Chapter 14: The Dark Market

Chapter 14 The Dark Market
Pingyin County has a dark market, Chen Fei also through the mouth of Zeng De Fang to know, I heard that the former location is in Pingyin County not far from the northern wall of the place.

Nowadays, because of the refugees, the dark market is directly opened in Pingyin County.

Chen Fei guessed that this dark market must have an official background, otherwise how can the county government let this dark market open in such a dignified manner.

In the night, Chen Fei wore a hat and mask to hide his face and came to the dark market.

Different from the sneaking around in his imagination, this so-called dark market was quite lively, except for the lack of hawking sounds, it was not much different from the night market in Pingyin County.

Chen Fei walked all the way around, the things placed on the stalls were strange and bizarre, many of them were things that Chen Fei had not seen or even heard of.

Whenever he came across such things, Chen Fei would silently stand back and listen to those people’s conversations, learning some messages from them.

You don’t say, just by relying on this kind of eavesdropping, Chen Fei actually did get quite a lot of useful information.

Walking along, Chen Fei stopped in front of a stall. There were many secret books on this stall, but strangely enough, there were very few people stopping by.

“Feel free to look through them, but all of these secret books only have a small portion. If you come across one that you are satisfied with, we will talk about the price. At that time, the old man will naturally take out the complete secret books.”

Seeing Chen Fei stop, the stall owner glanced at the deerskin gloves on Chen Fei’s hands and smiled.

“Is there a secret book of body techniques?” Chen Fei did not get on his hands either, but directly inquired.

Yesterday, Chen Fei thought about it for a while, nowadays, although he lacked both cultivation skills and techniques, the most powerful thing he lacked was actually the body technique. If one possessed a good body technique, the first option when encountering danger, was actually to run.

As long as one ran fast enough, even if one’s cultivation realm was not as good as others, the probability of saving one’s life was actually quite high.

“This one naturally has, young warrior take a look at these books.” The stall owner peeled off a bit and picked out a few secret books, placing them in front of Chen Fei.

Pointing Water Skill, Swallow Pressing Branch, Green Grass Ferry, Treading Waves.

Chen Fei randomly picked up a book and flipped through it, and a moment later, Chen Fei put the secret book down and picked up another one.

However, in a quarter of an hour, Chen Fei finished reading all four secret books with a thoughtful expression.

“These are all basic lightness secret books, are there any better ones?” Chen Fei asked after pondering for a moment.

“There are naturally, but if I dare to give them, do you dare to practice them?”

The stall owner looked at Chen Fei with a smile on his face and said, “In addition to the basic secret books here, other better secret books are naturally available, but whether there are any omissions among them, I don’t know. If something happens because of practicing the secret books given by the old man, the old man will not be held responsible.”

Chen Fei was a bit dazed, after all, his own experience was a bit shallow.

This kind of thing, a slight change of a few sentences, the average person would not be able to recognize it. If it is changed in the key place, the person who cultivates the gongfu may even go into a fire, and get a paralyzed body, which is a normal thing.

The more profound the technique, the more so. Instead, it was those basic gong methods that had simple lines for running qi and blood, and even if one made a mistake in cultivation, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem.

And as a martial artist’s cultivation level increased, if there were any problems in the basic techniques, they could be seen at a glance. For example, Chen Fei at this moment, although he was only at the Skin Practicing Realm, but because he had practiced several techniques to the Great Perfection Realm.

Looking at the four secret books just now, he didn’t find any problems, and they could all be cultivated directly.

“These four secret books, what price?”

“Two taels of silver for one book, how many books do you want?”

“All of them.” Chen Fei said, taking out eight taels of silver and placing it on the stall.

A smile appeared on the stall owner’s face, and from his position behind him, he took out the second half of the corresponding secret book and handed it over to Chen Fei. Chen Fei flipped through it, found no problems, and placed the four secret books in the bag behind him.

“Right, one secret book of moves, something more profound.” Chen Fei thought for a moment and said. Chen Fei wanted to try to see if there was a way for the panel to make up for such secret books that had gaps, or even tatters, and then allow himself to cultivate them.

The stall owner’s eyebrows moved slightly, and he didn’t refuse, looking around the stall for a bit, he took out a secret book and handed it to Chen Fei, saying, “Immortal Cloud Sword, the unique sword technique of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect.”

“Immortal Cloud Sword School?”

Chen Fei was slightly stunned, this sect was too famous. Within a radius of thousands of miles, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect was estimated to be the one that ruled the roost.

There were many strong people in the sect, and every year, I don’t know how many people wanted to join it but didn’t have the chance. Chen Fei’s predecessor had also fantasized about it back then, but unfortunately, he was not successful.

Chen Fei received the secret book and flipped through it slightly, his brows tightening and loosening. With Chen Fei’s vision of the Great Perfection Castle Peak Sword nowadays, this Immortal Cloud Sword book did have some esoteric sword dao mysteries in it.

However, more of it is some nonsense that seems not to be true, more like someone got some sword moves, and then because it was incomplete, filled in many of their own insights, and even delusional reasoning into it.

“What price?” Chen Fei looked up and asked.

“Fifty taels!” The stall owner grinned up.

Chen Fei did not say anything, just looked at the stall owner. What about killing a pig, this kind of secret book that he made up himself dared to shout out this kind of price out.

The stall owner also did not show weakness, also calmly looked at Chen Fei, on this price sold, what can you do.

Chen Fei nodded, put the secret book down, directly turned to leave. This money is not the wind blowing, only slightly more generous, can be slowly spent.

In order to panel test, fee so much money, that is simply wrong.

“Alas, don’t go, you come to shout a price!” The stall owner’s voice came from behind.

Chen Fei stopped, considered for a moment, and said, “Three taels!”

“Good, deal!”

The stall owner immediately answered, seemingly afraid that Chen Fei would back out, and very simply took out the other half of the secret book and shoved it into Chen Fei’s hands together.

Chen Fei was a bit dumbfounded, together with this three taels price is still shouting high ah.

However, Chen Fei did not regret, a little look at the second half of the book, indeed still contains some of the truth of the sword, three two to buy this one technique, can not be said to be completely lost.

“Young warrior in the future if there are other needs, as much as you can come to find the old man, the old man are in this position stall.” Having made two deals, the stall owner’s mood was quite happy.

Chen Fei waved his hand, put the secret book away and turned to leave.

In the midst of the dark market, Chen Fei wandered around a few more times, and made it a point to inquire about the sale and purchase of Dan Formulas. However, apart from the basic Dan formula, the slightly more advanced Dan formulas were not available in the dark market.

As the night grew darker, Chen Fei didn’t stay long and directly left the dark market.

Returning to his rented place, Chen Fei took out the Water Pointing Technique and carefully studied it.

Half an hour later, the information of the Water Pointing Technique finally appeared on the panel.

“Panel, Simplified Water Pointing Technique!”

“Pointing Water Feat simplification in progress…simplification successful…Pointing Water Feat → Walking!”

(End of chapter)