Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 1035 - 633 Calculation

Chapter 1035: Chapter 633: Calculation

Chapter 1035: Chapter 633: Calculation

Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion outside was swarming with people, yet surprisingly calm on the inside; there weren’t many who actually came for the excitement.

This was also a way for “Ten Thousand Dao Points” to screen its target audience. Although the exchange rate in and out was the same, let’s not forget that the Sky-reaching Tower had a transaction tax.

The Sky-reaching Tower doesn’t recognize any private currency, so this exchange of Ten Thousand Dao Points would be deemed as a gift by the Sky-reaching Tower and therefore subject to tax. Moreover, it’s a two-way tax, both buyers and sellers must pay. The more you exchange, the more you have to pay.

In addition, the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion set a wealth requirement, one can participate in the auction only if their Ten Thousand Dao Points met the threshold. Back and forth it becomes a selection; those without sufficient strength or courage could only watch from outside, while only the wealthy and generous could enter the competition.

In this way, the inside was naturally quiet. The major powers tacitly kept their mouths shut, and even if there was talk, it remained undercurrents, unlike the noise outside.

“Heaven-connecting Immortal Palace!”

“Netherworld Tao Mansion!”

“Kunlun Immortal Realm!”

“Zhou Family, Ning Family, Tantai Family…”

“Ji Xingyue, that bad luck ghost, has also come!”

“It was hard enough for Meng Huai’an, that monster, to advance; right on the heels comes another more defiant to the heavens, unlucky doesn’t begin to describe it.”

“Could any luck be worse than the Zhou Family’s? To cause such a scene out of nowhere, not only is their face swept to the ground, they have to grit their teeth, pinch their noses and come over with a heavy sum to redeem their own possession.”

“Hmph, they wrought their own suffering; it’s none other than them who had eyes but failed to recognize, and also governed without strictness.”

“That can’t be all said; looking at the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion’s maneuvers, one knows this person is ambitious and has great schemes. They are absolutely not the kind to be content beneath others. Even if the Heaven-Connecting Academy did not treat him harshly, he would have claimed kingship sooner or later. Now that it’s erupted prematurely, the Zhou Family might even feel lucky.”

“If you ask me, the most unfortunate are Ning Bozhong and Tantai Qin who were dragged by Zhou Tianqi onto that thief’s ship, becoming Wealth-Bringing Boys. The domains they painstakingly managed became void in an instant, and their status in the family plummeted. Who knows if they can ever advance to the Ninth Order?”

Everyone tacitly kept their mouths shut, but likewise tacitly passed messages, equally abuzz with rumors and gossip.

Being inside, Zhou Tianqi felt the gaze of the crowd, his expression turned gloomy as frustration burned in his heart but he was helpless to act.

He originally didn’t want to come, but he had no choice. Although this time the family promised to make up for his losses and redeem the key possessions with a hefty sum, this was just a verbal promise; whether it would be carried out depended on the actual situation.

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If he didn’t come and handed over the control of this matter to someone else, he feared that many vital treasures would be irretrievably lost in the end.

Your own belongings, if you don’t care, how can you expect others to fight for them?

“All because of those good-for-nothing’s deeds!”

“Greedy and selfish, instead of serving the public, they only know how to be termites, gnawing away at their own foundation!”

“Even the old ancestor, laissez-faire, does he not know that a leak will sink a great ship?”

“If they do not use this incident to make a thorough rectification, then our Zhou Family’s millennia-old foundation…”

“Thank you all for coming, the first Ten Thousand Dao Conference officially begins!”

His thoughts unsettled, they were suddenly interrupted. Zhou Tianqi’s gaze sharpened as he looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a woman taking the stage, it was the manager Lord of this Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion, Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan came on stage and without much preamble went straight to the point, “Now please welcome the first auction item—the Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner!”

No sooner had the words fallen than the item was brought onto the stage, a long banner steeped in chilling Yin Qi.

Once this item appeared, everyone’s gaze immediately focused on Ning Bozhong.

Ning Bozhong’s gaze was icy as he looked at the Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner on stage, his heart feeling both relief and frustration.

No need to elaborate on the frustration. Under the watch of so many eyes, to have his Magic Artifact auctioned off was such a humiliation that it churned his insides.

But beyond the frustration, he had to feel relieved because others didn’t even qualify to feel frustrated.

After all, the Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner was especially unusual, belonging to the treasures of the Netherworld and not suitable for the average person. This is why it was taken to auction, giving him a chance to redeem it back.

Zhou Tianqi and Tantai Qin weren’t so fortunate. Their Divine Artifacts were general-purpose equipment. Even if the person who took them didn’t use them, he could give them to his heroes. They had no opportunity to redeem them and could only swallow their losses silently, bearing it alone.

“The Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner, a Mythical Equipment of Second Order, possesses two hundred points of Basic Spell Damage, a sixty-point attribute bonus, and six thousand points of Mana increase. Its Special Skills and Special Effects are quite outstanding, particularly suitable for Lords and Heroes associated with the Netherworld Path…”

“The starting bid is ten billion Tao Points, and each increment must not be less than one billion Tao Points!”

“Ten billion points!?”

Upon hearing the price announced by Zhang Yan, everyone present could not help but frown, with Ning Bozhong’s expression growing particularly grim.

Ten billion Tao Points might seem not too much at first, but in reality, they were far from insignificant since behind each Tao Point lay a vast amount of financial resources. Such a starting bid was basically asking for the moon.

Yet, they had to admit that the other party had the audacity to ask for the moon; after all, Mythical Equipment was hardly ever on the market. Even the Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which was particular in its kind, fell into the ‘priceless’ category, thus making its overpriced auction reasonable.

“Eleven billion points!”

Sure enough, before they had even recovered from their surprise, someone decisively made a bid.

The crowd looked towards the direction of the voice and realized it wasn’t Ning Bozhong who bid but another person.

“It’s Jiang Tao from Senluo Hall!”

“Netherworld Tao Mansion and Ning Bozhong’s arch-enemy.”

“Now there’s going to be a good show.”

“This Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion is truly insidious.”

“Hmph, blinded by greed, not knowing when to advance or retreat, there will come a day when it will turn back on them.”

“Faced with such a formidable enemy, yet they still engage in these squabbles, no wonder the might of the Demon Abyss grows with each passing day!”

“After all, who is the real demon…”

Looking at the Hundred Ghosts and Ten Thousand Souls Banner on the stage and at Jiang Tao below, instigating conflict, everyone sighed inwardly.