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These stalls are all concentrated in secluded corners, and the stall owners all have gloomy looks. Most of them are wearing hooded robes, covering themselves up completely, and look like they are not meant to be seen by others.

Zhao Hao also saw something that looked like human skin! However, it had scales and fish fins on it.

The fat man said it was the skin of a water ghost, which was called a water monkey in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Hao: This is the time to tag Xiao Liang!

While pretending to buy things, Zhao Hao also discovered several items with "destiny" attached to them and absorbed 37 Destiny Points!

Looking at the vast market, Zhao Hao was filled with excitement: I don't want to leave this wonderful place!

Afterwards, the fat man led the two to a place that resembled a tavern, but it was actually a base of an extraordinary intelligence agency in the underworld.

The fat man needed to gather some information, and he could buy the information he wanted here by spending money.

As for this extraordinary force whose main business is gathering and selling intelligence, its name is also quite strange. It's called the Eye of Fate!

As soon as we entered, the waiter exclaimed, "Fate is truly wondrous!"

Zhao Hao thought the fat man had brought them to the marriage agency in the other world!

……

Finally, the fat man looked at a list, picked through several stalls, bought a bunch of miscellaneous items, and then led the two of them toward the hillside.

The fat man, carrying a bag, explained as he walked, "I asked a friend at the Red Gate to find out this recipe. Today, I want to ask a witch in this market to help me concoct a potion..."

Zhao Hao: "A witch?!"

Gou Quan: "A magic potion?!"

The fat man said, "Witches, or rather, sorceresses, witches, whatever it is, I'm not entirely sure of the exact differences, but they're basically female spellcasters among the superhumans. They often possess a special method for brewing potions, and can often create potions with some strange effects, such as sequence potions!"

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Chapter 50 was rejected!

The fat man shared some information about witches or sorceresses. According to his understanding, supernatural beings like witches are the type who suddenly awaken.

After suddenly awakening their psychic powers, they will gain unique knowledge from their psychic sea. These are the imprints left by countless predecessors in this profession within their psychic sea.

Similar phenomena also occur in a small number of ordinary people.

For example, some people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau who were illiterate their whole lives suddenly developed a high fever and fell into a coma for several days. When they woke up, they could recite the epic poem "King Gesar" which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of words.

The fat man said he had also met shamans from Northeast China, who, after awakening their vital energy, could learn skills or unknown secrets and knowledge from the "spirits." He began to understand things like feng shui, divination, and palmistry.

Zhao Hao suddenly thought of himself!

He practiced the "Sleeping Dragon Elixir Technique" given to him by Uncle Tie. Actually, it wasn't a cultivation method, or even an introductory technique for one. However, Zhao Hao mastered it—a technique he cultivated in his dreams!

At first, it was about the same; I was accumulating spiritual energy in my dreams, gradually filling myself with vital energy. But then it started to drift towards the direction of dreams!

Just a couple of days ago, he asked Uncle Tie if he had gone astray in his cultivation.

Uncle Tie told him not to worry, as this situation was mostly "divinely bestowed." It was because of certain reasons that Zhao Hao himself received enlightenment from his spiritual energy sea, which is why this technique gradually changed, and it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Just like how Zhao Hao's Yin-Yang Eyes turned into the Qi Observation Technique.

This is what they mean by "the master leads you through the door, but the rest is up to you."

Even renowned schools with a thousand-year history will branch out and develop different lineages during the process of inheritance.

However, Zhao Hao was more interested in the sequence potion in the fat man's mouth!

This sounds really off.

There are too many elements; I'm already feeling overwhelmed!

Zhao Hao cautiously probed, "Fatty, can I ask you something? Have you ever heard of the Fool?"

"What do you mean 'idiot'? Idiot is idiot, why are you being so polite?" The fat man tilted his head.

"No! It's the kind where you drink a potion to level up, the kind where you have to role-play!"

The fat man grinned lewdly and wagged his finger, saying, "Oh, you should have said so earlier! Role-playing, huh! I'll take you to a nice place someday! I love female teachers! Female nurses are great too!"

Zhao Hao's head was about to explode!

"Holy crap! No way! We can do that role-playing activity another day when we have a holiday... Just tell me what Sequence Potions are all about!"

The fat man nodded: "I'll come if you treat me!"

"Sequence potions! I've only heard of them, after all, that's something witches do. I never heard of such extraordinary beings when I was in the Song Dynasty. But from what I've come to think of, they're similar to our alchemy..."

Because of the dormancy period of psionic energy, the outer world and the inner world were basically cut off from each other for a long time. Although the superhumans who stayed in the outer world were living a miserable life, they could not just sink into despair like this!

Even psychic energy is uncontrollable; you can't help but want to be a superhuman.

There were no roads in the world originally, but as more people walked on them, they became roads.

Since the original path is no longer viable, let's forge a new one!

At that time, the vast majority of extraordinary beings in the surface world were stuck at the Iron level, and those who could reach the Bronze level were extremely rare. So some people began to consider other paths, and eventually quite a few new paths were developed.

Whether it's good or bad, don't say yet. At least it can temporarily support one's path as a superhuman during this difficult time of spiritual dormancy.

In the Song Dynasty, what could one do if their cultivation couldn't progress?

Do a good deed!

That's right, it's about doing good deeds, which is also known as accumulating good karma!

Before the Tang Dynasty, who had ever heard of needing to do countless good deeds or accumulate a great deal of merit to become an immortal? Absolutely not! Back then, which swordsman or eccentric character wasn't eccentric and capricious?

Later, the concept of accumulating good deeds emerged.

Meanwhile, the external alchemy school, which was originally considered a minor and unorthodox branch in the cultivation system, began to flourish.

Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han only sought immortality and asked about the Dao; taking elixirs of immortality was merely a supplementary measure.

Emperor Taizong of Tang, and even Emperor Jiajing (Emperor Shizong of Song, Zhao Houcong), who died four hundred years earlier from consuming elixirs, devoted themselves to studying alchemy.

why?

Because at that time, alchemy had become a major path to advancement for many cultivators!

These Sequence Potions are the "external elixir" path for witches and sorceresses. It's a way to advance in rank by relying on external objects—Sequence Potions.

It wasn't as fantastical as Zhao Hao knew, where you drink a magic potion, play a role, and compete for the top few positions in the world.

Zhao Hao was relieved; it was good that Mr. Fool, Klein Moretti, wasn't around.

That world has already been traversed twice; I don't want to end up with something left over.

……

"I'm not interested! Let's go! I'm in a bad mood today!"

The speaker was a girl who looked to be under twenty years old, dressed rather strangely—a black robe with silver thread patterns, and some oddly shaped accessories. She wasn't wearing a pointed hat, otherwise Zhao Hao would have mistaken her for Hermione, a recent graduate.

This is the witch, or sorceress, that the fat man is looking for, named Carrie.

According to Fatty's friend at the Red Gate, this witch Carrie, although very young, is exceptionally gifted in potion-making and is quite famous in Liberty City.

Moreover, witches are a very united superhuman species. Although there are some individuals among them who have conflicts, they are generally a very cohesive group.

This may be related to the various hardships Amerin experienced in Europe and in his early years.

As everyone knows, it's a witch hunt! The main targets are witches and sorceresses.

In those days, psychic energy was dormant. Even supernatural beings like witches and sorceresses had very little psychic energy at their disposal, and their magic was weak and extremely troublesome. They were constantly being humiliated and tortured by ordinary people, and countless people died.

This also led to the witches banding together; otherwise, they would be wiped out!

The most famous witch gatherings are the witch councils, where they elect their own leaders, have their own simple rules, and actively seek out newly awakened witches and sorceresses to help them embark on the path to the extraordinary.

The members mostly help each other, so it's more accurate to call it an extraordinary force than an extraordinary profession.

Because of a flaw in his own cultivation technique, the fat man finally found a way to compensate for it here, and he needed someone to help him concoct a magic potion. He originally thought that his friend's influence would work, and even brought many gifts that his friend would like.

Unexpectedly, the witch Carrie was completely uncooperative and capricious. She refused my gift before I even took it out, claiming she was in a bad mood!

Although the fat man had long heard that witches or sorceresses were mostly eccentric or intense and extreme, he was still furious when it happened to him!

He turned and left!

As he walked, he muttered to himself, "If she weren't a woman, I would have taught her a lesson today! Let her know that young people shouldn't be so arrogant and useless!"

Zhao Hao nodded: "That's right! Maybe the force will be with you~"

Gou Quan: What is all this garbage?!

Just then, a long-bearded dwarf wearing leather armor hurriedly ran over and entered the witch Carrie's hut.

The three of them didn't think much of it and continued walking.

After walking a few steps, Carrie's voice suddenly came from behind: "Wait! If you're willing to do me a favor, I can help you brew a potion!"

But the fat guy got angry: "I'll help you my ass! No... Waaah!"

Zhao Hao quickly covered his mouth, and said with a smile to the witch Carrie and the old dwarf beside her, "He said he's very willing to help~"

Because the fat man's English is not good, he often speaks Chinese, which the other person probably cannot understand.

Zhao Hao couldn't let him act impulsively and ruin the important matter.

After all, according to him, he had been preparing for this potion for almost half a year.

At that moment, the old dwarf suddenly spoke up, "Hey, it's you, young man! Nice physique!"

Zhao Hao's face immediately fell. It turned out to be the dwarf who had given him a thumbs-up at the market entrance earlier!

What a tragic fate!

……

Carrie is in a bad mood because her best friend, the little fairy Lulu, has been missing for a whole day!

Fairies are a type of extraordinary creature, belonging to a smaller category within the larger category of fairies.

The fairy is not the kind of fairy that comes from animals, plants or objects in the East, but refers to a kind of natural spirit in the Western system.

They are both righteous and evil, and vary in size. Before the inner and outer worlds were separated, some of these spirits often lived in ordinary people's homes.

If you treat them well, they will bring you good luck and money. Some like to play pranks, some live in symbiosis with a tree, and some will attack humans in the wild…

The little fairy Lulu is only a dozen centimeters in size. She collects nectar like a bee or butterfly, makes magical honey, and also grows spiritual things.

For other extraordinary beings, little fairies are an extremely precious species.