Tianxuan City is the largest city in Tianxuan Holy State, its size comparable to ten Lingguang Cities.
Because of its proximity to the Xuantian Dao Sect, and because most of the disciples of the Xuantian Dao Sect also operate in this city, its prosperity is unmatched by other major cities.
The city was teeming with merchants and vendors, some of whom were independent cultivators from the Primordial Dao Domain, while others came from other powerful forces. Every three steps was a life-or-death barrier, and every five steps a true immortal.
In Tianxuan City, there are naturally no sects, but there are three major families standing side by side, all of whom have close ties with the Xuantian Dao Sect.
The Fang family, to which Fang Tianyang, the chief disciple of Jiutian Peak, belongs, is one of these three major families.
The other two families are the Ning family, headed by Elder Ning Yueze of the Nine Profound Peak, and the Li family.
Many of the people from these three families are members of the Xuantian Dao Sect, and have provided the sect with numerous outstanding talents for generations.
In a sense, they are also subordinate to the Xuantian Dao Sect.
The entire Tianxuan City does not have a city lord's mansion. It is usually jointly managed by the Fang family, Ning family, and Li family. Only the Xuantian Dao Sect will step in to make decisions on some major matters.
The family holding today's auction is the Li family, one of the three major families.
Because Tianxuan City was not far away, Lin Fan did not spend much time before entering it.
He had brought Qiu Yu here quite a few times in the past few days, so he was quite familiar with Tianxuan City. The Li Family Auction House was located in the heart of Tianxuan City, a magnificent and eye-catching hundred-foot pavilion, so it was not impossible to find it.
However, even though Lin Fan had been in Tianxuan City for a long time, he still hadn't seen You Ji appear. Fortunately, the spirit stones had already been given to Lin Fan directly, so it didn't prevent him from participating in the auction.
His status as a true disciple of the Xuantian Dao Sect was enough to allow him to enter the auction house without being turned away at the door; otherwise, Lin Fan would probably have cursed under his breath.
As for Zhou Xingdou, who had been missing for a long time, he was sitting on the top floor of that hundred-foot pavilion, while a thin middle-aged man was nervously serving him tea.
Zhou Xingdou casually took the tea and sipped it lightly. His silvery-white eyes, filled with a purple aura, swept over the thin middle-aged man before he spoke in a voice as cold as a deep pool:
"Patriarch Li, you should understand what I mean, right?"
This gaunt middle-aged man was none other than Li Huayuan, the current head of the Li family, one of the three major families in Tianxuan City.
Even in the entire Tianxuan Sacred Continent, this name is renowned and feared for its killing power; he is known as Li the Killing Saint.
That gaunt figure carried the weight of hundreds of thousands of souls, each one a cultivator, making the Li family the most formidable of the three great families of Tianxuan City.
But even such a fierce person didn't have the right to sit down next to Zhou Xingdou. He could only stand aside tremblingly, serving tea and water with a fawning expression.
Li Huayuan's sinister eyes were now filled with fawning as he hurriedly assured them:
"Don't worry, Daozi, everything will be arranged by me personally, and there will be absolutely no accidents."
Zhou Xingdou nodded slightly, but at that moment he suddenly sensed something, and a playful look appeared on his handsome, almost otherworldly face. He slowly said:
"That's about it, it's time to begin."
After saying that, Zhou Xingdou transformed, his magnificent Heavenly Punishment Thunder Emperor Armor turning into a baggy, gaudy golden robe.
Her whole body swelled up and became obese, and her originally flawless and fair skin became somewhat dark.
That handsome face had all its features concealed, its edges smoothed out by fat filling it with flesh. The purple aura in those true eyes had disappeared, and the silver eyes had transformed into a pair of slightly lewd, squinty eyes.
In just a moment, Stephen Chow transformed into a greasy, sleazy, obese middle-aged man, and his once unapproachable demeanor became sinister and cunning.
Zhou Xingdou looked at his now large hands and was very satisfied with the changes in himself.
After all, this is a one-to-one replica of the lewd man from the anime "Lei Shenme Jian" from my previous life, and just looking at him is disgusting and repulsive.
Let's put it this way: if Zhou Xingdou encountered someone like that, he would definitely kill them without hesitation, just to avoid getting annoyed by them.
However, the one who's troubled today isn't himself, but Lin Fan.
Zhou Xingdou, with his bloated body, stood up and looked at Li Huayuan, saying:
"What does Patriarch Li think?"
Faced with Zhou Xingdou's appearance, Li Huayuan, though against his conscience, also said he was handsome:
"Daozi's transformation technique is truly unparalleled; even I, Li, could not see the slightest flaw."
In fact, this art of transformation is not without flaws. Once it is used or if the user is injured, the transformation will immediately break down.
However, this level of change is sufficient to deal with Lin Fan and his remnant soul grandfather.
Zhou Xingdou moved his bloated body, layers of fat jiggling as he sneered:
"You should now call me Old Wang."
Meanwhile, Lin Fan also successfully entered the auction house. Perhaps because of his status as a true disciple, he was not assigned to a regular seat, but rather to a VIP section of the stands.
Lin Fan sat on the soft stool, looking down at the crowded seats below, and an indescribable sense of superiority welled up in his heart.
But at that very moment, an unusually obese middle-aged man in a golden robe walked onto the opposite stand.
This instantly dissipated Lin Fan's good mood; for some reason, he felt extremely uncomfortable with this middle-aged man.
Moreover, this person was sitting right across from Lin Fan. Unless he closed his eyes, as long as he looked at the auction stage, he could catch a glimpse of the greasy face with a lewd smile, which made Lin Fan feel uneasy.
However, the greasy middle-aged man was quite polite. When he noticed Lin Fan looking at him, he bowed slightly to Lin Fan.
Even though Lin Fan had a very bad impression of this person, he knew that someone sitting in such a prominent position was probably no ordinary person, so he politely returned the greeting.
At the same time, a dignified old man walked onto the auction stage, glanced around at the packed crowd, and then announced loudly:
"Now that everyone has arrived, I hereby declare the auction open!"
Several attractive women carried a tray wrapped in red cloth onto the auction stage. The old man stepped forward and lifted the cloth to reveal a pill.
"This is the first item to be auctioned today, a King-grade Precious Pill: the Eight-Yuan Repairing Pill. Its effects are self-evident. The starting bid is one thousand high-grade spirit stones!"
One thousand high-grade spirit stones, equivalent to one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, and this was just the starting price. Even so, as soon as the pill appeared, someone in the auction hall took a liking to it and immediately made a bid:
"I'll offer five thousand high-grade spirit stones!"
"Six thousand!"
"Eight thousand!"
Lin Fan originally wanted to compete for it, after all, the Eight Yuan Repairing Pill is a pill that repairs the foundation, which is just what he needs now.
But seeing the soaring price, he ultimately held back. After all, his goal today was the Three-Life Rejuvenation Lotus, and although he had a million high-grade spirit stones, he dared not squander them easily.
In the end, the Eight Yuan Repairing Pill was sold to an old man at the God King realm for 12,000 high-grade spirit stones.
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