Chapter 223 – Secret Shop, Bidding Session
When the Confucian scholar heard what Han Li said, he was first stunned, but then smiled before laughing, “Senior, it’s fortunate that you told me about this matter, or else I’m afraid I would have had to make a trip for nothing! Although the Heavenly Star Sect’s array formation is famous enough, it doesn’t mean that there are good array flags and array disks in the Stardust Pavilion. In today’s Stardust Pavilion, although the number of array flags and array disks is large enough and there are quite a few types! But this is only for the cultivation of Immortal small families and scattered cultivators to sell the ordinary goods, the real fine array equipment, Tianxing Sect will not be out of circulation. Because the formation is after all their foundation of the sect, easily outflow of high-quality formation flags and formation discs, will let outsiders see the formation broken to! For them, it would be more than worth the loss!”
The Confucian scholar explained to Han Li while stealing a glance at him. However, the cloak on Han Li’s head concealed everything on his face, making it impossible to see the slightest condition, much to the frustration of the Confucian student’s inability to do anything about it!
”Listening to your tone, it seems as though you were greatly surprised that you were able to find what I was looking for to say, but your voice remained flat and calm, with no emotions of surprise or consternation audible within at all.”
The Confucian scholar heard this, first looked east and west for a few moments, and only after finding no one around, did he lower his voice and said furtively, “If senior trusts the words of the juniors, I can indeed introduce a secret store that very few people know about. The things sold there, although a small portion of the origin is a bit questionable, the goods are definitely all top quality products that are rare to see in the outside world! I think that there, senior will definitely be able to find a satisfactory array array device.”
”A secret store?”
Although Han Li’s voice was still calm, in his heart, he was truly taken aback by the words of the Confucian scholar. He was startled.
Han Li had heard rumors about secret stores in the past few years. He had also more or less heard about it. Knowing that if what the Confucian was saying was true, this was truly a rare opportunity to open his eyes.
”It seems that senior, too, seems to know something about the secret store. Hee hee! This is even better, so there’s no need for the late generation to bother with more words. There are about two or three more hours to go, and it happens to be the time for this secret store’s bidding session once a month. If senior wants to go, he will have to make up his mind earlier. I can lead the way immediately!”
Seeing that Han Li had heard what he had said and did not show any aversion to the secret store, the Confucian could not help but feel happy in his heart, knowing that in all likelihood, this customer had found the right one.
”It can’t be too far!” Han Li suddenly asked.
”Not too far, it’s right here in the marketplace. Elder is agreeing?” The Confucian was a bit excited. Pulling in a potential customer for this secret store would be a way to commission a lot of spirit stones!
”Let’s go!” Han Li lightly breathed a sigh of relief, and his voice turned cold for a moment.
”I’ll give the lead here!” With a joyful expression on his face, the Confucian scholar took the lead and walked ahead.
After seven turns with the Confucian in front, he brought Han Li to a lonely, dilapidated hut. The door of the house was tightly closed, and there were no markings on the door. It looked very unremarkable.
However, the Confucian scholar didn’t hesitate to punch the wooden door and tap it rhythmically a few times. The door of the house opened, and a woman in her thirties walked out. This woman’s appearance was mediocre, and her kung fu was only at the sixth or seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage, so it was really unremarkable.
”Mrs. Zhang, I have brought a new guest who is also going to participate in this bidding.” Prince Ling didn’t wait for the woman to speak. He hastily made way for Han Li behind him and said with gusto.
When Mrs. Zhang heard Prince Ling’s words about bringing a guest, not only did she not show joy, she instead frowned, seeming somewhat unhappy. But then once she saw clearly that Han Li’s guest was a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, only then did her complexion change and she smiled slightly.
”This guest is only like words! It’s a Foundation Establishment Stage senior. It’s not like the previous times when we led people here, there were all kinds of goods. This senior come in!” This woman had very low Kung Fu, but didn’t show any reverence for Han Li. It seemed to truly treat Han Li as an ordinary visitor.
”Senior, I can only send myself here. I’ll take my leave first!” Prince Ling’s face turned a little red at the woman’s few words, and he hurriedly and hastily bid Han Li farewell and left.
Han Li glanced briefly at the Confucian scholar’s disappearing figure before stepping into the hut as the woman sidestepped out of the way.
Inside the house, some poor quality materials for alchemy and weaponry were placed everywhere, as if it was an ordinary raw material store.
While Han Li was carefully observing, the woman, who had closed the door once again, said with a solemn expression, “Your Excellency, please follow me.”
After saying this, the woman took two steps to a corner of the house and stretched out a hand to the ground.
With a flash of yellow light from her hand, a large hole cracked open in the ground. The woman greeted Han Li and went down the steps first.
Han Li looked slightly hesitant, and after hesitating for a moment, he still walked to the front of the tunnel and cautiously followed down, though Han Li would naturally still be on guard if he should be careful.
The tunnel was short, and after walking about ten feet, there was a modest stone door. In front of the door, there were two black-clothed men standing on the left and right, each wearing an evil ghost-like mask.
After Han Li lightly swept the black-clothed men, his expression immediately became grave. These two people were actually Foundation Establishment stage cultivators like him, and one of them was still in the middle Foundation Establishment stage, which made Han Li feel alarmed. The strength of this secret store was greatly scorned!
The woman, however, as if she had not seen the men in black, directly pushed the stone door and led Han Li inside. The two men in black also turned a blind eye and did not open their mouths to stop them.
As soon as he entered the stone door, Han Li was stunned. An opulent hall appeared before his eyes.
Vermillion red blankets, snow-white jade walls, and palace lamps hanging high, all of this showed the image of great wealth and prosperity in the secular world, and it seemed that the owner of this room was truly a wonderful person!
The hall was oval in shape, tens of feet in diameter. Inside the hall, there were seven or eight rows of wooden chairs with dozens of differently dressed cultivators sitting on them. On the opposite side is a lone empty table, not far from the side of the empty table, there are another three sandalwood chairs.
Seeing Han Li and the woman come in, these sitting people couldn’t help but glance at Han Li.
Han Li was swept by these gazes, but the spirit of a cold sweat, face changed greatly. Most of these people were cultivators after foundation building!
At this time, Han Li realized why the woman beside him did not show a look of awe towards him. Here, he was also a very ordinary member!
”Your Excellency came by coincidence! The trade fair is about to begin. The little woman won’t be accompanying you, I have to go back up there to take care of things!” The woman twisted her head and said these two sentences before leaving him alone and walking off on his own.
Han Li had no choice but to look at the many cultivators in the hall before silently finding a more remote corner and sitting down.
At this time, he had already noticed that the cultivators here were all like him, using methods such as wearing masks and cloaks to conceal their original faces. It seemed that no one was stupid and didn’t want anyone to recognize their identity.
Although there were quite a few people in the hall, everyone was silent, appearing to be incredibly quiet, allowing a hint of tension to coalesce in the air.
Seeing this, Han Li was also honest beyond measure. In addition to maliciously guessing in his heart whether there would be any acquaintances he recognized here, he paid full attention to a wooden door behind a long table on the opposite side. It seems that the owner should be preparing inside!
Han foothold sat dryly for two or three hours, the wooden door behind the table finally opened, one after another out of the three people.
These three people dress, none and guard the stone door of the two men in black exactly the same, even the slightest can not see the master from.
At this time, they stood side by side behind the long table, by the right head of the person with a low hoarse voice first said: ”Welcome to many fellow Immortal Cultivation world to visit this store’s trade fair, this time the guests are both old customers in the past, there are also newcomers who are participating for the first time. But it doesn’t matter, this store will treat them all equally!”
Just after the person at the right head finished speaking, the person at the left head immediately continued, “The rules of this trade remain the same, it’s still the store that shouts out a spirit stone base price, and everyone then competes with spirit stones. If the accompanying spirit stone is insufficient, can also be used to the equivalent value of other items collateral, the specific value of how much, by the three of us jointly assessed! In short the one with the highest price gets the item up for bid.” This person’s voice was diametrically opposed to the person at the head of the right, sharp and thin, making it extremely uncomfortable to listen to, most likely speaking in a falsetto voice.
”Finally, when the bidding for the goods in this store is complete, it will be time for everyone to trade freely. If you have any items that you want to exchange and sell, you can come forward to display and trade on your own, we will not intervene in the slightest, we will just provide a place. Well words to this, the following bidding will begin!”
The person in the center speaks, but the voice is thick and loud, resonating throughout the field.
But with these words, these three people flickered to the side, making way for the seats behind the table, and then sat on those three sandalwood chairs respectively. And at the same time, from behind the wooden door came out another tall and thin middle-aged man, this person had a shrewd face.
This person came to the back of the table, coughed his throat a few times, then opened his mouth and said, “The bidding of this time, is presided over by me, the following first bidding is a top level magic weapon fire cloud sword, this ……”