Chapter 460: Astral Iron (1/2)

Chapter 460: Astral Iron

“I have not slept so comfortably for so long. Unexpectedly, I have slept until noon. It’s about time I go and find a Fist Technique.”

Xiao Chen went to a restaurant and ordered some food. Then, he called over a waiter and tossed a bag filled with hundreds of Inferior Grade Spirit Stones to him.

“Do you know how to get to the Ancient Desolate Underground Market?”

When the waiter felt how heavy the bag was, he immediately smiled and said, “Young hero, are you going there to sell or buy?”

Xiao Chen placed down his wine cup and asked, “Is there a difference?”

The waiter replied, “There is no difference actually. The location is the same. However, if you are going there to sell, you need to go and register at the Heavenly Extermination Union first. You look like this is the first time you are in Desolate City, I was afraid that you will end up making a pointless trip.”

Xiao Chen said, “That’s not a problem, I am not selling anything. You can just tell me how to get there.”

The waiter said, “After you leave the restaurant, just keep heading west. You will reach a lake in the middle of the city. We call this lake the Hidden Dragon Lake. The underground market you want to go to is under the lake.”

After Xiao Chen finished eating, he left the shop and immediately headed west.

There were many cultivators travelling in the air. Occasionally, Xiao Chen would see some cultivators who were rus.h.i.+ng around crash into each other.

Xiao Chen did not want to attract any unnecessary trouble. So, he raised his flying height to a thousand meters. There were much less people there.

The higher one flew, the more Essence would be exhausted. Unless there were any urgent matters, regular cultivators would not fly higher than a thousand meters.

Now that Xiao Chen’s vision was not obstructed, and he was at a better vantage point, he suddenly discovered a tower in front of the many buildings in the distance.

Below the tower, there were five sharp horns sticking into the air. At the tip of the tower, a formless Spiritual Energy was rus.h.i.+ng into the air, scattering the clouds and forming a large vacant area.

Xiao Chen muttered, “Is this the Ancient Desolate Tower?”

Unfortunately, Xiao Chen did not have a lot of time now. Otherwise, he would have definitely gone and checked it out. It was unknown what exactly was in this legendary and mysterious tower.

After one hour, a lake with Spiritual Energy extending throughout it appeared in Xiao Chen’s vision. The surface of the lake was calm, without any ripples.

However, there seemed to be a deep undercurrent within it. If one listened carefully, one would be able to hear the faint roars of a dragon.

“So this is Hidden Dragon Lake. Could there really be a dragon hidden within this lake? Or was it just casually named like this?” Xiao Chen smiled gently and landed on the water surface.

“Boom!”

Just at that moment, a loud roar came from under the lake. The water suddenly blasted apart, creating large splashes. A horrifying aura extended out in a circular manner into the surroundings .

“Xiu! Xiu!”

Under the suppression coming from the aura, circular walls of water rose up on the surface, growing continuously larger.

After a while, they arrived before Xiao Chen and pa.s.sed through him, travelling to further places.

Xiao Chen’s clothes instantly became wet, turning him into a soaked chicken.

[TL note: Soaked chicken (落汤鸡): Refers to a person who looks drenched and bedraggled.]

Strange, it felt like something had startled me and caused me to freeze up. I clearly could have dodged that, yet I was unable to even move my Essence. Xiao Chen thought as he used his Essence to dry his clothes. At the same time, he felt curious about the roar he had heard earlier.

“How unlucky, what did I do to deserve this? This old ancestor had not acted up for several years already.”

“Let’s stop speaking about it and go down first. We are merely drenched. You can use your Essence to dry yourself.”

A cultivator nearby cursed in a whisper. He had suffered the same fate as Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen did not bother to continue thinking about this problem though. After all, he would not be able to figure out the answer anyway. He covered himself in an Essence s.h.i.+eld, took a deep breath and sank down into the lake like the other cultivators around him.

Under the water, several cultivators could be seen moving around. Xiao Chen followed the crowd and slowly sank deeper into the water.

Ten minutes later, Xiao Chen saw a bright, white light in the center of the lake. Before he could react, a strong suction force pulled him down.

By the time Xiao Chen reacted, he found that he was already floating in mid-air. Above him was a transparent barrier, keeping the lake water away.

Underneath was a bustling market with lanterns lighting the place up. There were many people moving below and the place was full of the sound of people bargaining.

Xiao Chen hesitated for a while before slowly floating down to the ground. Soon, he disappeared into the crowd.

The market was covered in streets lined by merchants, so it ended up, looking like a dense spiderweb.

Xiao Chen walked on one of these streets, looking around interestedly. Indeed, it was as Xia Xiyan had told him. There were all sorts of people here. For example Demonic Cultivators, who were normally rarely seen, could be seen in significant numbers here.

The cultivators who set up stores seemed to sell almost everything. There were all sorts of Spirit Beasts corpses, materials from Demonic Beasts, Spirit Cores, Demonic Cores, Medicinal Pills, secret manuals, Cultivation Techniques, Spirit Weapons, and Secret Treasures.

There were so many items, that they were uncountable. Furthermore, these were just the regular items. What was more surprising were the extremely strange and evil items.

For example, there was a live girl placed at a store and had a price tag attached to her. After asking about it, Xiao Chen found out that this girl had a rare Absolute Yin Body. Evil cultivators would use her as a cultivation cauldron.

Then there was the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Pearl which was refined from human souls. Ten thousand Martial Saint cultivators had to be killed in order to refine it.