The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine

Chapter 698: Chapter 698: This Place is Really Interesting!

Upon entering that small door, I found that it was a place similar to a marketplace.

Yes, the layout was akin to that of a marketplace, filled with shops of varying sizes. The small ones were tens of square meters, while the large ones were hundreds of square meters. Under the illumination of crystal chandeliers, every shop was no less than an international luxury goods store.

Many dignified people were lingering among these shops, among them, several ancient martial arts Grandmasters.

These people were the so-called community of the Top Ten Ancient Martial Arts Families of Huaxia!

A marketplace held a fatal attraction for women. Consequently, upon stepping inside, Zhou Mi and Miao Erfang were immediately dazzled, their eyes expressing their excitement. Even Ma Chuxia and Xia Ying seemed somewhat cheerier.

“I guess… since this is a venue of the Top Ten Ancient Martial Arts Families, the items for sale in these shops are no ordinary goods, right?” Huang Xiaolong joked.

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“Hmm ~~ Grandmaster, let’s stroll around and I will explain as we go.” Ji Zhengyu offered enthusiastically.

Everyone leisurely began browsing.@@novelbin@@

“Grandmaster, the products on sale in these shops are almost impossible to buy outside, regardless of wealth.” Ji Zhengyu grinned. “For instance, women. Here, you can reserve any type of woman you’d like to have. Pure actresses, international models, top-tier female celebrities, beautiful virgins, and even women whom ancient martial arts families’ have bred to be naturally seductive.”

“There are also rare treasures and precious medicinal herbs. Alchemy pills refined by Bian Family’s top Alchemists. Wild centenary ginseng, King Solomon’s-seal, bezoar, saffron, deer velvet antler, donkey-hide gelatin, seahorse, musk, gastrodia tuber, cordyceps… Grandmaster, you should know, not a lack of wealthy people in this world, but wealth alone can’t convince the Bian Family to refine medicine for you, nor can it buy some truly rare treasures.”

“And, there are also ancient martial arts secret manuals sold by the Ten Ancient Martial Arts Families. No need to mention how valuable those are. These secret manuals might be of lesser importance to the Ten Ancient Martial Arts Families, but for ordinary Martial Artists, they are more precious than life itself! They can change the fate and standing of an entire clan!”

Huang Xiaolong nodded.

Indeed, just as Ji Zhengyu said, the goods sold in these shops were not everyday luxury items, they were the most unattainable luxuries in the world!

Alchemy pills! Rare treasures! Top-tier beauties! Martial arts secret manuals! And so on and so forth!

These aren’t things that money can necessarily buy, to get them, you have to be part of this circle!

These resources were only available for those within the circle to enjoy!

Ma Chuxia, Xia Ying, and the rest of the group were flabbergasted.

“Hehe, Grandmaster, the most expensive ‘commodity’ here, is not any of those mentioned, but it is ——” Ji Zhengyu said mysteriously with a smile. “Grandmaster, can you guess what it is?”

“Hehe~~” Huang Xiaolong smiled.

“Slaves.” Ji Zhengyu whispered. “The most valuable thing here, are slaves! You can buy slaves here!”

“What?!” Miao Erfang was astonished. “What era is this? How can there still be slaves?! This isn’t the primitive society! Trading slaves is against the law!”

“Beautiful miss, in this circle, trading slaves is normal. It’s also a momentary fashion.” Ji Zhengyu smiled lightly. “The slaves mentioned here are not the so-called ‘female slaves’. Those are only the lowest-end ‘goods’. The real attraction for those qualified international big shots in this circle, are — Ancient Martial Arts Grandmasters as slaves!”

“Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster slaves?!” Xia Ying was flabbergasted.

Grandmasters in ancient martial arts were beings that could shatter people from afar. While there were actually quite a number of people practicing martial arts, not a lot could reach the level of Grandmaster.

A Grandmaster of ancient martial arts could practically face a hundred people alone, and stronger ones weren’t even afraid of conventional firearms. If they were to become a bodyguard for a wealthy person, they could earn an unimaginable astronomical figure in a year.

Take Xia Ying’s family, for example, within the domestic ancient martial arts circle, they are only considered the second tier. An ancient martial arts Grandmaster at the Xia Family’s is undoubtedly a core figure.

Therefore, for a moment, she was utterly unable to accept the fact that ancient martial arts Grandmasters were being sold as slaves!

Ji Zhengyu explained, “Some of these Grandmaster slaves have committed sins within the top ten ancient martial families and have been demoted to slavery. Others were merely orphans adopted by the top ten families, taught martial arts, and after ascending to the position of ancient martial Grandmaster, they were sold to those in need as slaves.”

“Grandmaster slaves are extremely expensive. The lowest priced start within the hundreds of millions of RMB. Those with higher cultivation can cost several billions of RMB. However, they are highly sought after. After all, having an ancient martial Grandmaster slave as a bodyguard ensures one’s safety.”

“Yes… If I could buy an ancient martial Grandmaster slave with money, I would be willing to do so. However, I don’t have a way to buy such a slave,” Ma Chuxia reasonably retorted.

As they passed by a glass showcase, the group indeed saw some extraordinary people behind the thick bulletproof glass!

They were bound in fetters and chains, their eyes were like lightning, exuding a domineering aura. Just one glance from their eyes could make one’s soul freeze in terror.

Ancient martial Grandmasters!

Behind this glass showcase, were all martial Grandmasters!

And they are all slaves!

Huang Xiaolong glanced at them, the weakest among them were able to condense 2-3 strands of True Qi, and the most powerful one had managed to condense 8 strands of True Qi inside his body.

While they weren’t incredibly strong, within the secular world, their existence was enough to stride across everything else!

“How much does this cost?” Huang Xiaolong pointed at the ancient martial Grandmaster who had condensed 8 strands of True Qi – an around thirty-year-old woman with a beautiful appearance, delicate skin, her eyes full of hatred.

“Oh, she is a Loose Cultivator that offended the Bian Family. Her cultivation level is pretty good, and she’s also a beauty. Master, her price is around 80 to 100 billion RMB,” Ji Zhengyu explained.

“Oh my god! Isn’t it too expensive? Who can afford it?” Zhou Mi was shocked.

“She worths this price.” Ji Zhengyu smiled. “I don’t have that much money, if I did, I would have bought her already.”

“Master, if you are interested, I can introduce you to the people of the Yu Family. You can buy this female ancient martial Grandmaster slave from them,” Ji Zhengyu suggested smiling.

“Hahaha… I’ll think about it,” Huang Xiaolong laughed noncommittally. “But to tell the truth, this place is quite interesting.”

“Master, the most interesting thing here is the ‘Gladiator Arena’…” Ji Zhengyu laughed. “The so-called Gladiator Arena is where the slaves are kept and fight against each other until death for the audience’s amusement. The viewers can also place bets. Moreover, the rich who own slaves can command them to duel with the slaves from the ‘Gladiator Arena’. This is essentially betting with the arena. If their slave wins, they can earn a massive fortune.”

“Master, the young disciples of the ten ancient martial families also like to go to the Gladiator Arena and fight with the enslaved martial artists. Because such a fight is full of crisis and opportunity. The true powerhouse comes from stepping over mountains of corpses and rises amidst life and death situations,” Ji Zhengyu elaborated. “I used to fight in the ‘Gladiator Arena’, gained combat experience, experienced the feeling of life and death… I have to say, only when a martial artist has really seen blood, will they grow.”

“The Gladiator Arena is also a brutal place, because once you go on stage to fight, someone must die!” Ji Zhengyu sighed. “Every day, a number of martial artists and many Grandmasters would die in the Gladiator Arena.”

“The ten ancient martial families are truly profound. They casually throw out the ancient martial Grandmasters to face death. Hahaha~~Interesting.”Huang Xiaolong was intrigued. “This place is interesting.”

“Master, now it’s off-season, there are not many fights in the Gladiator Arena. However, there should be some today. Let’s go see the excitement together. We can also place some bets, if we’re lucky, we might win a lot of money,” Ji Zhengyu suggested with a smile.

“Hmmm, let’s go have a look,” Huang Xiaolong agreed.