"Only three more spirit plants, and then I will have all the materials needed to make the antidote for the Shadowless Poison."
Inside the mountain that was covered in fog, there was a small town. Normally, there would not be a single person in the town, but today, there were a lot of people walking out of the town. Among the crowd, a young couple was walking side by side. The man was wearing blue robes, with a longsword hanging on his waist, and the girl was wearing a purple dress, with a light veil covering her face. It was indeed Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng, who had left the West Hill City about a month ago. Ye Chen said after letting out a breath.
Murong Qingcheng glanced at Ye Chen, pressed her lips together, and said, "I did not expect you to be able to collect so many materials in such a short time. There are still three more, so it should not take too long. Thank you."
Her mother, Su Ruhui, had been poisoned by the Shadowless Poison, which had been weighing on Murong Qingcheng's mind for a long time. In fact, if she had not been distracted, she could have reached the Sea of Souls Realm much earlier. After Su Ruhui's help, she was finally able to focus on her closed-door training, and finally reached the Sea of Souls Realm two months ago.
She originally thought that Ye Chen would not be able to collect that many materials by himself, but she did not expect that Ye Chen would put so much effort into it, and managed to collect almost all of the precious materials. When she arrived, he was still missing five materials, but now, he was only missing three.
Ye Chen chuckled and did not say anything more. He changed the topic, "I did not expect that there would be a small town like this in the middle of nowhere. If I did not get the information from the pavilion, I would have missed the two materials that I just got."
The small town was called the Barren Mountain Town, which was located at the border between the Sky Martial Region and the North region. No one had lived there for hundreds of years, and then it became a place for a secret auction to deal with some shady items. The time of the auction was not fixed. Sometimes, it would be held once every few months, and sometimes, it would not be held even once every few years. Through the pavilion, Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng knew that there was going to be an auction here, so they rushed over from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
A group of people stood on a tall building near the town's gate.
"Did you see that? It's the two of them. At the auction, that kid spent hundreds of thousands of Upper Level Spirit Stones to buy two Spirit Grasses without even blinking. I'm guessing that he has more Upper Level Spirit Stones on him." The person who spoke raised a finger.
"A hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones," the person beside him said subconsciously.
"Wrong."
"It's a million Upper Spiritual Stones."
"One million? That's too much! Perhaps his wealth has already been depleted. "
"I've been in the auction house for so many years, how could I be blind? Apart from Life and Death Kings, I haven't seen anyone below Life and Death King realm, no matter how high their strength is, they will always reveal some clues. From their eyes, facial expressions, and even some small movements, I can guess their net worth. For example, if you have a hundred thousand upper grade spirit stones, if you spend ninety thousand upper grade spirit stones to buy something, you will definitely feel heartache. You will unconsciously make a move, but you won't be aware of it."
"That sounds reasonable. You said that that brat spent hundreds of thousands of top rank spirit stones, but he did not feel heartache at all. Therefore, I can guess that his net worth is around one million."
"Indeed, this is a big deal."
"I am just afraid that we will not be able to afford it. Everyone who dares to come to this town must have something up their sleeves. This brat must be a powerful martial genius from the Sky Martial Region. Unfortunately, I have never seen him before. "
"If you haven't seen him before, it means that he is not that famous. As long as he is not one of those famous young warriors, we will have a hundred percent chance of succeeding. Even if it is a famous young warrior, the success rate would be above sixty percent. Fortune comes from danger, not to mention that we still have three Godly Martial Puppet Cannons."
"Damn! Let's do it!"
Ye Chen's fame had only started to spread throughout the Sky Martial Region this month. The Barren Ridge Town was located at the border between the Sky Martial Region and the North region. There were a lot of people who did not know about Ye Chen.
…
"We are almost out of the Fog Hidden Magic Array!"
Ye Chen and Ye Chen did not fly into the air. The Barren Ridge Town was surrounded by a huge Fog Hidden Magic Array. Inside the Fog Hidden Magic Array, one could only walk out or in step by step. Once they flew into the air, it would be very easy for them to get lost in the thick fog, which would be a waste of time. This was also the reason why the Barren Ridge Town was chosen as the location for the secret auction.
"Watch out!"
Ye Chen suddenly grabbed Murong Qingcheng's hand and stepped back.
Boom!
A glaring red light landed on the ground in front of the two of them. In an instant, a huge pit appeared out of thin air. It had a diameter of a hundred meters and a depth of more than fifty meters. The exposed surface of the pit was crystallized, and the soil had been burned into crystals.
"Puppet Cannon?"
Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng stepped back very fast. They were only hit by the shockwave, which was not a big deal. However, the power of the red light made them look serious. If they did not step back in time, the red light would have landed on them. Even if they did not die, they would have been crippled.
"Damn it! They dodged it! Let's fire together! I do not believe that they can fly away!" Three miles away, a group of people spread out. In front of them were three huge puppet cannons. There were wheels on the bottom of the cannons, and their bodies were dark red with complicated patterns carved on them. There was a circle on the top of the cannons, which had a white crystal embedded in it. There was a human shadow on the crystal, which was obviously Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The puppet cannons vibrated, and three eye-piercing red light shot out like three burning meteors in the fog, aiming right at the two people who were a few miles away.
After dodging two of the red light, the third one seemed to be unavoidable. Ye Chen took out his Thunder Disaster Sword and threw out a sword attack, hitting right in the middle of the red light.
Swoosh!
He had already used his Gold Resonant Radiance Sword attack this time, which sliced the red light in half. The two weaker ones landed on the left and right sides, exploding into a huge flame.
"Strange! How did they manage to aim at us?" Ye Chen was curious, since this Fog Hidden Spell had the effect of weakening soul power as well. Based on his estimation, it would be around one hundred times. With Ye Chen's powerful soul power, he could only shoot it out five miles away. Most of the Sea of Souls Realm warriors could only reach one mile. But, according to his senses, the attacker was three miles away, which meant that they would be able to aim at them from three miles away.
"Darkness Sky!"
With both of her hands wrapped in a black qi, Murong Qingcheng pushed up a semi-circular black shield, protecting Ye Chen and herself within.
"What? Gone?"
On top of the white crystal, Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng had disappeared. In their eyes, it was something unimaginable, since it was not a normal crystal. It was a precious crystal that could sense life. It was not originally mounted on the Godly Martial Puppet Cannon, but they had gotten it from some ruins. They had suddenly thought of putting it on the cannon, which was like adding wings to a tiger. They had used it to attack countless master level Sea of Souls Realm warriors who were more powerful than them.
"It must be some kind of secret art! Damn! Let's go! This thing is troublesome!"
This group of people left without hesitation, putting away the Godly Martial Puppet Cannon and disappearing without a trace.
"They are gone!"
The moment the black screen was erected, the red light did not attack again. Ye Chen guessed that it was probably because the dark profound had the ability to block out the senses. After all, his soul power had been weakened eighty to ninety percent by the black screen. When Murong Qingcheng dispersed the black screen, Ye Chen realized that there was no one three li away from him.
"This dark profound of yours is indeed powerful." Ye Chen praised.
Murong Qingcheng said, "Unfortunately, there is only one defensive martial art."
"Being able to learn the dark profound will benefit me a lot. In the future, I will be able to create my own profound martial art based on the characteristics of the dark profound."
Ever since the Sky Thunder Cut and Gold Resonant Radiance Sword Art had both reached completion, reaching one hundred and thirty percent respectively, Ye Chen had already started to study new sword movements.
After all, the Sky Thunder Cut and the Gold Resonant Radiance Sword Art were a bit too low, unable to contain the thunder profound and gold profound. In Ye Chen's eyes, the sword movements were like a container, and the profound was the water. Once the water was full, it would be completed. But once the water overflowed, it meant that the profound had surpassed the sword movement's level, since there were still mid rank profound sword movements above the low rank profound.
…
"Who are you people?"
Dozens of miles away, the group of people who had tried to sneak attack Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng had been stopped by a group of men in black robes. These people's bodies were very vague, looking like black smoke or floating shadows, giving people the feeling that they did not have any mass.
The leading man laughed, "The puppet cannon is not bad. Leave it, and I will not kill you."
"Why …"
Before he could finish, the leading man's body suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared, he was already in the crowd. Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! After a couple of rounds, the group of people who were planning to sneak attack Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng had all fallen down, their chests pierced through.
Taking away these people's storage rings, the leading man opened them one by one and soon found three Godly Martial Puppet Cannons.
"Not bad! These three cannons are the top of the top rank puppets."
Another man in black said, "I did not expect this group of trash to have puppet cannons. But, it seems like we have gotten lucky."
"The puppet cannons are an unexpected gain. But, killing that young man named Ye Chen and taking that girl is our real goal this time!"
"That Ye Chen is not simple. No wonder he could take off Duan Lengya's right arm and make the Ice Pavilion angry. They took out two million top rank soul stones to hire our assassins. That price is enough to kill ten normal master level Sea of Souls Realm warriors."
"No, not two million top rank soul stones, it is three million. Don't forget, all of their wealth is ours as well."
"Second leader, when should we do it?"
"No rush. Taking that girl would be easy. As for killing Ye Chen, it would be a bit difficult. I do not want to lose half of our men just to complete the mission. It would not fit our motto. Either we do not kill, or we do not kill."
"Hehe, we, the assassins of the Ghost Shadow Pavilion, have never failed in our mission in the past ten years. Unfortunately, that girl … Once we hand her over to the Ice Pavilion, she would be doomed."
"What can we do? We are paid to do it. Plus, you guys are not good people either. I do not believe that you would not be tempted."
"Hehe, second leader, you are so smart!"
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