Devour

Chapter 189 Black Market Winner

Cheng Bai was dumbfounded, and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be an operating table. It's really neat, and the black technology is so advanced...Won't Brother Wang be in so much pain if he wakes up?"

Of course, he didn't know how to tattoo rune arrays on a person's body. Perhaps out of curiosity or impulse, he pressed the gray button without knowing why.

Unexpectedly, the instruments above remained indifferent, but several tentacles stretched out from the operating bed and held up Wang Xiongwu's lower body.

Another gray tentacle stretched out from between his legs, and suddenly opened its four jaw-like sharp dragon steel blades, biting hard at Wang Xiongwu's vitals. There was a slight crisp cutting sound, and the thing was gone.

Cheng Bai felt a pain in his balls, and said in a cold sweat, "It's over, it's really over. I didn't mean it, future Saint Son."

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, looked around carefully, and made sure that no one in the closed room saw what he did. He quickly teleported to the door of the store and walked away pretending nothing had happened.

The sewer market is equivalent to the black market for cultivation, where all kinds of strange things are traded. As long as both parties agree, buying and selling are free, and transactions of money and spirit stones are accepted, and barter is also possible.

It should be noted that we are not responsible for any loss of money. If you don't have good eyesight and encounter fakes, you may have to consider yourself out of luck.

Cheng Bai strolled leisurely, trying to find if there was any Zhenwu Rock.

This treasure is a third-level earth-based treasure, and is also a kind of spiritual stone. It sells surprisingly well in the Five Continents. As soon as Cheng Bai found out someone was selling it, someone else got there first.

He was a Taoist in yellow clothes, who seemed to be middle-aged. When he saw Cheng Bai rushing over and staring at the Zhenwu Rock in his hand, he knew that this was what he was going to do.

He twirled his beard and smiled, then put the Zhenwu Rock into the Sumeru mustard seed in his arms, turned and walked away.

Cheng Bai stopped and asked the stall owner, "Do you still have Zhenwu Rock?"

The stall owner smiled and said, "No more. For some reason, all the Zhenwu rocks have been collected in the past two days. I guarantee that the one just now was the last one found in the sewer. Not only that, the demand for other spirit stones is increasing day by day, so that the exchange rate of all spirit stones in the city has skyrocketed by 30%."

Cheng Bai was stunned for a moment and said, "Everything has increased? Even the first-level semi-precious stones have increased in price?"

The names of spirit stones of different grades are different. Except for a few special varieties, most of the first-grade spirit stones are only called semi-precious stones. The second-grade spirit stones are called gemstones, the third-grade spirit stones are called magic stones, the fourth-grade spirit stones are called strange stones, the fifth-grade spirit stones are called holy stones, and the sixth-grade spirit stones are called immortal stones.

The stall owner said, "Yes. I have been doing business in the sewer for many years, and I have never seen spirit stones so popular. Even some earth-related natural treasures have been collected. There are still people hoarding them now. It's really a rare commodity."

Cheng Bai hurriedly asked: "Can I set up a stall here?"

The stall owner said, "Except for the shops in the sewers that have fixed owners, anyone can set up a stall on any other street as long as there is space. But after a long time, there will be 'civil servants' coming to collect stall fees. Some people have good business, some have bad business. You can just give them a little depending on the situation. They don't force you to pay a certain amount, just collect once a day."

The price of spirit stones has skyrocketed, and this is a good opportunity to exchange them.

Cheng Bai was overjoyed and quickly found a piece of open space. He used the bear skin left over from his previous hunt for ironback bears as a cushion and placed all his stock of moonstones, diamonds, scarlet corals, fire-repellent stones, water-repellent stones, and flying shadow stones on the space, becoming just like a stall owner.

Soon a customer came over to negotiate the price, and it turned out to be the Taoist priest in yellow.

The largest piece of Feiying stone on the stall was the one that Cheng Bai got from Beike Mountain. After being cut and used many times, there was still about six thousand kilograms left.

The Taoist in yellow leaned over and lifted it up with one hand, making it seem as if it were nothing, showing his extraordinary cultivation. He asked leisurely, "How much is it?"

Cheng Bai had already calculated the market price and replied, "2340 million taels of gold."

The Taoist in yellow stroked his beard and pondered for a moment before saying, "Except for the small change, the few pieces of Feiying Stone you have left weigh about ten pounds. I'll take them all together. The total price is twenty-two million taels of gold. How about the deal?"

"Okay." This price is very good and Cheng Bai is quite satisfied.

However, the amount of gold is huge, and it is not convenient to display it like a small mountain.

The Taoist in yellow took out a few pale blue metal ingots, which were flashing with an ethereal light, and said, "Here are 550 taels of blue gold. If you exchange them for million taels of gold, you will make a profit."

The exchange rate was correct. Cheng Bai took the ingot. It felt heavy in his hand, but it was very small in size.

Blue gold is also known as divine ice iron. It has a hardness of 16, is light blue in color, has a psychedelic luster, is rare and hard to come by, and is dozens of times heavier than gold. It is a rare and precious material for refining magic weapons.

People around cast envious eyes, and the market transaction price reached a new high record. For ordinary monks, a few small blue gold ingots were simply unimaginable huge wealth.

The Taoist in yellow picked up all the Feiying Stones on the stall, weighed them, and estimated the quality. It seemed to be satisfactory. He glanced at the stall again out of the corner of his eye, wondering if there were other items worth putting in his pocket.

"Wait a minute, Taoist priest." Cheng Bai stopped him from putting the Feiying Stone into the Xumi Mustard Seed, showing a friendly smile and saying loudly: "You have the wrong currency. These are not blue gold, but blue copper mother, the value is far different."

The Taoist in yellow seemed to be frozen, with a sharp light flashing in the corner of his eyes, but his face showed a surprised expression, and he said amiably: "Oh? My friend has a sharp eye, I took the wrong one."

He took out a few ingots of blue gold again, exchanged the blue copper mother for the blue lamp, and packed his bag slowly and nonchalantly.

Cheng Bai took the metal ingot and looked at it carefully with his keen eyes to confirm that the material and quantity were correct. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw that the Taoist in yellow had already walked far away.

The treasure hardness of Qingguang Copper Mother is 8.5. It is also a rare material and very valuable.

Compared with black gold, the market price of Qingguang Copper Mother is even higher, but because it is too heavy, its application range is slightly narrow, and it is not as practical for refining magic weapons as the refined shadow black gold.

Compared with blue gold, the color and weight of Qingguang copper mother are quite similar, but the value cannot be compared. In addition to the obvious difference in hardness, the biggest difference in appearance is the warmth. Shenbing Iron has a more gentle and restrained texture.

Cheng Bai studied the Six Virtues Art in the Weapon Sect. Although it was only an ordinary rune-level secret art that did not even require any runes, he was able to judge the six major characteristics of a material: warmth, moistness, fineness, cohesion, condensation, and greasiness, and determine its corresponding type and value.

Just yesterday I got an angel sword made of the same material, and with his spiritual eyes, he couldn't hide anything from him.

If the Taoist in yellow were allowed to get away with it, the losses would be hundreds of times greater, which would be a huge defeat.

The passers-by around witnessed this treacherous transaction and gave Cheng Bai a thumbs up.

In the sewer market, profits and losses go hand in hand, opportunities and traps coexist. If you don’t have enough skills to trade here, you will be slaughtered badly no matter whether you are the buyer or the seller.

The news spread like wildfire, and the stall owners in the market who had traded with the Taoist in yellow rushed around to verify the authenticity of the amounts they had received, and many of them were shocked.

"That fake bull nose used the Qinglong copper mother to trick me and cheated me out of twenty kilograms of Zhenwu rock."

"He took away my water-repellent stones, my fire-repellent stones, and all my belongings."

"Old liar, kill him if I see him again."

Someone was quite surprised and asked, "It's been several days, haven't you noticed it yet?"

Those who were shouting quickly shut their mouths and curled up into a ball.

Some people are not unaware of being cheated, but they dare not speak out after suffering a loss, or they maliciously hope that others will also be cheated.

Black market transactions are like this. Who hasn't lied to profit from it? You don't tell others when you make money, but only tell others when you lose money. How can you be so shameless? It just shows your incompetence.

The false prosperity in the market was severely exposed, and the adverse consequences quickly fermented. The soaring prices of spirit stones suddenly plummeted. The prices were driven up by someone who took advantage of the opportunity. There are reasons behind any event.

Some even sighed and said, "It was exposed too early. The opportunity I waited for was gone after just a few days of making money."

The number of customers staying in front of Cheng Bai's stall dropped sharply, and he couldn't help but say: "It turns out that business is not easy to do. Those who don't catch up with the boom in time may starve to death."

After all, there was a big business just now. An old woman in tattered clothes came staggering in front of the stall. She held a broken bowl in her hands, which were wrinkled like tree bark. She knocked on the towering crimson coral on Cheng Bai's stall, making a sound of gold and jade, and then shook the bowl towards Cheng Bai.

These are the people who collect stall fees.