Bingquan Town, at the corner gate of the residence of wealthy businessman Zhao Song.
A young man with oily hair and pink face stretched his neck and looked in along the crack of the half-open door, but he did not dare to actually go in.
After a while, the ajar door was completely pushed open, and a maid, about fifteen or sixteen years old, walked out of the house with slow and elegant steps.
This maid was beautiful and elegant, with smooth and soft skin, which made the young man guarding the door brighten up when he saw her. She felt that she was much prettier than before for some reason, and couldn't help but feel lost for a moment.
But he had something on his mind, so he quickly came to his senses, saluted the maid standing inside the door, and asked somewhat eagerly: "Have you met Sister Xiangxue... Where is my sister?"
After saying that, he stretched his neck and took a look again, but did not see a familiar figure.
The maid named Xiangxue hurriedly avoided him when he saluted, and then she pressed her right hand on her left hand, slightly bent her knees, and said:
"Young master is Aunt Mei's biological brother, but there is no reason to pay homage to a maid like me..."
At this point, she paused for a moment before continuing, "In addition, Aunt Mei is not in the house today. Instead, she and the master and his wife have invited her to go to a small mountain temple outside the town to offer incense."
Did you go to Xiaoshan Temple to offer incense? Why would you go to burn incense at this juncture? The young man's face was relatively shallow, with an obvious look of disbelief on his face.
After a while, he pretended to be calm and asked in a stiff tone: "What about Mr. Chen? Is he still... at home?"
Because of his nervousness, he almost asked "Is he still alive?"
As if she already knew that the other party would ask, Xiangxue gave the answer without any hesitation: "Mr. Chen went to the Golden Dart Martial Arts School to practice martial arts early in the morning."
Still not dead... Why is that Fang Xuzi looking at Dao Gu Xianfeng so unreliable! The young man surnamed Mei cursed a few times, but for some reason, he gradually relaxed and even had the idea of settling a score with Fang Xuzi.
After joking for a few more times with the maid he admired, making her look ashamed, the young man said goodbye and headed towards the east of the town.
After he left, the shyness on Xiangxue's face disappeared instantly. She stared at the young man's back meaningfully for a few times, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly.
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In the palace inside the Big Sun Star Hall, Zhao Chen sat on a seat made of six golden dragons, stretched out his right hand and opened the jade book on the desk in front of him.
Speaking of which, since his body was still standing still in front of the master, he originally wanted to return to reality immediately after confirming that he could enter the place through "entering tranquility", but as soon as he changed this thought, he found the "Jade Book" on the desk. It was flashing, as if reminding him that there was new content "updated".
This thing is quite advanced... Zhao Chen muttered a few words, thinking that it wouldn't take long to take a look at it, so he clicked on the jade book and turned to the page with new content.
The entry point is the "Products for Sale Column", which is a list of products that can be sold to Xingcha Treasure House. On it, the introduction and price of "The Secret Records of the Twelve Gates of the Golden House and the Jade Chamber" and Huang Xianjun's annotations appear.
"That translation annotation was really written by the master..." Zhao Chen twitched the corner of his mouth, and then recalled the introduction about the "List of Products for Sale" and thought in his heart, "The knowledge I quickly browsed is completely Was it recorded in the 'Jade Book' and became a commodity that could be sold to it?
"In addition, knowledge-based products do not require originals. Even if they are sold to Xingcha, the cheats will still exist, but the same knowledge cannot be sold repeatedly... On the contrary, items can be sold to Xingcha for the same type of items, but each time Always submit original documents.
"That's right, general knowledge can be copied. Even if the secret book is gone, the master will probably be able to produce another one in a minute, so it is naturally impossible to resell it."
As his thoughts turned, Zhao Chen's eyes also fell on the introductions of the two newly appeared products, and he read them carefully:
"The "Secret Records of the Twelve Gates of Jinlou and Jade Chamber" is the qi training part of the core technique of the Tianyongcheng lineage of the Kunlun School, "The Jade Chapter of the Nine Heavenly Gods of Taichu", and contains the body-building martial arts "Taiyi Five Elements Boxing" , the "Taiyi Xuanmen Sword" of Zhenqi martial arts, as well as "Tianyong Jinlou Jade Chamber Picture", "Taichu Golden Jade Guidance Method" and other basic secrets of foundation building and Qi training, due to the connotation of "Dao Text", Xingcha standard recycling price 400 star coins.”
"The incorrect annotation of the 'Taichu Golden Jade Guidance Method' contains a lot of my own insights in the interpretation, which has lost the meaning of Taichu, making this mental method completely reduced to an ordinary visualization method, and will never be followed up with the "Taichu Nine Heavenly Divine Jade Chapter" It is possible to connect the techniques... but it is relatively safe for ordinary people to practice.
"The standard recycling price of Xingcha is 10 star coins."
That adds up to 410 star coins? And the master thinks that the secret book he annotated can be sold for 500 yuan... From this point of view, the purchasing power of 1 star coin and 1 yuan of money seems to be not much different...
Well, the master may have overestimated his own ability to interpret "Dao texts", so he felt that his translation annotations were more valuable.
In fact, "The Secret Records of the Twelve Gates of the Golden Tower and the Jade Room" itself is of greater value! The master is not bragging here, it is really a technique left by Taojun Taichu.
In addition, what does the standard recycling price mean?
Is it still possible to negotiate the price?
As soon as Zhao Chen thought of this, a line of text flashed on the "Jade Book": Your position does not support negotiation for the time being.
This Xingcha can indeed "read minds". You can see the clues from the fraudulent purchase it made yesterday... In other words, I have a close relationship with Xingcha, can it know what I am thinking? This is not a good thing...
Zhao Chen narrowed his eyes and stopped thinking, so as not to provoke a bad reaction from Xingcha, such as putting himself in more debt, forcibly tying him up, etc.
He closed the jade book casually. Zhao Chen didn't plan to stay here any longer. Even if he had to sell the secret book to pay off his debt, he would try again at night when no one was outside. So he concentrated according to his experience when he left last time, and then his eyes suddenly went dark. When he regained consciousness, he had returned to reality and saw his master Huang Xianjun, the master of the hall, looking at him with a smile.
"The first time I 'entered tranquility', I actually performed a deep visualization, which was close to Dacheng... Although this is inseparable from the "Picture of King Yu Opening the Mountain" and the role of my spiritual guidance, Chen'er, you behave like this Even among the cultivation seeds in my 'Yuwang Sect', he is considered a genius!" Huang Xianjun sighed with emotion and rerolled the scroll to prevent the power left in it from continuing to lose.
The fact that I can be such a "genius", in addition to having a stronger soul in my two lives, is probably related to the status of the "traveling businessman"... Zhao Chen thought in his heart, and outwardly saluted Huang Xianjun again. road:
"Thank you, Master, for helping me to enter tranquility."
Although Master Huang emphasized that the prerequisite for "entering tranquility" is that the soul is strong enough, it seems that he already has it, but without guidance and methods, he still has to figure it out on his own, so he said "thank you". ” is sincere.
Huang Xianjun was not polite, and after receiving the disciple's gift, he warned: "You should have memorized the feeling of 'entering tranquility'. Even if you don't have a teacher to guide you in the future, you will have a high probability of succeeding again if you try a few more times.
"If that still doesn't work, you can come to me and buy my special 'soothing incense', which can help you calm down. It costs 800 cents per column, which is very cheap."
Hearing his words, Zhao Chen was stunned, glanced at Master Huang, who looked just and dignified, and complained in his heart: Am I a "traveling businessman", or are you?
what is this? Is there the same kind of master as there is an apprentice?
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On the other side, the young man surnamed Mei once again pushed open the door of the one-eyed Taoist priest Fang Xuzi, but did not find him there. Only many medicinal materials were scattered on the ground, and there were faint traces of blood remaining. It looked like something had happened.
But the young man was obviously not wary. His first reaction when he saw this scene was that the Taoist priest had run away.
So he quickly rushed into the main hall without thinking, and then he saw a scene that frightened him.
I saw a monster more than two meters tall, five or six meters long, with double horns and a body like a jackal lying in the hall. There were two heads on its neck, one facing the young man, none other than the evil cultist Fang Xuzi appearance.
The other head was pretty, fair, and charming. Although it only had a side face, the young man still recognized who its face belonged to, so he cried out:
"elder sister?!"
