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Chapter 774 - 651 Shen Hong’s Number One Gang: Immeasurable Palace_2

Chapter 774: Chapter 651 Shen Hong’s Number One Gang: Immeasurable Palace_2

But picking up trash was too much of a waste of his Golden Finger and the terrifying foundation he had built up over the years!

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After a while, the two agreed to meet again in a month, and Yue Minglue left with his people.

However, Wang Zijia didn’t get any free time. He got up, left the courtyard, and asked a know-it-all in the city about the general situation.

After a while, Wang Zijia found himself on the busiest street in Sanyuan City, looking for a long time until he found a small, unassuming house in a corner of the street: the Immeasurable Pavilion.

The storefront was ordinary, just like an unnoticeable side room.

Being able to open a business here, yet having it look like this, though it was on a street corner, was rather unusual.

Wang Zijia took a quick glance at the store and walked in.

Without anyone asking, he was directly led into a dark room and the disciple left right away.

After a moment, the person attending him changed into a Infant God Cultivator, his whole body enveloped in grey mist.

"Senior, may I know what you need?" said the monk in the mist, giving Wang Zijia a salute.

"I heard that the Immeasurable Palace claims that as long as the money is enough, there’s nothing in the Shen Hong Realm they can’t get?" asked Wang Zijia.

"That’s just boasting by junior disciples. However, for ordinary items, we should be able to satisfy you," the Infant God Cultivator in the mist replied modestly, perhaps after noticing Wang Zijia’s cultivation status, not daring to make bold assertions.

This was customary in negotiations; boasting was done in front of low-level cultivators so that they could see your power, while modesty was required in front of high-level cultivators to avoid excessive or outlandish demands!

Wang Zijia nodded, finding that the Immeasurable Pavilion belonged to a first-class force that he knew about.

This wasn’t about the East Wilderness, but the entire Shen Hong Realm, spread out across various realms and worlds.

They didn’t have a specific main industry but were well-known for operating mostly in gray areas, mainly running various dark and black markets.

They were considered the head of the dark markets and the boss of gray areas in the righteous path of the Shen Hong Realm.

The number one gang!

Yes, even the Demon Gate had quite a few businesses of this kind.

"Do you sell information?" asked, Wang Zijia.

"We do sell!" The other party straightforwardly affirmed. "This is one of our main businesses."

"What about immortality becoming spirit items?" Wang Zijia asked again.

The other paused before saying, "That depends on the specific spirit items. And we don’t just exchange them for money. For treasures above the seventh grade, especially spirit items, we require an equivalent exchange. Also, if you truly need it, I don’t have enough authority, we would have to switch to the store owner for negotiations."

"Are you only asking or do you actually need it?"

"So you really do sell these!"

Wang Zijia’s comment seemed to answer an unasked question.

He was only just beginning to explore the East Wilderness, where the highest level was only at the Turbid Immortal grade, yet everywhere he went he could sense the poverty and backwardness of the Spirit Suppressing Realm.

No wonder the Southern Spirit Three Domains were so forsaken!

They simply couldn’t compare, not even to the Central Immortal Domain!

"That’s not urgent, let’s talk about other things first." Wang Zijia paused before saying, "Do you have cross-domain travel maps of the South Spirit Three Domains? Or teleportation gates, or even boat tickets, anything will do."

"May I ask specifically which domain you need? The prices are different, and the gap is not small," replied the Infant God Cultivator in the mist.

"There’s such a big difference?" Wang Zijia asked in surprise.

Seeing that Wang Zijia didn’t understand, the Infant God Cultivator in the mist didn’t show any emotion. Instead, he patiently explained to Wang Zijia as if he was a beginner.

"The South Spirit Three Domains are divided into the Spirit Suppressing Realm, the Primordial Suppressing Realm, and the Demon Suppression Realm. Among them, the Demon Suppression Realm is the most dangerous, and the cost of going there is the highest."

"Although the Spirit Suppressing Realm is not dangerous, it has the most serious slump. It is rare even for a Turbid Immortal. The major forces no longer maintain teleportation arrays or regular magic-driven navigation. Going there requires chartering a ship, and the cost is also not small."

"Only the Primordial Suppressing Realm is slightly better. There are some special spirit productions, barely maintaining some communication with other realms in the Shen Hong Realm, so the cost is the lowest."

Wang Zijia listened and realized it all at once.

One place had freight trains, the other two required chartering planes, and one even demanded hiring fighter jets and military escorts. The price difference could be easily imagined!

Having a firm grasp on the situation and no intention of playing the fool, Wang Zijia, who owned an Immortal Artifact-level flight treasure, said, "Give me the shipping routes of all three domains, complete ones at that!".

"A thousand Spirit Essences." Noticing that Wang Zijia’s understanding was almost zero, he added, "This includes cross-domain travel within the three domains, as well as the shipping lanes with the other four domains of Shen Hong!".

Wang Zijia felt a headache coming on, and thought, a million for a Void Nautical Chart...

Information business was indeed profitable, no wonder it was the main attraction!

In his thoughts, he nodded. This was not the place for bargaining.

"I’ll take a detailed explanation of the powerful factions of Shen Hong Domain, and one of Sanyuan City. Pay special attention to the situation of the Three Inheritance Paths. Oh, and a set of information on the high-levels of the East Desolate Taiqing Palace."

Wang Zijia pondered aloud.

The monk in the grey mist looked at Wang Zijia upon hearing this, and only then said, "Information on Shen Hong Domain and the high-levels of the Taiqing Palace cost three hundred Spirit Essences; the detailed account of Sanyuan City’s powers, I’ll give it to you for free."

"Thanks a lot!" Wang Zijia said with a smile.

"Do you need anything else, senior?" the monk in the grey mist asked.

"Um, give me a few of your high-end Dark Market entrances, and while you’re at it, keep an eye out for information on these Seventh-grade Spirit Items. If you have any, let’s see what the conditions are."

Wang Zijia listed a few spirit items he needed.

The other party seemed momentarily dazed, likely due to some mental exchange or scheduling of information, before shaking his head and saying, "The Spirit Items that the senior wants are all top-grade items; our palace’s warehouse currently does not have them in stock."

While speaking, he retrieved an order symbol from his hand and said, "This is the highest-level Illusion Order Token of the Dark Market in East Desolate. Fellow Daoist, you qualify, you can enter freely."

Wang Zijia took over the order symbol and studied it for a moment before saying, "That’ll be all for now!"

"A total of 1,300 Spirit Essences!" the monk in the grey mist said.

Wang Zijia didn’t directly take out payment. He didn’t have that many Spirit Essences, nor did he have that many Void Spirit Jade Talismans. He retrieved a pill from his hand and said, "This will serve as my payment, it can go through the regular channels, there is no problem with where this thing came from."

The monk in the grey mist waited for Wang Zijia to put the thing on the table, then picked it up and carefully examined it.

"A Sixth-grade Barrier-breaking Pill?" the other party said with surprise.

Wang Zijia nodded, "That’s right! Will you process it here, or should I go to the auction and come back later?"

"Of course we’ll handle it. This kind of thing sells faster at our place than at the auction, and the price might not be as high as what we’d offer in the Dark Market," the other party instantly said.

Wang Zijia had no reason to doubt this. The other party had a Demon Path market, this kind of high-grade pill with no side effects had a huge market.

The monk in the grey mist examined it for a while before saying, "The floor price I can give senior is 6,000 Spirit Essences. Although this thing is estimated to fetch at least 10,000 Spirit Essences, we need to sell it before we can make up the rest."

Wang Zijia nodded and said, "That’s fine."

Immediately after, the two completed their transaction, settled on the item pick-up procedure and date, and Wang Zijia then left the store with all his materials.

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Hurriedly returning to the courtyard, Wang Zijia immediately began to look at the information on the high-levels of the East Desolate Taiqing Palace.

Although the possibility seemed slim, Yun Lai had managed to induce a slumber, so the disciples of the Taiqing Palace from the Fifth Epoch could theoretically still be alive to this day!

If anyone of them was familiar...

However, after going through all the information, including everything both public and hidden, not a single one of the Taiqing Palace’s Immortals who had undergone Tribulation Crossing and become Turbid Immortals was familiar to Wang Zijia.

His dream of pretending to be a disciple of the Taiqing Palace came crashing down, even before he could start it!

Feeling a little down, he put down the material and picked up the information on Shen Hong’s factions.

Of Shen Hong’s four domains—north, south, east, west—except for the West, all were now regarded as remote areas. West Qiang, due to the rampant Demon Path, was similarly marked as remote.

Only the Central Immortal Domain was flourishing in cultivation.

Therefore, the headquarters of all the large forces that crossed domains were in the Central Immortal Domain.

Among them, there were only three top-tier powers.

They belonged to the Taoist School!

Or more precisely, the three factions of the Taoist School: the Taiching Faction, the Yuqing Faction, and the Shangqing Faction.