Next, some rare treasures were auctioned off, all of which were worth quite a lot, and could be considered priceless in the eyes of ordinary martial artists.
Among them, there was a volume of Half-Saint Blood Books, which was even auctioned at a high price of 700,000 spirit crystals.
Zhang Ruochen made another bid and bought a set of Ninth Grade True Martial Treasure Armour “Flying Fish Armour” and three battle diagrams.
The Flying Fish Armour could block the full force of an inferior fifth rank savage beast, but of course, it could only defuse seventy percent of the attacks.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level, if he were to be hit by a Fifth Order Savage Beast, even if he wore the Flying Fish Armour and defused seventy percent of the attack, his body would still be shattered into bloody mud.
What Zhang Ruochen was really interested in was the Flying Fish Armour’s advantage in speed.
As long as one wore the Flying Fish Armour, whether it was on the ground, flying in the air, or in the water, a martial artist could move at the speed of sound.
Reaching the speed of sound on the ground and in the air wasn’t much of a feat. The vast majority of martial artists above the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm could reach the speed of sound.
To be able to reach the speed of sound even in water, that was the most impressive thing.
When entering water, because of the resistance of the water, many martial artists would move at half the speed, or even only a third or a quarter of the speed of the ground.
Meaning that as long as he wore the Flying Fish Armour, in the water, Zhang Ruochen could ignore the resistance of the water and exert a speed faster than the vast majority of Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artists.
To auction the Flying Fish Armour, Zhang Ruochen had only spent a total of 90,000 Spirit Crystals.
Those other martial artists, who had just seen Zhang Ruochen pit Yan Yunyue against him, thought that Zhang Ruochen was a trustee hired by the Martial Market Money Bank. Therefore, when Zhang Ruochen was auctioning for the Flying Fish Armour, they were all very careful in raising the price, but instead, they let Zhang Ruochen pick up the bargain.
Those three battle diagrams were the Cloud Sea Diagram, the Fire Python Diagram, and the Ten Thousand Wasps Diagram.
Among them, the Fire Python Diagram and the Ten Thousand Wasps Diagram were both offensive battle diagrams, and only the Cloud Sea Diagram was a defensive battle diagram.
The three battle maps combined cost Zhang Ruochen a total of 100,000 spirit crystals.
Huang Yichen was also very nonchalant and auctioned off two items, a six hundred year old colourful lingzhi and a pair of eighth rank true martial treasure artifact grade battle boots, costing 30,000 spirit crystals and 28,000 spirit crystals respectively.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen had previously said that he would treat the guests, so naturally, he would pay the 58,000 spirit crystals.
“By obtaining this five-coloured spirit ganoderma, I’ll be certain that I’ll reach the Earth Extremity Realm Grand Circle before heading to the Underwater Dragon Palace.”
Huang Yichen’s eyes lit up, his five snowy onion-like jade fingers clenched together, full of confidence in himself.
The multicoloured spirit ganoderma worth 30 million silver coins was definitely a rare treasure, helping her break through two realms would naturally be a breeze.
The pair of eighth-order True Martial Artifact grade boots, called “Silver Snow Glazed Boots”, were also quite a precious treasure, and after putting them on, using true qi to activate the inscriptions, the speed of the martial artist would be enough to reach the speed of sound.
Moreover, even if an ordinary person wore the Silver Snow Glazed Boots, he could still step on snow without a trace and cross rivers on water, which was a rather powerful treasure for martial artists below the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Chang Qi Qi saw Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen auctioning and buying, as long as it was a treasure, they would immediately buy it, with an appearance of not being short of money at all, looking at him with great envy.
Chang Qi Qi also wanted to buy it, however, he only had a total of 3,000 Spirit Crystals, so he couldn’t even afford the cheapest treasures.
“Senior Brother Zhang, you don’t look like you’ve just made a small fortune, you should have made a big fortune!”
Chang Qi Qi licked his lips and raised his head, looking at Zhang Ruochen, revealing a very eager look.
Those who didn’t know, would think that there was some special relationship between the two.
Seeing Chang Qi Qi’s thoughts, Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “Indeed, I have made a fortune… Senior Brother Chang, Eldest Brother, if you see any treasures that you like, feel free to auction them off. I’ll pay for it!”
Chang Qi Qi rubbed his hands together and said joyfully, “How can that be a good thing? However, since Senior Brother Zhang is so generous, I can’t refuse …… then I’ll buy one!”
Neither Chang Qi Qi nor Si Xingkong were polite with Zhang Ruochen and each auctioned off a treasure.
The one Chang Qi Qi auctioned off was a fourth-stage savage beast cub, costing 48,000 spirit crystals.
The savage beast cub looked like a rabbit, with two bumps on its head, like two horns that hadn’t grown out yet.
Its body type, very fat, was a circle fatter than even Little Black.
According to White Void Spirit’s introduction, that rabbit-like savage beast was a mutated species of the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit, and as long as it reached adulthood, it would be able to become a powerful savage beast like a Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist.
Moreover, because it was a mutant species, its rank after reaching adulthood might be even higher than an ordinary Swallowing Elephant Rabbit, with a one in ten chance of growing into a fifth rank savage beast.
Of course, this one rabbit, too, had one drawback, and that was that it was quite capable of eating.
Now that it was still a juvenile, it had to eat a first rank savage beast every day.
If you wanted to raise it up, you had to spend a lot of money to buy it food.
It was because of this reason that many sects and clans were not willing to purchase it at all, fearing that they would buy a money-loser.
Chang Qi Qi loved that one rabbit, so, without sparing a high price, she bought it.
What Si Xingkong had auctioned was a pot of wine, said to be the wine made by the third disciple of the First Demon Emperor of the Nine Emperors, “Wind Drunken Sheng”, eight hundred years ago, which had been stored for eight hundred years, and could be called a heavenly wine on earth.
Although it is only a pot, but it cost thirteen thousand spirit crystals to auction, simply expensive frightening.
“Feng Drunken Sheng is known as the ‘Wine Immortal’, his martial arts achievements are not as good as the other disciples of the Demon Emperor, but his ability to brew wine is the best in the world.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“That’s right, to be able to drink the wine brewed by Drunken Sheng Feng, it would be worth it even if I die!” Si Xingkong looked at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Senior Brother Zhang, could it be that he is also a person who is good at brewing wine, and actually knows about Wind Drunken Sheng?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “How elegant the Demon Emperor was back then, his mighty reputation spread all over the world. Even his six disciples were all first-rate powerhouses, so even if they knew about Wind Drunken Sheng, what’s so strange about it? The only thing that makes me curious is that six hundred years ago, when the Devil Emperor fought with Empress Chi Yao in the Copper Furnace Plain, how could he lose? How could the world-famous Devil Emperor die at the hands of a junior?”
Zhang Ruochen had long since gone through history and studied some of the great events of that year.
However, those histories, after all, were all written by the historians of the First Central Empire, completely manipulated by Chi Yao, and could not represent the truth of history at all.
Moreover, there were many things that were not recorded at all above the historical texts.
There was only one sentence mentioned on the history books: ”Princess Chi Yao, leading the army to conquer the devil, dueling in the Copper Furnace Plain. The Devil Emperor himself came and fought with Princess Chi Yao, and a thousand miles of wilderness was turned into red earth. Within nine days, there was no night. After nine days, the Devil Emperor’s blood stained the sky. Only a skeleton remains, immortalised forever.”
At the mention of Empress Chi Yao, the several Inner Palace trainees sitting beside Zhang Ruchen all changed their faces, their lips moving, a look of fear in their eyes, not daring to say much.
Just like mortals, they did not dare to slander the gods so easily.
In their view, Chi Yao was an existence that was more sacred and dignified than even a deity, with great powers and omnipotence, even if it was just them talking about Chi Yao here, they were afraid that Chi Yao would hear them.
Chang Qiqi whispered, “Senior Brother Zhang, it’s better not to ask, everything about Empress Chi Yao is taboo.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and asked no more questions.
The auction, gradually drew to a close.
The other three spatial treasures were gradually presented on the auction table.
The first spatial bracelet was won by the County King of Minshu at 540,000 spirit crystals.
The second spatial bracelet was auctioned off by a mysterious person for 730,000 spirit crystals.
The third spatial ring, was auctioned off by the Yuntai Clan House’s Patriarch, Han Li, for six hundred and eleven thousand spirit crystals.
The auction didn’t end until late at night.
Zhang Ruochen and his group all had huge gains, and with anticipation, they headed to the backstage of the auction to collect the treasures they had won.
The only one whose mood appeared to be extremely dejected was Yan Yunyun Fantasy, who had wanted to show off his skills and make a splash at the auction, but he had never expected to spend close to two million Spirit Crystals to only auction off two spatial treasures.
Moreover, one of them was an even more precious spatial ring that he would have to give to Chen Xi’er.
In front of Chen Xi’er, he had to force a smile on his face, but in his heart, he was thinking, how should he gather enough spirit crystals?
With his status as the Yan Clan’s heir, it was impossible for him to mobilise two million spirit crystals at once.
Yan Yunyue took out a white jade tablet and squeezed it tightly in his hand, a very reluctant look appearing in his eyes.
“Is this the only way?”
That piece of jade token, which was his protective treasure, was not only capable of exerting the power of defence five times, but also allowed him to instantly erupt with a speed that surpassed that of a Heavenly Extremity Realm Grand Circle martial artist.
Unless a Fish Dragon Realm martial artist made a move, otherwise, no one would be able to deal with him.
It was really because of this jade token that he was emboldened and didn’t place those martial artists from the Heavenly Demon Ridge in his eyes at all.
Now, however, he had to take out the jade token and temporarily pledge it to the Martial Market Money Bank.
If he couldn’t take out the spirit crystals, he was deliberately provoking the Martial Market Money Bank and would be dealt with severely by the Martial Market Money Bank. Even if the Yan Clan was a Half-Saint Clan, they wouldn’t dare to call the shots with the Martial Market Money Bank.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen still received the four battle maps that he had auctioned off, the Water, Fire, Wind, and Thunder Formation’s formation flag, and the Ninth Grade True Martial Treasure Armour Grade Flying Fish Armour.
The five spatial treasures were auctioned for a total of 3,767,000 spirit crystals, and after deducting the 37,000 proxy auction fee, Zhang Ruochen arrived at a total of 3,730,000 spirit crystals.
Adding the spirit crystals to pay Huang Yichen, Si Xingkong, Chang Qiqi and the treasures he had auctioned himself, sixty-two thousand spirit crystals. He had a total of three million one hundred and eighteen thousand spirit crystals left.
Other than Huang Yichen, no one else knew that Zhang Ruochen had so much wealth.
Chang Qiqi held that one Savage Beast Cub of the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit, her fingers stroking the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit’s fluffy head, her hanging heart, finally solidified, her eyes glowing as she looked at Zhang Ruochen, excitedly saying, ”Senior Brother Zhang, you’re too rich! You spent at least 600,000 spirit crystals tonight, even those old-timers of the Heavenly Extreme Realm were scared silly by you! They wouldn’t be able to accumulate this much wealth even if they worked hard all their lives. What kind of ways do you have to make money? Why don’t you bring me along? It’s fine for me to be an errand boy for you!”
Everyone knew that Chang Qi Qi was joking, thinking that Zhang Ruochen would only laugh it off.
However, the crowd did not expect that Zhang Ruochen’s face suddenly turned serious as he said, “Since you said so, I do have a doorway to make money, and I am prepared to discuss it with you and Eldest Brother. If this matter is successful, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Spirit Crystals, or even millions of Spirit Crystals, it would only be a small amount of money.”
