“This auction is really grand, the Patriarch of the Yuntai Sect House and the Palace Master of the Taiqing Palace, both actually came in person.”
“That’s natural, it’s said that this auction is not only about spatial treasures, but also some special treasures.”
……
At the auction house, the chatter was endless.
Suddenly, in the centre of the auction house, a light attribute spirit crystal the size of a basin emerged, slowly rising and hovering to a height of twenty feet, emitting an incomparably bright light.
Like a bright moon, it illuminated the entire auction house.
A curvaceous woman wearing a white see-through outfit flew down from mid-air, bare a pair of snow-white jade Feet, very lightly landed in the centre of the auction stage, the long white hair on her head, falling like a waterfall.
“Senior Brother Zhang, do you know who she is?”
Chang Qi Qi stared at the one demonic woman on the auction stage, her eyes glaring like copper bells, and said with great excitement.
Zhang Ruochen also looked towards that one woman, his eyes slightly lit up, no wonder Chang Qi Qi would be so excited, that one white-haired woman was indeed very beautiful looking and quite sexy, the pair of big snow-white legs that were exposed outside her skirt was particularly seductive.
At least right now, in the auction house, the gazes of many martial artists were fixed on her body, as if they wanted to eat her up.
“Indeed a rare beauty.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “The Martial Market Money Bank is very good at doing business, letting such a beauty preside over the auction, a lot of young martial artists will be hot-headed and shout out high prices regardless.”
“Don’t underestimate her.”
Chang Qi Qi glanced in Si Xingkong’s direction and laughed, “Her name is Bai Void Spirit, one of the Ten Great Beauties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, a Martial Myth at the early stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and she also belongs to the bigwigs in the Martial Market Chambers. Most of all, she is Eldest Brother’s confidante.”
“Oh!”
Zhang Ruochen revealed a smile as he gazed at Si Xingkong.
Sure enough, Si Xingkong revealed a few rare moments of embarrassment and said, “Don’t listen to his nonsense, Miss Bai and I only went to complete a mission together, it’s not what he said.”
The crowd flirted with Si Xingkong and Bai Vu Ling for a while longer, and in the end, Si Xingkong didn’t bother to pay attention to the crowd and continued to drink his own wine, only that his gaze would still look at Bai Vu Ling from time to time, revealing a few faint smiles.
Bai Void Spirit stood on the auction stage and pronounced some rules about the auction and some pre-auction warm-up words, and right after that, she said, “Now, let’s bring out the first auction item of the day, the Cloud Jiao Diagram drawn by Master Painting Sect himself.”
“The Cloud Jiao Diagram, using the blood of the Cloud Jiao as ink, condenses the power of the Dao of Painting. As long as one injects true qi into the Cloud Jiao Diagram, one can call forth seven cloud jiao at the same time to help the martial artist in battle.”
“The starting price of the Cloud Jiao Diagram is five thousand spirit crystals, and each time the price increases, it shall not be less than one hundred spirit crystals. Bidding, begin.”
“Five thousand spirit crystals!”
“Five thousand and five hundred spirit crystals!”
……
As soon as Bai Void Spirit’s words fell, bidding sounds continued to ring out.
Huang Yichen’s expression moved slightly as he said, ”Cloud Jiao, a fourth-ranked inferior savage beast, has a strength comparable to that of a martial artist in the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm. If you conjure seven Cloud Jiao at the same time, you would even be able to fight against a late stage Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist. However, the power of the battle map is only maximised when it is used for the first time, and the second time it is used, it will be greatly reduced.”
The power exerted by The Cloud Jiao Diagram was quite considerable, enough to subdue an early Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist, and even able to threaten the life of a mid-Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen naturally understood what Huang Yichen meant when she said that, she wanted to capture the Cloud Jiao Diagram, after all, they were about to head to the Underwater Dragon Palace.
If she was able to master a copy of the Cloud Jiao Diagram, even if she encountered danger, she would be more comfortable in dealing with it.
“I’ll photograph it for you!”
Zhang Ruochen raised the crystal plaque in his hand and flashed it into mid-air, which displayed the price he had offered, “Seven thousand six hundred Spirit Crystals.”
Soon after, another person bid, “Seven thousand seven hundred Spirit Crystals.”
“Seven thousand nine hundred spirit crystals.”
Zhang Ruochen raised his card again, and it showed, “Nine thousand spirit crystals!”
Huang Yichen sat beside Zhang Ruochen and glanced towards him, although he still had a cold face, he was stealing joy in his heart.
Although, she was also able to mobilise a large amount of Spirit Crystals, and even if she personally made the bid, she would still be able to auction off the Cloud Jiao Diagram. It was just that she preferred to see Zhang Ruochen auctioning and buying it for her, it was a rather strange feeling of joy.
Yan Yunyue revealed a hint of disdain as she said, “It’s just a battle map of a fourth-rank inferior savage beast, our Yan Clan, we can take out as much as we want.”
Yan Yunyue had other battle map treasures in his possession, so there was no thought of auctioning off that piece of Cloud Jiao Diagram at all.
Just a moment ago, the price of the Cloud Jiao Diagram had already been raised to over 10,000 spirit crystals, equivalent to 10 million silver coins.
Of course, as the price gradually climbed, the number of people who were still bidding on it also became less and less.
The power of the Cloud Jiao Diagram was indeed very powerful, but it was only very attractive to the younger generation of martial artists.
Some of those older generation powerhouses had their own strengths that already exceeded the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Posterior Extremity Position, so there was no need to spend heavy amounts of money to purchase the battle diagram at all.
Some other old generation powerhouses whose cultivation had not reached the Late Heavenly Extremity Realm, however, could not afford to spend a high price to buy battle maps. For them, it was instead more practical to auction off and buy some elixirs that boosted their cultivation.
At this moment, there were only four people who were still bidding, almost all of them were young generation martial artists, and apart from Zhang Ruochen, the other three were young experts from the Ten Heavenly Demon Shows.
“Fifteen thousand spirit crystals! If there’s a higher price, I won’t raise the price anymore!”
Zeng Qingyu from the Tai Qing Palace, raised his crystal plaque, which displayed his final price.
Zeng Qingyu was ranked eighth amongst the Ten Heavenly Demon Shows, and was also a Three Great Genius, for him, fifteen thousand spirit crystals was already a very high price.
If it was any higher, it would be beyond what he could afford.
The other two bidders, also revealed a hesitant look, after all, the Cloud Jiao Diagram only had maximum power the first time it was used. The second time it was used, it would no longer be of great value to them.
The moment Zeng Qingyu shouted out the high price of fifteen thousand spirit crystals, the two of them had already decided to give up.
Spending such a huge amount of spirit crystals to purchase a battle map was better than purchasing a spirit medicine to use to impact the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Once they broke through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm, their own strength would be raised to a whole new level.
For geniuses at the Heavenly Demon Ten Show level, breaking through to the Heavenly Extreme Realm, all of them at least possessed the strength to fight against martial artists at the late stage of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Zhang Ruochen raised the crystal plate once again, and the price of 16,000 Spirit Crystals was displayed on it.
After seeing this price, Zeng Qingyu glanced in Zhang Ruochen’s direction, seemingly recognising Zhang Ruochen’s identity, and gently nodded to Zhang Ruochen.
Earlier, Zeng Qingyu had already stated that he would no longer compete for the Cloud Jiao Diagram as long as there were still people raising the price.
In this situation, Zhang Ruochen could have easily taken the Cloud Jiao Diagram by adding only a hundred spirit crystals. However, Zhang Ruochen raised the price by one thousand Spirit Crystals at once, giving him enough face as a sign of respect.
That was why Zeng Qingyu kindly nodded to Zhang Ruochen as a return thanks.
In the auction house, it might not always be enemies.
“Sixteen thousand spirit crystals, one time!”
“Sixteen thousand spirit crystals, twice!”
“Sixteen thousand ……”
Just as Bai Void Spirit was about to shout out a third time, Yan Yunyue gave a wink to Qiu Lin, who was sitting next to him, and Qiu Lin smiled and nodded, immediately raising his crystal plaque, “Seventeen thousand spirit crystals.”
After Qiu Lin raised his crystal plaque, he naturally angered Huang Smokey.
Yellow Smoke Dust clenched a pair of fists tightly, stood up abruptly, and said angrily, “Qiu Lin, what are you doing? Obviously, the Cloud Jiao Diagram has already been auctioned off by Zhang Ruochen, what are you messing with?”
Qiu Lin smiled faintly, “Senior Sister Huang, you’re wrong! The Cloud Jiao Diagram has clearly not been priced yet, and Senior Brother Zhang shouldn’t have auctioned it off yet, right?”
“You ……”
Huang Yichen clenched a mouthful of silver teeth and said angrily, “Earlier, why did you not raise your hand all this time, and waited until Zhang Ruochen was about to auction the Cloud Jiao Diagram before you intentionally made a bid, I think you’re just trying to raise the price intentionally, aren’t you?”
“Senior Sister Huang, that’s even more incorrect! In the auction house, everyone can bid, why can only Zhang Ruochen bid and I can’t?” Qiu Lin said.
Chang Qiqi coldly hummed, “I think Senior Sister Huang is right, some people are resentful after losing at the hands of Senior Brother Zhang, that’s why they deliberately jumped out to raise the price.”
Qiu Lin coldly said, “Chang Qi Qi, words can’t be spoken carelessly, be careful of flashing your tongue.”
Chang Qi Qi looked at Qiu Lin with displeasure, pulling up her sleeves, she was about to rush up and fight with Qiu Lin.
Zhang Ruochen pulled Chang Qi Qi back and said, “Senior Brother Qiu is right, he can indeed bid. Since that’s the case, let’s compete fairly!”
“Senior Brother Zhang is worthy of being Pavilion Master Lei’s disciple, he indeed understands things much better than some people.” Qiu Lin laughed.
Zhang Ruochen raised his card again and directly increased the price to 20,000 spirit crystals.
Zhang Ruochen said, “If Senior Brother Qiu’s price is higher, the Cloud Jiao Diagram will be yours!”
Qiu Lin’s brows frowned, 20,000 spirit crystals was already almost all of his assets, bringing all of his assets to buy a battle map seemed a bit worthless.
His gaze looked towards Yan Yunzhuang, asking if Yan Yunyi wanted to raise the price again.
Yan Yunyi shook his head at him, being able to make Zhang Ruochen pay an additional 4,000 Spirit Crystals, his purpose had already been achieved, and there was no need to actually put the Cloud Jiao Diagram up for auction.
Qiu Lin understood and said, “Since Senior Brother Zhang really wants the Cloud Jiao Diagram, let’s let you have it!”
“Twenty thousand spirit crystals at a time!”
“Twenty thousand spirit crystals twice!”
“Twenty thousand spirit crystals three times! Sold! The Cloud Jiao Diagram has been won by guest number seven hundred and forty-three, please go to the backstage after the auction and complete the handover.”
Bai Void Spirit said, “Next, bid on the second treasure, the three hundred year old White Ginseng Fruit.”
“The White Ginseng Fruit, its greatest function is to enhance a martial artist’s cultivation, a Xuan Extreme Realm martial artist can enhance two minor realms by taking it. An Earth Extremity Realm martial artiste taking it is able to raise one minor realm.”
