The Cheng Clan Bazaar only held an auction once every ten years, so the entire Guardian Residence was mobilized. Firstly, it was to gather the market's popularity and maintain Xuan Ling Sect's prestige. Secondly, there was a private agreement with Wonderful Treasure House. After the auction, they would take 30% of the rental fee.
There were Xuan Ling Sect disciples patrolling outside to maintain order. Yi Tian admired Wonderful Treasure House's methods of operation.
Yi Tian really wasn't interested in the first nine auction items until Li Shuilan said, "The tenth auction item is a total of two hundred and forty catties of black iron ore. The starting price is twelve thousand. Each increment must not be less than one hundred." Yi Tian raised his head to look.
This ore was half the size of a table. Li Shuilan took it out from a bag of ore. After looking at the ore's quality, Yi Tian estimated that this ore was between rich and poor. After smelting 240 jin of ore, it would be pretty good if he could get 50 jin of Mystic Iron Ore. According to the market price, the highest it could be sold for was around 20,000.
Following Li Shuilan's hammering, the people in the various booths began to bid. Generally, those sitting below were Qi Condensation cultivators. Only Foundation Establishment cultivators could apply for booths.
The first few rounds of the auction were reserved for Qi Condensation cultivators. Generally, Foundation Establishment cultivators wouldn't participate in the bidding. This was a tacit understanding of Wonderful Treasure House's auctions.
In the second half of the auction, very few Qi Condensation cultivators dared to disturb the tiger's whiskers. This auction was no exception. After a few rounds of bidding, the price of the ore had reached 14,000. Yi Tian looked at it and didn't hesitate to call out, "17,000."
Instantly, a few of the private rooms stopped bidding. Only the number one private room in the middle continued to bid. An old voice said, "17500."
Yi Tian, who was in the private room, also frowned as he thought to himself, 'The person who is bidding might also be a weapon refiner. He should be able to tell that there is still a profit margin, which is why he increased the price.
After a moment of silence, before the auctioneer, Li Shuilan, could start counting, Yi Tian directly called out a bid of 19,000. This time, after a long wait, no one else called out a bid. Li Shuilan knocked with the small hammer in her hand and said, "Deal."
Yi Tian, who was in the private room, was overjoyed. The materials for the Flywheel Array were basically all gathered. All that was left was the obsidian.
Sure enough, when the obsidian appeared, Yi Tian and the old cultivator in the middle box started to advance. But this time, it seemed that the other party did not want to back down. After all, it was a Grade 5 material that even Jin Dan Realm Old Ancestors could use. The original price of 10,000 had been raised to 20,000 by the two of them.
Yi Tian was also annoyed. Every time he raised the price by a thousand, the other party would stubbornly increase it by five hundred.
When Yi Tian called out the price of 20,000, he heard a "hmph" from the middle box. Suddenly, a wave of spirit pressure came out and suppressed the qi condensation stage cultivators below. Everyone was shocked and wanted to run out. Yi Tian also felt that this was the spirit pressure of a Jin Dan Realm cultivator, but it felt similar to his own. It seemed that the other party could not be considered a powerful person.
On the contrary, Li Shuilan showed an unhappy expression and said, "Fellow Daoist in box 1, I respect you as a senior, but you can't use your power to oppress others. Does my Wonderful Treasure House not have any Jin Dan Realm cultivators? Aren't you not giving us face by doing this?"
After ten breaths of time, an old voice came from box 1, "Fellow Daoist Li, I have no intention of offending your house, nor do I want to break the rules. It's just that this obsidian stone is very useful to me, so please forgive me for my impulsiveness." After saying this, he withdrew his spirit pressure and the situation gradually returned to normal.
This time, Yi Tian did not buy it. Since the other party could use his power to oppress others, he would not be polite either. He felt that the other party's spirit pressure was not very strong. In a one on one fight, Yi Tian felt that he did not need to be afraid of him. Since he was in the right and the other party did not dare to act rashly, what was there to be afraid of?
He paused and said, "I have already bid. If you really want it, then feel free to increase the price." Since he had already offended the other party, then he might as well go all the way.
The old voice rang out again. "Twenty-five hundred."
Yi Tian was about to bid when he suddenly heard someone urgently knocking on the door. He could only open the door to take a look. The person who came in was a petite girl at the qi refining stage. She looked like she was only 14 or 15 years old. She was a bit similar to Li Shuilan on the auction stage.
After the girl came in and saw Yi Tian, she first greeted him and said, "Fellow Daoist, please be lenient. I don't want to make a big deal out of this. Please leave a way out so that we can meet again in the future."
It turned out that the shopkeeper of Wonderful Treasure House saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly sent someone to be the mediator. Yi Tian knocked and said, "What is the relationship between Miss and the auctioneer on the stage?"
"The one hosting is my elder sister. This is also my elder sister's first show as an auctioneer, so I don't dare to make any mistakes. I am Li Xinlan, and I sincerely ask Fellow Daoist to make things easy."
Looking at the half-grown loli in front of him, Yi Tian could only nod. You have to give people face to make them respect you. Li Xinlan took out a communication jade card and said a few words. The auctioneer on the stage, Li Shuilan, looked as if she was relieved of a heavy burden. She directly knocked the wooden hammer in her hand and announced that the cultivator in box 1 had won the obsidian mine.
Before Li Xinlan left, Yi Tian directly asked, "Can you tell me who the Jin Dan cultivator in box 1 is? Don't tell me you don't know. This is the biggest concession I can make."
Li Xinlan looked at Yi Tian with a surprised expression. She thought that Yi Tian wanted to understand the situation and prepare to go out and lie low for a while. She paused for a moment before saying, "The person in the first box is Zou Dong, a JinDan cultivator from Xuan Ling Sect's family."
Hearing this, Yi Tian nodded and said, "Okay, but don't do it again. If I see something I like in the future, I won't let it go."
"That's right, that's right. Only this time. Thank you, Fellow Cultivator." Li Xinlan also felt a burst of joy. She had finally passed the crisis in front of her.
After closing the door, Yi Tian felt a burst of disdain in his heart. This Zou Dong was just a low-grade Jin Dan cultivator. Even his spirit force pressure was so weak. If Yi Tian encountered him, he might become a whetstone to test how strong he was as a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
After being disturbed for a while, Yi Tian missed a few auction items. He looked at the list and found that he didn't need them. When the third item was taken out, Yi Tian looked at it seriously. It was a jade bottle.
Li Shuilan seemed to have found an opportunity to show off and introduced it, "This bottle contains a peak level 4 spirit medicine, Chilling Jade Soul Nourishing Pill. There are a total of three pills. It has the effect of strengthening the soul. Moreover, it has to be taken three pills in a row. The starting price is 30,000, and each increment is no less than 1,000."
This was basically something that only Foundation Establishment cultivators and above could afford, so they only waited for the cultivators in the boxes to bid. Yi Tian, on the other hand, had no interest in this at all. He had already mastered the 'Tripartite Spiritual Sense' and the 'Bright Sun Soul Refining Secret Art'. Now, the strength of his spiritual sense had reached the level of a JinDan cultivator. This thing was dispensable to him.
But the cultivators in the other boxes seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. They raised the price one after another. Even from the first box, there were sounds of bidding from time to time.
Suddenly, a waiter under the stage walked up and said a few words in Li Shuilan's ear. He also pointed to the box above. After Li Shuilan heard this, she frowned. After three breaths, she made a decision.
After hearing the hammer on the auction stage in the lobby, Li Shuilan said, "Everyone, due to the request of a Fellow Cultivator, the bidding for this Chilling Jade Soul Nourishing Pill will be temporarily suspended. We will auction the requested item first."
After she finished speaking, there was an uproar. This was something that had never happened before. But since it was the decision of the Wonderful Treasure House, there was nothing they could do. They just had to see what the requested item was.
Yi Tian, who was sitting in the private room, was also interested. This was the first time he had seen such a method of play. He casually used his hand to pull the bell in the room to inform the waiter outside.
After three knocks on the door, Yi Tian saw that the person who came in was Li Xinlan. He sized her up. This little girl's appearance was not bad. Although she was not as flirtatious as the Li Shuilan on the stage, she still had a different temperament.
After three breaths, Yi Tian directly asked, "Is the request reasonable? Could it be that the Wonderful Treasure House allows people to do whatever they want?"
Who knew that Li Xinlan would smile and say: "Fellow Daoist does not know, but this kind of request is usually related to the items being auctioned on the stage, which is why it is stopped. Usually, a cultivator does not have enough spirit stones on him and needs to use items as collateral, which is why this kind of situation occurs. 'Wonderful Treasure House' also asked for a 30% handling fee to facilitate this."
Hearing this, Yi Tian was not surprised. Perhaps this was the first time this kind of situation appeared in the Cheng Clan's auction.
A moment later, he saw an attendant holding a tray. On the tray was an ancient token. He slowly walked up to the center of the auction stage. Li Shuilan's slender fingers gently pinched the token. After looking at it, her brows didn't relax in the slightest. After a moment, she could only say to the audience, "The seller of this token will sell it for 20,000 spirit stones. Each increment is five hundred. Please make your bids."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire place became silent. No one would dare to spend twenty thousand spirit stones to buy a tattered token. Even if there was a great opportunity hidden behind it, one would need luck to find it. Now that everyone was as smart as a monkey, who would really look for it?
Seeing the silence, Li Shuilan's expression was not good. She couldn't explain this to the people behind her. After calling out three times, no one advanced. She could only pick up the hammer in her hand and prepare to announce the failure of the auction.
Before she could say anything, she heard someone shout from the box, "25,000." Everyone in the hall turned around to look. The voice came from the room that was competing with room number one for the obsidian.
In the box, Li Xinlan's eyes were wide open. The cultivator in front of her really didn't play according to common sense. What was the use of such a token?
After the dust settled, Yi Tian was also happy in his heart. Just now, he used his spiritual awareness to scan the token. There was a 'Xun' word on it, which was exactly the same as the token in his storage ring with the 'Qian' word written on it.
When Yi Tian copied Tao Anru's house, he found this thing a bit interesting. It was like a key to open a place. Since there were words on it, it seemed that there must be eight similar tokens. The one in front of him was made of the same material and the same workmanship, so Yi Tian would directly bid for it. Maybe he would be able to explore it in the future.
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