Chapter 334: 334. Chapter 334: Twelve Days Later

334. Chapter 334: Twelve Days Later

After resolving a crisis silently, Long Xuan began to moonlight as an insect armor master, doing the business of selling insect armor.

Undoubtedly, his craftsmanship as the founding ancestor of insect armor masters was much higher than Song Qian's.

Coupled with his wild imagination and many novel ideas, the insect armor he designed was several grades higher than Song Qian's.

Therefore, after he took over the insect armor shop, business continued to be booming, with orders coming in non-stop every day, and he made a fortune.

The high-quality insect armor he made from Cold Iron sold for extremely high prices. Even though he had hundreds of puppets working overtime through the night, the Cold Iron insect armor he produced was still in short supply.

However, the time given to him was too short; the large-scale auction in the city would begin in twelve days.

How much money could insect armor made in just twelve days sell for? Long Xuan really didn't have the confidence that his current financial resources could compete with those great clans.

In the end, Long Xuan gritted his teeth and decided to sell a heaven-defying item at the auction to solve the problem of insufficient Spirit Stones.

He understood the principle of not showing off wealth, but it was his clone who would appear; his true body wouldn't even go to the auction. Anyway, when the clone successfully auctioned the Holy Tree, he would have to tear up the Hundred Li Talisman and run away, so he didn't care about the danger of leaking this bit of wealth.

Long Xuan thought about it and decided to just auction a Heaven-Defying Pill at the auction.

One person could only eat one Heaven-Defying Pill; the extra Heaven-Defying Pills were already useless to him, so he wouldn't feel bad about auctioning them off.

So, after the twelfth day, Long Xuan ordered the Yan clone to disguise himself as a stranger, cover his face, and after making heavy preparations, he carried the Heaven-Defying Pill and walked toward the auction house.

But Long Xuan still chose to attach a wisp of split soul to the clone, preparing to watch this auction from a second perspective so as to understand the situation in the auction at any time.

Since the auction was held at noon, and it was just dawn, most people hadn't woken up yet, so there weren't many people in front of the auction house at this time.

It was just that occasionally someone would run into the auction house to consign treasures.

This group of people was the same as Long Xuan, covering their faces and wrapping themselves tightly, not daring to expose their identities at all.

A large-scale auction would inevitably attract many wealthy Gu cultivators. Many people planned to auction off treasures useless to themselves and take this opportunity to make a small fortune.

Long Xuan came to the front of the auction house, looked at the huge plaque with the five characters "Qian Clan Auction House," and felt emotional; he had seen this familiar merchant association again.

This Qian Clan Merchant Association was truly everywhere.

Thinking of this Qian Clan Merchant Association, he remembered the Nine Prince who was pitted by the God of Gamblers.

He had lost all the treasures of the Qian Clan Merchant Association in one place. This matter must have caused quite a sensation in the Qian Clan, and he didn't know what the result was.

Long Xuan tightened the black robe he was wearing and walked into the Qian Clan Auction House.

After walking into the auction house, he found the location of the treasure appraisal room, knocked on the door, and pushed it open to walk in.

"May I ask if you are here to appraise treasures or consign treasures!"

As soon as Long Xuan entered the door, an old man with gray hair inside raised his head and asked.

This old man sat behind the table, with the aura of a Spirit Sea Peak, and an Honesty Gu was lying on the table in front of him, looking at Long Xuan with a scrutinizing gaze.

Long Xuan glared at it, walked over, disguised his voice as an old man's, and said: "I want to consign a type of pill; you appraise it."

After speaking, he took a pill bottle from his storage ring and placed it on the table.

"This is..."

Looking at the glowing seven-colored pill in the bottle, the old man was stunned for a moment.

As an experienced treasure appraisal master, he dealt with all kinds of treasures every day; what kind of treasures hadn't he seen?

But this was the first time he had seen such a seven-colored and glowing pill, and with his learning, he couldn't name it at all.

This surprised him greatly and revealed a look of extreme interest.

Long Xuan didn't reply; he wanted to see if the Qian Clan Merchant Association could identify the effect of the Heaven-Defying Pill without him saying anything.

The old man curiously picked up the pill bottle, opened the lid, and poured the pill in the bottle into his palm.

Suddenly, a rich pill fragrance filled the entire room. The old man took a deep breath, and a look of extreme solemnity gradually appeared in his eyes.

With his expert eyes, it wasn't hard to see the extraordinary nature of this pill. Even if he didn't know its effect, he vaguely sensed that this pill must be extremely heaven-defying.

A look of excitement appeared in the old man's eyes, and his right eye suddenly turned yellow; he was finally prepared to use the ability of the Golden Pupil to explore its effect.

However, not long after, his Golden Pupil suddenly shed blood. Long Xuan was startled when he saw this scene, and the old man was also shocked and stood up.

"This is... this is..."

The old man pointed at the pill with trembling fingers, a look of horror appearing in his eyes.

"This pill has triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, right!"

The old man stared at Long Xuan with wide eyes, his appearance extremely uncomposed.

This was a legendary divine pill that could trigger a Heavenly Tribulation. This divine pill only existed in history books, and he hadn't seen it in his life; how could he not be uncomposed?

This pill was a heaven-defying object, and only a heaven-defying object could make his Golden Pupil suffer backlash. Even if the person opposite didn't say it, he was certain at this moment that this pill must have triggered a thunder tribulation.

Long Xuan glanced at the Honesty Gu on the table that was staring at him with wide eyes and didn't answer the question directly.

"Can your Golden Pupil explore the effect of this pill?" Long Xuan asked back.

"This is natural. If the grade of this pill were higher, even if my Golden Pupil were blind, it would be impossible to explore its effect."

"But this pill is a fourth-grade pill and only effective for Gu cultivators below the fourth rank, so it's still within the tolerance limit of the Golden Pupil."

"This pill is worthy of being a pill that can trigger a thunder tribulation; its effect is truly heaven-defying."

The old man leaned his body closer, his face flushed, and he said with rapid breathing: "The effect of this pill is to unconditionally improve a Gu cultivator's aptitude by two grades, right?"

"This is not heaven-defying enough; its greatest heaven-defying point is that it can break the limit and is equally effective for geniuses with Heaven-grade aptitude."

"The legendary Heaven-Mending Fruit that can improve aptitude has a negligible effect on geniuses with Heaven-grade aptitude, but this pill can break the upper limit of Heaven-grade aptitude."

"If a genius with Heaven-grade aptitude swallows this pill, their aptitude will be improved to the legendary Divine-grade. How heaven-defying is this?"

"No wonder this pill can trigger a Heavenly Tribulation; its effect is truly heaven-defying!"

The old man's eyes were red at this moment, and his appearance was extremely excited. Being able to see a pill that had triggered a Heavenly Tribulation once in his life, he felt it wasn't in vain.

Hearing this, Long Xuan was slightly surprised. He really didn't know that a genius with Heaven-grade aptitude would have their aptitude improved to Divine-grade after swallowing the Heaven-Defying Pill.

He had only thought of himself at the time and had never thought about what would happen if others swallowed the Heaven-Defying Pill. This old man's understanding of the Heaven-Defying Pill was much higher than his, the creator of the pill formula.

Long Xuan remained calm and said calmly: "The Golden Pupil is indeed well-deserved. That's right, this pill is called the Heaven-Defying Pill, and its effect is to unconditionally improve anyone's aptitude by two grades."

"I think this pill is enough to qualify for this auction, right?"

"Enough! Enough! This pill is naturally qualified to enter this auction."

The old man rubbed his hands excitedly, his mouth couldn't close from smiling, and he continued: "This pill not only has the qualification to enter the auction but can also become the grand finale auction item."

"With such a heaven-defying pill, the grand finale auction item should be changed."

"Wait!" Long Xuan was startled. He didn't expect that his Heaven-Defying Pill would squeeze out the grand finale auction item of this auction. This was something he had never expected, so he hurriedly interrupted:

"Did I hear you correctly? You said my Heaven-Defying Pill can become the grand finale auction item."

"I heard that the grand finale auction item of this auction is a Heaven-grade spirit medicine called the Holy Tree."

"The Holy Tree belongs to the twelfth-grade treasure, while the Heaven-Defying Pill belongs to the fourth-grade treasure. Are you sure the Heaven-Defying Pill is qualified to become the grand finale auction item?"

The old man shook his head and smiled: "You don't know this. The standard for measuring the value of a treasure is not the grade, but the demand."

"I'll ask you, if a treasure that can immunize against illusions and a treasure that can improve aptitude by two grades are placed in front of you."

"If you choose one of the two, which one would you choose?"

Hearing this, Long Xuan was silent.

He had no hesitation in his heart. If he were really asked to make a choice between these two treasures, he would definitely want the treasure that could improve aptitude.

Aptitude is related to cultivation speed, and only with fast cultivation speed can one break through to a higher realm.

Cultivation is the hard truth. In front of cultivation, the ability to immunize against illusions is worth nothing.

As expected, once the auction simultaneously auctions the Holy Tree and the Heaven-Defying Pill, everyone will concentrate their financial resources to auction the Heaven-Defying Pill, and no one will want the Holy Tree instead.

This change greatly exceeded his expectations, and he really didn't want the Heaven-Defying Pill to be the grand finale auction item.

The reason he wanted to auction the Heaven-Defying Pill was to gather enough Spirit Stones at the fastest speed and then use absolute financial resources to auction the Holy Tree.

And the Qian Clan Auction House has always been an on-site transaction. If the Heaven-Defying Pill is auctioned last, he simply won't have enough Spirit Stones to compete for the Holy Tree.

So Long Xuan hurriedly said: "No need to be so troublesome. There's no reason to change the grand finale auction item at will. Let my Heaven-Defying Pill be auctioned in the penultimate position."

Long Xuan's voice was decisive and unquestionable.

The old man was stunned for a moment, but he wasn't stupid. He soon thought that this person was probably trying to use the money from auctioning the Heaven-Defying Pill to compete for the Holy Tree, so he didn't refuse his request.

"Good! Then according to your request, the Heaven-Defying Pill will be auctioned in the penultimate position."

"But your Heaven-Defying Pill has the highest value among all auction items and has reached the standard for entering the No. 1 VIP room."

"There is still a long time before the auction starts. Will you come over later, or will you go to the No. 1 VIP room to wait now?"

Long Xuan blurted out: "I'll go to the No. 1 VIP room to wait now. Let someone lead the way!" (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 335 =====