Volume 1 The First Entry into the Sect Chapter 12 Fang City
In front of you is a lake with an area of about 100 zhang square, and a circular platform about 3 or 4 zhang wide is paved with bluestone around the lake.
There are also more than a dozen pavilions in the lake, and these pavilions are about seven or eight zhang away from the shore, and the two pavilions adjacent to each other are also five or six zhang away, forming a circle.
The peculiar thing is that each pavilion only has a narrow passage connected to the outer bluestone, which is only enough for two people to walk side by side, and there is no connecting passage between the different pavilions. With such a layout, the gazebo does not have the effect of allowing people to enjoy the scenery at all.
The bluestone ring is divided into an inner ring and an outer ring by a cobblestone path, and the stalls are located on both sides of the path. The stalls are far apart, and even if there are six or seven people standing in front of each stall, it is not crowded.
At this time, hundreds of stalls have been set up, and next to each stall there is a sign indicating the items they want to sell and the price, while the lower part of the sign is "Purchase" information.
Like a child seeing a toy, Xiao An looked at the items on the stall with curiosity.
Among these stalls, the stall selling ritual utensils occupies the largest area, with knives, guns, swords, halberds and other ritual utensils filling the stalls, and some miscellaneous materials are piled up in the corners of the stalls.
The stalls selling pills occupy the smallest area, with only a few jade bottles and jade boxes. However, its brand is the largest, and it is densely packed with information on the elixirs and herbs sold and acquired.
And Xiao An also found that many people did not go for the finished product, but to buy materials and herbs containing aura. Moreover, these people rarely use spirit stones to buy directly, and most of them are bartering, and it seems that these are exchanges between peers.
Xiao An looked at the information containing the aura herbs on the stall and touched his chin.
The aura herbs sold and purchased at these stalls were all twenty or thirty years old, could it be that the elixirs taken by the Qi refining period cultivators were refined with herbs that had been growing for twenty or thirty years and contained spiritual energy?
According to this inference, his hundred-year-old spirit grass can at least be used by a monk in the foundation building period, no wonder Shopkeeper Shen made himself a trainee boy directly with just one medicinal herb, and he was even exempted from the entrance assessment.
"Brother Zhang, hurry up, I heard that there was a superb "Ice Pick Talisman" of the ninth layer of qi refining on the stall in front, let's hurry over, it was bought by someone else when it was late. ”
The first time I participated in the market, I heard that there were superb talismans for sale, Xiao Anxin was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed the two of them, wanting to open his eyes.
Because the name of the best talisman is too big, it is said that this talisman can turn the tide of battle when used properly.
The chances of success of the best talisman are very small, and it will only appear once in a thousand finished products. Therefore, in ordinary battles, monks rarely take into account the best talismans.
It's just that Xiao An hasn't walked a few steps before he sees a sigh coming from a stall in front of him, and the people around the stall have also dispersed. No need to ask, it must have been someone who bought the best talisman.
The power of the sealing spell in the talisman is not static, but is affected by many factors. The main factor is the maker's understanding of the spell and his own cultivation, while the secondary factors are the talisman material and the monk's own state.
In the cultivation world, even if two monks who have the same spiritual root, practice the same exercises, and are in the same cultivation, and perform the same spell with all their might, their power is not the same. Normally, the power of a spell in a rune ranges from 60% to 90% of the spell cast by the maker himself.
These circumstances led to the uneven quality of the talismans, resulting in a chaotic market for the sale of talismans.
Later, some large-scale sects in the cultivation world dominated by talismans made a detailed assessment of the power of the spells in the talismans, and announced a set of evaluation criteria, and the talisman sales market became orderly.
Only if the power of the sealing spell in the talisman exceeds the standard value can it be called the best talisman.
For Xiao An, everything in the market is very strange, and he can't wait to stop at every stall to take a good look at the items on the stall.
"This flying sword artifact looks okay, I want to confirm the power of the magic weapon. Not far ahead, a burly young man with a fat black sword was taking a closer look.
"Yes, the magic weapon refined by my Chen Dabao is well-known in our place, not to blow it with you, this flying sword is also a high-quality one. An ordinary-looking gray-clothed young man stood by the booth and introduced himself to the burly young man with black and fat.
After a while, the two of them left the stall, and the gray-clothed young man played a trick before leaving, and a layer of pale cyan light shrouded the stall, but it did not affect the other people's observation of the items in the stall.
"What is the purpose of this layer of blue light? Is it to prevent someone from stealing from the stall?" Xiao Anxin secretly guessed.
The two walked into a pavilion closest to the stall, and instantly a layer of light appeared on the periphery of the entire pavilion, covering the pavilion tightly, so that people could not see the scene inside the pavilion.
A "bell, bell, bell" crash came from the pavilion, and when the calm was restored, the light mask on the periphery of the pavilion disappeared, and the two walked out with smiles on their faces.
"The flying sword costs forty-five low-level spirit stones, and three spirit stones are used in the test pavilion, for a total of forty-eight spirit stones. As soon as the gray-clothed young man finished speaking, the fat black young man threw down a bunch of spirit stones and walked away with a flying sword.
"Such an inconspicuous little sword sells so many spirit stones, and magic weapons are so expensive?" Xiao Anxin smacked his tongue secretly.
Xiao An walked to this stall curiously, and saw that the magic weapons on the stall were sold for dozens of spirit stones, and it seemed that the stall owner was a relatively powerful refiner.
Xiao An had also inspected several similar stalls before, but none of them had items suitable for mid-stage Qi refining cultivators. Maybe it's because the magic weapons in the middle stage of Qi refining are too cheap, so it's better to make money with magic weapons in the late stage of Qi refining.
After turning around more than a dozen stalls, Xiao Anxin became a little anxious, the market had been open for more than half an hour, and some stalls had begun to be withdrawn, and he had not seen the items he wanted to buy until now.
Unlike the secular bazaar, people don't waste too much time in the bazaar, and 80% of the transactions in the bazaar are completed within the first hour of the market's opening.
Therefore, Xiao An must buy the items he needs as soon as possible, but the thought that he still doesn't know how to identify the advantages and disadvantages of these items makes Xiao An a little apprehensive.
There were four or five teenagers gathered around a stall in front of him, it was the same group of outer disciples as himself, Xiao An hurriedly walked towards this stall.
Each of these teenagers was holding a disc-shaped magic weapon in their hands, and Xiao Anxin was overjoyed, this was one of the magic weapons he was looking for: the Spirit Gathering Array Disk.