Snowflakes began to fall from the sky, but because the temperature wasn't low enough, they turned into rain when they hit the ground. Shang Lin immediately asked Yu Qingfeng, "How much longer until we get there?"
Yu Qingfeng looked at the sky and replied, "If everything goes smoothly, we should arrive in four hours."
"Let's go then." Four hours isn't a long time; we can't stay at the service area forever.
This time, however, Yu Qingfeng drove, Shang Lin sat in the passenger seat, and Yao Mingyue lay in the back to rest. The exorcism talisman in the car shimmered, like a wall lamp in the dark car.
Yao Mingyue couldn't help but ask, "Why is this talisman reacting? Is there some kind of evil spirit?" As she spoke, she subconsciously glanced at her magic artifact, but it showed no reaction at all.
Shang Lin looked back and said, "No, this is just a visual effect caused by the darkness of the environment. If there were any evil spirits, they would envelop the entire car and block ordinary attacks as well as a powerful one."
"Who drew this talisman? It's so powerful!"
"What's so great about such a low-level talisman? It's barely enough to keep us from getting lost."
This was absolutely Shang Lin's honest opinion, but to Yao Mingyue and Yu Qingfeng, it sounded like boasting. In the end times of the human world, great demons and powerful beings have basically disappeared, but at the same time, truly great masters are also very few!
What Shang Lin considers beneath his notice are extremely high-level things in the current human world. For example, the pills he refines are highly sought after, as very few people are capable of refining pills.
Moreover, the cinnabar ink used in Shang Lin's batch of talismans is different, and the blood inside is also different, so the power is naturally different. Of course, the price is also very high. He would not use them unless he had no other choice.
Yao Mingyue closed her eyes and said, "Indeed, you have to compare yourself to others to survive."
Yu Qingfeng drove attentively without saying a word. Shang Lin took out his phone and checked the time: 6:30 PM. It was a four-hour drive, so they wouldn't arrive until 10:30 PM. "Wait a minute," he said, "where will we stay when we get there? We're not going to stay in the middle of nowhere, are we?"
Yu Qingfeng couldn't help but laugh. "No, there's a five-story hotel. People live on the second to fifth floors. On the first floor, the dining hall is on the left, the auction venue is on the right, and the registration hall is in the middle."
Shang Lin was taken aback. "Does that mean we need to book a room in advance?"
"Yes, we've booked all three standard rooms on the third floor, all adjacent to each other."
Shang Lin hurriedly said, "How much? I'll transfer it to you."
Yu Qingfeng said, "No need, no need. As long as Sect Master Shang puts our list forward when we are refining pills, that will be fine."
Shang Lin, "..."
He especially wanted to say, "I don't have any orders right now. As for that big order from Situ Pojun, we haven't even started negotiating yet, and he's not in a hurry; he's just looking for volume."
But they couldn't say that, because it would make their Yuntai Sect seem even less confident. So they said, "Alright then, I'll accept it without further ado."
Yu Qingfeng laughed and said, "We are the ones who benefited."
Shang Lin, "..."
That's quite the conversationalist; no wonder you have a prestigious lineage.
Shang Lin looked out the car window. They had turned from the highway onto the national road. There were no cars around them. It was dark and quiet, and the rain and snow were still falling. Suddenly, he felt as if there were only the three of them in the world.
This situation is not uncommon in the vast world of cultivation, but it was the first time Shang Lin had experienced it in the human realm, and he found it quite novel.
An hour later, they turned onto a narrow road that could only accommodate two cars at a time. Yu Qingfeng's words about the difficult road were no exaggeration. Shang Lin couldn't help but ask, "Aren't we going to have to drive on a dirt road again in a little while?"
Yu Qingfeng replied, "No, but the road will get narrower and narrower."
Shang Lin couldn't help but sigh, "If we don't bring back some good stuff this time, it would be a waste of all the effort we've put in."
What he really wanted to say was, "Why bother with all this trouble? What if we don't get any good shots?" Well, it's okay if we don't get any good shots. At least we can make connections with some sects and get to know some members. Aren't they all potential clients?
Perhaps this is the ultimate purpose of the auction? After all, in Shang Lin's impression, what good things could there be in the human world now that cultivators could use?
After driving for another hour, they indeed entered a narrower section of road, and Shang Lin even saw a river. However, the sleet had stopped, and he didn't know if it had stopped or if they had driven out of the rain cloud.
However, Shang Lin saw layers of mist on the river. Because the sky was black and the ground was black, the flowing water and the mist were equally black. The light from their car headlights was the only illumination in this darkness.
Five minutes later, the exorcism talisman instantly enveloped the car, causing the vehicle to jolt slightly. Shang Lin quickly said, "It's alright, you can continue driving."
"I never expected that we would actually run into them."
Yu Qingfeng wasn't nervous, after all, they had come prepared. It was just that these evil spirits were too bold to show up at a time like this.
Well, it could also be just an ordinary evil spirit, ignorant and unaware, acting only on instinct. Of course, there's another possibility: one that's so powerful that it doesn't even care about them, but that possibility is very small.
After driving for another hour, Yu Qingfeng had to stop the car because the road ahead was blocked. In the darkness, it seemed like a "group" of animals were making their way, but because it was too dark, he couldn't see them clearly.
Shang Lin frowned slightly, but immediately said to Qing Feng, "Don't get out of the car, we'll wait."
As soon as Shang Lin finished speaking, Yao Mingyue woke up and asked instinctively, "Have we arrived?"
Yu Qingfeng hurriedly replied, "No, you go to sleep, I'll stop and rest for a while."
The warm yellow glow in her line of sight made Yao Mingyue immediately open her eyes wide and sit up. "What the heck? What did we run into?"
Shang Lin replied calmly, "It's nothing, just the animals moving."
As Yao Mingyue looked out the car window, she said, "Your talisman is all lit up, and you're telling me it's nothing? Are you a child, or am I the child?"
Shang Lin smiled innocently and said, "But it's really nothing. Exorcism talismans will light up if they have a bit of evil energy. It's a normal reaction. Calm down, calm down."
Limited by the limitations of ordinary human vision, Yao Mingyue couldn't see anything through the car windows either way. Looking ahead, apart from the distance illuminated by the headlights, she couldn't see anything either. Was she just imagining things? Was there really nothing there?
However, Yao Mingyue did not lie down again. Instead, she put on her windbreaker and sat up, looking ready for anything. At this moment, Yu Qingfeng started the car and prepared to continue on the road.
However, when the accelerator was pressed, the car didn't move an inch. In the darkness that no one could see, layers of black mist gradually enveloped the car...
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