After a moment of burning incense, Husseile appeared from the door and nodded towards Shi Mu.
Shi Mu understood and followed in.
After a while, Shi Mu appeared in a room with relatively simple decoration.
A middle-aged man with a white face and a gray robe sat on a sandalwood chair. His eyes swept from Shi Mu in front of him and then back to Hussere beside him.
"Deacon Quan, this is the senior Mu mentioned below. He belongs to the Qiancheng branch and has a close relationship with me. This time I passed through Picheng and chatted with me about going to sea. Things about going to sea have always been summarized.
I immediately remembered that Deacon Quan has great hands and eyes, and he has many friends in the main altar of our religion, so I introduced him to the deacon." Husserey bowed his hand to the white-faced middle-aged man and began to flatter him.
Shi Mu bowed his hand to the white-faced middle-aged man with a smile, then took out the Ming Yue Token and handed it over.
He concealed his warrior aura, but did not conceal his warlock cultivation. At this time, his whole body was faintly exuding mana fluctuations that could only be seen by a star-level warlock.
"Oh, it turns out to be Fellow Daoist Mu, I'm glad to meet you. If I guessed correctly, you are planning to go out to sea to patrol the sea, right?" The white-faced middle-aged man glanced at the Ming Yue Token in Shi Mu's hand, but did not reach out to take it.
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"Deacon Quan clearly knows that this is indeed the case." Shi Mu put away the Ming Yue Order and said.
"It's not a big deal to go hunting at sea. As long as you register at Quyang City, you can take the church's giant boat that goes out to sea every two months. However, the situation has changed recently. I advise you not to go, so as not to run away in vain.
Just a trip." The white-faced middle-aged man said.
"How do you say this?" Shi Mu was startled.
"This matter is related to some unannounced matters of the General Forum, so it is inconvenient for me to say more." The white-faced middle-aged man shook his head and looked helpless.
"Fellow Daoist Quan, this matter is very important to me. If you can give me some advice, I would be very grateful." Shi Mu took out ten low-grade spiritual stones from the dusty ring and gently placed them on the table of the white-faced middle-aged man.
superior.
"That's all. This matter is not a particularly confidential matter, and you are not considered outsiders..." The white-faced middle-aged man gently flicked his sleeves, and calmly put the spirit stone in front of him into his sleeves, and then said this after thinking for a while.
He said, his voice lowered a bit.
Seeing this, Shi Mu and Husse Lei quickly moved closer, pretending to be listening attentively.
In the following time, through the white-faced middle-aged man's narration, the two finally understood the whole story.
It turns out that the senior leaders of the Ming Yue Sect recently decided to send people to explore the Xihe Continent on the other side of the West Sea. It is said that the cultivation resources there are far richer than those on the Dongzhou Continent. In addition, there are a large number of monsters and beasts for sacrifice.
However, the number of places for this operation is limited. After discussion, the senior leaders of the teaching decided to select two hundred elite disciples through a competition. In order to cooperate with this operation, all recent overseas trips have been suspended.
Half a year later, the general election will be held in Quyang City, the capital of the ancient Xixia Kingdom.
Before the general election is held, primaries will be held in more than a dozen cities, and Picheng is one of the primary locations.
One month later, the primary election in Picheng will begin, and then the winners will go to Quyang City together.
After listening to the white-faced middle-aged man's explanation, Shi Mu quickly stood up and thanked him, and after some polite remarks, he left the room with Hussere.
Soon, the two of them reappeared on a certain street in Picheng. At this time, there were not many pedestrians on the street.
"What do you think of this selection?" Shi Mu glanced at Hussere and asked.
"Senior Mu seems to be interested in participating in this selection, right?" Hussere asked.
"Not bad." Shi Mu nodded.
"With all due respect, for such an important selection competition in the religion, identities will be strictly verified during the preliminary rounds. Merely relying on the Ming Yue Order is not enough. Why don't seniors join the Ming Yue Sect first?" Husse Lei took two steps forward and suggested in a low voice.
road.
"It's not that simple to join the Ming Yue Sect, right?" Shi Mu asked.
"You only need to participate in a ceremony to worship the Lord of the Underworld, during which the soul will be baptized." Hussere said.
"I don't want to join the Ming Yue Sect. If you think about it again, is there any other way?" Shi Mu shook his head and asked.
"That's right! Judging from the situation in previous years, although the preliminary rounds for this type of competition are set up in each branch city, they are all supervised by special envoys directly sent by the general forum. The number of places in the preliminary round is just a matter of a word from the special envoy.
It's not difficult to ask Deacon Quan to help set up a line, spend some spiritual stones to do some activities, and buy a spot in the preliminary election directly. As long as you can get into the preliminary list, your identity will not be checked during the re-examination." Husserle pondered for a moment.
Then, he spoke again.
Shi Mu thought for a moment and nodded.
In the following time, he took Hussere to find a place to live in the city.
More than half an hour later, Shi Mu rented two ordinary rooms in an inn in the east of the city.
The guest rooms are not big, but each room is equipped with restrictions to isolate the spiritual consciousness, and the price is also very shocking. The daily rent for two rooms is as high as ten thousand taels of silver.
Such an expensive price shocked Hussere.
Speaking of which, this is still related to this overseas competition.
Although the Mingyue Sect General Forum has not yet officially announced this matter, many people may have gotten some rumors in advance through various channels, so they poured into these cities that have set up sub-fields from all directions.
Among them, the majority are disciples of the Ming Yue Sect, and there are also some outsiders who want to make a fortune through this.
Picheng was not a big city to begin with, but now that so many people have poured in, rooms in all the inns have become in short supply, and the prices have naturally increased accordingly.
However, Shi Mu still has more than 10,000 spiritual stones in his pocket, so he doesn't care about this expenditure.
Five days later, in the evening.
In a remote alley in Pic City.
Shi Mu was dressed in a gray robe and stood at the door of a relatively dilapidated residential compound. The same was true for Hussere behind him.
It turned out that two days ago, Hussere received a piece of news from a fellow believer in the city.
Because there was a large influx of people from both inside and outside the church in Picheng, a certain force in the city was planning to take this opportunity to hold an underground trade fair. It was said that there would be many things that were rarely seen by the outside world. Shi Mu was naturally very interested after hearing this.
, that’s why we took this trip.
Hussere went directly to knock on the door, and Shi Mu followed him leisurely.
"Dong...dong...dong dong dong", two long and three short, five times in total.
After a while, there was a "squeak" sound as the door opened.
The courtyard door opened, and two young men, naked from the waist up and wearing green trousers, stood behind the door with wary faces, looking at Shi Mu and Hussere.
Shi Mu used his spiritual consciousness to scan the two of them and found that they were both acquired Dzogchen warriors.
Before the green-robed young man could speak, Hussere took out a jade token with mana fluctuations and waved it in front of the two of them. The two green-robed young men's expressions softened and they immediately stepped aside to get out of the way.
A moment later, Shi Mu and Hussere appeared in an underground space under the residents' compound. At this time, both of them were wearing black robes with hoods. Only a pair of eyes were exposed.
Shi Mu's eyes moved and he looked around.
The underground space here is quite wide, covering a hundred feet in size. In the circular open space in the middle, there is a long stone table nearly ten feet long.
At this time, three to four hundred people had gathered in the secret room. Many of them had very powerful auras and were all innate warriors or star-level warlocks.
However, because the black robe covering the body is relatively wide and has the effect of isolating spiritual consciousness, except for the difference in height, everyone looks similar.
Shi Mu was quite satisfied with this arrangement.
Although this place cannot be compared with the scale of the Shengxian Auction in Tianyu City, there are still many powerful people. There should be a lot of things that make him excited in the trade fair.
He took Hussere with him, casually found a seat in the back row, sat down, and waited patiently.
Within half an hour, after hundreds of people came in one after another, the underground trade fair finally began.
"Ahem, it's almost time, and all the fellow Taoists who are supposed to come have arrived. This trade fair will start now." An old voice sounded from behind the long stone table.
At some point, a figure wearing a green robe appeared behind the long stone table.
The discussion among the people in the underground secret room gradually stopped. Everyone's eyes showed excitement and they all looked at the long stone table.
"This trade fair. There are no restrictions. Rare materials, elixirs, magic weapons, exercises and other items can be traded, but all items can only be priced in spirit stones. During the trade fair, each person can only go on stage once. As long as the transaction is completed
, both parties to the transaction must take 3% of the transaction price as commission." The man in green robe spoke again.
As soon as this person finished speaking, buzzing discussions began in the underground secret room.
Shi Mu nodded secretly.
No wonder the forces in the city want to hold such an underground trade fair. There are nearly 500 people here. They only accept spiritual stones for transactions, and a commission of 6% is charged for each transaction. I am afraid they can earn a lot of money overnight.
wealth.
Moreover, at such underground trade fairs, the organizers can also take the opportunity to collect many rare resources.
However, in such trade fairs, the privacy and security of both buyers and sellers are relatively guaranteed, so everyone is willing to pay such expensive transaction commissions.
"Fellow Taoists, I'm impatient, so I'll start by offering some advice." Before the discussion could subside, a thin man in black robes came to the long stone table with his body rising and falling.
The five or six people below who were a step late could only retreat angrily.
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Two hours later, Shi Mu returned to the inn.
In this underground trade fair, except for a "Qiantian Talisman Sutra" circulated from the Ming Yue Sect, there was nothing that he particularly valued.
According to the original owner, this classic contains dozens of high-level talisman secrets.
With his current level of spell cultivation as a star-level warlock and the blessing of spiritual eyes, he has long wanted to try high-level talismans.
So after a lot of competition, he finally spent nearly 1,500 spirit stones to win it in one fell swoop.
This move caused a lot of eyebrows and sneers at the scene.
After all, Talisman Master is a very expensive profession. There is no support from a large sect. If you rely on your own strength, you may not be able to even master the basic Talisman, and you will not be able to advance to the next level.
And some high-level talisman masters in the sect who have the ability to draw high-level talismans will naturally have no shortage of such talisman books.
Therefore, this kind of talisman classics circulated from the sect seems a bit useless.
Of course, there are some people who are interested in hunting or have a hobby of collecting.
Shi Mu was obviously classified into the latter category by everyone present.
Shi Mu naturally didn't care about this.
He carefully took out Cai'er, who was still sleeping, from his arms and put it aside. Then he sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, put the gray jade slip recording the "Qiantian Talisman Sutra" on his forehead, and read it carefully. (To be completed.) Continued.)