Chapter 432 The situation of the underground black market

As for the north and south directions, the resources are relatively weak, which is already a bit stretched for the purple-armored soul-swallowing ants that have developed to such a scale.

Therefore, Zhou Daocheng only let the queen ant arrange a small number of ant colonies in the three directions of the west, south and north, and they only need to guard them, and there is no need to exclude a large number of ant colonies to garrison.

As for the east, it is the main development direction in the future. Most of the powerful purple-armored soul-swallowing ants will be transferred to the east of the Wugu Mountains.

First, clear the monsters that accidentally broke into the Wugu Mountains, and after all are cleared, start to go deep into the East Great Wilderness Vein.

The resources of the East Great Wilderness Vein are almost inexhaustible and can be used endlessly, enough for the ant colony to continue to expand and become stronger and stronger.

At the same time, Zhou Daocheng also tried to use the huge number of ant colonies to control the entire Wugu Market in secret.

He secretly arranged purple-armored soul-swallowing ants to garrison in various important areas of the market, such as the market in the first valley, the underground ice cave, and the third-level underground black market, all of which were arranged with a purple-armored soul-swallowing ant garrison.

On the surface, there are only a few not very strong foundation-building masters stationed in the Wugu Market. In fact, in secret, there is a more powerful ant colony controlling the whole scene.

As long as the ant colony is there, Zhou Daocheng does not have to worry too much about the safety of the Wugu Mountains. This will be the greatest guarantee!

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Zhou Daocheng walked in the Wugu Market, looking at this peaceful and prosperous market, and could feel the vigorous vitality here.

On the street, a large number of cultivators came and went, most of them hurriedly. Even though the road was already very wide, it seemed a bit crowded at this time. And often see the ninth level of Qi Refining Stage cultivators, even foundation-building cultivators occasionally appear.

On both sides of the street, there are all kinds of shops, there are large shops occupied by big forces, and there are also some small shops with small areas and small volumes, but the business is very prosperous.

Zhou Daocheng also paid special attention to some important shops, such as Tianchi Xianju, Zhou's Spiritual Equipment Pavilion, Wang's Talisman Shop, Xiaodan Pavilion's Alchemy Shop, etc. The area has expanded a lot, and they are also the best-performing shops in the entire market.

However, Zhou Daocheng can clearly find that the shops in Wugu Market are particularly clean. Of course, the so-called clean here does not mean a clean environment, but a clean business.

There are almost only taverns, hotels, grocery stores, pastry shops, spiritual valley shops, butcher shops, shops selling magic tools, talismans, arrays, etc., which are clean and tidy, and there is no shop that is exposed to the gray and black industries.

This situation is almost impossible to appear in other markets, where there will be more or less painting boats, brothels, gambling houses, slave markets and the like.

However, these shops do not exist in Wugu Market on the surface, because they have all been moved to the third-level underground black market.

Although Zhou Daocheng knew about the establishment of the underground black market a long time ago, he never went in from beginning to end, and now he happened to come in to check it out.

As soon as you enter, you will walk through a dim passage and enter a noisy underground black market.

The underground floor is the location of the black market. It is relatively dim inside and uses luminous stones as lighting. You can hear noisy hawking as soon as you enter. The area inside is very large and you can't see the end at a glance. The flow of people is also very large. It is crowded.

Moreover, there are almost no shops here, but more stalls, which are randomly placed on both sides of the street. The hawking, noise, and noise are filled in the ears. With the dim lights, Zhou Daocheng couldn't help frowning.

The environment here is indeed far inferior to the market on the ground. The environment can be said to be extremely bad, but there are still many people here.

Because in any market, darkness is always an indispensable theme.

Many cultivators kill people for treasures, and obtain some unclean magic tools and treasures, which will be sold in the underground black market.

Many lone cultivators who are unwilling to contact family forces will also bring the precious materials they obtain here to sell.

For many people, they are not used to the brightness in the market, but are more adapted to the dimness and dirtiness here, which is the main theme of their lives.

Zhou Daocheng also strolled around the underground black market and found that it was indeed messy and there was almost no order.

Although there were some precious and rare items sold on the stalls, most of them were fake.

However, some stolen magic tools and the like were of good quality. If you often stroll here, you might be able to pick up bargains.

Zhou Daocheng did not stroll here for long. After all, he was a foundation-building cultivator and the owner of a market, so naturally there were few things that interested him.

Moreover, the cultivators who gathered in the underground black market were all Qi-refining cultivators, and the things they brought out could not attract him at all.

The second underground floor was the area of ​​the Shanhai Pavilion.

Originally, Zhou Daocheng was a little strange. Is it necessary to go up to a whole underground space for just a Shanhai Pavilion?

It was not until he saw the situation on the second floor that Zhou Daocheng understood the development situation of the Shanhai Pavilion.

In the second underground floor, the core is an extremely large hall, which is the main body of the Shanhai Pavilion. The interior is brightly lit, clean and tidy, and there are special guards stationed, which is in sharp contrast to the black market on the first underground floor.

Issue tasks, accept tasks, assess task levels, register mercenaries, promote permanent mercenaries, hand over tasks... and other matters are completed here.

Zhou Daocheng saw a large number of casual cultivators coming and going. Most of them were in groups of 5 to 10 people, wearing animal skins, holding crude magic tools, and holding bloody monster corpses in their hands.

This is the image of casual cultivators' hired teams. Most of them are just temporary hired teams. They are not very strong and cannot afford powerful formations, magic tools, talismans, and elixirs. The death rate is usually very high.

Shanhai Pavilion has more than thousands of such temporary hired teams. Because of the large number, no one cares about them.

Of course, you can often see regular hired teams with neat teams, strong strength, and excellent magic tools. They are not much different from hunting teams. They have formed a complete system, which is equivalent to a small force.

If they are willing to take root here and establish a sect or family, their strength will not be too bad.

In addition to the largest hall on the second underground floor, there are many small rooms of the same size and scale outside the hall.

Zhou Daocheng learned that the permanent mercenary team had some privileges. They could use their points to buy some small houses on the second underground floor for living or storing supplies, which was equivalent to their storage room.

At the same time, these rooms also had another function, which was to recruit people for their respective mercenary teams.

On many of the small rooms, plaques were written with the names of the permanent mercenary teams and their levels, which were used to attract powerful independent cultivators.