“Deal.” Li Changqing agreed to Xue Qianbai’s proposal after a brief consideration. As Xue Qianbai had said, he wouldn’t know where to forge the Ice Soul Cold Iron even if it was given to him.
Rely on the blacksmith in Changting Town? He probably couldn’t do it. If he casually found someone unreliable to forge it, he might even be tricked and lose the ore.
It’s just an Acceptance of Rings. The remaining Mysterious Void ancient wood in his hand was enough to make several more. Giving one to Xue Qianbai was no big deal, especially since Xue Qianbai was the deputy sect master of Dao Mountain Ancient Land. If Li Hengsheng accidentally caused trouble in Dao Mountain Ancient Land in the future, there would be one more person to protect him, wouldn’t there?
Riding a bicycle to the bar, saving where he should save, spending where he should spend. Although the problem of the ore was solved, Li Changqing had no plans to leave for the time being.
Having come to such a black market, of course, he wanted to take a good look around. There were many interesting things here that aroused Li Changqing’s desire to explore.
In addition, Li Changqing wanted to see if he could find good wood. It was already an unexpected gain to find the Mysterious Void ancient tree this time. Li Changqing felt that his luck was not bad, so he wanted to try again. If he could find good wood later, he might be able to create more Painting Treasures after buying it.
In that case, he could entrust Xu Muhai to give it to his son in the future, and his son’s strength would become stronger and stronger. Xue Qianbai did not object, anyway, he came once, and also wanted to see if there was anything suitable for gifts.
The entire black market was larger than Li Changqing had imagined. He encountered other masked sellers on the way, and they all seemed to be very wary of each other.
Some buyers held treasures that made people drool. Many people showed greed, but no one made a move here.
No one knew who was who. If they offended someone they shouldn’t, wouldn’t they be asking for trouble?
Moreover, making a move in the black market, wasn’t that seeking death? Li Changqing walked deep into the canyon and did not see anyone selling wood.
“It seems that there are very few people selling wood.” Li Changqing frowned, the goods in this black market were not complete.
“What do people buy that for?” Xue Qianbai glanced at Li Changqing: “To make coffins?”
“Coffins?” Li Changqing couldn’t help but ask: “After many strong people die, aren’t the coffins they use also made of very good wood?”
“Most of the strong ones use stone coffins.” Xue Qianbai said helplessly: “You’re not thinking of grave robbing, are you?”
“Are there grave robbers in the Cangyuan Realm?” Hearing this, Li Changqing became interested.
“Yes.” Xue Qianbai said: “Many grave robbers go to the tombs to steal burial objects. Many strong people’s burial objects are various treasures, and even Painting Treasures as burial objects.”
“But I guess you’re the only one in the entire Cangyuan Realm who wants to steal coffins. You’ll be laughed to death by your peers.” Xue Qianbai shook his head slightly.
“I just thought about it, who really steals coffins, how can they be peers?” Li Changqing retorted, but at this time, Li Changqing’s gaze seemed to be attracted by something.
Xue Qianbai followed Li Changqing’s gaze and found a young man sitting at a very remote stall in front.
The young man looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, skinny and sallow. His clothes were very ragged.
He sat there with lifeless eyes, not knowing what he was thinking about. In front of him, there were huge wooden boxes. Rather than calling them wooden boxes, they were more like very strange-shaped pieces of wood.
This wood was square and divided into many small pieces, each with strange markings.
It looked like a mechanical box.
“Good wood.” Li Changqing knew it was top-quality wood just by looking at its luster. More importantly, Li Changqing felt a faint killing intent from the wood.
It seemed that this wood had been imbued with killing intent for a long time, and Li Changqing was sure that this wood was very suitable for making attack-type Painting Treasures.
Although his son had not yet entered the Postnatal stage, he should prepare for his child early. He couldn’t let his son lose at the starting line.
Li Changqing walked straight towards the young man.
“Good stuff.” Li Changqing looked at the strange-shaped wooden box and touched it with his hand. He could feel the killing intent contained in the wood, like countless sword auras running wild.
“It’s useless.” At this time, Xue Qianbai’s voice came from behind.
“How is it useless? What is this thing, it looks strange.” Li Changqing turned his head and asked.
“This thing has been in this black market for more than three years.” Xue Qianbai came up, looked at the young man, and asked: “The last one of the Qinglian Sword Sect, right?” The young man raised his somewhat confused eyes and looked at the two masked men in front of him. He said weakly: “I am Ye Zifan, the tenth generation disciple of the Qinglian Sword Sect. Do you want to take a look at the treasure left by my sect?””Qinglian Sword Sect?” Li Changqing had never heard of this name before. He turned to Xue Qianbai and asked, “What kind of sect is the Qinglian Sword Sect? I’ve never heard of it.”
“The Qinglian Sword Sect was once the protectorate sect of the North Cold Country,” Xue Qianbai explained. “Among the sword sects in the Cangyuan Realm, the strength of the Qinglian Sword Sect was enough to rank in the top three. Within the Qinglian Sword Sect, the Seven Kill Sword Formation of the Qinglian Seven was invincible. The seven of them once teamed up to kill the Great Martial Sect.”
“The Great Martial Sect!” Li Changqing exclaimed in surprise. “They even killed the top innate realm experts? This Qinglian Sword Sect is really strong!”
“The Qinglian Seven are all grandmaster-level powerhouses. Their swordsmanship is superb, especially when they form the Sword Formation, they are unmatched. The Qinglian Sword Sect was once very influential, but it’s a pity that it declined later.” Xue Qianbai glanced at the young man named Ye Zifan and said, “If I remember correctly, the Qinglian Sword Sect declined during its ninth generation.”
“You must have just joined, and then the Qinglian Sword Sect was destroyed, right?”
“Yes.” Ye Zifan nodded, seemingly because he was very hungry, so he didn’t talk much. He just looked at Li Changqing and said, “Senior, you have a discerning eye and can see that this is a treasure. You should buy this.”
“You just joined, and the Qinglian Sword Sect was destroyed?” Li Changqing subconsciously took two steps back. Could it be that this unlucky sect was destroyed because of this Ye Zifan?
Xue Qianbai, who was standing by the side, pointed at the wooden box and said, “This thing was rumored to have been unearthed from the Qinglian Sword Sect a few years after its destruction, and this kid got it.”
“It has been in the black market for three years, and countless powerhouses have come to see it. But the mechanism inside is very complex, no one can open it. Moreover, even if it is opened, no one knows what is inside.”
“Whether it’s a treasure or a danger, no one can tell.” Xue Qianbai reminded Li Changqing.
“This is really a treasure!” Ye Zifan was somewhat excited at this moment. “This thing is likely to be related to the secret of our Qinglian Sword Sect’s Seven Kill Sword Formation. Maybe the ‘Seven Kill Qinglian Diagram’ is hidden inside!”
“It’s just a rumor.” Xue Qianbai stared at Ye Zifan and said. Ye Zifan wanted to argue, but he couldn’t say anything.
After the Qinglian Sword Sect was destroyed, the entire sect disbanded. Many people took away the treasures of the Qinglian Sword Sect, but no one found the ‘Seven Kill Qinglian Diagram’. Later, when this thing appeared, many people suspected that the diagram was hidden inside.
Unfortunately, no one has been able to open this strange wooden box.
“How much do you want for it?” Li Changqing asked. Hearing Li Changqing asking for the price, Xue Qianbai looked at Li Changqing in surprise, but didn’t say anything more.
Ye Zifan also showed a hint of excitement in his eyes.
“Eight million taels of silver, just eight million taels, and this treasure is yours!” Ye Zifan gritted his teeth and said this number.
Hearing this price, Li Changqing was surprised. Did this kid have x-ray vision and saw how much money he had on him?
How did he know that he had eight million taels of silver on him? Such a piece of wood nurturing murderous intent was indeed rare and a valuable treasure. And this box, Li Changqing felt that he could try to open it. Maybe there really was a treasure inside, and he could make a fortune.
But what if there was nothing inside? To put it bluntly, this thing was just a mystery box.
Eight million taels for a mystery box, wasn’t he being ripped off? No wonder it was called the black market, the people here were really damn black.
“Make it cheaper.” Li Changqing shook his head. “Eight million taels for a piece of rotten wood, and I don’t even know what’s inside, it’s too much of a loss.”
“How much do you think, senior?” Ye Zifan was obviously in a hurry to use the money, so he agreed to Li Changqing’s request for a discount.
If it were three years ago, he wouldn’t sell it even for ten million taels. But now many people know that this wooden box can’t be opened at all. Some people even wanted to chop it open with an axe, but they were afraid that if there really was a painting inside, it would be easily destroyed, so fewer and fewer people came to ask for the price.
Holding this thing, Ye Zifan had been staying in this ghost place for three years and didn’t dare to go out. Once he went out, he couldn’t keep this treasure at all, and it would definitely be robbed. No one could mess around in this black market.
But he had had enough of this kind of life. He wanted to leave here with a lot of money. He wanted to live a normal life, buy a house, get married, he was still young, not even twenty years old, he couldn’t spend his whole life guarding this rotten box.
“Three million taels.” Li Changqing held up three fingers.
“Seven million.” Ye Zifan was very firm.
“Four million!” Li Changqing also gave a counteroffer. Four million taels obviously tempted Ye Zifan, but thinking of the life he had lived in the past few years, Ye Zifan’s eyes became firm again.”Five million, I won’t sell it for any less.” Ye Zifan gritted his teeth. Seeing Ye Zifan’s firm stance, Li Changqing knew that this was probably his bottom line. If the price was any lower, he would not sell it.
Therefore, Li Changqing did not hesitate. He pretended to reach into his sleeve and then took out five silver tickets, each worth a million taels.
“I’ll buy it then.” He said, handing the silver tickets to Ye Zifan. Ye Zifan swallowed hard.
He reached out tremblingly to take the silver tickets. However, at this moment, a sudden voice said, “I want it!” Accompanied by this voice, a hand stretched out and knocked the silver tickets out of Li Changqing’s hand.
The silver tickets flew up and fell to the ground. Li Changqing frowned. Wasn’t it said that no one dared to cause trouble in the black market?
Following the voice, he found a young man in his late teens, dressed in luxurious clothes, exuding an air of nobility.
What’s more, this young man was not wearing a mask. At the same time, several experts were following him.
Each of them had an innate aura. One of them even had a complete innate cultivation. The one who just knocked the silver tickets out of Li Changqing’s hand was that complete innate expert.
These people all had traces of battle qi on them, obviously they were military men.
“I want this item.” The young man stepped forward, looked at the wooden box, and said with a smile, “I’ve heard that the Qinglian Sword Sect has a strange box, which might contain the ‘Seven Kills Green Lotus Picture’. Today, I finally get to see it. It’s indeed peculiar.”
“Young master, I’ve already sold my treasure box to this senior.” Ye Zifan looked at Li Changqing. Li Changqing also looked at the young man. The surrounding innate experts also looked at Li Changqing, especially the man who had just knocked down Li Changqing’s silver tickets. His eyes were filled with contempt, as if looking at an ant.
“So what?” The young man sneered, “In this North Cold Country, there’s nothing I want that I can’t get.”
“Sword Qing, pay him.” After saying that, the young man turned around and walked away. The complete innate expert also took out five million taels of silver tickets and handed them to Ye Zifan, while glancing at Li Changqing and said in a deep voice, “Get out of the way.” Li Changqing stepped back upon seeing this.
Ye Zifan hesitated as he looked at the silver tickets, then at Li Changqing. However, Li Changqing just smiled and said, “Who you sell it to doesn’t matter, right? Since they’ve paid, just take it.”
“Huh?” Ye Zifan was stunned. Xue Qianbai was also surprised when he heard Li Changqing’s words.
“You’re quite sensible.” Sword Qing said coldly, “Knowing who you can’t offend can prolong your life. You’re a smart man.” He threw the silver tickets in front of Ye Zifan, then lifted the wooden box with his palm and followed the young man.
“Don’t you want that item?” Xue Qianbai looked at Li Changqing, somewhat puzzled. A renowned Painting Sage, being insulted and yet so calm?
Li Changqing just smiled. He raised his hand, and the five million taels of silver tickets scattered on the ground flew up and landed in his hand.
“Old Bai, you once asked me why we, the two of us, had to enter the inner city through the gate?”
“Now I want to ask you, with our cultivation, do we really need to use money to buy things?” A look of surprise flashed in Xue Qianbai’s eyes.
“This is the black market, causing trouble here could lead to problems.” Xue Qianbai frowned, “Moreover, that young man is the ninth prince of the North Cold Country. If you make a move on him, the North Cold Country won’t let you off.”
“I’m wearing a mask, who would recognize me.” Li Changqing shook his head, “I can sense that there’s a powerful expert in this black market. But even though he’s strong, he’s not qualified enough to keep us here. Besides, don’t worry, I’m only going to steal, not kill a prince.”