77. The importance of fame
77. The importance of fame
The auction house in the small Tianqingfang city does not look very luxurious in appearance, and it looks no different from other buildings in the market, the only difference is that the other buildings in the market are basically two or three floors at the highest, but this auction house only has one floor, and even looks very small.
Su Jue's brows furrowed: "Is this really an auction house?"
"Don't just look at the surface. Lu Li said with a smile, "The scale of Xiaotianqingfang City is good, and the flow of people is also huge, but the sect behind it is not a very famous sect, so their auction house is not known for its luxury and elegance, but for its solidity." ”
"Sturdy?"
"It's just the entrance. Lu Li continued, "The real auction venue is underground, the area is about the same as the entire Fang City, and it can accommodate tens of thousands of people. However, although it was built like this at the beginning, in fact, there were only more than 100 people participating in the auction in Xiaotianqingfang City. ”
"Your Excellency, you know us quite well in Tianqingfang City. Just as Lu Li and Su Jue were explaining, a middle-aged deacon walked out of the auction house.
He was wearing a plain white robe and holding a feather fan in his hand, looking very elegant, but he didn't have any aura on his body, and he was obviously not a Confucian cultivator. Moreover, although he has the true yuan fluctuation of the Upper Immortal Realm, the aura he exudes does not have any thunder power, and he obviously has not survived the thunder tribulation, at most he is just a cultivator of the Cave Heaven Realm.
Although this person is smiling and seems to be kind, he has a haughty temperament, after all, to be able to become the deacon of the auction house of Xiaotianqingfang City, his status must not be low.
But when he saw the Fanlu lock behind Su Jue, his face changed instantly: "Wu ...... Military...... Takehime!?"
Su Jue raised his eyebrows and looked coldly at the middle-aged man standing in front of him.
In the outside world, Su Jue Wuji's name usually means killing, bloody, and brutal, and it has never meant good. So no matter who it is, there will be a heartfelt tremor and horror when they see Su Jue, because no one knows when she will suddenly burst out and hurt people, plus Su Jue's identity as a martial artist has a very easily recognizable iconic outfit, so people with a little knowledge and experience will not admit it.
Perhaps because of his excessive fear of Su Jue, he was looked at by Su Jue so coldly, and the middle-aged deacon's face instantly became a little pale.
Originally, standing at the door of the auction house, there were more than a dozen disciples from the various sects behind Xiaotianqingfang City, these disciples all had the cultivation of the Jindan Realm or the Yin-Yang Mirror, although they didn't know what their actual combat ability was, but the number alone was enough to deter some outsiders with bad intentions. But now, when they heard the middle-aged deacon say the word "Wu Ji", they were all equally stunned, and they didn't dare to surround them at all.
Even, even many cultivators who were still walking in this city at this moment all disappeared without a trace as if they had encountered some terrifying monster. Even the few shops that opened near the auction house closed their doors quickly at this moment, as if they were afraid that if they were too late, they would encounter some major disaster.
Looking at the surrounding situation, Lu Li smiled helplessly: "Your deterrent power is really terrifying." ”
"What does this have to do with me. Su Jue snorted coldly, and then looked around, and all the people she saw fled in the wilderness, "Rat gall bandits." ”
"Alright. Lu Li patted Su Jue's shoulder, and then looked at the middle-aged deacon, "I don't know what Your Excellency is called." ”
"You can just call me Xiao Zhou. The middle-aged deacon showed a smile that was harder than crying, "I don't know if you are ......"
"Taiyi, Lu Li. Lu Li showed a smile that he thought was kind, and then said softly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lu Li's words fell, the middle-aged deacon knelt down with a "poof": "Master Lu......! Our small Tianqingfang City is really a poor and remote place, and we haven't auctioned anything good for a long time, so I'm afraid it's hard to get into your eyes. ”
After that, he kept kowtowing to Lu Li, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him kowtowing to others as a cultivator of the Upper Immortal Cave Heavenly Realm.
Seeing that the middle-aged deacon had done this, the others immediately knelt down.
At this moment, the self-confessed kind smile on Lu Li's face was completely frozen.
Su Jue on the side laughed completely facelessly: "It seems that your deterrent power is much more terrifying than mine." ...... At most, I just made them turn white with fright, and you just made them kneel. ”
In the face of Su Jue's ridicule, the middle-aged deacon didn't dare to refute it at all, and he didn't even dare to speak. Because whether it is Wu Ji or Lu Li, it is not someone he can offend, these two people come at random, he needs to be careful to serve, he is afraid that he will disagree with them and demolish this small Tianqingfang City, not to mention that at this time, the two of them appeared together, which directly made him kneel in fright.
Since the Yaochi Immortal Society, Lu Li's reputation has completely spread in the cultivation world, and even some of his behaviors in the Desolate Secret Realm have also spread. Of course, this kind of spread naturally can't be a good thing, and now Lu Li's image in the cultivation world is almost no different from that of bandits, and people like him will naturally have some guys with an excessive sense of justice who want to kill Lu Li in the name of doing things for the sky. But Lu Li's strength is a little too strong, and many people who come to him for trouble have been solved by him, which is not a big deal, but everyone who dies in Lu Li's hands will basically be scavenged by him, so that Lu Li's name as a bandit is completely solid.
Of course, Lu Li didn't know anything about these things, otherwise he wouldn't have told the other party his identity as soon as he came up.
At this time, Lu Li revealed his identity as soon as he came up, and there was a Wu Ji standing next to him, the middle-aged deacon obviously misunderstood Lu Li and Su Jue's intentions, thinking that Lu Li, a bandit, was about to come to rob Su Jue.
After finally figuring out the problem, Lu Li's face became even more ugly: "Could it be that I am such an unreasonable person? Even if I really want to rob, your small Tianqingfang City's big array is fake? With my cultivation, can I still break through here? Just the Mixed Yuan One Color Heavenly Array under your auction, it will not be easy for me to deal with, let alone ......?"
This middle-aged deacon didn't know that Lu Li was actually Ye Xuan, and he had come to their Xiaotianqingfang City. In his opinion, this Lu Li was obviously the first time to come to their small Tianqingfang City, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he had already explained all the patterns and defensive arrays in the entire Fang City, and his face was almost as white as Lu Li said a word, in his opinion, this small Tianqingfang City was afraid that there was nothing to hide from Lu Li.
"Master Lu, ...... you" Looking at Lu Li's face full of anger, the middle-aged deacon had to wait cautiously, "You and Your Excellency Wu Ji have come to our Tianqingfang City, I don't know what you are looking for?"
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of his bandit image, Lu Li immediately didn't talk nonsense, and said straightforwardly: "Moyu Qingmu, Glazed Fire Lotus, Tianyin Black Water, Gengjin White Jade, Wutu Yellow Sandstone, do you have these things?"
Hearing what Lu Li wanted, the middle-aged deacon was embarrassed and said, "Master Lu, these things are basically priceless, even if someone owns them, it is impossible to take them to a market like ours for auction." ...... As you know, a fang market like ours is called a small fang market in the cultivation world, and it is impossible for the cultivators who come and go to be rich in net worth, and the price of a thing auctioned off is generally not very high, so ......"
Lu Li also knew that what the middle-aged deacon said was true.
In general, although there are more people coming and going, their net worth is usually very limited, and their bidding ability is not high, so it is naturally impossible for some precious things to be auctioned in Xiaofang City. Otherwise, a thing that was originally worth tens of thousands of yang pills, but it was limited by the bidder's own net worth, and the auction price was not even 10,000, which was naturally not a good thing for the person who sold the thing.
If you want something really good, you can only bid in Dafang City, and if there is something good in Xiaofang City, it is usually publicized and notified months or even one or two years in advance, and only then can you auction off the price that an item deserves.
Lu Li came to this small Tianqingfang City, originally just to try his luck, but when he heard this deacon's straightforward words, he was still a little disappointed.
"You're going to hold an auction here in a few days, right?" Sighing helplessly, Lu Li then changed the topic, "I have a bottle of pills here, I don't know if I can participate in your auction?"
The middle-aged deacon hesitated for a moment, then asked, "I don't know what kind of elixir it is?"
As for Lu Li's character, he really couldn't help but doubt it, if Lu Li came out with some tattered things, he really didn't know what to do. But fortunately, Lu Li was really not so shameless, the elixir he took out was a kind of elixir that was very useful for cultivators above the Immortal Golden Pill Realm, which could accelerate their refining speed after absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and it could be regarded as a relatively precious elixir, and the grade was the fourth grade of the human rank.
This is something that Lu Li took from Qian Xiaolai, which was originally left by Qian Xiaolai for Ouyang Jie, but Lu Li took a bottle.
"Refining the elixir, the condition is very good. The middle-aged deacon said with a happy face, "If a bottle of twenty spars is auctioned together, it will probably only fetch the price of two thousand five hundred high-grade spars, but this can be solved at one time." However, if the auction is intermittent one by one, although the time is longer, it can auction at least 4,000 high-grade spars, and the price may even be higher. ”
"How about selling you 3,500 high-grade spars for the price?"
"Deal. Almost without thinking about it, the middle-aged deacon simply nodded in agreement.
So the next formalities and transactions were not complicated, and soon the two parties cleared up the goods. And Lu Li didn't plan to stay here for too long, he had a lot of good things on him that could be auctioned, such as the heart of the earth demon, blood, etc., and even some other more valuable things, but the price couldn't be high if it was auctioned in Xiaofang City, so Lu Li naturally planned to take these things to Dafang City for auction.
Seeing Lu Li and Wu Ji leave so simply, the middle-aged deacon hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "Master Lu, if you really need Gengjin White Jade and Wutu Yellow Sandstone, then you can only go to the Thousand Caves Tongtian Rock to try your luck." ...... Two days ago, a group of Thousand Cave Tongtian Rock cultivators passed through here, and they happened to have these two materials in their hands, and if you go there now, you may be able to participate in the auction in time. ”
"Thank you!" Lu Li was stunned for a moment, and then hugged his fists and thanked him.
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