Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 173 Underground Trade at the Lost Celestial Ruins
The three large characters '问罗号 (Wenluo Hao)' were extremely eye-catching, and this airship was also the largest one here.
With his ticket, Mo Wuji boarded the airship directly. Only then did he learn that he needed to find his room according to the number on his ticket. This was because in the two previous times Mo Wuji had taken an airship, he hadn't needed a room number. The first time was with Zhen Shaoke, which was equivalent to a private ship, and the second time was to Wentian Academy. That airship was even larger, with fewer people, so there was naturally no fuss about rooms.
Now his room number was 121 on the bottom floor. Number 121 wasn't the worst room, nor was it a good room, but rather a lower-middle-class room. What relieved Mo Wuji was that it was a single room. It was clear that the shop assistant had casually quoted a cheap room when he gave the price, not expecting him to actually stay there.
Mo Wuji entered the room and closed the door, also hanging up a sign that read "In Seclusion, Do Not Disturb." In any case, he not only couldn't return to Wentian Academy in the short term, but he couldn't even be seen by acquaintances.
The Wenluo-class airship was extremely punctual. Mo Wuji waited for half an hour, and then the Wenluo-class airship shuddered slightly and soared into the clouds.
The airship left Wentian City, and Mo Wuji finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least he didn't have to be chased to the border city by Xu Feibo, the Second Elder of the Wuhen Sword Sect, before he even reached the teleportation array, like last time.
He decided to use this month to cultivate to the tenth level of Pulse Opening. Piles of spirit stones were taken out by Mo Wuji and stacked around him.
After opening ninety-nine meridians, Mo Wuji absorbed spiritual energy like a giant whale drinking water, quickly and violently.
As a Pulse Opening cultivator, he took out a pile of earth-grade spirit stones to cultivate with, and his absorption speed was so fast, it was impossible for his cultivation speed not to be fast.
In just a few days, Mo Wuji broke through the late stage of the tenth level of Pulse Opening. On the tenth day of boarding the ship, he cultivated to the perfection stage of the tenth level of Pulse Opening without any obstacles.
Mo Wuji breathed a sigh of relief. With the tenth level of Pulse Opening at perfection, he shouldn't need to cultivate before Building Spirit.
Just as Mo Wuji was about to put away the excess spirit stones, his cultivation level at the tenth level of Pulse Opening loosened again, which scared Mo Wuji so much that he almost stood up.
He couldn't help but be afraid. What he wanted wasn't Building Spirit, and even if he wanted to build spirit, he didn't want to do it now. He hadn't found the Heavenly Meridian Flower yet, so how could he build spirit? If he were to build spirit now, it would mean that he would lose the opportunity to open the hundredth meridian.
However, whether his cultivation was about to break through or unable to break through was beyond Mo Wuji's control. After his cultivation reached the tenth level of Pulse Opening, the thick and powerful Yuan Qi directly tore open a new realm. As this new realm was being opened, Mo Wuji simply abandoned some of his thoughts and began to absorb spiritual energy with all his strength.
Since Heaven had destined him to be unable to open the hundredth spiritual meridian, then he would build spirit.
At the moment the realm was broken through, the even thicker Yuan Qi made Mo Wuji happy, but then he felt that something was wrong again. This still wasn't the Building Spirit Realm, but rather the eleventh level of the Pulse Opening Realm.
Mo Wuji was instantly dumbfounded. He had heard of the tenth level of the Pulse Opening Realm, knowing that cultivating to the tenth level in the Pulse Opening Realm, cultivating to the tenth level in the Building Spirit Realm, and then cultivating to the tenth level in the Detachment Mortal Realm would allow one to impact the Human Extremity Realm.
But he had never heard of an eleventh level in the Pulse Opening Realm. What was going on?
The Immortal Mortal Technique was still frantically absorbing spiritual energy, and his cultivation was still constantly rising. Mo Wuji simply gritted his teeth, waved out another pile of spirit stones, and continued to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. Since he didn't know what was going on, he would just keep cultivating.
Another half month passed, and when Mo Wuji felt that his realm had reached its peak again, he broke through the realm again without any surprise.
Twelfth level of the Pulse Opening Realm…
His strength continued to surge, but Mo Wuji didn't have the excitement he had the first time. He was already numb. He would just advance if he was going to advance. Could he possibly keep advancing in the Pulse Opening Realm forever?
If he hadn't run out of spirit stones, Mo Wuji would have continued to cultivate. He just wanted to see how many levels he could cultivate to in the Pulse Opening Realm.
Mo Wuji hadn't gone out since entering the airship. Mo Wuji estimated that there were still a few days before they reached the Lost Heaven Ruins.
Although spirit stone cards could be exchanged for spirit stones on the airship, Mo Wuji didn't want to do that. He didn't intend to show his face at all. With more than twenty days left, Mo Wuji decided to study Chu Xingzi's array techniques. He had already seen the appearance of the Heavenly Meridian Flower in the "Terrestrial Spiritual Herbs" book. As for the book "Terrestrial Spiritual Herbs," he didn't plan to spend time reading it yet.
He hadn't studied Chu Xingzi's things since he copied them down under the Ice Peak.
Mo Wuji was someone who easily delved into things. No matter what it was, as long as he seriously studied it, he could quickly immerse himself in it. Whether it was on Earth or in this place.
Five days passed, and Mo Wuji hardly felt anything. It wasn't until the bell rang in the room and the door opened automatically that he realized the Lost Heaven Ruins had arrived.
Mo Wuji walked out of the room and saw groups of people walking down from the airship. He couldn't help but marvel at how many spirit stones this airship must earn per trip.
Following the crowd out of the airship, Mo Wuji saw that this place had almost formed a not-small open-air city. Or rather, it was an open-air convention.
Because there were both tall, multi-story commercial buildings and some street stalls. Mo Wuji even saw someone holding a stove, setting up a stall at random, and hanging a sign for forging weapons.
Mo Wuji walked into this open-air market and found that it was simply a general store. There was nothing you couldn't buy here, only things you couldn't think of.
Mo Wuji chose a shop that wasn't very big and walked in. The larger the commercial building, the more conspicuous it was, and what he wanted now was to be inconspicuous.
"This master, what do you need? Our goods here are cheap and genuine." The shop assistant looked very young and spoke politely and smartly. In Mo Wuji's opinion, this guy was at most in the late stage of the Pulse Opening Realm.
Mo Wuji directly ignored the shop assistant's words and asked, "I need a current map of the Lost Heaven Ruins, and also the approximate locations of some spiritual objects produced in the Lost Heaven Ruins."
The shop assistant quickly said, "So you're going to the Lost Heaven Ruins. I don't know if you want to buy a good one or a general one."
Mo Wuji said in confusion, "Of course I want to buy a good one."
The shop assistant said in a low voice, "To be honest, the maps sold in all the shops and commercial buildings in this place are mass-produced goods. If you want to buy the best map, and also the approximate location map of some rare spiritual objects in the Lost Heaven Ruins, you can only go to the Tianxu Underground Trading Market!"
"Underground Trading Market?" Mo Wuji really didn't know.
The shop assistant lowered his voice even further and said, "The Underground Trading Market is Lord Mang's territory, and the market above is the Tianxu Alliance's territory. Everyone does business separately and doesn't interfere with each other. Because the Underground Trading Market has less traffic, Lord Mang takes the high-end route. Inferior things are not allowed to enter the Underground Trading Market, only the best things can enter. Of course, things in the Underground Trading Market are much more expensive than outside."
Mo Wuji sighed inwardly. Sure enough, wherever there were people, there was a *jianghu*. He raised his hand and took out a jade bottle, handing it to the shop assistant. "There are six Earth Yuan Pills inside, consider it your hard work fee. You take me to the Underground Trading Market."
When the shop assistant saw that Mo Wuji had taken out six Earth Yuan Pills, his hand almost trembled and dropped the jade bottle on the ground. He was just a guide, and even half an Earth Yuan Pill would be too much, but this seemingly inconspicuous customer had actually taken out six, which were fourth-grade spirit pills.
Could these be fake? Thinking of this, the shop assistant quickly trembled and opened the jade bottle. Immediately, he knew that the pills inside the jade bottle were real. As a shop assistant, how could he not recognize real and fake pills?
"This, this…" Six real Earth Yuan Pills. The shop assistant was also a little dazed. Because he felt that he couldn't earn many spirit stones by selling a map, he wanted to earn some spirit stones by guiding the way. According to his experience, this earned more than selling maps. But this return made him almost unable to believe it, it was too much.
Mo Wuji himself was a fourth-grade earth pill refiner, and six pills were really nothing to him. He wasn't deliberately being generous. After entering the Lost Heaven Ruins, it was a place where your life was at stake at any time. Giving this shop assistant six fourth-grade Earth Yuan Pills, which he didn't consider much, the shop assistant would definitely not cheat him. As long as this shop assistant took him to buy a real map, he might be able to save his life because of it.
As expected, the shop assistant patted his chest. "Don't worry, master, I will definitely take you to the best shop to buy the most valuable things."
The shop assistant was worldly-wise. Mo Wuji took out six pills, so he naturally understood Mo Wuji's meaning.
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Mo Wuji naturally understood the Underground Trading Market. It wasn't really underground, but transactions that few people knew about and weren't on the surface were called underground transactions.
When Mo Wuji was actually taken to the Underground Trading Market by this shop assistant, he realized that he had really misunderstood. The Underground Trading Market here was really underground.
Under the guidance of this shop assistant, Mo Wuji entered the Underground Trading Market from an extremely hidden place.
This market was at least twenty feet underground, and Mo Wuji saw that there were definitely a lot of people inside. As for how big the area was, he couldn't see it at all. Because there was dim lighting everywhere, even if bright light stones were used for lighting, it seemed like they were deliberately covered up a bit.
As for the luminous arrays arranged by those bright light stones, Mo Wuji didn't see any of them.
Numerous trading cultivators came and went in a continuous stream, without loud noises. Everyone seemed to silently abide by a rule, which was to trade secretly and leave secretly.
Mo Wuji suddenly thought of the idiom "covering one's ears to steal a bell". This idiom was simply too appropriate to use here.
The shop assistant took Mo Wuji to the entrance of a shop where the lighting was even dimmer than the surrounding shops, and then whispered, "This is Qi Laoshi's shop. The things in his shop are all genuine. You are guaranteed not to suffer a loss when buying things here."
"Thank you, you can go now." Mo Wuji patted the shop assistant's shoulder and said.
"Okay!" The shop assistant was happy to see that Mo Wuji recognized his guidance, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
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