"Really!"

Huabei, the fish-man, said truthfully: "There are often fish-people in our village, because they can't bear the loneliness of cultivation, so they go out of the village and never come back. ”

"This has led to fewer and fewer fish-people in our village."

"In order to salvage the situation, for every time we fishmen persuade a monk to stay, the great elder of the village will give us a treasure as a reward."

"Great Elder?" Cheng Huo said curiously: "The Great Elder you just talked about is someone who is equivalent to the head of Fishman Village?" ”

"It's not the village chief." Fishman Huabei said: "The great elder of our village is a very special existence. ”

"He can't speak, and he never communicates with other fishmen, so he basically doesn't do anything in the village."

"So strictly speaking, he can't be considered the village chief."

Listening to Huabei say this, Chengsheng is even more incomprehensible.

He asked, "Since the Great Elder can't speak, and he never communicates with other fishmen, then the treasure reward you just talked about"

The fish-man explained, "The Great Elder is different from all of us fish-men. ”

"Although he never communicates with people, and he doesn't even move much, he has a special ability to spit out treasures out of thin air." so

"As long as there are fishmen who have made a certain contribution to the village, then go to the Great Elder. You don't even need to say anything, the Great Elder can only know everything directly, and then give you the corresponding reward. ”

"Besides, you can still sell some things you don't want, such as pills and exercises, your cultivation, and even your memories and feelings at the Great Elder, and then exchange them for some things you want."

Selling the pills and exercises, this survival is easy to understand.

But.

Before he could speak, Zhong Ran on the side was surprised: "Can people's memories and feelings also be sold?" Can the Great Elder still take away all the memories of people? ”

The fishman Huabei said with a smile: "As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing, if you don't believe it, why don't you go with me to the village to see the Great Elder?" ”

Zhong Ran didn't speak, but just glanced at each other with Chenghuo.

The latter nodded, and said to the fishman Huabei: "Then it will be bothering Daoist friends to lead the way." ”

"Please!" Hua Bei nodded, and Chong Chenghuo and Zhong Ran made a 'please' gesture.

Hua Bei's movements still look quite elegant, but with his huge fish head, it inexplicably gives Cheng Sheng a sense of nondescript weirdness.

With this strange feeling, Chengsheng followed Huabei carefully into the fish-man village

…

At the same time.

The junction of the Great Liang Kingdom and the Far North.

Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow.

High in the sky.

A monk dressed in an apricot yellow robe, Edgeworth landed from the sky on the top of the snow-capped mountain.

He walked straight up to a snowman sitting cross-legged and said, "Brother Li, what's the situation now?" ”

"Those six people have already entered the secret realm."

Li Zhuo opened his eyes.

He shook off the snow that covered his body, and said in a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Brother Yun, why did you rush here at this time?" ”

Yun Rusong, who was dressed in an apricot yellow robe, smiled: "Alas, isn't there no way to do it. There are some things to deal with on the official side, so staying in Bianjing City for one more day is only a step too late. ”

"But don't worry, I've got my hands on it."

Yun Rusong said, and took out a bronze mirror from the storage bag on his waist.

He shook the bronze mirror in his hand and continued, "As long as one of the six who entered the secret realm can successfully break through to the deep diving stage, we can be regarded as having enough four deep diving stage cultivators. ”

"At that time, we only need to wait until that kid from Le Zhengxun ascends the throne, and we will be able to use this 'omnipotent mirror' to reverse the situation of the entire Xuanwu Star in one go."

"At that time, it is not impossible for you and me to break through to a higher realm."

"Hmm" Li Zhuo nodded and said, "If the 'Omnipotent Mirror' can really play a role, then you and I really have a chance to break through to a higher realm." ”

"Just." As he spoke, he frowned again and said, "I always feel that Xuan Si is an unstable factor. ”

"Since he entered the Buddha Gate, the whole person has become a godly chatter, and he has been obsessed with summoning the heirs of the 'Buddha'."

"Anyway, in his own words, he did that for the sake of the world, but his actual purpose, who can know?"

"Xuan Si is indeed an unstable factor." Yun Rusong echoed: "However, you and I have also cultivated six monks who have the hope of breaking through to the deep diving stage. ”

"Among these six people, as long as two of them can break through smoothly, then we no longer need Xuan Si."

"Asking Xuan Si to help activate the 'Omnipotent Mirror' is just a last resort." Yun Rusong continued: "But if there are other deep diving stage monks who can take it, I naturally won't consider him. ”

"As long as I hope you don't need to find Xuan Si in the end!"

Li Zhuo said with a worried face: "Now it depends on how many of the six people who have entered the secret realm can successfully break through to the deep diving period."

…

The secret realm of the Tianshan Mountains.

Swampy area, inside the Fishman Village.

Following Huabei, Cheng Huo and Zhong Ran came to the most luxurious, but also the largest and highest fish-man hut.

This Fish-Man Hut alone occupies nearly a quarter of the land of Fish-Man Village.

Moreover, this room is not only built tall, but also the doors and windows on it are also enlarged.

Compared to the door of the house, it has a height of more than four meters and a width of more than two meters.

The fishman Huabei pushed the door of the house open, and rushed to Chenghuo and Zhong Ran and said, "This house is where the fishman elders in our village live. ”

The moment the door was opened, I saw a fat fish-man like a hill lying in the corner of the fish-man hut.

The head of this big fat fish-man is a catfish head.

He was now holding his fish head with his hands, looking quite comfortable.

Beside the fat catfishman, there were two burly fishman guards in pitch-black armor standing on either side.

There are also two slender fishmen who look like female monks turned into fishmen, rubbing the shoulders and legs of the fat catfishman.

And the fat catfish people, who enjoyed all this, were silent.

He just lay back and said, with a thoughtful expression, as if he was not interested in everything around him.

"Great Elder?"

After entering the hut, the fish-man Huabei first cautiously shouted the words 'Great Elder'.

The Great Elder, on the other hand, was unaware.

In this regard, the fishman Huabei didn't care too much, and only continued to take care of himself: "Today, two outsiders have come to our village. ”

The Great Elder still looked thoughtful.

The fishman Huabei turned to Zhong Ran and Cheng Huo and said, "Two, do you have any treasures that you want to exchange, or that you can't use." ”

"It's your first time coming to the village, so according to the rules, you can exchange some items that you don't need at the Great Elder."

"Or Memory"

Hua Bei reminded: "For example, some memories that are not very good for you and you don't want to recall, or some regrets in life. ”

"You can forget about it."

"For example, if your personality is too indecisive, then this part of your not so good personality can also be exchanged with the Great Elders."

A Fish-Man Elder who can exchange everything, even memories and emotions.

I have to say that this Tianshan Secret Realm is really as Li Zhuo described, and there are great opportunities hidden almost everywhere.

Moreover, these opportunities are far from being comparable to other Gu Immortal relics in the territory of the Great Liang Kingdom.

in the house.

Zhong Ran glanced at Cheng Huo.

Seeing that he showed a cautious expression, he was not in a hurry to exchange items at the moment, but just waited on the side to make a decision.

The latter thought for a long time, and said slowly: "Before exchanging treasures, I would like to ask: when exchanging treasures, will the Elder Fishman take anything else from us in addition to what we have agreed in advance?" ”

"Look at what you're talking about." The fishman Huabei said: "This kind of exchange means that if you say you want to take something, the Great Elder will take away what you have." ”

"You can rest assured that he won't take anything more from you without you opening your mouth."

Just mark the price clearly

Cheng Sheng nodded, and continued to ask, "Besides, how many times can each of us exchange at most?" ”

"Twice." "Every monk who comes to the village for the first time has two opportunities to trade with the Great Elder, and if you want to trade again, you have to continue to contribute to the village. ”

"Contribution?" Cheng Huo said: "For example? ”

Hua Bei said: "For example, like the four Taoist friends who serve the Great Elder in the house, and then there are those fish people who cut reeds and catch fish inside and outside the village. ”

"Offering fish and reeds to the Great Elder can be contributed."

"These contributions will be remembered by the Great Elder, and when they accumulate to a certain extent, they will be able to trade with the Great Elder."

"At that time, you can choose to directly consume the contribution in exchange for treasures, or you can exchange it for something else."

"Okay, got it." Cheng Sheng finally said: "So, is there a specific value for this kind of transaction to measure?" ”

"For example, if I want to trade an exercise that suits me, how much do I need to pay to get it?"

"Just like the price of the goods sold, if I want to trade the exercises, I have to let me know the specific price of the exercises first, right?"

"No, no, no," Fishman Huabei corrected, "There is still a certain difference between the transaction between us and the Great Elder and the buying and selling of items in the store. ”

"Trading with the Great Elder is that you give him something depending on your mood, anything can be. Then, according to the specific value of the item, he will spit out a treasure of equal value from his mouth. ”

"This treasure, you can say its scope in advance, for example, if you want exercises, the Great Elder will spit out exercises for you."

"If you ask for the pill, the Great Elder will spit out the pill."

"Of course, this scope can't be too detailed, otherwise the Great Elder won't understand it and will spit out something to you randomly."

In the Great Elder's room.

After some explanation by the fish-man Huabei, Chengsheng has roughly figured out the rules of trading with the fish-man elders.

This rule is very similar to the 'lottery mechanism' in online games:

In short, the higher the value of the items you give to the Great Elder, the more valuable the items the Great Elder will spit out.

As for what kind of item it is in the end, it all depends on the face.

In this case, Cheng Huo patted the storage bag on his waist and took out the mysterious porcelain bottle that could accumulate spiritual fluid and give birth to spiritual grass and spiritual plants.

There are two of these porcelain vases.

One of them was picked up in a dry well in Shenshu Village.

The other is from the storage bag after the death of the iron ox.

The spiritual liquid in the mysterious porcelain vase can only assist the cultivation of monks during the worship period.

When the monk breaks through to the fetal construction stage, the auxiliary effect will be significantly reduced, and when the blood pill stage is reached, there will be no effect.

As for the role of giving birth to spirit grass and spirit plants.

The monks of the Great Liang Kingdom did not understand the refining method of any elixir, and there were no spiritual herbs and spiritual plants in the Liang Kingdom for alchemy.

So the catalytic effect is also not useful.

Plus this porcelain vase survived by two.

In view of this, he planned to use this porcelain vase to test the water and see what kind of treasure he could get from the Great Elder.

Cheng Huo shook the porcelain vase in his hand, and said to the fishman Huabei: "I plan to use this porcelain vase to exchange things with the Great Elder, and then what am I going to do next?" ”

"Just briefly describe to the Great Elder what kind of items you want to exchange." Hua Bei replied.

At the end, he added: "By the way, your description must not be too detailed, otherwise the Great Elder will not be able to understand it, and will give you a random item." ”

So the Great Elder is not very smart?

Lives with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

After a brief hesitation, he said to the Great Elder, "I plan to exchange the porcelain vase in my hand for a life-saving treasure. ”

Finally.

The moment he heard the word 'exchange' in Chenghuo's mouth, the Great Elder reacted

Most fish have no tongue in their mouths.

But with the exception of catfish.

in the house.

The Great Elder stared at the porcelain vase in Cheng Huo's hand, and after a few seconds, he suddenly stretched out his tongue and slammed the porcelain vase in Cheng Huo's hand into his mouth.

It wasn't long before the Great Elder let out a retching sound from his mouth and stuck his tongue out again.

By this time, the porcelain vase on his tongue had disappeared, replaced by a red and yellow cortical frenulum.

It's strange to say.

This leather frenulum was obviously spit out from the mouth of the great elder's catfish head, but when Chengsheng touched it with his hands, he only felt that the surface was dry and there was no mucus.

Most of the treasures are psychic.

At the moment of touching the treasure, Cheng Sheng understood the use of this lacing:

This strap allows the wearer to shrink in an instant.

With this treasure, the wearer can not only shrink out of the enemy's line of sight, but also dodge enemy attacks when engaging enemies.

Perhaps it is because the porcelain vase is not of high value.

The tie that was exchanged for survival is not a particularly powerful magic weapon.

However, this treasure really fulfilled the requirements made before he survived.

- This is indeed a magic weapon for life.

And at the moment of exchanging this treasure, a doubt in Chengsheng's heart was finally confirmed:

The mysterious porcelain vase in his hand was not his imagination.

This porcelain vase is indeed a treasure.

At least in the eyes of Elder Catfish

(End of chapter)