bookbashuk Chapter 190 Lord of Zixiao City
Chapter 190 Lord of Zixiao City
Chapter 190 Lord of Zixiao City
Ling Ying's voice was filled with surprise.
"No need for such formalities, Elder Ling!" Xiao Bai waved his hand and chuckled softly, "What brings you to Black Seal City, old man?"
"Miss was worried about Young Master's safety, so she specially ordered me to come and find him!" Ling Ying stood up and said with a smile, slightly excited.
The young lady gave him a five-day deadline and ordered him to do everything in his power to find Xiao Bai's whereabouts. He was a little confused when he heard about this task.
The movement of spatial jade slips is subject to many uncertainties. Depending on the environment at the time, sometimes even a short teleportation of a few hundred miles will cause the slip to fall out of the spatial channel.
Sometimes, however, the transmission can be very long, sometimes tens of thousands of miles away.
How are we supposed to find this in five days?
But seeing the young lady's worried eyes and indifferent expression, he knew that if he had dared to say a word of nonsense, he would have been euthanized on the spot. So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.
Unexpectedly, upon arriving in Black Seal City, the closest city to Canaan Academy, intending to gather some information, he saw Xiao Bai fighting with someone, almost bringing tears to his eyes.
Never before had he felt so close to Xiao Bai!
"Xun'er!" A warm light appeared in Xiao Bai's eyes. He didn't expect that girl to send someone here in such a short time.
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"Young Master, why didn't you let me make a move just now?" Ling Ying asked, looking at Xiao Bai's slightly trembling hands.
When he arrived, he saw Xiao Bai's feet sinking into the ground. He was anxious and was about to help when Xiao Bai stopped him with a telepathic message.
"If I can handle this, there's no need to trouble you!" Xiao Bai smiled faintly, and with a flash of his spear, it turned into a golden light and disappeared into his sleeve.
"My lord, a portion of the essence has been separated this time. I need to sleep for a while to recover. Be careful!" came the slightly weak voice of the little golden dragon.
"Hmm!" Xiao Bai nodded slightly and gently patted his sleeve.
Sensing the dragon-shaped phantom within his body, a gentle glint flashed in Xiao Bai's eyes.
This guy usually treats the mention of the source like it's going to kill him, shouting that he won't give it a single bit, but when it really matters, he gives it to it without hesitation.
"Sigh," Ling Ying sighed inwardly after hearing Xiao Bai's tone.
It seems that this Young Master Xiao still harbors resentment towards Qing Shuang's condescending words last time.
He would only accept help from the young lady herself. Although he seemed to treat her with kindness, he did not want to get too involved with her.
Looking at Xiao Bai's resolute face, Ling Ying silently thought to herself:
"He is indeed a proud person, but I wonder... once you truly know Miss's identity, will you still be able to maintain that pride?"
Thinking of that behemoth in the clan, Ling Ying shook her head inwardly. Even a Dou Sheng would feel pressured facing him, let alone Xiao Bai!
Although my impression of him has changed a lot compared to before, he is no longer the Xiao Bai who stayed at the ninth level of Dou Qi for five years.
But there are still doubts about whether he and the young lady will ultimately end up together.
"Anyone who leaves without permission will be killed without mercy!" Xiao Bai shouted, startling Ling Ying out of her thoughts.
His gaze swept across the room and he saw the three Dou Wangs from the Eight Doors. They seemed to see that Xiao Bai was in poor condition and wanted to escape, so they released a wisp of their aura to intimidate him.
"Battle Emperor!"
"No, not just any Battle Emperor, but a peak Battle Emperor!"
"I never expected there to be such a powerful expert in Black Seal City!"
Some people in the city who were spying on this place couldn't help but gasp in shock as they whispered among themselves.
"My young master said that anyone who makes a move will be killed without mercy!" Ling Ying stood behind Xiao Bai, her calm voice filled with murderous intent, echoing throughout the city.
The three fighting kings who were trying to slip away suddenly felt a murderous intent surrounding them, and their bodies froze instantly, as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and they dared not have any more thoughts.
"Young master?"
"Is this person so important? A peak Dou Huang expert, addressed as 'Young Master'?"
"Is the Black Corner Region about to undergo a major upheaval?"
Hearing the various Dihua languages around him, Xiao Bai rolled his eyes and couldn't help but turn around to look at Ling Ying behind him.
"Young master, please don't mind, it was just a small favor!" Ling Ying waved his hand with a smile.
"!" Xiao Bai.
He stood there, looking as if he would fall over at the slightest touch, hoping to catch some of the monsters and demons in the city!
Those who dare to target Black Seal City must be highly skilled, each and every one of them a wealthy and powerful individual, making it the perfect opportunity to make another fortune.
He's penniless now. Back at Canaan Academy, his storage ring was destroyed. Luckily, the elders didn't chase after him for spirit pills, otherwise he wouldn't have anything to give them.
Ling Ying's words completely disrupted his plans!
"Fine," Xiao Bai shook his head and walked straight towards the Black Seal Auction House. Passing Yuan Yi's corpse, he waved his hand to take the storage ring from his hand, then glanced at the black-robed figure beside him, who was both crying and laughing, and said coldly:
"You need to get to work!"
"I endured twelve years of hardship by his side, even going so far as to betray my enemy and become his father, and today, he is finally dead!"
The figure in black robes murmured, glancing at Yuan Yi's corpse with a complex expression before standing up. A hoarse voice emanated from him:
"Rest assured, sir! You have avenged me; from this day forward, my life belongs to you!"
Xiao Bai remained expressionless and noncommittal in response to his words, and strode towards the auction house entrance.
His gaze swept over the trembling, aged figure in the corner. This was the old man he had traded the fire pearl with in the treasure appraisal room during the day.
"His name is Hu Degui. He's Yuan Yi's confidant and has been managing the Black Seal Auction House for him!" The figure in black robes stood behind Xiao Bai and explained softly.
"Nonsense! Yuan Yi and I are just employees, how could he be my confidant?" The old man retorted loudly, his expression filled with fear.
He cursed the bastard in his heart. If we're talking about confidants, you, as Yuan Yi's adopted son, are his number one confidant!
Xiao Bai watched this scene coldly without saying a word, then turned around and looked at the three figures not far away.
The three Dou Wang elders felt Xiao Bai's eerie gaze, their bodies trembled, and they were at a loss. They cautiously looked up and glanced at the ethereal figure beside Xiao Bai, which was like a shadow.
After a while, seeing that Xiao Bai's gaze was still oppressive on them, they couldn't help but feel a bitter taste in their mouths. They secretly exchanged glances and stepped forward with some trepidation.
"Xue Yuan, Kong Zhou, Gao Heng!"
"Greetings, Your Excellency!"
"One is an eight-star, one is a four-star, and one's aura is quite unstable; he just entered the Dou Wang realm!" Xiao Bai glanced at the three's auras and calmly asked:
"Besides the four of you, are there any other Dou Wang (Battle Kings) from the Eight Doors?"
"Reporting to Your Excellency, it's gone!" Eight-Star Dou Wang Xue Yuan replied cautiously.
Xiao Bai nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and then spoke loudly, his voice resounding throughout the city:
"From this day forward, the Eight Doors are hereby removed from the list of powerful entities. Black Seal City is renamed Purple Cloud City, and Black Seal Auction House is renamed Purple Cloud Auction House. I, Xiao Bai, hereby declare..."
"I shall be the Lord of Zixiao City!"
The sound drifted through the Black Seal City, leaving everyone looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Greetings, Lord City Lord!"
After Xiao Bai finished speaking, the black-robed figure beside him was the first to react, shouting in a hoarse voice.
This sound seemed to set the stage, startling everyone out of their daze.
"Greetings, Lord City Lord!" The three Dou Wang elders and the old man from the auction house in front of Xiao Bai hurriedly bowed and greeted him.
Then came the city guards, a group of men in black, who all gathered on the main street in front of the auction house, a dense mass of them, kneeling on one knee and shouting:
"We pay our respects to Your Lordship!"
The sound was overwhelming, echoing through the silent Purple Cloud City under the night sky.
"So, this person really intends to take control of Black Seal City?"
"The world has changed! With Yuan Yi dead, the Eight Doors are truly finished!"
"How novel! The forces in this Black Corner Region, unless they have a super strong expert like a Dou Zong in charge, are always rising and falling, and a new generation comes along every now and then!"
"Hehe. This one is no ordinary person. In the past, it was always the lone wolf who reigned supreme, but this one is someone even a peak Dou Huang expert calls 'Young Master.' His identity is quite mysterious!"
"It is indeed mysterious, but there's no need to be too nervous. The truly powerful forces don't really care about this place, Black Corner Region!"
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While discussions raged throughout the city, two figures listened quietly in a pavilion to the shouts of worship that echoed throughout the city.
"Manager, Black Seal City is currently under the rule of this man who changed his name. Will this have any impact on us?"
"No problem! He can run his auction house, and we can run ours. Let's just leave each other alone!"
"Sir, judging from this man's actions, he's domineering and a young man, not someone like Yuan Yi who can assess situations carefully. Who knows if he'll be jealous of us and have some inappropriate thoughts!"
"Heh. If he really has any ideas, we're not pushovers. One peak Dou Huang isn't enough!"
The auction hall was brightly lit.
Several figures stood with their hands at their sides, watching the young man sitting in the center, playing with a pitch-black storage ring, not daring to make the slightest sound.
Out of the corner of his eye, he occasionally glanced at the shadowy figure behind him, a hint of awe flashing in his eyes.
"Is that all?" Xiao Bai withdrew his soul perception from the storage ring, a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes.
Yuan Yi, as the head of the Eight Doors and with a huge auction house under his control, actually doesn't have anything valuable in his possession!
The most valuable items in the storage ring are the ingredients for three royal-grade pills, which Yuan Yi must have collected to have someone refine them.
There are some cultivation techniques and fighting skills, but the highest-ranking one is only a Tier 1 fighting skill, while the others are all Xuan 1.
Besides that, there were some gold coins, pills, magic cores, and personal belongings.
Xiao Bai didn't care about the pile of gold coins. He glanced at the pills and then tossed them aside with disdain. Their quality was far inferior to the ones he had refined!
Besides, when it comes to pills, it's always safest to eat them if you refine them yourself. That old fellow Yao Lao often adds ingredients to his pills.
Therefore, apart from what those around him gave him, Xiao Bai always only consumed what he refined himself.
However, some of the magic cores inside are useful for alchemy.
"Tell me about the Eight Doors!"
After tidying up the storage ring, Xiao Bai put it on his hand. This was the first high-level storage ring he had ever obtained.
This item is always in high demand but rarely available on the market; even if you have the money, it's hard to find.
"City Lord, the Eight Gates currently have four Dou Wangs and nine Dou Lings. The number of those below Dou Ling is currently unknown!"
"The largest business is the Black Seal Purple Cloud Auction House; there are also numerous other shops and inns throughout Black Seal City!"
"As for the situation at the auction house..."
With a hoarse voice, Ji Bu looked at the timid and cowering Steward Hu beside him.
"City Lord!" Steward Hu stammered nervously, "The auction house's total annual profit is around fifty million gold coins, of which..."
After listening to Steward Hu's report for a while, Xiao Bai's brows gradually furrowed, and his expression became slightly unpleasant.
"The annual profits are entirely supported by auctions; medicinal herb trading only accounts for a tiny fraction!"
Xiao Bai asked in a cold voice:
"Where are the medicinal herbs? Did you eat this part?"
In Wutan City, when Xiao Bai and Ya Fei were doing business, he occasionally heard Ya Fei mention that in the auction house, the auction profits accounted for half, while the daily transactions of medicinal herbs and other items accounted for the other half.
But this guy just evaded the main point, only talking in detail about the auction's profits, while being somewhat vague about daily transactions.
Do you really think he's a fool?
"My lord, spare me! My lord, spare me!" Upon seeing Xiao Bai's sharp gaze, Steward Hu's knees buckled, and he nearly collapsed to the ground, pleading urgently:
"It's not my fault, it's just that...the entire medicinal herb business in Zixiao City has been taken over by that 'Thousand Medicine Shop'!"
"In this city, whenever the topic of medicinal herb trading comes up, the first thing that comes to mind is Thousand Herbs Shop, not our auction house!"
Xiao Bai frowned, recalling the prices of the medicinal herbs he had seen during the day, and asked, "Is it because your prices are too high that you don't want anyone to come?"
He had witnessed the prices at the auction house during the day; they had practically doubled!
"Lord City Lord, as you surely know, the prices of medicinal herbs at this auction house are abnormal. This was instructed by Yuan Yi beforehand. He told me to mark the prices of medicinal herbs at the auction house to three or four times that of those outside. I just wanted to mark them at a normal price, but there's nothing I can do about it!"
Why?
"I was just following orders; I didn't know anything!"
"City Lord, I do know a little about this matter!" Xue Yuan, an eight-star Dou Wang, said hesitantly.
Tell me about it!
"Um, I was one of the first to come to the Eight Doors." At this point, Xue Yuan cautiously observed Xiao Bai's expression, seemingly afraid that the latter would assume he was a die-hard Eight Doors loyalist.
"Speak freely and boldly!" Xiao Bai said in a deep voice.
He knew what this person was worried about, and he was quite disdainful. In this Black Corner Region, only the strong are respected. There is no such thing as loyalty. It's all about who is strong and who is right!
"Yes!" Xue Yuan immediately felt relieved and boldly said, "I remember that Yuan Yi had just advanced to Dou Huang, conquered Black Seal City, and established the Eight Gates not long ago, which attracted the attention of some powerful figures from the Black Corner Region!"
"The situation was extremely perilous, but just then, the Black City extended a helping hand!"
"Of course, this didn't come without a price. No one knows exactly what Yuan Yi paid back then, but later a 'Thousand Medicine Shop' came to Black Seal City!"
"This Thousand Medicine Shop specializes in the business of medicinal herbs and elixirs, and Yuan Yi has given it a wide berth, even going so far as to have his own auction house cut off all other medicinal herb business except for auction commissions!"
"From then on, the medicinal herb and elixir business in Black Seal City was practically dominated by 'Thousand Medicine Workshop'!"
"Indeed! City Lord, I don't know about what happened before, but having followed Yuan Yi closely for so many years, I know he's very wary of Qianyaofang, yet he always greets us with a smile whenever we meet!"
"Heh. Thousand Medicine Workshop, Black Emperor Sect, Fighting Sect?" Xiao Bai sneered.
He wanted this Black Seal City for its medicinal herbs and pills, but he never expected it to be just an empty shell!
(End of this chapter)