Chapter 256: Catching the Thief
After that, the auction price of the Spirit Void Pill climbed all the way to 14,000 spirit stones under the competition of more than a dozen people, and then it stopped.
After this bottle of elixir was sold, more than a dozen people came to the stage to take out the treasure and sell it.
Soon a few hours passed, and with the voice of the woman in the white dress thanking her, the auction was completely over.
Luo Yan went backstage to hand over the spirit stone, and after receiving the Heavenly Star Thunder Shield and the Dragon Sparrow Hairpin, the two of them went out of the Four Elephant Inn.
By this time, more than a day had passed since they entered.
When he returned, Luo Yan released his divine sense, checking to see if anyone was following him as he walked, and soon, his eyebrows jumped.
After noticing the abnormality, he continued to talk and laugh with Leng Yue quietly.
After the two of them bypassed a few streets, they had already come to the vicinity of the Yueyue Inn, Luo Yan took out the dragon bird hairpin and handed it to Leng Yue and said:
"You see that it's a little inappropriate for a man to wear a hairpin, can you help me put it away?"
Leng Yue's heart was full of joy, and after taking the hairpin, she said, "It's not suitable for you to shoot it, it's a waste of spirit stones." As he spoke, he put it in his arms and walked towards the inn with a peach blossom on his face.
Luo Yan didn't go back to the Royal Spirit Inn directly, but turned around and walked towards a winery.
When I came to a private room on the second floor, I asked for a pot of wine and three glass glasses, and after filling them up, he said, "The two Taoist friends should be thirsty all the way with me, why don't you show up and have a drink?"
After speaking, he looked out the window, only to see a figure flashing, a man and a woman appeared in the box, the woman was the host of today's Sixiangmen auction, but now she has changed into a gray robe, which looks elegant and refined, and she is cultivated in the later period of Yuan Ying.
The man was middle-aged, also wearing a gray robe, and he had cultivated in the early stage of his transformation into a god, which Luo Yan had never seen.
I saw that the woman gave Luo Yan a blessing salute and said: "Below is the Xindie of the Four Elephant Gate, this is my senior brother Lu Yao, we watched the son's generous move, and he could take out a bottle of Lingxu Pill casually, which is really admirable, so I want to make friends."
Just following all the way, seeing that Childe has a beautiful woman as a companion, I was afraid that it would affect your Yaxing, so I didn't dare to come forward to disturb, so I had to follow him from afar, and there was no malice, and I asked Childe not to misunderstand. ”
Luo Yan looked at the middle-aged male cultivator standing next to him, and the other party also had a sincere expression, so he pointed to the full wine glass on the table and said, "Since the two Taoist friends are here, let's sit down and have a drink together." ”
Xindie and the middle-aged man looked at each other, hesitated a little and sat down, and then the three of them took the wine glass on the table and drank it all.
Luo Yan put down the wine glass and said: "Fairy Xindie, the cultivation of the two of you is above me, I don't think you have to worry about what tricks I will play, just say what you have to say." ”
Xindie said: "It's not a secret, we want to buy two Spirit Void Pills from you, because our senior brothers and sisters are short of money, we naturally don't dare to participate in the auction bidding, but we can't bear to miss this opportunity, so we took the liberty to come here." ”
The middle-aged monk saw that Luo Yan did not speak, and added: "Fellow Daoists, don't worry, according to the transaction price at the auction, the average price of each one is 1,200 spirit stones, and the two of us will buy two at this price." ”
Luo Yan didn't lack spirit stones on his body, and he just wanted to sell that bottle of elixir to see if the elixir he had refined could be recognized by everyone.
He also saw that these two people were buying in good faith, so he didn't pretentiously, reached out and took out two Spirit Void Pills and said:
"Since we can sit together today, it can be regarded as fate, and we are not greedy, so I will sell it to you according to the starting price I quoted at the time, three hundred spirit stones each. After speaking, he handed them the two Spirit Void Pills respectively.
Xindie and the middle-aged monk were surprised and delighted, after accepting the elixir, each paid three hundred spirit stones, and then Xindie picked up the wine jug and filled it for the three of them, and drank it, then got up and thanked Luo Yan again, and walked downstairs.
After seeing them go away, Luo Yan put away the spirit stone and returned to the Royal Spirit Inn, and when he returned to the room, he took out the Tianxing Thunder Shield he had taken and looked at it.
The main material of this shield should be the leather of a high-level thunder attribute demon beast, and both sides of the shield are covered with dense star maps, formations, and runes.
Judging from the several star maps and formations he recognized, this armor was not only effective in resisting thunder and lightning, but should also be very effective in battle defense.
Then, he took it in his hand and began to comprehend the star map above, and time passed unconsciously.
As the day of the conference approached, the major sects had arrived one after another, Xingfeng City became lively, and a large number of armor soldiers who maintained law and order appeared in the city, patrolling the streets in teams, checking the identity tokens of suspicious people from time to time.
On this day, Luo Yan put down the Heavenly Star Thunder Shield and went to Lingbao Street again, and when he returned, he saw an old man in the crowd who was taken away without a token, thinking of his first robbery experience when he entered the city, he smiled bitterly in his heart, and said secretly: "Is there formalism anywhere?"
Just as he shook his head and was about to leave, he heard someone shouting, "There's a thief, catch him-"
Then I saw a black figure running by.
Luo Yan turned his head to look and saw that this person was short and thin, but his speed was extremely fast.
Behind him, closely followed by a tall yellow-robed old man, who had become a mid-stage cultivator.
The shout just now was made by the old man in the yellow robe.
When the soldiers who were patrolling the city heard the shouts, they also chased after them, and then some curious monks followed.
Luo Yan followed everyone and also trotted forward.
The crowd quickly ran through two streets, but by the time they reached the third street, the people in front of them had long since disappeared.
The old man in the yellow robe screamed angrily, and the armor immediately blocked all the nearby streets, and began to search one shop after another.
However, it is a pity that two hours later, all the shops have been searched, and the thief has still not been found, and then the armor took the yellow-robed old man to the city lord's mansion to register the matter.
The curious crowd gradually dispersed, and Luo Yan also returned to the inn, took out the herbs he bought today and stored them in different categories.
After he put it away in the same way, he found that Tianlancao's own inventory was not much, and there was not much left to refine two furnaces of pills, and he blamed himself in his heart for only watching the excitement today and delaying the business.
As soon as the sun rose the next day, he went to Lingbao Street again.
At noon, as soon as he walked out of a shop, he saw a somewhat familiar figure running in, only to change into a purple robe today, but the short, thin figure did not change.
Luo Yan deliberately slowed down his pace, and slowly came to a nearby shop to select spiritual materials at random.
About a moment after a cup of tea, the thin figure came out of the shop again, and he followed from a distance.
He looked at it carefully, this person was in the late stage of cultivation, and he should have practiced the exercises related to improving speed, and when he walked, his body moved forward lightly after his toes lightly touched the ground, which may be the reason why he ran fast.
After following him for a few streets, the people in front of him seemed to spot him, and his speed suddenly increased, and his figure became blurred.
Luo Yan smiled slightly, used his Tianqing Eyes, and urged the stealth skill of the Dark Spirit Slashing Sea Beast, and his body disappeared from the spot.
The thin old man in front of him hid all the way, and finally came to a deserted building, and after checking around to find out that there was no one, he stopped and showed his figure, sat on the ground and took out a pill to restore his true qi and swallowed it.
Luo Yan came to his back and directly raised his hand to knock him unconscious, and then launched a soul search.
It turned out that this person's name was Ma Liu, and he had just gone to that shop to sell the spiritual materials he had stolen yesterday.
With the deepening of the soul search, Luo Yan found that he was actually a master of theft, and he succeeded more than a dozen times in just half a year, one of which actually stole a monk in the late stage of refining, although he was beaten half to death, but in the end he managed to escape, for which he cultivated for more than two months.
Of course, this time his harvest was also quite abundant, tens of thousands of spirit stones and spiritual materials like Xiaoshan, as well as a jade piece and more than a dozen black balls.
Luo Yan admired this person's technique more and more, he could take off the rings worn by others on his hands without realizing it, this kind of exercise was by no means common.
After that, he began to delve into the depths of this person's memory, and some memories of the exercises gradually appeared.
But when he was about to come into contact with the entire exercise, his divine consciousness encountered a layer of gray prohibition.
After two temptations, Luo Yan was worried that forcibly breaking in would cause this person's soul lake to burst and die, and the gains would outweigh the losses, so he checked the other information and retreated.
Then, he placed a few restraints on the emaciated old man, and only then did he wake him up.
Ma Liu snorted softly and opened his eyes, seeing Luo Yan stunned for a moment, and then felt a pain in his soul lake, knowing that he had been searched for souls, he looked at Luo Yan viciously, and wanted to attack.
His arm moved a few times, and found that he couldn't lift it at all, and after knowing that his body was imprisoned, he asked with some horror: "I don't know Daoyou, you have followed me all the way here, trapped me, what is the matter?"