Mortals cultivate immortality, and their IQ is playing with their heartbeats

#274 - The charm of strange stones

As the gong sounded, a beautiful young woman walked onto the stage. Her steps were light, her demeanor steady, and her figure was curvaceous and alluring. Every move she made stirred the hearts of the audience.

After bowing to the audience, she said, "Greetings, fellow cultivators. I am Yu Yan, and I am honored to host this auction.

Today, we have a highlight at the end, and I hope everyone will leave with a treasure.

Our Tianlu Auction House has always adhered to the principles of fairness and impartiality. We will properly store all auction items to ensure the safety of the auction process.

We only take ten percent of the auction proceeds as a handling fee, whether you are in the Qi Refining stage, Foundation Establishment stage, or an ordinary person.

As long as you have treasures, Tianlu Auction House will protect your safety and prevent you from any threats. We promise that there will never be any cases of killing and seizing treasures."

Thunderous applause erupted from the audience, expressing their affirmation of the Tianlu Auction House's reputation.

The reason why Tianlu Auction House can stand out among many auction houses is that it can ensure the safety of every auctioneer.

Loose cultivators know that only here can they safely auction their treasures without worrying about being hunted down.

To protect the privacy and safety of the auctioneers, Tianlu Auction House has also launched a special mask.

Wearing this mask can hide your true identity and make it impossible for others to know.

This mask is deeply loved by loose cultivators, and many people choose to wear it to participate in the auction.

Of course, there are also some powerful people who don't care about these things and choose not to wear masks.

These direct descendants of large sects and families not only do not wear masks, but also act arrogantly, as if they want everyone to know their identities.

However, even so, due to their strength and background, no one dares to harbor any covetous intentions towards them.

Yao Qi seemed very confident in this auction. She said confidently, "The treasure I brought this time will definitely amaze the audience and become the finale."

Mysteriously, she took out an ancient box from her sleeve, gently placed it on the table, and then opened it with a "snap" to show everyone.

Inside the box lay quietly a Taoist talisman, with complex flame patterns drawn on it, exceptionally clear, as if containing endless energy.

Li Chengfeng's eyes lit up when he saw this Taoist talisman, and he became excited.

This is not an ordinary Taoist talisman, but a higher-level Taoist talisman—a flame Taoist talisman refined by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Only Nascent Soul stage cultivators can refine such a Taoist talisman after comprehending the world and understanding the laws, and its power is enormous.

However, the refining process of such a Taoist talisman is extremely complex and takes a long time. Therefore, its value is naturally considerable.

Yao Qi proudly introduced, "Once this flame Taoist talisman is activated, the flame patterns on it will turn into real flames, enough to injure a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in the early stage.

However, although the power of this Taoist talisman is powerful, it is not something that ordinary people can use.

Only Nascent Soul stage experts can unleash its true power. Of course, although Foundation Establishment stage cultivators cannot use it, they can also use it for research."

Li Chengfeng's heart was burning, and he developed a strong interest in this Taoist talisman.

He knew the value of this Taoist talisman, at least worth one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, or even more.

Yao Qi also saw Li Chengfeng's thoughts and said even more proudly, "My flame Taoist talisman can definitely outshine the audience.

However, this Taoist talisman is already a bit broken, and its power is only one-tenth of what it used to be.

But because of its brokenness, Foundation Establishment stage cultivators can also activate it, so its value is even higher."

The black-faced cultivator immediately echoed, "That's right, that's right, this is really a good thing.

At the auction, it will definitely cause a sensation."

The white-faced cultivator also nodded in praise, "Unique, who can compete with it!"

The flattery of the two bodyguards made Yao Qi feel happy. He quickly put away the flame Taoist talisman, summoned a female cultivator, and handed the Taoist talisman to her, asking her to take it away to prepare for the auction.

When the female cultivator took the Taoist talisman, her expression was respectful, because she knew Yao Qi's identity and strength, so she naturally did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

The auction had already begun, and the host Yu Yan walked to the front of the stage and announced the auction rules and the price increase range.

Each price increase must not be less than a certain number of spirit stones, and all the cultivators present have the right to participate in the bidding.

Although this was Li Chengfeng's first time participating in such an event, he was also infected by the strong atmosphere and his heart was full of curiosity.

At the auction, various treasures emerged one after another. Some of them did make Li Chengfeng's heart flutter, but he always remained calm and did not easily make a move.

He knew that his purpose was not to buy necessities, but to find those novel and special things.

Zhou Ming was different. He took a fancy to a Fire Cloud Pill, which was indeed a rare treasure for him.

He cultivated fire-type techniques, and the Fire Cloud Pill could help him break through bottlenecks, so he did not hesitate to bid and finally won it for one thousand low-grade spirit stones.

This was a huge expense for him, but he was radiant and extremely excited.

Yao Qi couldn't help but say sarcastically when he saw Zhou Ming's performance, "Is it necessary? It's just a Fire Cloud Pill, look how excited you are."

Zhou Ming explained seriously, "Fairy, you don't know, this is a great treasure for us loose cultivators.

I have accumulated one thousand low-grade spirit stones for many years."

Then, Yu Yan asked people to bring up another peculiar treasure—a black stone.

This stone was ten feet in size and was carried onto the stage by two cultivators.

It was pitch black, without any spiritual energy fluctuations, but it was exceptionally hard.

Yu Yan introduced, "This stone was found in Crooked Waist Mountain. Although it is not as good as immortal treasure refined iron, it is definitely a good thing.

Interested cultivators can take it back for research. The starting price is set at one hundred medium-grade spirit stones."

However, this stone did not arouse much interest from the cultivators present.

They scanned the stone with their divine senses and found that it had been corroded by the years and had no practical value.

Divine sense swept through it, and there was nothing special inside.

Therefore, the auction house was almost silent, and no one was willing to bid for this seemingly ordinary stone.

Li Chengfeng's expression immediately became solemn when his divine sense swept over it.

The waves in his heart surged like a tide, and his thoughts returned to that shocking scene—the huge palm that came from outside the sky, with no trace of human presence, just a magic formula that split the ancient demon to death.

He carefully observed the seemingly ordinary strange stone in his hand. The patterns on it were almost identical to the palm prints of that earth-shattering palm in his mind.

The stone was made of ordinary material, and could even be said to be worthless. It couldn't even be considered a meteorite, but the patterns on it caused a storm in Li Chengfeng's heart.

He had always wanted to study the palm prints in the palm, the Taoism formed by those palm prints, that shocking palm always hovered in his mind.

He wondered if the纹路 on this stone were left behind by that palm from outside the sky after it slapped the ancient demon to death?

And how did it fall on this stone? The answer was difficult to know, but he realized a special Taoist charm from it.

Just as he was thinking, Yu Yan had already shouted three times, asking if anyone was bidding.

The audience was silent, obviously everyone knew that this stone had no value.

Yao Qi said with a smile, sarcastically, "This kind of trick, Tianlu Auction House has not played it once.

This is a routine, taking some rotten stones to make up the numbers, and then deliberately saying something about taking them back for research. In fact, they are doing it themselves. Whoever is fooled is a fool."

Zhou Ming also echoed, "That's right, this kind of old routine can fool novices, but can it fool us old-timers? Who would buy this kind of broken stone?"

However, at this moment, Li Chengfeng picked up the copper hammer in his hand and knocked it on the copper plate with his name on it. With a "clang", the sound shook the audience. He said calmly, "One hundred medium-grade spirit stones, I want it."