Qingshui Town is really lively. Although the lanterns have just started to light up, the streets are already crowded with people, and the cries of various small vendors on the streets can be heard one after another.
Maybe it’s too hot during the day and most people hide at home. At night is when social life begins and when business in various shops is booming.
Ye Feng didn't know which store he should buy the map from. In fact, he didn't know what the shops on the street sold because the names of the shops were all weird.
Wanbao Tower, Qihuo Pavilion, Sanxianju, Wankelong, Baibaozhai, Baicao Garden, Qianmiantang, there are so many kinds, you can't tell what the store operates from the name.
But he wasn't in a hurry. He had never gone shopping anyway, and it was quite interesting to walk around.
Unconsciously, we arrived at the center of the town, which turned out to be a square.
The square was very lively, and it looked like some people were setting up street stalls.
Ye Feng was about to go over and take a look when he inadvertently looked at a huge stone on the edge of the square. On the huge stone was written "Free Exchange Market" with six flying phoenixes in big characters.
"Young man, this is the exchange area. Only monks can enter. Money is not accepted. You must exchange goods for goods. If you want to enter, you need to pay a low-grade source crystal."
Just when Ye Feng was curious about what free exchange was, an old man came over and said.
"Oh! How exactly do we exchange it?"
"You can take out your items and mark what you want to exchange, or you can directly mark the value of the source crystals, or you can look at other people's items and exchange them directly, or use source crystals to purchase them.
The organizer is only responsible for providing the venue and is not responsible for whether the transaction is fair or not. As long as both parties agree to the exchange and it is not a forced purchase or sale, they will not care."
"Oh, interesting!"
Naturally, Ye Feng had never participated in this kind of bartering. He was very interested and wanted to join in the fun. There was no shortage of source crystals, so he directly handed over one and went down.
There were all kinds of things on the street stalls, and Ye Feng found them all strange and kept looking around.
Except for some weapons, he didn't know most of the things, especially the various old medicines. Lingzhi had no idea what they were used for, and it was precisely these things that required the highest amount of source crystals in exchange.
If you don't understand, just ask. Ye Feng is quite thick-skinned and would squat down and chat with the stall owners from time to time. However, most of the stall owners are too lazy to talk to him. It's obvious that he is just a spectator.
After walking around for a while, he didn't buy anything. He just watched the excitement. Ye Feng was about to leave. After all, he still had to find a store to buy a map, when the little wolf suddenly barked a few times.
"Um!"
Ye Feng glanced at an inconspicuous stall in the corner not far away, which was where the little wolf was interested.
The stall owner is a middle-aged man in his thirties. The man is sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking very depressed and looking like he has not woken up.
There were only three items on the stall, a jade tablet, a piece of parchment, and three black fist-sized stones. Ye Feng really couldn't see anything special about them.
"Fellow Taoist! What are these? Do you have any explanation?"
After Ye Feng finished speaking, he picked up a stone and looked at it for a long time without understanding the reason, but he knew that this was what Xiaolang was interested in.
"Soul Stone! Only high-grade elixir soup can be exchanged. A bottle of high-grade elixir soup can be exchanged for one."
The middle-aged man closed his eyes and said without raising his head.
Ye Feng didn't care about the stall owner's indifference. He was almost used to it.
He is curious about everything and likes to ask about strange things when he sees them. Most people don't bother to pay attention to him. Although this person is cold, at least he talks.
"It's so expensive! What's the use of the soul stone?"
He knew about elixir soup, but it was only here that he realized that elixir soup was divided into upper, middle and lower grades.
The lower grade Dan Decoction is mainly taken by Qi refining monks, the middle grade Dan Decoction is effective in the early stage of Qi condensation, and the upper grade Dan Decoction is suitable for the middle stage of Qi condensation.
He now has two hundred source crystals, which he originally thought was quite a lot. After all, it costs twenty million to exchange for gold, which a mortal would not be able to use up in a few lifetimes.
But when I walked around here, I realized that this was not the case at all. Some stalls put out an old medicine, and the price was often ten source crystals, and many were priced at hundreds. It felt that the source crystals were not valuable at all.
But what surprised him was that all the items in exchange requested elixir soup, and elixir soup was the most popular item here.
And he has figured out that elixir soup is usually packed in jade bottles, and one bottle is only about half a catty.
A bottle of low-grade elixir decoction is worth one low-grade source crystal, a medium-grade elixir decoction is worth ten low-grade source crystals, and a high-grade elixir decoction is worth one hundred low-grade source crystals.
Of course, this is only a theoretical value exchange. In fact, it is impossible to exchange a low-grade source crystal for a bottle of low-grade elixir soup, and it often costs three or four times the price.
Because the effect of elixir soup is far better than absorbing source crystals, and there are too few alchemists who can prepare elixir soup.
Pill soup is also a consumable item, so it is naturally much rarer than source crystals.
As for what the elixir soup looks like, Ye Feng has never seen it, but Zhang Gui did say at that time that the fairy wine diluted by the wind chimes can be comparable to the elixir soup.
Considering Zhang Gui's Qi refining skills, he can naturally access low-grade elixir decoctions, which means that even if the fairy wine is diluted hundreds of times, the effect can reach the level of elixir decoctions.
After Ye Feng arrived here, he realized that his two hundred source crystals were not enough, but he had fairy wine.
He also wanted to see how valuable the fairy wine was, so he bought ten jade bottles and filled them quietly with the fairy wine. Unfortunately, he didn't see anything worth redeeming in the end.
Maybe the middle-aged man really didn't care about this place. Even though he didn't think Ye Feng could make a high-grade elixir soup, he still opened his eyes and said calmly:
"Of course it is of great use, but no one here knows the treasure and doesn't understand its magical uses."
"Hey! That means it's really useless, right?"
Although Ye Feng has little trading experience, he knows the principle of playing hard to get, so he is not in a hurry to express his desire.
"How could the value of soul stones be comparable to that of source crystals hundreds of thousands of years ago? The puppet army back then was powered by soul stones. One soul stone is worth one top-grade source crystal."
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes at Ye Feng and said disdainfully.
"Puppet Army?"
"Hmph! A bunch of frogs in a well don't know how big the world is."
Maybe no one knew the middle-aged man's treasure, which made him depressed, or maybe seeing that Ye Feng was just a teenager, he didn't have much defense, so he couldn't help but complain in his depression.
"Is this related to the puppet army?"
Ye Feng didn't know what the middle-aged man meant and was completely confused.
"This is just an uncivilized land. How can we understand the once brilliant civilization?"
"Oh! Isn't Taoist friend from the Emperor's dynasty?"
Ye Feng heard some different meanings from this man's mouth and couldn't help but ask.
"Hmph! I am a citizen of the wilderness, how can I be the descendant of sinners in this place of exile!"
The man changed his decadent attitude and said proudly.
"Desolate land?"
Ye Feng almost blurted out, he was so interested in these two words.