Chapter 72 Auction
"One hundred and one hundred low-grade spirit stones for one time, one hundred and one hundred low-grade spirit stones for two times. Is there anyone else who wants to bid again? Is there anyone else who wants to bid again?" Yuewu shouted twice, hoping that someone would bid again. You know, the higher the auction price, the higher her commission would be. After waiting for a while and seeing no one bidding, she shouted for the third time, "One hundred and one hundred low-grade spirit stones for three times. Deal. These two pieces of Biyun grass will belong to Box No. 3 on the second floor. This auction ends here. Yuewu would like to thank all the fellow Taoists for coming here again. The next auction will be in three months. You are all welcome to come again. Yuewu is waiting for you here." After Yuewu finished speaking, she twisted her charming body down the stairs and returned to the backstage.
The monks who came to participate in the auction also prepared to leave in twos and threes after seeing Yue Wu leaving. The monks who stayed behind were the monks who had just auctioned items. They handed over the items to the deacon of the auction one by one, waiting to exchange spirit stones for goods.
Leng Youran and the others watched them gradually leave, and they were not in a hurry so they just waited upstairs while drinking tea. After a while, the auctioneer came and knocked on the door. Three knocks sounded, "Knock, knock, knock." Leng Youran said lightly, "Come in." The steward standing outside the door slowly pushed open the door of the private room when he heard the sound. Two waiters followed behind the steward. The three of them walked in with smiles on their faces and saluted Yuqing Zhenjun, "Senior, the items you auctioned have been delivered. Please hand them over to us." He nodded and signaled the waiter behind him to bring the things up. The waiter put the tray in his hand on the table in the room, saluted and returned to the steward.
True Lord Yuqing and the steward settled the spirit stones of several people and put away the things they had bought. Qin Mengmeng and the other two also happily put away their shares. Qin Mengmeng playfully pulled True Lord Yuqing's sleeve and shook it, "It's good to have the master around! With the master around, not only do I not have to pay spirit stones when buying things, but I also don't have to worry about being robbed. Senior sister, do you think I'm right?" Senior sister Zhou patted her little head with a doting look on her face, "I said that junior sister instigated the master to join in. It turns out that she is attracted by the spirit stones that the master will pay!" After she finished speaking, everyone in the room laughed kindly.
After laughing, only the things Leng Youran had bid for were left. The manager then handed over a tray with these items and a storage ring on it. He said to Leng Youran with a smile, "Daoyou, these are the items you just bid for. This storage ring contains the spirit stones you earned from the auctioned items. After deducting the spirit stones you spent on the purchase, there are still 250,000 low-grade spirit stones left. Please check if the number is correct." Leng Youran took the tray and put the bid for items into the storage ring first. Then he picked up the storage ring on the tray, probed it with his spiritual sense, and glanced at it to see that the number inside was correct. Then he transferred the spirit stones to his own storage ring and returned the storage ring to the manager. He then politely thanked the manager. The auction manager then left the box with two waiters.
In the bustling market, Leng Youran and Qin Mengmeng had just walked out of a talisman-making shop. Leng Youran, who was walking in front, had a calm look on his face, but the expressions on the faces of the people next to him were much more interesting. The little face was first surprised and then turned into a look of mockery.
Qin Mengmeng teased the person who was walking forward with a playful look on her face, "Your Ran! You haven't changed this habit until now! In the past, whenever you had the chance to pass by the market, you would stock up on a lot of things. At that time, I knew you were insecure, but now you have so many people behind you to protect you. If anyone bullies you, your grandfather and parents will skin her alive. How come you still keep this habit?" Leng Youran just bought another three thousand pieces of monster skins above the fourth level, and the amount of talisman paper was frightening. This girl bought a thousand dollars worth of blank talisman paper, but didn't buy much monster blood. She knew that Senior Brother Leng had given her a lot of monster skins, and she was a little surprised that the girl bought so much.
Leng Youran felt helpless when he heard what Qin Mengmeng said. He also wanted to change this bad habit and explained with a wry smile, "I have no choice! This is my subconscious reaction. Every time I think about the time when I was chased by someone and didn't have the talisman to use, I feel scared.
"There's no other way. I'm not short of spirit stones anyway, so I'll just stock up when I see them." Qin Mengmeng saw a grocery store up ahead and looked at her again, and couldn't help but tease, "You Ran! Look, there's a grocery store up ahead. Don't you like to stock up on these things? Why don't we go in and take a look?" Unexpectedly, Leng Youran actually walked over, leaving Qin Mengmeng in shock. Is this girl really a Pixiu? She can't help but put things into her storage ring when she sees them.
The grocery store that Leng Youran entered this time was not the one where she bought things last time. The space inside this grocery store was much larger than the previous one. Many disciples in the sect liked to buy things here. The shopkeeper was an old man who looked quite old. He immediately came out to greet someone when he saw someone coming. Leng Youran handed him a jade slip with everything she needed written on it, and asked the shopkeeper to prepare the stock for her as soon as possible. The shopkeeper was stunned when he saw the things on the jade slip, but he didn't think it was strange, because cultivators often bought a lot of things at a time. The jade slip only said: two thousand medium-sized spiritual jade bottles, five hundred large-sized ones, and one thousand small-sized ones.
Five thousand jade bottles for medicinal pills, five thousand jade boxes, five thousand jade bags, and one hundred small storage bags—this was a big customer! The shopkeeper, overjoyed, quickly had his assistant prepare the goods and put them all into the storage bags Leng Youran had bought. He then put the remaining storage bags into an ordinary cloth bag and handed them all to Leng Youran. After Leng Youran paid the spirit stones with the shopkeeper, he was escorted out the door with a smile on his face.
Although Qin Mengmeng was surprised, she didn't ask any more questions.
After they walked out of the grocery store and a distance, Leng Youran couldn't help but ask, "You Ran, why did you prepare so many things? Are they for others? Or are they for yourself? How long will it take for you to use them yourself?" Leng Youran listened to her asking several questions in a row, with a worried look on her little face. Seeing her friend like this, she was very moved. She smiled and explained softly, "I plan to go out for training after daddy's out-of-body ceremony. I won't go too far this time. I plan to walk around nearby. You know I haven't been out for several years, and I just broke through to the foundation-building stage, and my foundation and state of mind are not very stable, so I want to go out for a walk, so I prepared a lot of things." Qin Mengmeng was envious after hearing this, and couldn't help muttering, "It's all because of the master who said that you can't go out before you reach the foundation-building stage. Otherwise, I could go out for training with you. No, I'll go find the master. I also want to go for training. I'm bored in the sect.
I have been practicing in the sect for the past few years. Every time I break through the foundation-building stage, I always feel like something is missing, so I failed twice. "Leng Youran also agreed with it. Qin Mengmeng has been stuck in the great perfection of the Qi training stage. She has been practicing in the sect and her state of mind has not kept up. Only by going out can her horizons be broadened. With more knowledge, her state of mind will naturally improve. Seeing Qin Mengmeng's face full of resentment, he did not speak to persuade her. After all, going out for training is dangerous. If something happens outside, it will be bad. If Yuqing Zhenjun himself asked her to go out for training, it would be different. It seems that no matter whether she will go out with him or not, he should prepare an extra set of life-saving things! If Mengmeng goes with him at that time, she will have to prepare more things! After all, this girl has not had as much experience in going out for training as she does.
The two of them walked around the market again and bought a lot of small things that interested them, mostly some nice little accessories. Qin Mengmeng dragged her to buy these things, and they chattered all the way, making it very lively.
After touring the market, the two reluctantly prepared to return to the sect. Leng Youran paused at a stall on the edge of the market. There, she saw two beehives filled with Biling bees. She had long wanted to raise a hive of bees. She had raised spirit bees before, but they were ordinary, and the honey they brewed was mediocre. Thinking of the taste of Biling bee honey, she couldn't wait any longer. She approached the stall owner and asked, "Fellow Daoist, how many spirit stones are needed for one hive?" The seller was a teenage Qi Condensation cultivator with a handsome face. Seeing he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he quickly replied, "Senior, one hive of Biling bees costs fifty low-grade spirit stones." Leng Youran nodded and asked, "Are these the only two hives? Do you have any other?" The young cultivator was even more excited to hear her ask, because cultivators who asked this question usually bought more than one hive.
"Senior, I have a total of ten nests of green spirit bees and one nest of overlord bees. The overlord bees are very brave. I was afraid that they would attack people, so I didn't dare to take them out, so I put them in the spirit beast bag. However, the price of the overlord bees is a bit high. One nest costs one hundred low-grade spirit stones. Senior, do you need a few nests?" Leng Youran thought about it and knew that his space was not small, so it would not be a problem to raise a few nests of spirit bees. He took out six hundred low-grade spirit stones and put them into the storage bag and handed it to the young monk. "Give me all ten nests! And give me the nest of overlord bees as well! Here are the spirit stones. Do you think the number is right?" The young monk took the storage bag she handed over, scanned it with his spiritual sense, transferred the spirit stones into his own storage bag, and put the spirit bees on the stall into the spirit beast bag and handed it to her. Leng Youran took the spirit beast bag and transferred the spirit bees inside to his own spirit beast ring. He returned the spirit beast bag to him and left with the curious Qin Mengmeng.
As soon as the two returned to the sect, Leng Youran was conscripted by the sect leader. Because he was not only her father but also his nominal disciple, he naturally could not be lazy. The sect leader ordered him to
Starting tomorrow, he will entertain the monks who come to congratulate him. He will mainly entertain the Foundation Establishment monks among the elite inner sect disciples.
Thinking of the miserable life starting tomorrow, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, because he had not been back to the sect for a long time and was not familiar with many things in the sect, so he couldn't help but worry.
Qin Mengmeng, who was standing aside, couldn't help but laugh secretly when she saw You Ran like this.
Leng Youran looked at Qin Mengmeng, who was gloating, and looked at her with a resentful face.
Qin Mengmeng looked at Leng Youran, who was looking at her pitifully with her lively eyes without saying a word. Qin Mengmeng couldn't stand her pitiful look and surrendered, "Okay, okay, I know you have never dealt with people from other sects and are not very familiar with people from other sects. I will come to accompany you tomorrow. That should be okay, right?" Leng Youran was immediately happy to hear her words. With Qin Mengmeng's help, she didn't hesitate to hand her a storage bag. In it were spirit wine and spirit fruits, as well as some pills she had refined, all of which were suitable for Qin Mengmeng to take at this stage. After watching her leave happily, Leng Youran returned to her cave, thinking of the difficult days that would begin tomorrow, and felt worried!
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