Chapter 18: Fierce Competition

The first item caused a bid*, the old man Lin Pingtao was very happy, and said with a smile: "This is just an appetizer just now, this auction has prepared a lot of treasures, to ensure that all Taoist friends will come here and return satisfied! Below, is the second item in this auction, a ripe fruit of Poria cocos fruit, which can be taken directly raw, or can be used as medicine, no matter how you use it, it can nourish qi and beauty, prolong life, and cultivate for a long-term Taoist friend who cannot break through, but don't miss it! The starting price, one hundred spirit coins!" Wu Yuemei's delicate body moved slightly, as if her heart was moving, she turned her head to look at Mo Da, and finally did not speak.

Mo Da said to Xiao Tian: "This Poria fruit is also quite rare, it has the effect of prolonging life, and for those monks whose life is approaching and has not broken through, it is also rare to extend the life span of three or five years." However, it has no effect of helping people break through, and it is a bit of a chicken rib compared to Tsukidan, so the general auction price is not too high. Your sister Wu is obsessed with refining medicine, and it is inevitable that she will be moved when she sees good medicinal materials. As he spoke, the fruit had been auctioned off with 1,300 spirit coins.

With the foreshadowing above, the auction went very smoothly, and in the blink of an eye, most of the hours passed, and none of the items that came up were unsold. Mo Da and Wu Yuemei did not bid for a single item, but they just explained one or two things to Xiaotian from time to time.

At this time, Lin Pingtao opened his mouth and said: "This treasure below, I believe that most of the Taoist friends in the field are here for it. That's right, it is a Zhuji Dan personally refined by the Lian Elder of Luoxia Valley, and the refining level of the Lian Elder does not allow me Lin to have more beaks, this Zhuji Dan is a fine product refined by the Lian Elder, and the store has identified its efficacy as the best, and the probability of success in building the foundation can reach at least fifty percent! The starting price is 10,000 spirit coins!" There was a sudden deathly silence in the crowd, and after a while, it exploded with a bang, and a chaotic voice shouted: "12,000 spirit coins!" "15,000 spirit coins!" "18,000 spirit coins!" In an instant, the auction price exceeded 30,000 spirit coins.

Mo Da's face turned blue and red, and he finally shouted out the first bid for today's auction: "Thirty-five thousand spirit coins!" But his voice was quickly drowned out by the sound of bidding like a tide: "Thirty-eight thousand spirit coins!" "Forty-ten thousand spirit coins!" "Forty-five thousand spirit coins!" Wu Yuemei also spoke: "Fifty thousand spirit coins!" But the trend of price increase has not decreased at all: "Sixty thousand spirit coins!" "Seventy thousand spirit coins!" "Eighty thousand spirit coins!" A voice sounded high-pitched: "One hundred thousand spirit coins!" As soon as this voice came out, the noisy voices in the audience paused slightly, and then the bidding sound sounded one after another: "120,000 spirit coins!" "130,000 spirit coins!" "150,000 spirit coins!" Mo Da and Wu Yuemei glanced at each other, their faces full of bitterness, and they sat down silently. Seeing this, Xiao Tian also knew that this Tsukidan was no longer something they could touch.

After the auction price rose to 200,000 spirit coins, the upward momentum finally slowed down, and the number of bidders changed from a crowd just now to dozens of people. When it rose to 250,000, there were only four people left who made the bid, all of whom were sitting in the same row as Mo Da, and it seemed that they were all loose cultivators in the ninth phase of Qi refining with little time, and they would do everything to build a foundation.

At this time, the middle-aged and beautiful woman sitting in the first row also opened her mouth to quote a price: "300,000 spirit coins!" Everyone was stunned.

Seven or eight times out of ten, the Tsukidan in the auction was auctioned by high-level Qi Refining and Dispersion Cultivators, because this kind of person had the most urgent need for it. There are also big families of the sect who bid for the younger disciples, but the sect families have a background, and Tsukidan can't say that he has everything, but it can basically meet the needs of the younger disciples of the sect, only some of the juniors who have not become the elite disciples of the sect, and his elders are more spoiled by him, so sometimes they don't hesitate to bid for Tsukidan. Most immortal cultivators are still relatively rational and understand the truth that good steel should be used on the blade, so this situation is also relatively rare. Although most of the beautiful women didn't know her, since she was sitting in the first row, she was naturally a foundation building monk, and she usually wouldn't spend a lot of money to bid for Tsukidan. Only the monks who were also in the first row, all of them looked unimpressed, and seemed to have anticipated the bid of the beautiful woman.

At this time, someone in the audience had already reacted: "Unlucky, the woman next to this foundation building monk is either her daughter or her beloved disciple, she is bidding for the juniors!"

As soon as the Zhuji Cultivator made a bid, the enthusiasm of the group of Qi Refining and Dispersion Cultivators was suddenly poured into their hearts, and everyone understood that this Zhuji Dan was no longer something they could touch!

At this time, the scattered cultivators in the audience were already helpless and sat down again, and several people had desolation in their eyes that could not be concealed. Only one of the cultivators was still standing in a daze, and his face was also cloudy. Finally, he gritted his teeth, seemed to have made up his mind, and opened his mouth to quote another price: "Three hundred and twenty-two thousand spirit coins!"

The beautiful woman seemed to be slightly surprised, but then she said, "Three hundred and fifty thousand spirit coins!" There was no sadness or joy in her voice.

That Sanxiu stayed there for a while, his lips trembling, and he stopped talking.

Seeing this, Lin Pingtao hurriedly shouted: "Three hundred and fifty thousand once!"

When the scattered cultivator heard this, he seemed to have made up his mind, and said with a miserable smile: "My limit has arrived, and I can't get this Zhuji Dan today, but I'm afraid that I will fall in a few months." Even if you offend Ziyun's predecessors, it is unspeakable. If I die, it will be a hundred, if I can get away with it, I will personally come to the door to give an explanation to Ziyun's seniors. After that, he turned his head to look at Lin Pingtao: "Lin Daoyou, I don't have any extra spirit coins in my hand, this is my whole body's belongings, please take a look at the value of Daoyou, I will use these items to participate in the auction." After speaking, he took out a leather bag and threw it to Lin Pingtao. Everyone suddenly knew that if this person couldn't get this Zhuji Dan, then this life would come to an end, and as for whether to offend the Zhuji monk, it was already incomprehensible, and when they thought of their own situation, they couldn't help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Lin Pingtao didn't dare to slack off, and first arched his hand to the beautiful woman and said: "The rules of the auction are like this, please don't be surprised if you bother Ziyun's seniors to wait." The beautiful woman remained silent and said, "It should be so, and you are not to blame for this." Lin Pingtao beckoned a maid and took the leather bag into the room behind the platform.

After a while, the maid returned, handed the skin to Lin Pingtao, and whispered a few words to him. After hearing this, Lin Pingtao turned to the scattered cultivator and said: "Song Daoyou, the items you pawned are valued at about 57,000 or eight spirit coins in this store, and today I will give you a whole price, 60,000 spirit coins, can you agree?" Lin Pingtao said: "Song Daoyou bid 380,000 spirit coins!" The beautiful woman immediately said: "400,000 spirit coins!"

Song surnamed Sanxiu's face was pale and speechless, Lin Pingtao shouted: "400,000 spirit coins once! 400,000 spirit coins twice! 400,000 spirit coins three times!

After such a show, the atmosphere of the auction was a little cold for a while, Lin Pingtao saw this, first coughed dryly, and then said: "Don't be anxious, fellow Daoists, there are still a lot of treasures in this auction, and until the end of the auction, we have been accepting bids for valuable items, and it is also known whether there will be an auction of Zhuji Dan for a while." The treasure auctioned below, in terms of value, is not below the Tsukidan, it is a high-grade wood attribute exercise, I don't know what age it is, but the cultivation method is quite exquisite, and the powerful monks in this store have been identified as the top grade. This exercise is called Qianyuan Aoki Jue, and the starting price is 5,000 spirit coins!" As soon as the words fell, the originally gloomy atmosphere of the scene became warm again.

Mo Da said to Xiao Tian: "Brother, you are a wood attribute, this exercise is suitable for you." Xiao Tian couldn't help but laugh and said: "Brother Mo, don't laugh, I'm a half-baked cultivator, and it's a waste to hold that exercise." Mo Da also smiled: "Dafan Gongfa and the like are all sought-after goods from various sects and families, even if they are useless for a while, they must be collected, and I don't know when they will be used by future disciples." My generation of scattered cultivators will never be able to compete with these families. As he spoke, the price of that exercise had been raised to 100,000 spirit coins, and it was finally bought by the Mo family of the Seven Great Families for 180,000 spirit coins.

Time passed minute by minute, and a few more treasures set off some small auctions, but the purpose of Moda's visit this time was to build Kidan, so he never made a move. After another meal, Lin Pingtao suddenly smiled and said: "Fellow Daoists, even the Elder's Tsukidan was sold for a high price, and some Daoists were happy to see the hunt, and they also took out the Tsukidan for auction." As soon as the words fell, the entire auction hall boiled again, and someone shouted: "Really?"

Lin Pingtao pressed down with his hands, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said: "The master of this foundation building Danben store has just completed the identification, and the medicinal effect is worse than that refined by Elder Lian, but the probability of success in building the foundation is also close to thirty percent, which is good..." However, although the medicinal effect is inferior, it is better than the quantity, and this Taoist friend took out three at once, but he had a request, that is, these three Tsukidan were auctioned as a whole as an item, and no individual offers were accepted. ”

"What, you still have to auction it together?" the immortal cultivators in the field immediately began to discuss.

Xiao Tian asked, "Brother Mo, why do you want to auction them all?" Mo Da shook his head and smiled: "Although the quantity of these Tsukidans is large, the quality is not high, if it is not auctioned as a whole, I am afraid that I will not be able to sell them all." This auctioneer is also a veteran. As he spoke, Lin Pingtao had already shouted out the price: "Three Zhuji Dan, the starting price, three thousand spirit coins!" There was still some silence in the field at first, and then someone bid: "Four thousand spirit coins!" and then "five thousand spirit coins!" and "Six thousand spirit coins!" There were actually many competitors. After some bidding, the price also climbed to 50,000 spirit coins.

Mo Da didn't make a bid, and when he saw that Xiao Tian wanted to speak, he said: "This kind of low-quality Tsukidan, if it is served with the top-grade Tsukidan refined by the previous Elder Lian, it will only reduce the chance of success in building the foundation, and the monks present like me probably have one or two Tsukidan of good quality, so it is useless for us to take it." However, there are some Taoist friends with low cultivation, in the spirit of taking precautions, regardless of the quality, with the Zhuji Dan in their hands, their hearts are also more steady, so the competition is also quite fierce. "In the end, these three Tsukidans were purchased by a small family for 115,000 spirit coins.

Subsequently, many items were auctioned one after another, and basically Xiaotian had never seen them, which was an eye-opener. After a long time, Xiao Tian already felt a little hungry, but the immortal cultivators in the field were basically high-level monks, and the junior disciples who followed were also cultivators in the fourth or fifth phase of Qi refining, such as Xiao Tian's cultivation, I am afraid that there is no one except him, and eating is just to adjust the taste for them, but it is dispensable, and no one will say "No, I'm hungry, go eat first" after the auction is over, so Lin Pingtao naturally won't beckon everyone to come after eating first, and the auction will continue in an orderly manner.

This is Lin Pingtao took out a small leather bag, and said: "A leather bag, made of disillusionment fox fur, an embedded space magic circle, can store more than 500 catties of items, it is really a must for all Taoist friends to travel in the mountains and rivers, collect medicine and explore treasures, the starting price, fifty spirit coins!" After a while, no one cared.

Mo Da's heart suddenly moved, and he opened his mouth and shouted: "Sixty spirit coins!" The old man Lin Pingtao was stunned, he was very unimpressed when he saw this auction item, how could this grade of item appear in the largest auction in the city, but because the consignor was not small, he could not shirk it, so he had to accept it, it was planned to be unsuccessful, and the consignor was not easy to say anything at that time, but unexpectedly, someone actually bid, he was obviously stunned, and then hurriedly shouted: "Sixty spirit coins once!" "Sixty spirit coins twice!" "Sixty spirit coins three times!" Congratulations to Daoyou, this storage has extraordinary functions, and the well-made leather bag is yours!" With a wave of her hand, the maid came up and held the jade plate and sent the leather bag to Mo Da. Mo Da took the skin, put down sixty spirit coins in the jade plate, and the maid went again.

Wu Yuemei was puzzled, and was about to ask, but saw Mo Da pick up the skin bag and said to Xiao Tian: "Brother, this skin bag is for you, and you can receive it if you have a treasure in the future." Although this disillusionment fox is only a first-level fierce beast and has no attack power, it is better to have a natural transformation function, and it can even block the monk's divine sense, and its fur is best used for storage. Xiao Tian said: "Brother Mo doesn't have to give it to me, where do I have any treasures? Mo Da Zhengse said: "Brother, don't shirk. You don't need it now, but you will need it in the future. Do you know the truth that the puppet is innocent and guilty, cultivators are the most weak and strong, if people find out that you have a heavy treasure, they are afraid that it will immediately lead to the disaster of killing, so there must be this kind of storage items that can isolate the detection of the divine sense, otherwise there is something on your body, the high-level monk's divine sense can be swept away at a glance, then you may be in danger anytime and anywhere?"

Xiao Tian excused himself again: "In this way, don't you and Sister Wu use it more, big brother?" Wu Yuemei interjected: "If you Brother Mo has a heart, you can accept it." The divine consciousness isolation function of this disillusionment fox is also based on people's cultivation, and if the foundation building monk can't see through it, the Jiedan monk may not be able to see through it. Your Brother Mo and I both have our own storage items, and we have set up a prohibition, which is better than your single divine consciousness isolation effect. Your cultivation is low now, not to mention that you won't set a ban, even if you set a ban, in the eyes of the masters, it is also nothing, and it is good to have such a skin bag to use first. At least the low-level monks can't see through whether you have any treasures on you, and they won't be reckless and take them directly. High-level monks don't have to worry about it, after all, if a cultivator like you is like you, what good things can be on your body that a foundation monk can look at? If you sweep your divine sense and explore the treasures, I am afraid that it will be regarded as a joke if others know about it. "Xiaotian had to accept it.

While I was talking, the auction went on all the time. After a few more hours, Lin Pingtao said loudly: "Fellow Daoists, this auction is coming to an end, and the finale of this conference will be auctioned soon. The crowd boiled again. Lin Pingtao waved his hand again and said, "Before that, there is another good news for everyone. In order to thank all the Taoist friends who came all the way to participate in this auction, this store decided to take out an additional batch of Tsukidan for auction. The Tsukidan in this store is of absolutely high quality, although you can rest assured that the auction is not as good as the boutique of the elders, but the effect of each Tsukidan is definitely more than 30%. As for the quantity, this store will keep it secret, but there is definitely more than one. Without further ado, now the auction begins, and the starting price is five thousand spirit coins!"

Xiao Tian thought to himself: "Why don't you say how many there are?" and then suddenly thought in his heart: "If you don't tell the quantity, then everyone thinks, if you don't buy this one, maybe it will be gone in the future, and the price will go up, it's really treacherous!" But the other monks were already surprised, and they had already begun to bid one after another: "Five thousand one hundred spirit coins!" and "Five thousand two hundred spirit coins!" were also very tacitly agreed not to rush to increase the price. Seeing this, Xiaotian also smiled secretly in his heart: "Sure enough, the soldiers are here to block the water and cover the earth, it seems that there is no fool who buys and sells it." Suddenly, I heard a voice shouting, "Three hundred and eighty thousand spirit coins!" As soon as the voice came out, everyone was stunned and looked at it, it was the monk surnamed Song who had just bid for the best Zhuji Dan.

Everyone saw that this monk surnamed Song gave everything he had as soon as he made a move, and they also understood that this person was already at the end of his rope, and if anyone competed with him at this time, it would be tantamount to forming a life and death enmity with him, and they all knew the opportunity to remain silent. Seeing this, Lin Pingtao also hurriedly shouted: "Three hundred and eighty thousand spirit coins! Is there still a bid! once! twice! three times! deal!" The sound of the hammer sounded, and the monk surnamed Song took the Zhuji Dan given by the maid, handed over the spirit coin items, and went straight out.