It is the instinct of human beings to maximize profits, whether it is a businessman, an ordinary person or a monk, they instinctively want to exchange what is useless to themselves for the most useful thing for themselves.

That's where auctions come in.

Regular auctions will unify the currency, that is, to trade in spirit stones, just like modern auctions, you just need to give money, and I don't want other things.

In the cultivation world, there are also some less formal auctions, which pay attention to barter.

In the eyes of the monks, the market is not much different from the market, and unlike the ordinary market, the tradition of bartering is still maintained here.

For monks, spiritual stones are precious, but items that are helpful to them are even more precious. Therefore, the stalls in the fang market do not exclude bartering.

And in order to make everyone's cultivation better, a barter auction has also appeared. There is not much support behind this kind of auction, but some loose cultivators have formed themselves.

In the beginning, it is a group of people who gather together and exchange what they can't use for what others can use for them. Later, this tradition was carried forward and became a common practice.

In the Fang Market of Shaoyang City, there is such a practice - a trading auction every five years.

Lin Heng came to the street where it was written that idlers are exempt from entering, his eyes flashed with a hint of green, and the four words "idlers are exempt from entering" on the sign were immediately replaced with the four big characters of "monks please enter". He knew that this was where the Fang market was located.

With a sigh, Lin Heng leisurely stepped over the prohibition shot at the entrance of the street and entered the street.

Outside the prohibition, ordinary people look at this street, it is a condensation, the surrounding houses are ordinary houses, and the streets are completely unpopulated. But when you step over the ban and walk inside, you will find out. The houses on both sides are full of shops, and the streets are full of people, so it's not lively.

Just now, Lin Heng had already gone to the office of Zhenxuanmen here, and he knew that there was an auction in Fang City every five years in the past few days, so he rushed over immediately.

The auctions held by the Loose Retreat are different from those that are held in the regular auctions. Invitations are sent out before the start of the regular auctions, inviting some famous and wealthy monks to go, and most of them are not allowed to enter the auction because they don't have much oil and water. And here the auction will be. As long as you catch up, you can come and go as you please, without any invitations.

And compared to auctions with many rules, the auctions here are also much looser.

Lin Heng learned about the itinerary of the auction and knew that the auction would be held for seven days. The first three days are the time for people to gather, and the registration of items is registered, and the person in charge of registration is a casual practitioner who often comes and goes here, and they will record everything in the auction. At the end of the day, he was paid a lot of money, which was counted as a reward.

In the last three days, it is the registered disciples to sort out things. The time when the roster was recorded. The last day is when the auction begins.

Here, anyone who has something can register it and write down what they want to redeem. If you want spirit stones, you should also mark them clearly and wait until the auction starts. Everyone will exchange the items with the owner according to the roster in their hands. If you haven't found what you need in the afternoon, or if you haven't exchanged anything, you can apply for a joint auction to let everyone check your things and see who has come up with something to your satisfaction, so as to reach the best exchange.

Although this kind of auction seems to be a lot more complicated, everyone is very satisfied. People come here to find what they need, if everything is directly auctioned, it must be the highest bidder, some people who have no money, it will be difficult to buy what they need. But now, the owner marks what he wants, and as long as you have it, you can exchange it for the items you like, saving you the opportunity to compete with others and waste money.

In doing so, it seems that the owner has lost something, but you have to understand that since they have marked what they want, it means that this thing is the most helpful to you right now. Therefore, the owner will not suffer at all.

Walking on the street, Lin Heng couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the neat shops around him. The Fang Market in this city is much more formal than the Sanyuan Valley in Zhenxuanmen, so everyone doesn't have to be crowded together.

"Xuan Miao Pavilion. All kinds of rare treasures, choose at will! This introduction is too vague......" Looking at the small shop in front of him, Lin Heng was a little curious. The shop in front, no matter what kind of store it is, will roughly mark what it has, and this Xuanmiao Pavilion has a rare treasure directly, which is really strange enough. Moreover, there were a lot of people coming in and out of this store, which made Lin Heng curious about what treasures were in the store.

He thought for a moment, lifted his feet and walked in.

The Xuan Miao Pavilion is not big, it is just an ordinary shop, a hall, surrounded by three counters, and a small wooden shelf at the entrance, on which the store's roster is placed.

Lin Heng picked up a roster and flipped through it, and found that this Xuanmiao Pavilion was really wonderful. The booklet said that the items in the Xuanmiao Pavilion are all some rare treasures, but this rare treasure is in quotation marks, because what this thing is, the owner can't say, just say that this thing has its own peculiarities, but what it is, I don't know what it is.

You look at a black stone on the roster, it explains the characteristics of this black stone, hard, very hard, with the cultivation of the foundation building period, it cannot be destroyed with a full blow when you move the magic weapon.

This thing, at first glance, is a good thing, maybe you don't know its name and use, but it can resist the stone that can withstand the full force of the foundation building period, how can it be ordinary?

It's just that if you take this thing out and sell it, won't the owner be afraid of a loss?

Lin Heng was a little strange, but he quickly found the answer from the crowd of people who bought things. Selling things here is not a trade in spirit stones, but an exchange of goods. To put it bluntly, the shopkeeper is to use these things that he can't understand and are temporarily useless to himself in exchange for items that are useful for his current cultivation to speed up his cultivation. In this way, you can't say who loses and who earns, because the person who buys things wants the future, and the boss wants the present.

"This boss is shrewd enough!" Lin Heng couldn't help but sigh in admiration. In his opinion, the boss is destined to be deserved. In the cultivation world, there is never a shortage of genius earth treasures, but most of the really good things are in the hands of those high-level cultivators, even if you occasionally get some treasures, if you don't have advanced cultivation, it is useless. The boss is like this, he collects some treasures that are useless to him, and exchanges them for things to improve his cultivation, which seems to be a loss, but he makes a lot of money. Because cultivation is the most important thing for a monk.

"It's just, how the hell did this boss get these things?"

Lin Heng had some doubts in his heart, but everyone had his secrets, and Lin Heng was not easy to speculate. He took the roster, looked through it carefully, and in a short time found several items that interested him, one of which was the black stone, and the second was a piece of lightning wood. This lightning strike wood is not big, only the size of a human thumb, but on the roster, this lightning strike wood is very strong, and there is also an extremely powerful amount of lightning power on it, which is a good material for refining the magic weapon of the lightning system, but it is too small, so the boss took it out and sold it.

The third item that Lin Heng valued was a jade bottle. This is a jade bottle, or rather, a bottle that looks a lot like a jade bottle. It looks like a jade bottle on the outside, but the material is completely different, it is very strong, and the boss can't see what characteristics it has, but such a strong jade bottle is also very extraordinary, so it is put out.

Lin Heng didn't see the real thing, and naturally he didn't know what the jade bottle of Lu Dao was, but looking at its little introduction, he knew that this thing of Lu Dao could also be a treasure, better than other things.

After he had selected the items, he went to the disciple in charge and said that he wanted to buy these three things. The disciple immediately notified the boss, and the boss saw that it was big business, so he personally welcomed Lin Heng into the back hall.

"Brother, I have already sold the black stone, and now there are only these two things left, I don't know if my brother wants it?" The boss took out the lightning strike wood and the jade bottle, bowed in front of Lin Heng, and said carefully.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Of course." I'm going to take a look at things first, though. ”

The boss nodded and motioned for Lin Heng to test. He first picked up the lightning strike wood, and found that there were several talismans pressed on it, and he knew that this was the amount of lightning power in the lightning strike wood. He asked the boss, "Brother, can you take down the talisman?" ”

"Of course you can, but the amount of lightning in this lightning strike wood should not be underestimated, brother Tai should be careful." The boss reminded Lin Heng that he didn't take it seriously at first, but as soon as he took down the talisman, he felt a huge amount of lightning coming from the lightning strike wood in his hand, and he was shocked and dropped the lightning strike wood to the ground. He smirked and carefully picked up the lightning strike wood.

This lightning strike wood is not big, but I don't know what kind of material the wood is, it is very hard to the touch, and the amount of lightning in it is also a little excessive. It's just that compared to the black stone that Lin Heng had obtained, the lightning energy of this lightning strike wood did not do much damage to the divine sense.

"Looking at the scorched black marks of this wood, the age should not be too old, and it is normal that it cannot be compared with the black stone, but I don't know if there is the power of the black stone after it is conceived."

Lin Heng hesitated in his heart for a moment, and then decided to buy it. The power of the thunder sword he refined in the previous life is not bad, since he has encountered this lightning strike wood in this life, he naturally wants to cultivate it well, and when the time comes, he can completely refine another thunder sword, and there are not many good materials in this world, if you join it, the new thunder sword will definitely be more powerful.

After resealing the lightning strike wood, Lin Heng picked up the jade bottle again. He looked at it and found that he couldn't tell the material of the thing either. Lin Heng knew a lot of things, but he couldn't say that he knew everything, and this jade bottle was like this. It seems that it is no different from an ordinary jade bottle, but as soon as you feel it, you will find that this thing is definitely not made of jade, especially the sturdiness, which surprised Lin Heng.

After thinking about it, Lin Heng also decided to buy it and go back to let the master take a look.

He put down his things, looked up and asked the boss, "Brother, I wonder what you plan to exchange these two things for?" (To be continued......)