The villain is right beside me

"Sir, if you feel it is inappropriate, we can hire an appraiser." said the servant.

"Hiring...what's the price?" Mu Qing was a little curious.

"Some charge 5%, some charge 10%. The rank of the treasure appraiser depends on their attire. Yellow-clad appraisers are the lowest, followed by green, blue, purple, red, and gold."

"The highest price here is Tsing Yi, and the price is 12% of the item you get. Do you want to try it?"

Mu Qing just smiled and said he would take a look. Then he saw a yellow-clothed treasure appraiser asking someone to bring a piece of ore with a hole in it. It was obvious at a glance that the stone had been cut long ago. The yellow-clothed treasure appraiser ignored the sarcastic looks from others and cut it one piece at a time. In the end, only a palm-sized piece of stone was left.

"What else can be cut out of this?"

"It's ridiculous. You pretend to be an elephant when you don't have enough skills."

The man obviously didn't take it seriously. The knife in his hand was still moving. The stone was already as big as a longan, and he couldn't cut anything out of it.

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and with another slash of the knife, the stone skin fell off, and suddenly a dazzling light shot out!

Mu Qing was greatly surprised and walked forward to take a look. A red light overflowed, like a burning cloud, and a rich spiritual energy emanated.

Everyone was shocked, their eyes dazed. It was obvious that an extremely rare treasure had been dug out.

The appraiser in yellow held the treasure carefully between his fingers. It was a bright red jade, shining brightly.

"It's Akadama, but unfortunately there are too few of them."

"It's a very rare red jade, but what can you do with so little of it?"

Mu Qing walked up to him and bowed, saying, "Fellow Daoist, you have a very sharp eye. You can actually find a treasure from this piece of waste."

The person in front of me is also very young and has an ordinary appearance. I can basically not remember him at first glance.

He smiled modestly and said, "It was just luck."

Mu Qing didn't believe it. The real secret of gambling on stones lies in courage. If you don't have the courage to take a gamble, no matter how great your skills are or how cautious you are, you will often miss out on treasures.

"My name is Mu Qing, I would like to ask you for your advice..."

"I am Li Pingdao."

It is rare to dare to use the name of the avenue.

Mu Qing wanted to make friends: "Friend Li, can you pick another stone? I can see your skills with my own eyes."

"Please come in, fellow Taoist." Li Pingdao led him forward, wanting Mu Qing to pick out a piece of stone so that he could open it himself.

At this moment, a sound came from the crowd behind him.

"He seems to be the...who from the Li family?"

"Is it the third young master of the Li family...what's his name?"

"It seems so. I really don't have any impression. I only heard that the Li family has two heroes. As for the third young master, he is really mediocre and there is nothing surprising about him. I really don't know when he became an appraiser."

Mu Qing picked out a piece of stone that looked like a jade rabbit. Li Pingdao took a look at it and lightly tapped it with his index finger. Suddenly, a golden glow appeared and even the stone turned golden.

At this time, Lao Wang jumped out: "Turning stone into gold!"

Mu Qing: "What? Very powerful?"

"I only know that this is a unique skill recorded in the Stone Scriptures, which is also an ancient scripture. It's a pity that I don't know it."

Li Pingdao nodded several times, then started to cut the stone. With one light stroke, he dug out the eyeball of the Jade Rabbit Stone. Then he rubbed it lightly with his fingers and found a bean-sized piece of red jade inside!

"You are so lucky, fellow Daoist. This piece of red jade is yours." Li Pingdao handed it to him generously.

Mu Qing was surprised: "You don't charge a fee?"

"Just think of it as making friends." Li Pingdao said generously and cheerfully, as if he had known each other for a long time.

Mu Qing was not polite and asked him to treat him to a meal, firstly to make friends, and secondly to learn something from him.

The two of them asked for a private room to drink. Mu Qing also knew that he was a descendant of the Li family, which was affiliated with the Suzaku Sect. Compared with the mediocrity of Li Pingdao, his two cousins ​​were both practicing the Fenmie Dao.

Mu Qing didn't think he was mediocre, just not eye-catching.

"Brother Mu is not from Huofen Island." Li Ping said, "Don't get me wrong. Most people born in Huofen Island have fire immortal roots, or are full of fire energy. I see that although Brother Mu has hidden his cultivation, the metal and wood energy outside his body is particularly obvious."

Mu Qing said: "Brother Li has a good eye. I came to Huofen Island just to find some fire-attributed spiritual treasures and medicines."

"There are quite a few precious spiritual medicines. I wonder what grade Brother Mu wants?"

"The higher the better."

Li Pingdao took a sip of wine and said, "I heard from my brother that there is a tower in the Burning Dao that leads directly to the ground. All the disciples practice in the tower. I think there should be a powerful fire vein suppressed under the tower. Once the fire vein has spirit, it is extremely fierce, and even the Infant Transformation Realm cultivators are afraid of it."

"I'm afraid I can't enter the Burning Road."

"The Xiao family also has a fire altar with fire in it. Haha, in fact, most of the sects in Huofen Continent are built on fire veins, and the high-quality fire veins have long been divided up. And fire veins are the most likely to give birth to spiritual creatures with fire attributes."

Li Pingdao whispered to him, "I'll tell you a secret. In fact, the reason why the various sects want to seal the volcano is because there are living creatures under the volcano!"

"what?"

"To be honest, I was lucky enough to see a fire beast when I was mining. They are not monsters, but the incarnation of fire spirits. Most of these fire spirit beasts live in groups. I guess there must be a fire beast king under the volcano!" Li Pingdao said quietly: "According to my experience, valuable treasures are often accompanied by powerful guardians. Similarly, where there are powerful creatures, there must be valuable treasures."

"Oh." Mu Qing tapped the table with his fingers, smiling, "Brother Li told me this, are you trying to invite me to go treasure hunting with you?"

"I don't dare to go treasure hunting. Not to mention that every fire spirit beast has a cultivation level above the building platform, and the fire beast king inside has the strength of the infant transformation realm. Those sect ancestors may not have the courage to do so." Li Pingdao still has self-knowledge: "Brother Mu wants rare treasures with fire attributes. Huofenzhou has no shortage of them. There is a market trading street not far to the northwest. I go there often. I can take Brother Mu to try my luck. The auction in the market should be in two days. I have a channel to enter the auction."

"Okay, thank you for the introduction." Mu Qing drank the first glass and had already made up his mind.

After temporarily saying goodbye to Li Pingdao, Mu Qing quickly contacted Yunxi and told her the news that there was a fire spirit beast hidden under the volcano.

"This... I have never heard of it. Are you sure what he said is true?" Yunxi pondered for a moment. She had never seen a fire spirit beast, but the various sects sealed the volcano because of the Fire Beast King. Have these Fire Beast Kings never thought of breaking the seal?

"It's half true and half false. Are you going to the auction?" Mu Qing shook his head. After all, they had just met Li Pingdao and he couldn't trust him completely.

Li Pingdao was not in his eyes at all. What he was worried about was whether there would be a cultivator in the Lunhai Realm in the Li family behind him.

"I have something important to do here, so I can't go over. If you are in danger, crush the jade talisman I gave you, and I will be there immediately." Yunxi said.

……

Two rainbow lights passed through the valley. On the way, Li Pingdao was introducing the situation in the market town to Mu Qing. This market town was built right at the junction of the Suzaku Sect and the Tianhe Sect. Therefore, the market town was a mixed crowd and extremely chaotic. From time to time, cultivators could be seen fighting.

As he was speaking, Mu Qing's expression changed slightly and he immediately took a few steps back. He saw a dim sword light twisting and turning from the dense forest behind him and flashing past the place where Mu Qing was just now.

Mu Qing took a look and saw the cultivator in the sword light clearly. The man was about forty years old and his cultivation was at the late stage of building a platform. His face was purple and black, and his breathing was rapid. It was obvious that he had been poisoned, which caused the spiritual power in his body to be disordered, making it difficult to control the flying sword.

As soon as the sword light flew past, another long rainbow shot out and chased it closely.

Li Pingdao seemed to be accustomed to this matter and ignored it.

There was a strange look on Mu Qing's face. The person who was chasing the cultivator in the Platform Building Stage was a young cultivator in the Initial Platform Building Stage. This person had a face as white as jade, long and narrow eyes, and a hint of evil appeared on his face.

"Good brother, where can you escape to? You might as well give the Lihuo Pill that Master gave you to me, so I can make your life easier." The evil young man said in a feminine voice.

The middle-aged man in front clenched his teeth, said nothing, and staggered forward with the flying sword under his feet twisting and turning.

When the three words "Lihuo Dan" fell into Mu Qing's ears, his heart moved. He had heard from Yunxi that Lihuo Dan was very famous in Huofen Continent. It could allow the platform-building cultivators who practiced fire-attributed techniques or had fire-based immortal roots to break through the third-level bottleneck. If he took it, he could be promoted from the middle stage of the platform-building to the late stage of the platform-building.

However, Mu Qing generally did not want to get involved in the karma of others, but when the middle-aged man who was escaping saw them, he hardened his heart and cursed hoarsely without turning his head: "Bah! You adulterous couple, you are dreaming! I will never give it to you! Fellow Daoist! Take it!"

what?

The middle-aged man actually slapped his storage bag and threw a jade bottle into Mu Qing's hand.

The evil young man cursed loudly. Did he want the middle-aged man's life? Or did he want the elixir? The next second, he took action, stepped forward to stop Mu Qing, and quickly clasped his fists and bowed. He changed his evil expression to a simple and honest one, and said respectfully: "Daoyou, you misunderstood. Can you give me the elixir in the bottle? I am willing to exchange it for the magic weapon."

He was not a fool. Seeing that the other party had two people at the Building Platform Realm, and Mu Qing was at the Middle Building Platform Realm, although the fight would be a bit troublesome, he did not want to delay killing the middle-aged man.

Mu Qing didn’t want to get involved, so he just threw the pill to the young man. The young man was also stunned, and couldn’t believe that the other party was so good?

Li Pingdao wanted to say something, but that was the Lihuo Pill.

"You think you can scare me with just a broken pill? Also, fellow Taoists in the dense forest, you'd better come out quickly. Your acting is too poor." Mu Qing said coldly.

Li Pingdao understood something, and he had already grasped the magic weapon in his hand, looking at the young man with hostile eyes.

Suddenly, there were sounds of wind and thunder from afar, and a black sword light came rushing over. In the blink of an eye, it was close. After the sword light dissipated, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face was revealed. This man had a thin body and a ruthless look in his eyes.

Mu Qing glanced at him. This man was at the peak of the Platform Building Realm and was probably already at the Quasi-Sea Realm.

The middle-aged man didn't even look at Mu Qing, and said to the young man in a cold voice: "With your exaggerated acting skills, it's no wonder that people noticed it. Okay, quickly deal with them."

Li Pingdao frowned and said, "My fellow Taoist, we have no grudges against each other, why are you plotting against us?"

The middle-aged man in black turned his gaze to Li Pingdao. He didn't take Li Pingdao's initial stage of platform building seriously at all. He said in a cold voice: "Boy, you can die now!" After that, the flying sword under his feet shot out like lightning, pointing directly at Li Pingdao's chest.

At the same time, the young man leaped up and clapped his hands several times. Suddenly, a black mist spread out and turned into a huge ghost fire skeleton, which followed the flying sword and swallowed Mu Qing.

People in the arena involuntarily.

It’s not that I don’t want to cause trouble, it’s just that they... are going too far!

"Die!" Mu Qing's eyes were cold. He ignored the two men's magic weapons, pointed at the middle-aged man with his right hand, and shouted in a low voice.

The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly bulged. At this moment, he could clearly feel that his soul was hit by an icy force. He had no power to resist and collapsed in an instant. As soon as the fear in his eyes appeared, it immediately disappeared and his body softened. Until his death, he did not understand what was going on.

It all happened so fast that the flying sword in mid-air had just flown less than half the distance when the middle-aged man's consciousness on it was shattered. The black light on the flying sword immediately dissipated and it fell from the air.

Mu Qing flicked his sleeves, and a flying sword turned into lightning, smashing the young man's skeleton. The next second, amid the young man's horrified expression, he chopped off his head!

"Brother Li, please wait a moment. I'll be back soon!" Mu Qing turned around and chased after the poisoned middle-aged man behind him. The middle-aged man, who had originally planned to attack from both sides, saw that Mu Qing had killed his fellow apprentice in an instant, so he ran away.

Li Pingdao was left alone in mid-air, stunned.