu Zhan said happily, it turns out that you can use things to trade pills here, which is quite convenient.

"Okay, each "Yangyuan Dan" is worth fifty taels of silver, and your knife can be exchanged for fifty "Yangyuan Dan", please wait a moment, I will go get the pill. The middle-aged man walked behind the counter with a steel knife, and after a while, he took five porcelain bottles and handed them to Lu Zhandao: "There are ten in each bottle, a total of fifty, please count them." ”

After making sure that it was correct, Lu Zhan pocketed the pill and then left the blade counter. He saw Xi Liuzi and several other nurses selling their surplus pills at the pill counter, so he walked over to them and watched their trading process.

At this moment, the door of a mysterious room for the exclusive use of VIPs in the far corner was opened, and out of it came a man in his fifties, with a beautiful beard and a scholarly dress, who was still carrying a package wrapped in satin.

Lu Zhan's gaze happened to be in line with the man's gaze, and the two of them were stunned at the same time.

"It's Steward Liu!"

Lu Zhan's heart suddenly surged with a strong murderous intent but he quickly controlled his emotions, after all, it was not yet the time to take revenge, and this was under the public of the secret workshop.

Steward Liu also saw Lu Zhan, and was slightly stunned for a moment, and then glanced at several nurses who were standing beside him and selling pills in front of the counter, knowing that it was just a chance encounter.

So he suppressed the anger in his heart, and walked to the exit of the secret workshop with an indifferent expression.

When he walked past Lu Zhan and the others, Xi Liuzi and the others also saw him, and several people hurriedly bowed respectfully, smiling on their faces.

Liu Dagu glanced at the porcelain bottles they had placed on the counter and were about to sell, and recognized them as the pill bottles of the Lu Mansion.

"Hmph, a bunch of minions who don't grow!"

He glanced at Lu Zhan with disdain, thinking that this kid was also a greedy thing, and selling the pills that could increase his martial arts cultivation for money was really an act of not seeking progress.

Since the Liu Dingguo brothers never returned during the "martial arts examination" a month ago, he has been shocked and puzzled by their brother's mysterious disappearance.

But he has always had no last resort, and he didn't want to believe that the disappearance of the brothers was related to Lu Zhan, after all, his preconceived notions made him despise Lu Zhan, a child with no foundation.

In addition, he couldn't help but guess another possibility: Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan is the same person as himself as the third son, but this son-in-law has always had a grudge with himself, and the two are in harmony openly, but secretly tear each other down.

It just so happened that Lu Xuan, the "Capture the Flag Exercise", also participated, and heard that he died tragically with a person who participated in the assessment.

Therefore, Liu Dagu suspected that the disappearance of Liu Dingguo's brothers had nothing to do with Lu Zhan, but was caused by Lu Xuan, although Lu Xuan's martial arts attainments were not high, but he also had a powerful secret treasure sent by the third prince, and it was not impossible to get the Liu brothers with this secret treasure.

Now that he saw Lu Zhan standing in front of the pill trading counter, coupled with the few pill porcelain bottles on the counter, he was even more convinced of the conjecture that the Liu brothers' disappearance had nothing to do with Lu Zhan.

In his eyes, this Lu Zhan has been able to survive until now, just lucky, let him live for a few more days for the time being, and wait until he is busy with the extremely important thing that the third prince explained, and then he will clean up this little guy well.

Lu Zhan lowered his head slightly, watching Steward Liu walk past him, his eyes were full of anger at the same time.

But Lu Zhanqiang suppressed the killing intent and anger in his heart, and didn't let himself raise his head to face Steward Liu.

He knew that once he looked into the other party's eyes, Steward Liu would definitely be able to feel this strong murderous intent.

He didn't want to confront Steward Liu head-on now, first, he knew that his strength was not enough, and second, there was a clear rule in the secret workshop that no fights were allowed.

There are really a lot of masters in this secret workshop, and you can't just rely on the courage of blood and qi to put yourself in a desperate situation, so you can't get revenge.

After returning home from the secret workshop, Lu Zhan stepped up his cultivation, and with these pills, his "rations" worry was temporarily solved.

Although he and Steward Liu only had a face-to-face relationship, the mysterious crystal in his body seemed to be able to sense that the old guy was deeply hidden, and his strength was definitely far above him.

His martial arts attainments have been surveyed and entered the middle stage of the bone forging realm, and he has begun to stride towards the later stage. However, if you want to kill Steward Liu to avenge your father, it is obviously quite difficult.