Return Of The Demon 67 The Auction Begins

Zhang ZI pushed Bai Yun away and sat down with a flourish, once again regaining the image of a n.o.ble young master. Song Hui just looked at the two of them as if they were acting out a play, not understanding what had happened. Thankfully Zhang Zi had managed to make her take out the balloons, which they were, she hid in her chest before he went mad. Song Hui's maid, who had followed her inside, nearly kowtowed before Zhang Zi upon his success.

"h.e.l.lo and welcome to the youngster's auction." The middle aged man said. "I am glad to see that there are many enthusiastic people here to buy many unique things. Well, I know that none of you are here to hear me drone on, so without any further ado, I, Zhang Tianyi, declare the start of the auction."

When Bai Yun heard the name of the auctioneer he turned to Zhang Zi with a raised eyebrow.

"He is my uncle." Zhang Zi explained.

Bai Yun was surprised by this. He was under the impression that the auction was conducted by the hunters union. All the members of the Zhang family were in the Little Merchant a.s.sociation, and this auction was hosted by the Hunters Union instead.

Seeing Bai Yun's confused look, Zhang Zi quickly explained. Even though it may seem as if the event is hosted by the Hunters Union, in truth it was jointly hosted by both the Hunters Union and the Little Merchant a.s.sociation. Only then could they get a truly wide range of products to make the auction a success. And the members of the a.s.sociation were better auctioneers anyway.

"The first item up for the auction is " Zhang Tianyi started. Then he waved his hand as a beautiful young lady brought in a tray. There was something on the tray that was covered by a cloth. With a flourish, he removed the cloth to reveal a few small bottles, each with a pill in them. "ten second circle qi breakthrough pills."

Qi breakthrough pills were pills that aided one in the breakthrough of stages of the qi condensation realm. By having one before trying to break through, it could increase the chances of success as well as decrease the backlash in case of a failure. Bai Yun was never worried about a breakthrough, as he had cultivated to the pinnacle once before. With his experience, all he needed was sufficient acc.u.mulation to make sure that there was no instability in his foundation.

But for most others, this was not true. Since most people were only children when they went through qi condensation, both their age and inexperience would cause problems while cultivating. In fact more people had troubles during qi condensation than foundation establishment.

As a result, once the qi breaking pills were shown, it caused a commotion in the audience. Qi breaking pills were nothing much for the people in the VIP seats, but for the people in the general seats, it was a great opportunity. Since the auction was or the whole city, and not only for the rich, the first half of the auction tended to be for the general public, with not a lot of valuable items.

"The auction starts at one hundred gold." Zhang Tianyi stated. "Each increment must be at least five gold."

While everything inside the clan might be bought with points, the outside world worked with gold and silver coins. A hundred silver coins were equal to a gold coin. The poorer people used silver, while the wealthier ones used gold. But in auctions like this, you could also use clan points in lieu of gold according to the exchange rate at the time. The current exchange rate was two thousand gold for a single clan point of the Bai clan. But this was applicable only in Yellow city. Clan points were useless outside the city.

"One hundred and ten gold." Someone shouted.

"One hundred and twenty."

"One hundred and twenty-five."

One after the other, people in the general seats started to shout out. The people in the VIP seats did not care much about these items and did not even bother looking at them. In fact, a third of the booked seats weren't even filled as the people who booked them were waiting for the latter half of the auction before they arrive. Only people who had nothing better to do, like Zhang Zi and Bai Yun or people who had to show off like Bai Qing were there.

The only exception to this was Song Hui and Bai Yun. Song Hui was excited by the auction and had her face pressed to the gla.s.s. As for Bai Yun, he had never been to an auction. It had only been a short time since he woke up, and he had not attended one yet. And in his past life, if he ever wanted something, it would just appear, like magic. There was no need to go to an auction.

Soon the fighting for the first qi breaking pill ended with the pill bein bought for three hundred gold coins. The next few items were also qi breaking pills. Its price fell to two hundred and eighty gold over the next few pills before it surged towards the end. The final pill ended up being sold for four hundred and eighty five gold.

The auction continued after that quite quickly. One item after another appeared in the auction. The items that appeared ranged from pills to weapons to even some cultivation manuals. But the cultivation manuals that were put up for auction were at most fifth ranked, which was the costliest item in the first half of the auction at two thousand gold. No one from the major forces was going to care about such a low ranked technique, which was almost freely available in the libraries of their forces, but it was essential for people without a force behind them.
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Zhang Tianyi stopped at this point and declared an intermission. By now the auction of the items geared only towards the general public had ended. From now on the items appearing in the auction were going to be much costlier. It did not mean that there would be a sudden jump in price, or the items would only be bought by people in the VIP seats, it was just more likey for it to be so. But the people in the general seats stayed on to watch the show and to broaden their horizons.

Bai Yu turned away from the auction area to look at the other VIP rooms. By now almost all of them had been filled. Only a few ones have been left free. But to his surprise, he found that the Song clan's room was still empty. It meant that the only person who had come from the Song clan was Song Hui.

"Why is the Song clan's seats empty?" Bai Yun asked Song Hui's maid.

"I don't know." She replied. "There should have been one or two people coming from the clan other than miss. But it seems as if they did not think it was worth it. It's nothing important."

Bai Yun nodded and turned to Zhang Zi, which was when he found that Zhang Zi had fallen asleep long ago. In fact, it was not only Zhang Zi, but even Song Hui had also curled up next to him. She was watching the action excitedly at the beginning, but the lack of any action other than bidding had left her bored. And Zhang Zi truly showed that he was fit for nothing else but battling by falling asleep very deeply in such a circ.u.mstance.

After a short intermission, the auction resumed. This time the first item that they brought out was a qi breaking pill, similar to the first item for the general auction. But there was one major difference from the pill earlier, and that was that this pill was of the sixth circle in effectiveness.

Even though the circles of a pill did not represent a pills complexity or effect, it did have an effect on its strength. It would require exponentially more valuable ingredients to make a pill with a higher number of circles. And it would also increase the sheer power inside the pill. Though it would not change its effect, it could change the impact. And a sixth circle pill was extremely difficult to make. That was why the pill went for a whopping thirty thousand gold. It was bought by Bai Qing. He must have been extremely desperate to breakthrough as early as he can so as to win during the clan meeting. And a qi breakthrough pill of this level all but guaranteed a breakthrough in the qi condensation realm.

The auction continued as before, except that the people involved had changed from the general public to the VIP seats. Also, most of the items changed to pills and weapons or similar artifacts or ingredients for making them. After all none of the people present were in want of any martial techniques.

Bai Yun also stepped in to bid twice, and successfully at that. The first time he did so, he bid for a sword that cost him twenty thousand gold. The sword was not as good as the one given to him by his father, but it was still leagues away from anything he had on him right now. He had bid on it to use it while using his Long Tian ident.i.ty. Thankfully his father had given him a lot of gold to act as he please during the auction.

The second item he bid on was a pill cauldron. This time Bai Yun was not as lucky as before. He got into a price match with someone from the Alchemist Union over the cauldron. In the end, Bai Yun ended up spending ninety thousand gold to buy the pill cauldron. But the moment he won the bid, he was elated for a second, and then became depressed. He had appraised the cauldron at a maximum of seventy thousand gold only, but had kept on bidding in the heat of the moment. But once he calmed down, he decided to treat the other twenty thousand gold he had spend as tuition for learning an important lesson about staying calm. Bai Yun had learned to stay calm during battles with a lot of near death experiences. But this was a different kind of battle, one in which he had never partic.i.p.ated before. This was a valuable experience.

It was at this time that the light in the room of the Song clan finally came on. But surprisingly the room remained closed, and the occupants did not mak the insides visible, which was in contrast to the rooms of the other two clans. The people who belonged to most of the major forces tried to flaunt their wealth to give off a sense of strength. Even though he thought it was weird, Bai Yun thought nothing of it.

Soon the auction was coming to a close. Finally, there were only five items left to auction.