Chapter 344: Black Market
The Chi Ban Mountain area was vast, and apart from those battlefields between the humankind
and the non-humankind, there were countless barren wastelands in that area.
Feng Xing ran in the front and led the way, moving in the complicated mountain area for big
half an hour. Abruptly, between two mountains, a long and huge rift valley appeared before Ji
Hao and his other teammates’ eyes. That valley was not too broad, the broadest part of it was
only around two hundred zhang wide, and the cliffs on both sides of the valley were all
thousands of zhangs in height.
Ji Hao had a sharp sight, and with that and the clear starlight, he saw a lot of huge bird nests on
the cliffs, on both sides of the valley. In those gigantic bird nests were shacks built from straws;
from time to time, people’ sounds came from them.
Ji Hao narrowed his eyes, from which golden-red fiery light sparkled. Ji Hao saw that in those
bird nests on the left side cliff were some fully armored Jia Clan’s warriors guarding, while the
number of human warriors guarding the nests on the right side cliff was over five times more
than the number of Jia Clan’s warrior guarding on the left side.
Indistinctly, he even saw a few gigantic ballistae hiding under straws in some nests.
Starlight pouring down in spiral streams, spell symbols on those gigantic ballistae sparkled
brightly under the starlight, releasing fierce and frosty sense of power that would give anyone a
palpitation.
A valley that had both human warriors and Jia Clan’s warriors standing sentry duty and
guarding in peace? Ji Hao whistled in surprise, slightly dragging Man Man’s arm, pulling her
closer to himself. This valley was filled with a weird atmosphere, and apparently, it wasn’t a
safe place.
Yu Mu leant against a rock while gasping quickly and deeply, narrowed his little beady eyes and
looked around, then asked, “Feng Xing, is this place safe at all?”
Feng Xing gave a measured glance at that dark entrance of the valley, and for an instant, he was
a bit hesitant. He had only heard about this place from those experienced warriors in the special
army, but once he saw those warriors guarding on both side cliffs, he caught the weird feeling
about this place.
From the darkness, a silhouette suddenly darted out, attempting to rush up to Ji Hao. However,
Ji Hao reacted extremely fast, and when that silhouette was still over ten zhangs away from
him, a sharp and solid thorn of soil abruptly thrust out of the ground, violently roaring towards
that silhouette.
That silhouette reacted as well fast, after letting out a shout in shock, it bounced back for a few
times and moved away from Ji Hao.
“Eh? Such a sharp power! My honored guests, is this your first time here in our Chi Ban Market?
We have thousands of years of history, as long as you have enough jade coins in your pockets,
you can have as much fun as you can in there. No one will ever mess around in here!”
That man, wearing a black cloak, stood straight and lifted up his mask, showing a scrawny,
cunning face. What caught attention the most was the face that this man’s soil-colored skin
was thickly dotted with thumb-sized, green spots, which was also a feature of non-humankind
slaves.
“Spirit creature? Small spots…Are you a tree spirit?” Ji Hao looked at that man with vigilance.
“My Abba is a pure blood human being !” That man grinned so much that his pair of eyes even
narrowed to two thin lines, “my Amma is a tree spirit, and she was the most beautiful one
among her entire clan. That day my Abba got drunk then … here is me! Haha, I think you few
honored guests have got my point!”
Pointing back at the valley with his thumb, this man then grinned and continued, “My name is
Geng, my honored guests, if you need a tour guide for your very first journey in our Chi Ban
Market, with only a half jade coin, I will dedicate my next twenty-four hours to you, guiding
your way in the market.”
“Do you have a last name?” Feng Xing asked while curiously looking at Geng from top to
bottom. A mixed race of a human being and a non-humankind slave? And his existence was as a
result of a drunken mistake. Feng Xing clicked his tongue.
“Hehe, I am a lowly being, how can I have a last name?” Geng nodded and bowed to Feng Xing,
explaining politely and smilingly, “My social status is that of a slave, a last name is something
that only noble people can have.”
Looking at Geng’s smiling face, Ji Hao took out a jade coin, threw it to Geng and said, “Good, we
just need a tour guide. Geng, we’d like to have a stroll in this Chi Ban Market, please lead the
way for us. Hm, does this market only have one entrance that also serves as an exit?”
Hurriedly taking over the jade coin, Geng politely bowed to Ji Hao once again, leading Ji Hao and
his teammates into the valley. While walking, he turned his head around, grinned and said,
“How can this market only have one entrance? Look, the scale of our Chi Ban Market is huge. In
total, this market has over a hundred entrances and exits, this is only a small one.”
Before walking into the valley, Ji Hao and his teammates all felt that the valley was rather dark,
but after they entered in, they saw a huge amount of luminous plants on both side cliffs,
emitting bright fluorescence, lighting up the entire valley quite brightly.
From the huge nests above their heads, some human warriors and Jia Clan’s warriors ducked
their heads out, looking down at them for a while. Although these warriors all had fierce and
serious looks, no intentions of fighting and killing were sensed from their eyes.
Walking for less than a mile in the valley, around ten dark human silhouettes walked over in a
great rush. Among them, a hoarse and manly voice burst in excitement.
“Brother! This time we got enough jade coins and finally bought this ‘burning sun fruit’!
Brother, with this fruit, you can wake up at least three hundred Magus Acupoints within a
month…”
While yelling excitedly, that man abruptly saw Ji Hao and his teammates, then instantly shut
his mouth. That group of people looked at Ji Hao and his teammates with extra vigilance, while
speedily brushing past them. Neither of the two groups of people had made even the slightest
sound.
Ji Hao took a glance at these people, and under the dim fluorescence, he saw that this group of
people were all wearing heavy metal armors that were decorated with special patterns. Judging
from those patterns, these people were warriors of the main human army in the Chi Ban
Mountain area, coming from the absolute elite troops.
“This Chi Ban Market seems truly is a nice place!” Ji Hao gave a faint smile and said.
“It indeed is! Our Chi Ban Market has literally everything in this world, as long as you, my
honored guests, have enough jade coins, this market can provide you with anything that you
expect to find.” Geng boasted about the goodness of this Chi Ban Market such that his saliva
even spouted out from his mouth.
Ji Hao, Yu Mu and Feng Xing glanced at each other in surprise.
For a Senior Magus, if he had a great talent and enough amount of magic crystals to support his
cultivation, with severe, even crazy hard work that would leave the Senior Magus no time to
sleep or eat, and if everything went right, he would be able to wake up a new Magus Acupoint
every ten to twenty days; this was the peak efficiency generated by the best status of
cultivation.
Therefore, waking up three hundred Magus Acupoints supposed to need at least three thousand
days, which meant eight to nine years; and this was calculated based upon the best condition of
cultivation.
A ‘burning sun fruit’ could enable a Senior Magi to wake up three hundred Magus Acupoints
within a month, and for such kind of natural great treasure, one could simply buy one from this
Chi Ban Market!
“Ha! I told you, we can find good stuff in this place!” Feng Xing couldn’t hold back his
excitement anymore, patting on the leather bag tied around his waist.
“Great! I’m gonna search this market through! I wanna cook a pot of ‘hundred mushrooms,
thousand spiders and ten-thousand snakes’ soup’, but I haven’t found many required materials
yet.” said Yu Mu in a low voice and also excitedly, “When I have collected all materials in need, I
will immediately cook them into the soup, and that potful of soup will improve the toxicity of
my magic poisons by at least three times!”
Man Man wagged her head and grabbed Ji Hao’s hand, shaking in excitement, and yelled,
“Delicious foods! Interesting things to play and watch! Oi! Geng! Do you have many, many bird
eggs in this market?”
A stream of saliva drooled out of Man Man’s mouth corner, yet, she quickly sucked it back.
Chapter 344: Black Market
The Chi Ban Mountain area was vast, and apart from those battlefields between the humankind
and the non-humankind, there were countless barren wastelands in that area.
Feng Xing ran in the front and led the way, moving in the complicated mountain area for big
half an hour. Abruptly, between two mountains, a long and huge rift valley appeared before Ji
Hao and his other teammates’ eyes. That valley was not too broad, the broadest part of it was
only around two hundred zhang wide, and the cliffs on both sides of the valley were all
thousands of zhangs in height.
Ji Hao had a sharp sight, and with that and the clear starlight, he saw a lot of huge bird nests on
the cliffs, on both sides of the valley. In those gigantic bird nests were shacks built from straws;
from time to time, people’ sounds came from them.
Ji Hao narrowed his eyes, from which golden-red fiery light sparkled. Ji Hao saw that in those
bird nests on the left side cliff were some fully armored Jia Clan’s warriors guarding, while the
number of human warriors guarding the nests on the right side cliff was over five times more
than the number of Jia Clan’s warrior guarding on the left side.
Indistinctly, he even saw a few gigantic ballistae hiding under straws in some nests.
Starlight pouring down in spiral streams, spell symbols on those gigantic ballistae sparkled
brightly under the starlight, releasing fierce and frosty sense of power that would give anyone a
palpitation.
A valley that had both human warriors and Jia Clan’s warriors standing sentry duty and
guarding in peace? Ji Hao whistled in surprise, slightly dragging Man Man’s arm, pulling her
closer to himself. This valley was filled with a weird atmosphere, and apparently, it wasn’t a
safe place.
Yu Mu leant against a rock while gasping quickly and deeply, narrowed his little beady eyes and
looked around, then asked, “Feng Xing, is this place safe at all?”
Feng Xing gave a measured glance at that dark entrance of the valley, and for an instant, he was
a bit hesitant. He had only heard about this place from those experienced warriors in the special
army, but once he saw those warriors guarding on both side cliffs, he caught the weird feeling
about this place.
From the darkness, a silhouette suddenly darted out, attempting to rush up to Ji Hao. However,
Ji Hao reacted extremely fast, and when that silhouette was still over ten zhangs away from
him, a sharp and solid thorn of soil abruptly thrust out of the ground, violently roaring towards
that silhouette.
That silhouette reacted as well fast, after letting out a shout in shock, it bounced back for a few
times and moved away from Ji Hao.
“Eh? Such a sharp power! My honored guests, is this your first time here in our Chi Ban Market?
We have thousands of years of history, as long as you have enough jade coins in your pockets,
you can have as much fun as you can in there. No one will ever mess around in here!”
That man, wearing a black cloak, stood straight and lifted up his mask, showing a scrawny,
cunning face. What caught attention the most was the face that this man’s soil-colored skin
was thickly dotted with thumb-sized, green spots, which was also a feature of non-humankind
slaves.
“Spirit creature? Small spots…Are you a tree spirit?” Ji Hao looked at that man with vigilance.
“My Abba is a pure blood human being !” That man grinned so much that his pair of eyes even
narrowed to two thin lines, “my Amma is a tree spirit, and she was the most beautiful one
among her entire clan. That day my Abba got drunk then … here is me! Haha, I think you few
honored guests have got my point!”
Pointing back at the valley with his thumb, this man then grinned and continued, “My name is
Geng, my honored guests, if you need a tour guide for your very first journey in our Chi Ban
Market, with only a half jade coin, I will dedicate my next twenty-four hours to you, guiding
your way in the market.”
“Do you have a last name?” Feng Xing asked while curiously looking at Geng from top to
bottom. A mixed race of a human being and a non-humankind slave? And his existence was as a
result of a drunken mistake. Feng Xing clicked his tongue.
“Hehe, I am a lowly being, how can I have a last name?” Geng nodded and bowed to Feng Xing,
explaining politely and smilingly, “My social status is that of a slave, a last name is something
that only noble people can have.”
Looking at Geng’s smiling face, Ji Hao took out a jade coin, threw it to Geng and said, “Good, we
just need a tour guide. Geng, we’d like to have a stroll in this Chi Ban Market, please lead the
way for us. Hm, does this market only have one entrance that also serves as an exit?”
Hurriedly taking over the jade coin, Geng politely bowed to Ji Hao once again, leading Ji Hao and
his teammates into the valley. While walking, he turned his head around, grinned and said,
“How can this market only have one entrance? Look, the scale of our Chi Ban Market is huge. In
total, this market has over a hundred entrances and exits, this is only a small one.”
Before walking into the valley, Ji Hao and his teammates all felt that the valley was rather dark,
but after they entered in, they saw a huge amount of luminous plants on both side cliffs,
emitting bright fluorescence, lighting up the entire valley quite brightly.
From the huge nests above their heads, some human warriors and Jia Clan’s warriors ducked
their heads out, looking down at them for a while. Although these warriors all had fierce and
serious looks, no intentions of fighting and killing were sensed from their eyes.
Walking for less than a mile in the valley, around ten dark human silhouettes walked over in a
great rush. Among them, a hoarse and manly voice burst in excitement.
“Brother! This time we got enough jade coins and finally bought this ‘burning sun fruit’!
Brother, with this fruit, you can wake up at least three hundred Magus Acupoints within a
month…”
While yelling excitedly, that man abruptly saw Ji Hao and his teammates, then instantly shut
his mouth. That group of people looked at Ji Hao and his teammates with extra vigilance, while
speedily brushing past them. Neither of the two groups of people had made even the slightest
sound.
Ji Hao took a glance at these people, and under the dim fluorescence, he saw that this group of
people were all wearing heavy metal armors that were decorated with special patterns. Judging
from those patterns, these people were warriors of the main human army in the Chi Ban
Mountain area, coming from the absolute elite troops.
“This Chi Ban Market seems truly is a nice place!” Ji Hao gave a faint smile and said.
“It indeed is! Our Chi Ban Market has literally everything in this world, as long as you, my
honored guests, have enough jade coins, this market can provide you with anything that you
expect to find.” Geng boasted about the goodness of this Chi Ban Market such that his saliva
even spouted out from his mouth.
Ji Hao, Yu Mu and Feng Xing glanced at each other in surprise.
For a Senior Magus, if he had a great talent and enough amount of magic crystals to support his
cultivation, with severe, even crazy hard work that would leave the Senior Magus no time to
sleep or eat, and if everything went right, he would be able to wake up a new Magus Acupoint
every ten to twenty days; this was the peak efficiency generated by the best status of
cultivation.
Therefore, waking up three hundred Magus Acupoints supposed to need at least three thousand
days, which meant eight to nine years; and this was calculated based upon the best condition of
cultivation.
A ‘burning sun fruit’ could enable a Senior Magi to wake up three hundred Magus Acupoints
within a month, and for such kind of natural great treasure, one could simply buy one from this
Chi Ban Market!
“Ha! I told you, we can find good stuff in this place!” Feng Xing couldn’t hold back his
excitement anymore, patting on the leather bag tied around his waist.
“Great! I’m gonna search this market through! I wanna cook a pot of ‘hundred mushrooms,
thousand spiders and ten-thousand snakes’ soup’, but I haven’t found many required materials
yet.” said Yu Mu in a low voice and also excitedly, “When I have collected all materials in need, I
will immediately cook them into the soup, and that potful of soup will improve the toxicity of
my magic poisons by at least three times!”
Man Man wagged her head and grabbed Ji Hao’s hand, shaking in excitement, and yelled,
“Delicious foods! Interesting things to play and watch! Oi! Geng! Do you have many, many bird
eggs in this market?”
A stream of saliva drooled out of Man Man’s mouth corner, yet, she quickly sucked it back.
