Chapter 105 The mysterious auction this time comes to take the Immortal City, and...
This time I came to take the Immortal City, there are obvious differences compared to the previous times.
Xu Hui thought that she would see a bustling city, just like the last Tianjiao Competition, with a bustling crowd, people setting up stalls and monks everywhere.
However, after entering, I found that there were fewer people than I had imagined, and all those coming in and out were high-level monks, most of whom were covered tightly. They went in and out of the shops along the street, but there was not a single stall.
"What's going on? Where is the trade fair?" Xu Hui wondered.
"There are so many people coming to this trade fair. Everyone who can come will come. Even the vastness of Quxian City wouldn't be able to accommodate them all," Wei Mubai explained. "The Mu family provided a spatial expansion device. It has no other function except expanding space to a hundred thousand miles and creating tens of thousands of entrances and exits. Entrances are located in various cities, so they don't need to come to Quxian City; they can enter directly through the spatial device. All transactions will take place inside."
"What about these?" But there were still quite a few people coming in and out of the shops along the street.
"They have all been converted into auction halls," said Wei Mubai.
Xu Hui tilted her head and looked at it, "That's not right. You said before that there were tens of thousands of auctions, but with so many stores, there must be thousands of auctions a day." There is no way that there are only tens of thousands of auctions.
"The rest are private auctions," Wei Mubai explained. "The auctions I'm talking about are open to all cultivators by invitation. As long as you can provide a deposit approved by the other party, you can participate. There's no limit on the number of people or status. This kind of private auction is only for specific people, or transactions between a few friends, or people you think can afford your item, or who have the item you want."
Xu Hui suddenly understood. "I understand. It's like holding a private auction myself. I only invite the people I want to attend. Others are not eligible."
"That's right. For private transactions like this, Quxian City only provides the venue. We are not responsible for the transaction content or the personnel involved. We are only responsible for their safety in Quxian City. It is not counted in the ten thousand official auctions."
"I see. Doesn't that mean the entire Quxian City will be vacated as an auction venue? The rent must be very expensive, right?" After all, he is also responsible for ensuring their safety in Quxian City.
Xu Hui looked up and vaguely sensed that there were several pairs of eyes in the air watching over the entire Quxian City.
Wei Mubai smiled but said nothing, "There are a total of twelve Mahayana cultivators in charge of the entire Quxian City."
How could it not be expensive for such a quantity? But it was indeed safe. No species could possibly do anything bad under the divine consciousness of a Mahayana cultivator.
After all, they have already stepped into the ranks of immortals and are communicating with the way of heaven step by step. There is almost nothing that can be hidden from them.
What’s more, there are twelve Mahayana masters here!
The ten great families have invested heavily this time, sending out so many big men.
It seems that this secret realm is really powerful, and it has even attracted all these semi-immortals to come out.
"What about the trade fair? Is there also a Mahayana master in charge?" Xu Hui asked.
"No," Wei Mubai answered straightforwardly, "The Mu family's magic weapon is being refined by a Mahayana cultivator in the Mu family. With his all-encompassing spiritual sense, he won't care unless something bad happens. Everyone is responsible for their own safety."
The so-called vicious incidents are that evil cultivators take advantage of this opportunity to sacrifice the monks alive and cause large-scale damage.
In addition, they will not care about acts such as murder, robbery, and behind-the-scenes plots.
The ten great families are taking the lead, but they are not their nannies. In the world of cultivation, there are risks in doing anything, and you have to bear the consequences when encountering a crisis.
Of course, the aristocratic families did not do nothing and allow the evil people to stir up trouble.
To enter the trade fair, you need to pay spirit stones, ranging from one to ten spirit stones.
It's very simple. The trade fair is too big and is divided into a total of one hundred areas. One low-grade spirit stone can enter one trading area, which is very cheap.
Because the trading grounds are not divided by type, they are simply divided into different categories. In every trading city, any material can be traded by monks of any level.
Therefore, there is not much difference between buying one and buying ten or a hundred, unless it is a unique item that may be available here but not there.
No cultivator could visit a hundred trading markets in a month; ten was already the limit.
Therefore, it is enough to pay ten low-grade spirit stones to enter the market, which is quite cheap.
But there are so many people, and the total amount is quite considerable.
And this money is used to protect the safety of the trading venue.
The ten major families are not responsible and directly recruit people. Any cultivator above the Jindan stage can sign up as long as you are willing, and they will retain one person in ten.
The people who stayed behind were assigned a 20-day patrol mission and divided into two groups, light and covert.
The Ming Group wears a uniform to deter those with bad intentions.
The dark group, like ordinary monks, is scattered across various venues.
Their basic wages are the same, calculated according to their cultivation level. A Jindan stage cultivator can get 50,000 to 100,000 high-grade spirit stones, a Yuanying stage cultivator can get 100,000 to 200,000 high-grade spirit stones... and so on.
In addition, every time a criminal is caught, a reward will be given according to the severity of the crime.
This salary is quite generous. For an ordinary Jindan cultivator, earning 10,000 high-quality spirit stones a year is already very impressive, and this is assuming he has skills, such as refining pills and equipment.
If a sword cultivator could save ten thousand in ten years, he would be considered extremely wealthy.
After all, they are famous for their strong fighting power, but they are poor!
Therefore, the happiest and the unhappiest people at this event were these sword cultivators.
Because they had no spirit stones, they could only envy the various good things at the trade fair, drooling with envy, but there was nothing they could do because they were poor.
But sword cultivators have high combat power. They are not just a little bit stronger than those of the same level, but they crush them with their strength.
As soon as the recruitment notice came out, sword cultivators almost came out in droves. Who else but them would take advantage of such a great opportunity to make money?
It just so happens that after getting paid, I can sell a lot of products.
For a sword cultivator, one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones is a rare fortune. It is just enough to buy more refining materials and further refine his precious sword.
Therefore, ninety percent of the patrol team this time are sword cultivators, because they have high combat power.
The remaining 10% have various skills, and even sword cultivators can't do anything to them.
With such a group of guards, the safety of the trade fair is guaranteed, but in the world of cultivation, there are all kinds of strange methods that are hard to guard against, and they may not know all of them, so you have to be responsible for your own safety, and it’s better to be careful.
"Then are we coming to Quxian City to participate in the auction?" Large cities all have entrances to trade fairs, and Wangyun Fairy City under the Wei family's fairy palace naturally has one too. However, they teleported to Quxian City first, so they must have other purposes.
"There is a special private auction that will be held today," said Wei Mubai.
If Wei Mubai says something is special, then it must be truly special. Xu Hui couldn't help but look forward to it.
They passed through several streets and came to a remote place with lush vegetation, sparse population, and a few small courtyards scattered around.
It is really small and plain in appearance, just like an ordinary courtyard in those remote places in the mortal world.
Not only is its appearance inconspicuous, but even its defensive formation is ordinary, as if it is just the residence of an ordinary low-level cultivator in the fairy city.
After passing more than a dozen courtyards, we came to one of them. The gate was wide open and the scene inside could be clearly seen.
A dozen young, beautiful and dignified monks were sitting or standing, waiting quietly in the courtyard.
No one spoke, just waited quietly.
Xu Hui saw several familiar people, Lei Xiao and Wan Moxiao, Lei Hong with Xu Anruo, Wen Jingchi, the sixth young master of the Wen family, Yuchi Yan of the Yuchi family, Mu Yuan and a female cultivator who looked 80% similar to him.
I don’t know the rest, but they should all be from aristocratic families.
Seeing the three people come in, they nodded and greeted them. Wan Moxiao quickly waved and gestured for them to come over.
Xu Hui glanced at Wei Mubai, and seeing that he had no objection, she pulled Wei Muyan over, introduced them in a low voice, and expressed her desire to buy some wine.
"No problem," Wan Moxiao agreed immediately. "When we get out of the secret realm, I'll brew you hundreds and thousands of bottles of this wine, so that Madam Protector can drink as much as she wants."
Xu Hui was puzzled. "Don't you have a lot of inventory?"
There was a time before when Wan Moxiao finally realized that brewing all kinds of strange and eclectic wines was her golden finger. She suddenly became ambitious and determined to become a wine god, brewing wine day and night.
And she gathered all the materials she could get her hands on, and threw them all into the drink with full confidence.
Even Xu Hui's place had a lot of medicinal herbs robbed.
She was indeed successful, brewing tens of thousands of jars of "fine wine", but the effect was so bad that she couldn't even become a drunkard, let alone a god of wine.
Anyway, no jar is normal!
Wan Moxiao herself didn't dare to drink it because the various side effects were so ridiculous. She found some people at the Wan family to try the wine, and after that everyone avoided her.
Fortunately, her fiancé Lei Xiao is reliable and has provided her with a lot of resources. Otherwise, she would be a pauper.
Later on, the wines and beverages were gradually found to have unique effects, and some of them could be sold to make a profit, which was then used to repay the supplies that Xu Hui and others had lent or given her.
Logically speaking, she should have had quite a bit of wine.
Wan Moxiao chuckled, "They didn't think my drinks had strange effects or side effects, so I set up a competition at the fair. All it took to participate was ten low-grade spirit stones. Among a hundred bowls of different drinks, the one with the special side effects was considered a winner. The reward for winning was ten thousand low-grade spirit stones. They were having a blast, and the queue for registrations was already up until the day after tomorrow. I still don't have enough drinks."
Isn’t this just like those ring-tossing games in modern amusement parks? With a one percent chance of winning, you’re guaranteed to make money.
The wine brewed by Wan Moxiao cannot be smelled just by smelling it. Only when you drink it will there be a different reaction, so there is no need to worry about the monk cheating with magic.
By the way, you can also test the performance of those wines.
Although Wan Moxiao took out every kind of wine, he must have kept some. The ones with good effects were kept as backup, and the ones with bad effects were all consumed in the game. As a side effect, it could also create a lively atmosphere and make the monks focus their attention on the Wan family's trading table. It was like killing three birds with one stone!
Xu Hui gave a thumbs up and said, "If you have any interesting wine later, share some with me."
Although Wan Moxiao can only brew one jar of each type of wine, since she knew her attribute, the jars she uses to brew wine have become extra large and specially customized, and one jar is worth a hundred jars of others.
"No problem!" Wan Moxiao immediately said that as long as she could accept the side effects, she could choose it.
"Then I can choose some from here, too?" Wei Muyan's eyes sparkled as she looked at her expectantly. Someone had tested the effect in advance, which was better than the unknown.
Who could resist the charming eyes of a beautiful and cold girl? Not Wan Moxiao, who nodded without hesitation, "Of course!"
The three of them briefly finalized the matter, and Xu Hui whispered, "What exactly is being auctioned at this time? It's so mysterious!"
She asked Wei Mubai before, but he said he didn't know. This was really strange. He didn't know what he was selling, but he brought them here specially.
Unexpectedly, Wan Moxiao also shook his head and said, "We don't know, but we are all looking forward to it."
She is a sociable person and was the first to arrive. She greeted everyone. No one knew about this auction, what was being sold, or who the owner was. It was really mysterious!
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