Chapter 168: Lost Sky Ruins’ Underground Transaction (2/2)

As Mo Wuji walked out of his room, he saw a crowd of people walking down from the flying ship. Just how many spirit stones is this flying ship earning from a single trip like this?

As he followed the crowd out of the flying ship, Mo Wuji was amazed at the size of the Lost Sky City. Or rather, the Lost Sky meeting place.

There were many multistoreys buildings as well as roadside stalls. Mo Wuji even noticed some people who took a furnace to set up a stall and established their services to help people to refine their equipments.

As Mo Wuji walked through this Lost Sky City, he realised that this was just like a provision market. They literally sold everything here that you could or could not think of.

Mo Wuji chose to enter a shop that was not too big because the bigger the building, the more conspicuous it would be. What he needed now was not to look conspicuous.

”This lord, may I ask if you need anything? Our prices are very affordable given the fact that all the things we sell are genuine,” the shop assistant looked really young with a sharp tongue. Mo Wuji guessed that he should at most be in the later stages of the Channel Opening Stage.

Mo Wuji immediate ignored the shop assistant’s second part of his sentence, ”I am looking for the updated map of the Lost Sky Ruins. I would also need the general location of the place where the production of spiritual objects are.”

The shop assistant hurried to reply, ”So this lord wants to head towards the Lost Sky Ruins. Would you want to purchase the better ones or the average ones?”

Mo Wuji replied with a puzzled look, ”Of course I would want to purchase the better ones.”

The shop assistant said in a softer voice, ”Not trying to hide from you, but lord, all the maps sold by the stalls or even the commercial buildings here are all of fairly average quality. If you want to purchase the best maps and even the general location of the rarest spiritual objects, you have to go to the underground market here at the Lost Sky Ruins!”

”Underground market?” Mo Wuji had no clue what this was about.

The shop assistant softened his voice even further, ”The underground market is Lord Mang’s turf, while the market you are in now belongs to Tian Xumeng. Because of the lesser crowds in the underground market, Lord Mang sells only top grade items. Poorer quality items are not allowed into that market as only the best quality items could be brought in to be transacted there. Without saying, the items at the underground market would be slightly more expensive.”

Mo Wuji sighed as this was indeed someone’s turf. He reached out his hand to pass the shop assistant a jade vase, ”It must be tough for you working here. There are six Earth Yuan Pills inside. Would it be possible for you to bring me to the underground market?”

The moment the shop assistant saw Mo Wuji’s offer of six Earth Yuan Pills, his hand was trembling and he nearly dropped the jade vase. All he needed to do was to lead the way and even half an Earth Yuan Pill would be too much of a tip. However, this unknown customer actually offered six Tier 4 Earth Yuan Pills right from the beginning.

This could not be fake right? The shop assistant opened the jade vase the moment he thought of it. Almost instantaneously, he could tell that the pills inside the jade vase were genuine. As a shop assistant, he could easily tell the difference between a genuine and a fake pill.

”This, this…” the six genuine Earth Yuan Pills muddled the shop assistant. Initially he knew that selling a simple map would not earn him much spirit stones, so he wanted to make use of the opportunity to lead the way to earn extra spirit stones. However, to get such a reward, it was simply a little too unbelievable.

As a Tier 4 Pill Refiner himself, these six pills meant nothing to Mo Wuji. He was not acting generous because after entering the Lost Sky Ruins, he had to protect his own life wherever he went. By giving this shop assistant something that meant nothing to himself, he could be rest assured that this shop assistant would not go against him. As long as this shop assistant could bring him to purchase the authentic map, he could very possibly save this small life of his.

This fella struck his chest as he said, ”Lord, don't you worry. I will bring you to the best shop to purchase the most valued items,”

The shop assistant was experienced enough to know the meaning behind Mo Wuji’s offer of six healing pills.

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Mo Wuji naturally understood the underground market. It was not literally underground but very few people knew of it because anything not transacted on the surface would be considered as an underground transaction.

It was only when the shop assistant brought Mo Wuji to the actual underground

market that he realised that his understanding was off the mark. The underground market here was literally underground.

Under the guidance of this shop assistant, Mo Wuji entered the underground market from a hidden place.

This market was located about over 60 metres underneath the surface and Mo Wuji could tell that there were quite a number of people here. As for the actual size of the area, Mo Wuji could not tell because the surroundings were only illuminated by dim lights, even with the illumination stones, it seemed like the lights were set up to hide something.

As for the Illumination Array on the illumination stones, Mo Wuji did not even notice any of it.

There was an endless stream of cultivators transacting here without causing any noise or commotion. It was as though everyone was abiding to a rule to transact and leave quietly.

The shop assistant brought Mo Wuji to a shop whose lights were dimmer than the lights of the surrounding shops and then whispered to Mo Wuji, ”This is Honest Qi’s shop and the things he sell are definitely authentic. If lord were to purchase what you need from here, you will definitely not lose out.”

”Thank you, please carry on with what you need to do,” Mo Wuji patted his shoulder as he thanked the shop assistant.

”Great,” The shop assistant saw how satisfied Mo Wuji was with his guidance hence, he replied ecstatically and then disappeared into the darkness.