The auction venue remained quiet. Everyone wanted to see how the person from Booth 19 would handle this matter. Even those cultivators who knew about Ning Cheng’s identity also remained silent. Besides, from what little they knew about Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng was the type of person who didn’t give a damn about anyone. As for those who didn’t know about him and didn’t want to speak, they simply didn’t care about Ning Cheng’s life or death.
At this moment, a male with late-stage Heaven’s Mandate Cultivation came out of Booth 19 and walked over to Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng, through his spiritual consciousness, already knew that Booth 19 had two more cultivators inside. The one still sitting inside was someone with a late-stage Life and Death Cultivation. While the one who came out, and the other person inside most likely, were this person’s followers or servants. Moreover, the Life and Death cultivator had a look of deep disdain in his eyes, as if he didn’t consider Ning Cheng as even an ant.
The Heaven’s Mandate fellow walked up to Ning Cheng, took out a ring and placed it in front of Ning Cheng and said, “This contains 5 million Permanent Essence Pills, it’s yours now.”
“What do you mean?” Ning Cheng asked with a frown.
The Heaven’s Mandate fellow spoke up with a cold voice. “Little Lord is a reasonable person. These 5 million Permanent Essence Pills are here for you. Take out that Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein. As for bidding on the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear, you’re not allowed to put in any.”
Ning Cheng understood that this bastard wanted to exchange the 5 million Permanent Essence Pills for his Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein.
How was this a reasonable exchange?
Moreover, it had nothing to do with him, but the auctioneer.
If he took out a Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein and only exchanged it for 5 million Permanent Essence Pills, it would result in a huge loss. Moreover, this ‘little lord’ could use another 5 million Permanent Essence Pills for the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear. At the same time, he would also gain a Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein.
Ning Cheng took the ring with the five million Permanent Essence Pills and said, “I’ll take it. You can leave now.”
The Heaven’s Mandate cultivator, on seeing Ning Cheng take the Permanent Essence Pills without taking out the Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein, immediately exploded with killing intent. He immediately raised his hand to grab Ning Cheng’s neck.
Ning Cheng snorted, raised his hand and gave a casual slap.
“Slap” With a loud snap, that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator shot backwards and hit the defensive restriction in front of the auction stage, stirring a flurry of alarms.
With another ‘bang’ sound, that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator fell to the ground and spurted a blood arrow from his mouth. With Ning Cheng’s power, it was already mercy that he didn’t shatter this man’s cultivation.
Some cultivators, who felt slightly worried about Ning Cheng, couldn’t close their mouths on seeing Ning Cheng’s actions. Ning Cheng had only casually slapped that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator, which meant that he was at least above Heaven Seated Realm. But even if one were an Eternal cultivator, doing such a thing would create a life and death grudge. At that point, even escaping Returning Capital Starry Sky City would prove impossible.
“You’re looking for death……” The man in Booth 19 stood up angrily, filling the entire booth with killing intent. Ning Cheng had taken his Permanent Essence Pills but didn’t take out the Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Veins. Even if he disregarded that, this fellow had even slapped his servant. Never had anyone dared to act in such arrogance in front of him. Only he had the right to be arrogant in this place.
“Enough. Booth 19 has already exercised its right. The auction will continue.” A cold voice emerged that immediately stopped the man in Booth 19.
Even if blue veins popped up on his forehead and he oozed with rage and brutality, he immediately stopped and forcibly calmed himself on hearing this voice. Another servant rushed out of the booth and quickly brought the injured Heaven’s Mandate cultivator, who hit the defensive restriction, into the cabin.
Everyone understood that the owner of Booth 19 would not let Ning Cheng go once the auction ended. But at least for now, many people started looking at Ning Cheng with some fear.
Ning Cheng had remained calm throughout, without a single fluctuation. If the cultivator in Booth 19 dared to find trouble with him outside, he would get rid of the problem without batting an eye. Even if the auctioneer himself came up to him at that point, he would still do it.
But he never expected that the auction house would give Booth 19 such a right. After seeing the potential of trouble, the auction house immediately tried to act in fairness. Since this was the case, he also would not continue to make trouble, at least as long as others didn’t trouble him. In any case, he picked up five million Permanent Essence Pills for free, didn’t he?
Shui Wuchang spoke with a resonant tone, “Congratulations to this friend in Row 39, Seat 137. You won the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear.”
As Shui Wuchang’s words ended, a ring containing the long spear appeared in front of Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng scanned it with his spiritual consciousness and confirmed that this weapon surpassed top-ranked Dao Artefacts. Taking out the long spear and putting it away, he then put a Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein into the ring, following which the ring then disappeared.
“The next item for auction is quite strange. Honestly, even I have no idea about this item. That’s because the sender has a very out-of-the-box request. That is, we have to open this box on the spot, and if no one bids for it, we have to destroy it on the spot. Please rest assured that my auction house doesn’t think that this item is a worthless object. In fact, even if you added up the price of all the things taken out earlier, it wouldn’t match the base price of this auction item.”
Shui Wuchang’s words once again roused the curiosity of all the cultivators in the auction venue.
Even adding up the prices of the previous items wouldn’t reach the base price of this auction item? Was there such a valuable treasure? Besides, if it was such a precious treasure, why would someone ask to destroy it if no one bid for it? Wasn’t this a contradiction?
But that wasn’t even the strangest part. Not even the host of the auction house didn’t know about it.
Shui Wuchang’s tone turned even more charming, “I believe everyone here is just as curious about this item as I am. I want to know more about this item and what makes it so mysterious. I would also like to know why the sender made such an arbitrary request to destroy the item if no one bid for it.”
Duan Gantai suddenly frowned at those words. He had a bad feeling about this item.
Ning Cheng sneered internally. He didn’t believe that Duan Gantai wouldn’t make a bid on this item. The truth is, Ning Cheng had made a deal with the auction house. If someone bought it, he would give the auction house 5% of the selling price. But if no one bought it and they had to destroy it; he would still provide the auction house half a Starry Sky Essence Qi Spirit Vein.
Although this cut was less than the usual 10% that the auction house charges, the auction house readily agreed to Ning Cheng’s generous request without hesitation.
“Quickly show it to us. We can’t wait any longer.” Some of the anxious cultivators sitting in the lobby called out. As for the conflict between Ning Cheng and Booth 19, it took a backseat in front of this mysterious item.
Shui Wuchang lifted a jade box and said, “Let’s all see what this mysterious treasure is, and why would someone put in such a mysterious request?”
Everyone in the venue intently stared at Shui Wuchang’s hand and watched Shui Wuchang slowly open it.
The moment the lid of the jade box fully opened, Shui Wuchang’s mouth almost popped open as she stared at the jade box in shock.
There was a restriction covering the auction stage that blocked spiritual consciousness from looking at anything. The a
uction house had made such an arrangement to not allow people from sweeping in; therefore, everyone could only watch with their eyes. But the people simply couldn’t see the items in the jade box from their seats. Therefore, seeing Shui Wuchang’s reaction, the people in the auction venue turned even more anxious.
Seeing such a scene, the people at the auction wanted to know even more about this item. What kind of thing was it that it even shocked the auction host into speechlessness?
“What is it?”
“Yes, hurry up and announce….”
…….
The flurry of noises finally sobered Shui Wuchang from the shock, and her shocked expression also quickly returned to normal.
“Respected guests, forgive me for the previous debacle. The thing inside is just a key, but how is it a mysterious treasure? It wasn’t until I saw the key by myself, did I start to understand why it had such a mystery to it.”
As she spoke, Shui Wuchang quickly calmed down her inner emotions, and her tone once again turned soft and crisp. “Many people surely know that Culmination Grand Starry Sky’s Striking Order Starry Sky had three mysterious temples. The Ancient Shadow Temple, the Guardian Temple, and the Temple of Time. That’s right. This key is the key to one of these three temples. More specifically, this key opens the Temple of Time. Or rather, this key is one of the three keys to open the Temple of Time.”
“It’s no wonder the seller put such a sky-high price for it. After all, the Temple of Time is a legacy left behind by the Perpetual Moon Holy Emperor. I heard that one could not only understand the Laws of Time on entering it; it also contains many worldly treasures. Unfortunately, there is only one key here….”
After she said the last sentence, Shui Wuchang suddenly felt something wrong. She shouldn’t have said such a negative statement for an auction item. However, she subconsciously wanted to own this key. Rather, more specifically, this key once belonged to her.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly, realising her position and her job. She quickly changed the subject and said, “Now let’s look at the starting price of this key….”
Shui Wuchang’s words caused quite a stir. Even if it was just one key, it was still the key to the Temple of Time. Everyone in the starry skies knew about the value of Temple of Time’s Time Stones. One would find it almost impossible to find someone within the starry sky who didn’t know about this particular treasure.
But if one obtained this key, wouldn’t it also invite a whole host of troubles to their doorstep?
At the same time, if someone managed to get into the Temple of Time and took control of the Laws of Time inside, then ….
The only person with a livid face, however, was Duan Gantai who sat in the row behind Ning Cheng.
Chapter 0785 – Terrible Price
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He knew that Ning Cheng coveted his star veins, but he didn’t expect that Ning Cheng would use such a trick.
Should he bid for the key or not?
For Duan Gantai, if Ning Cheng’s didn’t set a high asking price, he would rather not destroy it. He had obtained a lot of good things from the Guardian Temple, so he didn’t want to give up on the Temple of Time.
Shui Wuchang’s voice trembled a bit as she spoke, “The reserve price for this Perpetual Moon Time Key is ten Star veins. Each price increase shouldn’t be less than one Star Vein….”
Even if she had some idea about the reserve price being star veins, her voice still cracked a bit when quoting the price. She had never seen anyone using star veins as an incremental unit for bidding.
Duan Gantai clenched his fists. He had already steeled himself that if Ning Cheng placed an asking price of more than 10 Star Veins, he would rather let it get destroyed. It wasn’t the same as the previous instance where he ‘purchased’ the first key for 20 Star Veins. He had no choice but to purchase that key at that time; otherwise, Ning Cheng might have found a way to enter the Temple of Time by himself.
But if the Temple of Time’s key got destroyed, he wouldn’t get anything from it, nor would Ning Cheng. Yet unexpectedly, Ning Cheng put a starting price of ten Star Veins, an amount still within the scope of his willingness to purchase it.
This bastard truly had a cunning mind.
Ning Cheng had thoroughly deliberated about the base price of ten Starry Sky Spirit Veins. He knew that if the price were too high, Duan Gantai most likely wouldn’t compete for it at all. The bastard wasn’t only insidious, but also decisive. Therefore, he had to put a price that would make it hard for Duan Gantai to choose giving up on it. At the same time, it wasn’t also an excruciating price. With Duan Gantai’s possible net worth, ten Starry Sky Spirit Veins was just the right amount.
Once the price of ten Starry Sky Essence Spirit Veins emerged, everyone in the auction venue felt shocked. This price would even shut down those influential people sitting in private booths.
Ten Star Veins,
even they wouldn’t take out such a sum easily.
At this time, the auction venue remained rather quiet. Everyone wanted to see if anyone would bid 11 Star Veins.
Duan Gantai did not bid. 11 Star Veins wasn’t something too painful for him, and he would even willingly take out 11 Spirit Veins to purchase the Perpetual Moon Time Key. However, he didn’t like the feeling of someone scheming against him, especially by Ning Cheng. Only Duan Gantai had the right to plot against others, how could he let other people calculate against him?
Even if he wanted to buy this key, he would do it on his terms. He would never let others control the flow. Purchasing the first Perpetual Moon Time Key previously, he had done that because of a lack of choice. But now, he was not without options.
Even after a few minutes, no one offered a bid; even Duan Gantai remained silent. Ning Cheng, however, couldn’t sit still. He truly didn’t want to destroy this Perpetual Moon Time Key. He only did this to force Duan Gantai to bid on it. But he didn’t think that Duan Gantai wouldn’t place a bid for 10 Star Veins, which made him feel a little jittery.
If Duan Gantai didn’t bid, he would have to destroy the Perpetual Moon Time Key. Duan Gantai might not lose much, but he would lose a lot. Maybe if he made an offer to let Duan Gantai have all three Perpetual Moon Time Keys, he might just get to extort many good things from Duan Gantai in return.
Ning Cheng was just about to send Duan Gantai a message, threatening him to bid or the key really would be destroyed. But at this time, Duan Gantai took the initiative to send Ning Cheng a message. “Brother Ning, this little brother might not lack wealth right now, but he doesn’t like people threatening him. If Brother Ning can take back the key now and make a private deal with this little brother later, this little brother might just agree to your demands. Otherwise, both of us will lose a lot here.”
Ning Cheng initially wanted to threaten Duan Gantai with a few words. But after hearing Duan Gantai’s words, he immediately felt upset. He replied with a cold voice, “Brother Duan, you said you don’t like other people threatening you, but did you think I like people threatening me? If you want to bid on it then go for it, I don’t mind destroying it.”
Going back and forth so many times, taking back his words and items, and even find Duan Gantai for another deal, all for ten Star Veins. Duan Gantai, you can stop dreaming.
Duan Gantai truly felt shocked as he heard Ning Cheng’s words. He felt afraid of Ning Cheng’s desperation, which would lead to the destruction of the Perpetual Moon Time Key.
Shui Wuchang’s voice broke the silence in the venue, “Since no one bid for the Perpetual Moon Time Key; the house will start the countdown….”
When Duan Gantai heard the word ‘countdown’, he understood that he had to make a choice. He didn’t like people threatening him, but he also had set his sights on the Temple of Time for a long t
ime. He had sought for the Temple of Time long before the Guardian Temple and coveted it much more than the Guardian Temple. However, before he could even get his hands on it, someone wanted to destroy all chances of entering it right before his eyes.
How could he let this happen?
Just when Duan Gantai clenched his fists and agreed to succumb to Ning Cheng’s threat, a sudden voice sounded in the auction hall, “I’ll give 11 Star Veins.”
Did someone put in a quote?
Not only Duan Gantai, but even Ning Cheng froze. He set a base price of ten Star Veins to pit against Duan Gantai. He never thought that others would bid on it, especially with such an insane base price. Now, not only did Duan Gantai not bid on it, but someone else had put up a quote.
After a brief silence, the auction venue once again turned restless. Someone had truly bid 11 Star Veins for a key.
Shui Wuchang also felt a bit relaxed. In truth, although she realised that this key did not belong to her, but to destroy the Perpetual Moon Time Key that once belonged to her, she truly would have felt a little bit sad. Now that someone bid on it, she naturally felt relieved and then spoke up in a loud voice. “Booth 7 offers 11 Star Veins. Is there anyone else willing to offer a higher price? 11 Star Veins, going once….”
Ning Cheng gave out a deep sigh, with Duan Gantai’s scheming mind, he wouldn’t put up a bid now. Even when Shui Wuchang called out the three countdowns, Duan Gantai did not put up a quote. In the end, the key went to the owner of Booth 7.
However, it wasn’t a bad thing for Ning Cheng either. He didn’t have to worry about the identity of the person who bought the Perpetual Moon time Key from Booth 7, nor did he care about it. It was now Duan Gantai’s headache. As long as Duan Gantai wanted something from the Temple of Time, he must coordinate with the person from Booth 7.
“Congratulations to this friend from Booth 7 for winning the Perpetual Moon Time Key.” With Shui Wuchang’s congratulations, the Perpetual Moon Time Key, which only had one offer, finally went to its new owner.
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