Chapter Thirty-Eight: Falling into the Den of Thieves
Mu Chen looked at the two smiling Taoist priests before and after, one tall and one short, one thin and one fat, one divination, one selling medicine, and the other deceiving people......
Another close-up.
The smile on Mu Chen's face deepened, he knew that the old Taoist in front of him just wanted to make some money, as long as he turned around and went to buy the fake medicine of the fat Taoist priest, he could successfully get the correct location of the trading place.
It's just that he is penniless now, and even if he is willing to be deceived, he can't afford to buy medicine.
In this way, it seems that things are at an impasse.
The old Taoist priest was still waiting for him to obediently buy fake medicine, but Mu Chen did not follow his words and leave the place, but blinked his eyes, changed his words, took out a material taken from the demon beast leader from the Qiankun bag, and put it in front of the old Tao.
The old Taoist priest was startled by his sudden move, fixed his eyes to look, and suddenly his eyes opened slightly, and he immediately noticed that he had lost his temper and regained his calm.
These actions were still seen by Mu Chen, the quality of the material he took out was medium to high, and there was a chance to refine a high-grade immortal weapon, of course, this material in Mu Chen's hands could only be regarded as a defective product.
After seeing the old man's attitude, Mu Chen smiled slightly and scolded him again.
"Senior, I see that you have a ruddy complexion and clear speech, you don't need to take medicine for the time being, taking too much medicine hurts your kidneys. ”
"Why don't you help me see the quality of this beast bone first, is it qualified to be purchased by the buyer you said, and how much can it be sold?"
"This ......"
"The quality of this beast bone ......"
The old Taoist priest took the beast bone in his hand and used his spiritual sense to probe inside, making sure that the quality of this thing was not low, and it could be sold for sixty taels of silver in the exchange, and if it was put on auction to sell, it might be sold for more.
This is because of the scarcity of materials for the fierce demon beasts in the cultivation world recently, and the number of demon beast leaders in various places has decreased sharply, and I don't know why.
However, the thief-eyed old Taoist priest was naturally not so kind, and told the original value of this beast bone, but when he saw Mu Chen casually take out such a high-quality beast bone, he felt that he had underestimated this kid before, and he should cheat a few more taels of silver.
He made up his mind in his heart, stroked his beard, and said slowly:
"The quality of this beast bone is qualified to enter the gate of the exchange, but there are a few defects inside the beast bone, and the price is afraid that it will be greatly reduced. ”
"But if you're willing to spend some money and ask my friends who are good at refining weapons to help you repair it, you can double the value of this beast bone. ”
"It just so happens that my friend is there, so I'll show you. ”
Saying that, the old Taoist priest pointed to one place again, Mu Chen turned his head again, and sure enough, he saw a strong man shirtless, with two sledgehammers pinned to his waist, throwing a bunch of broken copper and iron on the stall in front of him, squatting there boredly and chewing mint leaves.
When he noticed that there was a gaze sweeping, he quickly got up, spit out the mint leaves on the ground, showed a mouthful of yellowed teeth, and smiled at Muchen.
Mu Chen smiled awkwardly in return, but he felt dizzy, he looked at the stalls on both sides of the alley, and suddenly felt that the sellers of these stalls were staring at him with their peripheral vision, hiding their faces in the dark, revealing a malicious smile.
Only then did he fully understand that he was not unlucky today, he met two or three liars, but he fell into the den of liars!
"Hey, little brother, how are you thinking about it?"
"Don't worry, it won't cost much to repair your beast bone, and I have a good relationship with this friend, you can talk to him and ask him to charge you less." ”
The slow and faint voice of the old Taoist priest came from behind him, but Mu Chen felt that the voice was like a ghost, and he suddenly felt chills all over his body and had goosebumps.
He turned his head slowly, thinking quickly in his mind about how to leave without embarrassment and politeness, and when his eyes met the old Taoist again, he suddenly had an idea and pushed the beast bones on the table to the old Taoist priest.
"Senior, I can't hide it, in fact, I have no money, but I am entrusted by the elders in the door to sell this beast bone. ”
"I see that my predecessors are very good to me, if my predecessors are willing to pay for me to repair the animal bones first, I am willing to give all the higher value of the animal bones to the seniors to repay the favor of the seniors. ”
Mu Chen's words were moving, his eyes were sincere, and he seemed to be really grateful to the old Taoist.
In this street and alley, the people in the other stalls all showed disbelief when they heard this, and some people suddenly scolded a few words, as if they were saying that this stinky Taoist priest was really lucky.
And the most shocking thing present is naturally this old way.
His eyes widened, he never expected the young man in front of him to say such a thing, as if he really believed that he was helping him, and he didn't question it at all.
In this way, the old Taoist priest began to roll and struggle in his heart, and felt that he should not deceive people, because this child seemed to be really stupid.
Although he had to endure the torment, the old Taoist priest still followed his heart, pretended to come to the front of the strong man's stall with the animal bones, asked him to mend them, and pointed out a few specific parts on the side.
Mu Chen was not worried that Lao Dao would run away with his own things, on the Shenzhou Continent, there was only one fate for cultivators who robbed other people's property and immortal weapons without authorization, that is, they were wanted and killed by the entire cultivation world.
Whether it is a monk of the Seventy-two Sects, a casual cultivator, or even a person from the Demon Sect, as long as he is charged with robbing other people's immortal weapons and property, he will become a public enemy of the cultivation realm.
Because in the Shenzhou Continent, the meaning of the existence of cultivators is not only to seek immortals, but also to protect the people of Li and fight against the common enemy of all mankind - the beast.
In the face of the calamity beasts that really plagued the continent, any individual was small and insignificant, and no force was immune.
However, to fight against the beasts, it is often necessary for a large number of monks to gather their strength and fight together, so that it is possible to expel or even kill the beasts.
However, according to the ratio of one in ten thousand, the number of monks on the Shenzhou Continent has not been too much, even if it has experienced a prosperous era, the population is only more than 80 million, and under this population base, the number of monks who have really stepped through the foundation building realm is not more than 10,000.
Therefore, the cultivation realm reached a consensus and made an agreement, which for thousands of years, no matter which force strictly abides by it.
At the same time, in addition to this well-known death rule, there is another reason why Mu Chen can rest assured that he will hand over the beast bones to the old Taoist, that is, the absolute crushing of ordinary casual cultivation by the forces of the seventy-two sects.
On the Shenzhou Continent, only the seventy-two sects are orthodox cultivators, not only protecting the people of Li, but also protecting the entire dynasty to a certain extent.
Although these seventy-two sects divided and ruled the Shenzhou Continent, these sects were all recognized by the imperial court as the upper lords of the immortal sects, and even had the right to legally collect taxes to protect the land boundary.
And these loose cultivators, although they seem to be at ease, are restricted by the sect everywhere.
To give the simplest example, Sanxiu is not qualified to get rid of evil beasts and collect offerings in the counties and villages under the jurisdiction of the sect, nor can they kill the evil beasts at will in the territory under the jurisdiction of the sect.
Not to mention accepting gifted children as apprentices in the territory under the jurisdiction of the sect, if you really want to leave a successor, you can only wait for the sect to accept the disciples, and then choose among the remaining children.
Therefore, the life of the casual cultivators is not easy, and most of them use other ways to make money, help large families to see feng shui, and ask single men and women about marriage.