Chapter 111 Tianbao Tower Auction Day 1 (1/2)
[Tianbao Tower] is located on Tianbao Street in Linjiang City.
Just from the name, you can tell that the owner of Tianbao Street must be [Tianbao Tower].
This is also the consistent practice of [Tianbao Tower]. Every time they visit a city, they will buy a street in the city as their base.
Of course, the city they chose was at least a county town.
No city would disagree. You must know that just selling the street to [Tianbao Tower] can make them a lot of money.
What's more important is the channel of [Tianbaolou]. With this channel, many precious resources can be purchased without leaving home.
As long as you have enough money, you can even buy specialties from the enemy country.
Li Yan was walking on the crowded Tianbao Street. Even though it had been expanded to eight lanes by [Tianbao Tower], it was still crowded with a large number of people.
At this time, at a glance, you will find that these are all people wearing silk and satin, and they are dressed more simply. On such an occasion, they will be surrounded by people.
Therefore, in order to be inconspicuous, Li Yan's clone was also dressed in silk and satin, making him inconspicuous in the crowd.
Even the appearance of the clone was adjusted by Li Yan to make him very wealthy. At first glance, he looked like a wealthy country squire.
In this way, even if Li Yan is more generous, he will not attract too many people's attention.
At this time, the auction of [Tianbao Building] had not yet started, so everyone naturally focused on other shops on Tianbao Street.
Half of the shops on Tianbao Street are opened by [Tianbao House] itself, and half are opened by other forces.
Nowadays, the annual rent collected by [Tianbao Building] is half of what it previously cost to buy the entire street.
Li Yan squeezed into a medicine shop. He wanted to see if the medicine shop would come up with the elixir at this time.
Li Yan had been here before, as a foreigner.
When he asked to buy the elixir, the other party directly said that he didn't have it.
Even if Li Yan offered to pay a premium, the other party still had the same attitude.
But now, Li Yan entered again as a foreigner, and the same person received him.
"Do you have any elixirs to buy here?"
Li Yan's voice was very calm at this time, and combined with his immediately wealthy image, he gave the impression that he was a rich man.
"Sir, I'm sorry, there are no elixirs for sale in the shop. Today there is an auction in Tianbao Building. The first floor is where the elixirs are auctioned. You can go there later to have a look."
Li Yan got an answer similar to last time.
This allowed Li Yan to once again see how those in Linjiang City controlled strategic resources such as elixirs.
The situation with elixirs is similar. Among the elixirs displayed in the store, the highest-grade elixirs are only those that can be used in the blood exchange realm.
There is not a single elixir for Yunzang realm.
Asked and there was no answer.
Some elixir stores really don’t have them, and some are only sold to limited customers.
What are limited customers, direct descendants of the Jin family, direct descendants of the four major families, and core disciples of the masters of the eight major martial arts schools, etc.
Only those forces with innate masters can participate.
Other forces want to get a share of the pie unless they cultivate an innate warrior.
And the road to Xiantian has been locked up by these forces and heavily guarded.
Thus, an infinite loop is formed.
This is also the reason why these families can pass down hundreds or thousands of families.
Unless more powerful warriors come, in order to establish their own power, they will be wiped out and all the wealth will be plundered at once.
Otherwise, those who are weaker than them will be annexed by them; those who are similar to them will be accepted and assimilated by them.
Just like Guiyuan Sect, it is an example.
"Clang, clang, clang", the ten-foot-tall golden bell hanging at the top of [Tianbao Tower] rang, and the sound even spread throughout the entire nearby city.
Li Yan's body was resting in his small courtyard, and he could hear the loud bell.
It is said that this is a special spiritual weapon, and its function is to make the sound of the bell spread throughout a radius of more than ten miles.
Some sects or families also have similar spiritual weapons, which are usually used only for important matters.
"Ey."
Xiao Zhao, who heard the commotion, stopped standing and ran to Li Yan, sweating profusely, gesturing with his hands quickly.
She seemed a little uneasy as she had never heard such a sound before.
"It's okay, you can continue practicing, I'm here."
Li Yan comforted him, closed his eyes, and devoted more of his soul to the clone in [Tianbao Tower].
Because at this time, [Tianbao Building], which had not been open for business for a year, finally opened its doors again.
With Li Yan's comfort, Xiao Zhao also let go of his worries and continued to practice Zhuang Kung Fu.
To her, since the young master said it was okay, it must be okay.
In front of [Tianbao Tower], there were people standing at this time. Those with invitations naturally took the invitations into the building with smiles on their faces, while those without invitations could only look at it with envy from outside.
Li Yan looked at the tall [Tianbao Tower] in front of him and walked forward with the crowd.
[Tianbao Tower] is nearly ten feet high, divided into four floors, and covers an area of nearly five acres, which is more than 3,000 square meters.
Such a project, which does not rely on machines but only manpower, can only be built in the extraordinary world.
Moreover, [Tianbao House] is not open to the public at ordinary times. If you want to buy things from Tianbao House, you can only buy them from the store opened by [Tianbao House] on Tianbao Street.
Only on the day of the annual auction, [Tianbao Building] will be open for three days.
During these three days, [Tianbao Building] will open floor by floor.
Today is the first day, [Tianbao Building] will only open the first floor.
However, what surprised Li Yan was that until he entered [Tianbao Building] with an invitation, he did not see any big shots.
To judge whether there are big shots, you need to see if there are people holding a registered invitation.
Once someone arrives with a registered invitation, the waiter at the door will call out the name loudly, ensuring that everyone present can hear it clearly.
"Do those people have to wait until the end to appear?"
Li Yan looked at the wide first floor and the spiritual medicines on the display cabinets, and couldn't help thinking with some surprise.
However, when Li Yan came to a spiritual medicine display cabinet and saw the auction rules, he understood why those people had not arrived at this time.
[The spiritual medicine displayed in this display cabinet is the first-grade lower-grade spiritual medicine [Fengyou Fruit], which is the main medicine for refining [Fengyou Pill]. The starting price is 800 taels of silver. The bidding time is three hours, and the highest bidder wins. ]
"So that's it. [Tianbao Tower] actually adopted this auction method. No wonder those people are not in a hurry to come."
If Li Yan knew this, he would not have come early. There were too many people.
Afterwards, Li Yan began to stroll around the first floor of [Tianbao Tower].
This floor is full of spiritual medicines. Every ten feet away, there will be a spiritual medicine placed in a transparent crystal display cabinet for everyone to visit.
There is no glass in this world, at least Li Yan has not heard of it. He has only heard of and seen crystals that are similar to glass.
The price of crystal is not cheap, and the more transparent it is, the more valuable it is. As far as Li Yan knows, a display cabinet made of transparent crystal like this costs no less than a hundred taels.
And there are no less than hundreds of such display cabinets on the entire first floor, which can be said to be very wealthy.
In front of each display cabinet, there is a sign, a large funnel for timing, a large board, and a beautiful service staff.
The sign records the rules of the auction and the functions of the spiritual medicine in the display cabinet.
The rules are similar, the only difference is the length of the bidding time. The more precious the spiritual medicine, the longer the bidding time, and vice versa.
However, the shortest bidding time is three hours, which is enough for everyone who comes to the auction to see.
The use and function of the spiritual medicine on the sign are explained in great detail.
It can be said that it greatly enriched Li Yan's knowledge, and also made him want to buy some spiritual medicines that he originally didn't intend to buy.
People like Li Yan who have been influenced by the Blue Star Information Explosion can't suppress their desire to buy, let alone others.
Anyway, when Li Yan walked past each display cabinet, there were many people quoting prices.
Suddenly, Li Yan's eyes lit up and he saw a spiritual medicine he needed.
One of the spiritual medicines used for the eighth blood transfusion.
The first-grade inferior spiritual medicine, [Qingyuan Fruit], is sold for six hundred taels of silver each.
There are five [Qingyuan Fruits] in the display cabinet.
"I'll add one hundred taels."
Li Yan said as he handed his number plate to the maid.
"Okay, dear guest."
The beautiful maid smiled sweetly at Li Yan, then picked up a brush and began to write on the board with white paper behind her.
The handwriting was beautiful and pleasing to the eye, and it was obvious that she had practiced hard.
[Guest No. 175, bid eight hundred and fifty taels]
And there were three more lines of handwriting above this line of handwriting, and the one closest to Li Yan's was written like this.
[Guest No. 76, bid seven hundred and fifty taels]
Finally, the time was up, and the person with the handwriting at the bottom was the one who succeeded in the bid this time.
Such competition is obviously the most beneficial to [Tianbao Tower].
After the bidding, Li Yan did not stay here, but continued to stroll around.
In the end, it took Li Yan about an hour to walk around the entire first floor.
Li Yan's memory was very good at this time. He counted and found a total of 382 kinds, which was exactly the same as the days of a year in this world.
This world also has twelve months and four seasons, but there are 32 days in a month and 30 days in a moist month, a total of 382 days.
Among them, there are 280 kinds of first-grade inferior spiritual medicines, 80 kinds of first-grade medium spiritual medicines, and 22 kinds of first-grade superior spiritual medicines.
There are no spiritual medicines above the second grade.
Li Yan heard from people who have participated several times that spiritual medicines above the second grade will appear on the fourth floor of [Tianbao Building] on the third night.
In such occasions, if you don't have more than 100,000 taels of silver in your pocket, you are just running to watch the fun.
Moreover, the reserve price of the top treasures, medicinal materials and elixirs is not silver, but spiritual beads.
Li Yan knows that there are records in the classics of Guiyuan Sect that spiritual objects that can enhance the strength of innate warriors are also the trading currency among many innate warriors.
The spirit beads are produced from underground veins, and they are round beads when mined, just like the pyrite on the blue star, which is square when mined.
At present, there is only one small spirit bead vein detected in the entire Great Zhou Kingdom, which is always in the hands of the Ji family, the royal family of the Great Zhou.
Anyone who dares to covet this vein is tantamount to digging up the roots of the Ji family, and will be hunted down by the Ji family to death.
Of course, the spirit beads excavated are definitely not all the same size, some are big and some are small.
During people's use, they found that the larger the spiritual pearl, the more spiritual energy it contained, not increasing incrementally, but increasing in steps.
Therefore, people graded the spiritual pearls according to their size.
Spiritual pearls below one inch are inferior spiritual pearls; those above one inch and below three inches are inferior spiritual pearls; those above three inches and below one foot are medium spiritual pearls.
Spiritual pearls above one foot and below three feet are superior spiritual pearls.
Spiritual pearls above three feet are top-grade spiritual pearls.
Top-grade spiritual pearls are extremely rare, and once they appear, they may even cause a fight between super-powerful people.
Countries like the Great Zhou Kingdom are not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
After knowing the magic of spiritual pearls, Li Yan wanted to get one to see, but he had no channels.
It is impossible for spiritual pearls to appear on the black market, and even if there are, they will be bought by the Jin family in advance.
Guiyuan Sect does have a lot of spiritual pearls, but they are real strategic resources and will only be issued to the innate elders. Others want them unless they are promoted to innate.
However, Li Yan did find out the prices of these spirit beads.
One pound of inferior spirit beads was sold for 1,000 taels of silver, and there was no market for them.
Li Yan was really shocked when he heard the price. The price of inferior spirit beads was so high. It was hard to imagine the price of inferior, superior, and even top-grade spirit beads.
Back to the point, after Li Yan visited the entire first floor, he received a good news and a bad news.
The good news was that the eight kinds of spiritual medicines that Li Yan needed were all here.
After all, he was only in the blood exchange realm, and the spiritual medicines he needed were all of the first-grade inferior grade, which were not particularly precious after all.
It was just that these spiritual medicines were jointly controlled by the forces in Linjiang City.
The bad news was that there were too many good things, and the more than 20,000 taels in his pocket seemed not enough.
For example, a [Liver and Gallbladder Six Yellow Flowers] was the main medicine for refining [Liver and Gallbladder Xiangzhao Pills]. Three [Liver and Gallbladder Xiangzhao Pills] could shorten the time for nourishing the liver to within one month.
It is indeed a magical pill that improves the cultivation level of the Yun Zang realm.
This has led to the bidding price of the [Liver and Gallbladder Six Yellow Flowers], which is only a low-grade first-grade, being higher than some high-grade first-grade spiritual medicines.
There are many similar spiritual medicines.
And this is the situation before the real big shots come.
"I hope those people don't take a fancy to the spiritual medicine I need and raise their prices too high, otherwise, don't blame me for not being martial."
A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Li Yan's eyes.
The battle of martial arts cannot accommodate too many people. Those who are not ruthless and do not fight are not suitable for this path.
Just as Li Yan was muttering in his heart, the first roll call appeared.
"Welcome the director of the Linjiangchengzi Department of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance, the first-grade alchemist Lu Han, to Tianbao Tower."
This voice resounded throughout the first floor of [Tianbao Tower], and everyone looked in the direction of the voice.
A young man in a white alchemist robe walked in. On his chest was a gold badge, the size of a copper coin, engraved with the shape of a three-legged alchemy furnace, and the name of the owner was engraved under the furnace.
Li Yan was not far from the door at this time. With his eyesight, he could see the details on the badge clearly.
With Lu Han's arrival, many people who knew him or wanted to get close to him surrounded him.
Suddenly, they surrounded Lu Han.
In the crowd, Lu Han listened to the flattery and flattery of the people around him, and the arrogance and complacency on his young face were no longer concealed.
Lu Han's arrival was like a signal, and more big figures in Linjiang City followed closely.
"Welcome Lord Jin Fengcai, the chief clerk of Linjiang City, to Tianbao Tower"
"Welcome Lord Jin Fengwu, the county lieutenant of Linjiang City, to Tianbao Tower."
"Welcome Lord Sun Lihu, the chief constable of Linjiang City, to Tianbao Tower."
"Welcome Lord Shangguan Xuesha, the owner of the Xuesha Martial Arts School of Linjiang City, to Tianbao Tower."
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"Welcome Lord Lan Tianci, the head of the Linjiang City Zibu of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance and the second-grade alchemist, to Tianbao Tower."
In just half an hour, more than a dozen names were called out in succession.
The arrival of more than a dozen big figures made the originally quiet first floor of [Tianbao Tower] suddenly lively.
Everyone was surrounded by a group of people, some trying to get close to them, some trying to make connections, and everything else.
Among them, Lan Tianci had the most people around him, and even some big figures came up to him.
Li Yan watched these with cold eyes, but he was not surprised by this scene.
Because Lan Tianci's identity was special in Linjiang City.
Let’s not talk about his noble status as a second-grade alchemist. Just look at where he sits. He is the head of the Linjiang City branch of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance.
Being the head means that he is the person in charge of this branch, which means that all the alchemists in Linjiang County are under his jurisdiction.
If anyone offends him, he will have to buy ordinary elixirs in secret, not to mention buying elixirs.
Because regular elixir shops will not sell any elixirs to this person.
His words can determine the rise and fall of a small or medium-sized family. This is the Alchemist Alliance, a corner of this terrifying force.
It is precisely because of this that Li Yan will refine elixirs at all costs, just to become a first-grade alchemist as soon as possible and let his clone join the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance.
After he has the identity of a member of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance, many precious resources will gradually be opened to him.
If you can’t beat him, join.
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