Tian Xiaoding, Yue Yurou and others went to Yongsheng Auction House in Lingyun City together, intending to bid for the golden spirit bead that was being auctioned.
As a result, what Xiao Ding did not expect was that there were as many as two to three thousand people participating in the auction, and the price soared to more than one million low-grade spiritual stones, a price that even Xiao Ding could not afford.
In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the golden bead was taken away by a mysterious figure in the private room on the second floor.
The Golden Lingzhu was the grand finale of the auction. After the sale, the owner of the auction house, Qi Yongsheng, announced on the stage that the auction was successfully concluded. At this time, his face was already full of smiles.
A golden spirit bead was finally sold for 1.5 million low-grade white spirit stones. If he took a commission from it, he could get a lot of spirit stones. How could he not enjoy it secretly?
Obviously, this auction, from the careful planning at the beginning, to the publicity to attract a large number of customers, to the live auction today, is undoubtedly a very successful marketing process.
For Yongsheng Auction House, it has won both fame and money. It has achieved multiple things with one stone.
After the auction ended, Xiao Ding and others stayed to hand in the "Secret Technique of Raising Gu" and the required spirit stones for the Xiu Nv Sword, and handed in the bidding cards with the seat numbers.
The staff of the auction house will record how many spiritual stones were paid for a certain seat number, but there is no specific description of what items were auctioned.
In fact, their internal records have long been recorded, which items were taken by the person with which seat number. When the show was over, there were naturally people keeping an eye on everyone who had taken photos of the items.
At the same time, when leaving the venue, all the monks need to hand in the bidding cards in their hands before they can leave. There must be strict checks at the door to see if anyone with the seat number secretly left after taking pictures of the items.
When the spirit stones were delivered, the person who recorded them only registered the seat number and the number of spirit stones delivered because they wanted to keep the customer confidential. After all, there were many people who delivered the spirit stones together. If everyone knew what others had photographed, wouldn't it be very dangerous after leaving the auction house?
Even so, in fact, the people queuing up here to deliver the spirit stones all have a clear mind. Everyone knows tacitly that the people standing here must have photographed something.
The person in front of Xiao Ding is a young master in the foundation building stage. When he delivered the spirit stone, he did not take out the spirit stone directly. Instead, he threw a storage ring to the registration staff, then turned around and left.
Xiao Ding guessed that the young master directly gave the storage ring instead of taking out the spiritual stones, which meant that the amount of spiritual stones he delivered must be very large, and he might be the recipient of the golden spiritual beads.
In fact, everyone present is not a fool, and there are not a few others who speculate like Xiao Ding.
When it was Xiao Ding's turn to deliver the spirit stone, Xiao Ding was not so generous. Not to mention the storage ring, even the storage bag, although he had some spare time, he had no intention of giving it to the registration officer for nothing.
He directly took out a large pile of white spirit stones and piled them on the ground. It was quite a big pile. After all, fifty thousand spiritual stones is not a small amount. Even though the lower-grade spiritual stones are smaller in size, they can't help but be plentiful.
The registration officer frowned when he saw it. Through the detection of his spiritual sense, he knew that the number of spiritual stones in this pile was correct. He had no choice but to put the pile of spirit stones into his storage space before recording them for Xiao Ding.
Originally, Yue Yurou planned to pay for the beautiful sword by herself. However, Xiao Ding stopped him in time. Yue Yurou also thinks that Xiao Ding is right. He has the Qiankun Pot World. There are so many spiritual plants in it, and any pills he refines can be exchanged for money. Therefore, for Xiao Ding, the spiritual stone is just a matter of whether he wants it or not.
After the few people delivered the spirit stones, they left Yongsheng Auction House smoothly.
The main purpose of coming to Lingyun City this time is to buy a root detector. Now that Xiao Ding has completed reshaping Tiangan, there is no need to stay in Lingyun City.
The few of them had no clear destination. After everyone discussed it, Xiao Ding proposed that he would go to the south of Soul Burial Mountain to catch some fireflies and bring them back. He had just bought a copy of "The Secret Technique of Raising Gus", so he really wanted to start cultivating firefly voodoos himself.
Anyway, we don’t have a clear goal. Since Xiao Ding wants to catch fireflies, let’s go together.
So, after everyone figured out the direction, they walked towards the outside of the city together.
Not far after the few people walked out, the senior sister suddenly whispered: "Everyone, please pay attention, someone is following us behind."
Among Xiao Ding and the others, senior sisters Cheng Yaowu and Lu Tianshuo are already in the early stages of foundation building. Xiao Ding is in the late stage of Qi training, Yue Yurou is in the middle stage of Qi training, and Li Tianliang, Deng Feng, and Shan Tong are all in the early stage of Qi training.
Therefore, it is quite normal for the senior sister to be the first to notice that someone is following her.
After being reminded by the senior sister, Xiao Ding released his spiritual consciousness and looked behind him, and found that six people were following him furtively.
Xiao Ding said: "Don't worry about them. After we leave the city, we take the Feiyun Shuttle and they won't be able to catch up with us."
Lingyun City, like other cities, has strict city rules. Monks are not allowed to fight in the city, otherwise they will be arrested and punished by the people of the city lord's palace.
After all, the fights between monks are not as light as the fights between ordinary people. Fighting between monks is much more destructive, and high-level monks can even destroy the world. Therefore, the buildings and other buildings in the city cannot withstand the fights between monks.
If monks were allowed to fight in the city, there would be no need to fight every day. Even if they fought every three days or every five days, the buildings in the city would probably have been destroyed long ago. After all, the speed of construction cannot match the speed of destruction.
Xiao Ding knew that even if those who were following him caught up, they would not fight against his people in the city.
However, what makes Xiao Ding confused is why the six people behind him want to track the people on his side?
Looking at the cultivation levels of those few of them, there are also two monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the other four are all in the Great Perfection of Qi Training. If we only look at their cultivation, the six people they tracked do have more advantages than their own.
But Xiao Ding is not afraid, because there are several followers in his Qiankun Pot. Nowadays, the cultivation levels of his followers are equivalent to the level of the Great Perfection of Qi training of human monks. Even if they fight one against one, Xiao Ding has a total of eight followers, so they still have a numerical advantage.
Now that he was confident, Xiao Ding seemed very calm, and he led everyone towards the city gate in a leisurely manner.
However, Xiao Ding's calmness does not mean that Li Tianliang and the others are also calm. Li Tianliang, Deng Feng, and Shan Tong had the lowest cultivation levels, so when they heard the senior sister said that someone was following them, the three of them became nervous.
Seeing Xiao Ding still walking calmly, Li Tianliang asked anxiously: "Boss, who are the people following us? Why don't we walk faster and find a place to hide?" Last time everyone was joking at the wine table, saying that if you call Xiao Ding boss, he will give you the elixir. Then Li Tianliang also started calling Xiao Ding the boss.
Xiao Ding glanced back at Li Tianliang, and then explained: "We don't need to worry, there are only two monks in the foundation-building stage among the six of them, and the other four are all Qi Dzogchen practitioners."
Hearing what Xiao Ding said, Li Tianliang and the others became even more nervous and said quickly: "Boss, they have four people who are practicing Qi Dzogchen. How can we beat them?"
Xiao Ding smiled and said: "We didn't fight them. How do we know we can't beat them? Besides, we don't necessarily have to fight them?"
Li Tianliang asked curiously: "Boss, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd? Why can't I understand what you are talking about?"
Xiao Ding smiled again and said: "If you don't understand, then don't worry about it for now. You will naturally know it by then."
Li Tianliang: "..."
When several people came to the city gate, Xiao Ding suddenly saw that when he was queuing up to settle the spiritual stones at the Yongsheng Auction House, the young man in front of him was now walking towards the city accompanied by seven or eight followers. Going out.
Not long after the young master led the people out of the city, Xiao Ding and his party also left the west gate of Lingyun City.
Just when Xiao Ding was about to take out the Feiyun Shuttle and load everyone up to leave as soon as possible, he suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "You guys, stop here. If you don't leave the treasures you took, you can't even think of leaving here."
Xiao Ding and others paused, then turned to look. He discovered that the six people who had just been tracking the people on his side were not far behind them at this time.
It's not too far from the city gate, and there are still a lot of people coming and going at the city gate.
No one would have thought that these six people who were following them would act so boldly.
However, once you leave Lingyun City, you no longer belong to the area under the jurisdiction of Lingyun Sect. Even if someone breaks out into a fight outside the city, the people from the Lingyun Sect guarding the gate will naturally not pay attention.
Xiao Ding saw that among these six people, there was another woman, one of the two foundation-building monks. She looked to be in her thirties, about the same age as the senior sister. However, it is not so easy to judge the monk's actual age accurately. After all, there are Zhuyan Dans in the world of cultivation, and some people's actual age does not match their apparent age due to their skills.
These six people are aggressive and come with bad intentions. Xiao Ding did not dare to neglect, and asked them: "I wonder what some fellow Taoists are following us all the way? It seems that we have never met before, and we have never offended you?"
Among the two Foundation Establishment cultivators led by the other party, the male cultivator said: "Did you take the Golden Spirit Pearl away? You only need to hand over the Golden Spirit Pearl, and we will spare your life today!"
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