Hearing the last words of the old man, the expressions of several people changed slightly, as if they had been deceived.
Only Zhang Ling's expression didn't change much, he had already noticed this. The Hunling wood in their hands could only maintain its effect for seven or eight days at most, and the spiritual power on it would be exhausted.
If it could continuously disrupt one's own aura, it could be called a rare treasure, and it would definitely be worth more than a mere 50,000 spirit stones.
The light in front of them dimmed, flickering vaguely a few times, and Zhang Ling could see things clearly. They had been teleported to a dimly lit corridor, and the teleportation array under their feet was only a few dozen feet in size.
Zhang Ling didn't feel any discomfort from the teleportation, obviously the teleportation distance was very short. A sweep of his divine sense revealed that the corridor he was in was only ten feet long, with a white light curtain barrier in front of him, which seemed to be a restriction.
Seven or eight human cultivators were also standing on both sides of the teleportation array, all with Foundation Establishment cultivation, and they didn't look very old, each of them handsome and beautiful.
"Welcome, seniors. We are the disciples in charge here. Pass through this restriction, and outside is the Cangyun Pavilion." These cultivators bowed to them respectfully.
"Now that we're in, let's part ways here." Zhang Ling glanced at Senior Brother Yang and the other two who were following him, and said softly. Without waiting for them to answer, he walked off the teleportation array and headed towards the white light wall in front.
"Thank you, senior, for your guidance along the way. Farewell, senior." Senior Brother Yang and the other two hurriedly bowed to Zhang Ling again.
In the past two days, they had only talked about many things in the cultivation world, but this senior had also answered many of their cultivation questions, which had benefited them greatly.
Zhang Ling didn't turn his head, but casually waved his hand. At the same time, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in a red shirt followed him. "Hong'er greets senior. I am a maid of the Cangyun Pavilion, please, senior."
He glanced at the red-shirted girl and nodded slightly. A ghost face mask appeared in his hand and he instantly put it on his face, concealing his appearance.
This ghost face mask was also a top-grade magical artifact, the one on the face of the ghost-faced man he killed in the Wind Fire Mountain of the Ye family, with the effect of concealing appearance. Coupled with the Hunling wood token he just bought, he wasn't afraid of being noticed by those with ulterior motives.
After walking a few steps, Zhang Ling passed through the white light curtain and arrived outside. Looking around, he found that the place he came out of was actually a street corner.
There were many earth and wood buildings on both sides, which looked no different from the human race's market. The only difference was that the buildings on the street were far apart, all being detached buildings.
There weren't many people on the street, only two or three cultivators. Like him, these people were mostly covered in a layer of gray spiritual light, obviously they had also bought a piece of Hunling wood.
Each of these people was also followed by a young man or woman, who seemed to be cultivators who had just entered this place.
Looking up, he could also see a huge pavilion floating above the distant sky.
The pavilion was hundreds of feet in size, its entire body was cyan-black in color, like a behemoth floating in the air. It was also shrouded in a layer of colorful mist, and occasionally he could see a few pairs of huge fairy cranes constantly chirping and flying out of the clouds, flying up and down.
This scene, seen in the eyes, gave people a bit of a sense of being in a fairyland. It seemed that this was the Cangyun Pavilion, but it hadn't been opened yet. According to the token in his hand, the Cangyun Pavilion would be opened in five days.
"I wonder if senior has any items to buy, or treasures that you are eager to sell? Hong'er can lead the way for senior."
"Oh, judging by your appearance, you seem to be able to see my cultivation base." Just as Zhang Ling was observing the surroundings, he heard the words of the red-shirted girl beside him.
"Please forgive me, senior. Hong'er didn't intentionally check senior's cultivation base. We maids all have a sensing bead in our hands, which can roughly sense the cultivation base of all the seniors who come here. It wasn't intentional offense." The panicked look on Hong'er's face flashed past, and she quickly said, taking out a colorful bead in her hand.
Zhang Ling glanced at the bead and sneered in his heart. This was obviously a method of the Cangyun Pavilion, but it didn't have any effect on him.
"That pavilion in the distance is the Cangyun Pavilion, right? Are the shops on the street also branches of the Cangyun Pavilion?"
"That pavilion is indeed the Cangyun Pavilion, but the buildings on the street are all temporary residences for other cultivators who come to participate in the trade fair. With senior's Nascent Soul cultivation, you can have a free-standing building, where you can sell the items you want to sell, or take a temporary rest. By the way, if senior has rare spiritual items that you want to put up for auction in the Cangyun Pavilion, Hong'er can also handle it for you, but the spiritual items that are auctioned in the Cangyun Pavilion must be worth at least 200,000 spirit stones to be eligible."
"Hehe, there are such rules? Well, I happen to have a few spiritual items in my hand. Lead the way." Zhang Ling thought for a moment and said.
Hong'er also showed a happy expression, patted the spirit beast bag on her waist, and released two two-winged flying snakes, each seven or eight feet long. Each of them also had a black chain tied to their bodies, pulling a red wooden cart of several feet in size behind them, which was decorated quite elegantly.
"Senior, please. These are winged snakes cultivated by the Cangyun Pavilion, which can be used as a means of transportation."
Zhang Ling was stunned in his heart. These two flying snakes seemed to be of the same race as the sixth-order strange snake he had just seen, but these two flying snakes were only second-order demon beasts.
Although he was a little surprised in his heart, his movements were not slow. With a flash, he sat on the car. Hong'er also quickly sat up, took out a scarlet token, and controlled the two winged snakes to pull the flying car into the air and fly in one direction.
After flying into the sky, the field of vision became much wider.
Zhang Ling could see the whole picture of this place. They were now on a small island a hundred miles wide, surrounded by a layer of colorful mist, obviously the entire island was under a restriction.
The entire island was ring-shaped, with a circle of low mountains of hundreds of feet on the outermost periphery, but he could feel the powerful spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from them, no less than top-grade spiritual veins.
In the center of the island, there was also a lake of several hundred acres, and the Cangyun Pavilion floated above the lake.
Outside the lake, there were several circles of ring-shaped buildings, all of which were earth and stone buildings, forming vertical and horizontal streets. They had just flown up from one of the streets.
At the same time, Zhang Ling sensed more and more cultivators' auras, most of which were high-level cultivators, including many Nascent Soul cultivators. In just a moment, he sensed three or four Nascent Soul powerhouses, and of course, there were also several transformed demon cultivators.
It was just that the demon cultivators were slightly different from the human cultivators, mostly acting alone and rarely concealing their own auras.
It seemed that cultivators with some wealth would not miss this trade fair. It was expected that in a few days, more and more cultivators would come here.
Before long, Zhang Ling was led by the girl to a nine-story pavilion wrapped in spiritual light, and sat in an elegant room.
After Hong'er served him a cup of fragrant tea, she said, "Senior, please wait a moment, a manager will come to receive senior soon. Hong'er will take her leave first and wait for senior outside."
After the girl left, Zhang Ling sat quietly for a moment and waited for a man and a woman to come.
The woman was wearing a purple-red palace dress, with gold and silver ornaments on her head. As soon as she came in, she smiled at him. "This concubine is Mei'er, greetings to this fellow Taoist."
Zhang Ling's gaze also fell on the woman's face at the same time, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
The palace-dressed female cultivator looked to be in her twenties, with extremely delicate makeup, and a green tear mole under her left eye. A smile revealed a bit of a charming state that captivated people's hearts.
As she walked, she gently shook a small cyan jade folding fan in her jade hand, revealing her graceful figure. Every movement seemed to be full of temptation, making people unable to take their eyes off her.
It wasn't until the woman sat opposite him that Zhang Ling came back to his senses in a daze, and cursed himself in his heart for actually losing his composure. But speaking of which, the woman in front of him was really a peerless beauty. Whether it was her temperament or her appearance and figure, she was the most beautiful he had ever seen.
Even Ding Ruozhao, who had a close relationship with him, was slightly inferior to this woman. However, the temperaments of the two were worlds apart.
This woman's charm was natural, as if she was born with a charming body, while Ding Ruozhao had a bit of heroism.
Zhang Ling thought wildly in his heart for a moment, then put aside these distracting thoughts. Calming his mind and looking at the enchanting woman in front of him again, he sensed that the woman was not a human cultivator, but a transformed demon cultivator.
Moreover, the aura she revealed had actually reached the peak of the eighth order, and it seemed that she was about to break through to the ninth order.
At the same time, he also noticed another cultivator, and was stunned again in his heart. The male cultivator in white who followed behind the female demon was also a demon cultivator, and he had seen him before.
The white-clothed youth was none other than the demon cultivator who had received him when he went to Cangyao Valley before, who had taken the Huasheng Fruit, and seemed to call himself Bai Qi. He seemed to have some friendship with Huang Ying and Tu Fei, who were by Qinghu Wang's side.
The aura on this demon's body was still at the level of a seventh-order demon beast, but his intelligence had been greatly opened, and he was even more refined than before, only half a step away from a true transformed demon cultivator.
Zhang Ling carefully sensed it, and vaguely saw a strange snake shadow on this demon's body, which seemed to be the demon's main body.
"Fellow Taoist, have you ever met... this junior of my demon clan? Xiao Qi, why don't you pay your respects to this fellow human Taoist?"
The palace-dressed woman was also observing Zhang Ling all the time. Although Zhang Ling was wearing a mask on his face, making it impossible to see his appearance, the slightest change in his gaze was still sensed by the woman.
Hearing this, the white-clothed youth also saluted Zhang Ling.
"Hehe, I did see Fellow Taoist Bai once in Cangyao Valley." Zhang Ling smiled and withdrew his gaze.
"So that's how it is. Xiao Qi did stay in Cangyao Valley for a while." The palace-dressed woman smiled charmingly and shook the jade fan in her hand.
Then the woman chatted with him casually for a few words, and then got to the point. "Fellow Taoist, you want to consign and auction rare spiritual items, right? This concubine knows a lot about various spiritual items and can estimate a reserve price for fellow Taoist."
Naturally, Zhang Ling didn't have any nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, he took out a few jade bottles and jade boxes and put them on the table.
Since he came to participate in this trade fair, he also had some preparations. Although he had consumed almost all of the spirit stones and a large amount of resources on his body when refining puppets before.
But he didn't lack resources such as thousand-year-old spiritual medicines and elixirs, so he took this opportunity to exchange for some spirit stones.
After about an incense stick of time, Zhang Ling walked out of the pavilion. Then, under Hong'er's introduction, he began to stroll around the streets on the shore of the lake.
This ring of buildings was all prepared for the cultivators who came here, which could be used as a temporary residence, and could also be used to place items for sale like ordinary shops.
And those who could come to this place were all high-level cultivators, and most of them brought rare spiritual items. Many buildings had already been occupied by cultivators, and there were even some sect cultivators who came here specifically to purchase things.
In the elegant room of the pavilion, after Zhang Ling left, the room was silent for a moment. The beautiful demon woman checked the treasures on the table, and suddenly looked at Bai Qi and asked.
"Did you have any impression of the person who just came in?"
"Uh, this senior human, Xiao Qi did sense some familiar aura on his body, but he can't be sure if he was the cultivator he met back then." Bai Qi hesitated for a moment, and then honestly answered.
"Is there anything special about this person?"
"Senior, although this person has Hunling wood on his body, I have a special perception ability that is not affected by Hunling wood. However, even if I can see through the spiritual light of the Hunling wood, this person's appearance has obviously been changed by secret methods. I can't detect this person's specific appearance."
"However, this person's aura is indeed similar to that of a human cultivator I met a hundred years ago, but... that person also participated in the treasure snatching conference in Cangyao Valley at that time, but he was only a Golden Core cultivator. It's impossible for him to become a Nascent Soul cultivator so quickly. Maybe Xiao Qi sensed it wrong."
"Oh, the Bailing Pool a hundred years ago. This person is a human cultivator, why would he participate in the treasure snatching conference of my demon clan? I heard that the Bailing Pool was quite lively, and Kui Mu Jiao was released." The beautiful demon woman's eyes lit up, and she seemed to have some interest in Zhang Ling.
"Xiao Qi doesn't know the situation of Bailing Pool at that time, but the person I saw at that time could participate in the treasure snatching conference, it seems because of Qinghu Wang's relationship, it seems to be related to Qinghu Wang's half-demon descendant who has human blood."
Qinghu!
"So it's also related to this guy. Hmph! Anyone related to this stinky fox is not a good person. Since I can't see through this person's reality, then forget it. Just treat him as an ordinary cultivator."
The beautiful demon woman's face changed when she heard the words Qinghu, and she chuckled.
Bai Qi saw the face of the senior in front of him suddenly change. He was puzzled for a moment, and was about to say something. Then he suddenly thought of some rumors, swallowed the words that came to his mouth, shrank his neck and dared not say any more.
The Silver Spirit senior in front of him also came from the fox clan. It is rumored that he has some entanglements with Qinghu Wang. Now it seems that the rumors are indeed true.
As for the title of Mei'er that Silver Spirit senior called himself just now, it was just a simple title in Cangyun Pavilion.
This senior calls himself Silver Spirit Fairy among the demon clan. Although her strength is not as good as those of the great demon kings, she is proficient in illusion and charm techniques, and ordinary demon kings dare not provoke her.
