Infinite true path

He turned towards the direction where he heard the sound before, and soon, a slender pagoda came into Huan Yin's field of vision.

This pagoda has nine floors, and the height of each floor is at least three feet. In addition, the pagoda does not occupy a large area, so if you look at the pagoda from a distance, you may miss the pagoda directly. Seen as a slender column.

Huan Yin's eyes swept across the entire pagoda from bottom to top. Soon, he saw a large plaque on the top of the pagoda. What was written on the plaque was exactly the three "News Market" that Huan Yin had heard before. Character.

This pagoda is the news market. Huan Yin's eyes moved down again, and soon he saw an old man standing at the gate at the bottom of the tower. He was greeting visitors from all directions with a smile, and introduced them in a seductive manner. The importance of this news to the city.

After a few steps, he walked in front of the old man. Huan Yin bowed to the old man politely and said, "Old sir, what news do you have here?"

At this moment, the old man was shouting hard, trying to attract more guests to enter the tower. Suddenly he heard Huan Yin's words and turned around quickly, with a smile that only a businessman could have on his face, and looked at it. After talking about it, Huan Yin said, "This fellow Taoist looks like an outsider, right?"

Huan Yin smiled noncommittally and waited for the old man to continue speaking. The old man was not embarrassed and continued: "If you have only been here in the west for eight days, then fellow Taoist disciples have really come to the right place. Our eight days in the west are very different from other places. There are a lot of customs and rules. If Dao If you want to have a smooth stay in the West for eight days, it is essential to go to our news market to buy some news and understand the local situation. "

Huan Yin said: "Besides these news, do you have any other news here?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, then immediately said: "Why not? Our news market is a thousand-year-old store. If we can stand here, we naturally have our abilities. No matter what the Taoists want to know..."

At this point, the old man suddenly came closer to Huan Yin and lowered his voice: "Even if it's some military secrets, as long as fellow Taoists put forward your needs, we can give you the answers you want!"

After saying this, the old man had already put his arm around Huan Yin's shoulder and whispered: "If you, fellow Taoist, have come with a purpose, please come in. When you get to the tower, there will naturally be maids who will give you a brief greeting." Guidance, please, please!”

As he spoke, Huan Yin was led into the tower by the old man.

As soon as he entered the tower, Huan Yin was shocked by the sight in front of him. From the outside, Huan Yin thought that the tower was divided into nine floors, but when he came in, he realized that the lower floors were actually connected.

Therefore, the space above Huan Yin's head was at least dozens of feet high. However, the space for people to stand is less than three feet, and higher up, there is a protective light curtain. The light curtain is so powerful that it blocks all possibilities of divine consciousness detection. Huan Yin tried it, but with his current level of cultivation, he was unable to penetrate the light curtain.

There is only one thing above the light curtain, and that is the bamboo slips.

The bamboo slips are so densely packed that there may be millions of them. They look exactly the same in appearance, and they all remain closed. These bamboo slips float back and forth in the space above, swimming slowly, like the legendary sea of ​​books!

How had Huan Yin ever seen such a scene? Even in the Ziyin Sect's classics collection attic that he had visited, the number of bamboo slips in it was probably not so terrifying.

"How much manpower and time it takes to compile so many bamboo slips." When Huan Yin was looking at himself in a daze, a clear female voice came from beside him: "Master, may I ask who you are? Want to buy news?”

Huan Yin turned around and saw a well-behaved maid standing beside him. The maid had a smile in her eyes. When she saw Huan Yin looking at her, she immediately bowed to Huan Yin respectfully. Her courtesy could not be more thoughtful.

Huan Yin thought for a moment and said to the maid, "Can you please take me for a walk?"

The maid nodded slightly and said, "Master, please come with me."

Following the maid, she bypassed the large screen in front of her, and what appeared in front of Huan Yin was a circular square. The square is not too big, after all, the pagoda itself does not occupy a large area.

However, at this moment, this small square was densely packed with people. These people were followed by a maid, and they were obviously conducting transactions related to the news under the guidance of the maid.

Occasionally, Huan Yin would see someone who had obviously decided to buy some news, so after paying the fairy jade to the maid next to him, the maid next to him took out a strange magic wand and pointed it at the vast sea of ​​bamboo slips above. Point far away. Suddenly, a stream of light would fly out from the sea of ​​bamboo slips, fall into the hands of the maid, and then be handed over to the hands of the buyer.

"Our news market is a thousand-year-old store, and our reputation and strength are worthy of your trust. Moreover, our news prices are absolutely fair, which is also known to everyone. If you want to buy any news, you can directly contact us. I said, we will definitely have the answer that the young master wants." Following the maid on the square, Huan Yin kept looking around with curiosity, and beside him, the maid's voice came.

To be honest, although Huan Yin had been to the West many times in the past eight days when he was the Emperor of Heaven, he had never been to this place where the news of buying and selling was, and he had never even heard of it. After arriving here, Huan Yin realized that sitting high may not necessarily mean everything is better.

"If your news is bought by someone, and that person knows it and sells it to others, won't your business gradually be ruined as the news is sold one by one?" Huan Yin asked casually. .

The maid said: "Don't worry, sir, we also have rules here. Anyone who buys information must swear an oath that after purchasing the information, they cannot disclose it to anyone within a year. If it is more advanced information, then It will take even longer. As for the jade slips, they cannot be taken out and must be returned after watching them for a while.”

Nodding, Huan Yin expressed his approval of this method. Then, Huan Yin said: "There should be more than one floor here, right?"

The maid responded: "There are six floors above, and the level of news on each floor is different. The first four floors of our news market are open to the public, so you can browse at will. The last three floors require reservations."

Nodding, Huan Yin said: "I'm new here, you must have noticed. There are a lot of things I want to know, so I'll just walk around and collect my thoughts."

The maid nodded, bowed to Huan Yin, and said, "Okay, sir, my name is Jingjing. If you think about your needs, you can call me through this jade token at any time."

After that, the maid Jingjing gave Huan Yin a jade token and left politely.

Huan Yin wandered around the first floor for a while, continuing to look around curiously while thinking about what kind of news he needed to buy.

But Huan Yin thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out at all. He only thought that no matter what the news on the first level was, it might be of little value and not worth paying for the immortal jade.

So in the end, Huan Yin simply stopped walking on the first floor and walked directly to the second floor.

As soon as they reached the second floor, the huge crystal ball in the center caught Huan Yin's attention.

The entire second floor is built around this huge crystal ball. On the crystal ball, densely packed runes kept flashing. Huan Yin didn't need to think about it, and he knew that these must be messages one after another. Next to the crystal ball, on the circular walkway, there are still many people, accompanied by the maids, thinking about what news they want to buy and how much fairy jade they have to pay.

Here, Huan Yin was shocked again. The number of messages in the crystal ball is obviously no less than the vast sea of ​​bamboo slips on the first floor. So, how many large and small messages are there in this message market?

"A small news market actually contains such a terrifying amount of news. It is conceivable that there is such a huge news network behind this news market. But this news market is obviously just one of many news trading markets. , if all the news markets are combined, how much news will there be, and how terrifying the news network will be involved? What’s more, there are also news networks in the military and major celestial bodies. "

"Eight Days in the West, this is really a strange place. If I hadn't stepped here as a civilian, I wouldn't have known all this. This is an information world, which is very interesting."

When his thoughts came to this point, a young man's low voice suddenly came to Huan Yin's ears: "Does this friend want to buy news? He Laowu, I am willing to provide news to friends at a low price. If it is ordinary news, it is free. Just make friends!”