In the darkness, the two red lanterns on the sentry tower stretched back like dragon heads. In the dark depths of the valley, there were also dim lights of countless bright lights.
The person at the pass verified the sign, and the two of them stepped in easily and went straight into the center.
At this moment, there were other people coming from other places. They were all wearing masks of various styles. Their faces underneath could not be seen. They glanced at each other casually and didn't pay attention.
After passing the pass and walking forward for a while, the narrow bluestone corridor gradually became wider. After walking a few hundred meters again, a different place appeared in front of his eyes.
The valley is open, an inverted funnel. The slopes on both sides of the valley are covered with all kinds of wooden buildings. Most of them are crudely made, or primitive and wild, crooked, and not very beautiful.
The sandy land at the bottom of the valley in the center of both sides has become an extremely prosperous street, and the wooden buildings close to both sides are filled with dazzling shops.
The contents inside are all-encompassing, including all kinds of martial arts books, strange and obscene techniques, and talismans and elixirs.
There is only trading here, regardless of where it comes from, and it provides a lot of places to sell stolen goods. At this moment, customers wearing masks come and go.
As the crowd moved forward, the thin man took him to the back of a five-story building that was quite well-built and not skewed and old. It was obviously the ghost market auction school he mentioned.
Just stepping into the lobby on the first floor, a wave of heat came over the pavement. Through the walls in the building, there were still shouts and curses, and the noise came surging.
"When will the Prison Suppressing Dragon Elephant be auctioned?"
Stepping into the lobby on the first floor, Shen Xiu looked for a staff member who also wore a mask and asked.
"You can come over on the 15th."
The masked receptionist gave this answer in a calm voice, which also confirmed the thin man's statement that the auction house has a way to suppress the prison dragon and elephant power.
Shen Xiu was relieved and gave him the hundred taels of silver he had prepared in advance.
There was still some time left, and Shen Xiu had no need to stay at this time, so he took an invitation letter and wandered around the ghost market.
On the way, Shen Xiu saw the demon elixir of the fifth-level monster, the Qi-napping beads of the second-level, Lu Mingshan's talisman, and all kinds of inappropriate things.
Shen Xiu had a clear goal. He just took a look at these things, and then bought some decoctions to assist his cultivation before leaving.
As for the exit from this ghost market, it is no longer the pass in, but a flat and open area leaving Yafeng on both sides of the bank.
At this time, the bright moon is in the sky, the ground is like frost, and the lights in the valley are brightly lit, which has a different meaning.
By the time Shen Xiu turned around again, it was already more than ten years later.
Arriving at the auction in this ghost market, Shen Xiu found that the hall was already overcrowded, and there were also pedestrians coming from outside the street.
As an auction held every three months in the ghost market, it is even comparable to Baiyue Trading Company in Shanglin City.
In fact, there are many good things here that Baiyue Trading Company cannot sell, which attracts martial arts practitioners who know the ghost market and come here one after another.
In the hall, as the staff received the reception, the people in the hall began to flow into the inner hall.
As the crowds came one after another, the auction hall of hundreds of people was soon filled up. The people who entered were all wearing masks, but from the clothes they were wearing, it could be inferred that most of them were people with extraordinary status.
Take the last auction for example. This time, the hall was unspeakably quiet. Wearing masks, each other blocked most of the distance, and there were only sporadic whispers.
Soon, under the auspices of the auction house staff, the auction officially began.
The first treasure to be auctioned, the name of the treasure was beyond his expectation. It was the standard equipment of the Xuanjian Division Tongwei, the Demon Hunting Plate.
Although this thing has a good function and can find traces of monsters from very far away, this thing is very famous in the Hanging Sword Division, but it dares to sell it so blatantly.
What’s even more rare is that there are still people buying this thing.
One hundred taels!
Two hundred taels!
Two hundred and fifty taels!
…
The starting price of the Demon Hunting Plate was one hundred taels, and it has been rising all the way since then. Perhaps due to the reputation of the Xuanjian Division, not many people raised their hands to increase the price.
In the end, the demon-seeking disk, which can search for monsters, was sold for five hundred taels. The person who took the photo was a strong man who seemed to be a strong martial artist.
What follows is also a dazzling array of things, and almost everything is sold for more than a thousand taels.
There are the demon bones of sixth-level demon beasts, the magical red fruit that improves most of the cultivation levels, and the protective treasure with strong defensive power.
There were many types of auction items. Shen Xiu, who was sitting in the audience, just watched quietly. These were not his goals.
After the treasures were brought to the stage one by one, and they were photographed one by one, the Xuanpin Kung Fu that Shen Xiu had been thinking about was finally placed on the exhibition stand.
"Everyone, please take a look. The technique being auctioned this time is the Prison-Suppressing Dragon Elephant Strength, which is of medium grade. I think some people should know about the fame of this technique. The last leader of the Yuanyang Gang practiced this technique. Dharma, once entered the seven realms to cultivate.
Now this is a copy, dictated by others, without detailed annotations, and the starting price is five hundred taels..."
As soon as the prison-suppressing dragon Xiangjin technique came out, there was a huge commotion in the crowd.
However, this wave of commotion came and went quickly. Many people were interested, while others were not.
The reputation of this technique is good, but it is still written by others orally.
Intuos, which is the most detailed and has few errors when not practicing, does not even have the necessary detailed annotations. So although this book is good, its value will be greatly reduced.
But it's not famous, it's the shadow of a tree.
After all, such a skill is still a mysterious skill, and with the name of the leader of the Yuanyang Gang at the front, many people bid for it, and it quickly reached 10,000 taels.
There were fewer people watching the bids, so Shen Xiu also directly bought ten thousand and one taels, which immediately attracted a lot of attention.
Those who were still interested, after calculating the value of this copy of the exercise method in their minds, the number of bidders was reduced by half.
"Twelve thousand taels!"
A middle-aged man in brocade clothes sitting in the front row looked back at Shen Xiu, and then shouted out a price.
Naturally, Shen Xiu would not give up. He added another thousand taels on this basis. After repeated increases, no one else bid, except Shen Xiu and the man.
When the price stacked up to nineteen thousand taels, perhaps he thought that the value of this technique was too much, so the man in brocade gave up his plan to raise the price.
With the hammer of the auctioneer, the Prison Suppressing Dragon Elephant Jin was officially bought by Shen Xiu. As it was only a basic version without detailed annotations on cultivation, this was ignored by Shen Xiu.
