The cultivators were silent for a moment.
Some impatient cultivators rushed inside without hesitation, each choosing an ice pillar to stand on and placing the spiritual objects they wanted to trade on top.
In a short while, most of the cultivators had entered. Zhang Ling also noticed that the tall ice pillars were reserved for transformed demon cultivators and Nascent Soul old monsters.
Many Golden Core cultivators could only choose the shorter ice pillars. Fortunately, the entire lake was dotted with ice pillars, enough for everyone to choose from, and each ice pillar was separated by more than ten zhang.
Especially the giant ice pillars, each separated by more than fifty zhang, were like擎天立柱 (Qingtian pillars).
Zhang Ling also noticed that the yellow-robed old man and the four demons had chosen the four corners of the area, and they also took out some spiritual objects, seemingly intending to participate in the trade fair like the other cultivators.
He didn't expect the trade fair of the Cangyun Pavilion to be held in this way. It was quite novel, more primitive than the trade fairs held in the human race's markets, without too many cumbersome regulations.
Watching everyone begin to trade freely, Zhang Ling also chose a giant ice pillar nearby where there were not many cultivators.
This giant ice pillar was more than ten zhang wide, with a flat top. He carefully scanned it with his spiritual sense, finding nothing unusual and observing no traces of any formations. It was clearly just an ordinary ice pillar formed by the frozen lake water.
He tapped the ice pillar with one foot, and a several-zhang-long ice table rose from it. With another flick of his sleeve, twenty or thirty jade bottles, jade boxes, and other items appeared on it.
Zhang Ling casually flicked his fingers, and a yellow light was emitted, circling around these items. Several of the jade bottles and jade boxes were opened, revealing the treasures stored inside.
One jade bottle contained scarlet pills, and a pure fire spiritual energy could be sensed as soon as it was opened.
This was a bottle of Fire Essence Pills refined from Blazing Sun Fruit, a fourth-grade fire-attribute pill very suitable for Nascent Soul cultivators who practice fire-attribute cultivation methods.
Another opened jade box contained an ice-blue small grass, also a fourth-grade spiritual herb, Ice Frost Grass, which he had nurtured to be about 1,500 years old, and its value was not low.
A long jade box contained a three-zhang-long cyan-black spiritual wood, with a layer of cyan lightning floating on it. This was a three-thousand-year-old Yang Lightning Wood.
Although its grade was not high, three-thousand-year-old Yang Lightning Wood was enough to refine top-grade lightning-attribute magic treasures.
This Yang Lightning Wood was collected and nurtured with heavenly lightning to cultivate the Lightning Light Curse. At that time, he only used a small section. Now, this entire Yang Lightning Wood was of no great use to him, so he might as well take it out to exchange for some spiritual objects with other old monsters.
In addition, there were several third-grade spiritual herbs that were six or seven hundred years old and several bottles of rare pills.
These things were all easy to trade. In a short while, Zhang Ling sensed several powerful spiritual senses scanning the items he had taken out.
He naturally released a part of his spiritual sense to scan the treasures that other cultivators had taken out.
A quarter of an hour later.
The pills and spiritual herbs that Zhang Ling had taken out were basically all traded away. He was holding a fist-sized black jade stone in his hand, repeatedly examining it.
This jade stone was crystal clear, with some ice-blue starlight spots inside, very beautiful. This was an Ice Soul Jade. He had just exchanged it with a Nascent Soul cultivator for a fourth-grade thousand-year-old spiritual herb.
The weight of this Ice Soul Jade was not light, weighing fifty to sixty catties, enough to supply the Black Tortoise with Ice Soul Poison for three or four years. Just this piece alone would cost at least five or six hundred thousand spiritual stones to collect outside.
Zhang Ling's hand flashed with yellow light, and he put away the Ice Soul Jade. He glanced at the items on the ice table, which had basically been exchanged, leaving only the three-thousand-year-old Yang Lightning Wood, which had not yet been exchanged.
In addition to the Ice Soul Jade, he also collected several rare spiritual minerals needed to refine high-level puppets.
It would take a lot of time to collect these materials in the market. Unexpectedly, in just a short while, he collected a lot. It could be seen that the cultivators who came here to participate in the trade fair were all wealthy people.
Zhang Ling thought for a while and tapped his storage bag, taking out a few bottles of pills and a few spiritual herbs that were not young. He planned to exchange for another batch of rare materials.
"Junior pays respects to Senior. I wonder if Senior would be willing to exchange this Yang Lightning Wood with Junior."
Suddenly, a voice transmission entered his ears. Zhang Ling's spiritual sense moved slightly, and he instantly locked onto the source of the voice transmission. It was actually a cultivator flying up from below the ice pillar.
"Little one, this old man's Yang Lightning Wood is not young. Are you sure you can afford to exchange it?" Zhang Ling replied without raising his head.
This cultivator flew up from below, and the spiritual light on his body was not strong, obviously only a Golden Core cultivator. He also wore a Hunling Mask, making it impossible to see his face, but judging from his figure, he seemed to be a fat cultivator.
"Haha, Junior's wealth is naturally not comparable to you Seniors, but I still have two or three spiritual objects that are no less valuable than this three-thousand-year-old Yang Lightning Wood. If Senior needs spiritual stones, Junior can also take out five hundred thousand spiritual stones to exchange for the spiritual wood," the fat cultivator said, seemingly confident, neither humble nor arrogant in the face of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Zhang Ling looked up and down at the fat cultivator. It seemed that this person was also quite wealthy, otherwise he would not be trading with an old monster like him.
If he were to exchange the Yang Lightning Wood he took out for spiritual stones, it would also be between four and five hundred thousand spiritual stones.
"It seems that Fellow Daoist is very fond of this Yang Lightning Wood. Well then, but this old man does not lack spiritual stones. I happen to need some other materials. If you have them, it is okay to exchange it with you. Take a look at the materials recorded in this jade slip first. If you have them, you can exchange them with priority." Zhang Ling flicked his sleeve, and a white jade slip flew towards this person.
The fat cultivator did not say much, took the jade slip and checked it.
"Uh, the materials that Senior needs are all extremely rare things. Some of them are legendary top-grade materials. Junior only has this piece of Heavenly Astral Silver, which may not be as valuable as the Yang Lightning Wood, but I can add another two hundred thousand spiritual stones. I wonder if Senior is willing to exchange?"
A full ten breaths of time passed before the fat cultivator's hand flashed with spiritual light, and he took out a silver-black stone the size of an egg. It was a piece of Heavenly Astral Silver.
Zhang Ling just glanced at it and sighed in his heart. It seemed that his expectations were too high. Although he had engraved a lot of the materials he needed in the jade slip, he did not lack Heavenly Astral Silver.
This person's piece of Heavenly Astral Silver was not small, worth more than three hundred thousand spiritual stones. This was a top-grade material and not easy to collect.
"Just this piece of Heavenly Astral Silver is not enough. As for spiritual stones, forget it. You just said that you have some other spiritual objects in your hand, why not take them out and have a look."
