Volume 1 Chapter 8 The Mystery Auction
Gushan Town is the closest town to the Demon Beast Mountain Range in the Dust Cloud Country, and the reason why it is called Gushan Town is because the town is built near a lonely mountain in the outermost part of the Demon Beast Mountain Range. There is an army of the Dust Cloud Nation stationed here, about a thousand or so.
It is said that the town is not very large, but why such an army should be stationed on the lonely mountain alone, the people of the town and the nearby villages are not too clear. Luo Tian had also heard that there were troops stationed in the nearby mountains, but he had never seen many soldiers enter the town.
Luo Tian and Shen Ying'er came to an inn, only to find that the inn was full. You must know that there are not many people in this town, and it is on the edge of the mountains, but recently it has suddenly become more crowded. Next, they looked at the three inns, and the answer they got was that they were all full.
"What's going on, the inn is full. And it seems that there are a lot more pedestrians in the town. Lotien is aware of these changes. So he led Shen Ying'er to the last inn to see if there were any rooms. The answer was that it was still full, so they asked to ask at another house.
"Hey, why are all the inns in this town full, I don't want to live in the firewood room, I don't care!" Shen Ying'er said unhappily. In fact, it's not necessarily that she can't live in the firewood room, it's just that she doesn't want to rest in the same room with Luo Tian. Although she was only a five or six-year-old girl, she didn't want to sleep in the same room with a boy she had just met.
"What should I do, all the inns are full. I really can't help it, Miss Shen" Luo Tian looked at Shen Ying'er helplessly, hoping that she could let herself go. But he knows this girl's temper, although he has only known each other for a few days, Luo Tian has a very clear understanding of this girl's temper.
"I just want to be alone in a room, I'm not used to being in a room with a boy," Shen Ying'er also said what was in her heart. She knew that she was already very embarrassed by this ordinary boy, in fact, as an immortal cultivator, it was not easy to find a place to rest. It's just that she's pretending to be a mortal now, so she doesn't want people to find out who she is.
"Why don't I sleep outside, you sleep in the firewood room, anyway, it's not cold outside now." Luo Tian saw Shen Ying'er say what was in his heart, so he replied. He also knew that Shen Ying'er, the eldest lady, could live in the firewood room if she was wronged, which was very face-saving.
"But, how embarrassing is this, I can't bear to let you live outside" Although Shen Ying'er likes to joke or something, she seems to feel that she is too incompetent to let a mortal like this.
Just when the two of them were at a loss on the street, they heard the officers and soldiers patrolling nearby talking. "Hey, I heard no, there have been a lot of strangers in our town lately, is there something big going on?" said a thin officer and soldier.
"You don't know this, I heard that there are immortals in our town, what auction has been organized, and we have invited the commander of the Cloud Wolf Iron Cavalry of our Dust Cloud Country to come to the town. I've lived for so many years, and I haven't seen what an immortal looks like! To be invited by an immortal, this great commander is probably not an ordinary person!" A fat officer and soldier sitting with him said.
"Oh, are there really immortals coming to our lonely mountain town? I have heard that immortals have supreme magical powers, they can move mountains and reclaim seas, soar clouds and fog, and even some powerful immortals can even resurrect the dead!
Listening to the words of these people, it seemed that some immortal had organized an auction and invited nearby immortals to come. "Is there really an immortal who can move mountains and reclaim the sea? Can he resurrect the dead?" Luo Tian thought in his heart, these things were really unbelievable to him.
Just as Luo Tian was thinking about whether what the man said was credible, Shen Ying'er beside him knew that what the officer and soldier said was true. Because when she was in the Immortal Palace, Shen Ying'er heard her father say that there is a very powerful elixir that can bring people back to life!
However, my father still won't refine that kind of elixir for the time being. I heard that the pill recipe of this pill is incomplete. Legend has it that there was a great monk who went through a lot of hardships in order to save his Taoist companions, and finally collected all this kind of pill formula, and later really saved his Taoist companions!
Shen Ying'er also knew that according to legend, some great powers who had attained the Tao and became immortals could directly summon the souls of the dead to be reborn through powerful means! Even if there is no physical body, those great powers can still recast the physical body, which shows how powerful these powerful means are!
Next, she wondered when she heard that the immortals were holding an auction. In such a small town, there are actually a lot of immortal cultivators, so it must not be as simple as an auction. Could it really be that something interesting happened? Shen Ying'er's curiosity was aroused.
"Luo Tian, why don't we go and see what the auction looks like!" Shen Ying'er said. "Is it possible, it's a gathering of immortals, can we two mortals let us in?" Shen Ying'er forgot about this.
"Oh, yes. Didn't that person just say that the immortals were also recruiting mortals to serve them at tomorrow's auction? Let's go and apply, maybe we can apply. Shen Ying'er suddenly had a good idea, she didn't worry about her identity being exposed, because her father was not something that any immortal cultivator could afford to mess with. She estimated that the auction that could be organized in this town would not be a powerful immortal cultivator.
"That's okay, I heard the man just now, the rewards given by immortals are generally very high, maybe I can still make a lot of money to pay off my debts!" Hearing Shen Ying'er's words, Luo Tian didn't refuse, he was also thinking that maybe he could meet the fairy in white who saved him, because he still had something to ask her.
The two agreed on a discussion, so they inquired about the place where the immortal stayed. When I asked, I found out that the immortals were not in the town. The guests at the inn are all people from nearby villages. When they heard that an immortal was coming, they all wanted to try their luck here to see if they could be the servants of the immortals, so that their family would be blessed by the immortals. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, after all, people know the existence of immortals in legends, and this time there is a chance to get close to the immortals, and everyone is naturally eager to rush to it!
Because it was getting dark, the two of them decided to wait until tomorrow morning to sell out the medicinal materials, and then go to the location of the immortal auction ten miles away from the town.
Since she couldn't find the inn, Shen Ying'er finally compromised, and she decided to endure a night with the boy and live in a firewood house. Originally, Luo Tian asked to rest outside the firewood room, but Shen Ying'er couldn't bear to do this, so she "wronged" herself and Luo Tianjiang for one night.
Both of them felt awkward at night, they always lived in a room by themselves. It's good now, suddenly there is one more person, and it's the opposite sex. Although children don't know anything about love, they think it's strange for two people to be in the same room!
In this way, the two spent a night in an awkward feeling, and neither of them slept very soundly this night. Early the next morning, the two men found the man, and the man said that the shopkeeper had just come back and said that he would go out later. After listening to the man's words, they hurried to find the shopkeeper, for fear that they would miss the time and not be able to sell the herbs.
"Shopkeeper, you're back, hurry up and take a look at my medicinal materials this time, it's much better than before," Luo Tian said when he came to the store and saw the shopkeeper.
"Oh, it's Xiao Luotian, is this little girl here with you? I heard that you came yesterday, hurry up and show me your medicinal materials, I still have urgent things to do after the transaction" The shopkeeper seemed to be in a hurry.
Luo Tian saw that the shopkeeper was in a hurry, so he quickly took out the herbs. "Ah, yes, more than a dozen hemostatic herbs, this is the herb that the barracks like to buy, and the other medicinal herbs are average. The shopkeeper looked at the medicinal herbs, but at this moment, in Luo Tian's eyes, the shopkeeper seemed to be absent-minded.
"Come, I'll count you one hundred and fifty yuan, and you can take the money. The shopkeeper said and handed the money to Luo Tian. Luo Tian was very happy to take the money, this is the money he could only earn in the previous three months. It seems that the adventure in the mountains is really rewarding. This time, I can directly repay the debt of 100 yuan.
"Shopkeeper, seeing that you are in such a hurry, is there something going on?" asked Shen Ying'er. Luo Tian also looked at the shopkeeper with a look of wanting to know the answer.
"Well, I can sue you. Actually, I'm going to serve the immortals for an auction today, and this is the task given to me by the master. So I have to do it with my heart now, everything else is a trivial matter, and if I offend the immortals, I'll be finished. And I'm understaffed right now, so I'm busy. The shopkeeper said a lot in one breath, and it seems that he really looks like an ant on a hot pot.
"Hey, shopkeeper, we are trying to go to the immortals to seek a job, maybe we can get a reward from the immortals, aren't you short of people, see if we can help!" Shen Ying'er asked.
"This little girl has a sweet mouth, but serving the immortals is not something you children can handle. If you upset the immortals, you will be punished. "The shopkeeper didn't want these two children to serve, after all, the immortal was high, and if he made a slight mistake, he couldn't explain it to his master. If it weren't for the owner opening a branch here, how could he have lived so comfortably until now!
"Oh, please, shopkeeper, you can take us to see what an immortal is like" Shen Ying'er began to use a coquettish trick. Although she is an immortal cultivator, she is a simple little girl's heart, and she will be coquettish in front of this old man to win sympathy, which shows how naughty this girl is.
"Well, this is the first time we met, you can use coquettish methods in front of my old man, it seems that you are quite smart. Well, I'll let you go with me, but arrange for you both to do what you can, and do everything according to me!" said the old shopkeeper with a smile.
Luo Tian and Shen Ying'er nodded and said that they would absolutely obey the arrangement, and the old shopkeeper took the two of them towards the immortals ten miles away. Soon they arrived at the legendary immortal's temporary residence. It is said to be a temporary residence, but it is actually a Taoist temple on a nearby mountain, which was chosen by the immortals as a temporary stronghold. The Taoist temple has long been empty, and it is very clean and tidy after being cleaned by the shopkeeper's arranger.
Luo Tian and they were taken to the Taoist temple, and the shopkeeper arranged for the two to be responsible for boiling water for the immortals. The two of them came to the kitchen, but they didn't meet immortals along the way!
"Didn't you say that there are a lot of immortals, why haven't I seen them," Shen Ying'er said depressedly. She is an immortal cultivator, as long as she sees other immortal cultivators, she can recognize it, unless it is the kind whose realm is much higher than herself. Could it be that there are all real people here who have advanced cultivation?
"Hey, you two, the immortals want to make tea and drink, hurry up and send boiling water to the immortals," a servant commanded when he saw Luo Tian and Shen Ying'er in the kitchen. The two of them were in good spirits when they heard the words of the visitor, and they were finally able to see the immortals here, Luo Tian really hoped to meet the fairy in white.
"Oh, right away. Luo Tian said that he packed boiling water and was about to deliver water. Shen Ying'er was even more puzzled, he couldn't guess what mystery was hidden in this mysterious auction
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