Chapter 1247

"Sorry, everyone!"

Tang Sheng cupped his hands toward the crowd and then said: "After discussion with Fellow Daoist He and our Chamber of Commerce, a decision has been made!"

"I apologize to all honored guests except the Li family!"

"Sorry, everyone!"

Tang Sheng bowed deeply.

Clatter-clatter-clatter...

The remaining immortals stood up one by one, looking dejected.

There's nothing to be done—who let their treasure not be valued by others?

As for the Li family members, they were delighted.

Moreover, due to the Li family's influence, no one dared to truly harbor any covetous thoughts toward them.

"Elder Li……please come in……" Tang Sheng led He Pingsheng and the Li family members into a great hall.

"Hehehe……please be seated!"

Everyone took their seats according to rank.

Elder Li glanced at He Pingsheng and said: "I didn't expect you to still be a disciple of Tianxin—we might as well be family!"

He Pingsheng hadn't spoken yet when Tang Sheng said: "Actually, Fellow He originally had a better option, but since I knew you are the family of Senior Li Tianxin, I chose you—this is what they call 'irrigation water should not flow into another's field'!"

Upon hearing this, the Li family members immediately became flustered and fearful.

He Pingsheng couldn't help but glance at Tang Sheng with newfound respect: this guy really knows how to talk!

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the formal transaction began.

He Pingsheng produced the supreme-grade 【Fuji Jietian Dan】, while the Li family's Golden Immortal elder took out a black jade box.

……

Zhou Yiren felt deeply depressed, yet he was unwilling to accept it!

So he stood at the gate of the Wanliang Chamber of Commerce, tilted his head up, and stared at the chamber's sign.

In the end, he gritted his teeth hard and walked inside.

"This young friend, the auction inside has already ended!" Zhou Yiren had just tried to enter the auction hall behind the chamber when he was stopped again by a Golden Immortal deputy city lord.

Perhaps because the transaction had already concluded, only one of the two deputy city lords guarding the gate remained.

"Yes, senior, junior understands!" Zhou Yiren produced a storage bag and said: "Junior only wishes to meet Fellow Daoist He—no matter the outcome, senior must arrange this for me!"

"Please help me!"

The deputy city lord guarding the gate had intended to refuse, but after his Divine Sense scanned the items inside the storage bag, he hesitated.

It wasn't that his willpower lacked firmness—it was simply that the other party had offered too generously.

"How about this!" said the guarding deputy city lord: "I'll go ask for you, but I cannot guarantee they will actually see you!"

"Mm!" Zhou Yiren nodded: "No matter the outcome, junior accepts it."

"Junior will no longer seek to reclaim this item!"

"Good, refreshing!" said the deputy city lord after speaking, then produced and sent out a beam of message light.

After approximately the time it takes to burn half an incense stick, Tang Sheng emerged.

"Deputy City Lord Zhu, what is this……" Tang Sheng still respected this deputy city lord, as they were fairly acquainted, and in terms of status, Deputy City Lord Zhu ranked higher than him.

Deputy City Lord Zhu said: "This Zhou Yiren is my junior; he wishes to meet He Pingsheng, just to meet him……"

"Can Elder Tang arrange this?"

Tang Sheng's gaze finally fell on Zhou Yiren, and he said: "Oh, it's you, kid……just now you were causing trouble at the auction?"

"I didn't……" Zhou Yiren's plump face showed utter desperation to survive: "Senior, I just want to meet you—I won't cause any trouble!"

"Come with me!" Tang Sheng flicked his sleeve.

He still had to give Deputy City Lord Zhu face.

Soon, he led Zhou Yiren to the entrance of a black great hall: "Fellow He……hehehe……sorry for the interruption!"

He Pingsheng opened the great hall—he had originally been resting there temporarily, but having just completed the transaction, he had already planned to leave.

"Senior Tang……uh……" He Pingsheng's gaze fell upon Zhou Yiren's beaming face.

Tang Sheng said: "He wants to talk with you!"

He Pingsheng nodded—actually, he was still quite interested in Zhou Yiren's stone disk—"Come in!"

"Eh eh eh……"

Zhou Yiren instantly overjoyed, followed He Pingsheng into the dao field.

He Pingsheng closed the hall's surrounding formations, then produced an Array-Sealing Immortal Talisman, activating two Divine-Blocking Immortal Arrays and two Early-Warning Immortal Arrays.

Only then did the two sit down.

"Speak!" He Pingsheng said: "What do you want from me?"

Zhou Yiren wore a hehehe smile: "Fellow Daoist He……I want to know if you still have that supreme-grade Fuji Jietian Dan on you?"

He Pingsheng: "Gone!"

Zhou Yiren: …………

A long silence passed between them.

Because as soon as He Pingsheng spoke, he shut down the conversation.

"Uh……" After a long while, Zhou Yiren said again: "Actually……Fellow Daoist, you should take a look at my stone disk—it's truly extraordinary!"

Zhou Yiren spoke while producing the stone disk: "I'm serious!"

"Fellow Daoist, don't look down on my stone disk just because it has only thirty-six layers of restriction—it's a first-grade immortal artifact!"

"But I feel, this thing is very special!"

"After I refined it, it can actually withstand the force of a strike from a Xuanxian cultivator now!"

"This proves that this item must be extraordinary!"

He Pingsheng's pupils twitched slightly: Good fellow... a first-grade immortal artifact, when unfolded, can withstand the force of a strike from a Xuanxian cultivator.

How is that possible?

It's like a Qi Refining cultivator's magical artifact unfolding, and even a Nascent Soul cultivator of great power cannot break it.

Is that possible?

"Let me take a look!" He Pingsheng took the stone disc into his own hand.

The stone disc was pitch black all over like ink, its aura ancient and weathered.

At first glance, it's clearly not an ordinary item!

He Pingsheng sent strands of his immortal essence into the immortal artifact, and soon thirty-six seals appeared one after another.

Indeed, it is undoubtedly a first-grade immortal artifact.

"I'll unfold it, Fellow Daoist He, you can try attacking it..." Zhou Yiren took the stone disc into his own hand again, and with a bang unfolded it, expanding it to a size of a hundred zhang.

Also thanks to He Pingsheng's resting hall being large enough!

"Fellow Daoist He, come try attacking it!" The little fatty stared intently at He Pingsheng with a serious expression.

He Pingsheng extended his hand and unleashed a strike with a boom.

However, this strike did not use his full strength—only about one-tenth of it—and this force was still the inward-directed qi and blood power; after the punch landed, no excess energy leaked out to shock the hall itself.

After testing one strike, He Pingsheng's heart shook even more violently: Damn, this thing really blocked it.

Holy shit, a first-grade immortal artifact blocked my strike as a Xuanxian cultivator?

This...

"This thing is a bit sinister!" He Pingsheng took the black stone disc again and said: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, may I study this object?"

"I don't mind if it takes you several days!"

"Rest assured, I won't leave this hall; you just need to watch from here!"

Zhou Yiren was overjoyed and said eagerly: "Good, good, good... Fellow Daoist, feel free to research!"

He Pingsheng unleashed a series of booms, unfolded several fifth-grade immortal formations, and then entered them.

Immediately, he placed the stone disc into the treasure basin.

First, let's strengthen it.

However, what surprised him happened: after three days, the strengthening still hadn't succeeded.

This...

Holy shit, you're telling me this is a first-grade immortal artifact?