Chapter 173 – Lu Auction House
Baiyun Zhong waved his hands as he replied indifferently to the old steward: “Zhentian sect has nothing to worry about. Neither me nor my disciples provoked Luo Zixing, then how can Luo clan blame us for whatever happened afterwards? If the Luo ancestor came to me, I would rather advise him to look at the nuisance his own clansmen have been creating first!”
Zhentian sect itself was almost as influential as any of the four aristocratic families!
Baiyun Zhong certainly didn’t fear the Luo ancestor at all. There was nothing that would make him apologize to the Luo clan ancestor.
Zhentian sect was not weak at all!
“Well…..”
The old man was still trembling and didn’t know what to say.
“Old friend, you don’t have to worry. The people of Luo clan can neither harm us nor the master of this Divine Valley inn. Rest a.s.sured.”
Baiyun Zhong said as he rubbed his beard lightly. Then with a gentle smile, he lightly patted the shoulder of the old steward.
These words obviously calmed the old man down.
This created some doubts in Long Yu’s heart. Who was the master of this Divine Valley inn?
After Luo Zixing and his attendants left, all the people of Zhentian sect quickly began to settle in the rooms allotted to them in the Divine Valley inn.
The reason why the Divine Valley inn was named so because although it was situated in the Imperial city, it was surrounded by mountains which were carried here by the owner of the Divine Valley inn!
Long Yu roamed in the corridors of the inn and observed that out of all the mountain peaks, four were several hundred feet high. Clearly, the owner of this inn was no ordinary martial expert.
Moving such ma.s.sive mountains and carrying them to the Imperial city – even Long Yu couldn’t do that!
The Divine Valley inn consisted of thirty rooms; while the strength of Zhentian sect’s contingent were sixty, so obviously two people had to share each room.
Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei quickly decided to share a room, Feng Yuxin and Liao Lele lodged in another room. Ling Han and Lu Guanming also shared a room.
Long Yu and Bu Xing, too, selected a room and started unpacking their luggage.
“Brother Long Yu, are you going to the Liu clan mansion now?”
Bu Xing asked.
“Well, yes.”
Long Yu nodded.
“You should stay vigil at all times now that you are here in the Imperial city. You know it better than me that how many people might want to kill you.”
Bu Xing said in a grave tone.
“Thank you, Brother Bu Xing, for reminding me to be careful.”
Long Yu smiled.
“You don’t have to worry much as the Sovereign is accompanying us. However, if you find yourself in danger, use this.”
Bu Xing took out a blazing stone from his bag: “This is called the ‘signal flare stone’. Whenever in danger, you can reach out to us for help just by crushing it.”
Long Yu took the blazing red stone from Bu Xing and felt its heat.
He had never imagined there was something like ‘signal flare stone’ in this world.
“Thank you so much, Brother Bu Xing. I should now go and find my foster father.”
Long Yu said goodbye to Bu Xing and left the room.
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A street in the Imperial city.
Long Yu had placed the signal flare stone inside the nine hidden s.p.a.ce. Whenever Long Yu might be in distress, he could immediately signal Baiyun Zhong by simply crushing the stone.
By this time, Long Yu hadn’t b.u.mped into any Zhenling realm martial expert, so there was no danger to him.
Only if Long Yu was bound to face a powerhouse with a cultivation level of Zhenling seventh layer or more, he would be in danger. But Baiyun Zhong could easily handle such situation.
“Now my cultivation level is Zhenling third layer. I doubt that someone from Man-Heaven unity realm would bother to attack me here…..”
Long Yu thought to himself as he walked on.
The men that might be sent to kill Long Yu would have a cultivation level of Zhenling 5th layer or at most Zhenling 6th layer since their strength would be enough to overpower a Zhenling 3rd layer martial artist or the injured Feng Longsong. That’s why Long Yu had decided to accompany Feng Longsong.
Accompanying Feng Longsong was important, but Long Yu was wise enough to not put his own life at some major risk.
“Lu auction house?”
Just as they were walking, they noticed a building with a large decorated gate at the roadside. The building was bustling with people and appeared like an accomplished business centre.
Lu clan was another of the four aristocratic families of the Tang kingdom along with Luo clan, Yuchi clan and w.a.n.g clan.
At that time, there was a great noise coming from the Lu auction house.
Not only the people of n.o.ble families were entering and exiting the Lu auction house, there were also some ordinary martial experts, some uncouthly men and some delicate women too. All in all, Lu auction house was a hub for people of all ages and social cla.s.ses.
Any person could find things that suited his or her interests inside the Lu auction house.
Needless to say, this auction house had a reputed name in the trading world.
“Foster father, I want to sell a few things in exchange of some immortality pills or neidans. Do you mind if I take a look inside this auction house?”
Long Yu spoke to Feng Longsong as he thought of the corpses of beasts that he had been storing inside his nine hidden dragon mark for quite some time.
“Of course, I won’t. After all, I’m in no hurry to visit Liu Yu.”
Feng Longsong smiled and nodded.
After taking his foster father’s permission, Long Yu entered the building and realised that the building was divided into various sections.
The most unfortunate thing was that the auction section was closed for now.
In addition to the auction section, there were various other sections that sold various immortality pills, neidans and battle weapons of all kinds. One could find almost anything related to martial practice at this place.
As long as one had enough crystal coins, this place was heaven for any martial artist.
The auction house depended on other martial artists for its business. They bought various articles from the martial artists at a lower price and later auctioned it at the first floor. The highest bidder could get the item.
After entering the auction house, Long Yu went straight to the second floor.
“I want to sell some articles. Is there some hidden place for that purpose?”
Long Yu inquired a girl after searching the whole second floor.
The girl looked at him angrily thinking he was fooling around, but soon she realized that Long Yu was a Zhenling third layer martial expert!
“This boy has reached Zhenling third layer at such a young age. I think he belongs to some influential family. Or has he come to the Imperial city to partic.i.p.ate in the seven sects compet.i.tion?”
The girl thought to herself as she looked towards Long Yu. It was clear to her that this boy was no ordinary person.
“Come with me.”
Perhaps she figured out that Long Yu didn’t want to show the articles he wanted to sell to anyone, so the girl took him to a cabin at one side.
As Long Yu and Feng Longsong entered the cabin, they observed that the cabin was closed from all the sides and had no windows at all. No one could see from the outside what was going on inside the cabin.
“What price would you give me for this?”
Relieved that no one could see him, Long Yu took the corpse of the goblin snake from his nine hidden dragon s.p.a.ce.
The immortality pill that Old White had concocted from the bladder of the goblin snake had already been consumed by Long Yu following which he had stepped into Zhenling third layer.
However, Old White had told him that the other parts of the goblin snake, like his skin, fangs etc could easily fetch him around five hundred crystal coins.
The corpse of the goblin snake, after being taken out by Long Yu, left the young girl in great shock.
Although the size of the corpse was not too big, since it was kept inside nine hidden dragon mark for such a long time, it had started stinking!
She hadn’t smelled even the slightest of this stench earlier when she was talking to Long Yu. But now, the whole cabin was filled with this terrible stench.
“Does this boy have a storage item?”
The girl was wondering.
“This corpse of goblin snake is without the bladder. We can pay at most 490 crystal coins for this.”
The young girl inspected the corpse quickly and said.
Long Yu thought this price was quite fair. After all, the auction house would also earn from the margin.
In order to save some time, Long Yu decided to settle for this deal.
He then took out two corpses of Dragon monster beasts. Since the corpses were well-preserved, Long Yu got 600 crystal coins for them.
“The horn of the rock rhino beast makes up a very good battle weapon and is so rare to find – 2200 crystal coins!”
“The neidans of 15 demon beasts along with these low grade spiritual level articles – 135 coins!”
“Top grade spiritual level neidan of dragon monster beast – 90 crystal coins!”
While the girl continued to quote the prices, Long Yu was quite surprised at the girl’s expertise at correctly estimating prices. No doubt she was a professional.
Moreover, the auction house bought all the articles at a price that was 10% less than the market price. For example, if the market price of some article was 100 crystal coins, the auction house would pay the seller 10 crystal coins less, that is, 90 crystal coins.
But the girl had paid Long Yu more than he expected for the horn of rock rhino beast and the corpses of dragon monster beast.
This made Long Yu have no objection at all in selling all the articles at this auction house.
“And what about this top grade spiritual level battle weapon?”
Long Yu took out the copper needles that he had seized from Qiansi Elder Ying Luo after killing her.
The girl was surprised and immediately recognised that it was a battle weapon of someone from Qiansi sect.
“I’m sorry, sir. We can’t buy such things.”
The young girl softly said.
“And what about this weapon?”
Long Yu took out the whip that he had seized from Luo Zixing.
The girl recognised that this battle weapon belonged to a member of the Imperial Luo clan and so she softly declined.
“No, sir. We can’t buy such things.”
“Alright, leave these two weapons.”
Long Yu didn’t try to convince the girl harder. He understood the girl’s situation. The people at the auction house had set this auction house up for the sole purpose of trade. They surely wouldn’t want to buy anything that would land them in trouble with influential sects and clans like the Qiansi sect and the Luo clan.
Seeing Long Yu understand the situation, the girl was relieved since she had feared Long Yu might get upset and would leave.
“And what about this weapon?”
Long Yu took out the top grade spiritual level long sword that he had seized from Feng Yao.
The girl’s face brightened up at the look of the sword.
Long Yu was certainly not an ordinary Zhenling third layer expert – he had so many valuable goods which were almost impossible for ordinary people to obtain.