Chapter 289 Unparalleled Auction
It was still early, and not many people came at this time. There was no need to queue up. Lu Li and his friend arrived at the gate quickly.
Wan Jingshan saw Lu Li coming and greeted him with a smile, "Brother, you are here early."
"Choose a good seat while there are few people, so as not to be crowded." Lu Li responded with a smile, and glanced at the hall inside, "Can I go in?"
"Of course."
Wan Jingshan nodded and said with a smile, "The venue is on the third floor, brother, just go up the stairs. Brother, I'm busy, so I won't accompany you up."
"Haha, that's not necessary, brother, just be busy." After saying that, Lu Li walked in.
Wu De saw this and wanted to follow him in, but was stopped by Wan Jingshan, "My fellow Taoist, please show me your storage bag. The venue rules say that you cannot enter without 100,000 spirit stones."
"What! Are you looking down on me?" Wu De glared at Wan Jingshan with an unhappy face.
"Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. This is the rule from above. It is not directed at you. Everyone needs to verify their capital before entering the venue." Wan Jingshan explained politely.
"Why didn't you stop that guy just now?"
"Just now? Haha, because he is an old acquaintance of mine."
"Old acquaintance? I have traded with your Wanbao Pavilion countless times, why don't I get this treatment!"
"You didn't trade with me!"
"You are cheating for personal gain!"
"Whatever you say, please show me the spirit stone..."
"..."
Just as Wu De and Wan Jingshan were entangled, Lu Li had already gone up the stairs to the third floor. The third floor was different from the second floor. Next to the stairs was an arched golden door more than three feet wide.
When he walked to the door and looked inside, the first thing that caught his eye was the circular auction platform with a diameter of more than ten feet in the center of the venue. There was a closed passage connected to the north of the auction platform. There were two guards on both sides of the exit of the passage.
Surrounding the auction platform were layers of seats distributed upward in a circular shape, from bottom to top, stacked layer by layer, which would not affect the sight of the people behind at all.
Moreover, each seat is independent, about three feet apart from the left and right, and more than ten feet apart from the front and back.
Lu Li walked forward slowly and took a general look. He found that these seats were arranged in nine layers from low to high. Even the bottom layer had fifty seats. All the seats on the nine layers could accommodate nearly a thousand people.
Above the ninth ring of seats, there was a protruding circular corridor. There seemed to be a room behind the corridor. I wonder if it was a VIP room.
Lu Li glanced at it lightly and found that there were still some empty seats on the first floor, so he walked decisively towards a seat numbered '135'.
He chose this place for two main reasons. The first was that it was closer to the auction table, so it would be easier to watch the auction items.
The second reason was that there was a passage to the right of this seat, and there were no other seats. If something unexpected happened, he could jump into the passage and escape immediately.
After all, this auction house was closed, so it was better to keep an eye on some things.
As soon as Lu Li sat down, Wu De came in with an indignant look on his face. After looking around, he came to the left of Lu Li and sat down at the number 136.
"Old man, what's wrong with you?" Lu Li looked at Wu De in confusion.
"Oh, nothing, I just met a moron..."
Wu De told Lu Li what happened outside the door with a depressed look on his face. Lu Li was a little amused and thought that Wanjing Mountain was really interesting.
Just as Lu Li and Wu De were joking and chatting, several people came in one after another, and almost all of them chose to sit on the first floor without hesitation.
The entrance was on the right side of Lu Li's seat, so when everyone passed by, he secretly used the Sky Eye Technique to observe and found that these people were all foundation-building masters without exception.
Unable to help but feel a little curious, he turned his head to look at Wu De and asked in a low voice, "Old man, are all the people participating in the auction this time foundation-building masters?"
"What do you think? How can an ordinary Qi training cultivator afford the admission qualification of 100,000 spirit stones? Even if there are really Qi training cultivators, most of them are here to broaden their horizons with their elders."
"Is that so? In such a large venue, wouldn't there be hundreds of foundation-building masters gathered together? Does the Xingyun Kingdom have so many foundation-building masters?"
"Xingyun Kingdom?"
Wu De looked at Lu Li as if he were an idiot when he heard this, "Do you think this is still the Eastern Wilderness? Let me tell you, let alone Xingyun Kingdom, there are no less than a thousand foundation-building cultivators in the western area of Taihua Prefecture!"
"So many!"
Lu Li couldn't help but be shocked. There were no less than a thousand people in the western area of Taihua Prefecture alone. If calculated on average, there must be tens of thousands of foundation-building masters in the entire Xingyun Kingdom?
"What a joke! If it was two thousand years ago, let alone the western part of Taihua Prefecture, there would be thousands of people living in Wushuang City. The foundation-building period at that time was no different from ants."
"Two thousand years ago? How do you know!"
"Hehe, it's written in the book."
"Uh..."
As they were talking, both of them shut up, because Lu Li tilted his head and looked at the door.
There were three girls walking in slowly. Every man would like to look at them, and Lu Li was no exception. Moreover, the three girls were very beautiful, especially the girl in the aqua blue dress who was the leader. On her jade-like face, there was a cold temperament that kept people away from her...
It made Lu Li think of the four words "Ice Fairy"!
"Is it?" Lu Li's fingers tapped the armrest lightly, and his eyes followed the steps of several people.
Just when Lu Li was absorbed in watching, suddenly, a piercing coldness rushed towards Lu Li, causing him to shiver involuntarily. When he came to his senses, he saw that the three people had come to his side.
When the two girls, one yellow and one blue, followed behind him, saw Lu Li, they couldn't help but show a strange look, as if they had never seen such an elegant and unworldly young man, which made their faces slightly red.
But the girl in the water blue gauze dress who led the group glared at Lu Li fiercely, and then led the two people to go straight inside. The three people were Chen Bing and his group who came from Linggu, and they were also the ice and snow fairy mentioned by Wan Jingshan.
Obviously, Chen Bing did not recognize Lu Li as the man in the black cloak in the mirror.
At this time, Lu Li could not be sure that this person was the ice and snow fairy.
"Lu boy, this girl's Forget Love Skill is already quite good, don't make yourself look bad. If you really like women, I think your disciple is good, and it's obvious that she's interested in you."
Lu Li was stunned, "What are you talking about? I'm a serious person."
"Hehe, who knows? I'm just reminding you not to provoke the people in Forget Love Valley easily. Those women are not only ruthless, but also always hold grudges. It's better for us casual cultivators to avoid provoking them..."
