Tonight's trade fair is over.
Yu Shiqi waved her hand, and the door of Room 5 slowly opened, and the practitioners in the room got up and left one after another.
Shuguan and the old man with the goatee also got up one after another.
It's just that Shu Guan got up a few seconds later than the old man with the goatee.
And the directions the two of them are taking are also different.
The old man with the goatee hurriedly walked towards the door of the room, but Shu Guan walked towards the direction where Yu Shiqi was sitting.
The two of them passed each other.
Because the old man with the goatee was walking in a hurry, Shu Guan naturally stepped sideways to avoid it, and one of his arms inevitably touched the sofa next to where the old man with the goatee was sitting just now.
Then Shu Guan walked up to Yu Shiqi.
"Dear Mr. No. 5."
Shu Guan smiled and nodded at the silver-haired old man.
The silver-haired old man was reading seriously again at this moment.
A person who can identify the origin of a certain part of a Palm Sutra by just relying on a few pages of fragments naturally has extremely profound knowledge about the world of spiritual practice, and his knowledge may come from this way of using every bit of fragmented time. You should also get into the habit of reading.
Yu Shiqi raised her head, looked at Shu Guan and smiled:
"Senior member, what else do you want? By the way, you can call me by my name directly. Among our first fifteen members, except for a few members who need to hide their identities, everyone else can directly call me by name. Say names.”
"Mr. Yu, I would like to ask you something. I heard that senior members can enjoy some special benefits, such as purchasing some news or other cultivation resources."
So Shuguan changed his title and asked politely.
"...Well, the number is No. 807. You must have just joined our secret order. You have become a senior member so quickly. It seems that you have made a great contribution to our secret order. You know At the trade fair just now, including you, there were only four senior members in total."
However, Yu Shiqi did not answer directly. Instead, she looked at Shu Guan first, with a flash of surprise in her eyes, and said this.
"Yes, Mr. No. 7 helped me upgrade last time."
Yu Shiqi didn't ask any more questions and said to Shu Guan with a smile:
"You can just go to the second room on the third floor and you can buy what you need there."
"By the way, the person inside, you can call her Ms. Three."
"Thank you, Mr. Yu."
After thanking Yu Shiqi, Shu Guan turned around and walked out of Room 5. On the way out, he took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands.
In the hall downstairs outside the door, the joyful atmosphere still continued. The members who had just participated in the transaction continued to return to the dance floor and gambling table and bar, enjoying tonight's party.
It was still about an hour before the Beiming docked.
Shu Guan walked up the stairs to the third floor.
There are only four rooms on the third floor. There are no numbers on the doorways of the rooms, but the doors are divided into four colors: purple, orange, yellow and red.
Shu Guan walked to the second room with an orange door, and was about to raise his hand to knock on the door. The orange door was opened from the inside, and then a woman wearing a cyan gauze skirt walked out of it. .
She was a stunningly beautiful woman with top-notch looks and figure. There were a few small, colorful fish-like scales growing out of the corners of her eyes, but they didn't make people feel weird. On the contrary, they made this woman... It adds a bit of color.
But it was exactly the fish demon jumping out of the river that he had seen before boarding the boat.
The two met at the door, both a little surprised, and looked at each other.
Shu Guan first smiled and nodded at the female fish demon.
So the female fish demon also nodded towards Shu Guan, smiled sweetly, then walked past Shu Guan and left from the stairs.
It seems that this fish demon is also a senior member, because according to Yu Shiqi's words just now, only senior members can enter this room.
Shu Guan thought so and walked into the door.
Then he saw rows of large iron cabinets standing in this room, almost filling the entire room.
In the center of those iron cabinets, there was a long wooden table, and a woman was sitting behind the table.
That should be an older woman.
The reason why I say "should" is because this woman's face is covered with a thin layer of mist, which makes it impossible for people to see her face clearly. Even with the eyesight of a beam, it is impossible to see through that layer of mist.
...It seems to be very similar to the mist that envelopes the entire Bei Ming outside...
Looking at the mist on the woman's face, a thought flashed through Shu Guan's mind.
As for this woman, she must be older, because she is wearing a very old-fashioned navy blue gown and skirt, which is wide and wide. Only older women would wear this kind of gown and skirt, and the woman's exposed There are also many wrinkles on the hands.
Then he walked to the front of the long table.
"Hello, Ms. Three."
Shu Guan greeted the woman.
The woman raised her head, but her face was covered with mist, so her expression at this time could not be clearly seen.
The woman must have been sizing up Shu Guan, because after raising her head, after five or six seconds, a sound came out of the mist.
"What do you want to buy?"
It can also be heard from the voice that this woman is indeed a bit old, but she is very elegant.
"I want to buy some news."
Shu Guan, who had already made plans, said this.
"What news do you want?"
"I want to know how many cultivators there are in Shen City, especially those who have Nascent Soul realm cultivators and above."
Shu Guan said this.
He has been in Shencheng for more than three months. He has also met many practitioners in Shencheng and heard a lot about the practice world in Shencheng. However, he is still a little hazy about the overall situation of the practice world in Shencheng.
"This is the simplest and most basic information you can get for free as a premium member."
"Of course, if you want to know more about each force in more detail, you will need to pay additional money."
Woman No. 3 replied.
Then she raised her hand, and a door on an iron cabinet in the room suddenly opened automatically, and a book flew out from inside.
The paper flew to the top of the long table and then fell in front of Shu Guan.
"The status of all practitioners' forces in Shen City is recorded in this booklet."
"Of course, there are only some of the simplest cases. In addition, its timeliness is half a year ago. Every six months, our secret cult will re-correct the information on the various cultivator forces in Shencheng."
"In the end, this is only the information that our Secret Order can collect. There must be some fallacies and inaccuracies in it, and there are some particularly secretive forces and practitioners that our Secret Order may not know about."
Ms. No. 3 introduced Shu Guan.
"Okay, you can see for yourself first."
Shu Guan thanked him and opened the book in front of him.
This is just a very ordinary paper book with traces of frequent flipping.
Come to think of it, this paper album needs to be replaced every six months, so naturally it doesn't need to be made of any special material.
There were about twenty pages in the whole book. It took Shu Guan nearly half an hour to read them all carefully. Then he finally had a rough understanding of the current practice world in Shencheng.
The first thing I want to say is that there is no hidden place in Shanghai.
It is because of the Seven Immortals Alliance that the hidden places in other cities appeared, hoping to maintain a certain degree of independence under the Seven Immortals Alliance.
The Seven Immortals Alliance and the Hidden Land are actually related to each other.
But in Shencheng, the Seven Immortals Alliance has always been very restrained and not as strong as in other big cities, so naturally there will be no hidden places. The sphere of influence of some powerful forces has also been established in the Seven Immortals Alliance as early as They had already made the decision before coming to Shencheng, and the Seven Immortals Alliance also showed great respect for the traditions of Shencheng's cultivation world.
As for Shen Cheng's cultivation world, there are nearly a hundred various forces, large and small.
Of course, some so-called cultivator forces only have two or three people. Among them, most of the cultivators are Qi-entraining and first-time acquaintances. For example, the few people like Bai Zhiweng can actually be regarded as a cultivator force.
However, Shu Guan feels that this kind of force is more appropriately called a gang, and such gangs may still exist today, but they may disperse tomorrow. This is also the reason why the Esoteric Order has to revise this information every six months. The main reason.
In this booklet of the Secret Religion Society, all the forces in the Shencheng cultivation world are divided into four levels.
The lowest level is naturally your "group" of practitioners with a small number of people, and their strength is mainly about entraining Qi and first acquaintance.
The third-level cultivator force is not much different from the fourth-level force. It is just that there are more people, and there will be some strong men in the Fetal Movement Realm among the forces.
Shu Guan didn't pay too much attention to these fourth and third-level cultivator forces, but just glanced at them briefly.
The only thing that made Shu Guan pay a little attention was that he actually saw the three words "Xinxiang Temple" among the third-level practitioners.
Starting from the third level of forces, this book began to rank the various cultivator forces.
Xinxiang Temple's ranking among the third-level cultivator forces is impressively second.
You must know that Xinxiang Temple only has two masters and disciples, Kuzhu and Duzhu. Perhaps this strength ranking includes the two rare treasures from Xinxiang Temple.
Shu Guan thought so.
As for the introduction to Xinxiang Temple on the paper, there is only a name and the names of the master and disciple, and there is no other content.
It is indeed very concise, but it seems that if you want to know more detailed information, you still have to pay extra.
As for the third-level cultivator force ranked above Xinxiang Temple, it is a cultivator organization called "Thousand Sects and Eight Generals".
However, apart from a name, there is no other introduction to the cultivator power of this Eight Generals, and it appears to be even more mysterious than the Xinxiang Temple.
There are more than eighty fourth and third-level cultivators, accounting for about 90% of the total number of cultivators in Shencheng.
As for the second-level cultivator forces, they have Nascent Soul Realm powers or even land gods.
The number of practitioners at this level has been greatly reduced, with only eight in total.
As for the power of these practitioners, Shu Guan took a closer look.
Turning over the page that records the power of the second-level cultivation, the first name written at the top of the page is clearly the three words "Blood Demon Sect".
In this booklet, the cultivator forces are introduced from low to high in terms of strength, so the Blood Demon Sect is the eighth most powerful force among the second-level cultivator forces.
However, the introduction of this force is still in the consistent style of this paper book, which is extremely concise, with only two or three sentences.
The above only introduces that this is an extremely evil spiritual sect with a number of hundreds or so. The leader is a Yuanying realm practitioner.
When Shu Guan saw this, he pondered for a moment, pointed to the words "Xue Shamen", and asked the woman whose face was hidden behind the light mist:
"Ms. No. 3, if I want to know all the detailed information about a force, how much should I pay?"
Regarding this second-level force, Shu Guan felt that he should know more about it, otherwise just knowing a name would not mean much.
Ms. No. 3 turned her head and seemed to look at where Shu Guan's finger was pointing, and then a faint voice came from behind the mist.
"Half a million."
"What!"
Shu Guan exclaimed in surprise.
The information in this paper book was completely free, so he originally thought that if he wanted to know more detailed information, he might only need to pay a few hundred dollars.
"Is it a silver dollar?"
Shu Guan asked again blankly.
"good."
Shu Guan swallowed his saliva. Five hundred thousand silver dollars was enough to buy a very good high-grade magic weapon at the trade fair. He didn't expect that buying some information here would cost so much.
"To master all kinds of information about a cultivator's power, especially some secret things, it takes a long time to accumulate, or it also requires paying a huge price to obtain it."
"Of course, what you just asked about is all the information about this Blood Demon Sect. There are several secret things in this Blood Demon Sect. It is indeed worth the price, but if you just want to know some ordinary information, then you don't need so much. The money is only one thousand silver dollars."
Ms. Three continued:
"In fact, regarding the power of the second-level cultivators, there are some secrets that cannot be purchased with money even if you are a senior member. Those are secrets that cannot be disclosed at will."
"Then how can we learn those secrets?"
Shu Guan couldn't help but asked curiously.
"To become a more advanced senior member, you must obtain No. 1's consent, and you must exchange it for information of corresponding value, or items of the same value."
Shu Guan sighed, this was like some video websites in his previous life. He was already a VIP member, but if he wanted to watch certain movies, he had to pay extra.
As for the senior members of this secret order, there is also a difference between low V and high V.
I don't know who came up with these rules. Shu Guan even doubted whether that guy was a time traveler like him. If not, then he was really a genius.
"I'll pay one thousand silver dollars."
Then Shu Guan said this.
Although Shu Guan thought it was a bit expensive to buy some ordinary information for one thousand silver dollars, but he still wanted to have a clear understanding of the eight forces in this second level.
As for spending half a million silver dollars to buy all the secrets of the Blood Demon Sect, Shu Guan could afford it, but Shu Guan was reluctant to spend nearly half of his current wealth like this if it was not really necessary.
Ms. No. 3 then raised her hand to wave again, and saw another cabinet door opened on the iron cabinet just now, and then a piece of paper flew out from it and flew in front of Shu Guan.
Shu Guan glanced left and right. There were at least fifty large iron cabinets in this room, and on each iron cabinet, there were iron grids of different sizes ranging from dozens to a hundred. Could this lady No. 3 Can you clearly remember what is placed in each iron grid? Then this is really an amazing ability.
Shu Guan sighed in his heart, then lowered his head and looked at the piece of paper in front of him.
There were probably hundreds of words written on this piece of paper, all of which were about some basic information about the Blood Demon Sect.
This Blood Demon Sect is an ancient practice sect that has been passed down for four to five thousand years. As for its origin, it is even older and can be traced back to the Heavenly Court era. It is said that it and another one are now hiding in Hunan and Yunnan, in the south. The Bone Demon Sect in the surrounding area of the vast mountains is the inheritance of the same origin, but it was split into two different sects in the era of great chaos after the fall of Heaven.
The disciples of this Blood Demon Sect cultivate the path of blood. In fact, it is difficult to say that there is good and evil in this path of blood. What can distinguish between good and evil is only the human heart.
In order to improve their cultivation, this disciple of the Blood Demon Sect likes to use the blood of other living people as a means of cultivation. There are many missing persons cases in Shanghai, which are actually related to this Blood Demon Sect.
Even before the Alliance of Seven Immortals settled in Shanghai, the Blood Demon Sect planned several murders that killed tens of thousands of mortals, so that its disciples could absorb a large amount of blood energy and improve their cultivation.
The overly vicious behavior of the Blood Evil Sect finally aroused the anger of other cultivators in Shen City. In addition, the Seven Immortals Alliance soon began to settle in Shen City. Under the call of the Seven Immortals Alliance, they attacked the Blood Evil Sect. An encirclement and suppression campaign was launched.
It's just that the battle of siege and suppression failed to achieve full success in the end.
Because this Blood Demon Sect is not too strong in terms of strength. Only the master of the Blood Demon Sect is a powerful Nascent Soul Realm. However, this Blood Demon Sect has a hidden blood magic that can hide its own cultivation. He is no different from ordinary people. In addition, the leader of the Blood Fiend Sect is extremely cautious and unpredictable. For so many years, no one has ever known his true identity.
Therefore, in the initial encirclement and suppression battle, in addition to finding and annihilating some of the Xuesha Sect's disciples, the leader of the Xuesha Sect and several other key disciples were all escaped by them.
After that, the Blood Demon Sect fell silent for a period of time, but in recent decades, it has begun to show signs of becoming active again. Perhaps it was during the troubled times. Since the fall of the Great China Dynasty, the land of Shencheng has also experienced several changes. This war produced a large amount of blood energy, which restored the strength of the Blood Demon Sect again.
But now, the Blood Demon Sect's actions are more covert and secretive, and it is even more difficult to find their traces.
It was only from the unusual incidents of some mortals dying for no reason, with not a drop of blood left in their bodies, that there was a hint of the behavior of the Blood Demon Sect disciples back then, that people realized that the Blood Demon Sect had begun to operate secretly again.
Shu finished reading the records on the paper.
These hundreds of words of records cost him one thousand silver dollars.
How should I put it, it's a bit expensive, but Shu Guan thinks it's worth the money.
Then he asked Ms. No. 3 a question out of curiosity.
"Can I ask, what are the secrets about the Blood Demon Sect that require half a million to buy?"
"Those are a few clues that may be able to find the true identity of the leader of the Blood Fiend Sect. Of course, the authenticity of those clues cannot be guaranteed."
Lady No. 3 replied.
Shu Guan was speechless, and then continued to read the original book.
