"Losing contact in the Northern Desert? Fellow Taoist Di Yue, can you tell us in detail?" Yuan Ming asked after hearing this.
"About a year ago, the life tablets of three foundation-building disciples in our sect were shattered at the same time. The sect immediately sent out personnel to investigate. However, the clues found were complicated and complicated, and in the end we only came to a relatively clear conclusion, that is, they all had been in the small school. Lake City had appeared before, and just as the Tianxiang auction was about to take place, the sect sent an elder, Danjie Chang, to come here with my disciples and so on to continue the investigation." Di Yue said.
"The disciples in the foundation building period are missing. I think this matter has little to do with Pu Zhengqing. Since you only learned that they appeared in Xiaohu City, why did you go to the Northern Desert to investigate?" Yuan Buming subconsciously thought of Sha Haoshi, but immediately He rejected it himself.
"After our in-depth investigation, the three disciples only stayed in Xiaohu City for a few days and then went to Zhao State. Based on other clues we found, they should all have gone to the Northern Desert. I think Taoist Fellow Hagong is very suitable. , can you help us investigate this matter together, and I will not treat fellow Taoists after the matter is completed." Di Yue said.
"Since your sect has sent Elder Jiedan to lead a team to handle this matter, why do you want to recruit people to participate in the next foundation building period?" Yuan Ming tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked noncommittally.
"I'm afraid there will be a lot of variables during the trip to the Northern Desert. It would be better if the people traveling with you are more valuable than others. Fellow Taoist Hagong can defeat Pu Wangqing. He has few opponents among his peers. If he can get help from fellow Taoists, it will be natural. It's like adding wings to a tiger." Di Yueyue said.
"To be honest, I don't have time to spare during this period, so I'm afraid I won't be able to help fellow Taoist Di Yue." Yuan Ming pondered for a moment and shook his head.
Di Yue looked disappointed, but her attitude towards Yuan Ming remained unchanged: "It doesn't matter, I will improve this armor in the next few days. Please also leave your contact information, and I will send someone to you at that time. Send it."
"Then please ask fellow Taoist to send it to Qingmu Tower and say that Ha Gong is temporarily stored there." Yuan Ming nodded and said the location. Ha Gong's identity is currently in the limelight. In order to avoid trouble, it is better not to have anything to do with Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop. Have a good relationship.
Di Yue didn't care after hearing this. She only said that Yuan Ming could retrieve the armor in seven days at most.
Then Yuan Ming said a few more polite words before turning and leaving.
Originally, when he heard that the Fire Bird Sect was good at refining weapons, he took the initiative to ask them to help him refine the best magical weapons. However, he had already agreed to introduce them to Song Huitong. Secondly, he After rejecting Di Yue's invitation, the other party had already promised to optimize the heavy armor for him, and he didn't want to owe any more favors.
After Yuan Ming left the Huoquemen booth, he continued to wander around the building.
Soon, time passed by in a hurry, and a clear bell suddenly sounded in the building, and then, there was another powerful voice, echoing in the tall building.
"The hour has come, and the Tianxiang auction is about to begin. Please take the spiritual ladder to the main venue of the auction." Yuan Ming heard this and walked quickly to the spiritual ladder with the flow of people. Not long after, he was sent to an empty hall. among.
In the hall, several city lord's personal guards were guarding the exit of the spiritual staircase. Whenever they saw a cultivator coming, they would politely ask for an invitation.
Yuan Ming handed the invitation to a guard. He glanced at it briefly for a moment, then took a token and gave it to Yuan Ming. "This token is something that will be used for quotation later," he said. Friends, please keep it and remember to return it when you leave.”
"Next, fellow Taoist, please go to the north, and then take the spiritual ladder there to the venue."
Yuan Ming put away the token, followed the guidance of his personal guards, and once again boarded a spiritual ladder. As the spiritual ladder ascended, after an unknown amount of time, stars suddenly appeared in front of Yuan Ming's eyes.
Then a huge domed hall suddenly appeared in front of him. The ground of the hall was uneven. The whole hall looked like a large bowl, with towering sides and a sunken middle.
At this time, Yuan Ming was standing at the very edge of the hall, which was also the highest position. In front of him was a long staircase that led to the lowest point in the center of the hall.
But over there, there was another high platform, but now it was empty, with nothing on it.
On both sides of the walkway, wooden seats with richly carved patterns are arranged in steps from top to bottom. They are not close to each other but are spaced apart from each other.
Yuan Ming glanced around and randomly picked a seat with a good view to sit down.
As soon as he sat down, Yuan Ming looked up inadvertently and suddenly discovered that above the many seats, there were actually many other independent flat floors?
There is not only a seat above, but also a small table with fruits. There are also maids wearing elegant long skirts and holding tea cups to serve. The treatment is several times better than that of the seats below.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it would be great if one day, I could sit there." In the main hall, Yuan Ming heard the voice and turned around to see a fat cultivator who looked as if he had no neck.
Sitting on the seat next to him, the fat cultivator saw Yuan Ming looking at him and immediately raised his hand to Yuan Ming cheerfully, "I am the leader of the Shuangwang Chongshan Alliance, what do you call me, my fellow Taoist?"
"Hagon" Yuan Ming nodded as a return gift.
Wang Chong Hasan's eyes suddenly lit up: "It turns out to be Taoist Brother Ha Daogong. I have admired him for a long time. As a Taoist friend, he should be qualified to sit in the box. How come he is sitting here?"
"This is my first time attending a Tianxiang auction, and I don't know how to get into the box," Yuan Ming said frankly.
"Oh, I understand, Daoist Brother Hagong has not joined the Disbanded Alliance yet? Except for the reserved seats for a few major sects in the Tianxiang Auction, the rest are allocated to well-known leaders of the Disbanded Alliance and others. "I thought that as a Taoist cultivator, I would have been recruited by some loose alliance based on the strength of my Taoist friends, but I didn't expect that my Taoist friends were still free," Wang Chongshan said suddenly.
"I don't like to be restrained, so I don't think about joining any force here." Yuan Ming replied.
"I have to say a few words about this. I am afraid that fellow Taoists have misunderstood the Sanmeng. There is a big difference between the Sanmeng and the sects and other immortal cultivating forces! Although he is a force, he has no regard for the members inside. The constraint will only convene people when a task is required. After the task is completed and the rewards have been distributed, members can also leave on their own. They can come and go freely, and you can even join several scattered alliances at the same time." Wang Chongshan said .
"Since it is so loose, what is the significance of the establishment of the disbanded alliance?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Think about it, fellow Taoist Hagong. A group of people who don't know each other gather together to do tasks. They don't cooperate with each other and you have to be careful about someone stabbing a knife in the dark. But it's different with a disbanded alliance. The longer it is formed, the more members inside it will interact with each other. They become more familiar with each other. Not only can they cooperate with each other easily, but they can also be fair in resource allocation and rewards and punishments. The most important thing is that the alliance has credibility and will not take the deposit and do nothing, so most monks and sects When we are looking for people to do tasks, we will go directly to reliable alliance breakers. Only tasks with relatively low pay or tasks that do not require too many people will be posted." Wang Chongshan explained.
"There is also a situation where the Disbanded Alliance accepts a task but there are not enough manpower to mobilize at the same time. Then he will post the task and recruit other casual cultivators. However, the rewards for these tasks are determined by the Disbanded Alliance themselves. , generally it will be lower than the initial breakup of the alliance." Wang Chongshan added.
Although Yuan Ming had a general understanding of this when he was in southern Xinjiang, this time he found out through the words of monks from the Central Plains that the two regions had basically the same understanding of the disunion alliance, so he bowed his hand to Wang Chongshan to express his gratitude.
While he was talking to Wang Chongshan, other cultivators also entered the venue one after another. The seats were gradually filled. Even in the several boxes above, there were many people sitting down. Soon, a melodious string sound suddenly sounded. rang out, and the noisy venue gradually became quiet.
Under the gaze of many cultivators, a young woman with fair skin and beautiful skin wearing a light yellow gown rose up from the high platform in the center of the venue.
Yuan Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw the woman, not because of the person's identity, but because the woman's joints had extremely obvious traces of splicing.
Although her appearance was lifelike and she looked real, all the cultivators present could see that she was just a puppet driven by spiritual stones.
"First of all, I would like to thank all the seniors for attending this Tianxiang auction. My name is Puppet Jiu, and I am the host of this auction. As you can see, I am a spiritual stone puppet. I will host the entire auction process. There will definitely be no mistakes, this is guaranteed by City Lord Lu personally, and there is absolutely no falsehood." Puppet Jiu said.
Xiu bowed to everyone in the venue and spoke clearly and logically. If he hadn't looked at her joints, no one would have thought that such a vivid woman was just a puppet driven by spiritual stones.
Puppet Jiu on the high platform continued to introduce the rules of the auction.
"This auction will adopt a secret bidding method. If you are interested in a certain auction item, you can make a bid through the token issued to you when you enter. After receiving the message, I will send the highest price to you." I will inform you of the quotation, and if someone bids the same price, I will explain it separately. So without further ado, please take a look at the first lot!" As soon as Puppet Jiu finished speaking, another stone platform slowly rose behind her.
She took down a square box of nanmu from the stone platform made of goose velvet cloth. After opening it, she showed everyone the jade slips inside.
"What is recorded in this jade slip is the "Red Fire Heart Technique", the core skill of the Huo Yuan Sect of the Zhao State. Everyone should know that the Huo Yuan Sect and the Five Thunder Sect were once known as the first-class sects of the Zhao State."
"It is a pity that after the death of the ancestor of the sect, no one was promoted to Nascent Soul, so he withdrew from this first-class sect. However, the value of "Red Fire Heart Technique" as the main skill of the ancestor of the sect is not Therefore, it is weakened and the item on sale in our store is the complete text of the Heart Method "Chibo Heart Method", which includes all the cultivation methods of the alchemy period without missing a single word."
"There is such a technique that is enough to transform a small sect, save disciples with spiritual roots from taking at least fifty years of detours, and save a lot of training time and resources. The starting price is only 20,000 spiritual stones. Please give me a try. Fellow Taoist bid as much as you like!"
