After being led into the secret passage by several Miao guards, Li Jing could clearly see the structure of the auction house behind the secret passage.
There were burning butter torches on the ledges on the surrounding stone walls, and grease candles were carefully placed in the shadows that should have been dark. The most surprising thing was that the center of the dome at the top of the entire auction venue was covered with candles. A huge luminous pearl was placed, reflecting faint rays of light.
After several people were led in by these Miao guards, the noisy scene in the venue stopped instantly. People wearing various Miao costumes turned their heads curiously and began to look at Li Jing, who was walking in front of them.
"Central Plains people..."
"What are they doing in Miao territory?"
"How did you enter Gui Shizi?"
Whispers buzzed around, but Li Jing only had a faint smile on his face. He glanced at the shirtless Miao man standing in the center of the crowd, and finally focused his eyes on the box in his hand.
"Fifty taels of gold, are there any friends who want to increase the price?"
The crowd suddenly made waves, and countless people stood up from the stone benches and looked over.
You know, gold is hard currency everywhere, and fifty taels of gold is almost equivalent to five hundred taels of silver.
Although the Central Plains is currently experiencing war and chaos, in this safe and stable Miao territory, such a sum of money is considered a sky-high price.
The shirtless man frowned and glanced behind him subconsciously.
Hugging her arms across her chest, Li Jing glanced at the crowd around her and said with a smile: "In this case, I think no one is willing to increase the price, so this poison repellent bead..."
"Wait!"
The Empress and Hou Qing, who were standing behind with their hands behind their hands, looked curiously toward the place where the sound came from, and saw several middle-aged Miao men standing up with fierce looks on their faces.
Li Jing narrowed his eyes and noticed that Chi Meng was tugging at the corner of his clothes from behind, but he still just looked at those people with a smile on his chest.
"Do these friends have any opinions?"
One of the Miao people who looked a little older carefully observed the four of them, Li Jing, and his eyes paused for a moment on Chi Meng.
"Alang, I don't know why you bought this poison-avoiding bead. Are you going to the Ten Thousand Poison Cave or..."
Li Jing smiled heartily and said: "It's the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, why can't we go there?"
The surrounding atmosphere suddenly solidified, and several Miao people stood up silently at the same time. The shirtless man over there just watched the changes here without making a sound to stop them.
The middle-aged Miao Jiang smiled coldly, "How can you people from the Central Plains come to our Miao Jiang with good intentions? The Witch King said that the Central Plains is currently in war. Why are you coming to seek refuge in our poor and remote country?"
Li Jing's face turned cold.
I was still surprised that these Miao people had such a bad attitude towards the Central Plains, but it turned out that Chi Li was the one causing trouble.
Did he start plotting against the Central Plains so early...
Not bothering to talk, Li Jing looked at the shirtless man over there.
"Hey, are you going to sell it or not? Isn't this auction just for the highest bidder? What does this mean?"
The middle-aged Miao Jiang snorted coldly: "You Central Plains people are rich, but you can't take this poison-avoiding pearl with you!"
What nonsense...
Li Jing shook the sword box to the ground and looked around the entire auction house coldly.
"Are all the people in Miao territory so unreasonable?"
The guards who were not far away from them immediately pulled out the knives in their hands and pointed them at him: "What are you doing? Be honest and don't mess around!"
Chi Meng held his forehead and whispered: "Look, I told you to keep a low profile..."
The empress clasped her hands behind her back and looked ahead calmly, "The soldiers will stop us, but the water will cover us."
"This market has always been so unruly?"
Facing the empress's question, Chi Meng had nothing to say, with a look of shame on her face: "It wasn't like this before..."
Hou Qing looked like it had nothing to do with him and found a place where he could sit and sat down peacefully. He also waved to Chi Meng and said, "Last night, I seemed to have some insights into this music."
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The shirtless man kept frowning and said nothing, and more and more Miao people stood up around him.
"Central Plains people, what do you mean by this!"
"What does it mean to be unreasonable?"
"I just don't like you Central Plains people..."
The sword box was opened, and a heavy sword was taken out. Li Jing took out the Longquan Sword with one hand and pointed it at the middle-aged Miao Jiang.
"Are you from Ten Thousand Poison Cave?"
"Or maybe he's from Chili..."
The blade of the sword glowed coldly under the surrounding firelight. Li Jing could clearly see the middle-aged Miao Jiang's eyes flickering for a moment, but then he raised his hands.
"People from the Miao border, who doesn't believe in the Witch King!"
The moment Li Jing drew out the Longquan Sword, more Miao people also took out their own weapons, and the scene instantly felt chaotic.
"The Lord Witch King is right, these Central Plains people don't have any good intentions!"
The middle-aged Miao Jiang's mouth curled up, trying to arouse everyone's anger. Suddenly, he saw the Zhongyuan boy in front of him turned into an afterimage. When he reacted in the next second, he felt a huge force coming from his abdomen.
Seeing middle-aged Miao Jiang being kicked several meters away, Li Jing inserted the Longquan Sword on the ground and moved his wrist.
"Stop talking nonsense. If you are not convinced, come together."
Several Miao people were also pushed to the ground by the middle-aged Miao people. Coupled with Li Jing's contemptuous words, the Miao people who were close to Li Jing were instantly angered.
"Shameless talk!"
"If you can walk out alive today, I will call you Grandpa!"
"Kill them!"
The shirtless man over there lowered his face, whispered a few words to the guard next to him, and prepared to turn around and leave.
Li Jing turned around to wink at the empress, but found that she had disappeared.
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Chi Meng also looked anxious over there, exclaiming repeatedly: "A fight is about to begin!"
Then when he was about to shake the empress's arm, he also noticed that the person next to him had disappeared for who knows how long.
Ah?
The shirtless man took two steps to leave the auction house when the guard next to him was slapped away by a figure with two palms, and then he saw a pair of cold eyes flashing in front of him.
The wooden box in his hand was taken straight away. Although this handsome and unpredictable Central Plains man did nothing to him from beginning to end, the cold sweat on the shirtless man's back had already soaked through his clothes.
Li Jing used her toes to pick up the sword's edge, and the Longquan Sword was picked up with one hand, with a slight curl in the corner of her mouth.
"Did you hear that?"
"The sound of suona..."
The Miao people who came forward first felt a flash of cold light, and the bronze dagger in their hands was broken by a force of gravity. Then they felt a heavy kick on their cheeks, and they were dizzy and followed the inertia by Li Jing. Kicked aside.
The Miao people behind were not afraid at all, and they all swarmed forward. Those with swords drawn and swords kept closing the distance between the two parties.
But Li Jing's figure was like an afterimage every time. Although the sound of swords clashing could be heard constantly, the people who flew out every time were the Miao people who besieged him.
There were a lot of people in the venue, and they were all very capable people. One of the Miao men with a knife finally saw Li Jing's back exposed, and immediately seized the opportunity to get close quickly and stabbed Li Jing's back with the blade.
The heavy sword was swung behind his back, and the man's short sword was instantly knocked away by gravity. Li Jing's palm had already pressed the Miao man's face to the ground. Squinting his eyes slightly, Li Jing recognized that this was the man who stood up together with the middle-aged Miao Jiang. The Longquan sword instantly drew a semicircle on the ground and cut off the man's head with his eyes still wide open.
At the same time, the Longquan Sword that was drawn across happened to block several daggers coming from the side. Li Jing followed the trend and rolled to the side, rolling over into the crowd.
The calves of the two Miao people were immediately scratched by the Longquan sword, and then several screams were heard in succession. Li Jing opened and closed the Longquan sword. The sword body was glowing with golden light at some point. Every time the sword came out, If you hit it, one of the blades will break.
The crowd slowly retreated, and an open space formed around Li Jing.
Some of the Miao people were standing on stone benches, and some were standing on high places, but they all still had ruthless expressions on their faces.
"Use insect magic! Don't get close to this kid!"
The empress over there had no expression on her face and kicked away the shirtless man who was lying on the ground as if he was stunned. She glanced at the knife-wielding guards surrounding her unhurriedly.
"Okay, if not, let me do it."
Li Jing only felt that the palm of her right hand was hot, and the blood in her body seemed to be boiling, so she blinked.
"Do people from Miao territory only have this ability?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a dense group of knife-wielding subordinates suddenly poured in from the secret passage outside, followed immediately by the sound of dull footsteps.
"After so many years of opening the market, have you forgotten the rules of hospitality?"
