Chapter 166: The Gu King Special Auction Begins

"Forget it! I have never thought about taking that blade down. The named blade belongs to a treasure worth a fortune. It is hot in the hand and is really easy to arouse the covetous heart of others."

"I used that blade just to lure Feng Four into the set. I really didn't have the idea of taking it down." Long Xuan said truthfully.

"Is that so?" Long Ziyan looked at him with a strange face and guessed: "You are probably not wanting the Blade Gu to take this transformation route."

"Then you must be wanting the Blade Gu to transform by fusing knife intent."

"Taking this transformation route depends entirely on how strong the knife intent fused by the Blade Gu is."

"If the knife intent is very weak, then this transformation route will be very useless."

"If the knife intent is very strong, then the upper limit of this transformation route will far exceed the transformation method of fusing knife tools."

"Once the Blade Gu fuses knife intent, it will be able to walk the path of human knife cultivators."

"At that time, it will not be a Gu worm, but a person who can cultivate like a person, and will also possess the same realm system as a knife cultivator. Once the Blade Gu walks the path of a knife cultivator, it will be extremely, extremely strong."

"However, in the Gu World, you can't find knife cultivators. Where can you find knife intent?" Long Ziyan looked at Long Xuan strangely and said.

Long Xuan looked at this woman powerlessly. Why can this woman always see through his inner thoughts? Do they have such a husband and wife tacit understanding?

Since Long Ziyan has seen through it, Long Xuan is not prepared to hide it, and said seriously: "In this place of

"The Gu World is vast; it's impossible that we can't even find three types of blade intent."

"I already have one type of blade intent ready-made; it's right here in front of us."

Long Xuan looked into Long Ziyan's eyes and said, "You possess sword bones and are a sword cultivator with monstrous aptitude; you will certainly be able to comprehend sword intent in the future."

"Sword intent and blade intent share the same origin and belong to similar categories. The Blade Gu can perfectly integrate sword intent, and walking the path of dual mastery in both blade and sword will be the same."

Long Ziyan shook her head and smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid you overestimate me. In the world of sword cultivators, I would certainly be able to comprehend sword intent."

"But in a world without swords, without sword-cultivation experts to spar with, without many sword-cultivation classics, and even without a master's guidance, how could I possibly comprehend sword intent? I'm afraid I will disappoint you."

"Don't belittle yourself; I have absolute confidence in you."

Long Xuan gave her a confident smile. He had already made up his mind: even if Long Ziyan truly couldn't comprehend sword intent, he had ways to help her. Research was his greatest strength, and he didn't believe this problem could stump him.

……

After returning home, Long Xuan couldn't wait to release his Flame Clone and ordered it to track Feng Si.

As long as he dared to leave the city, he would have the Flame Clone secretly finish him off.

Long Xuan felt that sending just one clone was enough to deal with someone who didn't have any Gu worms.

Afterward, he walked into the secret chamber to create the "Ten Extremes Blade Technique" while waiting for good news from the Flame Clone.

After successfully creating his dual cultivation technique, he finally had time to study the "Ten Extremes Blade Technique."

Every day, his clones would transmit the "Ten Thousand Methods Breaking Canon" learned from the negative first floor of the Library Tower to his main body. Long Xuan mastered a vast number of techniques to break various abilities without any effort. By summarizing these techniques, he began to compile the "Ten Extremes Blade Technique," which could break everything.

This would surely be a long process, and the time consumed would likely be measured in years. There was simply too much to learn to create a blade technique that could break ten thousand methods; how could it be researched in just a few months? Long Xuan was already prepared for a protracted war.

In his view, spending so much time researching this blade technique was absolutely worth it.

Because the "Ten Extremes Blade Technique" could be used not only by his Blade Gu but also by himself as a Gu cultivator; once learned, it would benefit him for a lifetime.

The "Ten Extremes Blade Technique," which could break all blade techniques under heaven, was conceptually the strongest blade technique and theoretically the absolute number one.

Once he mastered this technique, no one in the future would dare to compete with him in blade techniques.

This was an invincible technique, and an invincible technique was worth him spending several years researching.

Full of motivation to create the conceptually strongest blade technique, Long Xuan worked hard, and the sound of his pen tip scratching across paper rustled continuously in the room.

But not long after, the Flame Clone suddenly walked in from outside the door. It had returned surprisingly fast. Long Xuan looked up at it in surprise, slowly put down his pen, and immediately asked, "How did the matter go?"

The Flame Clone looked at him with a strange expression and said, "When I found him using the Heavenly Mechanism Eye, he was already dead outside the city, his throat slit by a single sword strike. I don't know who did it."

"What?" Long Xuan was greatly shocked. "Dead? Who on earth acted so fast! They actually beat me to it and finished him off! How meddlesome!"

……

Time flew by until evening.

Long Xuan finally stopped his work on the blade technique, put down his pen, stood up, and stretched. Only then did he walk out of the secret chamber. He looked up, found the tallest building in the clan, used his Treading Stars technique, lightly tapped his toes, and landed on that highest spire.

Then, he cast his gaze toward the direction of the Qian Clan Auction House.

Standing higher allowed him to see further. Under the long-distance vision capability of the Heavenly Mechanism Eye, the situation inside the auction was clear at a glance. This angle was just right, and a subtle smile appeared at the corner of Long Xuan's mouth.

At this moment, the auction had already reached the third session. The third session was specifically for Gu Kings. All the Gu Kings in the city had gathered inside the auction, including a massive number of Gu Kings from the outer city and those from other remote regions; their overbearing auras were countless.

The most precious treasures collected by the Qian Clan Merchant Association would all be auctioned in this session.

This included the Living Wood that made all the Gu Kings drool. It was precisely this Living Wood that had attracted half of the Gu Kings in the Western Lands here, and even the Gu Kings from the far-off Outer Domain had rushed over in time.

Experts at the Gu King realm were naturally rare, but concentrating the Gu Kings from a vast region into one place was enough to make Gu Kings as common as dogs.

Long Xuan didn't dare to use his soul power to probe experts at the Gu King level, so he didn't know exactly how many Gu Kings had gathered in the city, but there were certainly over a hundred.

A considerable portion of the Gu Kings knew that their wealth was insufficient to compete for the Living Wood. Some were just here to watch the excitement; legendary Heaven-Grade spirit medicines were hard to encounter in a lifetime, so who wouldn't be curious?

Some people simply harbored thoughts of robbery. They had no intention of using their wealth to bid for the Living Wood at the auction, waiting instead for someone to win it and take it out of the city before they would strike to seize it.

A significant number of Gu Kings harbored such thoughts; they didn't even plan to attend the auction and had long since set up ambushes outside.

Some cunning Gu Kings came here with the intention of picking up scraps. They were waiting for chaos; if there was an opportunity to profit, they would take it, but if there wasn't, they would flee, never taking risks.

In short, every Gu King in the city harbored strange intentions, and the air was filled with a tense atmosphere. Many households in Black Stone City had their doors and windows tightly shut and had extinguished their lights early; the atmosphere in the city was extremely eerie.

Long Xuan, of course, had no interest in that Living Wood. Relying on deducing the "Longevity Sutra" to increase his lifespan was enough for him; the Living Wood was optional.

But even though he had no interest in the Living Wood, it didn't mean he wasn't interested in this auction that had shocked the entire Western Lands.

This was a super auction that had drawn over half of the Gu Kings of the Western Lands. With so many Gu Kings gathered in one hall, how could he not be curious about such a scene?

This was a rare Gu King special auction. The treasures auctioned were all world-shocking, and the most precious items collected by the Qian Clan Merchant Association would all be concentrated here.

There were too many treasures here that could blind his eyes. Even if he didn't dare to covet them, it was good to broaden his horizons; seeing more of the world and gaining knowledge was also a form of cultivation.

That's right, Long Xuan was watching this Gu King special auction purely with the intention of watching the show, preparing to see what treasures would appear and into whose hands the Living Wood would fall.

If he could see a great melee between over a hundred Gu Kings, that would be even better. That scene would certainly be exciting, and he would definitely record the wonderful battle with a Shadow Recording Gu and then collect it to enjoy properly.

Battles at the Gu King level were rare; watching more fights between Gu Kings would certainly be beneficial.

However, although he intended to watch the auction from the sidelines, he was sufficiently wretched and cunning, hiding within the Long Clan residence to watch from a distance. Peeking from here, he couldn't possibly encounter any danger.

At this moment, the auction had already begun, and the first item was being auctioned. The first item was an Upper-Grade Strange Gu on par with a Gu King. The auction was extremely lively, with bidding sounds rising one after another.

The Gu Kings were actually arguing until their faces were red and their necks thick over a single Strange Gu, which showed just how rare Strange Gu were in the Gu World.

Although there were many Gu worms in this world, the evolution routes for each type were not public. The same general Gu worm had different evolution routes in different families, which were kept secret and never disclosed.

It wasn't that you could keep evolving a Gu worm infinitely just because you had it; many Gu worm evolution routes were irregular and extremely difficult to explore.

After Long Xuan took a few looks and satisfied his curiosity, he turned his gaze toward the various Gu Kings in the auction. They were all strangers; there wasn't a single one he recognized, and he wasn't familiar with any of them.

He subconsciously searched for the figure of the Qi Tian Ancestor, Shi Haojun, but after searching a circle, he didn't find him in the auction.

Under normal circumstances, when someone auctioned a heavy treasure, that person would definitely appear in the auction; they would certainly be curious about how much money their item could actually fetch.

And this Shi Haojun was clearly not a normal person. After depositing the Living Wood in the Qian Clan Auction House, he ignored it. Even though the auction was about to sell his Living Wood, he didn't come to the scene to see it.

Could he really be slaughtering a city at this moment? Long Xuan immediately turned his head and looked toward the direction of Black Moon City. His field of vision extended bit by bit, and the distant scenery changed rapidly in his eyes from far to near. In just a moment, his gaze had already seen an unknown distance.

But after all, Black Moon City was too far from Black Stone City. Even when his vision reached its limit, he still couldn't see the shadow of Black Moon City.

Long Xuan sighed slightly, finally withdrew his gaze, and rubbed his sore eyes.

(End of chapter)