WebNovel Chapter 115: Lure the snake out of its hole (1/2)
Chapter 115: Lure the snake out of its hole (1/2)
Today is the third and last day of the [Tianbao Building] auction.
The third floor of [Tianbao Building] will be open during the day, and the fourth floor of Tianbao Building will be open at night.
The third floor contains various martial arts and skills, from first-class martial arts to top-level martial arts, from blood exchange to internal organs.
Because of the official certification of [Tianbao Building], no one will doubt the authenticity of these martial arts.
After all, [Tianbao Building] has held auctions in various countries for hundreds of years, and its reputation has always been good.
The only shortcoming people complain about is that the price is too expensive.
As for martial arts below the first-class and skills below blood exchange, Tianbao Building disdains to bid.
Besides, those who have the ability to get an invitation letter will not be interested in these low-level martial arts and skills.
Li Yan is standing in front of a display cabinet of skills at this time. The skills in it are the blood exchange skills that Li Yan is practicing now - [Nine Refining Methods of Purple Blood].
"It seems that the leader of the Nushan Gang, Chen Shan, has probably participated in the auction of the [Tianbao Building], or has killed people who have just participated."
"Otherwise, he would not have this set of skills."
Li Yan touched his chin and recalled the process of how he got this skill.
He still remembered that Chen Shan's nephew Chen Lei just broke into the room where he was and wanted to kill him, but he was stopped by him and killed after forcing him to tell him the skills and martial arts.
The martial arts he is practicing now are all the results of that interrogation. It can be said that Chen Lei is the first person to give Li Yan a big gift package.
Li Yan is still very grateful when he thinks about it now.
"And it may be because he tasted the sweetness that he came here many times after successfully breaking through to the blood exchange realm, and finally got the skills of the internal organs that he wanted."
Li Yan speculated based on what he learned about Chen Shan's experience.
He thought his speculation was reasonable. After all, the major families in Linjiang County strictly blocked high-level skills, resources, and martial arts.
Li Yan couldn't think of where else Chen Shan could find a Yunzang skill that he could practice with confidence, except for the auction of [Tianbao Tower].
Chen Shan didn't have Li Yan's clone. Even if he could capture some of the direct descendants of the big families and force them to reveal the Yunzang skill, would he dare to practice it with confidence?
However, fortune and disaster go hand in hand. Perhaps Chen Shan didn't expect that it was precisely because of the breakthrough to the Yunzang realm that he lost his life.
Of course, from Chen Shan's example, to a certain extent, [Tianbao Tower], which was only making money, was indeed a ray of light in the dark for a region like Linjiang County that had already solidified its upward channel.
Without [Tianbao Tower], perhaps other counties except Linjiang City might not even have the Yunzang realm.
At the same time, the big forces in Linjiang County had also discussed with [Tianbao Tower], asking whether they could only let their forces participate in the auction and exclude others.
How could [Tianbao Tower] agree to such a request? If so, when these forces united, they would definitely be good to each other and would not participate in the bidding. Then how could [Tianbao Tower] sell its things at a high price?
So, when [Tianbao Tower] directly decided to withdraw from Linjiang City, this scared the group of people from the Jin family. They quickly said that the previous words were just a joke, and finally let [Tianbao Tower] stay.
Of course, in order to maintain a good relationship with these local snakes, [Tianbao Tower] still took a step back. 80% of the invitations would only be sent to these forces, and the remaining 20% would be issued by [Tianbao Tower] itself.
This is not that [Tianbao Tower] gave in, but the group of people headed by the Jin family were indeed the richest consumers.
As a merchant, it is natural to give some face to big customers.
Therefore, [Tianbao Building] has continued this rule until now.
However, these big forces headed by the Jin family are still not very confident about the 20% outflow quota.
So, now, a group of people have emerged who specialize in targeting strangers.
These people are naturally from the big forces in Linjiang City.
One is to prevent the outflow of high-end resources, which leads to unstable factors in Linjiang County.
The second is to harvest resources and further strengthen the family's wealth and foundation.
Otherwise, how can we say that the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker?
This is also the reason why Li Yan has never dared to spend lavishly. Someone has always been watching a stranger like him.
If he spends less money, the people chasing him will not be too strong.
However, if he dares to spend a lot of money, he is afraid that he will provoke unimaginable masters to come forward.
"I didn't expect that this [Nine Refining Methods of Purple Blood] is actually a top-level blood exchange method."
Li Yan stood there happily, looking at the [Nine Refining Methods of Purple Blood], which originally had a base price of 7,000 taels, and now it has soared to 10,000 taels.
Li Yan had not seen other blood exchange techniques, so he was not very clear about the power of the [Nine Refining Methods of Purple Blood]. It was not until he saw the introduction of it in [Tianbao Tower] that he understood it.
[In the blood exchange realm, the most important thing is to exchange blood. The more blood you exchange, the more powerful you will be in this realm, and the deeper your foundation will be, and it will be easier to advance to the Yunzang realm]
[Blood exchange techniques in the world are divided into ordinary, rare and top-level according to the number of blood exchanges]
[Ordinary blood exchange techniques do not exchange blood more than seven times, rare ones do not exchange blood more than eight times, and top-level ones do not exchange blood more than nine times. ]
[The Purple Blood Ninth Refining Technique is a top-level blood-transforming technique that allows a person to change his blood nine times. It is a technique that can be passed down from generation to generation. The base price is 7,000 taels, and the bidding time is four hours.]
The above is the introduction of [Tianbao Tower] to [Nine Purple Blood Refining Techniques] that Li Yan saw in front of the crystal display cabinet of [Nine Purple Blood Refining Techniques].
There are not many words, but the information revealed is enough to stir up some people's nerves and make them want to buy it even if they lose their money.
The people around Li Yan at this time were these people.
None of these people belong to the big forces in Linjiang County. After all, those big forces have already purchased these techniques.
However, they pay a lot of attention to this place. Of course, the object of their attention is not the exercises placed in the display cabinet.
Li Yan didn't stay long before he left here and came to another display cabinet. This was a display cabinet displaying the [Yunzang Realm] exercises.
On the entire third floor, there are a total of eighteen kinds of Yin Zang Realm exercises. There are three best ones. The one in front of Li Yan is one of them, called [Five Elements, Five Gods and Five Zang Cultivating Methods].
There is only one criterion for judging the quality of Yunzang realm exercises, which is whether it can reveal Qi and blood.
In the Yunzang realm, the qi and blood in the human body are already very large and pure. Once they are running at full strength, they will show different scenes outside the body.
There are three types of qi and blood manifestations: qi and blood like wolf smoke, qi and blood like pillars, and qi and blood like dragons.
Naturally, those who can produce top-level manifestations such as qi and blood like a dragon are top-level yin-zang realm techniques.
"It seems like there's not enough money."
Li Yan was a little silent when he looked at the Yunzang's top-notch technique, whose price had risen to 20,000 taels of silver.
"However, this is already the lowest-priced top-level Zang method."
It's not like Li Yan hasn't visited the other two display cabinets of the top Yun Zang method. The competition between those two display cabinets is even more fierce.
From what people around me said, it seemed that these two top-level internal organs were displayed for the first time, causing all the major forces in Linjiang County to start fighting over them.
Among them, the Jin family naturally paid the highest amount, paying 50,000 taels of silver.
All other forces were silenced.
It’s not that you can’t afford a higher price, but it’s a question of whether it’s worth it.
"It's too late to raise money temporarily. Let's see if we can do a capital-free business."
Li Yan was thinking silently in his heart.
Afterwards, Li Yan left here. After all, there were still several hours left in the bidding time.
Finally, Li Yan stopped in front of a display cabinet of swordsmanship and martial arts.
The top sword technique - [Flame Nine Yang Sword].
There are ninety-nine and eighty-one common moves, and nine unique moves. Each unique move is a fusion of nine common moves.
If someone can practice this sword technique to the state of great perfection, they may even have a chance to comprehend a hint of sword intention, unify the nine unique moves into a blazing sun, and be as powerful as an innate strike.
However, even the founder of the [Fire Nine Yang Sword] cannot do this. This state of Dzogchen is just his imagination.
Generally speaking, when martial arts reaches the state of perfection, it has reached the state of the founder of martial arts. The state of Dzogchen is beyond the state of the founder of martial arts.
Basically, no one would cultivate a martial arts to a perfect state, because it is too time-consuming. At the Dacheng state, you can 100% exert all the strength of the martial arts, so why pursue the perfect state.
Therefore, in the eyes of most people, the Dzogchen realm is just a legend, an illusory or even fabricated realm.
"This suits me just fine."
The state of Dzogchen is a legend to others, but to Li Yan, who has many clones, it is real.
Li Yan looked at the price and found that the current bidding price reached eight thousand taels of silver.
Obviously, compared to martial arts, martial arts are much cheaper.
Li Yan stepped forward and directly raised the price to ten thousand.
He still has about fifteen thousand taels in hand. According to the current price increase trend, it is enough for him to win this martial skill.
"I hope no one raises the price too high, otherwise it will be very busy at night."
After that, Li Yan just stood there and did not go to the exhibition cabinets of other martial arts and exercises.
After all, the most he has money can only buy this thing in front of him, no matter how much he has, he will be powerless.
"It turns out that I am still a poor man."
In less than three days, Li Yan directly saw what it meant to spend money like water.
Unfortunately, when he got the more than 20,000 taels of silver, he still worried about how to use it.
It's better now. I have found a place to spend money, but the money is not enough. There is a lot of difference.
At the same time, Li Yan is also very envious of [Tianbao Tower]'s means of making money.
Taking the exercises and martial arts on the third floor as an example, for [Tianbao Pavilion], they only paid a dozen taels of paper and ink, but received millions of taels of silver in return.
Another hour passed, and there was still an hour and a half before the bidding time for the [Fire Flame Nine Sun Sword] ended, when Li Yan discovered something strange.
At least half of the Jin family's group was missing.
"Could it be that you left early because you didn't have any martial arts or skills that you were interested in?"
Li Yan secretly guessed.
It's not impossible. After all, the exercises and martial arts here are very shocking and strange for people like Li Yan who are participating for the first time.
However, for those of them who have participated seven or eight times, or even a dozen times, it is probably just like that.
"No, it's not what I guessed. They left for another purpose."
"Luring a snake out of its hole? No wonder."
Suddenly, Li Yan's eyes began to become a little distracted. His eyes were obviously looking in front of him, but the place he was looking at was not in front of him, but at [Sha Tomb Mountain].
Push back the time to an hour ago.
Li Yan changed his name to Bu Hui and followed the bald captain Mai Jia on [Sha Tomb Mountain], carefully inspecting every inch of unexplored land.
"Captain, I've been here for almost ten days and I haven't found the target yet. Do you know when I will find it?"
"Moreover, there are many dangers on this mountain. If this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it back to Jin Mansion."
One person in the team, after searching the area he was responsible for, rested for a while, came to Mai Jia, and sighed to Mai Jia.
This person is one of the five people who came in the same batch as Li Yan, and he is also the only one left to watch it except Li Yan.
Except for Mai Jia, there are only five people left in Mai Jia's team at this time.
Because there are not enough manpower to search separately, and to ensure the safety of the remaining people, the six people are now operating together.
"I don't know about this either. If the target was that easy to find, there would be no need for the government to mobilize so many troops."
"Besides, you've only been here for less than ten days, but do you know how long I've been here? It's been almost a month."
"I have encountered many more dangers than you. Even though I have the strength of the Bone Forging Realm, there are countless dangers in this land that can threaten the Bone Forging Realm."
Mai Jia's face showed deep exhaustion, not physically, but mentally.
Therefore, when faced with the emotions of the team members, his tone was not good, even vicious.
He was in no mood to comfort this team member.
However, his fierce eyes frightened the opposing team members.
To be precise, he was not frightened by his eyes, but by Mai Jia's aura.
A strong ordinary person who has not yet sensed Qi and blood, facing the aura of a Bone Forging Realm warrior with a strength of five or six thousand kilograms, is like a human meeting a tiger.
The body will stiffen involuntarily and the mind will go blank.
Mai Jia saw that something seemed wrong with the team member's condition, and the fierceness in his eyes disappeared. After a moment of hesitation, he planned to step forward to comfort him.
Suddenly, a very dazzling fire exploded, which was extremely conspicuous in the blue sky and daylight.
"This is, someone has found the target."
Mai Jia could see the meaning of this fire at a glance, which immediately made her tired look become energetic.
"You guys wait here, I'll go over and take a look."
He immediately threw the words of comfort out of his mind.
After saying these words, Mai Jia disappeared in front of everyone in a flash.
The remaining five Li Yan looked at each other in confusion.
After a while, someone was the first to make a sound.
"In other words, can we finally leave here?"
His voice was filled with emotion and disbelief.
Others also reacted, with happy smiles on their faces.
At this time, they no longer expect any rewards, they just want to return to Jin Mansion quickly and return to their previous lives.
On the other hand, although Li Yan's face also had the same happy look, his eyes were always staring in the direction of the previous fire.
"Would you like to go take a look?"
"Forget it, it's too risky. There must be a lot of people there at this time. It would have been too easy to be exposed in the past."
Therefore, Li Yan gave up the idea of following him.
"Okay, now that the target has been found, let's go back to the camp. We don't have the protection of the captain now. If we encounter any strange or more ferocious beasts, we will be in danger."
Li Yan said this after waiting for these people to calm down.
"Yes, yes, yes, Bu Hui is right, let's get out of here quickly."
No one objected, but they all actively ran down the mountain.
It took about half an hour for Li Yan and his party of five to successfully return to the camp at the foot of the mountain.
The journey went smoothly, even if they encountered some venomous snakes and beasts, before they got close, Li Yan smashed his head with a stone he picked up.
And on the way, they also met people from other teams.
It turned out that their captain, after seeing the signal, abandoned them and rushed to the place where the signal came from.
However, before Li Yan and others could rest in the camp for long, a direct descendant of the Jin family appeared in front of everyone covered in blood.
"All up the mountain."
After saying this, he went directly back to the center of the camp, not knowing whether to recuperate or change clothes.
Then, Li Yan and others were taken over by the people who followed him down the mountain.
These people are the captains of the teams who left Li Yan and the others behind. Most of them were stained with blood, and many of them had various wounds on their bodies, some of which were serious and even had their hands and feet broken off.
"Captain, what's wrong with you? There are wounds all over your body."
Looking at Mai Jia who reappeared in front of him, Li Yan asked quickly.
I was glad in my heart that I didn't follow him secretly, otherwise this clone might have encountered something unexpected.
Even if the clone is fine, this identity that has been in operation for more than a month has to be given up.
"Don't ask too much, go see if everyone in our team is here. When they are, wait for me here. After I take care of the wound, you can set off with me."
Mai Jia looked bad and had no intention of answering Li Yan's question. After saying this, he went to the camp to find a doctor to bandage his wound.
Li Yan didn't find the answer from him, but he was not discouraged. With so many people, there would always be a few who were eager to talk and couldn't help but reveal the news.
Sure enough, after a round, Li Yan knew what happened.
The target was indeed found, but not today, but a few days ago.
But the Jin family's top leaders kept it a secret, and they planned to explore quietly.
However, what the Jin family's top leaders didn't expect was that the tomb was buried too deep. They dug down for twenty or thirty feet, but still didn't dig to the end. If they continued to dig, they were afraid that the noise would be loud.
Obviously, if the noise was loud, those monsters from other forces who were keeping a close eye on this place would probably come out to make trouble.
So, the Jin family's top leaders made a plan to lure the snake out.
First, they took advantage of the auction of [Tianbao Tower] to transfer the high-level combat power of the Jin family at the foot of [Shamu Mountain], and then exposed the location of the target at the right time.
Once the target appears, it will definitely cause people from other forces to rush there.
After all these people show up, they will be wiped out in one fell swoop by the Jin family's top leaders who arrive just in time.
It is said that this time the Jin family's top leaders dispatched three innate masters to ensure that they are all caught in one fell swoop.
The final result is just as expected by these Jin family's top leaders, no one escaped.
Of course, the price is that the captains of the teams who followed the signal suffered a lot of casualties, most of whom were killed when trying to stop those people from escaping.
And now, the place is still guarded by the Jin family's top leaders. Li Yan and his team went up the mountain this time to assist in various excavation and cleaning work.
Such news is naturally like a bolt from the blue for other people.
Especially those who have been thinking about it day and night and want to go back, they are almost crying.
"Really, I'm so stupid, why would I spend money to buy trouble?"
These are people who spend money to get a quota and are ready to fight. There are quite a few such people.
They are all people who are tempted by the large bounty given by the Jin family.
When Li Yan heard this news, he almost laughed out loud.
The opportunity that he thought he had missed appeared before him again.
"I have to think of a way to change my identity."
His current identity does not qualify him to explore the tomb of the warrior in the Condensed Evil Realm.
So, he set his sights on the direct descendants of the Jin family.
Not every direct descendant of the Jin family is so strong. Some are the younger generation brought out by their elders to see the world and gain more experience.
They have not grown up yet.