Xu Dao walked into this paper-made shop and immediately noticed the changes in his clothes, but with just a flash of light in his eyes, the clothes on his body returned to their original state.
This situation is similar to the scene at the Tao Discussion Conference in White Bone Monastery, it is just an illusion.
However, Xu Dao looked around, looking at the paper tables, paper chairs, and paper pillars in the shop, and thought to himself: "These are not illusions."
According to the rumors in the ghost market, the shop in front of you was opened by an elder from Shezhao, a Taoist priest in the foundation-building realm. Some people even speculated that this shop was a magical weapon.
After entering this shop, everyone will be shrouded in magic. Judging from the appearance, the clothes and magic weapons on them will become like paper. Although they can be broken, they will become difficult to use, especially
For external use.
This prevented the Taoists who entered the store from snooping around arbitrarily, and even took action, ensuring order in the store to a certain extent.
The inside of this shop looks like a teahouse and wine shop. It is supported by several paper pillars. It is three to four feet high alone. It is divided into two floors. It is much larger than it looks from the outside.
Xu Dao walked in, and behind the paper man who looked like a shopkeeper, he saw a plaque with the four characters "Tea Lecture Hall" written on it.
Around the paper plaque were placed a dozen white or yellow paper flowers, forming a wreath like garlic cloves hanging on a farmhouse pole.
It wasn't too late for him to arrive. Although there were already about a dozen people sitting in the shop, each with their own clothes scattered around, there were still plenty of empty seats.
When Xu Dao stepped here, nearly ten people glanced at him immediately. After seeing his appearance, they all looked back quickly or slowly, and no one paid much attention to him.
"Taoist, please come in!" Suddenly a voice like a drake's throat sounded. Xu Daoxun looked at it and saw that it was the paper mannequin of the shopkeeper standing under the plaque who was speaking.
It was wearing a navy blue shroud, a small hat on its head, and red spots the size of eyeballs on both cheeks. It looked much smarter than the two paper boy boys guarding the door outside.
Xu Dao couldn't figure out whether the paper figure was a Taoist disguised as a Taoist, or whether it contained a soul and was a Taoist weapon refined by the owner of the shop. He nodded calmly towards the other party, and then blended into the Taoist priests present, casually
I found an empty table and stayed at it.
Next, people kept coming in from outside the shop, either alone or in a group. Most of them took the empty seats downstairs, or sat down at a shared table with others.
A small number of people went to the second floor.
The view on the second floor is wider, and there are not many seats. Most of the Taoists who go up are late-stage Qi refining, late-stage body refining, or wealthy people.
Xu Dao came today under the identity of Taoist Lu. In the eyes of outsiders, his cultivation was only in the middle stage of body training. Naturally, he didn't bother to go up to the second floor to attract attention.
After a while, the huge tea lecture hall was filled with people, and there were no more empty tables or chairs.
There were about fifty people sitting downstairs, and a dozen or twenty people sitting upstairs. Compared to the ghost market, where hundreds of people come and go every day, they were very few.
Xu Dao seemed ordinary among them. He looked around and found that the majority of the people in the place were Taoist robes, while there were fewer people wearing Miao clothes. The latter did not even account for a quarter.
Before he could carefully tap it and try to find out if there was anyone familiar, there was a sudden sound of wood crashing!
Snap! The two-point red-cheeked paper man shopkeeper stood in the hall, cupping his hands towards the surrounding guests and the people upstairs, and then said with a high-pitched laugh:
"Dear distinguished guests, I am sorry to hear you come so far. Today is the treasure exchange meeting held once every three months. I hope that the distinguished guests will not hesitate to make a move later. Those who have treasures will open their eyes to the big guys, and those who have money will support the business of the small shop."
There are two sources for the goods in this auction. One is that casual cultivators consigned them to the ghost market, and then the shops selected them and put them at the auction for auction.
Goods of this kind vary in quality from bad to bad, and they are rare. Most sellers will not appear at the meeting due to their status or strength.
The second is that the Taoists attending the meeting have treasures in their hands. They can take this opportunity to trade with others at the meeting and sell them at a good price.
After the shopkeeper finished his opening remarks, he introduced the rules of the auction in detail. Xu Dao listened carefully for a few words and found that there was no difference from the usual small auctions, so he didn't pay attention anymore.
The Taoists around him all have a certain amount of wealth in the ghost market. Before the paper shop owner finished muttering, someone slapped the table and shouted: "What are you talking about? Take out everything quickly, the Taoist master has no time." Listen to this fake thing like you."
The person who spoke was a Taoist priest with a beard, and other Taoists heard it and started shouting: "You guys came here specifically not to listen to your talk. If you have any treasures, just take them out."
"Jiejie, that's right, that's right!"
Hearing that the guests were getting impatient, the paper shop owner chuckled a few times and humbly said: "Okay, okay! The shop will start now."
After it finished speaking, it clapped its palms, and the rough palm surface made a crisp sound like a living person clapping.
Didi, beep! Before everyone could calm down, the suona sounded suddenly in the shop, which was quite cheerful.
Xu Dao listened and recognized that it was the tone of a wedding, and was surprised for a moment. Many of the guests around him were also the same, but a few of them had expressions of understanding on their faces.
A bright red paper sedan came out of the back hall of the store and was carried by four short paper figures and placed in the hall.
The middle of the sedan was raised high and covered with a big red cloth. The paper shopkeeper stepped forward, pulled open the red cloth, and shouted in a sharp voice: "The bride is for sale!"
What I saw was a cage made of gold wire covered under the red cloth, held on a paper sedan chair, and containing a beautiful female living creature.
The reason why it is called so is because this thing is not a pure human form, but the upper half is a human and the lower half is a snake. The wide snake tail is entangled in the cage, which looks very weird.
The snake girl has erect eyes and a fierce look on her face, but her appearance is delicate. As soon as this object appeared, a Taoist in the scene immediately exclaimed: "It's a snake girl!"
Someone else quickly asked: "I wonder what kind of snake girl she is?"
The shopkeeper who presided over the auction transaction did not show off. He stood humbly next to the snake girl, rubbed his hands and said: "A three-yin snake girl who is comparable to the middle stage of Qi Refining can help all fellow Taoists practice. What's more important is that the age of this snake is Only three years old, Yuan Yin is still there..."
After a brief introduction, the shopkeeper said with a smile: "Snake girls with such exquisite looks are rare. Even if they don't practice, the taste is wonderful!"
At the end of the day, before the lowest price was quoted, a Taoist shouted: "How much does this snake girl cost?"
Xu Dao listened to the introduction from the shopkeeper. He stared at the monster in the cage and felt a great sense of surprise in his heart: ""The auction of this thing is actually to assist in spiritual practice?"
"Tsk tsk! It is indeed a ghost market. All the monsters in the auction can be made into wives and concubines." A dark and thin old man sitting next to him also blurted out something similar to what Xu Dao was thinking.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the black and thin old man turned around and said to the person next to him: "Our family thought we were going to disembowel this monster to extract materials to refine the elixir."
When the other party heard this, he shouted back: "Who says it's not possible?" As soon as he finished speaking, the person also slapped the table and shouted: "Quickly quote me the price!"
Xu Dao sat aside. He listened to the conversation between the two Taoists and felt even weirder in his heart.
However, after looking at the scenes of Taoists around him, there were ghosts, humans, insects, and monsters. At first glance, it seemed like a smoky atmosphere, as if he had fallen into a monster's nest, so he was no longer surprised.
Because the yin energy in the Sanyin Snake Girl's body is rich and pure, and her lifespan is not short, the starting price is five hundred talisman coins, which is five or six times more expensive than ordinary monsters.
But even so, the price of the snake girl still doubled several times, and was finally pocketed by a Taoist upstairs for two thousand and fifty-three talismans.
After the shopkeeper sent someone to send the snake girl up, the man took out a green bag and put the snake girl into it, including the cage and the sedan. It was obvious that she was a wealthy person with a magic weapon that could survive things.
It was obvious that he was in the late stage of body training, which caused many people who were peeping to look away.
After this experience, the atmosphere of buying and selling in the store was completely aroused. Xu Dao was no exception. He opened his eyes wide, wanting to see what other surprising things would appear in the hall next.
Immediately afterwards, there was another suona sound, but it was not joy, but sorrow.
Two coffins were carried up by paper figures, one white and one black. Inside lay two corpses, a man and a woman.
After the shopkeeper's introduction, Xu Daofang learned that the two corpses were the corpses of martial arts practitioners who were in the middle stage of body refining and were on the verge of the late stage of body refining. The specific origin was unknown, but according to the shopkeeper, such corpses were refining puppets and zombies.
materials, those who are good at this should not miss it.
However, compared to the snake girl just now, not all Taoists can refine puppets or zombies, so the atmosphere was much inferior. However, the two corpses were eventually bought for nine hundred talisman gold each.
This made Xu Dao murmur again.
You must know that among his flying flags, there was also the corpse of a martial artist, and he had the intention of selling it out.
But compared to the corpses in the hall, the quality in his hands was not very good, and the condition was also in dilapidated condition, so he probably couldn't sell it for a good price.
The two corpses were sold out, and then a rare thing was carried out. Xu Dao had no time to think about it and began to pay attention to the situation on the field again.
Demonic bones, elixirs, spells, formations, secret books, puppets, poisonous insects...pieces of goods were placed in the hall like a flowing stream for the Taoists around to purchase.
Some of them were highly sought after, and the final transaction price was nearly ten times higher, making the Taoist who took the auction smile. Others were so uninterested that the shopkeeper shouted three times and had them carried away.
The whole process made Xu Dao open his eyes. At the same time, he carefully noticed that one-third of the goods were gloomy and belonged to feminine spirits or monsters.
This made him feel a little familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly understood it and thought to himself: "It's probably an object in the Black Mountain."
He originally had a lot of such things in his hands, but he had already ground them into talisman ink and burned them. If they were put up for auction, they might be sold at a good price.
Xu Dao patiently watched the auction. Dozens of items passed by his eyes. Some of the elixirs and secret books also attracted his attention. However, because the auction had not yet reached the end, in order to save money, he bought the most He suppressed the idea of taking action for anything he needed.
Finally, a heavily made-up paper girl walked out from behind the stage, holding a tray and swaying.
The shopkeeper saw that the Taoists around him looked a little tired, so he gave up and said: "This thing is rare. Guess what it is?"
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"Hey! It's a magic weapon!" The paper figurine shopkeeper hugged the tray and said, "It's a magic weapon that can fly!"
"What's so great about magic weapons flying?"
The shopkeeper added: "If it can carry people, it can also kill people!"