Chapter 44 Auction (1)
Two days later, just after noon, Chen Tianye arrived at the bluestone on time.
At this time, fifty pounds of bluestone had been processed and a line of fire was processed. Due to the better function of the distillation device, the wine produced this time was better than the previous one. Chen Tianye took a taste and couldn't help but smile and cheer.
After getting wine for Chen Tianye, Qingshi gave him another twenty kilograms of mountain peach wine. After becoming his master, Qingshi naturally felt more close to Chen Tianye.
After getting the wine, the two of them were ready to attend the auction. The auction venue is on Nanlong Avenue between Tianlong Square in the center of Chaoge City and the South Gate. Chen Tianye’s planned route is to leave the south gate of the college, walk about fifty miles east to enter the Chaoge South Gate, and then go north along Nanlong. Go to the main road.
Qingshi smiled and said: "You'd better come with me." He said but did not go out, but took Chen Tianye to the waterfront terrace. Chen Tianye was wondering when he saw Qingshi wave his hand, and a two-foot-long boat The boat appeared out of thin air and gently floated down into the water.
Chen Tianye was shocked and said: "This is something that can only be equipped by senior elders of the college. Why do you guys have it?"
Qingshi had already jumped off the boat and said to Chen Tianye, "Are you coming?" Chen Tianye quickly jumped on the boat.
The boat headed east quickly, and soon passed through the bridge hole in the city wall and entered Xiaolu Lake along the narrow waterway. Chen Tianye said: "I didn't expect that you not only have the boat, but you also have a pass. Do you know? It's impossible to have a pass without a pass. If you can't cross the waterway of the city wall and enter the city, there are very scary puppet guards in the lake below the bridge hole in the city wall."
"Can I not know?" Qingshi glanced at Chen Tianye, "You think I am impatient."
"No, I see that you have this boat, so I know you have a pass," Chen Tianye scratched his head and said, "But how do you have these?"
"Keep it secret!" Qingshi said, "You also have to keep it secret for me, you know. You will naturally know it in the future."
After Qingshi said that he would not continue the topic, Chen Tianye had no choice but to give up because he was full of questions.
Qingshi drove the boat along the dense waterways in the school to the main entrance of the school, which was the river behind the main entrance where the entrance examination was originally conducted, and then he and Chen Tianye went ashore.
Ignoring the surprised looks of the students, Qingshi collected the boat and the two of them walked out of the gate and headed towards the auction house.
It was less than twenty miles from the main entrance of the academy, the east gate, to the location of the auction house. The two rented a two-person covered carriage drawn by a third-level spirit beast and five toes at the entrance of the academy, and arrived in less than two-quarters of an hour.
After paying the fare and sending the driver away, Qingshi looked up and saw in front of him a tall, majestic building with a huge arc roof. On the ground floor was a huge shopping mall facing the street.
The shopping mall's facade is nearly a hundred feet wide and more than thirty feet deep. There is a dazzling array of items in the mall.
In the middle of the building, there is an eight-door door that is nearly ten feet wide. A long plaque hangs high on the lintel with the four characters of Tianlong Chamber of Commerce written on it.
Entering the door is a hall, which is about ten feet deep, with a wide staircase at the end. There are seven or eight people in uniform checking the tickets of the participants. Going up the stairs to the third floor is the auction hall.
The auction hall is huge. It is a huge arc-shaped space with a diameter of nearly fifty feet. It is more than twenty feet high from the ground to the arc-shaped dome. There is a circle of circular transparent lighting windows at the top. Surrounded by six levels of boxes, each level contains a hundred boxes. There are no private rooms on the ground floor, but there are no less than 300 spacious seats. The seats can be moved and combined freely. There are dozens of large low tables for drinks. All seats and tables surround a large round table in the center.
Entering the hall, another beautiful woman in uniform immediately came up to her. She glanced at the jade medal in Chen Tianye's hand, and quickly led the two of them up the stairs to the second floor and to the VIP box No. 2069. .
The VIP box is about ten square feet, with luxurious decoration and large and comfortable seats.
Chen Tianye sat down on the large soft couch and asked Qingshi to sit down as well. Then he introduced Qingshi and said that this was a special box reserved by the Chamber of Commerce for Master Mo Sihai and enjoyed a 62% discount on commission. He also introduced Qingshi to Qingshi. The facilities.
If you press a button on the table to make a quotation, the sound will be transmitted to the host on the stage, and the host will naturally know which box the quotation comes from. Others can only see the quotation on the monitor and have no way of knowing which box the quotation came from.
As for the non-box seats under the stage, there is no such privacy protection treatment.
The view from the front of the box is very good. There are already hundreds of people sitting in the hall, including several students and elders wearing college uniforms.
However, the situation in the box on the sixth floor was completely invisible. Qingshi knew that although his box was spacious and bright, it should be pitch black in the eyes of others and nothing could be seen or heard.
Chen Tianye couldn't restrain his addiction to alcohol, so he took out an exquisite little wine flask and two cups, and couldn't wait to taste the new wine.
Qingshi did not accompany him to drink. Instead, he took out a tea set to boil water and make tea. Although the drinks provided by the Chamber of Commerce were good, neither of them liked them.
Chen Tianye asked curiously: "Can you make tea?" He couldn't help but grab Qingshi's teacup and took a sip.
"Good tea!" Chen Tianye praised, but he didn't mean it. He threw down the tea cup and went to drink his ray of fire again.
Qingshi had no choice but to pour the remaining tea into the cup and pour it again.
After a while, the auction started. First, a beautiful female voice sounded: Welcome everyone. Then a large disk rose from the ground of the central circular platform, carrying three people up. They were a beautiful woman and two young men in uniforms.
The beautiful woman introduced herself as Zhu Yuanyuan from the Tianlong Chamber of Commerce, said a few polite words and immediately started the auction.
She took out something and said: "The first item we are auctioning today is three inner elixirs of the fifth-level spiritual beast Red Earth Tiger. They are all of high quality. You can take a closer look. The base price is thirty high-grade spiritual stones." , each price increase shall not be less than five coins.”
Qingshi secretly thought about what it meant to be able to take a closer look. From such a distance, no matter how good his eyesight was, he couldn't see clearly three inner elixirs the size of walnuts, and it was impossible for every guest to take a closer look.
At this time, Chen Tianye pressed a certain mechanism on the table, and a light and shadow similar to a holographic image appeared in front of the table. It was the image of three inner elixirs. Although it was not as intuitive as holding it in his hand, it was still See more clearly.
Qingshi was not interested in any spiritual beast inner elixir, but he was very interested in this display device. This was obviously an array device, much more advanced than the display device of his dormitory doorbell system, and he immediately began to study it.
The items were auctioned one by one, and after more than an hour, no treasure that tempted the two of them appeared. Qingshi couldn't help but become a little bored, but Chen Tianye said that the things in the front are generally more ordinary. The auction usually lasts for two or three days. If you get bored, you can go out for a walk and come back to continue the auction.
If you are afraid of missing something good, you can only wait. However, some valuable items will have written introductions. Then press the call bell to call a waiter and ask him to get an introduction to the important items in this auction. Come.
After a while, the waiter brought a thin booklet. Qingshi took it and looked at it. It was an item introduction manual with simple pictures and relatively detailed text introduction.
There were a hundred kinds of things introduced. Qingshi looked at them one by one and found that there were many good things. One of the private spaceships was the final auction item. The introduction said that this spaceship was twelve feet long and could reach a speed of five hundred miles per hour. It can carry twenty people, has a shielding array that can make it invisible to a certain extent, and can withstand heavy hits with a force of one million kilograms. It is also equipped with an energy cannon that can launch a destructive force of more than one million kilograms, with a range of two thousand feet.
Such a magic weapon naturally moved Qingshi, thinking to himself that this spaceship can basically withstand a full blow from a high-level Golden Core monk, and it can also launch the attack power of a high-level Golden Core monk. It is really terrifying. Looking at the price, it started at 500,000 high-grade spiritual stones, and I couldn't help but gasp.
After reading the item introductions, Qingshi found that the prices of most items were actually not that exaggerated. In order to attract people, the auction does not put all the good things until the end. From time to time, some popular items appear on the auction site, causing waves of price increases, and Qingshi gradually becomes interested.
"Dear friends, please take a look at lot number 163 of this auction," a middle-aged male auctioneer has been replaced in the auction room, and his voice is very pleasant.
"This is a bottle of blood essence from the sixth-level spiritual beast Yunji Fox in Tianying Continent. Such items are extremely rare in our Tianlong Continent. The function of this Yunji Fox blood essence is to increase people's mental power. Specifically, it can increase To what extent varies from person to person, but our Chamber of Commerce can guarantee that it is absolutely true and effective. Well, a hundred drops of essence and blood from the sixth-level spiritual beast Yunji Fox in the Sky Eagle Continent, the base price is 300 high-grade spiritual stones, and the price increases each time No less than ten coins, please bid your friends. Okay, there is one, someone bids three hundred and ten, three hundred and twenty..."
Mental power is very important, but Tianlong Continent does not have any special skills to cultivate mental power, nor does it have martial arts to use mental power to defeat the enemy. Therefore, mental power can only be an auxiliary force in battle, so the monks of Tianlong Continent attach great importance to mental power. The degree is not very high.
But Qingshi is different. Yunlu has both techniques for cultivating mental power and martial arts for using mental power to defeat the enemy. The flying sword technique that Qingshi wants to possess most is a martial art that combines mental power with the mysterious formation technique.
When using mental power martial arts, naturally the stronger the mental power, the better. Qingshi's mental power far exceeds that of his fellow cultivators, but he currently does not have the skills to cultivate mental power, so he is not interested in Yun who can increase people's mental power. Extremely fox-blooded, Qingshi is very interested.
Qingshi pressed the bidder on the table, a small green light came on, and Qingshi said: "Four hundred and fifty." This was also the first time the two of them bid on an item. After the auctioneer quoted the price of 450, someone increased it to 460. Qingshi did not hesitate to increase the price to 470. Then, no one raised the price again.
The auctioneer announced the deal and immediately began the auction of the next lot. Qingshi breathed a sigh of satisfaction, but saw Chen Tianye staring at him and saying, "Why did you buy this? Isn't it worth spending so many spiritual stones?"
"I think it's worth it," Qingshi replied with a smile.
"Prodigal!" Chen Tianye shook his head and muttered. Qingshi ignored him. After a while, a waiter brought the bottle of Yunji Fox's essence and blood, and Qingshi paid for it.
The auction continued, and the two chatted and gossiped while keeping an eye out for items they needed.
"Brother Amano," Qingshi asked, "I heard that Jiang Chenying, who is number one on the Tianlong Ranking, held a banquet for newly promoted high school freshmen. What is the situation?"
"This is the tradition of the royal family," Chen Tianye said, "I also participated in it when I was admitted to the High School a few years ago, but at that time the number one on the Tianlong Ranking was not Jiang Chenying but Jiang Chenliang. After he left the academy, he was Jiang Chenying. The royal family It’s about winning over people’s hearts.”
"Jiang Chenying, Jiang Chenxiu, Jiang Chenliang?" Qingshi asked doubtfully, "They are all princes? Are all the royal children so powerful?"
"Yes," Chen Tianye said, "If the royal family is not powerful, how can it still rule the Tianlong Continent for thousands of years? In fact, from the day the Tianlong Ranking appeared, the first position has always been occupied by the royal family's children."
"No one has ever been able to defeat them?" Qingshi asked.
"Yes, Shen Feiyun should be able to defeat Jiang Chenying, so I only obey him in this academy." Chen Tianye said, "But no one has ever done this. You should understand the reason."
"I naturally understood when you said it," Qingshi shook his head and said, "Has no one ever dared to do this? This is just a ranking list. Wouldn't it lose the meaning of its existence?"
"This has always been the case," Chen Tianye shook his head and said, "Only the best of the royal family will come to the academy to study. For thousands of years, any royal family member who has reached the top of the Tianlong Ranking will have a title lower than that of a county king in the future. , and all the emperors of the Tianlong Empire were once number one on the Tianlong Ranking, so no family dared to let their children surpass the royal family and occupy the first place on the Tianlong Ranking. This was out of respect for the royal family and was afraid of causing trouble for themselves. However, The strength of the royal family's children is indeed very strong. Every number one on the Tianlong Ranking definitely has this strength. I have never competed with Jiang Chenying, but we have fought with the third Jiang Chenxiu. I am not as good as him. According to him, He can't even perform hundreds of moves in Jiang Chenying's hands."
"That's right!" Qingshi nodded and said, "The royal family must have its own secret method, right?"
"This is natural," Chen Tianye said, "People from the royal family have a high chance of awakening the thunder attribute Qi. They have a monopoly on the thunder attribute martial arts across the entire continent, and the people do not allow thunder attribute martial arts and weapons to appear. This is why they dominate. One of the magic weapons in the world."
Qingshi suddenly realized in his heart, no wonder he couldn't find a thunder attribute martial skill from the first to the sixth floor of the Sutra Pavilion. That's it.
It seems that the fact that he possesses thunder-attribute Qi must not be revealed easily. Of course, every monk understands that it is important to keep one's own attributes and unique martial arts secret as much as possible.
Folks in Tianlong Continent do not have thunder-attribute martial arts and weapons, but Yunlu does. Qingshi sneered in his heart, and he also disliked the royal family a little more.
After talking about the royal family, Chen Tianye then talked about the Duan family and the Shen family. These two families have been friends for generations and have always been one of the most powerful forces in the Tianlong Empire. There is a reason for the friendship between the two families.
The bloodline inherited from the Duan family is prone to awakening Yang-attributed Qi, also known as light Qi, while the Shen family is prone to awakening Yin-attributed Qi, also known as dark Qi.
In battle, people with light energy cooperate with people with dark energy, and the combat power generated by the two attribute martial arts is doubled. Therefore, the friendship between these two families can be said to be a match made in heaven.
The two families also often choose to marry their children. It is said that it is possible to give birth to a child with both light and dark energy, which is a genius among geniuses.
There was no break in the auction, and several auctioneers worked in shifts. The two of them chatted and watched the auction. It was not until midnight that Chen Tianye spent three hundred and twenty high-grade spiritual stones to buy a piece of black silver fine gold. This was him The biggest purpose of participating in the auction this time.
The waiter brought the auction items. Chen Tianye handed over the spirit stone and took the fine gold. He couldn't help but smile and said: "Great, I finally bought Xuan Yin fine gold. I'll ask Fatty Zhong to fuse it into my Tianyuan Sword for me. It's so powerful." It’s at least a 30% increase, hahaha.”
"Fat Zhong?" Qingshi asked in shock, "Which Fatty Zhong is Zhong Buli?"
"Zhong Buqi!" Chen Tianye curled his lips and said, "Zhong Buli is your alchemy maker, but he can also refine weapons? Really. Doesn't Zhong Buqi know? Zhong Buli, the deputy dean of the Qi Dao Academy, is his brother."
Qingshi knew about Zhong Buqi, but had never seen him before, so he couldn't help but ask: "Why, he is also very fat, and he is also called Fatty Zhong?"
Chen Tianye chuckled and said, "Don't you know that these two living treasures are twins? Zhong Buqi is the elder brother. I usually call him Zhong Dapang, and Zhong Buli usually calls him Zhong Erpang. Sometimes if you don't know the difference, just call him both. Fatty Zhong.”
"Did you call him that directly?" Qingshi asked curiously, "Are you bragging again? We all called you that behind our backs. We are not allowed to call you elder in front of you."
"That's what I called it!" Chen Tianye raised his beard up and down proudly, "Do you know why?"
"They owe you a lot of money?"
"To tell you the truth, last time I went to Er Fat to get some elixirs, I was still short of him by a hundred high-grade spiritual stones!"
"So you owe them a lot of money?"
"Vulgar!" Chen Tianye said, "To tell you the truth, these two fat guys are both my senior brothers."
"Are they your senior brothers?" Qingshi opened his mouth wide, "Are they also Dean Mo's disciples?"
"That's not true," Chen Tianye said with a smile, "How could my master accept them as disciples? They are the disciples of my uncle Gui Huadong."
"Ah!" Qingshi was really shocked. Brother Zhong Fatty is actually a disciple of Gui Huadong. If you think about it carefully, it is true that only a neurotic master like Gui Huadong would accept such a neurotic disciple.
But Fatty Zhong suddenly became his nephew, and Qingshi couldn't help but almost laughed out loud.
