"Brother Yin Han, we are here!"
After the two walked around a few bare grayish-white tree trunks, they stopped next to a boulder on the mountainside.
A strange expression flashed across Liu Ming's face. With his powerful Divine Thought, he had already carefully checked this place from a distance, but he didn't find any enchantment here.
Just as Liu Ming was slightly puzzled, Youlan had already appeared beside the boulder and knocked on the boulder several times rhythmically.
With a rumbling sound, the boulder slowly moved away, revealing a huge black hole.
"Brother Yin Han, let's go."
Youlan took a few steps forward and looked around the cave. After finding nothing strange, she turned back and shouted at Liu Ming.
After Liu Ming heard this, he nodded at her and walked in side by side with her.
As soon as they stepped into the cave, a dark corridor appeared in front of Liu Ming and Youlan.
A series of steep and slanted gray stone stairs meandered forward, all the way to the belly of the mountain. On both sides of the long corridor, pieces of black crystals flickered with a faint light, adding a bit of a mysterious color to the passageway.
Not knowing if they were affected by the atmosphere here, Liu Ming and Youlan just walked silently without talking.
As Liu Ming walked, he touched the black ring on his right thumb, repeatedly weighing his current net worth in his heart.
The currency that could be circulated in the Netherworld Realm was not spirit stones but ghost stones.
During his time in the Evil Ghost Way, he had killed a lot of ghosts. Although most of them were swallowed by the two spiritual pets, some of the materials from the Crystallization Period and even Jin Dan's ghost were still left. Most of these could be used as materials for forging tools and elixirs here.
These days, he went in and out of the Cold Moon City market every few days. He had exchanged some ghost materials below the Crystallization Period for about 8,000 ghost stones in batches.
Don't look down on these Nether Stones. In the Netherworld Realm, this was already a considerable amount of wealth.
It should be noted that some of the missions issued by the City Lord's Mansion in this area were only worth dozens to hundreds of ghost stones, depending on the difficulty of the mission. Missions with a reward of more than 1,000 ghost stones would either take a long time or be extremely difficult to complete. For missions like capturing or recruiting ghosts, a Liquid Level ghost could only be exchanged for 10 to 20 ghost stones.
However, if one could capture or recruit a certain number of newborn Fiends and bring them back to the city, they would be rewarded with at least five mid-grade ghost stones. If they had good aptitudes, they would be rewarded even more.
It was no wonder that a Fiend with a mediocre cultivation like Youlan would be so eager to join them.
In addition to the Netherworld Stones, Liu Ming's ring also contained three rare materials from Jin Dan ghosts in case of emergency.
They were a pair of wings from the Ghost Owl, the skeleton of a Corpse Flame Wolf, and the Spirit Eye of the One-eyed Ghost King.
According to what he had learned from the market over the past few days, these Jin Dan ghost materials were very valuable. Each of them was worth at least 50 mid-grade ghost stones. The Corpse Flame Wolf's cultivation had reached the Middle Jin Dan stage, and its skeleton was complete, making it an excellent main material for refining bone puppets.
This kind of bone puppet was a special kind of puppet refining method in the Netherworld Realm. Although its strength would be much lower than when it was alive, it wouldn't change sides like ghosts, so it was very popular.
While thinking, the two quickly arrived at the end of the long corridor, and a small stone door came into view.
A skinny young man in gray linen clothes was waiting expressionlessly at the stone door. When he saw Liu Ming and Youlan, he immediately stretched out an arm to stop them.
Seeing this, Youlan took a few steps forward without saying a word. She took out two dull gray invitations from her sleeve and handed them over to him.
The skinny young man took a glance at the invitations and chanted a few incantations. Immediately, two gray runes flew up from the two invitations and rotated in the air, turning into two clouds of fog that flashed and enveloped Liu Ming and Youlan.
Liu Ming's heart moved, and he found that the gray fog didn't affect his vision. He released his Divine Sense to scan Youlan, who was beside him, and found that when his Divine Sense touched the gray fog, it was easily blocked.
As a result, he was slightly relieved in his heart, and his original concerns were gone.
The next moment, the skinny young man pushed the stone door with one hand, and at the same time, he extended a finger, indicating the two to enter one by one.
"Brother Liu Ming, I will go first." After Youlan said to Liu Ming, her figure flashed and entered.
Liu Ming smiled and also entered the stone door. His eyes lit up, and he found himself in a square hall that was around 200 to 300 feet in size.
The hall was a little dim, and there were around 30 gray stone chairs in the hall. About half of them were already occupied, and these Fiends were also enveloped in gray fog, making it impossible to see their faces.
At the very front of the hall was a short stone table that was around 20 to 30 feet long, and it was currently empty.
Liu Ming didn't pay much attention to this. He found a chair in a corner, sat down, and waited in silence.
As time passed, more and more people gathered in the hall, and the original chairs were all occupied. The rest of the people didn't pay much attention to this, and stood in the gaps in the hall.
Liu Ming glanced around, and found that there were already around 40 to 50 people in the hall.
Right at this moment, a figure flashed in front of the stone table, and a Fiend old man with three strands of long beard appeared, emanating an indistinct spiritual pressure.
"A late Jin Dan Fiend!" Liu Ming's eyebrows rose as he thought to himself.
Come to think of it, this was the Fiend with the highest cultivation base he had seen since entering the Netherworld Realm. At first glance, he didn't look any different from a human old man, except that his skin was a little pale and bloodless.
"I'm sure everyone here knows who this old man is, so I won't waste my breath on introducing him. As usual, today's trade meeting will be open to you as long as you don't break the rules. As usual, once a trade is made, we will take a commission of 5% of the Infernal Stones. Is there any problem? "As soon as the long-bearded old man steadied himself, he immediately asked.
As soon as he said this, everyone's eyes were instantly drawn to him, and no one raised any objections.
The long-bearded old man nodded slightly upon seeing this. He cleared his throat, and continued, "It's about time.
"It's about time. Let's begin." The old man's two sentences didn't even last for a single breath of time. It seemed that his previous inquiry was merely a formality.
After saying this, the old man took a few steps to the left, leaving the middle seat open.
In the next moment, the hall fell silent.
Seeing this, Liu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, but didn't do anything.
However, this situation didn't last long. After a flash of grey light, a figure wrapped in mist appeared on the stage.
With a wave of his sleeve, a black light flashed in his hand, and a shriveled silver bag appeared on the table in front of him. It was a dark purple spirit herb that was wreathed in black mist.
Liu Ming didn't know what the spirit herb was, so his eyes fell on the silver bag. This thing looked somewhat similar to the Ghost Repelling Bag he had obtained before, but it was much more exquisite, and its surface was densely engraved with unknown spirit patterns.
"A high-grade Ghost Repelling Bag that can store Jin Dan Evil Spirits, and a thousand-year-old Yin Grass. Only Nether Stones. The Ghost Repelling Bag is 2,000 Nether Stones, and the Yin Grass is 3,000 Nether Stones. "
"A high-grade Ghost Repelling Bag?" Liu Ming was surprised when he heard this.
While he was still thinking, someone made a bid.
"I'll take the Ghost Repelling Bag!"
"I'll pay 2,500 Nether Stones!"
"I'll pay 3,500 Nether Stones for the Yin Grass!"
…
In the blink of an eye, the price of the two items that the man took out kept rising. In the end, the high-grade Ghost Repelling Bag was bought for 3,800 Nether Stones, and the Yin Grass was sold for 4,800 Nether Stones.
The man seemed to be satisfied with the price. After the transaction, he took out a small bag of Nether Stones and threw it to the long-bearded old man, then returned to his seat.
"A Two-headed Infernal Hound, at the Fake Core stage. If it's trained well, it's very likely to break through to the Jin Dan stage. The starting price is 5,000 Nether Stones." As soon as this man left, the other Fiend appeared behind the stone table in a flash, then waved a hand to summon a ferocious two-headed Ghostly Dog that was around 10 feet in length.
…
In the following period of time, one item after another was taken out, and each of them had a high price tag.
However, although the items that had appeared seemed good, they weren't of much use to Liu Ming.
Just when Liu Ming thought that he might return empty-handed, a voice rang out, causing him to perk up.
"This is the Thousand Condensation Water Art, a unique incantation that can refine the water of the Nether River into heavy water. The starting price is 10,000 Nether Stones!"
It was a tall figure wrapped in gray mist. It was unknown when he had appeared behind the stone table in front of him. He flipped his hand and took out a book that looked a little tattered.
However, the situation after the book appeared was very different from before. The entire hall was silent, as if there was an awkward silence.
According to the market price, 10,000 Nether Stones was not a small amount. It was enough to exchange for a supreme-grade Infernal tool, but it was a little high for a mere incantation.
Liu Ming took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart.
He had long since obtained a normal incantation to refine heavy water, but the water of the Nether River wasn't like the water of an ordinary lake or sea. It could only be refined with a unique incantation of the Fiends.
This was also the main reason why he had come to this trade meeting.
After all, even though he hadn't seen the Heavy Water refined from the Netherworld River with his own eyes, he had heard from some shop owners in the city a few days ago that the value of the Heavy Water refined from ordinary rivers couldn't be compared to the Heavy Water refined from the Netherworld River.
Therefore, he decided to refine more heavy water from the Nether River himself without the slightest hesitation.
Firstly, he could use it to cultivate the Dark Bone Incantation. After all, the Nether River Heavy Water was compressed water from the Nether River. If he used it for cultivation, the effect would be even better.
Secondly, if he used it on the twelve Mountain and River Pearls, he might be able to refine even more powerful magical treasures. The only downside was that even if he had the relevant incantation, it would still take him a lot of time to refine the Nether River Heavy Water.
However, Liu Ming wasn't in a hurry to call out a price. He wanted to observe first.
Even though he didn't have that many Nether Stones on him, if he took out the materials from the Jin Dan ghosts, it would be more than enough to exchange for this item.
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