Chapter 363 Treasure Competition Palace

Time passed by little by little, the sky darkened, and fewer and fewer people came to visit, so Shi Yue could not make any more exchanges.

"Forget it, it's already very good to receive two tea tree seeds of good quality." Shi Yue looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

He put away the things on the stall and left the square.

An hour later, Shi Yue returned to his residence.

He entered the Palm of Heaven Space, planted the seeds of Jinsang Lingcha in a flowerpot, and then began his daily practice...

A secret room in Sanxinfang City.

Two men and one woman were sitting around a round wooden table, discussing something.

Judging from the aura emanating from the three people, they were all Jindan stage cultivators, and the one with the highest cultivation was a white-robed old man in his sixties.

The white-robed old man had regular features and an elegant appearance, but his eyebrows were as thick and black as a sword, giving people a sense of solemnity.

The woman had gorgeous features and a plump figure. She was about 30 years old. She was dressed like a woman. She exuded a graceful and elegant temperament in her every move.

Another man was wearing a blue Confucian robe. He was tall and thin, with a bookish look on his face. He was about 40 years old.

"Mrs. Lin, Fellow Daoist Zhao, have there been any strange phenomena recently?" the old man in white robe asked.

"No, according to the report from the people we sent out, there is no discovery. Fellow Daoist Li, don't worry. We have people patrolling within a radius of 10,000 miles. Once there is any disturbance, we will know it at the first time." The middle-aged beautiful woman said confidently.

"A radius of 10,000 miles? The range is so small? We don't have many people with us. In addition to patrolling in the market, we also have to investigate the whereabouts of that place. Should we ask the higher authorities for instructions to increase the number of people?" The middle-aged Confucian scholar raised his eyebrows and suggested.

The old man in white robe shook his head and said, "We signed a military order before we set out. This amount of manpower is enough. Let's not ask for instructions from the higher-ups. Madam Lin, you can make some arrangements and try to expand the monitoring range. If it doesn't work, you can transfer people to the market, or even recruit a group of local cultivators to help."

"Recruit local cultivators? No, the immortal sects of the Three Kingdoms, Tang, Beiyan and Western Han, have long been dissatisfied with us. If the higher-ups hadn't sent people to communicate with them, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to establish the Sanxin Market here. Now there are so many spies from the Three Kingdoms in the market. If they know our secrets, it will be troublesome." The middle-aged Confucian scholar shook his head and rejected this suggestion.

"Hmph, if the higher-ups didn't want to cause trouble, with the strength of the Three Kingdoms' immortal world, they are no match for us at all. But we can't not recruit local cultivators. Let's do this! The recruited local cultivators will be responsible for patrolling in the market, and the captain of each patrol team will be our people." The beautiful middle-aged woman suggested.

"Well, this method is good! Let's do it!" The old man in white robe nodded in agreement.

The middle-aged scholar hesitated for a moment and did not speak.

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Early in the morning of that day, a long queue formed at the entrance of Jingbao Palace.

Two guards in uniform golden shirts stood at the entrance of Jingbao Palace, collecting spirit stones from the immortal cultivators who participated in the auction before letting them enter Jingbao Palace.

Shi Yue mixed in the crowd, paid fifty spirit stones, and walked into Jingbao Palace in a grand manner.

As soon as he entered the gate of Jingbao Palace, a huge fan-shaped screen blocked Shi Yue's way.

The screen was silver in color, with a picture of a lady playing on it. Although the woman in the picture was bare-breasted and dancing non-stop, she looked like a living thing. The screen exuded a strong spiritual fluctuation, which was surprisingly a spiritual weapon of a high grade.

There were arches about ten feet high on both sides of the screen.

In front of the silver screen, there were more than a dozen silver-shirted maids who were responsible for leading the bidders.

These silver-shirted maids were all young and beautiful, and they were all immortal cultivators. However, their cultivation was not high, at around the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, but it was enough to prove the strength of the forces holding the auction.

"Do you have an invitation, fellow Daoist?" As soon as Shi Yue entered the door, a silver-shirted maid came over quickly and asked with a smile on her face.

"No." Shi Yue shook his head.

"Fellow Daoist, please follow me." The silver-shirted maid nodded and took Shi Yue to the archway on the left.

Behind the archway was a long and spacious corridor filled with people.

After passing through the corridor, Shi Yue followed the silver-shirted maid to a spacious hall.

In the middle was a huge square platform with a yellow wooden table on it. Around the square platform were layers of stairs distributed in a fan shape, and each step was filled with wooden chairs.

The second floor is the VIP box, which is probably reserved for some high-ranking cultivators.

"Daoyou, please choose a seat and sit down! The auction will start soon." The silver-shirted maid pointed to a row of empty seats and said, then turned and left.

Shi Yue roughly calculated that the hall alone could accommodate thousands of people. With this scale, the auction in Sanxinfang City far exceeded the auctions Shi Yue had participated in before.

Most of the thousands of seats were occupied, mostly by cultivators in the foundation-building stage, and there were very few cultivators in the Qi training stage.

He chose a seat near the front and sat down, waiting quietly.

Not long after, three melodious bell sounds of "clang clang clang" rang out, and the gate at the entrance of Jingbao Palace slowly closed.

The square platform shook violently, and a dazzling white light shone. After the white light faded, two foundation-building monks, a man and a woman, appeared on the platform.

The man had handsome features and wore a gorgeous golden shirt, and the woman had delicate features and wore a silver palace dress.

The man in the golden shirt shook his sleeves, and a palm-sized golden bell flew out and landed on the platform in the wind.

He pinched his fingers with one hand, and a spell was hit on the golden bell.

A melodious bell sounded, "clang", and everyone felt refreshed and all distracting thoughts disappeared when they heard it.

"Welcome all Taoists to this auction. My name is Jinri, and this is my wife Yinyue. This auction will be hosted by my husband and me. The highest bidder wins. If you don't have enough spirit stones, you can use other treasures of equal value as collateral. Without further ado, the auction begins." The man in the golden shirt briefly introduced himself and announced the start of the auction.

The woman in the silver shirt walked quickly to the yellow wooden table, touched the storage bag on her waist, and a yellow brocade box about a foot long appeared in her hand.

She opened the brocade box, revealing two half-foot long white short knives.

"The first auction item is a set of two magic weapons, the Hanyue Knife. Each of them is a top-grade magic weapon with a cold air attack. The starting price is one thousand spirit stones, and each bid must not be less than two hundred." Yinyue introduced, her voice pleasant to the ears.

As she spoke, more than a dozen golden runes lit up on the surface of the golden bronze bell, and everyone present could hear it clearly.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a whisper in the venue.