The elders of Divine Blazing Mountain took a long time to finish their business. The women woke up quickly under their a.s.sault and they begged and cried to no avail. It was a very sad and tragic scene that lasted several hours. The women held onto each other and sobbed after their ordeal was over. They were not abused further and the prison guards gave them food and fresh sets of clothes."Amazing, absolutely amazing!" Fen Rong sighed as the elders returned to their meeting room.
"I haven"t released my yang so many times since my younger days. I counted twelve!" A random elder boasted.
"Weak, I released my yang eighteen times!" Fen Rong countered.
"Hahaha!" The elders shared a round of laughter. Fen Rong"s perverseness and stamina was well known.
"I haven"t seen Ziping, he probably would have joined us. Is he already playing with Long Yifei?" Another asked, obvious tinge of jealousy in his voice.
Fen Wei shook his head, "Of course not. We don"t dare break our promise with the "a.s.sociate". Long Yifei and the other prizes can"t be touched until the end."
The others nodded in agreement. The topic of conversation soon changed to more serious matters. The issue of the first auction was eventually brought up and they again went down to the dungeons, this time to the rooms that held the virgins.
The first auction would offer up some of the women to their disciples as prizes. The sect master and the elders could not covet all the women for themselves or else the disciples would riot. The decision was made to allow the disciples to bid on the less desirable women in exchange for contribution points. Contribution points were earned through meritorious deeds and completing sect missions. It could be exchanged for cultivation resources within the sect. Allowing the women to be exchanged for contribution points satisfied the disciples" l.u.s.t and it also saved the sect money and resources.
The auction was guaranteed to be extremely fierce and compet.i.tive. The disciples would no doubt empty their balance of points in order to obtain a Glacier Palace woman. To provide some semblance of order, the sect master guaranteed that whoever won a woman during the auction would be a.s.sured that their woman would never be stolen from them by a senior disciple or elder.
Prior to the auction, the main job was to grade the virgin women for their overall beauty. The elders" l.u.s.t was fully spent and they were able to complete the task without any complications. The women were forced to undress and display their naked bodies to be judged. Ten pairs of lewd eyes studied every inch in detail before a.s.signing a grade from one star to five stars. Those ranked one to three stars were for the first auction. Those higher were reserved for a future auction just for core disciples and elders.
Long Yifei"s twelve followers could be considered at the peak of five stars while Long Yifei herself was completely on another level. But n.o.body could touch them and they were ultimately for Fen Ziping and only him.
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Underneath Lakestone Keep, there was another set of caves and tunnels. These went beyond the dungeons and actually extended deep under the lake. The rooms here were carved out of lakestone and inside one of them was a group of ancient looking women.
They were, of course, the elders of Glacier Palace. Unlike the Glacier Palace disciples, they were not held prisoner. They had all the amenities they needed. They even had Divine Blazing Mountain disciples that were instructed to obey their requests.
"Tch… that s.l.u.t is still so feisty." One elder in a group of five muttered as they returned to the room.
"Let her starve for a few more days." Fourth Elder Ying Wanxin said.
"Yifei still can fight back a little, even against the five of us." Another elder, Eighth Elder Feng Wuyan said, "Her talent is truly monstrous. It"s a pity."
"Don"t pretend like you didn"t hate her. We all did." A random elder countered.
The other elders couldn"t help but nod. While they tolerated Long Yifei, they secretly resented her with all their being. Her beauty and talent could dazzle her juniors into submission but not old crusty hags like them. They were jealous that she was able to become more powerful than any of them in a few short years. Some of them had struggled for over eighty or ninety years with nothing to show for it. They couldn"t accept the fact that she won the hearts of the disciples when they never could. Finally, they could not believe that the sect master would sacrifice her own health to use the Frozen Netherworld Jade to help Long Yifei cultivate!
"How is master"s treatment going?" Feng Wuyan asked.
Ying Wanxin didn"t reply but looked at First Elder Bai Qianying. All eyes turned to the first elder who was so old she looked like a fossil. Her tiny frame was frail and almost completely bone. Her hair was completely gone. It was heaven defying that she was even alive at over a hundred and twenty years old.
Bai Qianying wheezed a few breaths before replying in a soft rattling voice, "Master is doing well… Her pain has decreased by around a fifth… send in the next batch…"
"Yes!"
Two elders left the room and spoke quietly to the guard outside. The guard rushed off and soon a Divine Blazing Mountain elder came down, leading a group of one hundred male disciples at around the upper Mind Focusing Realm.
The male elder conversed with the two female elders for a short while before proceeding further down the tunnel. The men soon arrived at a door that blocked off the final chamber.
The door opened as they arrived and another group of a hundred or so Divine Blazing Mountain disciples emerged from the room. The elder stared at them in shock. Each one of them were like zombies; cold, lifeless, and emaciated.
He pulled the first one towards him, "What happened?"
"Third Elder… nothing… we"re just very tired…" The disciple muttered.
The Third Elder repeated the same question with several others but got similar nonsense. Curious, he glanced into the dark room to see a vast rune array illuminated by candlelight and a white robed woman sitting in the middle with her back to him. Her icy aura surged towards him and he quickly looked away in panic.
There was nothing he could do and he helplessly herded the frightened newcomers into the room. When the last one was inside, he shut the door and left them to their fates.