Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 57: Auction

The auction hall was divided into four areas.

The first area was the raised platform for the auctioneer and waiters.

Excluding that, there was the first-floor hall for ordinary cultivators. freewebnσvel.cøm

The second-floor private boxes for big families and wealthy cultivators.

Finally, there was the third floor.

At a glance, the third floor was the most luxurious and had the best view of the auction platform.

Unfortunately, this floor was reserved for golden core realm cultivators and prominent clansmen of the five major families.

Without this identity, not even the richest cultivators could get a box on the third floor.

Fortunately, Zhen Yuan was not only a golden core realm cultivator but also a seller in the auction.

After he showed his participation token, he and Shen Xu were directly escorted to a private box on the third floor.

"They even have fruit platters filled with level two spiritual fruits." Shen Xu said as soon as they entered the box.

"Eat as many as you want." Zhen Yuan smiled and rubbed his wife’s hair.

"I will eat a piece of each type of fruit. Later, I will ask Xiaoren to plant the seeds."

"Good." Zhen Yuan encouraged.

In this way, one person ate while the other watched.

A cup of tea later, the double stopped eating and subconsciously rubbed his stomach.

"Have you properly looked at the auction list? What do you like?" Zhen Yuan asked.

Hearing this, Shen Xu frowned.

"We may not have enough spirit stones to buy everything I like." He sighed.

"Don’t worry about spirit stones." Zhen Yuan smiled.

While Shen Xu was stabilising his cultivation, Zhen Yuan was not idle.

Although he didn’t have the previous five hundred million spirit stones, their current stash was not less than three hundred and fifty million.

Most importantly, he had two items in the auction.

If need be, he would ask the auction house to advance their reserve price.

"Why?" Shen Xu asked with a puzzled expression.

After all, most of their spirit stones were spent on his advancement.

"We got one hundred and fifty million spirit stones from the poison refiner. Also..." Zhen Yuan didn’t finish.

Instead, he removed something from his storage bag and handed it to Shen Xu.

"A wanted poster?" Shen Xu asked and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"The poison refiner was called Qiao Fei. She killed the city lord’s concubine but was also injured while escaping. It would have taken more effort to deal with her if she wasn’t injured." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

"I felt her behaviour was strange when you told me the story." Shen Xu suddenly said.

"Strange? How so?"

"When you first met her, your cultivation was suppressed to the qi refining realm. However, she didn’t directly attack you. Instead, she hid and tried to poison you. Maybe she worried about aggravating her injuries so she didn’t dare to fight anyone including a qi refining realm cultivator."

"You may be right."

"Have you already collected the ten million bounty?"

"Mmmm." Zhen Yuan nodded and Shen Xu smiled.

However, his expression suddenly darkened and he burned the wanted poster.

"You are only allowed to keep my portrait from now on." He ordered.

"Okay." Zhen Yuan agreed and the corners of his mouth subconsciously rose.

Soon after, a beautiful woman flew onto the auction platform.

At the same time, the hall fell silent and everyone turned to look at the woman.

"Thank you for coming to the auction." The woman said while smiling at her audience.

"My name is Song Wanqing and I will host this auction." She introduced herself.

A moment later, she waved her hand and a waiter brought a large box.

"Without further ado, let’s start the auction." Song Wanqing said and opened the box.

"The first item is a mid-grade, metal element, level two hammer refined by master Bai Chao. The starting price is three hundred thousand spirit stones. Every..."

"Don’t you like hammers?" Zhen Yuan asked but Shen Xu shook his head.

"I will refine a good hammer when we go back."

"Can you refine level two weapons?" Zhen Yuan asked with a surprised expression.

"Not yet." The double chuckled without explaining anything.

When he advanced to the foundation establishment realm, Shen Xu felt the space change.

However, he had to stabilise his cultivation and couldn’t spare the time to check.

Later, he casually walked around the bamboo house and saw some differences.

First, more rooms had suddenly appeared.

In addition to that, the library was larger than before and had more than ten thousand books.

Most importantly, the books’ subjects ranged from weapon refining to beast taming and other minor disciplines.

Thinking of the library, Shen Xu smiled.

’Ayuan will definitely like the new books.’ He thought.

"The fourth item is a bottle of low-grade jade water." Song Wanqing introduced and quickly continued.

"As everyone knows, jade water increases the chance of building a foundation by more than five points. The starting price is two million spirit stones. Every increase must be more than one hundred thousand."

"Ayuan..." Shen Xu frowned when he saw the jade water.

"Didn’t you want to comprehend the laws on the jade water?"

"Don’t worry." Zhen Yuan smiled and soon continued.

"I memorised the laws. I will comprehend them when I have an opportunity."

"Can you do that?"

"If the laws aren’t too complex, I can memorise them and then comprehend them later. However, if the laws are too complex, I must comprehend them from the source."

"Like the void stone or the Chaos Flame Space?" Shen Xu asked.

"Mmmmh." Zhen Yuan nodded.

Since they bought the void stone, Zhen Yuan had been trying to comprehend its laws.

Unfortunately, his progress was slow.

"I still don’t understand your cultivation." Shen Xu frowned.

When he heard this, Zhen Yuan glanced at his wife and his eyes softened.

"Don’t worry. I will carefully explain it when we return to the inn."

"Okay." Shen Xu nodded.

In the end, the jade water sold for ten million spirit stones.

Soon after, a waiter brought the spirit stones, excluding a ten per cent commission.

"What else did you put up for auction?" Shen Xu asked after the waiter left.

"Well..." Zhen Yuan took the auction booklet and pointed at the final item.

"It’s this thing." He said.

At first glance, Shen Xu didn’t know what the thing was.

However, when he read the introduction, his eyes dulled and he felt dizzy.

"You..., why would you sell such a thing? What if it’s used against us? Won’t we die without leaving a complete body?" The double questioned with a desperate expression.