Chapter 129: Sea of Clouds Auction (1)
âOne of the clanâs elders needs it. He was wounded badly two years ago in a duel with someone and has no way of recovering completely. We donât know how much longer heâs going to be able to hold on. The only way to ensure his survival was to activate the Shining Dragon Bloodline in his body,â Gu Qingluo said.
The Shining Dragonâs bloodline was incredibly powerful and possessed a powerful lifeforce. As soon as it activated, he would naturally recover.
âBut if that happens, that elder is going to need to leave the Longxi Gu Clan and head for the Empty Mountain, right?â Su Chen asked.
âYes, but so what? The Empty Mountain Kingdom is a prison meant to contain the Gu Clan, but it isnât totally restrictive. As long as he doesnât leave Empty Mountain, heâll still have some freedom. The amount of territory the Shining Dragon Gu Clan has there isnât small either; if he goes there, he might not be that bad off,â Gu Qingluo laughed.
So thatâs how it was.
In other words, the Gu Clan all over the kingdom were born with a secret skill: if they couldnât defeat their opponents, they could just ingest a vial of Awakening Medicine and immediately turn things around on their opponent.
Most people couldnât handle this way of playing.
It seemed like this top quality Awakening Medicine was hard to come by, however; otherwise, if each person could get their hands on a vial, the whole continent would be thrown into chaos.
âSixth Elder Tang is the manager of the Sea of Clouds Auction. I originally was hoping that he would stop the auction and sell it to me directly, but unfortunately he refused. However, he agreed to save the medicine until the end of the auction, behind a number of important treasures. This way, everyone would have spent most of their money, and the competition wouldnât be that fierce.â
The Gu Clan wasnât the only clan with a powerful bloodline. Many Bloodline Nobility Clans had diverse and complex bloodline pedigrees. If they traced it back all the way, some might even have traces of a Desolate Beast. If some Desolate Beast Bloodline Nobility Clan individual leaves behind some seed elsewhere, but it gets suppressed for any number of reasons and is slowly diluted as it is passed on from generation to generation, that individual would still have an opportunity to suddenly rise to powerâŠâŠ this kind of person would also need the top quality Awakening Medicine.
There was still a lot of room to fight for this top quality Awakening Medicine. Gu Qingluo couldnât directly buy the medicine, so she could only use this kind of tactic to decrease the intensity of the competition.
When he heard this, Su Chen laughed. âDonât worry. With me here, youâll be able to get it for sure.â
Gu Qingluo, however, shook her head. âThereâs no need. This is just for an elder who is about to leave. Even if you buy it for him, nothing will really happen.
Gu Qingluo identified the crux of the matter with a single sentence.
Even though the Gu Clanâs people possessed the ability to âtransform at any timeâ, after transformation they would be ârecycledâ, making it so that the amount of support they would receive from the clan afterward would be very much decreased.
No clan would invest all of their resources into a person who was definitely going to run away.
As such, Gu Qingluo was only here on her clanâs orders, but the money was that elderâs own â the clan had only symbolically offered twenty thousand Origin Stones.
By the same principle, Gu Qingluo didnât plan on letting her man dig into his pockets for an elder that was about to leave.
From this aspect, it was obvious that Gu Qingluo was also maturing. She was no longer the silly inexperienced girl from before.
Su Chen understood Gu Qingluoâs meaning and didnât continue to insist.
The two of them continued their happy life, walking through Long Coiling City together and holding hands until the Sea of Clouds Auction was slated to begin.
On that day, Su Chen, Gu Qingluo, Gu Jintang, Cloud Leopard, and Iron Cliff all came to the Sea of Clouds Pavilion.
The time when massive amounts of money were going to be thrown around had come.
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The Sea of Clouds Pavilion was bubbling with movement.
The guests, who had come from all over the continent, gathered here. Each one of them was from an incredibly rich noble family.
The Sea of Clouds Pavilion had sent forth their most experienced servants and most beautiful maidservants, and had set up the most luxurious hall to treat the guests.
As Gu Jintang and the others stepped into the auction hall, they were greeted by a ceiling embedded with 4800 fragments of colored ceramic and the path beneath their feet made from twelve high-tier Demonic Beast hides. Cloud Leopard and Iron Cliff were a bit dazed.
The Gu Clan was placed in guest room 16.
Upon entering the guest room, they found two maidservants already waiting inside for them, large crystal goblets filled to the brim with wine â âJade Amber Wineâ, to be specific.
This kind of wine cost five hundred Origin Stones per jug and had no additional effects. They only drank it for the flavor, so it was just to show off â most wealthy people would die if they didnât show something off.
Su Chen didnât have this issue yet. He picked it up and took a sip, then laughed, âThis is the Jade Amber Eye? It doesnât seem like much.â
âThatâs true. You usually drink wine much more expensive than this.â
He wasnât lying. To improve his consciousness ability and control the Flood Dragon Emperor Shuttle better, Su Chen had begun to drink Spirit Sobering Medicine at an incredible pace once again.
However, the maidservants nearby who heard took exception.
The Sea of Clouds Pavilionâs maidservants all had quite poisonous eyes. They could tell immediately that Su Chen and the others had come in with the Gu Clan. The Gu Clanâs members hadnât even said anything yet, yet these two attendants dared to act so arrogantly. Of course, they only dared to say this within their hearts; their expressions didnât reveal anything.
As they spoke, the Sea of Clouds Auction began.
A middle-aged man stepped up to the podium. He was the host for todayâs auction.
Iron Cliff was greatly disappointed. âThe host isnât a beautiful woman? Arenât most high-tier auctions hosted by the most beautiful women?â
The two maidservants couldnât help but look down on them disdainfully.
Using beautiful women as the hosts wasnât something the highest-tier auctions used. Actually, it was the exact opposite; the not-as-prestigious auctions used these kinds of lowly tactics to attract the others. Truly large auctions looked down on using these kinds of tactics; what they needed was not beautiful women but a professional host who had a deep understanding of the goods being auctioned.
The host for today was called Sun Zhengtao, the Sea of Clouds Pavilionâs best host. He had a profound wealth of knowledge and experience.
After Sun Zhengtao offered the auctionâs opening words, he said, âNext, weâll start by auctioning todayâs first item: the Sanxiang Ghost Jade Bracelet.â
As the red veil was pulled aside, a purple-bluish jade bracelet appeared on the podium.
âThe Sanxiang Ghost Jade Bracelet is the last creation of Tool-Refining Master Elder Shangkong. Even though it is only a Grade Six Origin Tool, it has an extraordinary ability. It contains an incredibly powerful Origin Skill, Malicious Ghost Claw. According to tests, its attack power reaches 150!â
Normally, the maximum limit of an Origin Skill unleashable by a Qi Drawing Realm cultivator was around 30, Blood Boiling around 100, and Yang Opening around 300.
A Grade Six Origin Tool was an Origin Tool useable only by a Blood Boiling Realm cultivator or above, making it quite a scary tool.
The aforementioned numbers mentioned were very close to the limit. To most people, reaching an attack power of around sixty or seventy in the Blood Boiling Realm was already quite impressive.
This Grade Six Origin Tool had an attack power exceeding 150, making it close to normal Grade Five Origin Tools. This was quite rare.
If any Blood Boiling Realm cultivator were to possess a treasure like this, it would be a huge killing tool.
The auctioneer said, âThe starting price of this treasure is 800,000 Origin Stones!â
Normal Grade Six Origin Tools usually started at around 300,000 â 500,000 Origin Stones. Grade Five Origin Tools were at least a million Origin Stones.
This Origin Toolâs starting price was already set at 800,000 Origin Stones.
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