Chapter 29 Selling Stolen Goods

Li An did not wear the robe of Xuanyang Sect's disciple today, but a light blue casual dress, which made him inconspicuous when walking on the street.

He casually walked around the market twice, making sure that no one was following him. Then he quickly changed into a gray suit in an empty alley, put on a bamboo hat, covered his face, raised the soles of his shoes, and padded his shoulders before leaving.

Even if he passed by an acquaintance like Tan Qingxue, it would be difficult for the other party to recognize him if he did not observe carefully.

Then, he quickly left the main street of the market and came to a low-rise residential area in the north of the market.

Compared to the bustle of the main street, this place was quite deserted and had few people.

Li An walked into a residential house, where four people were already sitting, three men and one woman, and Li An was the fifth.

Like Li An, the other four wore bamboo hats or veils to hide their identities. Only the big man in the lead did not cover himself, but Li An guessed that he should be wearing a human skin mask.

"We are all here." The big man said, "According to the rules, the five of us will show what we want to trade or buy in turn, and then trade after showing everything." This kind of transaction is usually participated by cultivators who do not want to reveal their identities, so without asking names, they are addressed according to the seating arrangement of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Li An sat on the water seat. On the gold seat was a middle-aged cultivator with gray hair hanging down by his ears. He said in a low voice: "I sell three pieces of first-grade high-quality meteorite iron and three first-grade recovery pills. The meteorite iron needs to be exchanged for a first-grade high-quality protective magic weapon, and spiritual stones are also acceptable." He said that he put out three pieces of black meteorite iron and a small jade bottle. On the wood position, there was a thin young man, his voice was hoarse:

"I offer a set of first-grade high-quality magic weapons - thorn armor. This armor has extremely strong defense. At the same time, when attacked, it can also emit spiritual thorns to kill the enemy. It needs to be exchanged with forbidden materials."

His storage bag flashed with a spiritual light, and a black metal soft armor appeared in his hand!

Li An said: "I offer four first-grade spiritual medicines, fire spirit fruits."

As he said, he put out the fire spirit fruits.

All of a sudden, everyone looked at him in surprise.

On the fire position next to him, there was a woman with a white veil, who said impatiently: "My fellow Taoist, do you have any second-grade fire spirit fruits? If you do, I can buy them at a high price!"

The fire spirit fruit is a second-grade spirit fruit, as everyone knows.

Moreover, it is one of the ingredients of the foundation-building pill recipe!

Li An shook his head, "Sorry, these are all I have."

Hearing this, the woman couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"Don't disrupt, continue!"

The big man with a human skin mask, sitting on the last earth position, spoke in a deep voice.

The woman with a white veil on the fire position said: "I sell three Chongling Pills, which can be used for the breakthrough of the middle stage of Qi training, and accepts Lingshi."

Finally, the big man on the earth position also said: "I will sell a first-grade upper-grade sword, and Lingshi will do!"

Next, it was the exchange and inquiry stage.

"My fellow Taoist, the quality of your fire spirit fruits is very high, almost close to the second-grade spirit fruits. Do you really not have second-grade ones?"

The woman with a white veil asked again.

Li An said: "Sorry, I really don't have any."

The woman sighed and said: "Okay, I don't know how much you sell these fire spirit fruits? I want them all."

Li An said: "One price, two hundred Lingshi."

The woman said: "I only have one hundred Lingshi, so how about using one Chongling Pill for one hundred Lingshi?"

Li An agreed happily.

The exchange was successful. Li An looked at the thin young man above him again and said, "Fellow Daoist, do you accept spirit stones for your thorn armor?"

Li An was still very lacking in magic weapons, but ordinary defensive magic weapons were not very useful to him, and were not as effective as his Iron Tree Art.

It would be great if he could get a first-grade superior one.

So, he stared at the thorn armor in the man's hand, looking at it again and again, and was quite tempted.

The man shook his head, "Sorry, I just want forbidden materials, no type is limited."

Li An had no choice. Forbidden materials are special materials used to set up forbidden methods, formations, etc. Unless they are formation masters or forbidden methods masters, ordinary people rarely have them.

However, he vaguely sensed that the young man's aura was not strong, and he seemed to be only in the middle stage of Qi Refining. He should not have touched formations and restrictions...

After all, the study and production of formations and restrictions require a huge amount of mental power, and cultivators in the early and middle stages of Qi Refining can't bear it at all!

At least you have to be in the late stage of Qi Refining to start learning.

Li An also dabbled in formations. In his previous life, he could not cultivate the way of alchemy and weapons due to his aptitude, so he chose formations and talismans. With the accumulation of resources, he had considerable attainments in both.

However, he was not too surprised. The other party might have concealed his cultivation.

He casually looked at the young man.

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The exchange was completed.

The few people did not disperse immediately, but exchanged information.

"I have a top-secret message about the cultivators of the magic path. Three days ago, an extremely dangerous incident occurred in Liuyang River Market, targeting Xuanyang Sect..."

The old man on the gold seat said in a deep voice: "Five spirit stones."

The news can also be sold for money!

As long as you want it.

Everyone was very interested in this news. Two people immediately gave the old man spirit stones and took the secret note given by the old man.

Li An also kept calm and spent money to buy a copy - after all, in this world, news is always the first priority.

The other news was relatively trivial, and the party soon dispersed. ...

After leaving the trading place, Li An found a deserted place, changed into his blue clothes, and blended into the crowd.

At night, he returned to his residence and opened the secret note he bought from the old man.

The message written on it made Li An's eyebrows jump!

-Three days ago, in Liuyang River Market, a vicious incident occurred in which a demon cultivator robbed and killed the Xuanyang Sect's alchemy store!

According to the description, the demon cultivator sneaked into the market without being discovered. When buying elixirs at the alchemy store opened by Xuanyang Sect's Dantang, a conflict occurred. The demon cultivator killed people on the spot and took away a lot of spiritual medicine.

The key is that the demon cultivator escaped unscathed!

Li An thought, if this news is true, doesn't it mean that even the market is dangerous?

The demon cultivator can sneak into the market, which means that either the demon cultivator's cultivation is ridiculously high, reaching the Jindan level, or the demon cultivator has practiced some kind of strange skills.

Li An thinks it is the latter.

After all, if a Jindan-level demon cultivator appeared, he could directly wipe out the entire market!

What worried him even more was that the other party actually robbed the Xuanyang Sect's medicine store...

This was a bit outrageous. They didn't even give Xuanyang Sect face?

He felt a hint of danger.

Is this news true or false? It was impossible to tell.

But it was always necessary to make more preparations.

"There are still too few cards in my hand..."

Li An was a little anxious.

For such things, it's better to be safe than sorry.

Being so comfortable in the market, he had a very low tolerance for danger.

And his strength was too low. He was at the fourth level of Qi Refining. Facing the demon cultivator who could rob the Liuyang River medicine store, even if he used all his means, he would probably find it difficult to resist.

Although he got a Chongling Pill, it couldn't help him for the time being. Chongling Pill needed to be used after the fourth level of Qi Refining was perfected to increase the chance of breaking through the realm.

"I need to prepare some more killer moves, at least I can survive when facing the late stage of Qi Refining."

"The most suitable one for me at present... formation!"

He thought.

For low-level cultivators, formation is a killer!

But its shortcomings are also prominent. First, it is very expensive. Second, once it is set up, it can only work in a fixed place, and it takes a lot of spirit stones to maintain.

Generally, only immortal cultivation families or powerful independent cultivators with fixed caves will buy such things.

...

The next day, Li An went out again. He also sold the remaining tree ganoderma and parasitic spirit vine fruit on him.

Only the second-grade dark light lotus was not sold. This kind of thing is hard to come by and is a strategic material. Li An will not sell it unless it is absolutely necessary.

At present, he has 420 spirit stones in his hand.

It can be called a small sum of money.

He immediately went to the formation shop of Xuanyang Sect.

In the past three years, he was quite familiar with the people of Xuanyang Sect. After entering the store, the owner Zhang Shouye saw him and smiled and said: "Master Li Fu, what brings you here?" "Fellow Daoist Zhang, I want to see the formation." Li An got straight to the point. Zhang Shouye saw this and whispered, "You are here to see the formation again... Have you also got the news?" Li An leaned closer and said, "What news?" Zhang Shouye said, "Are you still pretending to be with me? The demon cultivators plundered the Liuyang River market. Today, several immortal cultivation family shops in the market came to ask about the formation..." Li An's heart trembled. It turned out to be true! "Actually, there is no need. The demon cultivator just made trouble, so he will definitely hide for a while. Moreover, the masters sent by the sect have already patrolled the four directions. It won't be long before the demon cultivator is captured..."

The formation shop is the most idle, so Zhang Shouye is quite talkative when he has nothing to do. Li An learned more information from him.

The demon cultivator killed three people in the Liuyang River Spiritual Medicine Shop, one of whom was a master of the sixth level of Qi Refining!

The foundation-building cultivator in Liuyang River opened the formation blockade and searched for several days in a row, but failed to find the demon cultivator.

...

Li An quickly judged that this demon cultivator must have a cultivation level of more than the sixth level of Qi Refining, and must be a master of the late stage of Qi Refining.

Maybe he may be at the peak of Qi Refining!

After all, he was able to escape quickly after killing someone, which was too fast.

Also, he must have practiced some secret method to hide his breath, etc.

The more Li An thought about it, the more he felt that he had to be prepared. He immediately asked, "Is there any protective formation? Let me see it?"

Zhang Shouye pointed to the display cabinet and said, "Low-level formations can stop cultivators in the early stage of Qi training, one hundred spirit stones; intermediate formations, three hundred spirit stones; advanced formations, nine hundred spirit stones..."

Advanced formations can resist cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.

But Li An didn't like them very much and shook his head and said, "I want the best!"

Zhang Shouye said, "Oh, Master Li Fu is rich..."

He immediately took out a picture book, "The lowest level, the formation for the early stage of foundation building, three thousand spirit stones."

The formation store didn't have this level in stock at all. If you want it, you have to pay a deposit first, and then the sect will make it for you.

Li An's mouth twitched.

Seeing Li An's expression, Zhang Shouye couldn't help but laugh. He stroked his beard and said:

"Well, for the sake of acquaintance, I have a good thing, high-grade and cheap, let me show it to you?"

Li An was moved and nodded.

Zhang Shouye turned around and took out a gray white jade array plate from a display cabinet box. He blew hard, and dust flew everywhere. He handed it to Li An:

"This was made by Elder Luo of the Array Hall when he was promoted to a second-level array master. It is more powerful than the first-level advanced array. It is almost a sure kill for cultivators below the foundation-building stage!"

"Of course, there is also a small disadvantage. It can only be used once... but it is cheap!"

Li An frowned, checked it carefully, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Zhang Shouye is not a good person... he only said half of the words.

The biggest problem with this array plate is that it can't actively defend or attack the enemy, and needs to be controlled by yourself!

It needs to be controlled by oneself, which means that a lot of spiritual consciousness or mental power is needed, which means that the foundation-building cultivators look down on it and the Qi-refining cultivators cannot use it.

It is very useless.

Zhang Shouye wants to cheat Li An.

"The quality is not good... How to sell it?" Li An asked casually.

"Since we are old acquaintances, I will give you a preferential price of 800 spiritual stones!"

Li An turned and left.

"Don't, Master Li, the price is negotiable, 780 is also fine..."

But Li An was already far away.

He was not in a hurry to buy it. One reason was that the price was too expensive and he didn't have so much money. Second, buying it directly would arouse suspicion.

That night, Li An returned to the talisman shop and was refining talismans.

"Junior brother Li, are you there?"

Tan Qingxue knocked on his door.

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