Chapter 149: The Auction
Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere was a little solemn, Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Speaking of which, we should have saved your lives just now, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes......"
The two nodded again and again, and said respectfully: "If it weren't for the two adults just now, I'm afraid that we will be in a catastrophe this time, and the grace of saving lives is unforgettable. "Although it is really calculated, what happened just now was actually that Lin Ping himself died, and Li Mu and the others did not want to help them, but in any case, the result of the matter was that they escaped, whether it was intentional or unintentional, they must accept this favor, and they dare not admit it.
"There's no need to repay the favor!"
Li Mu waved his hand disapprovingly: "I'm very interested in the annual auction you said before, to attract so many people to participate every year, there must be a lot of good things in this auction, right?"
"This is nature!" Zhanfei nodded: "You must know that this year's auction is jointly organized by the Qingyun Sect and the City Lord's Mansion......"
"What did you say?"
Halfway through Zhan Fei's words, Feng Yi, who was originally sitting on the side with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp light shot out of his eyes.
Seeing Feng Yi's terrifying eyes, the Zhan family and others were all trembling with fright, and Zhan Fei even thought that he had said something wrong and committed the other party's taboo, and the whole person instantly turned pale, and his hands and feet were cold.
But Feng Yi didn't care about the Zhan family brothers' faces, and said in a deep voice: "You just said that the auction was jointly organized by the Qingyun Sect and the City Lord's Mansion?"
"Yes, yes......" Zhanfei said in a trembling voice.
"As far as I know, except for the Changtian Sect, the imperial court has always been quite resistant to the forces of the major sects, how can this City Lord's Mansion in Xiao City cooperate with the Qingyun Sect?" Feng Yi said with a frown.
As soon as Feng Wei's words came out, the two brothers of the Zhan family breathed a long sigh of relief in their hearts. I thought I was wrong and committed other people's taboos, but who expected, people were just interested in this topic, and they really scared themselves.
Immediately, Zhanfei's face, which was relieved, finally returned to normal, and he said: " Adults don't know, the cooperation between this Qingyun Sect and the City Lord's Mansion of Xiaocheng is not once or twice, in fact, it is said that it is cooperation, it is the Qingyun Sect that is really in charge, and the City Lord's Mansion is just to give the court a little face, and not only this annual auction, other things in Xiaocheng are basically the masters of the Qingyun Sect, what decree does the city lord have issued, if it does not get the approval of the Qingyun Sect, it will definitely be difficult to implement, to put it bluntly, in Xiao City, the Qingyun Sect is the real manager, and the city lord is at best a puppet who is pretentious. ”
"What a guts!"
Hearing this, Li Mu's face sank, and he said with anger on his face: "The city lord is the lord of a city appointed by the Great Qin Imperial Court, representing the majesty of the imperial court, this Qingyun Sect dares to treat the city lord's mansion as a puppet, it is simply lawless, in this case, doesn't the imperial court care?"
"It's not that it doesn't matter, it's that it can't be managed at all. Zhan Fei shook his head: "After all, the Qingyun Sect did not go too far on the surface, nor did it obviously interfere in Xiao Cheng's political affairs, with the huge strength of the Qingyun Sect, it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to tear its face with it because of this kind of thing, and besides, there are situations similar to Xiao Cheng all over the place, but the degree is different, if the imperial court really wants to take care of it, where can it be managed? As long as it does not go too far, the imperial court generally turns a blind eye. ”
Hearing this, Feng Yi and Li Mu were silent. Although this may not sound very pleasant, it is undeniable that it is true. There is no way, this is the result of the fact that the power of the imperial court is not enough to suppress the power of the sect. Unless one day the power of the imperial court can be so strong that it can truly say the same, otherwise, such a status quo can never be completely eradicated. However, if you want to be strong to that extent, it will definitely not be possible in a short period of time.
As the incoming city lord of Xiao Cheng, Feng Rebellion himself did not feel too much pressure on Xiao Cheng's situation. The purpose of his coming to Xiao Cheng was to wait for an opportunity to take revenge on the Qingyun Sect, and the more rampant the people of the Qingyun Sect were in Xiao Cheng, the more opportunities he had to take advantage of the topic.
"By the way, what do you want to auction when you participate in this auction?" Knowing the relationship between Feng Wei and Qingyun Sect, Li Mu didn't want to mention it too much, so he casually changed the topic.
"Don't hide it from your lordship, our purpose this time is a 'Innate Pill'. This is not a top-secret matter, so Zhanfei did not hesitate and replied directly.
"Oh, there is actually a 'Congenital Pill'?" Li Mu was slightly stunned.
As we all know, it is very difficult to be promoted to become an innate master, and it is necessary to open up the bridge between heaven and earth, open up the second vein of Ren and Du, and form a great Zhou Tian with true qi, so as to enter the innate realm endlessly. There are only a few martial artists who can do this, but there are some pills that can help the peak of the day after tomorrow to open up the second pulse of Rendu, and the "Innate Pill" is the most famous one.
However, the refining of the "Innate Pill" is very difficult, not only because the materials for refining are difficult to collect, but also because the success rate of refining is quite low. For example, the "Xuanyuan Congenital Pill" unique to the Great Qin Imperial Family, with the abundant resources of the Great Qin Imperial Court, it is difficult to refine one for several years or even more than ten years, and the refined "Xuanyuan Innate Pill" is never outflowed, only for members of the royal family to take, or rewarded to meritorious civil servants and military generals.
It stands to reason that the major forces of this kind of thing are not enough for themselves, and even if they are redundant, they will only be kept as reserves, and they will never be outflowed, but I didn't expect that Qingyun Sect would actually put it up for auction, which is really surprising. Could it be that the Qingyun Sect was already able to refine the "Innate Pill" in large quantities? Li Mu was a little puzzled.
Perhaps sensing Li Mu's doubts, Zhan Fei immediately explained: "Your Excellency may have misunderstood, the 'Innate Pill' auctioned by Qingyun Sect is not the kind of truly perfect 'Innate Pill', but a slightly flawed inferior product, after the martial artist at the peak of the day after tomorrow takes it, there is only a chance of five to sixty percent of being able to break through, and once he takes it, there is no hope of being promoted to Grandmaster in this life." ”
"It turned out to be a defective product, no wonder. Li Mu was stunned. However, although it is a defective product, it is quite good to have a fifty or sixty percent chance of breaking through the innate nature, so it is no wonder that the two brothers of the Zhan family will come all the way. You must know that a perfect "Innate Pill" is only eighty percent probable, as for the sequelae of the lifelong hopeless Grandmaster, it can be directly ignored, for the vast majority of people, the level of the Grandmaster is too far away and too unrealistic.
"Besides the 'Innate Pill', are there any other high-grade things?" Li Mu asked again.
"That's too much, exercise cheats, magic weapons, spiritual herbs, elixirs, ......"
Subsequently, Li Mu asked some more questions about the auction, and the two brothers Zhanfei and Zhanyun answered all questions. In this question and answer, Li Mu learned a lot about Xiao Cheng's auction.
Aside from the "Innate Pill", this auction will also auction a congenital martial art and innate exercises.
Innate level martial arts and exercises, this is undoubtedly something that makes many martial artists crazy.
Even, for many people, the innate martial arts and exercises are much more attractive than the "Innate Pill". Because, the "Innate Pill" is a consumable, and at most it can only create one innate martial artist, while the innate level of exercises and martial arts can be used for inheritance.
Of course, the innate exercises and martial arts of this auction will naturally not be owned by the Qingyun Sect itself, and the secret books of any sect's exercises will never be passed on, not to mention the innate level of martial arts, even if it is the introductory martial arts cultivated by martial artists in the Forging Body Realm, it will not be passed on, this is the foundation on which every sect's forces stand on it.
Before you know it, the night is gradually passing.
It's getting brighter!
This night, Li Mu was chatting with the two brothers of the Zhan family, not only limited to this auction, but also various other topics from all over the world. I don't know if Li Mu naturally likes to chat, or if young people always have a lot of common language together, anyway, the topic of the three of them has not been interrupted this night. And Feng Rebellion is to sit silently on the sidelines and close his eyes to recuperate, not to participate, and not to exclude.
After dawn, everyone's destination was Xiao Cheng anyway, so Li Mu simply invited the two to go together. It is impossible for the two brothers of the Zhan family to refuse, first, they don't dare, and secondly, they can get in touch with two such young and strong men, which is a great thing.
In this way, a group of more than a dozen people walked in the direction of Xiao Cheng "mightily".
......
And just about half an hour after everyone left the same place, dozens of figures fell on the peak where Feng Yi and the others were originally located, and soon, they came to the bonfire where everyone stopped.
At this time, if everyone had not left, they could see that the clothes worn by these dozens of people were almost the same as those worn by Lin Ping before. Obviously, these are all people from the Lin family in Taicheng.
The middle person is a burly middle-aged man, exuding a fierce aura.
"You guys look around for me!" said the middle-aged man, standing beside the long-extinguished bonfire, with a gloomy face.
"Yes, Second Elder!" the guards immediately dispersed.
A short time later, a guard found a bloodstained bronze ring next to a large pit not far away. And this is also the only thing that Lin Ping left in this world in the end.
"Ping'er ......"
Holding the bronze ring tightly, the middle-aged man's face instantly became extremely hideous, and he looked up to the sky and roared: "Who is it? Who killed my son?"
The powerful killing intent made the surrounding guards tremble.
The middle-aged man is Lin Ping's father and the second elder of the Lin family, Lin Zhennan.
Although Lin Zhennan is not the head of the Lin family, his identity in the Lin family is second only to the patriarch, and his cultivation has reached the innate sixfold realm. Putting aside the Qingyun Sect, such a strength can be regarded as the number one person in the entire Shannan County.
"Ping'er!" Lin Zhennan said in a low voice: "Don't worry, my father will definitely find out the murderer, kill him, and destroy his entire clan!"
"You continue to search and check if there are any suspicious clues around!" Lin Zhennan suddenly raised his head and roared with red eyes.
"Yes, Elder!"
An hour later, these guards naturally didn't notice anything, only one of the guards hesitated: "Elder, there is a faint smell of wine here......
"Oh?!" Lin Zhennan flew to the side of the bonfire, and sure enough, after careful sniffing, there was a smell of wine wafting in the air, this wine fragrance was very special, and it seemed to be different from the countless kinds of wine he had drunk before.
"Ping'er, don't worry, I will definitely find out this drinker soon!" Lin Zhennan's eyes were like knives, and bursts of cold murderous aura burst out of his body......