Chapter 99: Trading Street

  Looking at Ji Mu's envious and helpless expression, Huo Hai shook his head: "Alright, alright, anyway you guys are still far from the Ling Zhe boundary. No big deal, I'll go help you get one when the time comes."

  Unconsciously, Ji Mu seemed to have also become friends with Huo Hai, or rather, there was a sense of family. Seeing Ji Mu's gloomy expression, he couldn't help but want to help. Upon hearing this, Ji Mu's eyes widened suddenly.

  "Huo Hai, you said you'd help me get one too. Can you still get it?" It wasn't that Ji Mu didn't believe Huo Hai.

  Huo Hai spread his hands: "Of course, what did you think? The value of this treasure is high mainly because it's too rare, not that it can't be obtained. If I can kill one Ice Fire Bird, I can take down a second one." To be honest, Huo Hai was also uncertain in his heart. At least for now, Huo Hai absolutely didn't dare to touch the Ice Fire Bird again. This thing was simply his natural enemy.

  Huo Hai believed that once he had cultivated the Bone Refining Array and advanced to the Spiritual Realm, he would definitely be able to kill the Ice Fire Bird. Or perhaps, if he found some special insect, he could also deal with the Ice Fire Bird. It would have been better if Xiao Die had been awake last time.

  As Hohai said, the reason why this treasure is so precious is not because it's dangerous to get, but on the contrary, it's because there's too little of it. Just like the Ice Flame Crystal, living beings that can produce ice flames are extremely rare, and the lowest level among them would be the Ice Fire Bird. Once discovered, they will immediately be hunted down, making it basically impossible to see one.

  Huò Hǎi this time encountered the Ice Fire Bird, and still had relatively good luck. It's unknown whether those guys with the demon people have found a second one. For others who want to obtain the Ice Flame, the spiritual beast they will have to deal with will be extremely high-level.

  It's even possible that it's a land-level spiritual beast, something ordinary people wouldn't dare to think about. Moreover, without absolute strength, one careless move could lead the spiritual beast to destroy its internal crystal before dying, making it all for nothing.

  Fortunately, among the Xuan-level spiritual beasts, few have the ability to destroy the crystal in their body. Shaking his head, Huo Hai said indifferently: "Alright, alright, even if we can't find the Ice Fire Bird, I'll go look for something else later, it's always possible to find something." As Ji Mu said, the Ice Fire Crystal is not the most suitable for a Warrior Spirit Master, but rather a Technique Spirit Master.

  "If you really can't find it, that's okay. The things that can be exchanged in the academy are only slightly worse than Ice Flame Crystals."

  What Ji Mu said is right, it's indeed a little short, but this gap will become bigger and bigger as the strength increases. This is also an important reason why these precious things are so valuable.

  After dinner, Huo Hai had nothing to do and looked at the sky, unknowingly it was already late. So he returned to his room and started organizing the insects. This battle made Huo Hai fully understand his own weaknesses.

  Because of the Star Gu's strength, Huo Hai had not discovered that apart from the Star Gu, he didn't have anything else to rely on. If this continued, it would definitely become a huge weakness for him. Since he had already discovered this, he needed to make up for it as soon as possible. Huo Hai wanted to use Xiao Jin's research on spiritual medicine and continue researching large quantities of insects in order to refine even stronger insect types.

  At night, Huo Hai naturally had to recover. The aftereffects of cultivating the Blood Spirit Array still hadn't completely dissipated until now. Huo Hai didn't dare cultivate the Bone Spirit Array at this time. However, during this period, gathering the materials for the Bone Tempering Pill wasn't a problem.

  In the morning after waking up, Huo Hai first came to the warehouse and exchanged twenty Refining Bone Pills. Yesterday was exchanged at the task point, but Huo Hai did not plan to go again. Who would be idle and always exchange at the task point?

  After obtaining the Bone Tempering Pill, Huo Hai slowly made his way to Trading Street. Trading Street wasn't originally called that, or rather it didn't have a name at all. Because some of the earliest students would set up stalls on this street with items they had obtained, over time it gradually became known as Trading Street. This was a place where students could trade for things they needed.

  If there is something to be sold, you can directly purchase a stall from the management. The stalls are calculated by time, and then you can set up your stand here. The manager is someone sent by the college.

  The college on its own turf, that's absolutely impenetrable. "What a shrewd businessman, this kind of business mind is even stronger than the shrewdest businessmen on earth." Huo Hai shook his head and muttered to himself while watching.

  Of course, this has nothing to do with him. His main purpose for coming here is to see if there's anything useful, especially things that can help his family improve their status in the city. On Trading Street, people wearing black cloaks are very common, and those wearing other colors are not rare either. There are many people who don't want others to know what they look like, after all, many of these items have questionable origins.

  It's not just about the origin, the principle of "guilty by association" is also universal in this world. Neither buyers nor sellers are willing to easily reveal their identities. Especially those who carry precious items are even more so.

  Full-body cloaks have become a hallmark of Trade Street. Here, those who don't shroud themselves in cloaks are the ones who draw strange looks and crowds. Horace didn't feel like being a monkey.

  The street is very wide, and it's more suitable to say that this is a square than a street. It's said that in the past, this was just a street. However, as the number of people trading increased, it has been expanded several times and became a square. Of course, like the market, it has been artificially divided into many streets, the only drawback being that there is no classification of goods here.

  Even in the market of past lives, where different goods were sold, there was a special venue for each. Here, however, it's all chaotic. Everywhere you look, people are selling anything and everything. As far as the eye can see, not a shred of order is to be found; it's utter chaos.

  Huo Hai doesn't have the qualifications to say anything, coming into this world means following its rules. At least when you don't have the power to change it, you can only follow others' plans.

  With this mood, Huo Hai slowly walked into the entrance of Trading Street. "What a big market, surrounding it should be the ordinary residents' market of the Academy City." Huo Hai suddenly discovered that outside Trading Street, there was actually another circle of markets.

  A wall separates the two, completely different worlds. The market there is for everyone, especially ordinary people living in the college town. Here, however, it's for students and high-ranking officials of the academy, an area that only upper-class individuals can enter. Such a commercial street exists not just once within the academy, but many times over.

  All the way, Huo Hai looked at the things on the ground and shook his head in dismay. "This place is indeed full of garbage, can't find anything good." On the road, most of the things that can be seen are all kinds of materials.

  Want to find Ling Kui and Zhan Ling Kui here, it's basically like finding a sheep in a pigpen, almost impossible. These materials are also some low-grade goods. Can't be compared with the Mia Ga Shan materials that Huo Hai got.

  As for those elixirs, the best ones can only be used by people in the Spiritual Blood Realm. What's more, Hao Hai even saw someone selling the Precious Blood Elixir. The price was actually cheaper than exchanging it at the academy by one point. It's really unknown what these people are thinking. Is it worth wasting precious time just for a single point?

  This price is indeed better than selling directly to the college, but who can see it here. And these people selling herbs, although spiritual medicine makes up the vast majority, why are there so many fakes inside?

  "What's going on, this is indeed a trading street, but it feels like they're setting up stalls and hawking their wares in an online game." The more he looked, the more Hou Hai felt a sense of déjà vu. These stall owners, what tactics, what goods they could come up with. He remembered that when he used to watch this kind of thing, scenes of people setting up stalls would often appear.

  "This brother, want to take a look? I have the eyeballs of three-eyed toads here. This is top-notch material for making antidotes. If it weren't for me taking a liking to you, brother, I absolutely wouldn't sell." At this time, a stall owner suddenly pulled Ho Hai over and started talking.

  Huo Hai felt a strange sensation, how could someone still bring the eyeballs of a three-eyed toad here to sell? Was this person short on money or something? Huo Hai followed the man to a corner location. He wanted to see what was going on with this guy.

  That person took out a bottle and shook it, inside the bottle was a huge eyeball floating up and down in a preservative solution. Huo Hai almost burst out laughing on the spot. He had collected so many three-eyed toad eyes, but he had never seen anything like this before. The middle eye of the three-eyed toad wasn't even an eyeball, it just looked like one. But the thing inside the bottle was indeed a real eyeball.

  "Never mind if this is the eye of a three-eyed toad, even if it is, it's useless anyway. 'Brother, if I wasn't short on money, I wouldn't be selling it at all. How about this, I'll give you twice the points as the academy mission? Just twice, don't try to haggle with me. What, you think it's expensive? This is cheap, otherwise I'd just sell it directly to the academy...'"

  This person started talking non-stop again, and Hao Hai was really helpless. As soon as he came in, he didn't expect to see a scammer. Hao Hai was even more certain that this so-called Trading Street was probably no different from a flea market.

  Here you can indeed find some great deals and pick up valuable things. However, there are also more counterfeit goods and scammers here, and if you're not careful, you might get cheated. Huo Hai became vigilant about the transaction street from the bottom of his heart.

  "Never mind, my task doesn't require an antidote." Hao Hai said and turned to leave, ignoring the man's attempts to stop him. This swindler was really not worth talking about. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't use force here, Hao Hai would have liked to give him a punch. Sure enough, as soon as Hao Hai left, the man grabbed another passerby and continued with his previous scam.