Chapter 128: The White-robed Man
In the case of running at full speed, Lin Zhou's speed in the mountains and forests is no less than the speed of the horses on the flat ground, and even faster. Half an hour later, Lin Zhou slowed down because of the exhaustion of physical endurance. But at this time, Yaya changed back to her original form, and Lin Zhou also changed back to her human form, riding on Yaya's back and continuing to run forward.
The weight of Lin Zhou's transformation into a human form is hardly a burden on Yaya's back, and it does not affect Yaya's speed at all. Yaya is the king of wolves, even with Lin Zhou on her back, her speed in the mountains and forests is still extremely fast, even far higher than the speed of Lin Zhou's incarnation of a snow wolf.
One person and one wolf were replaced, and when Yaya ran with all his might, Lin Zhou rested, and then Lin Zhou ran with all his strength, and Yaya rested. Two hours later, the maid carried the boat to the end of the mountain forest, there is a broken valley here, the bottom of the cliff is bottomless, the narrowest part is nearly fifty meters wide, and the opposite side is more than ten meters higher than this side.
At that time, Lin Zhou was riding on Yaya's back, and was about to tell Yaya to stop and discuss how to get over, but he didn't expect Yaya to stop at all, and when he reached the edge of the broken valley, a pair of hind feet kicked suddenly, and jumped directly to the opposite side. Her body leaped nearly fifty meters away, and her two front paws firmly grasped a protruding rock on the opposite cliff wall, and then she didn't stop making several consecutive upward leaps, easily ascending to the top of the valley opposite.
This scene made Lin Zhou stunned, although he knew that Yaya's jumping ability was extremely strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong, fifty meters! Even if Lin Zhou turned into a snow wolf, she didn't dare to try the distance, she actually jumped over without hesitation!
For ordinary werewolves, running in mountain streams, especially the ability to leap over rivers and valleys dozens of meters wide is a symbol of strength. As the wolf king, Yaya's vertical leaping technique is naturally much more powerful than that of ordinary werewolves, so when facing this broken valley, she did not hesitate at all.
After crossing the broken valley, it is a road down the mountain, the terrain becomes relatively gentle, and after the descent, the river is flat. In the place where there were people, Yaya turned into a golden ** hair and fell into Lin Zhou's sleeve, Lin Zhou went to the post station that entered the city, rented a carriage, and went to the black market auction on the outskirts of Yunfeng City guided by Xiao Feng.
The auction is located in a mountain villa on the outskirts of Yunfeng County, and the owner of the auction, the Wu family, is also a big family in Yunfeng County, with a good reputation. It is said that it is an underground auction, but in fact it is in a semi-public state, and there are even ironclad soldiers invited by the Wu family from Yunfeng County to patrol nearby to maintain order.
When Lin Zhou arrived here, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the auction had been held for half a day in the morning. However, according to Xiao Feng, except for the first one, the auctions in the morning were all worthless things, and the really good things were auctioned in the afternoon, and the soul bell that Lin Zhou auctioned has not yet been taken out.
Lin Zhou, who took out the fine iron nameplate, was led into a room first, and after inspecting the nameplate, the auction asked Lin Zhou to take out a silver ticket of a certain value, or a treasure with corresponding value as collateral and qualification certificates, and Lin Zhou of course took out the life-sustaining pill.
After the young man in charge of the inspection saw this life-sustaining pill, his attitude towards Lin Zhou immediately became polite and asked him to wait for a while. After a while, the young man brought in an old man with gray hair and once again appraised the Life-Continuation Pill in Lin Zhou's hand.
After learning that Lin Zhou was willing to hand over this life-sustaining pill to their auction side, the old man couldn't help but be overjoyed, and after doing the corresponding registration work for Lin Zhou, he also gave him a nameplate made of dark iron, which obviously meant that Lin Zhou's status as a guest was improved.
At the suggestion of the old man, the starting price of Lin Zhou's Life-Continuation Pill was 10 million taels of silver, because the auction would be settled by a top-grade Xuantie, so the starting price of Lin Zhou's Life-Continuing Pill was equivalent to one hundred taels of high-grade Xuantie. Because Lin Zhou was anxious to know how many taels of high-grade Xuantie he could auction for the Life Continuation Pill, so that he could exchange it for the soul suppression bell he wanted to auction, he asked the old man if he could arrange it for him in advance, and the old man agreed very simply.
As soon as Lin Zhou's life-sustaining pill appeared at the auction, it triggered a small bidding boom. Although the Purifying Pill can make a martial artist's muscles and bones at least ten years younger, a Life-Continuing Pill can make a martial artist pull back from the death line when he is on the verge of death, plus the difficulty of refining and the rate of medicine are lower, so the value of the Life-Extending Pill is still above the Blood-Cleansing Pill.
After one after another outcry, the Continuation Pill finally fell into the hands of a man wearing a white robe, a hat, and a mask at the price of one hundred and fifty-five taels of high-grade Xuantie. There was also a companion beside that person, who was also dressed in a white robe, wearing a hat, and wearing a mask, I don't know why, when Lin Zhou saw them, he had a very dangerous feeling in his heart.
Looking at the Insight Technique, the cultivation of those two white-robed people had reached the middle of the ninth order!
Of course, most of the martial artists who came to this auction today were above the ninth order, and these ninth-order powerhouses were all dangerous to Lin Zhou, who was now at the seventh order, but these two white-robed people gave Lin Zhou a stronger sense of danger.
With the appearance of some auction treasures in the back, Lin Zhou found that he was really poor, and the starting price of this one hundred and fifty-five taels of high-grade Xuantie was not enough even for some of the treasures.
Among them were the demon pets of ninth-order powerhouses, a seventh-grade great axe, and even an eighth-grade long sword! their value easily exceeded hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of high-grade Xuantie, and they were not considered by Lin Zhou at all.
And Lin Zhou's purpose for coming over this time is only on the Soul Bell, according to Xiao Feng, the Soul Bell is a special treasure, and martial artists with special needs will bid for it, and ordinary martial artists can't use it, so the price won't be very high, and his more than 100 taels of high-grade Xuantie should be enough to shoot it.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Soul Bell finally appeared.
The auctioneer's introduction to this soul bell is also simple, that is, it can calm down the violent spirit, and nothing else is said, it seems to have a kind of meaning that can only be understood but not spoken. Because the use of this soul bell is generally used in alchemy to assist the person refining the corpse in controlling his own corpse. In addition, when fighting ghosts and soul parasites, powerhouses above the ninth order use the power of divine souls to urge the soul suppression bell to assist in the suppression of ghosts and soul parasites.
Although alchemy is not strictly prohibited in the Tianhu Country like the soul parasitic, it is also an evil martial art that cannot be too public. This spell desecrates people's corpses, which is intolerable to morality, and belongs to immoral but not illegal martial arts. Because there are several major sects and big families on the Zhongtian Continent that are very good at studying corpse alchemy, and the corpse refining that is sacrificed is a great help for them, so the corpse alchemy has not disappeared or been explicitly banned in the human race.
The law and the right to speak are always in the hands of the powerful, no matter what life they are in.
In a remote and small country like Tianhu Country, which is outside the Zhongtian Continent, there are really not many places where the Soul Suppression Bell can be used, so it is impossible for this thing to fetch a high price when it falls to Tianhu Country. Of course, on the Zhongtian Continent, because there are many refining families, this Soul Suppression Bell is also not too rare.
Therefore, the starting price of this soul bell at today's auction is only fifty taels of high-grade Xuantie, and each time the price is shouted, it must be increased by more than two taels.
After the auction was announced, it was actually cold, and no one shouted the price, which made Lin Zhou secretly happy in his heart, if he used the starting price to auction the soul bell, he could get more than 100 taels of high-grade dark iron, and he could even participate in the auction of other treasures.
There are really not many martial artists in Tianhu Country who can refine corpses, and there are not a few in this Yunfeng County City, and I don't know how this Town Soul Bell ended up in this auction. Seeing that this soul bell was about to be auctioned, Lin Zhou was about to shout fifty taels to clap it, when the two white-robed people who made him feel very dangerous opened their mouths first, and they only quoted the price of fifty taels.