Chapter 128: Mayfly Dark Market, Shadows Surge

"Master Xuan Chen, you are finally here. Where have you been in the past three years?"

Ge Hongqing's loud voice came from a distance.

Today, he is still in the initial stage of foundation building.

However, because of working for Chen Xuan, Ge Hongqing's storage bag gradually became fatter.

In the past three years, he seldom went to the Taixuan Mountains to hunt monsters, and his life became much more comfortable than before.

"So it's Brother Ge. I've been practicing in seclusion for the past three years and just came out recently."

Chen Xuan explained.

Chen Xuan swept his divine sense over Ge Hongqing and saw that the aura emanating from Ge Hongqing was obviously much stronger than before. He smiled and said, "Congratulations to Brother Ge on his great progress in cultivation. It seems that it won't be long before you can reach the middle stage of foundation building."

The early stage of foundation building and the middle stage of foundation building seem to be only one small realm apart.

Only cultivators who have reached the initial stage of foundation building know that even this small gap in realm is still an insurmountable chasm.

If you don't work hard and find your own opportunity, it will be very difficult to break through to the middle stage of foundation building.

"Master Xuan Chen, you must be joking. How can it be so easy to reach the middle stage of foundation building?"

"In the past three years, I have collected a few spiritual herbs for refining the Yangling Pill. I would like to ask Master Xuan Chen to help me refine some pills."

As Ge Hongqing spoke, he handed a storage bag to Chen Xuan.

Inside, in addition to five spiritual medicines for refining the Soul-Nourishing Pill, there are also one thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Chen Xuan's mind moved, and he picked out a thousand low-grade spirit stones and threw them to Ge Hongqing.

"Fellow Daoist Ge, what do you mean by this? Just based on our relationship, can I make a furnace of nourishing spirit pills for you and still accept your reward?"

One thousand low-grade spirit stones are nothing to Ge Hongqing now.

Chen Xuan's sincere words made Ge Hongqing feel as sweet as eating honey.

"Master Xuan Chen, friendship is friendship, and reward is reward, they can't be messed up." Ge Hongqing said hurriedly.

Although he has been working for Chen Xuan over the years.

But Chen Xuan always treated him as a friend and never ordered him around as a subordinate.

It is for this reason that Ge Hongqing is naturally very dedicated when working for Chen Xuan.

"Haha, Brother Ge, you are being too polite."

Chen Xuan laughed.

He returned the spirit stone that Ge Hongqing handed over to him.

The next moment, Ge Hongqing seemed to remember something, and quickly took out a jade slip and handed it to Chen Xuan.

"Master Xuan Chen, this is the major event that happened in Qingyunfang City in the past three years that I personally collected."

Chen Xuan nodded.

After carefully reading the contents of the two jade slips, I felt inexplicably happy.

"Three years ago, a strong man from the Yin Corpse Demon Sect who was at the Foundation Establishment stage appeared in Qingyun Market, but he left soon after."

"A year ago, some sneaky people were secretly looking for something in Qingyun Market."

"If I'm not mistaken, these guys should be sent by the Yin Corpse Demon Sect to kill me, right?"

Chen Xuan sneered secretly.

Soon, he looked at Ge Hongqing with a smile and said, "Daoyou Ge, you can go and do your work for now. Come back here to get the elixir in half a month."

"Thank you, Master Xuan Chen!"

Ge Hongqing looked very happy.

After saying thank you, he left quickly.

Half an hour later, another burst of laughter came from a distance.

"Oh, Master Xuan Chen, where have you been for the past three years? If you didn't help me refine the elixir, my cultivation level would have improved a lot slower."

The person who came was Pei Yunzhi.

He is rough and free.

He appeared in front of Chen Xuan with big strides, raising a cloud of dust under his feet.

"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Pei. I have been in seclusion for the past three years and have not had time to refine pills for you. I am sorry."

"Fellow Daoist, are you here to ask me to make an elixir this time?"

Chen Xuan greeted Pei Yunzhi with a smile.

Pei Yunzhi glanced around.

After giving Chen Xuan a mysterious smile, his lips moved slightly.

"Master Xuan Chen, the market has been unstable recently, please be careful."

After saying that, Pei Yunzhi flipped his hand, took out a storage bag and handed it to Chen Xuan.

"Master Xuan Chen, I would like to ask you to refine some Blood Spirit Pills. Here are ten spiritual herbs I collected for refining Blood Spirit Pills. Plus a reward of two thousand low-grade spiritual stones."

Chen Xuan took the storage bag, quickly scanned it with his mind, and directly returned the one thousand low-grade spirit stones.

"Friend Pei, you gave me too much. Come here to get the elixir in half a month."

"Farewell!"

Pei Yunzhi bowed to Chen Xuan and left with a relaxed look.

Chen Xuan put away the storage bag. He looked normal, but in his heart he was carefully thinking about what Pei Yunzhi had just told him.

"What does Pei Yunzhi mean by this? Could it be that he already knows my identity as a disciple of the Yuling Sect?"

After thinking carefully for a while, Chen Xuan shook his head secretly again.

After he used the shape-changing magic technique, not only the cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building, but even the cultivators in the late stage of foundation building could not see through his disguise.

Pei Yunzhi naturally can't do it either.

To put it another way, even if Pei Yunzhi saw through Chen Xuan's disguise, he would not be able to determine Chen Xuan's true identity.

There are all kinds of people in Qingyun Market, and there are not many cultivators who show their true faces to others.

"It seems that Pei Yunzhi is just reminding me to be careful and has no other intention." Chen Xuan said secretly.

There was no conversation for a while, and Chen Xuan just waited in front of the stall for three hours.

Just as I was about to pack up my stall and go back to the Flower Courtyard, a laugh as loud as a silver bell suddenly rang out from not far away.

"Hey, Master Xuan Chen, you're finally here? I've been waiting for you for three years!"

The voice contained three parts of resentment, three parts of coquettishness, and three parts of aggressiveness.

It was the Fairy Biyou who was familiar with Chen Xuan.

"So it's Fairy Biyou. I've been practicing in seclusion for the past three years, and I don't know how many years it has passed."

"I just came out recently, and I'm here to make pills for you fellow Taoists."

Chen Xuan laughed and laughed.

Fairy Biyou seemed to be smiling, but a divine thought quickly fell on Chen Xuan.

Seeing that the aura emanating from Chen Xuan was obviously stronger than before, she smiled and said, "Master Xuan Chen is still a hard-working person who can endure loneliness."

"However, I do know a secret technique of dual cultivation. Not only can it help you advance your cultivation by leaps and bounds, it can even increase the probability of forming a pill. Master Xuan Chen, are you willing to give it a try?"

Chen Xuan felt a headache.

It's really hard for him to respond to this!

"Hehe, I was just kidding. I came here this time to ask you to make some soul-nourishing pills for me."

Seeing Chen Xuan's extremely embarrassed expression, Fairy Biyou quickly changed her words.

Soon, Fairy Biyou took out another storage bag and handed it to Chen Xuan.

In addition to the elixirs needed to refine the Blood Spirit Pill, it also contained a reward of one thousand low-grade spirit stones.

"The fairy's elixir is fine. You should take the spiritual stone back."

Chen Xuan casually gave a thousand low-grade spirit stones to Fairy Biyou.

For Chen Xuan, one thousand low-grade spirit stones are not a lot.

Anyway, he now has 200,000 low-grade spirit stones in his storage bag.

Among the immortal cultivators in the foundation-building stage, he is definitely a person of considerable worth.

But for an ordinary cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, one thousand low-grade spirit stones is still not a small number.

"Ah, this...thank you Master Xuan Chen."

Fairy Biyou was surprised again and again.

After thanking him, she smiled and said, "Master Xuan Chen, you don't want to accept my fee, but I don't want to owe you this favor for nothing. This is a ticket to participate in the dark market auction. I give it to you."

Fairy Biyou stuffed the admission ticket into Chen Xuan's hand without saying anything.

After chatting with Chen Xuan for a few more words, Fairy Biyou said goodbye and left.

Chen Xuan carefully looked at the dark market admission ticket in his hand, then glanced at the departing back of Fairy Biyou, a meaningful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"This ticket to the Mayfly Dark Market is not something that an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator can get."

"Fairy Biyou was able to get this admission ticket. Her identity is indeed extraordinary."

Chen Xuan carefully checked the admission ticket and made sure that it had not been tampered with in any way. Only then did he put the ticket into his storage bag.

After closing up the stall, Chen Xuan returned to the Fanhua Courtyard and entered a state of seclusion and cultivation.

……

In Qingyunfang City, in a very secret secret room.

Several powerful people in the Foundation Establishment Stage gathered here.

The leader was actually an old man.

He exuded the terrifying pressure of the late stage of foundation building.

"It's time now, those who are supposed to come should have come. Those who haven't come, I'm afraid they won't come again in the future."

"In that case, I'll make it short."

The old man's sharp eyes swept over all the Foundation Establishment Stage experts present, and his voice suddenly became chilly.

"This time, I was ordered by the sect to come here to take full charge of the matter of the incomplete map. All of you must listen to my arrangements."

"If anyone dares to act without authorization, I will kill him without mercy, regardless of who his disciple is."

The old man's voice was extremely cold.

However, none of the Foundation Establishment cultivators present dared to express any dissatisfaction at this time.

At this moment, everyone stood around with respectful expressions, following the old man's instructions.

"Several years ago, the map was stolen by the disciples of the Yuling Sect. You have gone to great lengths to get back only half of it."

"Over the years, we have gone to great lengths to find the whereabouts of the remaining map."

"This time, our mission is to get the remaining map."

"No matter how much it costs, you can only succeed, not fail. Do you understand?"

The old man said loudly.

The Foundation Establishment Stage experts present all nodded.

But everyone couldn't help but grumble in their hearts.

After a while, someone finally couldn't help but speak.

"Elder Fu, if you are the only one taking the lead in this matter, I'm afraid it will be quite dangerous."

"That's right, Elder Fu, you are only at the late stage of foundation building, why doesn't the sect have an elder at the Jindan stage to come forward?"

"I have the same question, Elder Fu, please give me an explanation."

For some reason, the old man's eyes revealed an unconcealable anger.

"My fellow disciples, you have been stationed in Qingyun Market for a long time and you don't know the situation of the sect."

"A few years ago, the Purple Python and the Golden Butterfly Fairy of the Yuling Sect attacked Master Yinshi and Master Wuxianpo one after another."

"All of our Yinshi Demon Sect's Jindan-stage experts are being held back by them. It's impossible for them to come and support us."

"So, this time, we can only rely on ourselves."

After the old man finished speaking, he saw that everyone was still in low spirits, so he continued, "Don't worry, I have investigated. The place where the incomplete map appeared this time was in a dark market. There, the highest level of cultivation is only at the late stage of foundation building. If we join forces, it will not be a problem to grab the incomplete map."