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Chapter 366: 335 Auction_1
Chapter 366: 335 Auction_1
Chapter 366: Chapter 335 Auction_1
The auction was held in Blood Shadow City. The venue wasn’t too large, capable of accommodating just over a thousand people. However, this was no ordinary low-grade auction. To be admitted, one was either a cultivator of Golden Pill or above or a well-known Foundation Establishment cultivator. Ordinary cultivators couldn’t even touch the entrance.
So while the auction was grand, it seemed somewhat empty inside, with small groups scattered and sitting at various seats.
Xu Mu, a Nascent Soul cultivator of high standing, and having dealings with the Blood Demon Ancestor, was arranged a luxury private room.
“Dragon Tooth Rice, Star Magnet Crystal, Crystal Cold Gold, Sky-Blue Gold Wire, Sinking Iron Essence, Great White Gold Essence, Red Gold Mother, Violet Heavenly Fragrant Grass, Three Red Soul Returning Grass, Color Wing Flower, Blue Water Golden Crystal, Evergreen Stone Milk, Thousands Year Snowy Jade Marrow, Heavenly Green Godwood, Mysterious Ice Soul Pill, Nine Heaven Cold Iron, Yin Spirit Water, Thousand Year Mysterious Jade…”
Rare and valuable items were brought up to the auction stage by the auctioneer. Xu Mu had never seen many of those items before, and he was fortunate enough to win two tier-ten pill recipes, one for the Qi-merging Pill and the other for the Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.
The Qi-merging Pill was used for supplementing spiritual power, and the Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill was used for healing injuries.
He also purchased some medicinal materials and materials for making puppets.
Now that his cultivation had reached Nascent Soul, he was able to make tier-ten puppets himself.
Although with his current strength, tier-ten puppets were somewhat redundant, they were excellent for protecting his family.
Because the venue was set up with a concealing formation and most people used techniques to hide their aura, Xu Mu didn’t go looking for trouble by using his divine intent to scan the crowd, so he didn’t know if any of the Sea Race had infiltrated the event.
Time unknowingly passed and before long it was time for the final lot.
…
Ming Lingchun had been in a sealed state all this time, unable to move at all, and had his blood continually drawn out by humans. His life force was fading away with the extraction of his blood.
Having advanced to Foundation Establishment and possessing the bloodline of Kun Peng, he was supposed to live for three to five hundred years, but now he was drained to the point of becoming old with white hair, his figure shriveled, and his lifespan nearly over.
He had thought he would die quietly, his corpse used for pill-making. But today, he saw the light of day again.
This was an auction scene, which he had seen in the Sea Race before. The scattered humans on the scene looked at him with fanatic eyes.
“Ten thousand top-grade Spirit Stones!”
“Twelve thousand!”
…
“Twenty thousand!”
…
“Fifty thousand!”
…
“One hundred thousand!”
…
“I didn’t expect myself to be worth so many Spirit Stones!” Ming Lingchun said with a smile on his face.
In the end, a cultivator in a box sealed the deal with a sky-high bid of three hundred thousand.
When he saw the human who bought him, he felt somewhat familiar with him, even though he had never met him before.
…
Inside a private room at the auction, Xu Mu stood with his hands behind his back, looking at a picture of a beautiful woman on the wall. The woman in the painting had eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like the autumn moon, fair hands, and was a demure beauty.
Not long after, footsteps came. Xu Mu turned his head and saw the Blood Demon Ancestor, with red hair and red eyebrows, coming in with an elder in a red robe with a long beard.
“I have kept you waiting!” said the Blood Demon Ancestor indifferently.
“Blood Demon friend is being kind!” Xu Mu looked at the elder in the red robe and asked, “Who is this gentleman?”
“I am the Fire Demon Ancestor from the Fire Cloud Palace,” said the elder in the red robe, a hint of arrogance on his face.
“So it’s the Fire Demon friend, I’ve heard a lot about you!” Xu Mu greeted him with a smile.
The Fire Demon Ancestor didn’t reply, but gave Xu Mu a sidelong glance. Xu Mu didn’t get angry, but turned his head back to the Blood Demon Ancestor.
“Did you bring the person as promised?”
The Blood Demon Ancestor flicked his sleeve, and the withered figure of Ming Lingchun appeared by his side. A chilling light flashed imperceptibly in Xu Mu’s eyes.
“Bring out your secret skill. After Hong verifies its authenticity, we will hand over the person to you,” the Blood Demon Ancestor said calmly.
“Why don’t you hand over the person first!” Xu Mu suggested with a smile.
“What do you mean? Can’t we trust you, a youngster!” the Fire Demon Ancestor asked coldly.
“Both of you are well-known seniors. I’m new to this, and my courage is smaller, so I hope to get my things first!” Xu Mu laughed.
“Boy, dare to bargain with me? You…”
The Fire Demon Ancestor was about to be angry, but the Blood Demon Ancestor stopped him.
“Fine! I agree!”
With that, the Blood Demon Ancestor tossed the withered Ming Lingchun over to Xu Mu.
The Fire Demon Ancestor, on the sidelines, wanted to stop it but didn’t dare, so he could only glare at Xu Mu.
Xu Mu accepted Ming Lingchun, inspected him, and then placed him inside the God Refining Tripod. After that, he took out a jade slip and threw it over.
The Blood Demon Ancestor accepted the jade slip, checked it himself, and immediately his expression darkened. He then tossed the jade slip to the Fire Demon Ancestor.
Upon reading the jade slip, the Fire Demon Ancestor flew into a rage.
“Why is there only the first layer of the spell? You dare to trick us!”
“It’s not me tricking the two friends at home, it must be the two friends tricking me!”
A flash of silver lightning flickered in Xu Mu’s hand, and he forced out a green breath from his body.
“Attack!”
Seeing that Xu Mu had realized, the Blood Demon Ancestor threw caution to the wind. Boundless blood energy burst from his body, instantly enveloping the entire room.
At the same time, the Fire Demon Ancestor unleashed a red fire that turned into a huge ghost face, lunging toward Xu Mu.
The painting hanging on the wall slowly fell off. The woman in the painting turned into a huge green dragon and rushed toward Xu Mu as well.
“It seems a battle is inevitable after all!” Xu Mu said with a smile, remaining calm and composed in the face of the attack from three Nascent Soul masters.
He squeezed his Finger Jue, and endless silver lightning erupted, forming layers of electrical defense around his body, blocking both the Fire Demon Ancestor and the green dragon.
Next, two silver lightning dragons condensed and entangled with the two of them.
“Tian Gang Divine Thunder Jue! So you are really connected to Lu Jingkong!”
The Blood Demon Ancestor’s eyes were filled with murderous intent. Squeezing his Finger Jue, he turned his boundless blood energy into a sea of blood, sweeping from all directions towards Xu Mu.
Xu Mu’s expression was solemn as he released the White Fox puppet and shot blue light from his mouth towards one direction.
The blue light wiped out the sea of blood and disappeared in an instant. The White Fox Puppet’s divine skill, which was usually invincible, was practically useless against the Blood Demon Ancestor, a Nascent Soul master with a well-established reputation.
“Although in Blood Shadow City, I can only use part of the power of the Blood River Formation, it’s more than enough to deal with you! Die obediently!” The Blood Demon Ancestor snorted coldly.
“Hong He! It’s been centuries, and you’re still using the same old tricks! Haha!”
A woman’s voice came over. Then the formation was forcefully broken from the outside, and a huge half-human, half-whale figure squeezed out and charged at the Fire Demon Ancestor nearby.
“Dammit!”
The Fire Demon Ancestor’s face changed drastically. He wanted to dodge, but he was entangled by the silver dragon and couldn’t dodge in time. He took the hit, coughed up blood, and was thrown back.
“It’s that crazy woman, Lu Jingkong!”