The auction house was unusually quiet today.
The huge auction hall was completely empty.
After Song Chen and Zhao Ziyi entered the auction house, the cultivator who had led the way left.
The entire auction hall was empty of waiters and receptionists; only the two of them remained.
Zhao Ziyi asked in confusion:
"Does that mean Lin Maozhi will go bankrupt after we take three million?"
"Probably not, let's go upstairs and take a look."
After Song Chen finished speaking, he led Zhao Ziyi up the luxurious wooden staircase to the top floor.
Pushing open the heavy wooden door, a weak voice came from inside.
"You've arrived."
In the luxuriously decorated room filled with objects, Lin Maozhi lay weakly on the floor.
Song Chen and his companion quickly stepped forward, intending to help Lin Maozhi up.
He asked in surprise:
"Mr. Lin, were you beaten up?"
With the help of the two men, Lin Maozhi sat down again beside the desk.
He said very weakly:
"He was injured by a traitor in his family."
Yesterday, the team competition of the Immortal Realm Grand Tournament concluded, and the Lin Clan's ranking was not particularly impressive.
The clan elders said that the Lin clan was so weak because I hadn't equipped the clan's cultivators with expensive magical artifacts.
Zhao Ziyi frowned and retorted:
"Your family is weak, but the reason your ranking dropped in this competition is because you cooperated with Mu Feng."
Like the traitors Qi Tai and the Lin family, they willingly offered up their points in order to curry favor with Li Wantian and Mu Feng.
Lin Maozhi nodded and said:
"I only found out the inside story after I was severely injured."
Yesterday they attacked me, severely injuring me and forcing me to hand over the rights to the auction house.
I have handed over everything in the auction house. I have completely severed ties with the Lin family. From this day forward, I am simply Lin Maozhi.
Last night, the Lin family first tried to appease Lin Maozhi, then resorted to force, attempting to use familial ties to manipulate him.
Let him stay with the Lin family and work for them without pay.
Continue operating the Lin's Auction House.
However, all the money earned by the auction house belongs to the Lin family and has nothing to do with Lin Maozhi himself.
If he were unable to cultivate, Lin Maozhi, being a mortal with a limited lifespan, might dedicate himself to his family until his death.
But now that he himself has the potential to embark on the path to immortality, he naturally does not want to be someone else's stepping stone anymore.
In order to distance themselves from the Lin family.
Lin Maozhi gave away all his family fortune.
All that's left is this huge auction house, which is now just an empty shell.
After hearing Lin Maozhi's story, Song Chen and Zhao Ziyi were deeply moved.
Zhao Ziyi nodded in sudden realization:
"No wonder the white-clad waiters downstairs have all disappeared. It turns out that you're the only one left at the Lin's Auction House now."
Song Chen had also been unable to cultivate before, so he could understand Lin Maozhi's current feelings.
He asked:
"I wonder what business Mr. Lin has with Ziyi and me?"
Lin Maozhi sighed:
"Now that I am homeless, I wish to enter the immortal realm and become a disciple of the Immortal River Garden. I humbly request your assistance."
To join the Immortal River Garden?
Song Chen frowned. Xianhe Academy was not a top-tier academy. With Lin Maozhi's wealth, it wouldn't be difficult for him to enter Xianhe Academy.
Although Lin Maozhi is over the age limit, he is, after all, the owner of Lin's Auction House. With connections and money, no force would refuse to let Lin Maozhi join.
Moreover, Lin Maozhi should not lack money or cultivation resources.
Joining Xianhe Garden was purely for the purpose of hiding under its protection and staying away from the Lin family.
Zhao Ziyi pondered for a moment and said:
“We can take you into the academy. You can become an apprentice first, and then you can start your own studies.”
What kind of spiritual practice are you interested in? We can introduce you to a master.
Song Chen encouraged him:
"After the Immortal Realm Grand Competition ends, we will come to pick you up and take you back to Immortal River Garden together."
It's not too late to become an apprentice later.
You are still a mortal, so you should find a spiritual partner as soon as possible and focus on your cultivation.
"Perhaps you'll lead Immortal River Garden to victory in the next Immortal Realm Grand Competition."
Lin Maozhi smiled and shook his head. Finding a Daoist partner isn't that easy.
"Thank you both. I am interested in money, not magic. I want to become a sword cultivator."
Zhao Ziyi clapped his hands:
"Sword cultivators are the best. Why don't you become my disciple and my junior brother? My master, Zhao Linlin, is a Nascent Soul cultivator!"
"Thank you!" Lin Maozhi looked at Zhao Ziyi with surprise, not expecting the matter to be settled so quickly.
He leaned weakly against the desk and said, "I have one more thing to tell you."
Zhao Ziyi casually asked, "What is it?"
"In fact, there are no Nascent Soul stage cultivators on the Tianyan Continent."
This sentence is so light and casual.
But to Song Chen and his companion, it felt like an immense weight.
Zhao Ziyi's eyes widened. "No Nascent Soul cultivators? How is that possible! My master is a Nascent Soul cultivator!"
Song Chen frowned as well, "If there are no Nascent Soul cultivators, where did the Deity Transformation cultivators come from?"
Lin Maozhi explained weakly:
"This secret is known only to the heads of each family and Nascent Soul cultivators."
All Nascent Soul cultivators on the Tianyan Continent are fake Nascent Soul cultivators.
Only those who break through the nascent soul and reach the Nascent Soul stage are true Nascent Soul cultivators.
However, Nascent Soul cultivators on the Tianyan Continent only possess a larger Golden Core within their bodies.
The Yuan Ying, as its name suggests, is described in the book as an infant, pure white and flawless.
Nascent Soul cultivators take human form, typically resembling a smaller version of a cultivator.
Zhao Ziyi swallowed hard.
"Why? Why can't Nascent Soul cultivators advance to the next level?"
Lin Maozhi recalled;
"I don't know, after the Golden Core stage is perfected, what awaits cultivators is endless pain and torment."
Their spiritual energy increased daily, but their golden cores had already absorbed enough spiritual energy.
If left untreated, the result will be death by explosion.
At this point, the cultivator only had two choices.
First, it destroys one's own meridians.
Second, take the goiter-dissolving pill.
After consuming the goiter-dissolving pill, the golden pill swelled from the size of an apricot to the size of a fist.
The golden core grows larger, able to hold more spiritual energy, but from then on, the cultivator is forever stuck at the Nascent Soul stage, unable to break through to the Deity Transformation stage.
Upon hearing this, Song Chen exchanged a frightened glance with Zhao Ziyi.
How could this be?
In the individual competition of the Immortal Realm Grand Tournament, Zhao Ziyi will break through to the Golden Core stage, just as described in the original novel.
If this were the Tianyan Continent, where there was no way to survive after the Golden Core stage, how would Zhao Ziyi advance his cultivation?
Suddenly, Song Chen thought of the second floor of the academy's library.
There, there are sixth-order cultivation techniques corresponding to the Nascent Soul stage.
If someone at the Nascent Soul stage even has cultivation techniques, how could it be fake?
Furthermore, according to his calculations, he would only be able to resist heavenly lightning after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.
If he can't reach the Nascent Soul stage, is he going to be a novice for the rest of his life?
Hearing Lin Maozhi's words, Song Chen was now more anxious than anyone else.
Song Chen asked in a deep voice:
"Mr. Lin, now that you've brought this up, is there any solution?"
Lin Maozhi shook his head and said:
"I don't know about that. I'm not very old, and I only came into contact with these things because of the Nascent Soul Elder of the Lin family."
...
They gathered together and exchanged some information.
Three hours later.
Song Chen and his companion left the Lin family auction house.
Zhao Ziyi was filled with regret, wondering why he had only seen the part about his own death when he read the original work.
How can the Tianyan Continent still hold so many secrets!
Song Chen gripped Zhao Ziyi's hand tightly and comforted him:
"No need to rush or blame yourself, things will work themselves out in the end."
In fact, we should have discovered the strangeness of the Tianyan Continent long ago.
The geniuses of each Immortal Realm Grand Competition have all disappeared.
Those who remained cultivated themselves and eventually became the backbone of various powerful forces.
Moreover, our master, aside from managing the academy and leading students on adventures in secret realms, doesn't even need to cultivate.
The elders' class at Xianhe Garden is held once a year, and each class lasts for more than half a year.
The elders never have time to cultivate!
Song Chen's master, Ye Lian, besides teaching, also had to refine magical artifacts. If you calculate carefully, the amount of time he spent cultivating each year could be counted on one hand.
Zhao Ziyi's master, Zhao Linlin, leads her students on annual expeditions to secret realms, leaving her with no time for cultivation.
Thinking about it now, it really is strange.
Zhao Ziyi gritted his teeth and said seriously:
"If there is a solution, it must lie with Mu Feng."
Perhaps after the Immortal Realm Grand Competition, we should start paying attention to Mu Feng's movements.
The secrets of the Tianyan Continent have been unveiled by the two of them.
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