Chapter 261 The exchange meeting begins

After returning to the inn, Xu Feng found a foundation-building master who was familiar with Lan and Zhu, and asked him to help pass on a message, saying that he had thought it through and agreed to participate in the underground exchange meeting.

The name of the foundation-building master surnamed Lan was Lan Gui, and he was very efficient. Xu Feng received the invitation he brought in the evening of the next day.

He was told that the exchange meeting would be held at night half a month later, and that he would bring the foundation-building master surnamed Zhu, that is, Zhu Zhiwu, to find him half a month later, and then go together.

Although half a month was not a long time, Xu Feng did not intend to waste it. He took the time to refine several furnaces of elixirs, and asked his master Lu Zhenren for advice on the problems encountered during the alchemy.

This made Lu Zhenren, as a master, very happy, because Xu Feng had never asked him about alchemy since he became his disciple.

In this way, half a month passed quickly, and when the day of the appointment came, Xu Feng did not stay in the room and wait for people to come to the door.

Instead, he took the initiative to come to the door of the inn near dusk, waiting for Lan Gui and Zhu Zhiwu to arrive.

"Guest Xu, we are late, please forgive us."

Before they could say anything, Lan Gui, wearing a brand new robe, walked slowly over with Zhu Zhiwu. Xu Feng immediately went to meet them.

"What are you talking about, brothers? It's still a long time before we agreed. I was eager to see you, so I went out to wait a little earlier."

The three of them exchanged greetings for a while, and finally came to a shop in the west of Tiandu City. The environment here is very quiet, and there are basically no monks around.

There are special monks in the shop who are responsible for reception. After checking their invitations, the three of them each chose a mask provided by the organizer of the exchange meeting, which can be used to block the prying of others' spiritual consciousness.

After putting on the masks, they walked into a secret room deep in the shop and found that more than a dozen foundation-building monks were already sitting inside.

When these people saw them coming in, some just glanced at them and ignored them, while others were simply indifferent and just waited patiently for the exchange meeting to begin.

Seeing this, Xu Feng and the other two also found three connected seats and sat down, closing their eyes and waiting patiently.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen monks came in one after another. The monk who was responsible for receiving them just now gently closed the door of the secret room, and then said:

"Dear Taoist friends, the final venue of the exchange meeting is not here, please follow me."

Hearing this, no one was surprised. Since it was an underground exchange meeting, confidentiality must be done well.

"Clang!"

After a sound, the front wall of the secret room suddenly split to the left and right, revealing a dark passage.

Led by the guide, they changed directions several times in the gloomy secret passage, walked forward for about several hundred feet, and finally came to the real venue of the party, a huge cave that could accommodate hundreds of people.

There was only a round table in the center for the monks of the exchange meeting to display spiritual objects, and there were only two hundred black chairs in front of the table. There was nothing else.

They were obviously not the first group of people to arrive here. As soon as they entered the cave, there were already eighty or ninety people sitting there, all of them were foundation-building cultivators.

Seeing that there were still many empty seats in the cave, Xu Feng and the other two looked at each other, then found connected seats again and continued their waiting journey.

The confidentiality of this exchange meeting was very strong. Before entering, the guide warned them not to chat with others casually, let alone communicate casually.

So although there were more than a hundred cultivators sitting in the hall at this moment, the atmosphere was unusually quiet.

About half an hour passed, and when the number of cultivators in the hall reached two hundred, the cultivator responsible for hosting this exchange meeting appeared.

There were four of them in total, three of whom were fake Dan cultivators, and the last one was a genuine Jindan cultivator. Since they all wore masks that isolated their spiritual consciousness, the people present did not recognize their identities.

"Thank you all for coming to this underground exchange meeting. The initiators of this auction are the three of us."

The three fake Dan monks walked to the round table and stood still, then made a brief self-introduction.

One of them wore a blue mask, one wore an orange mask, and the one who spoke wore a green mask.

However, the public's interest in the three of them was far less than that of the Jindan monk sitting on the cushion next to the three of them.

The fake Dan monk wearing a green mask naturally noticed the attention of the crowd, and then introduced:

"As for the identity of this senior, due to the principle of confidentiality, please forgive me for not being able to introduce it to you in detail.

But what I can reveal is that this senior is not only a Jindan Zhenren, but also a third-level treasure appraiser. The items you want to trade later will be inspected by this senior to confirm their authenticity.

In addition, this senior will not interfere with the trade fair in any form, so you can rest assured."

Hearing that the Jindan monk was just a treasure appraiser, everyone was relieved. Otherwise, there would be a Jindan monk suddenly appearing at the exchange meeting of foundation-building monks, and they would definitely not be able to adapt psychologically.

"Okay, no more nonsense, the exchange meeting will start now, and I will throw a brick to attract jade!"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the monk wearing an orange mask waved his robe sleeves lightly, and a jade box appeared directly on the table.

He opened the jade boxes one by one and introduced them in a loud voice:

"Please look at me, everyone. I brought three spiritual objects this time, one demon pill of a second-level middle-grade demon beast, one second-level spiritual medicine kudzu flower, and one second-level refining material black ice stone.

Of these three spiritual objects, I will naturally exchange for treasures that can assist in forming pills. If there is really no such thing, I will also accept barter, but the spiritual object must be equal to my value."

Xu Feng looked up and saw that the second-level middle-grade demon pill was about the size of a pigeon egg and exuded a strange brilliance. This was the first time he saw a demon beast demon pill up close.

Judging from the red light emanating from it, this demon pill should belong to some kind of fire-attributed demon beast.

After looking at it for a few times, he moved his eyes to the spiritual medicine and refining materials.

Because he was not proficient in refining, his eyes only stayed on the black ice stone for a while, and then stared at the kudzu flower.

He had just heard his master, Master Lu, mention the name of this spiritual medicine. It was one of the top-grade spiritual medicines of the second rank and was extremely valuable.

The kudzu flower was lavender in color, about three inches long, with a few drops of water on the petals, looking like it had just been picked.