Chapter 34 The Auction
There is yin and yang in the sky, and there are four elephants in the earth; spring planting and autumn harvest, cold comes and goes; Qingming is rain, and white dew is frost.
Xuanlingmen is located in the south of the mainland, the four seasons are like spring, and Li Qingshan has not felt the change of the earth's qi for a long time. It is already autumn, and there is a hint of coolness in the wind.
The market is coming soon, presumably because of the auction, today's market is unusually lively, crowded with people, side by side, all kinds of monks.
Putting on his scarf and hat, Li Qingshan came directly to the Dibao Pavilion, and when he inquired, he learned that the auction was not held in the Dibao Pavilion, but in the Treasure Building.
Following the crowd, Li Qingshan came to the Treasure Building, and when he saw the cultivators lining up, he also followed the queue.
The people in front of him all paid a few spirit stones to enter the Treasure Building, and Li Qingshan, who was holding a token like him, didn't see any of them.
The crowd flowed, and soon it was Li Qingshan's turn.
Li Qingshan took out the token and showed it to the monk guarding the door.
"Brother Dao, you don't have to queue up, there is a VIP passage next to it, you can enter from that side. The doorkeeper politely instructed.
Following the guidance of the monk guarding the gate, Li Qingshan found that there was indeed a passage next to the gate, but there was no one there.
Li Qingshan walked over with a suspicious letter, and a beautifully dressed female cultivator came out, and through divine thoughts, this person's cultivation was actually higher than him.
Li Qingshan showed her the token, and the nun led him to the building.
"Brother Dao came early enough, and in the past, Daoist friends who held tokens were the last. The nun said as she walked.
"The contemptible people have nothing to do, and they are idle, so they came first. Li Qingshan pretended to say in a low voice, observing the environment in the building as he spoke.
The layout of the Treasure Building is similar to that of the Dibao Pavilion, except that the private rooms on the first floor have been removed and replaced with chairs, arranged in dozens of rows, and the front half of these chairs have monks seated. In front of the chair was a wooden table with a long table on top of the counter, presumably an auction table.
The nun did not stop on the first floor, but took Li Qingshan to a private room on the second floor.
"Brother Dao, you can still be satisfied here, if you are not satisfied, I will change it for you. The nun opened the private room and asked with a smile.
"It's a good place, and it's hard work. Li Qingshan nodded.
Qizhen Building is a tower-style building, the middle is empty, this private room can see the situation on the first floor, Li Qingshan naturally has nothing to dissatisfaction with.
"Then the concubine will not bother, there is tea and water on the table, and Brother Dao can use it at will. With that, the nun withdrew.
Listening to the meaning of the female cultivator, will this auction start for a while and a half, Li Qingshan took out the insect repellent book that the rumor had given him and watched it.
There is an explanation at the beginning of this book, and the art of repelling insects is divided into two types: blood contract and soul contract.
The so-called blood contract is to use one's own blood and qi as a guide, integrate into the body of the spirit insect when it is young, and impose a forbidden law, so that the blood can be connected, and the spirit insect will have a sense of closeness to the monk, and the reaction is very small.
The so-called soul contract is to use the divine thought as a guide to control the spirit worm with the divine soul, so that it can be done like an arm command, the disadvantage is that it is easy to damage the spirituality of the spirit worm, which makes it difficult for the spirit worm to advance, and there is a danger of backlash.
The two types of insect repellent techniques have their own advantages and disadvantages, the blood contract is re-cultivated, and the soul contract is re-effective.
What is recorded in this book is a kind of soul pact, called concentric contract. This technique needs to erase the main soul of the spirit insect and replace it with the monk's divine mind, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the spirit worm.
The way of the divine soul is mysterious and unpredictable, Li Qingshan has never been in contact with it before, and this reading is very rewarding.
All living beings have three souls, which are divided into the main soul, the awakened soul, and the living soul, the main soul and the main thought, the main senses, and the living soul and the main life and death. If a living soul is deprived of the main soul, it becomes a walking corpse, if it loses the soul of consciousness, it loses its six senses, and if it does not have a living soul, the main soul and the awakened soul become rootless trees and immediately die.
The reason why the monks who have cultivated above the foundation can leave the body and not die for a short time is because the soul is strong.
Theoretically, the Concentric Pact can be used to control all living beings, but in practice it is not. First, it is very difficult to erase the main soul alone, and there must be remnants, and secondly, the three souls are of the same origin, and the awakened soul and the living soul will repel the divine thoughts of the controller, and the stronger the divine soul of the controlled, the greater the repulsion. Only spirit insects with weak souls can use this technique, and there is also a danger of backlash.
Li Qingshan looked at it and thought about it, and gradually forgot the hour.
"Welcome all Taoist friends to come to Qizhen Building and participate in this Tianniufang City Auction. It is an honor to be able to preside over this auction, and I hope everyone can return home with a full load in this auction. The rules of this auction are the same as before, or my five stores set a base price of spirit stones, and everyone will use spirit stones to bid. If the spirit stone is insufficient, it can also be mortgaged with other items of equivalent value, and the specific value will be jointly assessed by my five stores, in short, the one with the highest price will be obtained. A loud voice came from downstairs, and Li Qingshan also came back to his senses.
The auction began, and Li Qingshan put the books back into the storage bag and looked downstairs.
Presiding over the auction was a middle-aged man with a handsome face, dressed in gorgeous clothes and jade belts, and judging by the aura fluctuations on his body, he should be a foundation building monk.
Behind him stood five monks, with different shapes, all of whom had the cultivation of the foundation building period, one of whom Li Qingshan knew, it was Yunhai, presumably these five people were the people in charge of the auction of the five major stores.
"Without further ado, this auction starts now. The first auction item, a high-quality magic weapon with high-quality wood attributes, is acacia. The main material of this sword is five-hundred-year-old acacia wood, supplemented by smelting crystal and dark iron, which is very suitable for those with wood spirit roots. The base price of this sword is five hundred spirit stones, and the bidding will start now!"
This wood attribute high-grade magic weapon can indeed be regarded as a high-quality product, after adding the alchemy Xuantie, it is more powerful and harder than Li Qingshan's Xuanbing Blade, plus it has a good name and a good appearance, which immediately attracted many female cultivators to scramble.
In the end, this piece of acacia was bought by a female cultivator at a high price of 800 spirit stones.
Eight hundred spirit stones were already close to the price of top-level magic weapons, and this price made Li Qingshan a little dumbfounded, and he couldn't help but look at the wronged man downstairs. The nun wore a scarf, making it difficult to see her face.
The auction continued, and Li Qingshan was not surprised then, all the lots were much higher than the market price.
Five high-grade magic weapons were auctioned in a row, and the transaction price was hundreds of spirit stones more expensive than the market price.
"Lot 6, top-grade defensive weapon, Taurus Armor. This armor is made from the shell of a four-winged golden bull, which can cover the whole body, and is extremely tough, even with top-level attack magic weapons. The reserve price of this armor is 1,000 spirit stones, and the bidding will start below. ”
Yi Qingyuan said as he took out a piece of gold armor from the five storage bags on the table, put it on the table and showed it to everyone to take a closer look, and injected spiritual energy to demonstrate.
Boom, although no one in the building spoke loudly, the atmosphere immediately became warm, and many people stared at the golden armor with fiery eyes, obviously wanting to obtain this thing.