Chapter 21 Ghost City
Unless you are from a well-off family and are either rich or noble, you will definitely not be able to afford such consumption of those expensive pill furnaces.

What's more, if it happens again and again, any wealth has been emptied out long ago.

Therefore, this kind of alchemist usually chooses a bronze furnace, which is affordable and highly cost-effective, so that even if it explodes, it will not be too distressing.

Gu Muyue looked at the simple bronze furnace and nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay! I just want this. Please give me ten of them, thank you."

"Ten?" Liniang suspected that she heard wrongly, her smile froze on her face, and she froze on the spot.

"Yes." Gu Muyue repeated, "That's ten."

Seeing the youthful appearance of the young man in front of her, Liniang was worried that it was his first time to go out to buy a pill furnace and he didn't know much about the market conditions.

Even for the worst alchemy furnace, the price is not random.

"This guest, a bronze furnace requires fifty amethyst stones." Liniang kindly reminded:

"If you need ten bronze furnaces, the total would be five hundred amethyst stones."

This is a lot of money!With so many crystals, I can buy a better alchemy furnace!
"Okay, I understand." Gu Muyue expressed understanding, but remained unmoved.

But there was a faint worry in my heart. I didn't know if ten alchemy furnaces would be enough for me. If they all failed and blew up in the end, I would have to go out again!
"How about ten more?" Gu Muyue thought a little tangledly.

Liniang looked at the young man's calm face and did not dissuade him. Then she turned around and went to prepare ten bronze furnaces.

Back on the first floor, Gu Muyue took out her purple card and swiped five hundred amethyst stones. The shopkeeper immediately put the prepared bronze furnace on the table.

There are ten in total, which is quite shocking at first glance.

Gu Muyue's thoughts moved slightly, and ten bronze furnaces instantly appeared neatly in the space.

After buying the alchemy furnace, Gu Muyue left Wuji Hall with satisfaction. Before doing so, she specifically asked the shopkeeper where to buy spiritual herbs and elixir prescriptions.

After getting the answer, she couldn't wait to walk towards her destination.

According to the shopkeeper of Wujitang, if you are a beginner in alchemy, Jishitang is the first choice for preparing materials.

You can buy everything you need to make alchemy there, not only spiritual herbs and pill prescriptions, but also flint.

Arriving at Jishi Hall, Gu Muyue found that the flow of people here was much larger than that at Wuji Hall.

In addition to the customers who came to buy elixirs, there were also many patients queuing up to see Dr. Ji Shitang.

Gu Muyue waited for a while, and finally it was her turn.

She went straight to the point. She first bought a first-level elixir recipe, and then bought several identical ones based on the spiritual herbs on the recipe.

Including a lot of flint, this trip cost a total of four hundred amethyst stones!
It is said that an alchemist can earn many, many crystals by refining one elixir, but while earning crystals, he also burns twice as many crystals!
Gu Muyue looked at the amethyst stones that had been scratched away, and her heart was bleeding. She had already spent nearly a thousand amethyst stones today!

In the purple card in my hand where I had saved all my pocket money since childhood, there were not many amethyst stones left.

She lowered her eyes and began to think, should she earn some crystal stones?
After all, if you really want to take the path of an alchemist in the future, it will cost too much crystals!
No wonder there are many alchemists who do not work hard on their own, but choose to join powerful families and accept their offerings.

In the end, Gu Muyue squeezed out of the crowded Jishi Hall after returning home with a full load.

Just when I was about to go home, I remembered another place mentioned by the shopkeeper of Wujitang. I paused in my steps. After thinking for a moment, I turned around and walked in another direction.

This place is special and not everyone knows it.

It was a market hidden in the dark, and the vendors inside were all spiritual and mystical practitioners from all over the world.

They don't do business in the traditional sense. Prices or sales methods are all based on their own mood. If the other party sees you as a match, they can give it away directly.

Here, you can see many things that are not available on the market, and even banned items. Of course, you cannot see ordinary gadgets there.

At this time, it is a test of one's eyesight. Whether you can pick out the pearl from a pile of fish eyes depends entirely on your own strength and luck.Therefore, some cultivators who don't have a lot of crystals like to come here to try their luck. If they are lucky, they might be able to find unexpected treasures at a very low price!

Following the shopkeeper's prompts, Gu Muyue walked to a very inconspicuous small attic. From the outside, it looked no different from the shops next to it.

But it was obvious that it was extremely deserted inside, with only a bearded man lying on the table by the door and taking a nap.

Gu Muyue walked in and found that she could not feel the man's cultivation. There were only three possibilities for this situation. One was that the other party was an ordinary person, which was ruled out.

As a guard squatting at the door, how could he not have any cultivation.

Then there are only two possibilities left, either the cultivation level is higher than his own or his cultivation level is hidden by the spiritual weapon like himself.

Seeing Gu Muyue appear, the man did not get up to greet her. Instead, he raised his head sleepily, with a chicken coop on his head, glanced at her casually, and said:

"An amethyst stone, take it yourself without a mask."

After saying that, he fell straight down and fell into sleep again.

Gu Muyue twitched her mouth when she saw the other party's lazy behavior, is it so casual?
She placed the amethyst stone in front of the man, took a random one from a pile of identical masks behind him and put it on her face.

Then he followed the instructions and walked into the attic. He came to a secret door and pushed it gently.

With a creak, the door was easily opened.

The silent atmosphere quickly receded, and the noise of the crowd surrounded Gu Muyue unpreparedly.

It is unimaginable that just such a door can completely separate the bustling market from the outside without even noticing it.

The huge market is like another world. Different from the bustle outside, everything here seems to be covered with a mysterious veil.

It fits the name people gave it - Ghost Market.

Bustling crowds shuttled around every corner, and everyone wore the same mask as Gu Muyue. They were an unknown ferocious beast with a green face and fangs.

There are no serious shops here, just temporary stalls.

The better ones are built with wooden frames, on which the goods they want to sell are placed. The more casual ones just lay a rag on the ground, and the things are scattered in a messy manner.

Gu Muyue walked past them and found that these temporary bosses just sat or lay quietly, or even slept, and did not shout at the top of their voices to solicit customers.

Only when customers take the initiative to ask, they will give you a look, which is very personal.

Gu Muyue began to wander aimlessly. She just came here after listening to the shopkeeper's introduction and suddenly became interested, thinking that she could try her luck casually. It would be better if there were unexpected surprises.

After walking around, I didn't find any unexpected surprises, but I did notice that a tall man wearing a black robe would appear every few dozen meters.

He remained motionless, standing straight in place. The red ghost mask tightly covered his appearance, revealing only a pair of sharp eyes looking straight ahead.

"This is..." Gu Muyue raised her eyebrows, thinking to herself: "The supervisor of the ghost market?"

She didn't expect that there would be people maintaining order in a place like this. Thinking of the man who had just slept at the door of the attic, she had a guess in her mind.

She calmly walked past the man in black robe and found that the man didn't even raise his eyelids.

It seems that these supervisors will only take action when there is a dispute here.

Just as he was thinking about it, a fierce quarrel suddenly broke out among the crowd not far away.

Noticed the supervisor looking in that direction.

She raised her eyebrows slightly and walked slowly towards the place where the trouble was taking place.

(End of this chapter)

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