Chapter 210: Halfway to the Kill, Bite the Gold
The next day was the official auction. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Because of Lin Xi's words with Murong Xue at the informal auction, the City Lord's Mansion also knew the news that Xiaolan had returned, and soon sent another invitation, so that Xiaolan would no longer have to use the invisibility cloak to cover her identity.
A few people had just had breakfast, when they heard two knocks on the door, Lin Xi went over and opened the door, it was a strange monk, "May I ask if this is Nan Gongzi's room?" ”
Nan Gongzi?
Lin Xi raised his eyebrows, "You're looking for Ji Nan, right?" Wait a minute! ”
Lin Xi walked back into the hall, "Looking for you!" ”
Ji Nan came back in the middle of the ring, but the mood didn't look very good, Xiaolan asked, "What are you looking for?" ”
Ji Nan snorted coldly before saying, "I said that for the sake of our safety, I would go with the people of the City Lord's Mansion later, but I refused!" ”
Xiaolan nodded, "Well, by the way, we've been back for a few days, Tongcheng should have received the news a long time ago, what did your grandfather say?" ”
"I just said that we don't have to go back in a hurry, treat the guests well, and grandpa will send someone to pick us up when the time comes." Ji Nan said in a sullen voice.
"What's going on over there?" Xiao Lan asked without raising his head.
"It was said that the seventh uncle over there in the cold city is back!" Ji Nan said vaguely.
Xiaolan didn't ask any more, and after a while, everyone went out of the gate with good food, and the beast carriage of the City Lord's Mansion also happened to be in front of a few people.
"Xiao Nan, bring your friends up and go together!" A kind middle-aged uncle popped his head out of the carriage and said.
Ji Nan shook his head, "No need, let's go over and take a look at the scenery in the city by the way." ”
As early as when he saw the carriage of the City Lord's Mansion coming, in order to avoid Xiaolan from running into the people inside, Ji Nan asked Lin Xi to take Xiaolan in first to avoid it, so Xiaolan didn't have time to see the City Lord, so Lin Xi found a reason to pull him in.
The kind middle-aged uncle nodded, not reluctantly, "Okay then!" Pay attention to safety, the group of people from Mingyun Mountain have also come to Fancheng recently. ”
Ji Nan thanked him with a smile, the middle-aged uncle lowered the curtain, and the beast carriage walked away after a while.
Lin Xi saw that the carriage was far away, and hurriedly pulled Xiaolan out.
"Everyone be careful on the road, especially to take care of your storage bags, don't underestimate the people of Mingyun Mountain!" Ji Nan turned around and said to Lin Xi and a few people who didn't know the situation.
"Mingyun Mountain? What's wrong with them? Xiao Yu'er asked.
"Mingyun Mountain is the name of a loose cultivator, and most of the immortal cultivators in it are disciples who have been driven out by various sects because of their mistakes, or some desperate immortal cultivators. In the past, I used to earn spirit stones by accepting tasks and commissions, but since I changed the leader, I have become a bit taboo, as long as I can earn spirit stones, I can do anything. Like something that kills people and grabs treasures, it is very common, and stealing a storage bag or something is even more commonplace. ”
"So, take care of your storage bags, those people in Mingyun Mountain are not weak!" Ji Nan explained.
Isn't this the Xianxia version of bandits and thieves?
"yes, got it!" Xiao Yu'er readily agreed, but the excitement on his face made him wish he would meet Mingyun Mountain!
"They are doing evil in your territory, and your ancestors won't let people clear it out?" Lin Xi looked at Ji Nan and asked, take a walk around Fancheng from time to time, can the immortal cultivators in the city stand it?
"The person who established Mingyun Mountain once saved the life of the old ancestor, and when the old ancestor wanted to repay, the only condition put forward was to let the old ancestor give them Xiaoyang Mountain, and the old ancestor agreed, and allowed, as long as he lived, the people of Mingyun Mountain could enter and leave the jurisdiction of the blue flower chinchilla clan at will."
"Since Mingyun Mountain changed the current leader, the ancestor also had a headache, but he couldn't take back what he said, so he had to let several cities near Xiaoyang Mountain set up checkpoints, and if it was a person from Xiaoyang Mountain, he would not be given an identity card. In fact, you can also think of it, for immortal cultivators who only have spirit stones in their eyes, identity cards and city walls are useless at all. ”
"Suzaku Mountain and Suzaku Mountain Range are both barriers and ladders, as long as they bypass the mountain range, they are like walking on the ground, and they can't stop them if they want to!" Ji Nan said with some melancholy.
"Is there no other way?" Lin Xi asked again.
"Not yet! Although most of those people were disciples who had been driven out of the door, they had been tempered and were far stronger than immortal cultivators of the same level. Ji Nan shook his head.
In a short time, a few people arrived at the auction venue, which was a three-story building next to yesterday's informal auction.
There were two rows of guards standing at the door, and the city lord who was one step ahead was standing at the door talking to a gorgeously dressed couple at this time, and next to him stood a male cultivator who looked like a butler, checking the invitations of the visitors one by one.
Looking at the smiling face of the city lord Murong Shui, Xiao Lan said coldly, "Hypocrisy! ”
Lin Xi and the others looked at Xiaolan helplessly, angry, and didn't know if they couldn't help but call after seeing the city lord later, Lin Xi thought for a while and asked, "Is there only this one door?" Are there any doors like back doors, side doors, etc.? ”
Ji Nan nodded with a smile and looked at Xiaolan, "Well, there is a side door on the north side, let's enter through the north gate!?" "Although it was a question, I had already made up my mind to go through the north gate.
"Thank you!" On the way, Xiaolan lowered her head and said.
"No thanks, we don't like that old man either!" Lin Xi walked over with a smile and said while holding Xiaolan's arm.
"Don't worry, we will definitely help you find out the cause of Murong Bing's death!"
Blue nodded.
The people in the building were all concentrated at the main entrance, and there was not even a guard at the side door, Lin Xi opened the door with a light push, and several people walked in quietly.
Please note that it is private room No. 57, with six people together.
Under the leadership of the attendants, several people went up to the second floor, and the No. 57 private room happened to be in the direction of the auction table, and the city lord was also quite painstaking!
The side of the private room facing the auction table is made of glass, so you don't have to open the door to see the outside, but you can't see the people inside.
The private room was about two rooms in size, and there were a dozen or so chairs in it, and between the chairs were small high-legged tables, and after a while the attendant brought in two jugs full of water, and six plates of snacks, and saw the fawn standing on the ground, and returned to bring in a few futons.
When the attendants were busy standing by the door and waiting, Ji Nan asked, "How long will it take?" ”
"Half an hour to go!" The attendant replied respectfully, and then asked, "There is a list of auction items downstairs, do you need them?" ”
"You can take three copies!" Ji Nan said and took out another handful of spirit stones and handed them to the attendants, and Lin Xi knew that the list of auction items was to be bought with spirit stones.
After a while, the attendant returned, with six thick booklets in his hand, even the fawn.
On the cover of the booklet is the 'List of Lots at the 960th Fancheng Auction', with the name and description of the lot on the top and an image of the lot below.
The first one is two pills called Ice Crystal Pill, the main effect is to strengthen the Ice Spirit Root, the side effects are unknown, it is obtained by the seller in the predecessor Cave Mansion, and the starting price is 2,000 spirit stones.
This elixir is only suitable for immortal cultivators with a single ice spirit root, and the scope is too small, so the starting price is not high.
The second page is a pair of gloves, woven with deep-sea silk and Flame Mountain silk, which has strong fire and ice resistance, and the starting price has reached 20,000 spirit stones.
This Lin Xi doesn't need it, she has a pair of gloves woven of deep-sea silk in her space at the moment.
Lin Xi flipped a few more pages back, these things were not needed by her, and she simply turned directly to the finale on the last page.
The finale is a cape, a cloak made from the skin of a thousand-year-old deep-sea mackerel.
After the appraiser's determination, wearing this cloak can increase the speed of humans or demons walking in the water by a thousand times, and the residual mackerel pressure on the cloak can effectively deter sea creatures.
The starting price of such a cloak reached 100,000 spirit stones.
Lin Xi didn't have much feeling, she might have seen magic weapons such as the Demon Suppression Sword and the Invisibility Cloak, and she was a little indifferent to the treasures in the atlas.
Lin Xi casually moved forward for a few pages, and at this time, a sword attracted Lin Xi's attention.
At the top of the page is written the words 'Earth Spirit Sword', and below is the introduction and image. Unlike what Xiao Lan got from Bai Chi, this sword was only five hundred years old, and the caster was also a not-so-famous refiner, but the starting price also reached 20,000 spirit stones.
At this moment, two people walked outside the door, and the attendant reported that the city lord had come to visit, and was sent away by Ji Nan with a sentence of 'no mood'.
After a while, there was a sound of the official start outside, and then the auctioneer came to the stage, and the first lot was the two Ice Crystal Pills.
After a while, the Ice Crystal Pill, which was originally priced at 2,000 lower grade spirit stones, rose to 10,000 lower grade spirit stones, and there was a trend of upward growth. Half an hour later, he was finally taken down by an immortal cultivator who mutated the ice spirit root with 18,000 spirit stones.
In order to prevent the loss of the lot, the Castle Lord's Mansion can help the buyer deliver it to the designated place free of charge, so this only registers the location of the next delivery for the buyer, and does not intend to collect it in person.
Soon, the second lot was also delivered, which was a pair of waterproof and fireproof multi-functional gloves.
Different from the light blue gloves in Lin Xi's hand, which were only woven from deep-sea silk, the gloves on the auction table were green, and they were illuminated by the candle flame on the top of the hall, reflecting the blue and red light of the stars.
The auctioneer put the gloves on his hands, first roasted them over the fire, then frozen them with ice charms, and after removing the gloves, the auctioneer wanted to show his hands intact around him. The buyers below were really affected and eagerly held up signs.
"With such a pair of gloves, the glaciers of the far north can come and go whenever you want, and even the snow lotus that grows in the depths of the glacier is also at your fingertips! In addition, such a pair of gloves can also help you get the coveted magma from the magma, so that your magic weapon ......" The auctioneer also dutifully mobilizes the atmosphere of the audience, whether it is snow lotus or magma, it is a genuine product that is rare to see even in auctions, and no one is tempted by this temptation! Even Ji Nan joined the scramble.
At this time, Xiaolan suddenly frowned, and said softly to Lin Xi, "Come out!" ”
Came out?
What's coming out?
"Oh, you're talking about kittens! In which direction? Lin Xi asked.
"Now it's out of the appraisal hall!"
"Let's go now!" Little Blue held her breath and followed the strong scent to find the location of the kitten.
Lin Xi nodded, "Are you and me enough?" ”
Xiaolan thought about it and said, "Xiaoyu'er will go too!" ”
She looked at Ji Nan, Xue Yi and Xiaolu again, "The three of you stay here, don't be found out that the three of us are not here!" ”
At this time, Lin Xi also took out the invisibility cloak, she stood in the middle, Xiaolan and Xiaoyuer stood on both sides, Ji Nan opened the door and let Lin Xi and the three of them go out first, and then lay on the railing in front of the door of the private room and looked down, after a while, he shook his head and returned to the private room with a pity on his face.
At this time, near the side door, a black-haired male cultivator muttered as he walked, "I remember that there should be a side door here, where is it?" ”
At this moment, the black-haired male cultivator saw a wooden door in front of him that was only one person wide, and before he could be happy, he saw that the door opened by itself, but there was no wind at this time, because the terrain of the side door was sloping, and the door opened to the end and then 'walked' back, but when he was halfway through, it seemed to hit something, and it bounced back.
The black-haired male cultivator looked at this scene with his mouth open, he was very sure that it was not caused by the wind, it was half loud, and when the door was 'gone' back halfway again, it stopped, he stepped forward and scratched in the air, and there was nothing.
The black-haired male cultivator breathed a sigh of relief, he had heard a lot of ghost stories recently, but he was frightened.
And Lin Xi and the three narrowly avoided it without realizing it.
The three of them quickly walked through the street in invisibility cloaks, and saw the group of people from the Song family at the intersection of Zhengyang Street.
Probably knowing that there would be danger during the transportation, the eldest prince of Song did not come in person, only the housekeeper who followed the eldest prince of the Song family yesterday was holding the kitten, and beside him were ten monks ranging from the foundation building period to the infant stage of the yuan, each holding a sharp sword in his hand, and the green tendons in his hands were tight, and it seemed that he could jump up to meet the enemy at any time.
The housekeeper hugged the cat tightly, looking left and right as he walked, but he could still maintain a fast foot speed, and kept urging, "Hurry up!" Come on! ”
Lin Xi and the three of them followed behind this group of people, this is Zhengyang Street, surrounded by shops and restaurants, although most of the people went to see the auction, but these shops are not closed, and occasionally there are sporadic guests coming to the door, not a hands-on place.
"When are we going to do it?" Xiao Yu'er asked excitedly, these monks were not enough for him to warm up.
"Not yet, in a while we will go to Yanggut Street, which is a residential area, and the lanes are narrow, and it cannot be used. After the sheep intestine street is Daoxiang Street, where you can, the street is wide, the people who live there during the day have gone to work, we followed them there and then started! Xiaolan said after a moment's silence.
"Hmm." Lin Xi and Xiao Yu'er agreed.
Who knew that as soon as he walked halfway through the sheep intestine street, three immortal cultivators came out from the opposite side of the alley, and the housekeeper hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Quick, go back!" ”
As soon as the words fell, three more immortal cultivators came out of the way, and the housekeeper was so frightened that his legs were weak, looking at the alleys on the left and right, not surprisingly, three more immortal cultivators came out each, a total of twelve immortal cultivators surrounded the butler and eleven other people in the middle.