Chapter 38: Throwing Jade and Bricks
The ghost and ugly took out a thing from his arms, this thing is square, very good-looking, carved dragon and phoenix on it, it is beautiful.
I asked, "Is this 'jade'?"
"Of course not, do you think you can use this to draw out that gentian pendant? Impossible, since the other party can deceive the white prostitute Liu Yujiang, he is naturally not a stupid person. If we come up with a better treasure to lure him out, it will only make the other party laugh at our childishness. Just look at it. ”
Ghost Ugly pressed the palm-sized small square box, and an iron bird drilled out of it, and the iron bird was the size of a thumb. He lifted the back of the iron bird, stuffed a high-grade spirit stone into the back of the sticking bird, and then he broke the peck of the iron bird, and the iron bird's whole body suddenly lit up and then became smooth and restrained, and his eyes did not move after a few turns, but at this time he was full of spiritual energy.
In this case, I have naturally used the four-character mantra to absorb the word.
"It's called a sound bird!" Ghost Ugly whispered to the bird, and when the bird got up, a ray of light flew away from the window and disappeared between heaven and earth.
"So what now?"
"Go to the Qingming Inn and wait for news. ”
"Okay! Uncle Shi first, please!"
The two of us entered the Qingming Inn, asked for an upper room, and talked to Boss Bai about the Liu jade craftsman, mainly asking for the room where the woman had lived. Entering the room, this room is no different from an ordinary inn room, and I can't find any flaws and clues.
About two hours later, there was a soft cracking sound from the window, and the bird fell into the ghostly box. The ghost ugly put a soundproof cover, pressed the bird's peck again, and then an old and terrifying voice came out from the sound transmission bird's beak: "Second senior brother ghost is really honored to be able to contact me, I haven't seen you for a long time." It's tricky, but it's easy for me. I'll be heading to March City at once, and I'll be there tomorrow, and I'll get back to you after making some arrangements. You can spread the word about the underground auction first, and the location will be set in the firewood room of the March City Dance Band, and as soon as I arrive, everything will be done......"
I remember that Master Tears and Wang Qianqiu had talked about the monk's underground auction, and he said curiously as if asking, "Underground auction?"
The ghost smiled slightly: "Of course, it is an underground auction that only our monks can participate in! The master and nephew should hear it, this person is a person from our Yishu Sect, one of my junior disciples, Fu Baolong, whose name is 'Rich Man's Son', although he is an outer disciple, but he is a powerful immortal monk, just because the spiritual root only has a second-level quality, he is mostly excluded, only me and your master usually treat him well." He encountered a crisis situation due to an expedition during an experience, and in a hurry, he cultivated Jin Dan and went to the wrong door to cultivate into a fake pill, resulting in the inability to cultivate Yuan Ying for the rest of his life, which slightly affected his fame, and he was a real master in Yi Shumen. His immortal art is good at copying, but the survival time of the replica is limited, and it can only exist for two hours at most, but these two hours are enough. is still a puppeteer, except for copying and specializing in puppetry. ”
I suddenly remembered that Master Kong Zhi's transformation was also two hours, could it be that two hours is the limit of the Immortal Cultivator? It is a kind of Heavenly Dao rule? I'm afraid it is.
"What is a fake pill?" I first came into contact with the level of this fake pill.
Uncle Ghost Ugly said: "The fake pill is to use the demon baby of the dead Yuan Infant level demon beast to forcibly catalyze and refine his own foundation building liquid into a golden pill, this Jin Dan has a trace of demon energy and has a little demon ability, it belongs to the heterogeneous Jin Dan period, and it is not pure enough, so it is called a fake pill, which is stronger than the human Jin Dan, and is close to the master of the Yuan Infant stage." That is to say, as long as I have not risen to the Yuan infant stage, I am not his opponent in terms of quality. If you take the False Dan Dao, you will have no hope of being a Yuan Infant in this life, and this is the consequence of forcibly improving your cultivation. At the critical junctures of some wars, the monks of the Foundation Building Period, who had no hope in this life, would use this method to forcibly improve their cultivation and improve their overall combat effectiveness. ”
I was extremely surprised, the world of cultivating immortals was really mysterious, and there was still such a cultivator.
I have seen the power of the puppet master, and the Kong Zhi master that Niujiazhuang met was in awe of Wei Fan, the predecessor of the three points.
Next, Uncle Ghost and I split up and searched for monks in March City, including some of the lone demon hunters. The underground auction was naturally held in secret, and it was naturally a good thing that someone organized it, and informed that it would be officially held tomorrow night, and the venue was in the firewood room next to the kitchen behind the dance club.
Soon after, the monks spread among themselves, and my uncle and I sat on the second floor of the heavenly freshness and looked out the window to watch the monks spread to each other in all corners of the city. It's just that although this March City is large, there are not many monks except for the demon hunting envoys, there are at most 300 people, and those who don't want to participate, those who don't have to exchange treasures, those who can't stop retreating and cultivating, and finally there are only fifty people who can participate in the auction.
The dance and music workshop was more lively than usual this night, and suddenly there were dozens of more guests, these people spent money like dirt, and the four instruments of the dance and music workshop were naturally called on the stage, pipa, bamboo flute, guqin, and three-legged drum.
The pipa girl, dressed in a red gauze dress and veiled with a red head, sat in the center of the stage, while the other three accompanied her. The pipa girl has a gold and silver bell bracelet on her wrist, and she plays the lute with accompaniment, and the neon lights shine even brighter.
The beautiful rhythm of the pipa is the main piece of music tonight, and everyone is attentive to the famous song "Falling Dust Sand", and a man and a woman dance together on one side of the stage. Generally, musical instruments are used to accompany dancers, but because of the ancient and modern names of this song, plus the song created first and then the dance choreographed, so when this song is played, it is often mainly a song, supplemented by dance.
This is a mournful song, accompanied by the guqin chanting, the pipa sound is like a middle-aged woman with a declining face walking in the dust, her steps are sinking or rising, slow or sick, she is trekking hard, accompanied by heart-rending pain, slow with heartbeat like a drum of inner pain. I don't know how long she has been walking, and in the process of walking, it is extremely lonely, as if there is no hope in life, as if life has come to an end, and every grain of sand stepping under her feet has been a story or a person. It turned out that she was a little fairy in her twilight years, she was abandoned, she gave her youth, but in exchange for a desert.
But there is an oasis in the desert after all, she ran to the oasis, picked up the water in the oasis, she did not drink, but looked at the water, smelled the water, smelled the water, and finally she jumped into the water. She washed away all the lead and the troubles of the world, she danced happily, the water danced into a match, the water turned into her long hair, she got carried away, she wanted to immerse herself in this oasis, she wanted to be one with the oasis, until she stopped breathing.
But just when she wanted to return to nature, an old man rescued her. The old man rescued her to the nearby old castle of the Gobi, and the two sat down to confide in each other. The castle is full of wind and sand, fighting iron horses, neighing, that is the history of the old man, that is the old man's past. He is a general in his twilight years, guarding in this desert, guarding the border pass, but he is old, he can't walk, he can't hold his pear blossom silver gun, the only thing he can hold is the crutch in his hand and a heart to protect the family and defend the country, he used this crutch to save the little fairy who almost drowned.
The two sat down and talked about the past, but they smiled bitterly, there was no wine here, no music, only the dull heart drum and the neighing of war horses. The general talked about his great achievements on the battlefield, but when he was old, he still had to return to dust, leaving no heirs and children, and dedicating his life to the Immortal Dynasty, the only thing that could support him was the crutch, the crutch was the barrel of the spear he had used, which was soaked in the blood of countless heroic spirits, and you could hear the shouting and wildness of the dead soldiers at any time, ** and dedication.
The little fairy talked about some of the people she had come into contact with, some of them were interesting, some of them were evil, and she had believed in some people's rhetoric, but those were all for show, and to move herself was to better play the job of a little fairy. She saved up her gold and silver to redeem herself, but she found that she was also old, and no one wanted her, and all she could ask for was the desert that could swallow her, and if the oasis in the desert was the end, she was willing to die in that oasis.
The old general and the little fairy of decay, the two hugged each other and cried, and finally walked into the oasis together. The end of the song.
This song, you don't know whether the two of them lived together or died together, in short, no matter whether life has gone through glory or sinking, it will end up with the same ending, giving people a feeling of endless aftertaste. This is the famous song "Falling Dust and Sand" in the world of cultivating immortals, the main role is mainly pipa, and the accompanying instruments can be adjusted at will according to the situation.
This song made many people cry, as if everyone has different circumstances and sufferings in their lives.
I was also affected by the pathos of this song. The charm of music art is truly incomparable, even if you can't see it, even if you can't hear it, you can feel the existence of music with your heart. Some people say that music is the art of listening, and even the definition has always been the same, but there are musicians in history who can't hear or see but can create with their hearts, where do they hear the music?
While I was immersed in the charm of music, Uncle Ghost Ugly knocked me on the head and said, "What are you doing? ”
At this time, I realized that there were fewer and fewer people in the audience, as if they all went to the dance and music workshop to "go to the thatched house", but the monks who went to the thatched house never returned, as if they had fallen in, and actually went to the nearby firewood house.
The firewood room is relatively simple, unlike the stage of the dance band, which is very gorgeous. The door of the firewood room is open, and after entering, it is not much different from the firewood room of the general rich and noble, the only difference is that there is an oval light door flickering in the corner of the wall.
I walked close to Uncle Ghost and Ugly, and he said: "This secret door is set up temporarily, mortals can't see it, and there is no reaction when it touches this door. ”
I cast the most accustomed strong word trick, and then suck and cast at the same time, that is, the spirit shield, what if someone ambushes me in, the spirit shield rushed left and right like a hedgehog on my body, but I stepped on the light group, and it was just a moment in front of me and suddenly it opened up again, and it turned out to be a low room in front of me, and there was a door in front of the room, and there seemed to be movement in the door, but it was all very slight.
There was a subordinate standing here, and he took out two black robes from his hands, which my uncle and I put on directly, and there was also a mask cover, which was put directly on the face, and I couldn't see anything except the eyes, nose, and mouth.
When I pushed the door in, it was about a hundred square meters, and there were monks everywhere, about one hundred and twenty or thirty people, all wearing black robes, which exceeded my expectations. We didn't even have anyone to look at us when we came in, and we were all looking forward to the auction starting. They sat at a scattered round table, and directly in front of the place where I had come in was a small stage, about twenty centimeters high, with a tall desk on which ten boxes were placed, and the edges of the boxes could be seen by everyone. The packaging of the box is different in color, the pattern is different, and it is darker, and it looks more and more mysterious in the dim light, and it seems that it is about to be auctioned.
The furnishings are very simple, the walls are smooth, there is nothing except a few simple fluorescent stones, this seems to be a cave, but how can this cave be built in the firewood room of the dance club, it is really powerful.
Ghost Ugly later explained to me that the simple door was also a simple teleportation array, and that the auction location was naturally not in March City, but in a cave in the nearby mountain range, which was temporarily excavated and arranged by Fu Baolong, which was easy for a fake Dan monk.
Fu Baolong is an ugly-looking, senile, hunchbacked old man, and he actually has a fight with ghosts. Seeing that the ghost and the nephew he had not yet seen had arrived, Fu Baolong stood up from the tall wooden chair, knocked down the small wooden hammer, and said: "Fellow practitioners, I am the elder Wanlitong of the world's first treasure pavilion Wanjin Building. You can go to the dark room on the side and hand it over to my assistant. ”
After Fu Baolong finished speaking, he took out a gold medal, and there were three big characters written on the card: Wanjin Building, golden and very eye-catching.
Just when he saw this gold medal, the crowd was in a commotion, and he couldn't bear it anymore, and said to the people nearby: "This is the token of Wanjinlou, I have seen it, if it is fake, it is 100% true." ”
Such a sound is similar in every corner, and it turns out that the underground auction also has a lot of attention and security.
"The first treasure, a cocoon mattress of the finished silkworm!"
What is a cocoon mattress? It is the shell that the silkworm replaces when it transforms, this shell is extremely hard, it is made of the natural silk, if this shell is used to make magic weapons, it is amazing, and even the magic weapon can be used. About the size of an adult's thumb.
Everyone talked again: "This thing is a good thing, it can increase the ability to resist cold and properly resist physical attacks when placed in the armor." ”
However, Fu Baolong's next words made everyone even more commotion.
"The reserve price is a thousand spirit stones!" Fu Baolong shouted loudly.
"A thousand, that's too cheap, isn't it?"
"Fake, right?"
Fu Baolong smiled slightly and said, "Unbelieving monks can come forward to verify that we Wanjinlou never sell fakes. ”
"I'll try!" At this time, a masked monk stepped forward, exuding the aura fluctuations of the foundation building period, I am the aura stage, of course I can't feel accurate, but I can judge roughly.
When the people saw that there was an extra fire in the monk's hand, they burned the silk, and after the flames, the silk was intact. The monk said, "It is true," and walked off the small stage. ”
"I'll try it too!" This voice turned out to be uttered by the ghost ugly master, which surprised me.
The ghost ugly walked on the stage and released a cloud of ice qi towards the silk, and the cold ice fell on the silk, the silk was intact, and the cold on the cocoon mattress gradually penetrated into the cocoon like frost, as if the cold ice true qi was sucked. This time it was amazing, and everyone was boiling. The first treasure is so powerful, it turned out to be a piece of the best silkworm cocoon mattress.
"I'll give out three thousand spirit stones!"
"Are you stupid? I want to buy three thousand spirit stones. I'll give five thousand!"
"I'll give out 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones!" Suddenly a woman's voice sounded.
Everyone went to the prestige, but it was useless, this black-clothed masked mask looked similar to everyone.
The woman didn't move, just waited for the following, and sure enough, someone in a corner shouted: "I will give out a thousand high-grade spirit stones." ”
Although it is said that 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones and 1,000 high-grade spirit stones can be exchanged equally, the actual application of high-grade spirit stones is more useful than that of medium-grade spirit stones. That is, one to ten, and a medium-grade spirit stone can naturally be exchanged for ten low-grade spirit stones. And the ratio of gold to high-grade spirit stones is the same one-to-one. Therefore, gold is also very important, and it is not comparable between middle-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones.
It wasn't until the three thousand high-grade spirit stones were fried that this piece of silkworm cocoon mattress was taken away.
Then he took another pair of pants, which was not too expensive, it was a pants that could cure hemorrhoids, which was obtained by a monk during his expedition, but it was really taken away, because some monks walked in the world and lived with mortals, and if someone in the family had hemorrhoids, then the pants would be useful, and if they were sold to a drugstore, they could be exchanged for some gold.
The third is a porcelain bowl, this porcelain bowl has a tooth on it, but it can hold a lot of water, after the demonstration of Fu Baolong, this bowl can move mountains and reclaim the sea, on the surface it is a broken bowl, in fact, it is a magic weapon, although it is said to be a broken magic weapon, but it is also much more powerful than the magic weapon, the so-called mountain reclamation is just a pool of water, this bowl can also hold oil and other liquid things in addition to water, even if it is filth in the latrine...... Without further ado, I seem to smell it.
This pair of water magicians is simply the best, the broken magic weapon can be used as a top-level magic weapon, but the cultivation is at least until the foundation building period, and people like me in the aura period can only use magic weapons. Because the consumption of aura to drive the magic weapon is not something that a person in the aura period can bear, it will be overdrawn at the least, and at worst it will be life-threatening or the spiritual root will be wasted. And the Lingbao is better than the magic weapon, the Lingbao is backward compatible, the monk of the Reiki period can also use the Lingbao ability, and the drive is also very smooth, which is why my double ring can use the key to the Lingbao ability, the power of the Lingbao is similar to the magic weapon, and there is no limit, down to the Reiki period, up to the Yuan Infant period and above can be used, so it is more precious.
Slapped off the bowl and slapped off five more treasures. The ninth treasure, after Fu Baolong opened a square box, there was a glass cover inside, and there was something in the glass cover, which was square, it was a jade seal.
Fu Baolong was about to open his mouth to speak, when suddenly a monk stood up in the crowd, and the monk looked a little excited, and was held by a monk next to him and sat down again.
This detail will certainly attract the attention of a small number of people.
Fu Baolong coughed twice and said: "This is the Dragon King's Seal, it is a thing of the previous dynasty, and the immortal cultivation world knows a legend, that is, the dragon has the opportunity to become a royal family and even win the world if you absorb too much dragon qi." This treasure can be said to be difficult to find in the sky and hard to find on the earth. ”
The monks exchanged their heads and ears, and they couldn't help it anymore, being able to become a royal family is also something that many monks dream of, and this kind of thing is really rare to the point that there seem to be few in the world, there are many monks, who have lived for hundreds of years and have never seen it, actually appeared in such a small underground auction.
"Is this thing real or fake?" shouted a monk from a corner.
"If you don't believe it, you can come forward to test. Fu Baolong said with a slight smile, although his smile was extremely ugly, and it felt as if a piece of glass was stuffed between his teeth.
The Taoist friend was not polite, walked to the stage steadily, and said, "This glass cover is covered, how can I test it?"
"This thing is very valuable, so naturally it should be kept alive, the dragon is strong, and it will be worthless if it is dispersed. Fu Baolong hesitated again, and said helplessly, "But if you don't let everyone feel the dragon qi, and everyone is worried that I will deceive, then sacrifice a little dragon qi." ”
After Fu Baolong finished speaking, he took down the glass cover, and suddenly a dragon shadow flashed in the dragon king's seal, and the dragon shadow was green, which was very beautiful.
"Wooden Dragon?" a surprised voice came from another corner. Seeing this, Fu Baolong said, "How do you want to test, hurry up." ”
The man was not polite, a heavy fist smashed up, that punch weighed 800 catties, and even made a "buzz" sound, which shows the power and speed, it seems that he is a fighting mage. However, the dragon king's seal, like an invincible vajra body, actually blocked that punch, and the loud sound of "bang!" was only half heard, and the sound and momentum were sucked away by the dragon qi!
"Wow!"
"Awesome!"
"Even the sound can absorb this is indeed dragon energy, it is true, I was lucky enough to see this thing when I was young, it seems to be the real dragon king seal. The man put away his fist and said as he walked back to his place.
Then there were still people who were not convinced, and they came to the stage one after another, and after three people, Fu Baolong said: "I can't try again, I should consume dragon gas if I try again, my glass cover is not an ordinary glass cover, but a special little baby for nourishing breath, who bought it and gave it away." Hmmm......"
"Start shooting!" Fu Baolong deliberately hesitated, as if he was afraid that the starting shot would be low because of this thing, and then said fiercely: "Eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones!"
"Eighty thousand, big brother, are you robbing?"
"What, eighty thousand? I can't bring ten thousand in total. ”
"This thing is very rare, I think it's worth at least 100,000. ”
When Fu Baolong heard this, he looked at the person as if he regretted it and sighed lightly, this small breath is weak mosquitoes and flies, in fact, everyone can find it but it is like being afraid of being discovered, okay, the strongest place of Yi Shumen should not be the six characters of Yi Shu, but the performance, each of them is an actor, and I have gained knowledge again.
"I'll give 150,000!" suddenly a man shouted.
This person was seen by everyone before, it was the woman, who stood up and was pressed again, and the two should be together.
"150,000 once, 150,000 twice ......"
It is true that ordinary monks can't take out these 150,000, and even if we go to the clouds, it's not a small number.
If the gentian pendant is worth 50,000, then this dragon king seal is worth 150,000 is also considered a normal price, normal is normal, but for most monks, this dragon qi is a bit chicken, so there is no competition.
"Three times!"
"Deal!"
If the transaction is completed, you can only go to the side room to pick up the goods and pay for the goods, unless the other party can't pay, you can continue to shoot. So when the payment is over, everyone disperses, and if the auctioneer is not enough money, they will re-shoot.
Will the tenth treasure be more powerful? Not necessarily, the tenth treasure is a magic weapon like a fan, which is a big disappointment. However, we still have to wait for the payment results to see, and there may be hope for the leftovers, especially the items that have been auctioned before.
The auction in the world of cultivating immortals also has the same price hike, and there is the same trust, but this underground auction is usually more fair and just, and the price is relatively reasonable, which is why so many people come today.
While everyone was talking, Fu Baolong came out, and the ten people who had paid the money also returned to the main hall through the side door.
Fu Baolong said neatly: "This is the end of today's auction, disperse!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole venue flashed brightly, and everything disappeared, and so did my uncle and me. It was only when I looked around that I realized that the two of us were in a small grass hut, and when I opened the door, I saw that it was a small village outside the city of March.
The ghost ugly said: "This rich man's son has spread the two of us so far. ”
"It's not to hide from the eyes and ears. Suddenly, an old voice came from the side of the thatched house. When the man turned around, I saw that it was a shy and big-bellied Humpty Dumpty man, who looked to be more than 200 pounds, long horizontally and vertically, with oily hair and powdery face, completely different from the person at the auction. No wonder he is called the son of a rich man, and he is also a master of the fake Dan period.
"It's been a long time, Senior Brother Ghost Ugly!"
"Thank you Senior Brother Fu Baolong for your help! Senior Brother, the power of your space divine treasure is still so wonderful, it really makes Senior Brother greedy. ”
"Senior brother, if it weren't for the only one in the world, I would have sent you. Ha ha. It's just that this thing is most useful to match my immortal arts, and it's not very useful to let you do it. Ha ha. ”
When the two of them met, it was a fuss, and they left me alone.
The brothers had enough trouble before returning to the topic, and the ghost ugly asked, "Did you get your hands on the gentian pendant?"
The ghost said, "Yes." ”