Chapter 396: Consignment Auction House, News

Inside Jinwu City.

Humans and demons live together.

Fo, Dao, and demons coexist harmoniously.

Even some alien races from outside the domain appear here, bringing out special items to trade for resources.

On this day.

The Consignment Auction House opened by the local powers of Jinwu City suddenly became bustling.

The Consignment Auction House accepts consignments of rare treasures from ten thousand races, and after making a preliminary valuation of the goods, lists them on the consignment market.

Then, it is generally listed for three days; once the time is up, it is obtained by the person who bid the highest during this period.

Because of the consignment rules, the consigned goods are generally common items, mainly used to exchange for Spirit Stones and other general equivalents.

Truly good things are usually bartered at large-scale trade fairs.

However, today.

The local merchants who have been squatting at the consignment market waiting to pick up bargains were the first to discover among the newly listed consignment goods.

There were twelve extra stalks of five-hundred-year-old Nine Yin Profound Grass.

Five-hundred-year-old Nine Yin Profound Grass is the main ingredient for refining Pills that allow Nascent Soul cultivators to break through to Spirit Severing more smoothly.

If one is more extravagant and uses it to refine medicinal liquid, it is one of the favorite Body Tempering medicinal liquids for Body Cultivators.

Such a useful Spirit Herb is difficult to cultivate, and its yield has never been able to go up.

Even in Jinwu City, the annual shipment volume of hundred-year-old Nine Yin Profound Grass is not large.

Let alone the even more precious five-hundred-year-old Nine Yin Profound Grass.

Some people suspect whether this was some lucky person or team that found an Ancient Relic that was still relatively well-preserved, and only then obtained these Spirit Herbs from its edge areas.

That is why they were so impatient to cash them in.

Before long, the five-hundred-year-old Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus and the thousand-year-old Spirit-Calming Fruit appeared in the consignment market.

This proved the merchants' guesses.

And it caused their intention to block the news and suppress the price together to come to an end before it even began.

The Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus, which can reinforce the spatial strength of a Secret Realm, and the Spirit-Calming Fruit, which also has wonderful uses for Spirit Severing.

No matter which kind, these are not things that merchants like them can suppress news about, or make competitors compromise with each other on!

Consequently, this market area suddenly became one of the busiest places in Jinwu City.

Cultivators representing various powers also arrived here, one after another offering high prices to compete.

It is just that, because of this, some veteran local merchants of Jinwu City.

Vaguely sensed something wrong, or rather, a sense of incongruity.

"It's strange."

"The price of the Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus has rushed to three thousand High-grade Spirit Stones; it's actually even more expensive than that Spirit-Calming Fruit!"

"Yes, I remember that Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus also appeared a few years ago, and it was sold by a branch of the Buddha Realm; at that time, a five-hundred-year-old one only sold for the high price of one thousand High-grade Spirit Stones."

"It hasn't been many years, and it has already risen so much?"

Many merchants clicked their tongues in wonder as they looked at the latest consignment prices.

In this North King Time Domain.

High-grade Spirit Stones are still a very firm general equivalent.

After all, this thing cannot be replaced by simply increasing the concentration of Spirit Qi.

The driving core energy for large-scale Dharma Arrays, Immortal Boats, or War Puppets basically all relies on High-grade Spirit Stones to support them.

Yet, as a consumable, the output of this item has always shown a slight downward trend.

It is no wonder its value is recognized by the ten thousand races.

Two or three thousand High-grade Spirit Stones is completely equivalent to the total annual or even two or three years' output of those well-known Small Worlds that produce Spirit Stones.

In their view, selling a stalk of Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus for such a high price... is simply crazy.

An old humanoid tree soul, standing in a pavilion to the side, had a look of worry flash across his face.

"They can't hold back anymore; all Spirit Objects related to space are being snatched up by the Three Great Alliances."

"Old Ancestor, should we also buy some?"

Behind the old tree soul, an equally old man in a red long robe asked for instructions again upon hearing this.

"What would we buy them for? To increase others' resentment for no reason."

"We have already coexisted with the Jinwu Divine Tree."

"As long as the Jinwu is Undying, we naturally have no worries."

"And if there is truly a great disaster, the Jinwu cannot protect us either."

"Relying on so many years of friendship and gift-giving, perhaps we can still let one or two clansmen be sheltered within the Three Great Alliances to leave a trace of our Bloodline inheritance for our clan."

"As for the rest, don't think about it; thinking more will only be counterproductive."

"Unless... our clan can also give birth to a Heavenly Immortal."

Speaking of this, the old tree soul gave a self-deprecating smile.

The room also suddenly became quiet.

A Heavenly Immortal... they have been sheltered by the ancient Jinwu tree to recuperate for more than one hundred thousand years.

Up to now, the one with the highest cultivation is only an Earth Immortal at the Great Vehicle Realm.

And that one has long since sighed that he has no path forward.

There are only a handful of Human Immortals at the Dao Integration realm below the Great Vehicle.

With such a base, wanting to pin hope on them breaking through one after another to become a Heavenly Immortal is easier said than done!

On the other side.

Tianjizi, a True Person of the Nascent Soul stage from the Butian Sect of the Dao Alliance, was staring with an angry face at a snake demon of the same Nascent Soul stage from the Demon Alliance, rebuking it:

"What is the meaning of this? Is such a bid a deliberate provocation against the Dao Alliance?"

"Do you believe that I will apply for an arena battle right now? Even if I cannot cast spells or divine abilities, I can still punch you to death!"

"This Venerable One will not accept the challenge, so save your breath."

The cyan-green snake demon lay on the head of a giant elephant, looked lazily at its old rival who had come to hold it accountable, and sneered:

"The Demon Alliance is determined to obtain those Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus."

"As for provoking your Dao Alliance? This Venerable One does not have that much idle time."

Speaking of this, the snake demon narrowed its eyes and said:

"Instead of being impotently furious, you had better contact your sect quickly to see if you can mobilize Spirit Stones to buy other good goods."

"Otherwise, the Nine Yin Profound Grass and Spirit-Calming Fruit will also be auctioned away by this Venerable One."

The snake demon was wealthy and overbearing; its words made Tianjizi's face flush red, yet he dared not truly take action.

His cultivation was also suppressed; if he were to initiate an attack, he feared he would be immediately taken down by the divine light of the Jinwu City ancient tree.

For this giant ancient tree to reach its current level, the Dao Alliance had also contributed great effort back in the day.

It was just that after the Jinwu City ancient tree fully matured, it learned to set rules and maintain them.

And it displayed a strength that none of the Three Great Alliances wished to offend.

It became a special Small World within this North King Time Domain.

True Person Tianjizi had no choice but to act impotently furious while secretly contacting his sect to request Spirit Stone support.

Their Dao Alliance had vast territory and many personnel, but the Spirit Stones they consumed were also extremely numerous.

Although Tianjizi was the Dao Alliance representative in Jinwu City, the Spirit Stones he had on hand could not compare to that snake demon.

And borrowing Spirit Stones from representatives of other sects in the alliance here was absolutely out of the question.

After all, although Tianjizi spoke of the Dao Alliance in every breath regarding these spatial Spirit Objects, what he sent back after buying them would be his own sect's treasury.

Just as the sect received the news and began providing Spirit Stones to Tianjizi through various channels.

Over at the consignment firm, another wave of exclamations broke out.

It was because Su Ping had made a slight move and discovered that spatial Spirit Objects were easier to sell.

Under the temptation of High-grade Spirit Stones.

Su Ping gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, then hurriedly contacted his main body.

Su Ping's main body hurriedly opened the Pot Heaven in the Biyuan World, entered it, and worked overtime to provide a new batch of goods for his Primordial Spirit Avatar.

As for why he did not let the Primordial Spirit Avatar go directly into the Pot Heaven.

It was because Su Ping could vaguely feel that within that Jinwu Barrier, everything would be known to the Jinwu City ancient tree.

To be safe, it was naturally better for Su Ping's main body to go to the trouble of stepping out.

And after Su Ping's Primordial Spirit Avatar obtained the new batch of goods.

It began to slowly introduce them into the market in batches.

That was a new batch of five-hundred-year-old Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus.

Once they entered the market, they immediately set off another round of competition.

And when this batch of goods also reached a high price.

Su Ping then continued to call out the next batch of goods.

And for the sake of differentiation, this batch of goods was not Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus, but they were also plant-type Spirit Objects capable of reinforcing space.

One after another like this, it finally made the competing Cultivator alliances cautious, and they began to consider whether they could save a few Spirit Stones.

A thousand-year-old Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus appeared at the consignment firm!

This made the Cultivators, who had just wanted to wait a bit and not be impulsive, lose their heads and start competing again.

"Give this Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus to our Demon Alliance! This Venerable One guarantees not to follow any other Spirit Objects!"

"Dream on! Even if we give up other Spirit Objects, the Dao Alliance is determined to obtain this Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus!"

"Amitabha, benefactors, do not fight. This monk observes that this item has an affinity with the Buddha Realm; it is most suitable to be brought back to the Buddha Realm..."

Under the competition of the three alliances, the value of the thousand-year-old Buddha Kingdom Golden Lotus reached a full twenty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.

It left the other merchants in the consignment firm stunned.

Those with flexible minds began to ponder whether they should go and search for those remote Small Worlds or Small Thousand Worlds that, for various reasons, had not come into contact with the major powers of the North King Time Domain.

To use the information gap to quickly obtain spatial-type Spirit Objects and make a big profit.

Those with deeper backgrounds, however, changed color slightly, only thinking of leaving quickly to return and ask their elders for clarification.

What major event was about to happen? Why was the value of spatial-type Spirit Objects soaring so quickly and so fiercely?

It was completely beyond reason!

Su Ping also knew when to stop while ahead, sensing that everyone's enthusiasm for spatial Spirit Objects was a bit excessive.

He paused slightly and did not continue to add to the pressure to stimulate the nerves of the major powers.

Su Ping remembered the matter he had promised Juru Daoren Zhuqi.

In fact, even if he hadn't promised the other party, Su Ping intended to leak the intelligence regarding Decay.

After all, Su Ping was on the side of justice, and he also hoped to be able to hide under a big tree to enjoy the shade.

It was just that how to pass on the intelligence was also a matter of skill.

It was best not to let other powers suspect him and subsequently cause a series of disputes.

Because of this, Su Ping did not let his Primordial Spirit Avatar report the news.

Instead, he summoned Qumo Zhenren Yunkong.

He boarded a Cruising Immortal Boat swiped from the Five Elements World and entered the Golden Crow World all alone.

In the North King Time Domain, those who had seen Yun Kong were either dead or had been taken in and contained within the Sun Moon Star Chart.

If outside forces wanted to trace the source, they would run straight into the Pot Heaven because of Yun Kong's unique nature!

As long as he didn't speak of it, he would not summon Qumo Zhenren Yunkong to assist him when outsiders were around later.

No one would know that this Yun Kong was related to him.

Yun Kong steered the Immortal Boat and appeared from the Space-Time Torrent.

He soon approached the Golden Crow World, and after revealing his form, he registered and filed his entry with even more familiarity than the envoys who came to welcome him, then officially stepped onto the territory of the Golden Crow World.

Su Ping operated through the possession mode and could sense it keenly.

Perhaps it was because of Yun Kong's unique nature.

The moment Yun Kong landed and was suppressed, he could clearly feel the consciousness from the Golden Crow Ancient Tree staring at him.

Su Ping ignored this gaze; after all, he had no intention of causing any destruction in the Golden Crow World.

After controlling Yun Kong to enter Jinwu City.

Su Ping had him enter the most famous trading house in the area.

Relying on his previous upgrades, Qumo Zhenren Yunkong was now also a powerhouse of the Fanhui Jing.

With this cultivation base as a guarantee, the various halls of the trading house all opened their doors to Yun Kong.

Su Ping chose one at random.

After entering, he discovered that the interior was a cylindrical building.

Small rooms were arranged in circles and layers around the cylinder.

Cultivators in need could enter these small rooms to communicate with people in other rooms or display their own possessions and requested information to everyone in the trading house.

After Yun Kong entered the room he had purchased.

He began to send a message to all members of the trading house:

"Do you want to know why the Dark Catastrophe Decay has reappeared in the North King Time Domain?"

"Do you want to know what happened in the Decay-polluted area that reappeared not long ago?"

"One High-grade Spirit Stone! Just one High-grade Spirit Stone is all it takes to know the answer!"

After posting, Yun Kong took out a Jade Slip and recorded a projection.

It was also at the moment he performed this action that Yun Kong could feel the Golden Crow Ancient Tree take action.

That immense consciousness came from all directions as if it had a physical form.

However, after scanning the contents of the Jade Slip, it seemed to confirm that there was no danger within.

It then left just as quickly.

It even thoughtfully left a safety mark on the message Yun Kong had posted.

This proved that the message had been personally verified by the Golden Crow Ancient Tree and was free of danger.

Most cultivators were still full of trust in the Golden Crow Ancient Tree.

Therefore, while the cultivators and Demon Beasts of the Three Great Alliances were still hesitating because it concerned the Dark Catastrophe Decay.

Some small and medium-sized forces and local cultivators purchased this information without any psychological burden.

Suddenly, they saw a jade-green halo appear in the empty Void.

They saw an Immortal Boat in the shape of a palace flying toward that area, seemingly performing some kind of ritual.

Then, they saw those behemoth-like Immortal Boats melt one after another, becoming part of the green light on the periphery of the jade-green halo.

If even the Immortal Boats were like this, one could imagine that the cultivators inside could hardly escape their doom!

Although the images had been processed and edited by Su Ping to prevent exposing content related to his side.

There were always cultivators who guessed part of the truth through clues like the Immortal Boats.

Then, the cultivators of the Three Great Alliances saw that others had already watched it and showed no signs of being polluted.

While contacting their sects, they also purchased and watched it one after another.

Afterward, some cultivators muttered that it was impossible.

"Senior Brother is so strong, and he has an Artifact for protection... how could he just be gone like this?"

"This must be fake!"

"The projection does have traces of being modified, but the content matches the recent movements of the sect."

"We have also been unable to contact Senior Brother and the others."

"By the way, Sixth Senior Sister went too; it is said she went to Senior Brother's location... it seems that once she went, there was no more news sent back."

"Dark Catastrophe... Decay, has it really reappeared?"

"The big shots must have known long ago; the Three Great Alliances will definitely send people to deal with it, right? Isn't it said that the Decay catastrophe is the Dark Catastrophe easiest to resist, second only to the Mother Goddess?"

The cultivators of the small and medium-sized forces whispered to each other.

To them, this news was actually just equivalent to a safety warning.

It made them remind their friends, family, and old friends in familiar Small Worlds to avoid the area where the Decay had reappeared as much as possible.

The rest was just watching the show.

But for the Three Great Alliances.

Knowing more inside information, they desperately contacted Yun Kong one after another, wanting to know more of the truth.

This projection had even alarmed the Heavenly Immortals, Heavenly Buddhas, and Heavenly Demons of the Three Great Alliances.

Their Avatars also used their respective means to personally descend to this trading house.

The Golden Crow Ancient Tree also tacitly allowed their descent, though it increased its focus on this area.

Divine light condensed in the high sky and did not dissipate, warning everyone not to break its rules.

After Yun Kong also learned of this matter from the mouths of the Three Great Alliances' cultivators,

he sat in a luxurious Tea House provided by the trade fair, neither servile nor overbearing, drinking expensive free Spirit Tea while waiting for the big shots to arrive.

Such an attitude from Yun Kong also secretly surprised the Great Divine Ability wielders of the Three Great Alliances who had arrived.

And they began to secretly speculate about Yun Kong's true identity.

Because there was no such person in the North King Time Domain.

They even naturally began to suspect that Yun Kong was not from this Time Domain, but an exotic visitor from another Time Domain!