"These five will do."

Zhou Changwang said casually, fiddling with them a bit, and picked out five jade scrolls from the stall. He then lowered his voice and added, "Don’t try to give me the same price you used to fool that other fellow earlier, or else..."

"You can take them for ten lower-grade spirit stones.

Although these jade scrolls aren’t worth much, the restrictions on them were set by someone I hired, not for a small amount of spirit stones either."

The old man glanced at Zhou Changwang, his cultivation level of above Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer clearly evident, and he quickly responded smartly.

"Deal!"

Zhou Changwang nodded, indeed produced ten lower-grade spirit stones and handed them over.

Then, he took the opportunity to store the five jade scrolls in his storage bag.

In fact, while the previous person was negotiating with the stall owner, his Spirit Eye Technique had been scanning the jade scrolls on the stall. Most of them, as stated, appeared to be ’recently unearthed’ objects.

However, there was actually one that, with Zhou Changwang’s Spirit Eye Technique at Great Success, showed no traces of falsification.

As they say, something false to the extreme becomes true.

Whether true or false, he didn’t mind spending some spirit stones to investigate further.

After all, ten lower-grade spirit stones weren’t considered very expensive for him nowadays.

Then, he turned his gaze to the end of the street, where there was a pavilion, obscured by a screen, preventing anyone from seeing inside.

Before this, he had already seen several cultivators enter the pavilion, and naturally, there were others who emerged from behind the screen.

The key was that among those entering and exiting the pavilion, several were quite familiar to him, part of the Cyan Leaf Alliance he had seen during the last black market.

Among them were even two experts at the late stage of Qi Cultivation or higher.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Changwang couldn’t help but walk over.

A familiar array barrier immediately blocked him outside; without hesitation, he directly took out the Cyan Leaf Order, activated a spiritual light, and the array barrier vanished. He stepped inside accordingly.

As he passed through the screen, he saw dozens of cultivators in a large lounge, looking up at the three light panels in the lounge.

The panels listed various tasks.

Assassination, retrieval, treasure hunting, exploration, assistance... all kinds of tasks, categorized into small, medium, and large tasks based on their risk levels.

Some tasks could be completed individually, while others required teamwork for the large tasks.

Anyway, the rewards were announced there. If anyone was interested, they could take it.

However, the distribution of the spoils afterward had to be handled by those who completed the task.

Leading the board were a few large tasks.

The task to submit Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects and provide the horn of the One-Horned Red Python he saw last month stood out.

Additionally, there were many more assassination and attack tasks.

The top one, however, was an assassination task.

Assassinate Bai Dongxian, reward one Foundation Establishment Pill, and ten thousand points.

"So openly?"

Zhou Changwang’s expression changed slightly when he saw the name on the task.

Bai Dongxian was the ancestor of the Bai family, the governing family of Fengming Dock Marketplace, a Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer Cultivator.

Apart from Bai Dongxian, many large tasks had names of Bai family members, all well-known Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators, with the lowest rewards being Foundation Condensation Pills and Protect Vein Pills.

The Foundation Condensation Pill is for Qi Refining Ninth Level Cultivators breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, specifically used to consolidate their foundations and speed up the coagulation of liquid Spiritual Power during the Spiritual Power Barrier of the Foundation Establishment Three Gates.

The Protect Vein Pill is a life-saving spirit pill for cultivators during Foundation Establishment.

Foundation Establishment is exceedingly dangerous; if successful, one can soar like a carp leaping over the dragon gate.

But if it fails, the disruptive spiritual power will inevitably impact the cultivator’s body in various places, causing nearly irreversible damage, damaging the internal organs and severing the meridians, even a strong Qi Refining Ninth Level Cultivator couldn’t withstand it, leading to death or crippling.

But with a Protect Vein Pill, safeguarding the internal organs and meridians, one could get through this deadly crisis, and even if the Foundation Establishment failed, as long as one is under sixty, there’s another chance to push through the gates again.

At the very least, one could save their life.

It is something countless cultivators preparing for Foundation Establishment desire, besides the Foundation Establishment Pill.

These two spirit pills are highly valuable.

They are indispensable for countless cultivators aiming to break into the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The fact such treasures are being offered as task rewards suggests the backer is undoubtedly the ’Chen Family.’

Zhou Changwang didn’t expect that the Chen Family has developed to the point of openly placing bounties.

Doesn’t this mean the conflict between the two sides has become irreconcilable, and war is about to erupt?

Zhou Changwang immediately felt somewhat uneasy.

He wasn’t concerned about how intense the conflict between the Bai and Chen families would become; he only hoped it wouldn’t affect him.

The last chaotic night wasn’t a pleasant memory at all.

He believed no one wanted to experience it again.

"Moreover, since the task token from the Cyan Leaf Alliance shows the Bai family members as assassination targets, doesn’t that indicate that the Cyan Leaf Alliance, at least the responsible party in Fengming Dock Marketplace, has completely sided with the ’Chen Family.’"