As his vision shifted, Zhang Yuanqing arrived at the black market. The stall layout here was changed from that of a vegetable market to a proper auction venue. The auction platform was a foldable and retractable metal base.
A metal platform more than one meter high was laid with a red carpet and hung with a banner announcing the Wanbaowu sales fair.
There were dozens of high-back chairs underneath, each with a simple coffee table, on which were placed fruits and tea from the Spirit Realm. However, the auction hall was completely empty, with no guests seated.
There are still twenty minutes before the auction starts, and all the guests have gathered in the octagonal cage on the south side to watch the ring battle.
In a giant octagonal cage with a true diameter of 20 meters, two extraordinary beings were fighting fiercely. One was a Gu wizard and the other was a wood demon. Cheers and applause filled the air.
Generally speaking, saints rarely go on the ring for a life-and-death battle, unless they encounter a mortal enemy, or the prize money is too huge. Most of the time, those who go on the ring are extraordinary people, and most of them are independent cultivators.
The sorcerer was obviously more powerful and suppressed the wood monster throughout the whole process. However, because the wood monster was flexible, strong and able to detoxify, it was never killed by the sorcerer and struggled to hold on.
Zhang Yuanqing only took a few glances and knew that it was only a matter of time before the wood demon was defeated.
Evil professions are inherently stronger than lawful ones, and the battle is in a narrow and simple terrain. If it is a physical fight, the wood elf cannot be the opponent of the sorcerer.
If it were a scout, he could defeat the sorcerer, but he would first be corroded by the poison and would surely die.
Only the Fire Master can defeat the Sorcery Master in the Octagonal Cage, relying on the violent flames to burn the poison, exchanging injuries for injuries and life for life.
Sure enough, after struggling for a quarter of an hour, the wood demon was knocked into the iron cage by the sorcerer. Before he landed on the ground, the thick tail spike pierced his chest and injected venom.
The Gu Wizard retracted his tail and did not look at his opponent's powerless body falling. He raised his fist towards the audience in all directions.
Amidst applause and cheers, the black market staff opened the iron cage and presented the prizes on a tray covered with red cloth.
At this time, a melodious and loud bell rang out, and the auction began.
The spiritual realm travelers who had paid for seats took their seats in an orderly manner. Zhang Yuanqing looked at the remaining chain of cards in his hand and found that it was engraved with: A9, the rightmost seat in the last row.
After taking his seat, he saw Lian San, who was wearing a black leather jacket, leather vest, and a black chest wrap, walking up the stairs to the auction table with powerful steps in leather combat boots.
"Thank you all for coming. The Wanbaowu auction is now open. The first item is the Mechanical Corps, which consists of swordsman puppets, heavy armor puppets, flying puppets, reconnaissance puppets, and archer puppets. It combines close combat, long-range attack, and defense. The strength of each puppet corresponds to level 3."
Lian Sanyue opened the inventory and summoned five mechanical puppets. The swordsman puppet was a humanoid puppet made of steel and wood, holding a sharp alloy sword. The heavy armor puppet was a half-human-high shield with a pulley at the bottom. The flying puppet and the reconnaissance puppet were actually a whole set of seats, a bird with a wingspan of two meters. The archer puppet was a humanoid archer.
"The five puppets can sense each other and share data. The flying reconnaissance puppet can act as a positioning and enemy-locking device for the archer puppet. The swordsman puppet can also be combined with the heavy armor puppet. The cost is the sacrifice of high mobility and flexibility. The advantage is that before the energy is exhausted, only a few spiritual realm travelers in the extraordinary stage can defeat it." Lian Sanyue talked freely.
"The starting price for the Mechanical Corps is 20 million, and each increase in price must not be less than 500,000." As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of raising signs and shouting prices from the audience.
After several rounds of bidding, this set of legion puppets was sold at a high price of 30 million and was finally bought by a guy wearing a monkey mask and with fanatical eyes.
Shit, this is tens of millions. It's a mechanical weapon in the supernatural realm. As far as I remember, the price of it in the Five Elements Alliance was no more than tens of millions. There were even discounts when selling in large quantities. Zhang Yuanqing was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.
But when he thought about the fact that when the moral value disappeared, the spiritual realm travelers in Songhai area were able to quickly kill and repel the evil professions, and that the mechanical weapons accounted for half of the credit, Zhang Yuanqing felt relieved.
Lian Sanyue, who was at the auction table, smiled and said, "Friends who didn't win any mechanical weapons, don't worry. We still have many high-quality mechanical weapons."
"The second round of auctions has begun. The Mechanical Technology Company has provided 60 mechanical puppets for this auction, with the highest level reaching Level 4. After the mechanical weapons, the Life Source Liquid provided by the Palace of Stopping Killing is the official monopoly. The popularity of the Life Source Liquid is no less than that of the mechanical weapons."
The shouts of bidding came in waves, and soon all forty tubes of diluted life source liquid were sold out. Finally, after bidding on a batch of materials, Lian Sanyue said loudly, "Dear guests, dear friends, the next one is the last auction item, which is also the goal of some friends participating in this auction."
As many bidders waited eagerly, she took out the bead with ice-blue flames and said, "Fire Thief Bead, a master-level item for the Fire Master profession, quality appraisal: low-level, a master-level item, even if it is low-level, is still a master-quality item."
The pair of eyes under the mask flashed with greed and desire. Domination-level props were absolutely not for sale even in official organizations and were always consumed internally.
Only the Xuetu family would sell a few Domination items every year, but they were basically purchased by official organizations and would not flow outside. Lian Sanyue put Zhuzi in a box on the auction platform, put it on the table, and said loudly: "The starting price is for any two pieces of Domination quality materials. Each increase in price must not be less than five million."
The bidding sounds continued one after another, and after a round of fierce fighting, only four people were left.
That’s almost it. If there is no illusionist among these four people, I will choose the target from the illusionists on the scene.
Zhang Yuanqing closed his eyes and sensed the emotions of the four bidders.
The bidders wore loose black robes and masks, and it was impossible to judge their occupations by their temperament and body shape, but as a "voider", Zhang Yuanqing had a way to find illusionists in the crowd.
It's simple. He just needs to sense the emotions of everyone present. The one with the most stable emotions and the strongest mental power will be either an illusionist or a scout in the third round. As for how to distinguish an illusionist from a scout, he only needs to try to influence the other party's emotions and judge through the feedback.