Chapter 59: Risky Strategy

After bidding farewell to Wei Laohei, who looked regretful, Xiao Mian wandered around the Lingchuan market, which was getting dark but still brightly lit, with a gloomy face.

"Although I don't know what level and grade the monster skeleton is, I think it won't be too bad if it can come to the auction. If you can get the complete skeleton, the speed of practicing the third stage of "The Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" will definitely be greatly shortened, and the power of the practice will be much greater than that of using fragmented animal bones. If possible, you might as well give it a try!" Feeling Xiao Mian's hesitation, Guitou encouraged him. Xiao Mian listened without comment, and after a long time he said to himself: "What can I use to bid? The one thousand low-grade spirit stones just now were the credit of Nie Sheng. Now there are only four thousand low-grade spirit stones and nearly a hundred medium-grade spirit stones left. How can I bid it down?"

When bidding for the Condensing Gold Creation Pill that day, those Jindan masters raised the price by one thousand, one thousand medium-grade spirit stones, and finally broke out a sky-high price of 20,000 medium-grade spirit stones.

The value of a complete monster skeleton is certainly not as good as the fourth-grade Jindan Jinhua Pill, but it is definitely not something Xiao Mian can afford with his current meager wealth.

"Are you worried about this? You will be stupid in the future!" After scolding Xiao Mian severely, Guitou said unhappily: "Just take out a cold stone box from your storage bag for spiritual materials and you can exchange it for the beast bone! From what you said, the cultivator who planted these spiritual materials that day was only a Jindan cultivator, but his attainments in cultivating spiritual plants are so impressive that even I have to look at him with admiration!"

"Spiritual materials in the cold stone box? Yes! Why didn't I think of this wealth?" Xiao Mian was awakened by Guitou's words and was ecstatic, but soon he lowered his head again: "It's still not possible! Since it's the auction on August 15, not only will the nearby scattered cultivators gather in Lingchuan Market, but even the Demon Shadow Sect, Luohua Valley and my Five Elements Sect will send special people to participate in the auction If I buy it, I'm afraid that my identity as an inner disciple of the Demon Shadow Sect will be useless! Whether Wei Laohei or the Demon Shadow Sect knows my existence, it will be a fatal disaster! "

"That's a problem! It's a pity that you only have one mask, otherwise...wait! Just don't wear a mask! If you participate in the auction with your real face, I think that even if Wei Laohei connects with the people from the Demon Shadow Sect and knows that someone has impersonated you, he won't suspect you. I just don't know that you are a well-known figure in the Five Elements Sect? If so, you'd better leave as soon as possible. "

"That's not the case! On the contrary! "

As the saying goes, one person's plan is short, two people's plan is long, Xiao Mian and Guitou discussed for a long time and felt that participating in the auction with your real face was a risky move.

After all, there were only a few people in the entire Five Elements Sect who knew Xiao Mian. If there was no major event, Biluoxian and Yuanxu would never come to Lingchuan Market. As for Lu Chengfeng, as a disciple of the sect who was trained by the sect, he would not be bored to the point of coming to the auction. Thinking about what Lu Chengfeng said to Xie Ying that day, it was Fu Qingqiong who needed to be cautious - but in private, Xiao Mian hoped to see Fu Qingqiong again.

It was not certain whether the Five Elements Sect would send someone, and it was not certain whether the person who came was Fu Qingqiong, but Wei Laohei would definitely be in Lingchuan Market. Thinking about the fact that Wei Laohei could even know what items were on the auction in advance, it was obvious that he had some skills in Lingchuan Market, and the human skin mask was really unusable.

In other words, it was safest for him to show his true face!

Back to the Ye family courtyard, there was no conversation all night.

The next day was the day when the auction started.

During the day, Xiao Mian wandered around the stall area west of the market for a long time. Under Guitou's guidance, Xiao Mian felt a sense of pleasure in picking up bargains. Under the erosion of time, many artifacts that were originally valuable were covered in dust by history and no one knew them. Guitou's profound knowledge was fully demonstrated at this time. The only drawback was that Guitou had serious memory loss. He only knew that many things were treasures, but he didn't know why they were treasures.

Fortunately, those things were not too expensive, so Xiao Mian bought them all with the mentality of buying them first and talking about them later.

Xiao Mian's actions made Xuanlang, who was following him, quite anxious. He repeatedly advised Xiao Mian not to waste so much and buy useless garbage. Xiao Mian was going to explain to him at first, but in the end he just let it go. You continue to talk about yours, and I continue to buy mine.

It was close to noon when Xiao Mian stopped this behavior that seemed quite crazy to outsiders. Then he returned to the Ye family courtyard, said goodbye to Xuan Lang, and left Lingchuan Market with Ye Qingguo. Of course, Xiao Mian did not really leave. He just pretended to avoid Wei Laohei knowing that he had been fooled by him and then got angry with him. The reason why he took Ye Qingguo away was also for this consideration. As for Xuan Lang, he refused to leave the market, saying that he had not seen everything in the world yet.

After flying north for 300 miles from the market, he met a village and placed Ye Qingguo in a farmer's house. Then Xiao Mian turned around and flew towards Lingchuan Market again.

On the way, Xiao Mian tore off the human skin mask and changed into the black robe of the Demon Shadow Sect. When Xiao Mian entered Lingchuan Market again, he had changed into a young casual cultivator wearing a green shirt.

Although he knew that it was unlikely that there would be any acquaintances of his in Lingchuan Market, Xiao Mian still felt guilty and was cautious all the way.

Several times, he almost attracted the attention of the monks patrolling the market. If it weren't for his low level of cultivation, they would have come to question him long ago. After realizing his own misconduct, Xiao Mian felt helpless. He rolled his eyes and saw a shop on the side of the road. He entered the shop, walked around the shop casually, and then asked the clerk a question in a low voice.

"Excuse me, young man, is your boss Xie here?"

"Boss Xie? Our boss's surname is not Xie!"

"Not surnamed Xie? Isn't this Wanxiangzhai?"

"The shop is indeed Wanxiangzhai, but our boss's surname is really not Xie!"

It turned out that when Xiao Mian accidentally saw Wanxiangzhai just now, he remembered the fat man Xie Ying he knew before. If he could get in touch with this fat man, his safety would be guaranteed.

But when he came in and asked, Wanxiangzhai actually changed its surname. The world changes too fast!

Where did the fat man Xie go?

"Oh! I mixed it up. Goodbye!" Xiao Mian was suspicious and didn't dare to stay for long for fear of something. He withdrew from Wanxiangzhai and walked away quickly. The clerk thought that Xiao Mian really mixed it up, so he didn't keep him any longer. He turned around and saw his boss staring at him from behind. The clerk couldn't help but shudder. The new boss of Wanxiangzhai was a beautiful young woman, about thirty years old, extremely charming, wearing a bright red palace dress. Throwing a coquettish glance at her own clerk, she asked softly, "Who did that young man just now come to see?"

"He... he said he came to see the boss of Wanxiangzhai..."

"Looking for me? Why don't you bring him in?"

"He... he said he came to see the boss surnamed Xie..."

"Looking for Fatty Xie?" The woman was stunned when she heard this, and turned her eyes to the street outside, but there was no trace of Xiao Mian. After a moment of silence, the woman smiled softly, "Humph! It seems that Fatty Xie has not gained nothing after ten years in Lingchuan Market. He has been away for more than half a year, and someone actually comes to see him..."

At this time, Xiao Mian had already left Wanxiangzhai. Now Xiao Mian himself was in a state of panic, so he naturally would not pay too much attention to Fatty Xie's situation. However, without Fatty Xie's relationship, he would have to go through more trouble to successfully sneak into Lingchuanhao.