"Jie Jie Jie, since you're here, why er the shop?"

  An old and hoarse voice emanated from the shop. The sound resembled that of a demon from the depths of the herworld evoking a bone-chilliion in those who heard it.

  Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed as his mind began to race. He khat he was able to e here because of the token, which meant that his safety was at least somewhat assured.

  Taking a deep breath, he approached without a hint of fear aly pushed open the dipidated wooden door to enter.

  The first impression the Soul Sacrifice Old Shop gave Xiao Yan was that it was not a shop at all. It felt more like entering a graveyard, a haunted pce.

  The interior of the shop was dimly lit, with only a few dles on the ter to illumihe pce. The entire shop itifully small; even the smallest shops in the Xiao Market were rger than this.

  Apart from an old, tattered wooden et of unknowhere were only a few cobweb-covered shelves oher side, with nothing else in sight.

  o the et was a bck curtain. He couldn't see what was behind the curtain. There was only darkness and he had no way of knowing where it led.

  At this moment, Xiao Yan's eyes fell on an old man sitting behind the ter. The old man's right hand was resting on his , and his eyes were closed as if he were dozing off. He was incredibly thin, his body nothing but skin and bones, with sunken eye sockets and only a few sparse strands of hair left on his head. He looked more like a corpse that had been dead for three days than a living person!

  Had it not been for the voice that had just proven that this old man was still alive, Xiao Yan would have thought that he was looking at a dried-up corpse sitting there.

  Even someone as brave as Xiao Ya goosebumps all over his body in such a pce. Even the air was cold and unfortable.

  Gathering his ce, Xiao Yan approached the ter aly tapped oabletop, "Excuse me, old man, may I ask ce this is?"

  The old man's body slowly moved upon hearing this question. It was like a mummified corpse ing back to life. His eyelids slowly opened, revealing a pair of ghostly pale greearing back at Xiao Yan.

  "You dare to e here without even knowing ce this is?" A harsh, deep voice emanated from the old man's throat.

  Xiao Ya a bit embarrassed by the question and smiled awkwardly as he said, "I was just wandering around and actally ended up here."

  The ers of the old man's mouth cracked into a smile, revealing a set of yellow teeth, half of which were missing. He spoke slowly, "No one pass through the spatial barrier to e here without the permission of my ."

  After some thought, Xiao Yan didn't hide anything and took out the bck token of unknown material from his pocket.

  The old man narrowed his eyes slightly and curiously scrutinized Xiao Yan before slowly saying, "her a member of my Hun or affiliated with the Hall of Souls, yet you possess my 's Soul and token. Iing, very iing."

  Xiao Yan touched his nose and said, "This was given to me by someone named Hun Huzi, who cimed I had a talent for alchemy and begged me to join some Hall of Souls in the capital of the Jia Ma Empire."

  His words were half true and half false. The token was indeed given by Hun Huzi, but the other party hadn't mentioned anything about having a talent for alchemy ging him to join the Hall of Souls.

  Xiao Yan's iion was to elevate his own status.

  The old man smiled meaningfully when he heard those words. He shook his head stiffly and closed his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep.

  "This is the Soul Sacrifice Old Shop, a pce where my Hun trades with the outside world."

  "Trade?"

  It was only at this moment that Xiao Yan early examihe items on the shelves. When he brushed aside the cobwebs and carefully dised what was on them, his expression instantly ged.

  "Sinking Fragrance Soul Wood! This is aremely precious and rare treasure! Grinding the Sinking Fragrance Soul Wood into powder and making it into a sachet to wear on slowly enhane's Spiritual Strength! It's also the main ingredient for refining 6th-tier soul-type medial pills!"

  "Dream ar Flower!"

  "Dragon Millet Rice!"

  Xiao Yan turned his head to look at a gemstoo the Sinking Fragrance Soul Wood. His eyelids twitched violently as he identified it. It was a Yin-Yang Stone, one of the main ingredients for refining the 7th-tier Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.

  As for whether the Yin-Yang Stone had any other uses, Xiao Yan had no idea. If it weren't for the fact that the pill recipe for the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill was in his ste ring, whicluded a description of this gemstone, he wouldn't have known what it was.

  "Jie Jie Jie, not bad at all, you've got quite an eye."

  Xiao Ya over a decade familiarizing himself with the various pill recipes, herbal pendiums, and catalogs of rare treasures stored in his ste ring. Yet, there were still some things here that he couldn't identify.

  Without exception, anything he reized was extremely valuable, at least starting as the main ingredient for 5th-tier medial pills.

  Xiao Yan swallowed his saliva and poio a withered leaf in the et behind the old man as he asked, "How much for that withered leaf?"

  The most valuable item he reized was undoubtedly the withered leaf behind the old man.

  The old man replied with indifferehis is the main leaf of the Earth Vein Sacred Tree. It ourish the soul, extend one's lifespan, and is the main ingredient for refining the 8th-tier medial pill, the Soul Returning Pill. The Soul Returning Pill repair damaged souls aore Spiritual Strength."

  The old man accurately described the withered leaf's funs without aional fluctuations.

  "It's not expensive, just the soul body of a high-star Dou Aor."

  !!!!

  The items here were not traded with gold s or medial pills, but with cultivators' souls!

  'No wohe books record that the people from the Hall of Souls are hunting soul bodies all over the ti.' Xiao Yan had a moment of realization in his heart. The currency of the Hall of Souls was actually souls!

  He shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "Not to mention a Dou Aor, I'm just a Dou Practitiht now, not even a Dou Master. Fet it, fet it, the items here aren't suitable for me."

  Dou Aor? Even if a Dou Aor was lying on the ground, Xiao Yan wouldn't be able to harm them in the slightest, even if he exhausted all of his Dou Qi.

  "Kid, these things are just a drop in the bucket. The items here are all obtained from the Bck-er Region, mere junk sold by Soul Envoys to exge for Soul Points."

  "My Hun 's colle is far beyond this."

  The old man was thin, but his tone was grand.

  Xiao Yan couldn't help but pin in his heart. Why were all the people from the Hall of Souls the same? One said the Bone Chilling Fme was trash, and now this one said everything here was worthless junk.

  But he finally uood what this Soul Sacrifice Old Shop was for. It was like the bck market of the Hall of Souls. Even if you weren't a member of the Hall of Souls, you could still exge things here with soul bodies.

  Moreover, acc to what the old man said, the items here were sidered useless by the Hall of Souls. The truly valuable items were those exged using soul points.

  As a Little Leader himself, Xiao Yan naturally uood that it was normal for a fa to have its ow point system. In the Xiao , merit was also required to obtaiain teiques and magic crystal ons.

  Just like the Xiao 's medial herb gathering team, the more precious herbs they collected, the higher their merits would be.

  The purpose of such a system was to motivate the disciples within the .

  "What soul points be exged for?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

  The old man grinned, "Anything."

  Xiao Yan's eyes flickered as he tentatively asked, "Even a Heavenly Fme?"

  As if guessing Xiao Yan's desire for a Heavenly Fme, the old man grinned widely a out a chilling ugh, "Jie Jie Jie, of course! Even specififormation about certain Heavenly Fmes, their locations, ahods to obtain them, as long as you have enough soul points."

  "My Hun provide it for you."