Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Tao Te Ching

After Zhou Baichuan left, many people came to visit, but Li Fugui was in a bad mood now and didn't see them at all, so Liu Jin blocked all these people from the door.

Li Fugui asked in his heart: "Proton, are you sure that Zhou Baichuan will not say it?"

Proton said affirmatively: "No, although I can't remember what the Zhou family has to do with Ziyuan, but the aura on his body is very familiar to me, and I am willing to believe him from the bottom of my heart." ”

Since Proton said so, Li Fugui also put his mind at ease, but he had already prepared for the worst, if Proton's identity was exposed, it would be a big deal to change his face and hide in the vast sea of people, thousands of years have passed since Ziyuan's affairs, even if he has a great relationship with Ziyuan, the three empires and various top sects should not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate themselves.

In fact, Zi Yuan has always been a thorn in the cultivation world of the Aura Continent, and after the three major empires and sects exterminated the Purple Abyss, they already knew that Zi Yuan was not the culprit who caused the abandonment of the Aura Continent, but they were afraid of Zi Yuan's revenge, after all, when Zi Yuan was strong, it was the top force in the entire continent, and no one force could beat it.

After they exterminated Zi Yuan, they also fell into deep fear, afraid that Zi Yuan was not completely destroyed, if they frantically retaliated against the major forces of the continent, no force would be able to resist it, so they would eradicate all the information about Zi Yuan, and erase all traces of Zi Yuan's existence. The gag order was issued for peace of mind, and it was to tell himself that Ziyuan had been completely destroyed.

The destruction of all the personnel of a cultivation sect does not mean the destruction of this inheritance, just like Liu Jin, although he is a casual cultivator, but after obtaining a certain inheritance, he is also considered a descendant of that inheritance.

Therefore, the rulers of the major forces all abide by the ancestral teachings and do their best to block all news of Ziyuan, and they are unwilling to let Ziyuan's inheritance appear. In fact, they were also helpless, for thousands of years, they had been constantly looking for the inheritance of Ziyuan, and even organized masters to enter the Ziyuan Ruins many times, which is now one of the forbidden places, the Abyss.

However, every time the army was wiped out, and no one could come out alive, which made these forces even more afraid of Ziyuan, plus thousands of years later, the older generation of powerhouses of the major forces died one after another, and now even the saint-level powerhouses can't make up much, and the major forces dare not step into the abyss easily.

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The big offering of the City Lord's Mansion let out a long breath, the auction was held as scheduled, and Li Fugui and the Demon Beast Building did not make another move, which made him feel a lot more at ease.

At this time, Li Fugui was sitting in the private room on the second floor of the Wende Chamber of Commerce auction hall, the private room was very large, and Li Fugui and his party must not feel crowded when they stayed inside.

There is a projection circle on the coffee table, and the items on the auction table will be projected onto this circle in real time, and there is a bidder next to the circle, which can be quoted by only needing to be probed in by the divine sense.

Each private room has a large number of prohibitions, which can prevent others from prying eyes, and even the service staff in the private room are standing at the door, not listening to any privacy of customers, if necessary, only need to transmit the sound of divine sense, and the service staff will do their best to meet any needs of customers.

Li Fugui sat in the middle, Li Yi and Liu Jin were on the left and right, the starling was standing on the coffee table and looking around curiously, and the red-eyed spirit ape was also following Li Fugui, originally Li Fugui wanted it to recuperate in the inn. However, the starling was afraid that the people from the Demon Beast Building would take advantage of Li Fugui's absence and come to capture the spirit ape again, so he brought it with him.

"Dear friends, welcome to the annual Wende Chamber of Commerce auction, I am the host today, only on behalf of the Wende Chamber of Commerce, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for coming, thank you. ”

"Last year's auction, I believe that everyone is full of returns, of course, this year will not disappoint everyone, I believe that many Taoist friends have already liked the auction items, a satisfactory auction items, but also please do not hesitate, today's auction items are rare treasures, if they are snatched away by others, it is worth the loss. ”

"Although it is cumbersome, I still have to explain the rules of the auction in detail according to the process, after all, there are still many Taoist friends who participate in the auction of Wende Commercial Bank for the first time, and I hope that you will not be long-winded. ”

"Wende Comptoir Auction, Article 1 ......"

The host said a lot of incense, summed up in one, the highest price wins, and there is no way to overwhelm people, if anyone dares to block the maximization of the interests of the auction, Wende Commercial Bank will permanently cancel his qualification to participate in the auction.

You must know that the Wende Chamber of Commerce is the top chamber of commerce in the whole continent, not only has strong financial strength, but there are also many high-level cultivators under it, if it really angers the Wende Chamber of Commerce, not to mention that the auctions in various places cannot be participated, and those with serious circumstances will even die tragically on the streets.

The host also told a living example, that is, in a top city, in the auction of the Wende Chamber of Commerce, an emperor-level powerhouse relied on the power of the sect behind him to force an auction item, although it was successful at that time, and successfully escaped back to the sect.

Wende Commercial Bank went to ask for someone, but its sect not only refused to give it, but also beat the people of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Wende Chamber of Commerce was furious, and offered a sky-high reward, and within ten days, the sect of emperor-level cultivators was beaten up by hundreds of thousands of cultivators, and none of the entire sect survived, and even the powerhouses in the late stage of the emperor-level were killed on the spot.

Since then, no one dares to underestimate the strength of Wende Commercial Bank, although it does not have many masters with the strength against the sky, but the temptation of cultivation resources, there are a few people who can resist it.

The host had a good timing, and just when everyone was about to get impatient, he ended the performance and said in a loud voice: "Okay, now the auction has officially begun, and next, let's invite the first lot." ”

After the host finished speaking, a beautiful woman walked up with a tray, put the tray on the table, and slowly retreated.

"The first lot is an attacking spirit weapon sword, its grade is at the heavenly level, our appraiser gave it a very poetic name, called Qiushui Sword, the so-called Qiushui Yiren, all the Taoist friends here, this is an excellent spiritual weapon for Taoist couples, don't miss it, the reserve price of Qiushui Sword is one hundred and fifty-five high-grade spirit stones, and each increase shall not be less than 100,000 high-grade spirit stones, everyone, are you ready?"

Speaking of this, the host deliberately paused, and then shouted: "Start bidding." ”

As soon as the host's voice fell, a boy in the back row entered the price of 1.5 million high-grade spirit stones on the bidder.

The host looked at the formation in front of him and said loudly: "Five hundred and twenty-three Daoists, bid one and a half million, are there any higher Daoists?"

"Seven hundred and fifteen Daoists, the bid is 1.8 million, and there are even higher, this price can't even buy a sword spike, don't miss the opportunity. ”

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Li Fugui looked at the host's performance, looked bored, took out the jade slip given by Zhou Baichuan, and said to Li Yi: "Call me when there will be good things." ”

After speaking, he began to check the ancient books by himself.

The ancient books sent by Zhou Baichuan are extremely mixed, including poems and songs, blog notes, and even a few ancient secrets, but although these things are rare, they are not very attractive to Li Fugui.

Suddenly Li Fugui's spirit was shocked, he saw a familiar title of the book "Tao Te Ching", with a frightened look, Li Fugui continued to look down, only to see that the jade slip was written, Author: Li Dan. Continue to look down, and the familiar words came into Li Fugui's mind, Dao Ke Dao, very Dao, famous name, very famous......

Rumble......

A thunderbolt exploded in Li Fugui's mind, he looked at the jade slip in his hand incredulously, his mind was full of the names "Lao Tzu", "Li Er" and "Li Dan", Li Fugui was shocked for a long time, and then slowly came back to his senses, and said secretly: "Could it be that Lao Tzu came to the Aura Continent after sending a letter to Guguan?"

Only this explanation can conform to the current situation, Li Fugui took the jade slip, carefully read the Tao Te Ching, and determined that this is the version on the earth.

As for why Li Fugui can memorize the Tao Te Ching, it starts with his grandfather's grandfather, the elders of Li Fugui's family, who claim to be the descendants of Li Er, and their clansmen must be familiar with the Tao Te Ching since childhood, whether you can understand it or not, you must be able to memorize it, and whether you are illiterate or not, you must be able to write it down word for word.

This is because Li Fugui's ancestors were afraid that the Tao Te Ching would be lost in turbulent times, so they set such a family rule, as long as one of the Li family children survived, the Tao Te Ching would not be lost.

So the Tao Te Ching has always been the shadow of Li Fugui's childhood, can you imagine a six or seven-year-old doll, under the education of a stick, fluently recite the Tao Te Ching, and can also write it down word for word, that is how much effort it takes.

Li Fugui took a deep breath and asked Li Yi, "Have you read the Tao Te Ching?"

Li Yi frowned, thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I've heard it, but I haven't read it, it seems to be an ancient book." ”

In fact, Li Yi has heard a fart, although his father has let him read and write since he was a child, but where would he like these, all day long is either to harm the people, or to follow the worship to learn and cultivate, he replied like this in order not to let Li Fugui look down on him, as for guessing that it is an ancient book, of course, it is because what Zhou Baichuan gave to Li Fugui are all ancient books.

Li Fugui turned his head to look at Liu Jin, Liu Jin looked embarrassed, and said, "I've never heard of it." ”

Li Fugui sighed, it seems that after the auction, he must go to the Zhou family, even if it is not for Ziyuan's business, he must go to this Tao Te Ching, Proton has no coordinates of the earth, and he can't take himself back, maybe there is a way to go back in the message left by Lao Tzu.

Paying attention, Li Fugui carefully put away the jade slip, and was about to take a piece of the jade slip to study, Li Yi suddenly said: "Brother Li, the dragon slashing wood is here." ”

Li Fugui looked carefully, and sure enough, the dragon slaying wood was placed on the platform.

The host said loudly: "High-quality refining materials, dragon slashing wood, this piece of dragon slaying wood is amazing, there are hundreds of catties, and fellow Daoists, please see, this dragon slaying wood is at least more than a hundred years old, so I won't say much about its value, one million high-grade spirit stones, please ask for the price." ”