After some thought, Xiao Mu logged onto the local forum and started searching.

He was looking for Daoist ancient relics.

In the local forum, a trading section had already appeared.

However, the so-called trading section merely served as an intermediary, real trades always had to be conducted face-to-face.

Mutant items were usually very expensive, online transactions were too prone to scams, and lacked enough powerful guarantees.

On the other hand, after the World Mutation, money had become increasingly unimportant, and few people would sell the mutated items for money.

The medium of trade had long switched from money to energy fruits and energy crystals, or sometimes, direct barter of items.

Only those who were particularly short of money would sell mutated items for money.

Once he logged into the forum and searched, Xiao Mu was quickly startled by the items being sold on the forum.

There were too many different types of items being sold on the forum, a huge variety which included all sorts of secret manuals – Daoist secret manuals, Buddhist secret scrolls, martial arts secret manuals, special ability secret manuals - and all sorts of mutated fruits and energy fruits.

Xiao Mu casually clicked on an option.

Carefree Little Merchant: Selling "Thunder Yang Divine Skill", price negotiable, pictures included.

Below, people were asking about the price.

Da Bu La: Taken, how much does it cost? Where to trade?

Cute Mysterious Fairy: What do you want? To trade or to sell?

...

This Thunderry secret manual of Inner Energy could be counted as a top-notch secret manual for martial artists, every martial artist in this world wanted to possess it.

Therefore, as soon as this secret manual was posted, there were as many as hundreds of people inquiring about the price, flipping over several pages in the process.

"As expected of a martial artist's top-notch secret manual, it really is popular."

Xiao Mu was amazed.

In the current world, the most numerous mutants were martial artists, and the popularity of martial arts secret manuals was evident.

In the past, the most expensive secret manuals were those of Taoism and Buddhism, but since fewer Taoist and Buddhist secret manuals appeared compared to martial art manuals, with the continuance of the World Mutation and the increase in the number of mutants, many people have already cultivated martial art secret manuals and become martial artists.

At this point, the prices of top-notch martial art secret manuals have caught up with or even exceeded those of Taoist and Buddhist secret manuals.

The main reason for this is that once one becomes a martial artist, it becomes quite difficult to concurrently cultivate Taoist or Buddhist law.

It's not that it's impossible, but that it's too consuming.

Martial artists cultivate internal force, Taoist cultivators cultivate Dao method spiritual energy, Buddhist cultivators cultivate Buddha power, power users cultivate special energy, magic cultivators cultivate mental power.

The energies cultivated through different types of cultivation are not the same.

For a martial artist, once they choose martial arts and practice inner energy, they can certainly switch to cultivating Taoist or special abilities, but that means starting from scratch, and the internal force previously cultivated will not provide any bonus to future cultivation.

This is a fruitless endeavor that yields few returns, thus generally martial artists rarely switch to cultivating Taoist law, Taoist cultivators rarely switch to cultivating Buddhist law, and power users rarely switch to cultivating magic.

It's not that they can't do it, it's just that it's a thankless task.

This is also the reason why Xiao Mu does not intend to cultivate Buddhist law.

If he wants to cultivate Buddhist law, he will have to start all over again, still have to pass through the three major realms, reach the peak of the Third Realm, only then can the power of the Buddhist law he cultivates be comparable to the Dao method power now, if he simply cultivate casually, the strength will be too low, better not to cultivate.

While sighing, Xiao Mu unconsciously scrolled down to view the comments below.

Tiny Martial Artist: Scammer, beware, this is a scammer, the secret manual is Photoshopped, everyone, be careful not to get scammed.

"Scammer?"

Xiao Mu was taken aback.

Is it true or false?

Even on the forum, there are scammers?

In doubt, he clicked on the information of the one who posted the secret manual, only to find all the information hidden, making it impossible to tell whether it was genuine or fake.

After closing the details page, continuing to see the comments, more and more comments are accusing the poster of being a swindler, with at least dozens of people charging him as a fraudster.

Someone was quite assertive.

I am a tiny sun: This person has been putting secret manuals up for sale for three months, if there were real secret manuals, would they not be sold for three months? Everyone do not get tricked anymore, ask for a money-back guarantee.

Eliminate All Scammers: I've already been scammed, before the transaction, he demanded a deposit guarantee, not much, only a total of a thousand yuan.

After I gave him a thousand yuan, he agreed to trade face-to-face, but when you go over, you'll find there's no one there at all.

He is a swindler, everyone do not get fooled again.

"He really is a swindler?"

The last commenter's words convinced Xiao Mu.

Even scammers set their sights on the forum, it seems that the forum is no longer a clean and pure place.

Continued to look at the trading webpage posted outside.

After going through several continuously, including Daoist secret manuals, Buddhist secret scrolls, special ability secret manuals, and even special ability fruits, energy fruits.

After that, looking at the comments behind, Xiao Mu couldn't help but sigh.

There are too many scammers, you simply can't trust the trading network.

After all, these special items no longer use money as a medium for transactions, hence the past transaction methods, like guarantees from certain platforms, are no longer applicable.

Realizing this, Xiao Mu couldn't help but frown.

He had originally planned to put his "Jade Buddha Technique" manual up, but looking at it now, even if it is put up, it would be useless, no one would believe and no transaction could happen.

After some thought, he regretfully closed the forum page.

Contacted Qing Songzi, inquiring about Daoist ancient treasures.

"Daoist ancient treasures?"

After listening, Qing Songzi couldn't help but give a bitter smile.

"Mr. Mu, if it were a few months, no, even if it were just a month ago, you asked about Daoist ancient treasures, I could have presented several, but now… they are useless."

"Oh?"

Xiao Mu was curious, "Why is that? Why are they useless now?"

Qing Songzi replied, "Not long ago, our alliance had quite a few ancient treasures in our respective divisions, not only Daoist, but also Buddhist, Confucian, and even various antiques."

"But, it seems that some kind of mutation happened recently, apart from the treasures that had already mutated into treasures, ordinary antiques disappeared overnight."

"Such a thing happened?"

Xiao Mu was surprised.

He knew about the mysterious disappearance of antiques, Zhao Yan also had collected many antiques which have already disappeared.

But he didn't expect that Qing Songzi, who had originally belonged to the official line and had collected so many antiques, would also disappear.

"Antiques have spirituality."

Qing Songzi sighed, "As I guess, they should have gone to the places where they originally belonged."

"The places they originally belonged to? What do you mean?"

Xiao Mu was somewhat unable to understand the other party's point.

Qing Songzi patiently explained, "Every treasure has its owner, or say, belonging. Previously without spirituality, they were unearthed or passed down."

"After the world mutated, these antiques suddenly gained spirituality, and returned to their original owners or original locations."

"If an item originally belonged to someone named Zhang San, after Zhang San's death, it was passed down. When the item gained spirituality, it could return to Zhang San's original location, that is, Zhang San's burial ground."

"Burial Ground? Can't it just be dug out again?"

Xiao Mu was confused.

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