Chapter 710: A Crazy Idea

But no matter what, this thing definitely had to be bought.

Thus, he asked: "How does fellow Daoist know it's a treasure map? Could it be that someone has been to the place recorded on it?"

The middle-aged stall owner shook his head: "How is that possible! It's just that when I took it over from someone else before, I was told it was a treasure map!"

Lin Zhangqing felt a bit disappointed upon hearing him say this; he had wanted to probe some useful information from the stall owner, but didn't expect it to be this answer.

But he said with his mouth: "There are no hints on it at all, that's truly looking for a needle in a haystack!

However, this animal skin roll itself feels quite comfortable to touch; although the spiritual energy on it has dissipated, one can still feel its extraordinary nature!

So this thing, if it's not too expensive, then I'll buy it!"

The middle-aged stall owner was a bit surprised, but since the business had come to his door, there was no reason to push it away.

Thus, after quickly weighing it in his heart, he said: "It's a precious treasure map after all, I'll sell it to you for three thousand low-grade spirit stones!"

Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but frown upon hearing this; this price, for a halo item, could be considered very cheap.

But for a useless treasure map, it was too expensive! If he bought it at this price, the stall owner would probably suspect if he had missed a treasure himself! So to take care of the stall owner's mood, Lin Zhangqing said firmly: "Too expensive!

An animal skin roll with no use at all is worth at most five hundred low-grade spirit stones, I won't take it if it's more!"

After saying this, he put the treasure map back on the stall and stood up, making a gesture to leave.

The middle-aged stall owner saw his attitude was so firm and was afraid the business would fall through, so he hurriedly said: "Alright then, I'll sell this treasure map to you!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded, didn't have any nonsense, paid the spirit stones directly, and left with the treasure map.

Next, maybe his luck had run out, and there were no other gains before.

However, Lin Zhangqing's mind had already been placed on that treasure map.

So he didn't linger here for too long and left the street stall square directly.

Subsequently, he began to search on the street; Lin Zhangqing wanted to find a hotel, open a room, and study the treasure map in his storage bag carefully.

But after searching for a while, he didn't find a hotel, but instead saw the signboard of the Listening Wind Pavilion.

At this time, a sudden inspiration hit him, and he immediately thought that he could buy the method to contact the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion from the Listening Wind Pavilion.

Wouldn't he be able to contact them this way! But now he was in his true face, it wasn't convenient to go in immediately, so he didn't stop at all and kept browsing forward.

After finally finding a remote small alley, he put on his Spirit Concealing Mask there.

Then he turned back, returned to the front of the Listening Wind Pavilion, confirmed that no one was specifically watching him, and walked in directly.

The style inside the pavilion was still the familiar one, and just like before, as soon as he entered the Listening Wind Pavilion, someone transmitted a message to him. Telling him to go to the left to buy news, and to the right to sell news; fortunately, he had experienced it twice, so he could be considered to have experience! Thus, he walked into the left passage and discovered that there was a whole row of nearly a hundred rooms inside, and the doors of many rooms were closed.

Obviously, someone was conducting transactions inside; Lin Zhangqing found a room with the door open and walked in directly! After the door closed, someone inside said: "Please sit, fellow Daoist of the Tianshui Sect! I don't know what kind of news you want to buy?"

Hearing that person ask this, Lin Zhangqing suddenly felt he was a bit careless, actually not changing out of his inner sect disciple attire.

Fortunately, he just wanted to know how to contact the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion and didn't involve anything else.

So after hesitating, he still said: "What I want to know is! How can I contact the people of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion!" This question of his made the people of the Listening Wind Pavilion freeze for a moment, and then they reacted.

Hurriedly saying: "This is a general question, the Listening Wind Pavilion charges a news fee of three thousand low-grade spirit stones."

Hearing this quote, Lin Zhangqing didn't have any hesitation and agreed directly!

Subsequently, he poured three thousand spirit stones onto the table beside him.

After the tabletop descended to take the spirit stones and returned, there was an extra white jade slip on the table.

After Lin Zhangqing put away the jade slip, he got up and left directly; this way the transaction was considered completed.

Subsequently, Lin Zhangqing wandered in the market and spent half an hour finally finding a hotel.

In an uncorrected version!

Lin Zhangqing opened a room, but for the sake of safety, he checked it carefully twice, confirmed there was no problem, and then set up a Breath-Hiding Array.

Only then did he enter the array, hesitated, and took out the white jade slip he had just obtained.

He stuck it to his forehead and began to read; the content inside wasn't much, and in a short while, he had finished reading it all! It turned out that in every market, there was basically a hidden contact point of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion; if one didn't know the way, one would never be able to touch it.

And contacting them also had its rules; it could only be done during the Zi hour at night, and after this time, they would disappear without a trace.

And this jade slip also attached some rules of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion, one of which was that if a client had placed a task at Black Lotus.

Black Lotus wouldn't take any tasks targeting that client within three years, so Lin Zhangqing's plan to ask Black Lotus to take action was considered to have fallen through in the short term! But in fact, it wasn't absolute; he believed that if he changed the target to Wei Changgeng's father, he should be able to ask Black Lotus to take action to eliminate him.

After all, Wei Zhanggeng could be so arrogant and use such heterodox cultivation methods entirely because he relied on his father.

If not for his father, given Wei Zhanggeng's actions, he would have been killed by others hundreds of times over already!

Therefore, Wei Zhanggeng's father was the root of all problems; eliminating him was absolutely the right thing to do!

However, doing so would be too crazy, and there was a high probability it would alarm the sect's higher-ups.

Moreover, it was estimated that hiring the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion to eliminate a Golden Core stage cultivator would require a price that was definitely very exaggerated! Lin Zhangqing could not guarantee that he would definitely be able to pay it.

So, after carefully weighing it, he still gave up on this crazy idea!

(End of chapter)