"The three of you must have heard that Senior Brother Su has to leave temporarily for a year due to important matters. During this period, I will temporarily take charge of the Bailian Pavilion on his behalf. I'm Liu Ming, a disciple of Piaohongyuan, please call me by my name from now on.
That’s it. I don’t know anything about business, so I’ll leave the business in the store to a few people, and everything can be handled as usual without any changes.” Seeing this, Liu Ming smiled slightly and continued.
"Liu Shang, please don't say that. From now on, your superior will still have to make the final decision on matters in the store. I will naturally do my best to do other trivial matters." Shopkeeper Ye immediately took a few steps forward and said with a smile.
The other two weapon refiners looked relieved after hearing this.
This temporary disciple seemed to be a sensible person and didn't like to meddle in others' affairs, which made them secretly relieved.
So after they chatted for a few more words, Shopkeeper Ye asked the two middle-aged men to return to the weapon refining room, while he personally took Liu Ming around to familiarize himself with Bailian Pavilion.
When Liu Ming first came in, he only had a cursory glance. Now, under the guidance and patient explanation of the old shopkeeper, he naturally gained a new understanding of Bailian Pavilion.
The first floor is the store's facade, which looks quite simple and elegant. Rows of shelves and counters display some magic weapons, spiritual weapons, various ores, etc.
The second floor is divided into two private rooms and a living room, which are specially designed to receive some distinguished guests or conduct some private transactions. The layout is very elegant and generous.
The private rooms all have the Taiqing Door's soundproofing ban, so even a strong person in the crystallization stage cannot detect anything from the outside about what's going on inside.
As for the third floor, the place is much smaller. This is the quiet room where the disciples live and meditate.
The backyard on the first floor of Bailian Pavilion is the weapon refining workshop. Most of the talismans and spiritual weapons placed on the counter are directly refined in the workshop.
Liu Ming had no experience in refining weapons, but this moment really opened his eyes.
Finally, Shopkeeper Ye took Liu Ming to the basement of Bailian Pavilion with a solemn look. The underground secret room was only a few feet in diameter and as tall as one person. The material used for the walls and floor was a dark blue dock stone.
The special ore not only has extremely high hardness, but also has the effect of isolating the detection of spiritual consciousness.
In the middle of the secret room is a circular magic circle about ten feet in size, flashing slightly with white light.
"This is the long-distance communication formation with the sect?" Liu Ming's face changed, and he said with some surprise.
"Exactly, the communication circle here is directly connected to the deacon hall of the sect. Generally, when important events happen, this circle will be used to report to the sect." Shopkeeper Ye said solemnly.
"According to the sect's regulations, in this Bailian Pavilion, only the disciples who are in charge are qualified and can use the tokens. Envoy Su should have given the stimulating token to Ambassador Liu.?"
On the surface, Bailian Pavilion is a weapon-refining shop, but it is actually a stronghold set up by the Taiqing Sect here. As for the other shops in the name of the so-called Taiqing Sect, they are actually only owned by some inner and outer disciples of the sect or dependent families.
opened.
Changyangfang City is a place under the joint jurisdiction of several major forces. Hands-on fighting is strictly prohibited in the city. The disciples of Bailian Pavilion usually serve as a deterrent on behalf of the Taiqing Sect, but not necessarily
What a powerful person.
"Brother Su has indeed given it to me." Liu Ming nodded and replied.
Afterwards, the two people quickly left the secret room and came to the quiet room on the third floor.
There are three rooms inside and outside the quiet room. The layout is very simple. The outermost room is a living room. There is a mahogany table and several chairs of the same texture. There is a bedroom in the middle and a secret room in the innermost room.
Of course, there is also the same prohibition circle here, so no one will disturb you while practicing here.
After Liu Ming looked around, he was quite satisfied with the environment here.
"Shopkeeper Ye, go ahead and go ahead. If something happens in the store, use this thing to send a message to me. This is my first time coming to Dafang City outside the sect, and I want to take a walk around and get familiar with the environment." Liu Ming
Turning over his hands, he took out a white disk and handed it to Shopkeeper Ye.
After shopkeeper Ye thought about it for a moment, he agreed.
Later, after the two casually chatted about some things, Liu Ming walked out of Bailian Pavilion.
He vaguely understood from Shopkeeper Ye that over the years, due to the prestige of the Taiqing Sect, no one generally dared to cause trouble here, so the disciples who were in charge usually did not have to stay in the shop.
He didn't go very far when he moved to a remote and uninhabited place. He activated the Bone Yi Jue. After a crackling sound all over his body, his body suddenly became much taller. At the same time, black energy rolled out from his whole body.
He became a burly, dark-faced man.
He has thoroughly understood this technique he learned from the Barbarian Ghost Sect over the years. Coupled with the Dragon and Tiger Underworld Kung Fu, he can not only change his height and body shape, but also make some simple adjustments to the bones and skin color of his face.
It can easily become another person.
Then Liu Ming walked into the crowd of people in Fangshi again and started wandering around.
Changyang City is indeed a large market. The number and size of the shops on both sides of the street are far greater than the several small markets he has been to before.
There are also a lot of monks strolling around here, and they are constantly coming in and out of various shops. The larger the shop, the more frequent the flow of people in and out.
Liu Ming walked around and walked into a seemingly large-scale store.
This shop is divided into several areas, where spiritual weapons, elixirs, and materials are all sold.
After a while, Liu Ming came out. Although his expression was very calm, there was a hint of excitement in his eyes.
He didn't buy anything inside just now, but inquired about the prices of various elixirs at the elixir counter.
The result was as he expected, Leng Ning Dan was also a very scarce elixir in Changyangfang City, and the price was also very high.
He seemingly casually inquired about the purchasing price of Leng Ning Dan with the shopkeeper, and was even more delighted to find that the price given by the shopkeeper was a bit higher than the previous prices.
In the following time, Liu Ming went to several other shops and made inquiries. The results he obtained were almost the same, which made him even more satisfied.
In addition, after visiting several material shops, he found that Changyangfang City may be at the intersection of several major forces. Various alchemy materials are also quite complete. Most of the raw materials required for refining the refrigeration elixir are easily available.
He could even purchase another type of elixir he was good at, Jin Yuan Dan's alchemy materials.
The only regret is that the Qing Ning Guo in the two shops is only about a hundred years old. It is somewhat insufficient for refining the cold condensation pill.
In a seemingly old attic shop.
"Fellow Taoist, do you want to buy Qing Ning Guo that has been heated for more than 200 years?" The shopkeeper is a gray-haired old man. He looked up and down at the black-faced man Liu Ming transformed into, and asked with a strange look on his face.
"Exactly, I wonder if you have it in your store?" Liu Ming nodded and asked lightly.
"Forgive me for being ignorant, but you can use the elixirs of Qing Ning Guo, such as Yuling Powder and Longdan Pills, which are more than a hundred years old. What is the use of Qing Ning Guo if you want Qing Ning Guo that is more than two hundred years old?
"The shopkeeper asked, twirling his snow-white beard.
When Liu Ming heard what the old man said, he just smiled and said nothing.
The old man quickly came to his senses, coughed dryly, and said with some embarrassment:
"I'm talking too much. However, I don't have the material that my Taoist friend wants in this small shop. You might as well go to the southwest of Fang City to look for it. The Bat Tribe shop there should sell it."
"The Bat Clan Shop?" Liu Ming was slightly startled when he heard this. Then he cupped his fists and said thank you, then turned and walked out of the shop.
Following the instructions of the old shopkeeper, he quickly came to the southwest of Fang City and quickly discovered several buildings with very different styles.
Different from ordinary shops, which are mostly made of bluestone, these buildings are built of a kind of dark wood, and the surface is covered with green vines as thick as a wrist. They must be shops opened by the bat tribe.
He chose the largest two-story attic and walked in.
This shop has a plaque with the name "Ba Ling Zhai" hanging on it.
The store has two large bays on its facade, which is quite large in the market. It is also divided into several areas. The counters are equipped with elixirs, talismans, and materials and herbs.
Behind these counters stood several young men in black clothes, all of them with handsome features, red lips and white teeth.
The bat tribe is a kind of alien race that evolved from the ordinary race. Their appearance is almost the same as that of ordinary humans. The only obvious external feature is that when fighting with people, a pair of extremely thin fleshy wings will be revealed from the back.
In addition, the vision of these bat tribesmen may be slightly poor, but their hearing is much better than that of ordinary humans.
Liu Ming didn't see whether these boys were really bat-men, so he quickly withdrew his gaze and looked along the counters one by one.
As a result, when he saw the third counter, his eyes lit up and he walked over calmly.
There are some round cyan fruits the size of fists placed on this counter, and they are clearly Qing Ning Guo.
These fruits are arranged according to their size. According to Liu Ming's experience, some of the larger ones on the far right look like they have been around for three to four hundred years!
"Fellow Taoist, do you want to buy Qing Ning Guo?" The boy behind the counter immediately said with a smile on his face.
"How do you sell these Qing Ning Guo?" Liu Ming did not speak immediately. After looking at it carefully for a while, he raised his head and said calmly.
"According to the year, the Qing Ning Guo in our store has different heating conditions of one hundred, two hundred, three hundred and four hundred years, and the price is naturally different. Among them, a two thousand spirit stone with one hundred years of heating will be worth two hundred years.
There are four thousand spirit stones for the fire, six thousand spirit stones for the three hundred years, and twelve thousand spirit stones for the Qing Ning Guo for the four hundred years." The boy in black replied neatly.
Liu Ming nodded secretly, this price is relatively reasonable for Qing Ning Guo.
"I've been walking around the market, and it's rare to see Qing Ning Guo that has been heated for more than two hundred years. I didn't expect that there are quite a few here." Liu Ming said seemingly casually.
"Senior, this must be your first time to Changyangfang City, right?" After hearing Liu Ming's words, the young man did not answer immediately, but immediately asked respectfully.
"Not bad." Liu Ming nodded.
"It's not surprising that seniors don't know about it. This green condensate fruit has many uses, and our bat tribe also grows a lot of it." The young man in black explained to Liu Ming with a hint of surprise.