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Chapter 317: Underground Yibao Club, Corpse Moth [Subscription Request]

After the plan was drawn up, Zhou Chun quickly explained his plan to the fourth elder Zhou Jiahe.

As the family elder, Zhou Jiahe would certainly not refuse the family's decision.

She owed Zhou Yu a favor, which she had already repaid last time.

Although she didn't want to plot against this former elder, since the family had made the decision, she had no choice but to carry it out.

So the next day she left Jiufengling directly and headed towards Fengguo.

On the other hand, Zhou Chun only quietly left the family gate with Zhou Mingde on the third day after Zhou Jiahe left the family, and rushed to Fengguo together.

According to the plan, after arriving at Jinchangfang City in Fengguo, Zhou Chun will have a brief meeting with Zhou Jiahe and hand over the Foundation Establishment Pill to her.

Later, Zhou Chun will find another way to enter the underground Yibao Club.

After a few days passed, Zhou Chun, who had disguised himself, successfully gave the Foundation Establishment Pill to Zhou Jiahe.

After obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Zhou Jiahe went straight to a store mentioned in Zhou Yu's letter and received a token of entry into the underground Yibao Club from the store owner.

At the same time, after some shopping, Zhou Chun successfully bought a token to enter the underground Yibao Club from a store in Jinchangfang City.

However, there was still more than half a month before the underground Yibao Club officially started, so Zhou Chun could only stay in Jinchangfang City temporarily.

In the following half a month or so, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, Zhou Chun had been meditating and reading in the inn he rented.

It was not until the evening of the day when the underground Yibao meeting began that he disguised himself and went to a remote place in the market town with the token.

He came to the location marked on the token, outside the door of a shop. He looked up at the sign hanging above the shop and saw that the five big characters "Black Flame Refining Shop" were covered with a lot of dust, as if they had not been wiped for a long time.

Just as he was looking at the closed door of the shop, wondering how to get in, the door suddenly opened a crack, and a deep voice came out, saying, "Senior, are you here to participate in the underground trade fair as well?"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun's eyes flashed, and he immediately responded, "That's right, I have a token as proof."

The voice has been cleverly changed to a more neutral tone, making it difficult to tell whether it is a man or a woman.

This kind of voice, coupled with the loose robe he is wearing and the face-covering hat on his head, I am afraid that even if someone who is familiar with him comes close, it will be difficult to recognize him by voice and appearance.

At the same time as he spoke, Zhou Chun also stretched out his hand from his sleeve and revealed a round iron plate made of black iron. The iron plate was engraved with a silver spiritual pattern that was not easy to imitate.

In order to achieve the best, his palms and wrists have been soaked in whitening lotion in advance to make them look very white and tender.

"Since you have the token, please come in, senior."

It seemed as if someone was secretly observing the token in Zhou Chun's hand through the crack in the door. After dozens of breaths had passed, the voice of the person behind the door sounded again.

Then the door was pushed open a little from the inside, leaving a hole just big enough for one person to enter.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist."

Zhou Chun responded and walked into the door.

Only after entering the room did he see that the monk who was talking to him was also wearing a silver-white mask. His cultivation level was not high, he was just a monk in the Qi Refining Stage.

After welcoming him in, the man waved his hand and said, "Please follow me, senior."

After saying that, he took Zhou Chun out from the inner door of the front hall, entered the back yard, and finally came to a well in the yard.

Then he pointed at the well and said to him, "Go down from here and you will reach the place you want to go. I have other seniors to receive, so I will not go down with you."

Zhou Chun looked down at the well and saw rippling water and full of water vapor. It was a normal well.

But he did not ask any more questions, he just clasped his fists and bowed to the man and said: "Thank you for showing me the way, fellow Taoist."

After saying that, he released his magic power to form a shield to protect himself, and then jumped into the well.

Only after he actually jumped into the well did Zhou Chun realize that the well water he had just seen was actually just something used to deceive people.

In fact, the water in the well was only two or three feet deep, but the bottom was blocked by a water-repellent treasure.

After passing through the waterproof layer, he reached the real bottom of the well and saw a bright underground passage in front of him.

After walking along the underground passage for more than ten feet, Zhou Chun entered an underground cave hall.

At this moment, forty or fifty cultivators have gathered in this spacious underground cave hall, and none of them has a cultivation level lower than the foundation-building stage.

Most of those monks disguised themselves like Zhou Chun, obviously not wanting to reveal their true identities.

However, there were also a small number of monks who did not hide anything and showed their true faces directly.

These people are either Purple Mansion cultivators or late Foundation Establishment cultivators. In short, they are very confident in their own abilities.

Since the underground Yibao meeting had not actually started yet, each of them found an empty space to sit cross-legged and relax, without making any sound.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun followed suit, found a place to sit down, and waited patiently.

In fact, this was his first time participating in this underground Yibao Club.

This activity was somewhat similar to the underground auctions he had participated in before, but also had many differences.

The similarity is that this type of activity also uses a token invitation system, and only those holding the token can enter, and participants are encouraged to hide their identities.

At the same time, no one is allowed to question the origin of anything that appears in the underground Yibao Club.

The difference lies in the location and income structure of the underground Yibao Club.

Generally, underground Yibao meetings are held in safe markets. This way, even if someone exchanges something good at the underground Yibao meeting, they don’t have to worry about being ambushed, as they have plenty of time to deal with the thing in the market.

At the same time, the organizers of the underground Yibao Club will charge a certain venue fee to the sellers of successful transactions. The general amount is about 2% of the total value of the items sold by the seller.

In addition, the tokens of the underground Yibao Association also need to be purchased by participating monks using spirit coins.

Take Zhou Chun as an example. In order to get the token quickly, he first spent thousands of spirit coins in a store to buy elixirs and talismans in order to obtain the qualification to purchase the token.

Then he spent another three hundred spirit coins to buy the token.

Most of the spiritual coins earned from the sale of these tokens will also go into the pockets of the organizers.

Therefore, the organizers of this underground Yibao Club usually have a very close relationship with the market managers, or the market managers are also one of the participants.

Moreover, compared with underground auctions, underground Yibao will be held more frequently, and in some places it is even held regularly at fixed times.

Therefore, this kind of underground treasure exchange meeting has become the favorite place for many foundation-building cultivators and purple mansion cultivators to sell stolen goods.

For example, when Zhou Chun came to this underground Yibao meeting this time, he also specially brought some things he got in Jingguo to see if there would be any chance to sell them.

Time passed slowly, and while Zhou Chun was waiting, more and more people kept entering this place.

After waiting for about an hour, when the number of people in the underground cave hall reached more than 70, a voice finally appeared in the unusually quiet underground cave hall. "Okay, it's almost time, those who haven't come yet don't have to wait."

Zhou Chun looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the person who was speaking was a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator wearing a scarlet mask. He seemed to be the organizer of this underground Yibao Club.

As soon as he spoke, he attracted the attention of all the cultivators to himself, then he cupped his hands and said, "My code name is Red Fox, and I am the person in charge of this underground Yibao Conference. Fellow Taoists, you can just call me Red Fox."

After that, he continued to recite the rules and some precautions of the underground Yibao Club as if reading from a script.

It is nothing more than a series of general rules such as no forced buying or selling, venue fees must be paid for transactions, etc.

After explaining all the rules and precautions, the red fox slapped the storage bag on his waist, took out several treasures and placed them in front of him. He introduced the uses of those treasures one by one, as well as the things he wanted to trade for.

Of course, he doesn't need to introduce the treasure. He just needs to take out the item and explain what he wants to exchange. It all depends on personal wish and there is no mandatory requirement.

This kind of treasure-exchanging event, where treasures are exchanged for other treasures, is a test of the cultivator's own knowledge and experience.

If you are short-sighted and make a mistake, you can only pay for the lesson.

Zhou Chun watched silently. He saw that Red Fox took out several treasures. Within less than a quarter of an hour, many people spoke to him through telepathic communication and took away most of the treasures.

It seemed that the remaining two treasures had not been negotiated, so he quickly took the initiative to put them back into the storage bag.

Then he turned his gaze to another horse-faced old man who did not cover his face and said, "Is this Taoist friend interested in showing you your treasure now?"

The horse-faced old man heard this, hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then I will respectfully obey your command."

After saying that, he patted the storage bag on his waist and took out five treasures.

"A second-level medium-grade defensive magic weapon, the Bixia Pa, can trigger a defensive glow to protect the whole body, and can prevent several slashes from the same-level flying sword."

"Three tail feathers from the third-level monster Blazing Sun Bird."

"The heart of a thousand-year-old locust tree is five feet high."

"Seven medium-quality snake saliva fruits."

"Two top-grade snake saliva fruits."

The horse-faced old man introduced the five treasures he had taken out one by one. After he finished introducing them, he looked around and said in a deep voice: "These things can only be exchanged for thousand-year-old elixirs, or spiritual objects that are helpful to my cultivation."

After he said this, the monks who were originally interested in the things he took out suddenly shook their heads and gave up the idea.

Whether it is a thousand-year-old elixir or a spiritual object that is beneficial to the practice of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator like the horse-faced old man, it will only be more precious than the things he took out, and is not something that those Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators here can possess.

And those who truly own them obviously won't exchange them for these things.

So for a full half a quarter of an hour, no one was able to communicate with the horse-faced old man through voice transmission.

Seeing this situation, the old man with the horse face suddenly looked ugly.

In fact, he knew that his exchange request was a bit excessive, but he would not give up unless he tried.

Seeing that no one was willing to offer what he wanted in exchange, he could only compromise and say, "Then I will take a step back. As long as it is ginseng, ganoderma lucidum or other spiritual medicines that are over 800 years old, they can be used as bargaining chips."

As soon as the requirement was lowered, someone started communicating with him via voice transmission.

After about a quarter of an hour, three of the five things he took out had been exchanged, so it was not a wasted trip.

In this way, when there were two items left and no one had exchanged them, the red fox collected the venue fee for the three items from the horse-faced old man.

Then, another Purple Mansion Stage cultivator with his face covered was asked to show the treasure to be exchanged first.

This is the rule of this underground treasure exchange meeting. Those with higher cultivation levels can display and exchange treasures first in exchange for what they want, while those with lower cultivation levels can only appear later.

In the world of immortal cultivation, the strong are respected, and this is true everywhere.

However, Zhou Chun did not make a move until all the five Purple Mansion Stage cultivators present had finished exchanging.

He now has higher standards. Any magical instruments, elixirs, and talismans below the third level are not acceptable to him and are of no use to him at all.

So unless he comes across something that interests him, he is too lazy to take action.

It was not until five or six Foundation Establishment cultivators had walked through the path that he finally encountered something that interested him.

A cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage who concealed his identity slapped the storage bag on his waist, took out a black jade box and opened it, revealing gray-black insect eggs inside.

Then he said, "One hundred eggs of the carrion moth and one ounce of seeds of the seven-leaf corpse orchid in exchange for a second-grade, top-grade fire-attribute attack magic weapon."

The eggs of the carrion moth?

A gleam of light flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, which were covered by the bamboo hat, and the information about this evil insect suddenly appeared in his mind.

Speaking of which, this "carrion moth" is also a strange insect.

This evil insect is not very useful when dealing with normal cultivators.

But it is the nemesis of all kinds of zombies and refined corpses.

The "carrion moth" is extremely sensitive to corpse qi, and also likes to devour animal carcasses and plant stems and leaves that contain corpse qi and yin energy.

They usually fly clumsily and even don't like to fly.

But when it encounters delicious food, it can fly very fast.

Moreover, the powerful bodies of zombies and refined corpses pose no threat to them. As long as they get close to them, they can absorb the corpse qi contained in their bodies.

Even the various magical spells powered by corpse qi have extremely weak killing effects on the "corpse moth".

If Zhou Mingde had thousands of mature "corpse moths" in his hands in the underground mausoleum of Yang State, then the zombie transformed by Jindan cultivator Han Yuan would not be able to make any waves at all. It would be easily sucked dry of the corpse qi in the body by those "corpse moths", and the body would be turned into ashes.

But as far as Zhou Chun knew, the Corpse Demon Cult in Fengguo had been working hard to eradicate the "Corpse Moth" and other evil insects and monsters that could restrain corpse refining.

After all, most of the strength of the Corpse Demon Cult monks lies in the corpses they refine and enslave.

In this case, how could this late Foundation Establishment cultivator dare to take out the eggs of the "Corpse Moth" for exchange?
Isn't he afraid that once the news is known to the Corpse Demon Cult, he will be killed?

Sure enough, just when Zhou Chun thought of this, the red fox from the underground Yibao Club frowned and stared at the man and said, "You are so brave. You dare to trade the eggs of the carrion moth with others!"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the man pretended to be dumbfounded and said, "I don't quite understand what you said, senior. These carrion moth eggs are just the harvest from my adventure. Why can't I trade them with others?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the underground cave hall suddenly became weird.

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