Chapter 621: Chapter 620 The Number One Shop of Eternal Ancient Chapter 621: Chapter 620 The Number One Shop of Eternal Ancient “Of course it is,” Chu Cizhao muttered to the side.

Turning his gaze back to Xu Zimei, he walked over with a smile and asked, “You’re the profligate member of the Great Skies lineage, right?”
“Am I that famous?” Xu Zimei asked with a smile.

“No, no, no, this young master has taken special notice of you.

I really appreciate you,” Chu Cizhao said with satisfaction.

“May I ask how the young master should be addressed?” Xu Zimei looked at Chu Cizhao, feigning ignorance as he asked.

“This young master is Chu Cizhao; ‘Cizhao’ as in the phrase ‘At the break of day, bidding farewell to the White Emperor amid the colorful clouds’,” Chu Cizhao explained proudly.

“Ah, so you’re Young Master Chu.

I have long admired you from afar and am fortunate to finally meet you,” Xu Zimei quickly stood up, cupped his fists, and said.

“No need for such formalities, just mutual admiration,” Chu Cizhao said with a nod and a smile.

The onlookers watching the two acting as if they were best friends forever each had several metaphorical lines of sweat trickling down their foreheads.

This truly was a case of the useless of two sects empathizing with each other, commonly known as birds of a feather flocking together.

“Young Master Lin, you must visit the Mountain River Sect when you have the chance, so I can properly host you,” Chu Cizhao said with a smile.

“Definitely, the door to Great Skies Peak will always be open to Young Master Chu,” Xu Zimei nodded and replied.

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After they chatted for a bit, Chu Cizhao was pulled aside by his sister.

Lin Feng looked at Xu Zimei and said, “Little brother, it’s better to associate less with such people in the future.”
“There’s no need for big brother to worry,” Xu Zimei nodded slightly.

After everyone had breakfast and had no further matters to attend to, they all went about their own businesses in the city.

Accompanied by Jiang Changsheng, Xu Zimei also started wandering around Huohuang City.

Huohuang City was quite large, and although it could not compare with Liang City which Xu Zimei had visited before, it still counted as a mid-size city.

As they walked, their attention was caught by a shop.

From the outside, the storefront looked rather old, and the place didn’t seem very big.

But on the black signboard above the shop were four words written in gilded black letters.

“Eternal Ancient’s Number One Shop.”
With such a bold name, prefixed with the title of the Eternal Ancient Continent and boasting the attraction of being ‘Number One’, this naturally sparked Xu Zimei’s interest.

Of course, the main reason was that Chu Cizhao of the Mountain River Sect and a woman in black were inside.

Xu Zimei had not even entered the shop when he heard Chu Cizhao’s loud shouting.

“This young master will become the Imperial Heir of the Mountain River Sect in the future.

Do you think I can’t afford the things in your shoddy shop?

Open your damn eyes, my sister is an Imperial Princess,” Chu Cizhao was shouting.

“Cizhao, stop it,” the woman next to him frowned and said.

Xu Zimei entered the shop.

Inside, the shop was well lit, and the space was not very large.

There were about a dozen connected glass display cases around, displaying hundreds of items.

Behind the front counter was a small door, covered by a grey curtain, leading to the inner room.

The shop owner was a middle-aged man, not too tall, with a slightly plump build.

Dressed in a blue-green robe, he looked somewhat listless as he sat in front of the counter, yawning listlessly.

“Young Master Chu,” Xu Zimei said with a smile.

“Oh, it’s Young Master Lin,” Chu Cizhao turned around, looked at Xu Zimei, and smiled.

“What’s going on?

I could hear you speaking from far away,” Xu Zimei asked.

“It’s this lousy shop.

I want to buy something, but they won’t accept Spirit Crystals.

They insist on trade by barter,” Chu Cizhao said with a grimace.

Xu Zimei smiled and looked around; the shop was filled not only with glass cases.

There were also nine transparent cylinders standing in the middle of the shop, encircling each other.

Within these transparent cylinders, there were hundreds of items, both large and small, more or less, sealed within.

“Wandering Dragon Sword: forged from the spine of a True Dragon, smelted with the lava of Furnace Mountain for a hundred days.

It possesses a dragon’s might, and has a burning attribute.”
“Millennium Ghost: a soul that has slumbered for a thousand years sealed within cold moonstone, intact and sentient.

It has a special function.”
“War God’s Heart: one of three pills left in the mortal world by the Nine Skies Sage, consuming it will instantly increase one’s strength by three hundred percent for half an hour.”
………

An array of varied and dazzling items appeared here, each not necessarily rare in the ordinary world but quite scarce.

Seeing Xu Zimei and her group enter, the middle-aged man at the counter mechanically said, “The items in the glass cases require an exchange of equivalent items.

The items within the cylinders require special conditions to be obtained.”
Upon hearing the middle-aged man’s words, Xu Zimei then realized that this person was not a living being but a mechanical puppet.

Quite interested, Xu Zimei stepped forward to take a closer look and said, “It’s rare to see a puppet this lifelike.”
Even the wrinkles and expressions were almost identical; if the middle-aged man stood there without speaking, most people would not see through the ruse.

“Young Master Lin, what would you like to buy?” Chu Cizhao asked.

“I don’t know, just browsing,” Xu Zimei replied with a smile.

She turned her gaze to the woman beside her and asked with a smile, “May I know how to address this lady?”
“Chu Shanhe,” the woman in black responded with a slight nod.

Her demeanor was quite cold, as if she didn’t wish to interact too much with Xu Zimei.

Not minding her attitude, Xu Zimei smiled and looked at the middle-aged man at the counter, asking, “If I wanted to buy you, what would the conditions be?”
The middle-aged man slightly raised his head, and with a wave of his hands, a page of a book emerged from the void before him.

The book slowly turned its pages by itself.

Then, with a tremble of his hands, the middle-aged man said flatly, “Puppetry, three thousand contribution points.”
“What are contribution points?” Xu Zimei inquired.

“The shop randomly issues some tasks daily; completing these tasks will earn you the corresponding contribution points.

It’s detected that you currently have no contribution points; would you like to take on a task?” asked the middle-aged man in a wooden tone.

“Forget it,” Xu Zimei shook her head and looked around the shop again.

She then approached the central cylinder and saw, at its very top, a wooden box was sealed.

The box was a dark brown color, with its surface inscribed with many complicated runes as it floated gently within the cylinder.

Xu Zimei hadn’t paid it any mind at first, but as she stared at the wooden box, both the Wind Extinguishing Bead and the Weakening Water Pearl from the True Fate World had a reaction.

“This,” Xu Zimei frowned, somewhat surprised.

It seemed that the contents of this box were related to the Five Spirit Beads.

Yet the Eternal Ancient Continent and the Yuan Central Continent were two different worlds on separate dimensions; in theory, there should not be any connection.

“I want that wooden box at the top,” Xu Zimei said again, turning her gaze to the middle-aged man and speaking calmly.

The middle-aged man flipped through the book in his hands and said slowly, “The Lost Treasure Box, filled with a rich wood attribute power.

It has existed since the very opening of the first shop in the Eternal Ancient Continent.

For tens of millions of years, nobody has known what truly lies inside it.

An exchange requires the heart of a Blood Lizard.”