The auction this time would be held five days later. The scale of the auction was so great that not only would the people from Freezing Sky Clan attend, even some of the nobles in the Great Tribe of Freezing Sky would send their people over.
The other tribes nearby and even some people from further places also knew about the grand auction that was held once a century. Most of them had already started their journey and were rushing over.
Most of the people who came were here to buy items, but there were also quite a few who came from all directions, intending to sell their items to the auction house.
Su Ming took the invitation and swept his gaze across the cauldron. He forced down the thump in his heart and closed his eyes to think for a moment before handing the invitation to Zi Che.
"We'll depart three days later."
Zi Che quickly obeyed and took the invitation respectfully before placing it in his bosom. His injuries had already healed, and he had also learned from Hu Zi about everything the ninth summit had done for him after he was injured. This made him feel touched.
It was especially so after he was chased out of the second summit. The ninth summit's actions warmed Zi Che's heart, and he no longer cared about his status as a servant. To him, the ninth summit was already the place where he could stay.
Besides, the shackles on his body had also been broken once he recovered. He could be said to be free now, but he was still willing to stay in the ninth summit and stay by Su Ming's side.
He was already used to this sort of life and did not feel uncomfortable about it.
He understood Su Ming's strength incredibly well. The small interactions he had with Su Ming had made Zi Che admire Su Ming deeply. Once he put away the invitation, Zi Che hesitated for a moment.
"Uncle master, you … you already have 16 ice hoops on your body. This … I think it's not good if your body can't handle the weight if you force it on yourself."
Su Ming cast Zi Che a glance and a smile appeared on his face.
"It's fine."
Zi Che nodded. It was not convenient for him to say it out loud. When he saw that Su Ming clearly understood this, he bowed and left.
Su Ming sat cross-legged on the platform outside his cave abode. He had been sitting there for a long time and had never gotten up. It was the same even when the sun rose and set. It was not that he did not want to get up, but the combined weight of the sixteen ice hoops on his legs was as heavy as a mountain on his body.
In the beginning, he even felt as if his legs and upper body were being torn apart. It was only after a few days that he gradually adapted to it, but it was still a little difficult for him to stand up.
As he sat down, Su Ming lifted his right hand, and with a swing of his arm, a black fork that was only three inches big appeared on his palm.
The fork was like a trident. Its entire body was pitch-black, and its tip was faintly glowing. If one stared at it for a long time, one would be able to hear the faint howling of ghosts.
"Phantom Fork …" Su Ming mumbled as he stared at it.
This was one of the items Su Ming had 'lost' due to his second senior brother's reminder when he was still in Phantom Dais Tribe. Now, he had 'regained' it. If Su Ming had wanted to study it himself, he would have needed some time to figure it out.
However, with his second senior brother's help, the Phantom Fork had already become connected to Su Ming as if it had fused with him, allowing him to control it as he pleased. Su Ming's divine sense had also turned into a Brand and was carving it layer by layer, causing his Phantom Fork to not lose out to those from Phantom Dais Tribe when he used it.
"Di! Ta! Chi!" A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes and he let out three strange sounds. The moment those three sounds appeared, black fog instantly spread out from the Phantom Fork in his hand. That black fog instantly grew thicker and filled Su Ming's palm. It grew bigger and eventually spread to an area of several hundreds of feet. As it floated in midair, that black fog tumbled about and gradually gathered together to form a gigantic figure.
That figure seemed to have an endless amount of strength. Its face was indistinct, and its entire body was formed by black fog. It looked like a malicious spirit, but in truth, this thing was not a spirit. In fact, it did not even possess life. It was a puppet.
It was a Phantom Puppet created by Phantom Dais Tribe using a unique method! It could change its form in an unpredictable manner and turn into any form it wanted. It could even imitate the person's presence perfectly.
At that moment, the gigantic Phantom Puppet landed on the platform and lifted its thick arms to grab Su Ming. Its arms tightened, and Su Ming's body, which could not move, was lifted from the ground and placed on its shoulders slowly.
Right till the end, Su Ming did not say a single word. He was the one controlling the puppet. He only needed to gather his divine sense around it to make it move, just like his own body.
The gigantic puppet carried Su Ming on its shoulders and took huge strides forward. With each step it took, the layer of ice on the platform would let out muffled booms. Clearly, Su Ming's weight at that moment was extraordinary.
As the puppet moved forward, it gradually brought Su Ming into its cave abode. The puppet could change its size at will. As it moved forward, its body automatically shrank by a large margin, causing it to be able to pass through the door of the cave abode while carrying Su Ming.
The puppet carried Su Ming to the place in the cave abode specially made for He Feng. Over there, Su Ming's eyes sparkled. He Feng's fusion with the Wings of the Moon had already reached its final stage. If he could go through this and succeed, then the He Feng that appeared once again would be of great help to Su Ming during his trip to the land of the Shamans.
At that moment, He Feng's entire body was surrounded by a layer of blood mist. His body could not be seen clearly. That blood mist would occasionally tumble about, and it looked incredibly bizarre.
After observing it for a moment, the puppet under Su Ming brought him back a few steps and brought him to another stone chamber in the cave. The moment they arrived, a medicinal fragrance wafted into their nostrils. The stone chamber was huge, and the ground inside was not made of ice, but was made of soil.
Zi Che had brought this soil back according to Su Ming's orders from a faraway place. Once he placed it in this place, it allowed Su Ming to plant the large amount of herbs he had 'lost' from Phantom Dais Tribe in this place.
The herbs in this place should not have been able to survive, but with his second senior brother's help, through a strange method, he managed to make these herbs grow on the rootless soil.
However, the prerequisite was that there was a large amount of golden stone coins filled with spiritual aura placed under the soil.
'I'll have to make a lot of preparations for my trip to the land of the Shamans. After all, this trip won't be short …' A pensive look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had gone to the land of the Shamans before, and even though it had only been for a few days, it was difficult for him to forget the hardships he had gone through during those few days.
Once he entered the land of the Shamans and fell into that kind of situation once again, then the preparations he made at this moment would become the source of his survival.
In silence, the puppet under him took a huge step forward. As rumbling sounds reverberated in the air, it walked towards another stone chamber. There were seven different beast skeletons placed on the ground in that stone chamber. Each of the beast skeletons exuded a powerful pressure. These beast skeletons belonged to ferocious beasts that were equivalent to those in the Transcendence Realm when they were alive.
At that moment, their bones were covered in grass. It had been some time since Su Ming planted them there.
Beside the beast skeletons were seven human corpses. There were no signs of decay on their bodies. They might look like dead people, but if anyone took a closer look, they would be able to see faint signs of life within their bodies.
These seven people did not have Berserker Marks!
There were a large number of pictures carved on their faces, and they looked rather complicated. If anyone had never seen a Shaman before, they might think that these seven people were members of a unique tribe.
However, when Su Ming had taken away these seven corpses from Phantom Dais Tribe, he could tell with just one glance that they were Shamans. He had no idea how they had been captured by Phantom Dais Tribe.
'I just need to nourish them for another month, and then I can create Spirit Plunder … If I can create three Spirit Plunder in one go, then I can open up another door in that strange dimension and obtain a new method to create medicinal pills.
'It's a pity that I still haven't obtained enough materials for the Welcoming of Deities. Based on my understanding of that strange dimension, the more sacrifices it requires, the lower the quality of the medicinal pills, and vice versa, the higher the quality.
'Among the different methods to create medicinal pills, the Welcoming of Deities is the only one that doesn't require any sacrifices.' Su Ming remembered the method to create the Welcoming of Deities when he entered the strange dimension when he was in Dark Mountain and saw it.
'The ninth leg of the spider, the tail scale of the strange snake, the small black humanoid … I've only obtained one of them.' Su Ming frowned. As the puppet beneath him moved forward, he left the cave abode and returned to the platform. Once he placed the puppet down, Su Ming continued sitting cross-legged on the platform.
A glint appeared in his eyes. When he lifted his right hand, a small purple insect appeared on his palm. That insect's name was Purple Harmony, and it was the gift from Phantom Dais' Phantom Equal.
'I wonder what would happen if my insect swallowed Purple Harmony..?' Su Ming hesitated for a moment. He did not try it recklessly. He remembered the Phantom Equal saying that if he failed, then the ferocious beast that swallowed Purple Harmony would die a violent death.
Unless it was absolutely necessary and Su Ming did not have a lot of confidence, he did not want to try this sort of risky thing.
Three days passed by quickly as Su Ming observed He Feng and the materials he prepared to create Spirit Plunder. The auction this time attracted a lot of attention from the nine summits on the great plains of Freezing Sky Clan. Quite a number of people had already left in groups to rush towards the auction. There were also some who left alone.
Hu Zi was living his life in a drunken stupor on the ninth summit. He did not pay any attention to this. As for his second senior brother, he was still planting his plants and would occasionally hang around Zi Yan during the day.
Their eldest senior brother was still in isolation. Su Ming also learned that the black man was his eldest senior brother's servant. He had some guesses about his eldest senior brother's identity because of this.
As for Tian Xie Zi, he was rarely seen. Even if he did, he would be dressed in robes of different colors and would let out a loud roar in the morning before flying off in different directions.
On the fourth morning, the puppet that was the Phantom Fork turned into a gigantic black beast. Su Ming sat on its back with Zi Che by his side respectfully. They were about to leave the ninth summit.
However, with Bai Su's arrival, there was another person added to their party.
The three of them turned into a long, black arc on the Phantom Puppet's body and swiftly left the ninth summit, charging towards the auction in the sky.
As they charged forward, they ran into some other Freezing Sky Clan disciples who were also heading there. These people stared at the black beast puppet that was 300 something feet tall under Su Ming with dumbfounded expressions. When they saw Zi Che and Su Ming sitting on it, they quickly avoided them.
I'm dispirited … Two days of exploding, and this damn fever and dizziness have made me completely dispirited …
I'm thankful that I didn't act rashly yesterday and say that I would continue exploding today … or else I would have crashed my head into a wall in regret.
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