Chapter 295

Finding the person who bought the array diagrams in the Hongji Restaurant was by no means a coincidence. The other party was obviously aiming at the Longtan Alchemy Room.

The problem now is, how many people are on the other side? Did they buy the seven array diagrams?

Although he knew the Longtan array like the back of his hand, Liu Xiaolou had no good way to break into the array for the time being—even if he had the key, he couldn't open the door in front of the owner, right?

After pondering for a long time, he gradually had a concept, so he continued to stare.

In the evening, this person came out of the Hongji Restaurant again and entered the array shop of the Pingdu Eight Array Sect.

Compared with the Chicheng Marketplace, the shops in the Tianmen Mountain Marketplace are much fewer. For example, the array shop, there are only two in total, one is naturally opened by the Pingdu Eight Array Sect, and the other is the Zuo family, an array flow family in Xiangnan, which specializes in low-end arrays such as personal portable arrays.

Liu Xiaolou observed from a distance for a while. After seeing this person come out of the array shop of the Pingdu Eight Array Sect, he entered the array shop of the Zuo family diagonally opposite. He simply followed this person in.

There were very few guests in the shop, sparse and sparse. There was only a shopkeeper and a clerk in the Zuo family's shop, both accompanying the person, and no one paid attention to Liu Xiaolou.

Listening to their conversation, the shopkeeper called him "Fellow Daoist Long". It seems that it is mostly a fake name.

This Fellow Daoist Long should have come more than once. The shopkeeper took out an array diagram received in the past two days and showed it to him. He shook his head, indicating that he was not interested in this, and then left.

The shopkeeper and the clerk sent him out respectfully, saying that they had been raising funds from many parties, and there would be several new array plates and new array diagrams sent over in two days, please come to see them again, Fellow Daoist Long.

Fellow Daoist Long promised and walked away.

The shopkeeper then turned to look at Liu Xiaolou, and the clerk was busy greeting: "What do you need, honored guest?"

Liu Xiaolou shook his head, smiled and left, continuing to follow behind Fellow Daoist Long, hanging far away.

Following for three consecutive days, Liu Xiaolou roughly figured out that this Fellow Daoist Long seems to be an array master, whose cultivation base is not weaker than his own, but not much stronger.

When following to the fourth day, he didn't dare to follow anymore. Beside this Fellow Daoist Long, he saw a new stranger, whose cultivation base could not be sensed at all, and the array master surnamed Long was extremely respectful to him.

That night, Liu Xiaolou came to the Zuo family array shop. After changing his outfit, he followed the example of pressing his face with a bamboo hat and wandered slowly in the shop.

The clerk leaned over and asked, "What do you need, guest?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "I accidentally got a diagram, I don't know if you collect it here?"

The clerk asked: "What diagram?" He explained: "Which sect made the array diagram? What kind of array is it, illusion, trap, absolute, or kill? Is it a mountain-protecting array or a portable array?"

Liu Xiaolou pondered: "It's from Mount Siming. What kind of array it is, I am not an array master, so I can't say clearly, but I heard that your shop has a high reputation, and the Zuo family has a great reputation, and does not deceive fellow Daoists, so I came to the door."

The clerk smiled: "That is indeed the case, guest, please follow me."

Liu Xiaolou followed him into the private room. After sitting for a while, the shopkeeper came in. Liu Xiaolou pulled his bamboo hat and handed over an array diagram he had hand-drawn last night.

The shopkeeper looked at it over and over for a long time and said: "It is an array plate diagram of a mountain-protecting array. It really has the style of the Siming Sect. Array name Canhuo? What kind of array is this? How much do you offer, guest?"

Liu Xiaolou wanted to report fifty spirit stones directly. This price was the starting price reported by the guy surnamed Long in the Chicheng dark market, but it would definitely not work to report the price like this now. The transaction was difficult to reach, so he emphasized again: "To tell you the truth, I am not an array master, so I don't know very well..."

The shopkeeper smiled and nodded, stroking his beard and said: "Five spirit stones, what do you think, guest?"

Usually, a set of ordinary mountain-protecting array design diagrams can't sell for a good price, because after the design diagram comes out, there are many differences when refining the array plate, and it may change at any time, so it is impossible to refine strictly according to the design diagram.

The price given by the shopkeeper can't be said to be good or bad. Everything depends on the willingness of the buyer.

Liu Xiaolou didn't want to add difficulty, so he asked for eight spirit stones, was bargained to seven by the shopkeeper, and handed over the array eye data in the Canhuo array diagram.

After selling an array diagram in the Zuo family shop, the next step is to go to the dark market.

The Tianmen Mountain Marketplace naturally also has a dark market. The scale of the dark market here is very small, far inferior to the Chicheng dark market. Liu Xiaolou had been there twice before, but didn't buy anything.

This time, he paid five taels of silver, went up the mountain from the northwest of the marketplace, entered a deep valley with jagged rocks, chose a remote big rock to sit down, and learned to set up a stall.

In fact, there was no stall, but he wrote the two characters "Array Diagram" on the sand under his knees with branches.

There are relatively few guests in the Tianmen Mountain dark market, and they are not divided into categories such as array, artifact, law, alchemy, material, etc. Everyone trades in this small valley. There are only thirty or fifty people setting up stalls, and the number of people wandering around has always been kept between twenty or thirty. The scale is more than five times smaller than the Chicheng Marketplace.

Therefore, Liu Xiaolou was not afraid of missing the target. As long as the target enters the valley, he will definitely be able to see himself.

Setting up a stall in this dark market for three days, many cultivators passed in front of him, but seeing that he was selling array diagrams, no one came to ask. He was not in a hurry, paid fifteen taels of silver to the Qingyu Sect, and continued to wait patiently.

Until the third night.

The person who came was still wearing a bamboo hat and a cloak, with a black scarf on his face, unable to distinguish his appearance, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Liu Xiaolou recognized the other party's identity. It was the guy who called himself Long.

The guy surnamed Long stopped in front of Liu Xiaolou and asked: "What array diagram?"

Liu Xiaolou didn't speak, just wrote two characters on the sand with branches—"Mountain Protection".

The guy surnamed Long squatted down and asked: "Whose array diagram?"

Liu Xiaolou continued to write: "Siming."

The guy surnamed Long paused for a while and asked again: "Can I see the diagram first?"

Liu Xiaolou took out the array diagram from his arms and spread it on the ground generously. The guy surnamed Long looked down, his fingers kept drawing in the air.

This is the brushwork of an array master outlining array talismans!

While drawing, the guy surnamed Long's fingertips stopped shaking, shook slightly, and quickly retracted into his sleeves.

"Jishui Array? Name a price."

Liu Xiaolou wrote: "Thirty spirit stones."

The guy surnamed Long bargained: "Twenty!"

Liu Xiaolou shook his head and wanted to take back the Jishui Array diagram, but was stopped by the guy surnamed Long: "Twenty-five!"

Liu Xiaolou thought for a while, nodded in agreement, collected the spirit stones, and wrote the array eye data on the sand.

The guy surnamed Long collected the Jishui Array diagram and asked: "Are there any more?"

Liu Xiaolou took out another array diagram and spread it under his feet.

The guy surnamed Long looked for a while and shook his head: "Don't want this one."

Liu Xiaolou knew early on that he wouldn't want it. This diagram was not one of the seven array diagrams, so he rolled up the diagram and took it away, and put down another one.

The guy surnamed Long continued to shake his head: "This one won't work, are there any more?"

Liu Xiaolou took out another one, named Xuanjin Array. After spreading it out, the guy surnamed Long stared at the array diagram for a long time and said: "Twenty-five spirit stones, I want it."

Liu Xiaolou shook his head and wrote: "Thirty-five!"