During the trip to the Qin Family in Wanhua Mountain, although Zhou Yang did not get the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" he wanted most, the harvest was not small.
In particular, through this trip to Wanhua Mountain, he established some friendships with some Zifu period monks in Jinyang, taking an important step towards integrating himself into the circle of high-level monks in the Far West.
After returning to Haoyang Fairy City, Zhou Yang first visited Taoist companion Xiao Ying and gave her several elixirs that he had exchanged at the "Yibao Conference", and then the two of them traveled around Haoyang Fairy City together. After half a month, they each returned to the cave to continue practicing.
When Zhou Yang returned to the cave, he did not rush into seclusion and take the elixir to improve his cultivation. Instead, he took out the materials exchanged at the "Yibao Conference" and started to refine the weapons.
The materials he got this time were a bit more than expected, so he directly refined six "Dayan Divine Light Swords" in one go, adding to the twelve "Dayan Divine Light Swords" he originally owned. , which is a set of eighteen flying swords.
Each of the eighteen "Dayan Divine Light Swords" is a fourth-level high-grade magical weapon, and it is also the best among them.
Relying on these eighteen flying swords, even if Zhou Yang does not use the "Qianyang True Fire" magical power, it will be difficult to find an opponent in the Zifu period.
It's just that having so many flying swords consumes a lot of his spiritual consciousness and mana. Even if his spiritual consciousness and mana are much stronger than those of monks of the same level, he can only fight for an hour at most before running out of mana. .
Therefore, unless it is a must-win battle, Zhou Yang still has to save mana as much as possible to cope with unexpected changes.
After refining the flying sword, Zhou Yang entered the training room and took the spiritual cultivation elixir exchanged from the "Yibao Conference".
He originally thought that he would practice like this until the auction held every ten years in Haoyang Fairy City before leaving the seclusion room. However, he had just practiced in seclusion for a year when he was called out of the seclusion room by Feijian, a message sent by Jinqu.
"This underground auction is somewhat special. It is not held in Haoyang Fairy City, but in a secret place outside the city."
"Based on Jin's experience, the auction is usually held outside the city. Most of the time, there is a huge problem with the origin of the items in the auction, so the auctioneer will worry about the reaction of the Haoyang Sect and move the venue to Held outside the city."
"So you have to make your own decision whether you want to participate in this underground auction or not, Fellow Daoist Zhou!"
In Qingyuan Pavilion, facing Zhou Yang's visit, the shopkeeper Jin Qu warmly received him, and then looked at him with a serious face and told him the truth.
After his trip to Wanhua Mountain, Zhou Yang felt that Jin Qu was a person he could befriend. After returning, he sold some of the spiritual objects that he had no use for to Qingyuan Pavilion and returned with a batch of spiritual stones.
In this way, he got the spiritual stone, Jin Qu also got a performance, and the relationship between the two became much closer.
Moreover, Jin Qu now knows the identity of his fourth-level high-grade weapon refiner, and even knows the identity of his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, the fourth-level low-grade alchemist.
With these two identities, Jin Qu is also happy to have a good relationship with the couple.
Otherwise, just relying on Zhao Hao's original token, Jin Qu would not have said so much to Zhou Yang now.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist Jin, for reminding me. Zhou will be more careful."
Zhou Yang solemnly bowed his hand and nodded, accepting Jin Qu's favor, but he was not willing to let go of this opportunity.
It is well known that underground auctions are unsafe, otherwise they would not be held in the dark.
Zhou Yang has not forgotten that when he was still in the foundation-building stage, he participated in this kind of underground auction for the first time and was targeted and hunted by the monks in the Zifu stage.
So he knew very well the profound meaning contained in Jin Qu's words.
However, the rewards of participating in underground auctions are often directly proportional to the risks.
Many treasures whose origins are unclear are not dared to be sold at regular auctions and exchanges, so the only convenient place to sell them is at underground auctions, and the prices are often much lower than similar prices at regular auctions.
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Although Zhou Yang does not cause trouble, he has never been a person who is afraid of trouble.
Even though there were risks involved in participating in the underground auction, he believed that with his own methods, he could fully cope with the possible risks.
When Jin Qu heard what he said, he didn't say anything more. He just nodded slightly, took out the token and handed it to him and said: "Since you, fellow Taoist Zhou, insist on going to participate, then you can take this talisman out of the city in three days and find a secluded place."
Inspire it, and someone will naturally rush over to pick you up and take you to the location of the underground auction."
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Jin. How much is this token worth? Zhou will give you the spirit stone now."
Zhou Yang took the token, looked at it for a few times, then turned over and put it into the storage ring, and then asked about the price of the token.
The one thing that underground auctions have in common with regular auctions is that they also charge admission fees to participants, and the fees are often higher than regular auctions. Of course, Zhou Yang can't let Jinqu help him pay for this.
However, Jin Qu shook his head and said: "This is just a token. No one will ask you to collect the admission fee until you arrive at the location, Fellow Daoist Zhou."
"Understood, Zhou will go and prepare first."
Zhou Yang nodded clearly, then said goodbye and left Qingyun Pavilion.
Three days later, Zhou Yang, who was fully prepared, left Haoyang Fairy City directly, and then activated the token talisman in his hand in a mountain forest more than 300 miles away.
After the magic talisman was activated, it transformed directly into a khaki mouse-like demonic beast and got into the ground.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, and then with a wave of his hand, he took out the dragon face mask that he had refined during the foundation building period and put it on, and then took out a gray cloak that also had the function of shielding spiritual consciousness.
It was placed outside the body, and it also used its own consciousness to create a layer of consciousness barrier outside the body.
With such triple protection, even if a late-stage Jindan cultivator is in front of him and wants to scan him with his spiritual consciousness without alerting him, he will definitely be discovered by him.
After waiting like this for about an hour, a yellow light suddenly flashed on the ground not far in front of Zhou Yang, and a huge "Escape Mountain Beast" suddenly appeared.
The "earth-escape pangolin" looks like a pangolin that has been enlarged many times. The "earth-escape pangolin" in front of Zhou Yang is ranked as high as the fourth level, with a body length of more than twenty feet and a back width of more than one foot.
On the back of this "earth-escape beast", a long stone house was artificially placed. The material of the stone house was the third-level spiritual object "Forbidden God Stone" that Zhou Yang was familiar with.
"Pay thirty yuan of middle-grade spiritual stones and send you to your destination!"
While Zhou was looking solemnly at the "Escape Mountain Beast" in front of him, a cold voice suddenly sounded from the stone house on the beast's back.
The entrance fee of thirty yuan for middle-grade spiritual stones is really quite shameful.
But Zhou Yang didn't say much. He waved his hand silently, took out thirty middle-grade spiritual stones and threw them towards the stone house on the beast's back.
There was a "click" sound, and the stone door of the stone house opened from the inside, swallowing up all the spiritual stones thrown by Zhou Yang.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang didn't wait for the people inside to say anything. He moved directly, jumped on the back of the "Escape Mountain Beast", and ducked into the stone house.
His action made the "earth-escaping mountain beast" extremely dissatisfied, and he couldn't help but shake his body and let out a roar.
But as the owner of the cold voice in the stone house gave a cold shout, the petty beast stopped obediently, roared with aggrieved eyes, and ducked into the ground with his head down, covered in yellow light.
At the same time, in the stone house on the back of the "Escape Mountain Beast", a monk, wrapped from head to toe in a mask and a black cloak, was looking coldly at Zhou Yang across a few feet of space.
Except for the two of them, there was no one else in the entire carriage.
"I can tolerate your rudeness now, but if you are still like this after arriving at the auction venue, the seniors there will not be as easy to talk to as me!"
After the black-cloaked monk stared coldly at Zhou Yang, he warned him in a cold voice, then withdrew his gaze and sat on a wooden chair next to him.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, but he replied calmly: "You don't need to worry about this matter."
This voice was actually a neutral voice, making it impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
Hiding one's face, changing one's body shape, and changing one's voice are all things that most cultivators will do when participating in activities such as underground auctions.
Now that Zhou Yang is disguised, even if his Taoist companion Xiao Ying is here, he may not be able to recognize him without using his magic power to leak his aura.
And his seemingly arrogant behavior just now was also done deliberately.
Judging from the black-robed monk's reaction, his efforts were obviously not in vain.
In the next few hours, eight more monks entered the stone house on the back of the "Escape Mountain Beast", almost completely filling this small stone house.
It was only then that the black-robed guiding monk stopped guiding others and drove the "Escape Mountain Beast" to the auction house.
Because he has been in a stone house that is isolated from his spiritual consciousness, Zhou Yang doesn't know where he has walked along the way. He even has a hard time knowing how fast the "Escape Mountain Beast" moves underground.
When the "Escape Mountain Beast" stopped again, the stone door of the stone house opened. When he walked out of the stone house, the place that appeared in front of Zhou Yang had suddenly turned into a quiet valley filled with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
He glanced over and saw that the valley was not big, estimated to be only a few hundred acres in size, and the spiritual energy in the valley was not that rich, comparable to that of a third-level mid-grade spiritual vein.
The outside of the valley was completely shrouded in formation clouds. It was unknown what level of formations the clouds were formed from. Zhou Yang secretly used the "Lihuo Golden Eyes" to see through the clouds and mist, and it was difficult to see through the clouds. Moreover, the clouds also blocked the scanning of his spiritual consciousness.
When you leave the valley, you will hit a wall and be unable to move forward.
It is really unexpected that the underground auction is not held deep underground, but is held in such a valley.
Before Zhou Yang and his group arrived, twenty or thirty high-level monks had gathered in the valley, and it was unknown how many of them were Golden Core monks.
These high-level monks were sitting quietly around a circular stone platform in the center of the valley, without saying a word. The entire valley was eerily quiet.
While Zhou Yang and several fellow monks were looking at the situation in the valley, the black-robed monk who was commanding the "Escape Mountain Beast" said coldly: "Find a place to sit first, when the time comes
Later, naturally someone came out to explain the situation."
After saying this, he closed the stone door and once again controlled the spirit beast to lead the others.