Soul Point
"Heh heh heh, since you've come, why not enter the shop?"
An aged, raspy voice echoed from within the shop, sounding like a devil from the depths of the Nine Hells, sending shivers down one's spine.
Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed, his mind racing. He knew he was able to come here because of the Soul Token, so his safety was at least guaranteed.
Xiao Yan took a deep breath, showing no fear as he walked to the front of the shop and gently pushed open the dilapidated wooden door, stepping inside.
Xiao Yan's first impression of the Soul Offering Old Shop was that it wasn't a shop at all, but more like entering a graveyard, a haunted place.
The light inside the Soul Offering Old Shop was very dim, the only illumination coming from a few candles placed on the counter. The shop itself was pitifully small; even the smallest shop in the Xiao Clan's Town Market was more spacious than this.
Apart from a tattered wooden cabinet of unknown age, there were only some shelves covered in cobwebs on the left and right sides, and nothing else.
Next to the cabinet was a black curtain, and Xiao Yan couldn't see what was behind it. It was pitch black, and he didn't know where it led.
At this moment, Xiao Yan's gaze turned to an old man sitting in front of the counter. The old man was supporting his cheek with his right hand, his eyes closed as if he were dozing off. The old man was incredibly thin, his whole body shriveled and skin-and-bones, his eye sockets sunken, and he had only a few sparse strands of hair. He looked more like a corpse than someone who had been dead for three days!
If it weren't for the voice just now proving that this old man was still alive, Xiao Yan would have been startled, truly thinking it was a dried corpse placed there.
Even someone as bold as Xiao Yan felt goosebumps all over his body in this place. The air was cold, making him very uncomfortable.
Xiao Yan mustered his courage, walked to the counter, and gently tapped on the surface, asking, "Hello, old man, may I ask what this place is?"
Hearing Xiao Yan's question, the old man's body slowly moved, like a dried corpse coming to life. His eyelids slowly opened, and a pair of ghostly blue eyes stared at Xiao Yan, like the eyes of a ghost.
"You dare to walk in without even knowing what this place is?" a raspy, low voice came from the old man's throat.
Xiao Yan was a little embarrassed by the question, and he gave an awkward smile, saying, "I was just wandering around and accidentally stumbled upon this place."
The old man's mouth cracked into a smile, revealing a mouthful of large yellow teeth, half of which were missing. He slowly said, "Without the permission of my clan, it is impossible to pass through the spatial barrier to come here."
After some thought, Xiao Yan didn't hide anything and took out the black Soul Token of unknown make from his pocket.
The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, and he curiously sized up Xiao Yan before slowly saying, "Neither a member of my Soul Clan nor having joined the Soul Palace, yet possessing my clan's Soul Token, interesting, interesting."
Xiao Yan touched his nose and said, "Someone called Hun Xuzi gave this to me, saying I have talent in alchemy and asked me to go to the Royal Capital of the Gama Empire to join some Soul Palace."
Xiao Yan's words were half true. The Soul Token was indeed given to him by Hun Xuzi, but Hun Xuzi didn't say that Xiao Yan had talent in alchemy and ask him to join the Soul Palace.
Xiao Yan's purpose was to elevate himself.
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, the old man smiled meaningfully. He stiffly shook his head and closed his eyes as if he were about to sleep.
"This is the Soul Offering Old Shop, a place for external transactions of my Soul Clan."
"Transactions?"
Only then did Xiao Yan seriously look at the items on the shelves. When Xiao Yan brushed away the cobwebs and clearly saw what was on them, his expression instantly changed.
"Agarwood Soul Wood! This is a very precious and rare treasure! Grinding Agarwood Soul Wood into powder and wearing it in a sachet can slowly enhance the strength of one's Soul! It is also the main ingredient for refining Grade 6 Soul-type pills!"
"Dream A-Flower Honey."
"Dragon Millet Rice!"
Xiao Yan turned his head to look at a gemstone next to the Agarwood Soul Wood. When he recognized it, his eyelids twitched violently, because it was a main ingredient, Yin-Yang Stone, used to refine the Grade 7 Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
As for whether the Yin-Yang Stone had other uses, Xiao Yan didn't know. If it weren't for the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill recipe in his Storage Ring, which introduced this gemstone, he wouldn't have known what it was.
"Heh heh heh, not bad, you have some discerning ability."
Xiao Yan spent more than ten years familiarizing himself with the various pill recipes, Compendium of Materia Medica, and illustrated catalogs of rare treasures in his Storage Ring, but there were still some things here that Xiao Yan couldn't recognize.
Without exception, everything that Xiao Yan recognized was very precious, at least starting with the main ingredients for Grade 5 pills.
Xiao Yan swallowed his saliva and pointed to a withered leaf in the cabinet behind the old man, asking, "How is that withered leaf sold?"
The most precious item that Xiao Yan recognized was undoubtedly the withered leaf behind the old man.
The old man said indifferently, without joy or sorrow, "The main leaf of the Earth Vein Sacred Tree, which can nourish the Soul, increase lifespan, and is the main ingredient for refining the Grade 8 Soul Return Pill. The Soul Return Pill can repair damaged Souls and restore Soul power to damaged Souls."
The old man recited the uses of the withered leaf fluently and accurately.
"Not expensive, the Soul of a high-level Dou Zong."
!!!!!
The transactions here were not done with gold coins or pills, but with the Souls of cultivators!
"No wonder the books say that the Soul Palace people hunt soul bodies all over the continent." Xiao Yan understood. The currency of the Soul Palace was actually souls!
Xiao Yan shrugged and said helplessly, "Don't even mention Dou Zong, I'm just a Dou Zhe right now, not even a Dou Shi. Forget it, forget it, none of the things here are suitable for me."
Dou Zong? That person was lying on the ground, and even if Xiao Yan emptied his Dou Qi, he wouldn't be able to hurt him in the slightest.
"Kid, these things are just a drop in the bucket. These things were all obtained in the Black-Corner Region, and some Soul Envoys sell them to exchange for Soul Points, just broken copper and scrap iron."
"What my Soul Clan has hidden is more than just this."
The old man was small, but his tone was very big.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but complain in his heart, how come the Soul Palace people are all the same? The last one said that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was garbage, and this one said that these are all worthless broken copper and scrap iron.
However, Xiao Yan finally understood what this Soul Offering Old Shop was for. This place was equivalent to the Soul Palace's black market. Even if you are not a member of the Soul Palace, you can use soul bodies to exchange for things here.
Moreover, according to the old man, these things are useless to the Soul Palace. The really useful things are those traded with Soul Points.
As the Young Clan Leader, Xiao Yan naturally understood that it was normal for a force to have its own merit points. Some of the Xiao Clan's Cultivation Methods and magic crystal weapons also had to be exchanged for merit.
Just like the Xiao Clan's Herb Gathering Team, the merit would be higher if they collected precious medicinal herbs.
The purpose of this was to motivate the disciples in the clan.
"What can Soul Points be exchanged for?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.
The old man grinned, "Anything."
Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed, and he tentatively asked, "Even Strange Flames?"
The old man seemed to have guessed that Xiao Yan wanted a Strange Flame, grinned, and let out an unpleasant laugh: "Heh heh heh, naturally! Even information about a specific Strange Flame, its location, and the method to subdue the Strange Flame, as long as you have enough Soul Points."
"My Soul Clan can give you anything."
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