Chapter 7 A Transaction
Jiang Chen's body suddenly stopped, and he was a little surprised, but he still stopped. Then he turned around and saw an old man with a small figure in a blue brocade robe and white beard behind him.
At this moment, he was looking at Jiang Chen with a longing look on his face.
"Is there anything you have to do?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly and asked in a cold voice.
He had already seen that this was a mortal without aura.
There are not many mortals in the Heavenly Demon City. After all, many things are unwilling to do by immortals, but it is indispensable to maintain the operation of the city. For example, cleaning the streets, providing food for monks, building houses, repairing facilities and other errands are all required by mortals.
However, Jiang Chen doesn't like this kind of mortal who comes to disturb him for no reason.
At this time, the old man bowed respectfully and said, "I saw that the saint has been staying in front of the stall selling elixirs, and he seemed to be very eager for the elixirs, so he kept his heart..."
Jiang Chen's expression changed slightly, but he didn't expect that he would be targeted.
He frowned and said coldly: "You are following me? What are your intentions?"
Within the Demon Sect, the status of immortal cultivators and mortals is 108,000 miles apart. If the immortal cultivators kill mortals, they do not have to bear any responsibility. If they kill, they will be killed in vain. Not to mention the cultivators of the sect like the Heavenly Demon Sect who practice ghost realm. Many of the low-level disciples have to use a large number of mortal souls as their souls in the ten ghost banners. Therefore, when ordinary mortals see disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect, they are not too far away from them, so how could they take the initiative to say hello to them?
The old man was shocked and quickly defended himself: "Saint Master, you misunderstood! How dare I follow the Saint Master? I just happened to see it! I will tell you that the reason I came to the Saint Master was because there was trouble in my family, so I wanted to ask the Saint Master to help me!"
After saying that, he told him what happened in his home.
It turned out that he was the village chief of Xujia Village, a small mountain village more than 100 miles away from Tianmo City. His name was Xu Guohua. His ancestors had also produced immortal cultivators and were also an alchemist. Unfortunately, since then, no one in the family has any spiritual roots, so naturally he has no chance with the immortal path.
But three days ago, a zombie suddenly ran into the mountain village where he lived. The zombie was extremely powerful and as hard as steel. No matter how the strong men in the village attacked it with knife, fork and stick, it would not cause any harm to it. Instead, it made it fierce and swallowed many people. So the village chief had to go out, hoping to find a cultivator to help subdue the zombies.
But unexpectedly, the cultivators in the Heavenly Demon City refused to pay attention to him when they saw that he was a mortal. Moreover, he did not have any spiritual stones, magic tools, elixirs, talisman materials and other things that were interesting to the cultivators, and could only take out some gold and silver objects. In this way, even if someone could subdue the zombie, he would not want to take action.
When he was desperate, Xu Guohua felt that Jiang Chen seemed to be easy to talk, so he came to him.
"Saint Master, I will definitely not let you take action in vain! I can't take out other things, but I can take out a elixir as a thank you to the saint Master!" Xu Guohua said with a respectful look on his face.
"A elixir?" Jiang Chen was suddenly moved after hearing this, but when his eyes rolled, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
The price of the alchemy tripod is so expensive. If Xu Guohua really could get the alchemy tripod, wouldn’t he have a spirit stone to invite a monk if he sold the alchemy? Moreover, even if other cultivators do not refine the alchemy, they can make a fortune by reselling it. He gave the alchemy tripod to others as a reward, how could others refuse to take action?
"Xu Guohua, be honest: What's the problem with this alchemy? If you say it out loud quickly, it's fine if Jiang! If you find that you deliberately deceived you, don't blame me for sucking you soul-refining..." A cold light flashed in Jiang Chen's eyes.
Xu Guohua was startled and said hurriedly: "Saint Master, I did not deliberately conceal it, but I have not finished speaking yet... This alchemy tripod is a good purple gold tripod used by my ancestors. It is very sturdy and durable, far from comparable to the blue and white tripod furnace that is easy to explode... However, this purple gold tripod lacks a corner, which leads to a little air leakage... but it can still be used barely! It's just... just..."
"Just what?" Jiang Chen asked with a bad expression.
"It's just that because of the leakage of wind, the success rate of alchemy of this Purple Gold Cauldron is about half lower than that of an ordinary alchemy cauldron. So I wanted to sell this cauldron several times, but no one was willing to buy it, otherwise it wouldn't have been delayed until now." Xu Guohua said helplessly.
Jiang Chen also immediately understood that the success rate of alchemy was very low. His purple gold cauldron leaked the wind and the success rate of alchemy was half lower than that of a normal alchemy cauldron. Who would buy this kind of alchemy cauldron?
You should know that some precious medicinal materials are more expensive than the entire alchemy cauldron. If you use this alchemy cauldron with such a low success rate to refine the alchemy, wouldn’t it be thrown into the water?
So no wonder no alchemist is willing to buy it, and even other stores that do the alchemy business are unwilling to buy such an air-lost alchemy.
Seeing that Jiang Chen was silent, Xu Guohua thought he disagreed, so he hurriedly begged: "Saint Master, you can do it well! Just do it for me! All of us in the village will provide you with the immortal soul..."
"Okay! I don't need to say anything extra nonsense. You said that your ancestor was also an alchemist, so he has information on alchemy, such as alchemy recipes?" Jiang Chen touched his chin and asked in a deep voice.
"This seems to be there!" Xu Guohua said after thinking for a while.
"It's true that there is! It's true that there is nothing! What does it mean that there is something?" Jiang Chen frowned.
"Because I heard that my ancestors wrote some of his experiences in alchemy, methods and some alchemy recipes into a jade slip, but the saint of the jade slip can only be read with spiritual consciousness, and we mortals cannot see it, so we don't know what it is!" Xu Guohua said pitifully.
"Let's do it! You take the jade slip as a bonus and give it to me with the alchemy tripod. Jiang will go to Xujia Village to beside this zombie! What do you think?" Jiang Chen thought for a while and finally agreed.
Although the purple gold cauldron leaks the air and has a low success rate, it has not had much impact when he has the Tianmo Order Reducer. However, the experience of Xu Guohua's alchemy refining, alchemy methods, etc. are of great help to him. If he wants to save the spirit stones to buy, he doesn't know how long it will take to exchange them. Therefore, after counting this business, he still earned it himself.
Of course, Jiang Chen also thought that the zombie might be too fierce and he could not deal with it. However, judging from the situation where this zombie only attacked mortals and Xu Guohua could still run out to ask for help, it was absolutely not much more powerful, at least it was certain that he had not yet opened his intelligence. He learned the corpse control technique and had a series of tools to catch zombies. Even if the zombie level was higher than that of him, he should be able to take it down.
Seeing that Jiang Chen agreed, Xu Guohua was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly. Then he led Jiang Chen to the carriage in the Heavenly Demon City, hired a carriage, invited Jiang Chen to enter the carriage and sat there, and then ordered the coachman to drive the carriage to his mountain village...
After three days on the road, the carriage arrived at a small mountain village with beautiful mountains and rivers. Xu Guohua respectfully led Jiang Chen to the best room in the mountain village and wanted to entertain him.
"Xu Guohua, there is no need to stay there. I will lead me directly to the place where the zombie is. After subduing the zombie, I will return to the sect!" Jiang Chen said in a deep voice.
Xu Guohua was slightly surprised after hearing this, but he immediately realized that Jiang Chen was unwilling to take more time here. Yu Kuang said respectfully: "This is another village in our Xujia Village. The zombie village is still twenty miles away. Master Jiang, please come with Yu!"
After saying that, he greeted several hunters in the village, surrounded Jiang Chen with bows, arrows, iron forks, torches and other objects, and continued to walk into the deep mountains.
About an hour later, I arrived in front of a dark village. At first glance, I saw a gust of wind inside, scattered clothes, miscellaneous items, and a mess. It seemed that it was left by the villagers when they ran away.
On one road in the village, there were some livestock and human bones, and some remaining blood on the bones. It seemed that the remains of the corpse eaten by zombies.
And in a pigpen more than a hundred feet away from them, a zombie with green hair was greedily eating a pig's legs.
"The Holy Master is that zombie. It made the whole village uneasy, eating our three tribesmen and dozens of livestock. You must avenge our dead tribesmen!" Several Zhuang Dings pointed at the zombie and said with a look of grief.
Jiang Chen's eyes flashed at this time. He had already seen that this zombie was an ordinary green-haired zombie with no intelligence, but its level was not low. It was a level six ghost soldier. This was equivalent to a cultivator in the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage. If he wanted to fight with it, he would definitely not be able to defeat it.
However, the zombie seemed to be injured and its vitality was greatly damaged. Its current strength seemed to be equivalent to that of a cultivator in the third and fourth levels of the Qi Refining Period. If he supplemented himself with props such as corpse traps, corpse binding ropes, and corpse nails, he might not be able to subdue it.
Moreover, Jiang Chen had a new idea and took the green-haired zombie for himself. In this way, he would be like an extra helper at the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage. If he meets a person like Gu Zhiyong with ulterior motives in the future, he would have the power to fight.
He then decided to install a trap to attract the zombie to the bait.
Jiang Chen first hid at the bend of the mountain road not far from the zombie, and laid five nails there. This nail is also a kind of spiritual object. It can change with the color of the ground. Most people cannot see it without careful observation. As long as the zombie step on the nail when passing by, the soles of the feet will be pierced and the nails are nailed to the original place and cannot move.
Of course, the zombies will also find ways to pull out their feet and then escape. However, Jiang Chen can use this time to throw out the corpse net and trap him.
After setting up the trap, Jiang Chen put a piece of fresh meat behind the nails, then took a few steps forward, putting down the second piece of meat...
In this way, he kept laying his flesh to a place only five or six feet away from the zombie. Then Jiang Chen hid behind a huge rock and waited for the green-haired zombie to take the bait.
After eating the pig's legs, the zombie may have felt that she had not eaten enough. After looking around for a long time, she suddenly found that there was a piece of raw meat not far from her. She was immediately overjoyed, so she quickly jumped out of the pigpen and rushed to the raw meat with one step. Then, two corpse claws with green hair picked up the raw meat and ate it up...
After the raw meat was eaten, the zombie was obviously excited, and it soon discovered a piece of raw meat in front. So it happily walked forward a few steps and ate the raw meat again...
Chapter completed!