Fu Changling came to his senses after hearing Qin Yan's question. He calmed down and said, "I will recuperate at home during the day and go to the auction at night."
Qin Yan responded, and the two of them had dinner together during the day. In the evening, he asked the mayor for permission to go out and went to the Lotus Pavilion.
The town was also very lively at night. Fu Changling walked and played while saying nonchalantly, "You said this Xuanji Secret Realm is small but has everything. It's such a small place, and there's an auction going on."
As he spoke, Fu Changling took off the mask he had just bought and looked at Qin Yan and said, "Speaking of which, we are going to the auction. You never asked me if I have any money. Do you have a lot of money on you?"
"You are a member of the Fu family."
Qin Yan reminded him, and Fu Changling made a "tsk" sound. The Fu family had nothing else but a lot of money.
He crossed his arms and sighed, "Being too rich is also a kind of trouble. Even you know that I am rich."
"Oh, a poor swordsman like you has never been to an auction before, right?"
Qin Yan was silent. Fu Changling laughed out loud and said happily, "You dare not speak. You feel guilty. You must be very poor!"
"Um."
Qin Yan finally spoke: "This auction depends entirely on Brother Fu."
"Okay." Fu Changling put one hand on his waist and waved a fan with the other, saying, "I'll let you see what it's like for a rich person to go to an auction."
As they spoke, the two of them walked to the entrance of the Lotus Pavilion. An old man came forward when he saw Fu Changling and Qin Yan, and said flatteringly, "Two young masters..."
Before he finished speaking, Fu Changling covered half of his face with a fan in one hand, and spread out a medium-grade spirit stone in his other hand, saying lazily, "Tianzihao."
The old man's smile widened when he saw the spirit stone, and he hurriedly went to greet Fu Changling: "Sir, please come in. What's your name?"
Fu Changling walked up the stairs, put away his fan, and proudly announced his last name.
Fu.
If it weren't for this secret realm, the receptionist would have burst into laughter upon hearing the word "Fu". However, in the Xuanji Secret Realm, these people couldn't understand the financial power represented by the word "Fu", so they simply treated the two as wealthy young men and led them to the Tianzi Room on the second floor of the auction house.
They entered the private room of the Tianzi Room. Fu Changling asked Qin Yan to sit down. After the person next to him came up to serve tea and water, he retreated.
Fu Changling ate some melon seeds and looked at Qin Yan, who was sitting upright next to him. He joked, "We're in the Xuanji Secret Realm today, so we have to save money to buy swords. If we leave the Xuanji Secret Realm, I can buy you anything you like at the auction."
"Friend Fu is joking."
Qin Yan said expressionlessly: "We are not that familiar with each other."
As he spoke, Qin Yan looked up at him with a warning in his eyes: "Forget about sending me any gifts."
Fu Changling was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he reacted. When a person is reborn as a seventeen-year-old, he unconsciously takes on the temperament of a seventeen-year-old. He was like this when he was seventeen, treating money as dirt. If someone said a few words to him, he would spend a fortune to give them gifts.
Because of this, he attracted countless romantic interests and owed a lot of romantic debts. Although those romantic interests came to him actively and he did not respond, but after being spread more and more, they became true. His reputation for his lifestyle in the early years was indeed not very good, so it was normal for Qin Yan to be wary.
He laughed dryly twice and began to cover up his embarrassment by cracking some sunflower seeds. At this time, the stage in the lobby downstairs began to get agitated. A woman walked up to the stage, raised her hands and clapped twice, and the whole audience quieted down.
The woman said a few words to open the auction, and the auction officially began. Fu Changling took a sip of tea, "tsk," and whispered, "How unrefined."
"A secret place," Qin Yan said calmly, "How particular do you want to be?"
"That's true."
Fu Changling came to his senses and drank his tea while looking at the items being served.
The first item up for auction was a piece of jade. Fu Changling leaned forward to take a closer look, then said with a hint of disappointment, "Bringing up this kind of stuff, it's all crooked and broken."
As he spoke, Fu Changling began to complain from head to toe, criticizing the poor workmanship and low quality of the jade.
After all, it was a small town, so the auction wasn't high-end. None of the items served caught Fu Changling's eye. He reviewed the items while drinking tea and eating sunflower seeds. After about an hour, the auction was finally about to end. The introducer's mysterious voice came from the scene: "This last treasure is a treasure that our Lotus Pavilion has finally recovered after many rounds of transactions. It's a golden pagoda, called the Exquisite Pagoda. Any discerning buyer should know how much it is worth."
After that, the whole place became lively. Fu Changling and Qin Yan were a little surprised. After all, they didn't know what the Linglong Tower was, but the people in the small town were clearly very enthusiastic. The introducer was very satisfied with the scene. She smiled and raised a finger: "The bottom price is one thousand spirit stones!"
In the small town of Xuanji Secret Realm, one thousand spirit stones was a huge sum of money. Everyone had been so enthusiastic just now, but upon hearing this offer, there was a sudden sigh. However, some people still raised their hands, and each time they raised their hand, they increased the price by another hundred taels. Soon, the price had risen to nearly two thousand.
Qin Yan looked at Fu Changling, who was drinking tea and watching the show, and asked, "Why don't you raise your sign?"
"Wait a minute," Fu Changling clapped his hands, "It's not over yet."
The bidding slowed down until it approached three thousand taels. Finally, no one was willing to bid. The introducer said with a smile, "Three thousand taels at a time."
"Three thousand and two times."
"Three thousand taels..."
"Three thousand one hundred taels!"
Fu Changling finally raised his sign, and the introducer's voice suddenly changed. Fu Changling moved closer to Qin Yan and whispered, "Raising your sign at this time will make it memorable."
Fu Changling was feeling proud when the introducer beside him suddenly said, "Three thousand two hundred taels!"
Fu Changling looked up in surprise and saw that someone in the Tianzihao room opposite had also raised a sign.
Fu Changling was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized that someone was raising the price, so he immediately raised his sign: "Three thousand three."
The other party kept pursuing and immediately quoted a price of 3,400.
The price was rising rapidly, and the opponent was clearly determined to get the exquisite tower. Fu Changling and the opponent were chasing each other, and when the opponent called out the price of "10,000 taels", Fu Changling's face changed completely.
Qin Yan drank his tea calmly. Seeing that Fu Changling didn't say anything, he couldn't help but feel a little strange: "What's wrong?"
Fu Changling turned to look at him, his expression extremely grim as he said, "That..."
"Um?"
"Can I borrow some money?"
Qin Yan: “…”
The moment Qin Yan fell silent, the wealthy Mr. Fu felt a sharp pain on his face.
Fortunately, Qin Yan didn't say much. He took out the spirit bag from his sleeve and just said, "Five hundred taels."
It's indeed a bit poor.
These five hundred taels supported Fu Changling in the last five rounds of bidding, but the opponent had almost no hesitation in the face of these five hundred taels and raised the price all the way to ten thousand six hundred taels.
The two men ran out of ammunition and food and finally decided to admit defeat.
Fu Changling failed in his first competition of wealth, and his eyes turned red with anger. He watched helplessly as the man opposite him stood up. Qin Yan calmly drank tea beside him and simply said, "The Linglong Tower was bought by someone. What should we do?"
Fu Changling took a deep breath. He couldn't bear this.
"Now that it has come to this, with lives at stake, you can't blame me for being unkind and unjust."
Fu Changling dipped his fingers in the tea and quickly drew a spell on the table: "Qian Kun asked me where I was looking for someone. Go."
After saying that, the talisman floated away. Fu Changling turned around and rushed out the door aggressively, saying, "Let's go."
Qin Yan stood up and followed Fu Changling. Fu Changling walked down the stairs and led Qin Yan into a narrow path. He lowered his voice as he walked, "I just used my spiritual sense to check. This man is only at the Golden Core stage. I've cast a tracking spell on him. Now he's heading this way. Hurry and block him at the end of the road. I'll set up a formation here and wait for him. Then we can attack from both sides and take the tower and leave!"
As he spoke, Fu Changling took out the masks he had bought on the road from his sleeve, stuffed one of them into Qin Yan's arms, and put the other one on himself.
Qin Yan stood still, looking rather hesitant. Fu Changling looked up at him and asked, "What are you still doing here?"
"I'm afraid this... isn't appropriate?"
"Not appropriate?" Fu Changling raised his eyebrows. "If it's not appropriate, you should find a way. If you really think it's not appropriate, I will go find the Xuanji Secret Realm array center and force my way through it immediately. Do you think that's appropriate?"
Qin Yan felt that it was inappropriate.
So he stopped talking, put on his mask, and went to the end of the road to block people.
Fu Changling stayed where he was, drawing talismans and setting up formations, waiting for the man to fall into his trap.
After a while, a symphony of tinkling sounds came from the front, followed by a burst of chaotic footsteps. Fu Changling opened the Qinggu fan, and the formation under his feet lit up. He held the fan in one hand and put the other hand behind his back. After a while, a swordsman in white clothes came hurriedly, holding an ebony carved wooden box and carrying a sword.
He was handsome, and like Qin Yan, he had phoenix eyes, but he lacked Qin Yan's good looks, making him look much more ordinary. Fu Changling was stunned when he saw him. The reason was simple: this man looked exactly like the Yan Ming he had imagined!
Fortunately, he regained his composure very quickly. In the moment he was stunned, the opponent's sword attacked him directly. Fu Changling activated the formation, grabbed the opponent's wrist, and pulled him directly into the formation.
Mu Teng quickly jumped out from under his feet and tied the man directly to the wall. Fu Changling walked over with a smile and was about to speak when he saw a jade pendant on the man's waist.
There was a word "Yan" engraved on the jade pendant. Fu Changling was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously took the jade pendant and turned it over. There was a word "Ming" engraved on it.
Memories flooded back in an instant, and Fu Changling looked up in shock. However, at that moment, the cultivator swung his sword straight at him, and the wind from the sword cut through a strand of Fu Changling's hair. He looked into the cultivator's clear and composed eyes and subconsciously asked, "Yan Ming?"
The opponent's sword barely stopped, and Qin Yan also chased after him. Without stopping, he turned and left. Fu Changling stood there in a daze. Qin Yan landed in front of him and frowned, "Where is he?"
When Fu Changling heard Qin Yan's voice, he sobered up a little, took off his mask and said, "I know who took the sword."
"Then?"
Qin Yan's eyes were filled with more doubts. Fu Changling turned around and said, "Don't worry, he's not a bad guy. I'll get it tomorrow."
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