Chapter 30: Auction Begins, Profound Spirit Armor

Qin Xiao hadn’t expected Ling Ruoxue to be so generous as to give Yun Man a Supreme Membership Card. He didn’t know what privileges it offered, but the name alone sounded impressive.

“Disciple, you’re right. I did misjudge your Sister Ling. I’ll apologize to her next time.”

Seeing Ling Ruoxue being so generous, Qin Xiao couldn’t be stingy either, deciding to be magnanimous and apologize next time they met.

“Master, why have you suddenly changed your temperament?”

Yun Man was somewhat puzzled. What trick was this master planning now?

“Disciple, you don’t understand. This is how you deal with people. Show me respect and I’ll return it tenfold. Cross me and I’ll repay that too. If I can’t win, I’ll retreat until I can. Understand now?”

Seeing Yun Man’s curiosity, Qin Xiao explained. Indeed, Yun Man was still too young to understand even this much about worldly dealings.

“Master, you call this knowing how to conduct oneself?”

Yun Man didn’t know what to say at this moment, directly rendered speechless by Qin Xiao.

“You’re still young. You don’t understand. Keep learning from your master, and you’ll get it in time.”

Seeing Yun Man’s expression of disbelief, Qin Xiao couldn’t be bothered to explain further.

“Oh, kid, you’re quite capable. You actually managed to sneak in through the membership entrance.”

Ye Tianyi was waiting to be assigned a room, not expecting Qin Xiao to have sneaked in as well.

“Pavilion Master Ye, what do you mean, sneak? I got in on my own merits.”

Qin Xiao immediately objected to her mockery. This was his own strength! A disciple’s strength counted as her master’s, of course. Nothing wrong with that.

“You’re not using a Purple Gold Card from your sect, are you? Putting on airs with borrowed wealth?”

Ye Tianyi couldn’t quite say why she disliked the boy. Perhaps she had transferred her resentment to him because his master had run off with her Great Elder.

“Damn, the sect has Purple Gold Cards? I should have asked the Sect Leader for one. I nearly made a fool of myself.”

Hearing Ye Tianyi say this, Qin Xiao realized he had left too hastily and hadn’t asked clearly.

“All guests with Purple Gold Cards, please follow me. Your private rooms on the second floor are ready.”

Just as Qin Xiao was pondering, a female staff member from the auction house approached.

“Disciple, our card should work too, right? Let’s go to the second floor.”

Seeing someone coming to lead the way, Qin Xiao pulled Yun Man to follow.

“Honored guest, please wait. Your room is on the third floor.”

Qin Xiao was about to follow when a middle-aged man came forward.

“Third floor? That’s one floor higher than them? Not bad, very good.” Get faster updates on novelping.com.

Hearing he was on the third floor, Qin Xiao immediately became much more confident and suddenly felt like being mischievous.

“Oh, Pavilion Master Ye, off to the second floor? And isn’t that the City Lord and Old Li? You’re going there too? How nice. Lots of people, plenty of company. Unlike me—I can only go to the third floor. So lonely up there. I really envy you all.”

As Qin Xiao passed by these people, he didn’t forget to say this, then hurried up to the third floor as their eyes looked like they could kill.

“Master, can’t you be a bit more steady? We’ve already offended quite a few people.”

Once they reached the large private room on the third floor, Yun Man was almost faint with exasperation and could only complain wearily.

“It’s fine. Pavilion Master Ye will curse me to herself at most. My master’s wife is still in seclusion, so she won’t kill me. And the City Lord and Old Li already want me dead. Would they spare me if I didn’t annoy them? Relax. Your master has everything under control.”

Qin Xiao looked completely confident, as if everything was within his calculations. In reality, after the auction, he planned to have Ling Ruoxue send him to the sect’s mountain foothills. As for how to get Ling Ruoxue to send him, that would depend on his disciple.

These people feared the Immortal Dao Merchant Association and wouldn’t dare touch the Ling Family, so he would travel with someone from that family. Ling Ruoxue must be close to Yun Man if she had given her a Supreme Card. Surely she would agree to this request. Surely.

After waiting about a quarter of an hour, everyone had entered, and the auction officially began.

“Quiet, please, everyone. Welcome to the Immortal Dao Auction House. You know we have many fine items on offer today, but I’ll keep you in suspense for now. You’ll see soon enough. Let the auction begin!”

Ling Ruoxue’s few words on stage aroused everyone’s curiosity. Then the auction began amid everyone’s anticipation.

“That Sister of yours is quite pretty when you look closely. Shame about her temper.”

Qin Xiao on the third floor casually commented on Ling Ruoxue.

“Master, keep quiet. If she hears you, there’ll be trouble. This is her territory, and several late-stage Soul Formation experts are stationed at the back. Behave yourself.”

Yun Man was truly afraid. At the sect, although her master wasn’t very proper, she never expected him to be even more unruly after leaving the sect. She was truly exhausted.

“Damn, you should have said earlier. Soul Formation late stage, that’s the same level as our Sect Leader. Watch my words, watch my words.”

On hearing that several late-stage Soul Formation experts were here, Qin Xiao finally behaved himself. Against such strength, even the Sect Leader couldn’t protect him.

“This first auction item is this High Grade Spirit Weapon, Profound Spirit Armor. Starting price fifty thousand Spirit Stones, minimum bid increment one thousand.”

Ling Ruoxue didn’t waste words, directly presenting the first auction item, a High Grade Spirit Weapon armor.

Most Spirit Weapons were offensive. Defensive ones were rarer and generally cost twice as much.

“Fifty-one thousand.”

“Fifty-five thousand.”

“Sixty thousand.”

“Seventy thousand.”

Four bids raised the price to seventy thousand, and these were just bids from people sitting in the main hall.

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A private room on the second floor directly raised the price to one hundred thousand, already roughly the market price for this armor.

“One hundred ten thousand.”

Another private room also bid, increasing by only ten thousand.

“One hundred fifty thousand. I am very fond of this Spirit Weapon. I hope my fellow Daoists will let me have it.”

The Li Family Ancestor actually directly invoked his status.

Other families naturally had Spirit Stones, but the Li Family was now with the City Lord. Bidding might offend the City Lord, truly not worthwhile.

At this moment, the scene was somewhat quiet. Those wanting to bid feared offending the City Lord, while those not afraid to offend didn’t need this item.

Ling Ruoxue was displeased, but this was Tianyuan City. Even the powerful had to tread carefully on someone else’s turf. The price was already good, so there was no need to confront the Li Family over something so small.

“Wait, I bid two hundred thousand.”

Qin Xiao finally spoke from the third floor. This inner armor looked useful. He fought at close quarters and badly needed protection.

“Damn, someone actually went up to the third floor.”

“This event’s standards are not low. Even Gold Members can only sit in the main hall. Those on the third floor must be Supreme Members?”

“No wonder he can throw money around. A Supreme Member!”

“That’s someone with tens of millions of Spirit Stones! No wonder he bids so freely. He really has money to burn.”

The Immortal Dao Merchant Association’s membership tiers were simple. A Silver Card required ten thousand Spirit Stones in assets; a Gold Card, one hundred thousand; a Purple Gold Card, more than a million. For a Supreme Card, one needed assets in the tens of millions of Spirit Stones as well as an invitation from the Ling Family.

“That kid is meddling again. This is already more than the armor is worth. Forcing the price higher would burden the family. Never mind. Once I kill him, the armor will be mine anyway.”

After struggling for a moment, the Li Family Ancestor still gave up bidding.

“If no one bids higher, this inner armor will belong to the third floor.”

“Good, this first auction item is won by the honored guest on the third floor for two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.”

After a while, when no higher bid came, Ling Ruoxue brought down the hammer. Qin Xiao had won the Profound Spirit Armor.

“Sensible of him. If he’d bid again, I would have let him have it and made him overpay. I didn’t expect the old man to be so shrewd.”

Qin Xiao was a little disappointed that the Ancestor hadn’t bid again. Still, two hundred thousand for the inner armor was within his budget. Any higher and it wouldn’t be worth it.

After the first auction item, Ling Ruoxue very proudly took out the second auction item, which was cultivation spirit medicine, Spirit Liquid.

“This second auction item is ten drops of Spirit Liquid. Starting price ten thousand Spirit Stones, minimum bid increment ten thousand.”