Chapter 513: Chapter 361: Return to the Wind and Rain Tower, the Vast Black Market

Zhong Heng picked up the token, although he never signed a blood covenant with it.

At this moment, various usages of the token appeared in his mind.

This is the ingenious aspect of the Celestial Blood Dark Soul Array, which allows the benefits of a blood covenant to be enjoyed without any cost.

"No need to hurry there now..."

Zhong Heng sat in meditation, beginning to restore his mind.

[You successfully arranged the Celestial Blood Dark Soul Array, successfully bypassing the blood covenant of the token.]

[After half a month of recuperation, you finally opened the Teleportation Array with the token.]

[You observed closely and guessed this array was not the main body, but a sub-array of a large array set up within the Wind and Rain Tower.]

[You put on a black robe and mask that could conceal your presence and stepped into the Pocket World of the Wind and Rain Tower.]

[Your arrival seemed to have attracted no one’s attention.]

[You deduced that the Wind and Rain Tower must have distributed some tokens as secret agents through other channels.]

[The entire Secret Realm of the Wind and Rain Tower was like an enormous market, with various cave mansions for living...]

[The Rain Kill Tower stood tall in the middle of the market, and you took more time walking than last time.]

[You discovered that this place seemed to correspond to the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm, and not far from this market was an even larger one, resembling the market corresponding to the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm...]

[You continued to investigate, discovering that every market seemed to represent a cultivation realm.] 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

[A vast Pocket World without wilderness, with markets everywhere, each representing a cultivation realm!]

[At the same time, you found a group of merchants who circulated goods. They bought resources cheaply from nearby cultivation realms and sold them high in other cultivation realm markets.]

[You also noticed some cultivators from small or unranked cultivation realms. For them, the other cultivation realms were too distant, like two different worlds, and the token seemed like a golden finger to them, allowing them to reap great benefits.]

[You spent quite a bit of time there.]

[You found that calling the Wind and Rain Tower an evil organization was less fitting than calling it a gigantic black market.]

[Because of the regional differences, many people could sell their illicit income to people from distant cultivation realms, perfectly disposing of stolen goods.]

[Prices here were often much higher than those on the surface in the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm, so countless cultivators specifically brought various wares here to sell.]

[As long as you have Spirit Stones, you can buy anything you want here.]

[Spirit Beasts, rare materials, even people of every kind of qualification and appearance...]

[You wandered around for a long time, finding that you couldn’t stay too long in other markets - it seemed restricted, preventing you from reaching farther cultivation realm markets to obtain information and resources from those places.]

[You could only circulate around the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm Market.]

[In the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm Market, you unexpectedly heard a piece of news: if you can’t get the resources you need in the surrounding cultivation realm markets, you can wait for the once-every-three-hundred-years Wanlang Auction, where people can get everything they want.]

[After your observations, you found that there were mainly two types of people frequently traveling between the cultivation realm markets.]

[One type were merchants circulating goods for profit, called Merchants in this place.]

[The other type were professional hitmen with a fierce and cold aura who took on contracted tasks, called Rain Killers in this place.]

"We don’t have the authority, at most we can only go to the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm Market and several surrounding small to medium-sized cultivation realm markets, similar to our capabilities in reality..."

Zhong Heng sold a storage bag full of arrays and talismans, successfully mingling in the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm Market.

Two or three people were willing to chat more with Zhong Heng.

An old man with a pipe in his mouth leisurely blew a smoke ring before continuing: "What’s the Wind and Rain Tower, just a black market in essence."

"It’s just a bit bigger."

"If there’s anything special, that’s it."

The old man pointed to the Rain Kill Tower in the center of the market.

There were quite a few Rain Kill Towers around.

"If you don’t have any backing and can’t afford cultivation resources, join the Rain Kill Tower of the Wind and Rain Tower."

"Inside, there’s a complete set of Rain Killing Techniques, with a version even comparable to the Divinity Transformation of sword cultivators, very powerful."

The old man’s wrinkled face showed a slight smile.

"The cost to enter the Rain Kill Tower? It’s free."

"Once inside, you can get a free opportunity for special training for Rain Killing Masters. If you don’t die, at least you’ll be transformed, and if you return to reality, you won’t be unknown."

"What’s even more ingenious is that the Rain Killing Technique can be fused into any set of techniques, ensuring that when used in the real world, it leaves no trace."

"All that’s needed is to accept some compulsory assassination missions..."

The old man paused, blew another smoke ring, and continued: "You can even refuse compulsory missions after serving for a certain period and leave the Rain Kill Tower. Although you can’t enjoy the generous resource conditions, it counts as freedom..."

"Moreover, they can roam the black market freely, constantly accepting personal missions..."

"These people are called Rain Killers."

"Merchant-Traders don’t have this privilege, they only have an informational network allowing them to buy low and sell high, while also letting external resources flow in here."

"Are there Rain Killers among the Merchant-Traders? Of course not, hahahaha, nothing in this world is free."

"Their techniques obviously have side effects, they can only alleviate their inner pain through killing and combat, but even so, they don’t wish to return to the Rain Kill Tower."

"As for why? Only they know, hahahaha."

The old man laughed and extended his hand to Zhong Heng.

The old man’s appearance was undoubtedly disguised. No strong cultivator from the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm in Zhong Heng’s mind could match the elder in front of him.

"This is my remuneration for enlightening me."

Zhong Heng tossed a storage bag, the old man weighed it, glanced inside with Divine Sense, and then satisfied, hung it on his waist, bit the pipe, hunching over as he walked away.

"I see..."

Zhong Heng packed up his stall and slowly walked to the Rain Kill Tower below.

There was no one at the entrance of the Rain Kill Tower, but there was an announcement board with several jade stones on it.

Cultivators could carve the resources they desired but couldn’t find into the jade stones and take them. Merchants would look for these resources.

In theory, given enough time, cultivators could indeed obtain what they wanted here.

Just that the price would be astronomical.

This is the role of the Merchants.

Secondly, there’s the interior of the Rain Kill Tower.

It was a collection of blank Death Orders.

Writing a target on them would cause the required remuneration to appear within a day, and after payment, the Rain Kill Tower would activate the assassination procedure through the Rain Killing Sect.

This is the role of the Rain Kill Tower.

"This is interesting..."

"But who’s behind the Rain Kill Tower..."

"Why do the Immortal Sects want to suppress and destroy the Rain Kill Tower..."

"Steward Song might know something, otherwise he wouldn’t have cleansed Yunmiao Master’s relationship with the Wind and Rain Tower by self-destructing..."

"It’s just equivalent to a gray-market black market..."

Zhong Heng couldn’t figure it out.

He then took a crystal stone from the Merchant-Trader announcement board, written on it was "an advanced Five Elements Technique with fast cultivation speed as a strong point."

[You glanced at Steward Song’s original cave mansion and found it had changed owners, so you didn’t stay any longer.]

[You returned to the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm and continued cultivating.]

[Soon, the Merchant-Traders responded, delivering three cultivation techniques, "Five Elements Heaven-Burning Technique," "Five Elements Unceasing Method," and "Five Elements Spirit Absorption Technique."]

[You straightforwardly bought all three techniques, the price being a massive drain on your wallet; you should know you’re now a renowned Array Master, and saying you’re exceedingly wealthy would underestimate you, enough to show these Merchants’ black hearts...]