Chapter 83: Ten-Thousand-Year Transformation Form Ginseng

Li Xuan was startled for a moment, then looked up, and his gaze toward Fat Boss was full of disdain.

Originally, because the shop was clean and tidy, Li Xuan's impression of Fat Boss was still fairly good.

He didn't expect that Fat Boss was also dealing in this kind of business.

These children who have not yet awakened their martial soul have only one value: awakening the martial soul. Once they successfully awaken it, the child's worth can instantly increase by hundreds of times, and if the talent is good, even by thousands or tens of thousands of times.

Therefore this is not a slave trade but a gamble, only this gamble is filled with bloodshed and cruelty.

These children who have not yet awakened their martial soul are generally bought by the slave traders from impoverished families.

If luck favors them and they successfully awaken the martial soul to obtain an Xiantian Soul Power Level, they can directly leap across social strata, turning from poor commoners into soul master aristocrats, and then be sold again; although they have food and clothing without worry, they lose their freedom.

Of course, in such cases children who can awaken the martial soul and possess an Xiantian Soul Power Level are extremely rare; only one in several hundred to a thousand may awaken a soul power level, and one in ten thousand with good talent is already fortunate.

And those children who do not awaken a soul power level are mostly abandoned to fend for themselves, and since they are only six years old, they can hardly survive after being abandoned.

Thus this gamble involving children without awakened martial souls is extremely cruel and bloody.

"Fine, take me to see those children." Although Li Xuan also feels sorry for them, Li Xuan is not a saint; he will not waste his Soul Coins to buy useless slaves.

Moreover, Li Xuan also wants to try whether the system's function can probe these children's talents; if he can uncover their talents, Li Xuan would make a fortune!

Li Xuan's Chunqiu Jiuzhuang has just been established and also needs to cultivate some forces that belong solely to Li Xuan; if these children have talent, they can join Chunqiu Jiuzhuang, and Li Xuan can directly train them.

"Young master, please follow me!" Hearing that Li Xuan did not refuse, Fat Boss also showed a smile on his face, then immediately led Li Xuan toward the shop's Courtyard.

The Slave Market shop's Courtyard is very large; the front Courtyard is for trading, the back Courtyard stores slaves.

Just upon arriving at the shop's back Courtyard, Li Xuan smelled the same stench as outside!

It seems the slaves' lives here are also quite miserable, but that's considered normal, after all the slaves are barely even human anymore.

After entering the back Courtyard, Li Xuan saw it spanned four to five hundred square meters, filled with all kinds of iron cages, and inside those cages were all sorts of slaves.

Fat Boss's shop contains male and female slaves, and among them there are also some beauties.

However, at Li Xuan's age, he has little interest in beauties.

In a corner of the Courtyard, a cage two meters long and half a meter high was packed with tiny children, about a dozen or so.

Looking at these children of roughly his own age, Li Xuan helplessly shook his head; these kids truly suffer here, their emaciated, bony frames and vacant eyes clearly show chronic malnutrition and prolonged abuse.

"You are ruthless," Li Xuan glanced back at Fat Boss, then chuckled lightly.

"We have no choice either; these are children from poor families who were destined to starve. We spend money to buy them, which is at least giving them a chance to survive," Fat Boss said with a smile, shaking his head.

Then Fat Boss stepped forward and opened the cage in the corner.

"All come out, let the boss pick!" Fat Boss kicked the cage and snarled at those inside.

Immediately, the emaciated children staggered out of the cage, lining up in a single file in the Courtyard, heads bowed, waiting for Li Xuan's selection. Their practiced movements made it clear this was not their first time being chosen.

"System, can you check these people's attributes?" Li Xuan said to the system in his mind.

After a few breaths, the system didn't even emit a puff.

"Fine, I knew you were unreliable; I never should have counted on you," Li Xuan's mouth twitched, and he sighed helplessly.

Li Xuan has already become accustomed to this unreliable system.

Li Xuan pondered briefly, then employed the Medicine Appraisal Technique, the only appraisal skill he possessed, though he didn't have high hopes.

As Li Xuan expected, the children showed no reaction at all to the Medicine Appraisal Technique; it seemed his plan to shortcut and examine their attributes had failed.

But at that moment, Li Xuan suddenly noticed another filthy child lying motionless in the cage.

"Boss, is that child inside still alive?" Li Xuan pointed at the child in the cage and asked.

"I don't know either. This child has been with me for a month; its constitution is weak, often unconscious. I thought it wouldn't last two days, yet it survived a month, but now it seems beyond saving," Fat Boss said helplessly, then gestured to a few children to take the child out of the cage.

Those children were still obedient, pulling the little boy out of the cage.

The moment the child and Li Xuan drew near, a faint medicinal scent drifted into Li Xuan's nose.

If Li Xuan hadn't been practicing Alchemy and dealing with herbs regularly, he wouldn't have easily detected the herbal fragrance.

Subconsciously, Li Xuan used a Medicine Appraisal Technique.

Even more astonishing, a blue Light Screen projected from the child's body.

【Plant: Bai Yu Shen Wang】

【Quality: Heavenly Material Earth Treasure】

【Cultivation: 100,000 years】

【Description: Ordinary ten-thousand-year white jade ginseng, having gained a special opportunity, transformed into a Bai Yu Shen Wang of Heavenly Material Earth Treasure rank; it not only possesses immense vitality and medicinal power, but also, due to its Transformation Form, has extremely strong spiritual properties, can be taken directly, and can be used for Alchemy】

"WTF!?" Li Xuan's eyes widened instantly, and he involuntarily shouted.

A ten-thousand-year Transformation Form soul beast! And it's a Heavenly Material Earth Treasure‑level existence! Could the system have crashed, making the Medicine Appraisal Technique useless? How could this be a ten-thousand-year soul beast? This is unrealistic! Yet this is still someone else's territory, so Li Xuan forced himself to calm down as quickly as possible, took two deep breaths, then slowly crouched and carefully examined the child before him.

He is a boy, but his development is poor; his stature is short and especially thin, yet his skin is extremely white, making him appear even more malnourished. His whole body, including his little face, is filthy, his features indistinct, eyes tightly closed, and his body still trembles slightly.

Li Xuan sniffed carefully; the medicinal scent truly emanated from this child.

Li Xuan never expected that while buying slaves, he would encounter a ten-thousand-year Transformation Form soul beast; it was truly beyond comprehension.

Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow is the weekend; I wish everyone a happy weekend (End of chapter).