After nightfall, Cheng Yuan and others rented a sandcastle courtyard to stay.
The rent here is very cheap, probably because they came from a neighboring city and were given four entrance tickets to the Renbao Pavilion auction.
Aunt Lan stayed at her residence to rest, citing physical discomfort.
The three of them, Cheng Yuan, went to the auction under the stars.
The layout of Renbaofang City is similar to that of Xianqi City. The three of them found the place with familiarity and entered with their entrance tickets.
"Fairies, please wear your masks."
The butler at the entrance of the auction enthusiastically led them to the mask rack aside.
"We just came to take a look."
"This is the rule of the auction." The deacon also explained with a smile while wearing a pure white half-mask: "Tonight's auction will also have a lottery with generous prizes. If you spare the time for fairies, it will be enough to make people greedy." It turns out that Cheng Yuan chose a mask with a dragon head and Ji Qiuyu with a phoenix head, while Yan Chu chose a mask with a wild goose.
The three of them put on cloaks of the same color and entered.
The place was already full of people, and they randomly chose a corner to sit down.
What is being auctioned on the auction stage at this time is indeed a spiritual deer with white light all over its body. The spiritual deer's moist eyes are full of fear, and tears fall from time to time.
"This Linglu came from Dongling. The mountains are high and the water is far away. I don't know how much suffering he has suffered. It looks very pitiful." Ji Qiuyu sighed and shook his head.
The people at the auction seemed not to be interested in this spiritual deer, and no one came forward to bid for it.
The steward on the auction stage said: "Although this spiritual deer doesn't have any great abilities, it is said to increase the monk's luck..."
"Haha, if it's lucky, it won't be caught." Someone said mockingly.
When everyone heard this, they felt that it made sense. With luck, they would not be in this situation.
The steward shook his head helplessly: "The person who auctioned this spiritual deer also said that it really can't be done. The meat of this spiritual deer is very delicious. If your cultivation is at a bottleneck, you might as well cook it and eat it. Maybe it will work.
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"Hey, I'll buy it then. My grandson likes this one."
Linglu seemed to be able to understand people's words. Hearing the words, his whole body couldn't stop trembling, and his tears flowed even more fiercely.
The manager suddenly beamed with joy, almost losing the deal to himself.
"Five hundred spiritual stones, once!"
"This is really unreasonable!" Ji Qiuyu immediately raised his hand.
The person in charge saw it and quickly reported: "Six hundred spirit stones, once!"
The person in front couldn't help but get angry when he saw someone taking pictures with him. He turned around and glared at Ji Qiuyu: "I just asked you to take pictures but you didn't take them. If I want to take pictures, you will rob them. Are you sincerely trying to get in trouble with me?"
"Misunderstanding, I just see this spiritual deer as pitiful and can't bear for it to end up in the human population."
"Ha, you mean it's pitiful if I eat it, and I've done something wrong?" The man refused to let go, and followed the price several times, until the price reached a thousand spiritual stones. p>
Ji Qiuyu looked calm and continued to take photos.
The two of them kept going back and forth, increasing the price tenfold.
The demon master in front who called himself Lao Sun was furious. He turned back and pointed angrily at Ji Qiuyu: "Wait for me!"
Ji Qiuyu, the old god, finally bought this spiritual deer for five thousand spiritual stones.
"Shall we go see it?" Ji Qiuyu said.
"Okay."
The three of them got up and went to the backstage, handed over the spiritual stone to the auction deacon, and received the spiritual deer.
At that time, Linglu was shivering in the corner. Seeing Ji Qiuyu step forward, he stared at her warily.
Ji Qiuyu said slowly: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I will let you go when we leave the city."
Hearing this, Linglu blinked, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Really." Ji Qiuyu assured, then reached out and gently stroked the spirit deer.
For a while, the spirit deer did not move, and allowed Ji Qiuyu to caress its body. Probably because its worried mood was relieved, the spirit deer fell asleep under Ji Qiuyu's caress.
"By the way, do you still have room for your demon control bracelet?"
Ji Qiuyu glanced at his own and explained: "Although Xiaoxuan does not wear the demon-control bracelet, he acts quickly and domineeringly. He does not allow other demons to live in the same place with him."
"Then take this from me." Cheng Yan has a colorful demon-control bracelet given by his master, and the big space inside is always empty.
With that said, he took the spirit deer in.
By the time Cheng Yuan and others returned, the auction had come to an end, and the auction was for a set of artifact refining fragments.
"This object comes from a secret realm somewhere in the south. It is said that the owner of the secret realm was a master of weapon refining during his lifetime."
Cheng Yan suddenly became interested and asked: "What is the name of this master of weapon refinement?"
"This..." The deacon glanced somewhere, and then shook his head: "The person holding the fragment does not know who the master of weapon refinement is, but he said that if anyone is interested, you can read the first three pages for free.
If you are interested after looking at it, you can continue trading.”
Cheng Yan nodded.
The deacon immediately sent the set of fragments to Cheng Yuan.
Cheng Yuan looked into his spiritual sense and was immediately attracted by the ancient calligraphy on the first page. These smart and elegant characters, regardless of the content of the weapon, must have been well studied on talismans.
Due to limited time, Cheng Yan browsed it for a while and then decided to buy it.
"What, thirty thousand spiritual stones?"
The deacon who took back the fragment explained: "Because the person who auctioned this fragment recently wanted to buy another high-level spiritual weapon, this object was auctioned."
"Haha, if you take 30,000 spiritual stones to take a picture of a weapon-refining fragment, whoever takes the picture will be a fool!"
The person who had been unhappy with Ji Qiuyu before laughed sarcastically, causing some good people to burst into laughter.
Cheng Yan was too lazy to pay attention and said, "I wonder if we can discuss this with the owner of the fragment."
"There is no such rule."
Cheng Yan said: "I am quite involved in weapon refining. If I have the opportunity in the future, I will study this set of fragments carefully."
Cheng Yuan gave up on the auction, and the set of scrolls ultimately failed to sell.
……
Not long after the three of them left the auction, one person followed them out of the market, until they arrived at a deserted alley.
That person showed up to meet him.
"You asked me to come, but you want to trade privately?" The man did not take off his mask, and his green face and fangs looked particularly ferocious.
Cheng Yan nodded: "I really want this set of fragments. Thirty thousand spiritual stones is indeed too high."
"No counter-offers! Otherwise I wouldn't put it at auction!"
"I know, but your scraps failed to sell, because no one is willing to spend 30,000 spirit stones to buy a set of weapon-refining scraps."
The man was a little impatient: "Then why did you ask me to come?"
"I want to know what kind of spiritual weapon you need? Maybe I can refine it. If it is possible, I am willing to exchange the spiritual weapon for this set of fragments. This will be beneficial to both of us."
"You?" Although he couldn't see the man's expression clearly, Cheng Yan felt that he must be contemptuous.
She said indifferently: "If I can't refine it, just think of it as disturbing me. If I can, then you will make a profit."
The man was silent for a moment and said: "Soul-Calming Bell!"