Chapter 196 Memory Stone
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This halo is not limited to Yan Xiaobao, but everyone who approaches him can feel it. The bustling citizens, even those who used to ignore the surrounding environment, politely walked aside and opened up the road that Yan Xiaobao walked.
For everyone present, it was obviously an expert who did not usually belong to the city, and it was also an expert, far surpassing the noble families at that time who boasted that King listed experts as family leaders.
Yan Xiaobao did not move at an extremely fast speed, but spent a lot of time on his way to one of the markets. He could have gone to the same store as before, but he had no intention of assisting anyone who had pursued him before.
Instead, he went to the center of many markets in the city. Yan Xiaobao was not stupid. He knew that his sudden appearance caused several people to follow him and put him under observation. Although Yan Xiaobao usually did not notice these people, he was now able to merge with Lan Feng's Holy Spirit halo.
When Yan Xiaobao felt the person following him, a smile appeared on his face and he walked towards a smaller market. The smaller market was controlled by a few noble families, and the stores living in these markets usually sell their main products at cheaper prices in relatively large markets.
Larger markets can get bigger prices because these places usually have higher levels of magical items and medicinal materials and medium-ranked martial arts skills. Smaller markets are usually places where mercenaries often go, while upper class is places where the big markets go.
If Yan Xiaobao had come to the market in old clothes earlier, he would probably be banned from entering the market, but with his current performance and the extraordinary aura he showed, no one dared to stop him.
The guards guarding the market all glanced at Yan Xiaobao with envious eyes and slight fear, and the customers once again provided space for Yan Xiaobao to make people satisfied with anyone.
Yan Xiaobao spends time walking on different stalls, scanning low-level medicinal plants, empty scrolls, low-level martial arts skills, low-level magic beast cores, low-level magic gems, low-quality weapons, low-quality armor and low-quality memory stones.
Memory stones were originally a black gem without actual ability, but each of them had a certain ability to absorb spiritual energy and transferred to tools that could be used for recording, which could be used as keys or even storage tools.
A low-level memory stone is a stone that can absorb a small amount of spiritual energy and turn it into a stone. It can record a martial arts or spiritual art skill. It can record a real action in a short time and keep this action or it can be used to send a message to another person.
Due to the lack of spiritual energy, it is often used as a container for martial arts and spiritual art skills. When the spiritual energy is exhausted, the memory stone will shatter, which usually happens if the stone has been used several times. Whether it is martial arts or spiritual art skills, it is a battle or even a record of information for friends.
Considering that Yan Xiaobao and Lan Feng have paid three silver coins, it is possible that these two people will buy medium-grade memory stones, but low-grades are actually more beneficial, because only a few of them can see them before being crushed.
When the memory stone can only be viewed a few times, it causes the buyer to limit who is allowed to try and activate it, which reduces the chances of anyone being attracted to it. Secondly, while someone will insert knowledge into their minds from the memory stone, there is nothing they can do before they manage to activate it, including creating new memories.
Yan Xiaobao is still worried about the entire plan to sell high-end martial arts skills, but whenever he feels Lan Feng's soul, he feels unexplained excitement and a hint of gloating that he cannot understand.
"Lan Feng," he said as he looked at the stall in front of him, "What is the reason for you to be so excited?"
Although these two souls can sense each other's emotions, it is impossible to truly understand each other.
"Let me tell you a story," Lan Feng said in a patient voice, which is very similar to Yan Xiaobao being told about bedtime stories when he was a child. "Long ago, there was an expert here. This expert sold me two of my skills. One was a martial arts skill and the other was a spiritual art skill. The price of these two skills was incredible, but their abilities seemed to be above average. Finally, I bought the memory gems containing both skills and just saw that I couldn't activate them. I had to try four times before I finally succeeded in learning martial arts techniques, and the memory stone broke my final attempt. On the other hand, the spiritual art skills still caused me some problems. It was created for people with affinity for water,
Apparently, when he continued to give his speech, Phoenix still felt a little suppressed anger.
"To be honest, it really made me angry, and later when I tried to find a cultivator to take revenge, I found someone killed him. Imagine how I felt. Be angry but can't do anything, but nothing more! This time it was my turn to twist a naive stupid person. I need to feel that these two skills do have some value to them!"
Once Lan Feng finished his last sentence, he snorted and laughed wildly. Although this method made Yan Xiaobao question why Lan Feng suggested that they sell martial arts skills, he knew that even Phoenix could not easily activate them, and calmed him down.
Although the boy did feel a certain degree of relief, after successfully selling the memory gems, the internal beasts were satisfied with how they would imagine. Yan Xiaobao finally shook his head before selecting two gems. The lowest level memory gem he could find.
These memory gemstones are able to hold martial arts or spiritual art skills only three times, and although this may sound incredible, it is about whether the skills will be sold in a staggering amount of black market auction houses later.
After picking up the stone, Yan Xiaobao turned his face to the stall owner.
"I wish to buy these two stones," he said in a childish voice, leading to the observers and civilians around him who thought the hidden expert was actually a woman. She was light and only a meter and a half, but weak in shape. Her skin was pale, her voice was high but comfortable, like a slow steam slid through the beautiful scenery.
Although the expert seemed to be a woman, the shopkeeper still looked at the man with utmost respect and fear as he bowed deeply.
"Milady, please do not offend this humble servant, accept the stone as a symbol of my respect," he said in a trembling voice and a slight stutter.
Looking at the unknown expert, the shop owner thought it was a man who was just traveling in the city. The clothes were obviously men's clothing, but they were made of fabrics that were not commonly used around the parts. The hat she wore was also something he had never seen before, but it was made very cautiously and no one would think it was a whim.
When Xu Yue shrugged when he heard that these stones were gifts. He was not a rich man after all, and his entire wealth included less than three silver coins.
Yan Xiaobao didn't care about being mistaken for women again, this time it was a benefit because it could further help eliminate any suspicion about him. He thanked the shop owner, turned around and prepared to leave the market, and noticed that the shop he left suddenly flourished among the travelers.
All the civilians from the market rushed to the stalls and bought items from them. Even if he had two memory gems of the lowest quality, it was obviously not very good for the shop owner.
When Yan Xiaobao walked out of the market and returned directly to the hotel where he stayed, a smile appeared on his face.
Instead of going to the counter, he walked directly to the room he rented. When he returned to the inn, Yan Xiaobao clearly realized that all the whistleblowers from important factions in the city were following him, and the next part of his plan was crucial.
After entering his room, Lan Feng quickly withdrew his halo and included it in his own interior again. Yan Xiaobao quickly changed his clothes back to the peasant costume he had worn before. The conical hat and clothes were quickly put away together, hid in his bag, and then jumped onto the bed, sat down and meditated while practicing.
Not long after, Yan Xiaobao heard the sound of people walking outside the corridor and could hear complaining through the old door. When Huiya tried to concentrate on his practice, a smile appeared on his face.
A few minutes later, his door was forced to open, and the landlord stood outside with a group of three men in black, looking at the shabby room with the poor raised children.
Yan Xiaobao seemed to be frightened. He stared at the invader with his big eyes and slightly trembling hands. The three men in black moved out almost immediately. The landlord nodded slightly after closing the door, and then closed the door.
For the next hour, the three men in black searched the entire hotel, unable to find what they were looking for, and then a cheeky smile appeared on their faces as he saw them leave the hotel. Finally, it was time to pick up the two memory stones and leave their mark with Lan Feng’s martial arts and spiritual art skills.
When looking at the stone in Yan Xiaobao's hand, its palm was only half the size of him and was not carved into a very good shape. It was as rough as when the mercenaries found it. The surface of the stone was black and had no luster. It was obvious that seeing this was a low-end stone made Yan Xiaobao even more excited.
He picked up the first stone, slowly closed his eyes, and moved it to his forehead. The rest of the marks depended on Blue Maple, while the Phoenix slowly moved a feather finger to his forehead, where he pulled a ray of light from between his eyes.
The light slowly condensed into a small ball, shining like a pearl. Under Lan Feng's careful guidance, it passed through Yan Xiaobao's meridians until it reached its forehead, where it pressed the last distance of its body outside its body and entered the memory stone.
Once the light ball left Yan Xiaobao's head, he slowly opened his eyes, but was blocked by a bright light because it entered the memory stone in front of him. It took several minutes to return to Yan Xiaobao.
When he was, the memory stone was no longer as usual. As before, it was still rough and unmuffled, but the surface had become shiny, as if it was filled with black sunlight, and from time to time, some white mist would be seen spreading inside the stone.
When Xu Yue couldn't help feeling excited when he saw them successfully trapping the first skill, he quickly repeated the move. As he looked at the two stones in his hand and kept imagining how much they would sell, a carnival joy appeared in his heart. Hopefully this was enough to provide quite a few medicinal pills.
After the two memory stones were over, Yan Xiaobao quickly changed his clothes, waited for Lan Feng to release his spiritual energy, then walked out of the hotel and walked slowly again, allowing different followers to see his mind...
When leaving the hotel, Yan Xiaobao saw that the sun was almost reaching the city wall, and he couldn't help but frown slightly, showing that it was showing that in the afternoon, if Yan Xiaobao wanted to appear in the city lord's mansion, he attended the twin dinner he had promised earlier.
Despite this, Xu Yue knew that if he was anxious to plan this part of the work, he would have gained nothing, so he forced himself to slowly pass through the city and walk towards the Ma family compound.
Black market auction houses, like most other important commercial buildings, are not placed in the city center, but are placed next to the Ma family’s own residences so that they provide the best security.
Black market auction houses do not have to hunt down customers, customers must go a little longer to have the opportunity to buy unknown treasures.
Although the place is called a black market auction house, it is a very popular building, it is not considered illegal and is not a place to make money from criminal activities.
The reason for getting the name is because of the policies the Ma family has followed from the beginning. When an item appears at their auction, they don’t care how the seller achieves it. If they stole or robbed someone, even if they killed their former owners, the black market auction house wouldn’t care about it. The same is true for the heirlooms of the declining families sold here, no one knows who the seller is, and anonymity is key.
As long as a product is sold through a black market auction house, the new owner acquires all rights to the product, only if the new owner wishes to hand over the product to others, sell it to others or if it is taken away by force.
When he saw this luxurious environment, he was surprised to arrive at the building.
The road leading to the black market auction house is paved with marble and is surrounded by carefully-mowed lawns. The lawn is inlaid with large trees, and the trees are trimmed into squares, and jade statues can be seen in the middle of the lawn.
Behind the beautiful scenery is the main building decorated with gold on all the pillars. The magical beasts are carved into frames, while the animal statues are made of marble and more jade carvings.
The doors are made of marble and are very similar to the sidewalk, but the door frames and door handles are made of pure gold. All colors remain white, red and black.
The entire place is closely guarded by a team of experts. They will patrol in specific modes, and even the guards at the door are at least masters.
When Yan Xiaobao walked on the marble road and headed to the black market auction house, he noticed that those who followed him had fled so far.
When he noticed their movement, the white-haired kid couldn't help but giggle. Apparently, they were returning to Huiya to visit the black market auction house and returned to their homes.
A new expert arrives in the city and heads to the auction house. It can only mean one thing, the treasure is going to be sold, and everyone wants to have the first chance to get it.
It was for this reason that they had these people follow him all day. It was to increase the number of experts who knew about going to black market auction houses.
As he walked onto the sidewalk, his smile reached Yan Xiaobao's face and walked towards the front door.
Chapter completed!