"I think you've grown up."
Ling Xuan's expression was gentle, and her gaze was very calm. There seemed to be something else in the depths of her eyes, something that Chu Chen couldn't understand.
"That's right, I'm already someone you can rely on, cough cough …"
Chu Chen forced himself to remain calm, as if he was afraid of being seen through by the girl. He didn't know what he was afraid of either.
Ling Xuan pondered for a moment and asked, "That's right, legend has it that when an ancient divine beast cultivates to a certain level, it can cultivate into a human form, no different from a human?"
"This, I … I haven't cultivated to that level yet, so, so I'm not too sure."
Chu Chen suddenly had the urge to reach out and check the sweat on his forehead, but the golden-winged great roc obviously didn't sweat as easily as humans.
"You seemed to be a little harsh just now?"
Ling Xuan suddenly said.
"Nonsense, you're my girl … the most important person to me, no one can have any ideas about you."
"Oh."
Ling Xuan's lips unconsciously curved into a smile, and her gaze moved slightly, but she didn't say anything else. "Let's go, we're going to the black cave."
Chu Chen shook his feathers, and his body shrank to half a foot tall, and landed on Ling Xuan's shoulder again.
Following the route that Brother Bear had told them, Ling Xuan traveled through more than half of South Sky City, and finally arrived at the edge of the three black pagodas that he had mentioned.
Looking from afar, the three black pagodas were three thousand feet tall, standing straight in the most traditional part of South Sky City, and were extremely eye-catching.
People came and went under the black pagodas, and it was extremely lively.
It could be seen that those who could enter and leave the black pagodas were all cultivators, and each of them emitted a faint spiritual pressure.
Most of them were in a hurry, and rarely talked with others.
There were even quite a few people who used a concealment technique as soon as they left the black pagodas, silently disappearing without a trace.
From the outside, although the black pagodas were extremely tall, the area they occupied wasn't very large, and it was only about three hundred feet wide.
However, as soon as Chu Chen stepped into the first black tower with Ling Xuan, a shockingly vast space appeared before his eyes.
In this space, there was a bustling crowd everywhere. This was a huge black square.
Countless stalls and shops stood in great numbers, giving people the feeling that they had suddenly entered a bustling city.
It was obvious that some space-type magic treasure had been integrated into the construction of this Black Tower. The space inside the tower was much larger than what one could see from the outside.
At this moment, the inside of the Black Tower was bustling with activity.
In addition to the human cultivators, there were also many half-human, half-beast yao cultivators, demonic cultivators whose bodies were shrouded in black energy and heretical cultivators who reeked of blood.
Most of the auras exuded from their bodies were exceptionally bloody, tyrannical, and filled with killing intent and aggression.
The Black Tower, as its name implied, was indeed not a good place.
It was a gathering place where the majority of the evil cultivators gathered.
This was a black world, a world of darkness.
With such a group of vicious people gathered together, death should erupt at any time, but this group of people maintained an unusual peacefulness.
Chu Chen even saw a huge man with bulging muscles arguing with a black-clothed female stall owner in front of a stall.
The huge man looked extremely angry, and even his veins were bulging. His eyes were overflowing with killing intent, but he didn't make a move.
This was a world with rules.
No matter who set these rules, it was obvious that all the cultivators here obeyed these rules.
In a sense, there was a powerful person or force that could control and suppress the overall situation here.
A world of darkness had its own dark laws.
"Sir, what do you need?"
As Ling Xuan stepped into the interior of the Black Tower, a charming young girl dressed in black, with large areas of snow-white skin exposed in front of her chest and a slit in her long skirt that extended all the way to her waist, came over to greet her with a mysterious smile.
"I am Mo 'er, the maid of the Black Cave. Sir, if you have any questions, you can ask me. As a newcomer, it's best that you don't wander around."
Mo 'er was very polite, and even her warning was very gentle.
"I need to unravel the mystery of an ancient map, and find out where that place is now, and who can help me."
Ling Xuan looked at the black-clothed young girl from head to toe, and coldly asked.
"So it's like that. Please follow me, Mo 'er will take you to find someone who can solve your problem."
The charming black-clothed young girl nodded in understanding, and slightly bowed, then led her into the Black Tower.
The two followed the young girl all the way into the Black Tower. This South Sky City's largest black market gradually revealed its unique dark side.
Chu Chen finally understood why it was called the Black Cave.
Here, there was almost nothing that couldn't be traded.
Cultivation methods, secret tools, weapons, these common goods were needless to say, but there were also many unimaginable dark transactions that opened one's eyes.
For example, on a slightly remote stone platform, there was a dark-skinned old man loudly asking who was willing to spend money to buy the position of Mystic Sword Sect's Sect Leader.
As long as one could pay the price, he would immediately resign from the position of Sect Leader, and abdicate.
Someone openly posted a notice on the board, wanting to buy the seventeenth concubine of South Sky City's City Lord.
No matter what method was used, as long as someone could kidnap her, he was willing to offer up all kinds of ancient secret treasures and miraculous pills in exchange.
There were also people who sold their own cursed mystic medicines. They claimed that as long as someone took a sip of the medicine, he or she would be able to take away one of the most powerful mystic arts he or she had mastered. Then, the mystic arts would be automatically grafted to the person who took the medicine, and the mystic arts would not even need to be cultivated!
Chu Chen and the others walked past a tall stone platform, on top of which there were several iron cages.
Inside the cages were a group of fox demons with fox heads, but with the bodies of human women, shivering. Their clothes were revealing, and they endured the surrounding group of male cultivators pointing at them.
Although these fox demons had fox heads, for some reason, they had an indescribable charm and bewitchment, causing one's heart to beat faster.
This was a dark world of cultivators.
… …
There were all sorts of things like this.
When the black-clothed maid named Mo 'er led Ling Xuan onto a tall stone platform, Chu Chen discovered that this black tower didn't only have one floor. The interior was divided into more than ten floors, and each floor was connected by a stone platform.
The second floor's space seemed to be smaller than the first floor, but the things sold here were clearly much more advanced than the first floor's.
In addition to the normal stalls, there was also a reception room with an elegant design and a beautiful environment.
Mo 'er led Ling Xuan to the largest reception room.
Walking into the room, they saw an old man with a thin face sitting upright behind a table, dozing off.
"Old Ma, wake up, we have a guest."
Mo 'er immediately woke the old man up. He was dressed in hemp clothes, and had a benevolent appearance, looking very amiable.
Seeing the man and bird walk in, the hemp clothed old man nodded and smiled at Ling Xuan. "Guest, please take a seat. This old man has a good Heart Calming Spirit Tea, I'll make it for you."
Ling Xuan didn't refuse and sat down across from the black wood table.
The maid named Mo 'er whispered a few words into the old man's ear, then quietly turned and left. The old man skillfully made a pot of fragrant tea for Ling Xuan.
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