Upon hearing this, Bai Shengyi was in a daze after Luo Feihua finished speaking.
"What's wrong with her?" Chu Tianle walked in from outside.
Luo Feihua said, "Perhaps she was stimulated by the gossip. What were you doing outside?"
"Nothing," Chu Tianle's face flashed with a hint of awkwardness, and he tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Right, when I came back just now, I ran into a attendant who said the auction was about to start. Here are some of the items to be auctioned."
He spread his hand open, and a scroll on it automatically flew out and unfurled, its words revealing a golden glow.
Several people hurried over to see what was being auctioned.
"Fifth-tier Longevity Pill? Sixth-tier Thunder-Flying Talisman?"
"Fifth-tier Xinling Grass, used to refine the Sixth-tier Spring-Return Pill? And this, a third-tier demonic beast!"
...
Bai Shengyi's eyes were wide with amazement. The Xunzhen Auction House was too extravagant! Pills, talismans, spirit artifacts... as long as cultivators couldn't afford it or imagine it, there was nothing they wouldn't sell!
"My dearest master!"
The voice of Little Samsara, affectionate and intimate, suddenly sounded in her spiritual sea. Bai Shengyi's heart skipped a beat. Had Little Samsara suddenly realized how good she was to it?
The facts proved that she was thinking too much.
The Reincarnation Brush said, "I've sensed the aura of the Nine Nether Desolate Fire, and it's in this auction house! Master, hurry up!"
Bai Shengyi: ...Have you forgotten that I'm broke?
However, despite her words, Bai Shengyi still stepped forward and examined the auctioned items again, but she didn't find the Nine Nether Desolate Fire.
"Is this all that's being auctioned? Where is the high-grade Earth-tier spirit artifact that Feng Wuya mentioned?" Bai Shengyi asked.
Chu Tianle said, "That attendant just said that the last three auction items are confidential."
Bai Shengyi understood. The Nine Nether Desolate Fire was likely among them, but it was also possible that it was in someone else's hands.
"Little Samsara, I think we're just here to join the fun, right? We should be self-aware," Bai Shengyi discussed with the Reincarnation Brush, feeling that this matter was hopeless.
She never expected her words to stir up a hornet's nest.
The Reincarnation Brush jumped twice in her spiritual sea and exclaimed, "Can you have some ambition! Is this about the Nine Nether Desolate Fire? This is about my and your strength! Do you want to only use that 'Contain' skill forever and not try my other functions?"
"If you can't even get me the Nine Nether Desolate Fire, and later on you want some divine fire, beast fire, or heavenly fire, won't you be too incompetent and just throw me away? Or do you just not love Little Brush anymore? Little Brush is suffering, how could I have met such a master in this broken place..."
Seeing that the Reincarnation Brush actually started crying as it spoke, Bai Shengyi couldn't help but twitch her mouth, feeling her head buzzing.
"I was wrong, okay, Little Samsara, calm down."
She couldn't understand how a brush could have such a temper.
Who on earth had spoiled it!
The Reincarnation Brush: "Then tell me, are you going for the Nine Nether Desolate Fire or not?"
Bai Shengyi: "...Watch your wording."
"Don't change the subject!" the Reincarnation Brush said sternly, as this concerned its life's great matter.
Bai Shengyi was about to cry, "I'll try my best, okay? You know I'm poor and have nothing, and my strength is also average..."
The Reincarnation Brush seemed to finally realize that its demands were too much for Bai Shengyi, and changed its request, "Fine, as long as you don't slack off with Little Brush."
Bai Shengyi thought to herself, how could she dare? She had contracted a little ancestor and had to coax her.
"The auction has begun!" Feng Wuya reminded everyone.
Only then did Bai Shengyi realize that at some point, the wall of their private room facing outwards had turned into a mirror-like object that could show the scene outside.
They could see that on an open space of about ten square meters, there was a table. A female cultivator leaped into the air onto a high platform and lightly tapped a protruding part on the table with her hammer, causing the entire auction house to sound with "clang, clang."
"Welcome all cultivators to the Xunzhen Auction House of Qianlian City! I am Fang Yao, the host of this auction. We have many new faces today. It seems everyone is very enthusiastic about the spiritual items to be auctioned today, so without further ado, let's start with the first spiritual item. This is a fifth-tier spirit grass..."
"Shengyi, you want this Red Ling Grass?"
Luo Feihua asked when she saw Bai Shengyi staring at the spirit grass outside.
Bai Shengyi said, "No, I'm just curious about what this is?" She pointed at the wall.
Chu Tianle was already accustomed to Bai Shengyi's occasional lack of common sense.
He explained, "This is a Shadow-Born Mirror, divided into mother and child mirrors. The child mirror can see everything the mother mirror is doing in real-time, transmitting the images. This is our child mirror. It's also to protect the privacy of the auctioneers. If you want to buy something, you only need to press here to bid; you don't need to speak or show yourself."
"Of course, if your strength is strong enough, or you want to intimidate others, you can do without these."
As soon as Chu Tianle finished speaking, he heard someone outside say, "This old man bids 15 mid-grade spirit stones."
"That's Grandpa Feng's voice!" Luo Feihua exclaimed excitedly, then glared at Feng Wuya, "Alright Feng Wuya, you didn't tell us Grandpa Feng was in Qianlian City, and we didn't go to pay our respects. How impolite."
Moreover, she guessed that Feng Wuya's invitation was given by Grandpa Feng.
Feng Wuya chuckled and said, "Grandpa said that we are still in the assessment period, so it's better to have less contact."
Luo Feihua was just saying it. She naturally understood this.
The eighteen hidden families were said to be the second most powerful forces on the continent after the Divine Enlightenment Academy and the royal family. However, in recent years, the families had been declining, while the Divine Enlightenment Academy had become increasingly powerful. Therefore, even though they were all proud sons of heaven, to obtain more cultivation resources and opportunities, they had to find ways to enter the Divine Enlightenment Academy.
Bai Shengyi noticed that after Grandpa Feng Wuya spoke, the number of bidders decreased. Soon, Grandpa Feng Wuya successfully bid for the Red Ling Grass at 20 mid-grade spirit stones.
The female cultivator on stage acted decisively and efficiently. Under her hosting, the auction items were sold one by one. Soon, it was time for the last item on the scroll, the mid-grade Earth-tier spirit artifact, the Azure Sparrow Thunder-Conquering Armor.
"...This armor not only can withstand attacks from cultivators in the late Golden Core stage but also can isolate all lightning attacks. As everyone knows, lightning spiritual power is the most difficult type of spiritual power to defend against. With the Azure Sparrow Thunder-Conquering Armor, you no longer have to worry about the attacks of lightning cultivators."
"Of course, the most important thing is that this is equivalent to a life-saving charm... I announce, the starting price for this armor is 50 high-grade spirit stones."
"Hiss..."
"I bid 100 high-grade spirit stones."
Bai Shengyi's gasp and the external bid coincided. She suddenly felt that she shouldn't have come to this auction today.
"Is everyone so rich?" Bai Shengyi asked weakly.
Feng Wuya said, "This is nothing. No one on the continent has broken through to the late Golden Core stage in so many years. With the protection of this armor, that person can do whatever they want."
"However, a mid-grade Earth-tier is already so incredible. Won't the high-grade Earth-tier be even crazier later?" Bai Shengyi said.
It wasn't that she was uncultured; it was just that the bidders' eyes were red, and they were already calling out bids of 500 mid-grade spirit stones.
"This is Sister Li's private room." Chu Tianle suddenly said.
"How do you know?"
Chu Tianle didn't answer. He heard someone in the private room speak immediately after the previous bid, "My Sun family bids 600 mid-grade spirit stones."
"Is Sun Yun crazy?" Feng Wuya raised an eyebrow. "With so many elders from aristocratic families present, and many unknown forces, aren't they all stronger than her, a young girl who has just reached the Foundation Establishment stage? By revealing the Sun family's name like this, aren't you afraid of offending people?"
"How can she think so much? I'm afraid she still thinks everyone will let her win," Bai Shengyi said. Although she had only interacted with Sun Yun twice, she understood Sun Yun's personality very well.
This was clearly a princess patient in the advanced stage, who was completely self-centered.