When the black market is not called a black market, it means that the black market has been legalized.
There is only one special organization that can give the black market a legitimate identity and control it.
Li Rui felt that this organization would find him soon, and this was not something he could judge by feeling.
Walking in the market with Xu Yao, Li Rui gradually deepened his understanding of the place.
Most of the roadside stalls only display one or two items, some of which look unrecognizable, and some of which are famous people's calligraphy and paintings or collectible antiques.
"Is there anything you like?" Xu Yao walked beside and asked Li Rui with a smile.
He didn't quite understand the value of these messy things, and Li Rui didn't like collecting beautiful or historically valuable things, so he was a little disappointed with what he saw.
"Is there any place for sale of rare ores, special jade, or items suspected to be left behind by practitioners?" Li Rui asked curiously.
"Are you looking for rare ores?" Xu Yao was slightly surprised.
There are some things around here that some people bought from the countryside, and there are also some things from unknown sources.
If something is confirmed to have come from a certain tomb, it will be forcibly turned in for a small banner, but there is basically no monitoring of things like ore and jade.
She had only thought that Li Rui was just looking for some items that might have been left by practitioners, and it turned out that he was looking for ores.
After knowing Li Rui's purpose, Xu Yao led Li Rui straight to the destination.
This is a rare stone and treasure shop with seven doors. Instead of displaying a few things like a street stall, there are even several waiters here.
These waiters also stand in fixed positions, like beautiful vases. If no one calls them, they will not talk to customers.
"Is there what you want here?" Xu Yao was a little confused.
Because she knew very little about practitioners, she had no idea what Li Rui's purpose was. What she didn't know was that even if practitioners were with Li Rui, they wouldn't understand what Li Rui was going to do.
On Earth, the craftsmanship of cultivators in refining weapons has basically been lost, and the good things that can be used are all left by our ancestors.
"Let me see first!"
After casually responding, Li Rui was already looking attentively in front of each cabinet.
After walking a few steps, Li Rui stopped in front of a thick stone that he hugged with both hands, and gently stroked the lines on it with his hands.
The art of observing stones can determine whether there is treasure hidden in the stone.
The textures of some stones are just beautiful, while the textures of some stones have special meanings.
The stone in front of Li Rui is a pictographic stone among natural ornamental stones. It is mainly white with black stripes all over the entire stone. The overall image looks like a lying tiger.
Under the stone, there is also a sign with the name of the stone: White Tiger Sleeping.
"I want this." Li Rui said to Xu Yao.
On the surface, this stone with natural luster looked quite impressive when placed at home, but Xu Yao didn't quite understand where Li Rui would place this thing when he brought it back.
If it is placed in the dormitory, half the table is occupied, right?
Although she didn't understand, Xu Yao still nodded.
A nearby waitress came over and said with a smile: "The white tiger is sleeping, the price is 1.2 million."
Xu Yao nodded and looked at Li Rui, wondering what else he wanted to buy.
The waitress was still very happy. Just a few days after starting work, someone planned to buy ornamental stones in the area she was responsible for. Unlike some people before, they came to ask for a long time and didn't buy anything.
If the customer doesn't want to know the story of this stone, she doesn't need to waste a long time introducing it.
"If you two need anything else, we'll be here."
After saying this, the waiter returned to his original position.
"Very good." Li Rui smiled and walked to the second area.
"I'm a little curious, can you tell me about it?"
Xu Yao kept her attitude very low with a tone of soliciting opinions.
If Cai Mingtian knew that Xu Yao looked like this in front of Li Rui, his jaw would definitely drop.
"If I'm not mistaken, the stone just now contains white jade crystals." Because of his confidence and fear of exposure, Li Rui told what he saw.
I don't know what white jade crystal is, but Xu Yao looked at Li Rui with an unreliable feeling.
"You don't treat this place as a quarry, do you?"
Xu Yao's voice was a little resentful. She thought Li Rui was asking her to buy something important, but instead he bought a few broken stones and used the ornamental stones as rough stones for gambling.
"Different."
Just as Li Rui was about to explain, he suddenly saw something good. He crossed three stores in a row and came to an exquisite counter.
There was only a delicate mechanical box placed inside the counter. The box was rotating slowly, and a crystal about six centimeters in diameter lay above it. Inside the crystal was a luminous green object swimming in the water.
This is a water bladder crystal. The crystal contains water in the middle, which is called "holy water", and the luminous green object is its core.
The sign below reads: Full of vitality.
After his description, Li Rui noticed that when the green light was emitted, the crystal showed that some lines looked like new plant buds under the green light.
There is another crystal ornamental stone next to the counter, which is a type of titanium crystal. There are golden needles inside the titanium crystal that twist slightly, like several golden dragons flying. The famous work: Yun Qi Long Xiang.
After Li Rui selected these two ornamental stones, he never found anything he liked.
"Aren't the three things you bought very different?"
Xu Yao didn't understand and wanted Li Rui to tell her what he was doing. She felt that Li Rui didn't buy it just for the sake of looking good. Based on her aesthetics, she felt that there were better-looking stones in this store, and Li Rui was just a stone.
Glancing past.
His actions seemed to have great purpose.
When settling the price, the price of water bile crystal and big white stone was not bad, but the price of "Yunqi Longxiang" shocked Xu Yao, it was 3.8 million.
"It's quite expensive." Li Rui raised his eyebrows, a little heartless.
He found that he must have a lot of things to buy, and the five million collected from Bai Xiang might be used up soon.
"What do you think! The price of some titanium crystals is comparable to that of diamonds, or even more." Xu Yao was a little resentful. Her pocket money was used up in no time. If she spent any more money, she would have to go home and report to her father.
Already.
The dragon has a special meaning to the Chinese people, and the prices of things with dragons are even more outrageous.
After selling three items, the store owner originally wanted to ask if he wanted to deliver the items to his door, but when he saw Li Rui moving the big stone away with one hand, he immediately stopped talking.
"Is there a secret room nearby?" Li Rui asked.
"Of course, do I need to take you there?"
Xu Yao suddenly realized at this time that Li Rui might have really discovered some amazing treasure in these stones.
"How old are you, and you still talk so much nonsense?"
After rolling her eyes, Xu Yao was not angry. She took Li Rui to the center of the market and opened a room in an inn.
"Is this the secret room you're talking about?"
Li Rui hugged the big stone and followed Xu Yao into a spacious room with a TV, a sofa, a bathroom and a bed. It looked like a hotel's deluxe double bed room.
"Don't worry, this is an inn run by my Xu family. There is no surveillance here and the sound insulation is very good. No one will know what is going on in the house." Xu Yao slapped her chest and smiled.
"If I didn't know what you were going to say, I would have thought you were going to do something to me when I heard what you said."
After glancing at Xu Yao, Li Rui checked to confirm that there was no problem in the house, pushed the bed away, made a large enough space, and sat cross-legged on the ground.
Just realizing the flaw in her words, Xu Yao's face turned red. Seeing that Li Rui had no intention of driving her away, she happily sat down by the bed.
"Can I watch you do something?"
"You won't learn from it anyway, so I'll give you a gift later."
If it weren't for the smile on Li Rui's face, Xu Yao would have been very ladylike if she didn't get angry and beat someone up when she heard that she deserved a beating. She had a vague expectation for the gift.
The first thing Li Rui dealt with was titanium crystal.
Since there were no sharp knives to help, he had no choice but to consume his spiritual energy and condense ten sharp knives to cover his nails. Purple current flowed in the white blade, making the knives extremely sharp.
He turned his fingers, titanium crystals bounced and danced in his hands, and white scraps kept flying out and falling to the ground.
Spiritual energy is injected into the crystal, opening up some of its veins, and at the same time engraving the secret text of the weapon.
Li Rui's method of refining weapons has three essences: formations, secret texts and secret talismans.
Refining different artifacts requires different methods. Among them, formations and secret symbols require some materials to assist in carving, but secret texts only need to carve textures into the materials and imprint them with spiritual energy.
As the fingers turned, the titanium crystal, which was half the size of a baby's fist, became round and smooth. After the outer transparent crystal and some golden needles were shaved off, the visual effect of the dancing dragons on the entire stone became more prominent.
When he felt it was about the same, Li Rui took out the black diamond.
His left hand is still turning over the titanium crystal for more detailed processing, hollowing out the middle to make a ring. His right hand is using a similar method to process black diamonds. The movements of the two hands are completely different, and the changes in the stone are also different.
"Two uses at once!" Xu Yao exclaimed inwardly. None of her masters could guarantee that she could achieve two tasks at will like Li Rui, especially when doing particularly delicate carving work.
At this moment, Li Rui turned his head, looked at Xu Yao, and said, "I need the bracelet on your hand, can you?"
"OK."
The bracelet was a birthday gift from Xu Chan to Xu Yao a year ago. It was made of sterling silver and was not expensive, but it had a special meaning. She gave it to Li Rui without thinking.
"It won't take much."
Li Rui smiled slightly, turned over the titanium crystal with his left hand, and took the bracelet.
This time, his situation changed to two items on his left hand and one item on his right hand.
"Three uses at once!" Xu Yao was already frightened.
Just when Xu Yao thought Li Rui was about to cut the titanium crystal, purple flames emerged from Li Rui's fingertips and burned on the surface of the silver bracelet and countless small black diamond beads.
He mixed the silver water flowing out of the silver bracelet with the black diamond, and then instantly turned the titanium crystal that had been cut into rings into three rings. The silver water that wrapped the black diamond beads was divided into one large and two small ones and wrapped around the titanium crystal ring.
The aura of the knife-like fingertips turned into a hammer, beating the three rings. After a while, the transparent color of the three silver rings was filled with silver, and the golden dragon was still there.
Flexibly roasting it again, the three rings flashed with black light, and Li Rui stopped.
Xu Yao rubbed her eyes, thinking that the black light was an illusion, but she felt relieved again when she thought of the black diamond.
"Okay, let's shed blood to identify the owner!" After handing one of the rings to Xu Yao, Li Rui broke his finger and dropped a drop of blood on the best ring.
The blood was absorbed by the ring, and he collected the waste materials and water bile crystals on the ground.
Although it cost a lot, Li Rui still felt very satisfied with the ring being 100 cubic meters.
Xu Yao imitated Li Rui and dripped blood on the back of the ring. She felt like she saw a ten cubic meter space right in front of her eyes. She looked at the ring in her hand in shock and couldn't speak for a long time.