Chapter 42 Entering the Auction

To the west of the inner city of Wuyin Xiancheng, there is a large shop called [Babaozhai].

The entrance to this auction is a side door next to [Babaozhai]. The side door is very inconspicuous and is located in an alley. At the entrance of the alley, there are two gatekeepers.

When Xiao Lin came here, he happened to see a cultivator walking into the side door. Xiao Lin came in front of the two gatekeepers. After a slight scan of his spiritual sense, he couldn't help but show a look of shock on his face. He couldn't sense the cultivation of the two people in front of him at all, and the spiritual pressure emanating from the two people made him feel palpitations. All this shows that the two people in front of him are at least cultivators above the ninth level of Qi Refining, and they may be two cultivators in the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

Although Xiao Lin has not seen a foundation-building cultivator, he judged that the two people in front of him should still be Qi Refining cultivators.

After handing the wooden token obtained from Luo Shou to one of them, Xiao Lin entered the side door. After entering the side door, there was a long and narrow corridor. After passing through this corridor of dozens of meters, Xiao Lin came to a small living room.

There was only a smiling woman in the living room. She looked to be about 25 or 26 years old, with fair skin, willow-shaped eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, and a cherry mouth that made people imagine and was full of temptation.

Seeing Xiao Lin coming in, the woman smiled slightly and said, "I am the receptionist of Babaozhai. My surname is Xu and my name is Fengniang. I see that you are unfamiliar with me. This should be your first time to attend our Babaozhai auction."

"I am Xiao Lin, a casual cultivator. I accidentally learned about the auction, so I came to join in the fun." Xiao Lin bowed and said lightly.

"It is fate that you can know that our Babaozhai is holding an auction. On behalf of Babaozhai, I welcome you. However, since this is your first time here, you may not know some of the unspoken rules of participating in the auction, so I remind you in advance." Seeing the surprise on Xiao Lin's face, Xu Fengniang said, "Our auction this time mainly targets high-level Qi Refining cultivators and early foundation building cultivators. Of course, not many early foundation building cultivators are interested in our small auction, and there are not many people who come. Most of them are late Qi Refining and Great Perfection cultivators." Looking at Xiao Lin who was listening carefully, Xu Fengniang continued, "The items auctioned in our auction include materials, elixirs, magic tools and even some special items, such as exercises, elixir recipes, talismans, etc., and we will not investigate the origins of these items, because the auctioned items are also placed here by other cultivators, but we all know that in the world of cultivation, the strong are still respected, and it is not easy for the weak to survive. In order to protect The cultivators who bought rare items from us will not be intercepted and hunted down as soon as they leave the city. Therefore, all Taoist friends who participate in the auction can buy a breath-covering mask from me. This mask is made of special materials and can conceal the cultivator's cultivation realm and breath. You should know that when we cultivators track someone, the most important information is a person's breath. This breath has its own induction, which is hard to explain and unique to each person. Once the breath is tracked, it is likely that you will not be able to escape. The breath-covering mask we sell is to cover the breath of all customers, so as to ensure everyone's safety after leaving here. Of course, if Taoist friends are confident in their own combat power, they can also buy this breath-covering mask, but we, Babaozhai, are not responsible for personal safety after leaving this door. "After listening, Xiao Lin finally understood that Xu Fengniang said so much just to let him buy a breath-covering mask to cover his own breath to prevent being locked and hunted by someone with ulterior motives. Xiao Lin was naturally happy with this method. He was a person who was afraid of trouble. After Xu Fengniang finished speaking, Xiao Lin said lightly: "This breath-retaining mask is really good. I'll buy it." After paying eighty low-grade spirit stones with a heartache, Xu Fengniang handed Xiao Lin a mask. After wearing it on his face, he immediately turned into a man who looked twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old with a sallow face, and his cultivation was completely obscured, and he could not sense it at all. Although it was not worth it for Xiao Lin to buy a mask with eighty low-grade spirit stones, he also became very interested in the material of the mask, but he knew that now was not the time to study it. "This jade slip records the list of items we are auctioning this time. Any cultivator who buys the breath-retaining mask can get one for free." Xiao Lin, who was looking at the mask in his hand, was stunned when he heard Xu Fengniang's words. He took the jade slip from Xu Fengniang's hand, and his spiritual consciousness slightly scanned the contents of the jade slip. He suddenly showed a happy expression on his face. He suddenly felt that his eighty low-grade spirit stones were worth it. After he put on the mask, he pushed open a door and walked in under the guidance of Xu Fengniang.

As soon as he entered the gate, Xiao Lin came to a dark hall. In the center of the hall, there was a stone platform several feet in size, and around the stone platform were circles of steps. There was a seat every three meters on these steps, and they circled all the way to the outermost edge, where Xiao Lin stood.

At this moment, at least 80% of the seats were already occupied. With a quick glance, Xiao Lin estimated that there were at least one or two hundred people. What surprised Xiao Lin was that the hall with so many people was actually silent. Most of the cultivators sitting in the seats closed their eyes to rest, and a few looked around but did not say a word.

Around the hall, there were more than a dozen small private rooms. Xiao Lin knew that the rooms were full of people. He didn't know who they were, but he thought they were the VIPs of Babaozhai.

Xiao Lin casually found a seat nearby and sat down. Next to him, there was a black-faced man and a scarred man, but Xiao Lin knew that the two men must have worn masks bought from Xu Fengniang, and they were not their real faces.

After the two saw Xiao Lin, the black-faced man smiled at Xiao Lin as a greeting, and then closed his eyes again and remained silent. The scarred man didn't even raise his eyelids, but just looked at Xiao Lin coldly, and then turned his head to look at the stone platform again.

Xiao Lin didn't mind. He knew very well that most of the people who could come here to participate in this auction were the best of this Wuyin Immortal City, and there were some arrogant people among them, and even people like Xiao Lin who practiced hard alone were not a few.

Moreover, Xiao Lin has always followed the principle of "less trouble is worse than more trouble". Although he got the mysterious seed by chance, he had the wonderful place of Lingmu Space, but he dared not guarantee that no one would have a deeper fate than him. After all, there are always people who are better than you.

He looked around for a while, and even tried to scan the surroundings with his spiritual sense, but was surprised to find that his spiritual sense could not be three-dimensional. It seems that the mask on his face not only has the function of isolating others from investigating, but also restricts his own spiritual sense. In the end, Xiao Lin simply closed his eyes and rested like most cultivators.

After about half an hour, Xiao Lin suddenly opened his eyes. On the central stone platform, two people appeared. One of them was an old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties, with wrinkles all over his face and a look of old age. The other was a woman with a pure and beautiful appearance. She held a jade plate in her hands, and on the jade plate was a golden bracelet.

Seeing the bracelet on the jade plate, there was a commotion among the many cultivators in the stands. Xiao Lin saw that the door behind him had been closed at some point, and standing at the door was a middle-aged man in a white robe. He crossed his arms and slightly closed his eyes, but Xiao Lin's eyelids jumped when he saw the middle-aged man in the white robe, and he was actually instinctively afraid. He didn't know that this was a kind of inspiration suppression caused by the huge difference in strength, but he was very sure that the middle-aged man in the white robe was definitely not a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, and he was most likely a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

It seems that this Babaozhai has really invested a lot of money for this auction, and even a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage can be invited as a guard. However, Xiao Lin was relieved after thinking about it. Among the many cultivators present, which one is not the best among many cultivators? If they see the treasures they urgently need, if they make a fuss, it will be difficult to end it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lin looked back at the stone platform in the center. The old man on the stone platform first clasped his fists and bowed around, then smiled warmly and said, "Dear Taoist friends, I am Bai Tianweng, the steward of Babaozhai, and I have been ordered to host this auction. In order to ensure the smooth progress of this auction, this studio has invited several seniors in the foundation-building stage to be responsible for the safety of this auction. The auction items this time are all in this star ring next to me.

"It is indeed a star ring. It is rumored that the smallest space in the star ring is more than ten square meters. It is a high-level storage magic tool."

"This kind of storage magic tool is usually not even affordable for foundation-building cultivators. I heard that only Jindan ancestors can afford it."

"That's natural. The most common price of this star ring magic tool is more than tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones. We, as Qi-refining cultivators, should not even think about it in this lifetime."

"Babaozhai is really generous. It actually uses star rings to store the items for this auction. It seems that the items for this auction are very precious. It is worth our trip. "

Xiao Lin's eyes lit up, and his face was full of surprise. Although he had never seen this star ring, he had heard of it. It was a high-level space-type magic weapon. Not only was the production process complicated, but the materials were also extremely rare. It was rumored that the material used was a rare metal called star gold. This metal was not only used to make star rings, but many high-level space-type magic weapons also needed this star gold.

Babaozhai used the star ring to store the auction items this time in order to show its financial strength among many cultivators and thereby improve its reputation. Obviously, this goal has been achieved.

This star ring alone is not something that the cultivators present can own.

After a while, the whispers in the hall slowly disappeared. Bai Tianweng smiled and bowed to everyone, saying: "This auction item was personally selected by a Jindan elder of our Babaozhai from many treasures. It was obtained from the major fairy cities in the Tianlu Mountains. I think it will not disappoint you fellow Taoists. Now, I will announce the official start of our auction. "