I Have A Martial Dao World-Chapter 741 - Auction

Chapter 741: Auction Chapter 741: Auction The crown prince returned in triumph, bringing back countless captured treasures and prisoners.

This was not the first time Zhao Country had dealt a heavy blow to the Demon Cultivators, and as per usual tradition, an auction would be held to maximize the profits.

For Lu Yao, this was a rare opportunity. He flew out of the city and found a secluded place to create spirit stones.

The scale of this auction was bound to be grand, and medium-grade spirit stones would definitely be insufficient.

Thus, Lu Yao raised his hand and grasped at the void, his Divine Thought and Martial Dao’s True Intent acting like a forging press, condensing the rich spiritual energy into a fist-sized pebble.

By the standards of the Xuanhuang Realm, this was a standard “top-grade spirit stone”.

Its purity was so high that not only could humans use it, but it could also serve as a long-term “power unit” for super-large formations, an essential resource for major powers.

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Lu Yao played with it for a bit, nodded in satisfaction, and continued to create~

With each creation of a top-grade spirit stone, the spiritual energy within a hundred kilometers was exhausted. But in less than a breath’s time, spiritual energy from elsewhere surged in to refill the space.

After busily working for an hour, he easily amassed over a thousand top-grade spirit stones, and the concentration of spiritual energy around him had not diminished in the slightest.

“The spiritual energy of the Xuanhuang Realm… It’s abnormally dense.”

Lu Yao’s ability to easily produce top-grade spirit stones was due not only to his formidable cultivation but more importantly to this abnormal level of spiritual energy.

Natural creations usually exist in balance, with a just-right feeling, not this kind of “too much of a good thing” situation.

“There must be something strange going on.”

As there were no immediate drawbacks, Lu Yao set his doubts aside for the time being and continued his busy work.

After repeatedly creating stones, he became increasingly skilled. He even took the leisure to take out a ginseng and started to nibble on it like a cucumber, crunching away noisily.

With his current physique, the ginseng’s nourishing effects were minimal. But spiritual objects grown in the environment rich in spiritual energy could replenish some trace elements, making his body and mind especially pleased.

And yet, this wasn’t even the most top-tier of the spiritual objects of this realm!

With boundless anticipation for the auction, Lu Yao ate fruit and tirelessly worked throughout the night, creating a substantial fortune with his skills.

By dawn of the next day, he had amassed a total of 15,000 “top-grade spirit stones”!

Still not satisfied, he ventured thousands of kilometers away, scanned with his Divine Thought to ensure no one was around, and for the first time exerted his full power to create a spirit stone!

The spiritual energy within nearly a thousand kilometers was drained in one go! Just the act of extracting spiritual energy was so fierce that a giant funnel cloud appeared above his head!

This massive amount of spiritual energy was forged by Lu Yao’s Divine Thought and Martial Dao’s True Intent into something the size of a “water barrel”, but that still wasn’t enough!

He ignited 400 Nuclear Fusion Acupoints around his body, terrifying energy supplied to his palms, and with a mighty clap!

An earthquake of magnitude 8 struck immediately, causing countless birds and beasts to panic and scatter in every direction.

And the “water barrel”-sized spirit stone was forged by Lu Yao into the size of a basketball!

At that moment, its shape was not so regular. But as the spiritual energy condensed to a certain point, it naturally started exerting a strange gravitational pull.

Under this pull, the spiritual energy spontaneously formed into a sphere. And even more astonishing, it began to absorb external spiritual energy on its own!

You see, whether it’s mid-grade or high-grade spirit stones, they’re all outputs with no intake, once used up, they’re gone.

But the one Lu Yao created could replenish itself, essentially a “perpetual motion machine”!

This was the most, most powerful top-grade spirit stone in the Xuanhuang Realm, coveted as a “family heirloom” by countless people.

“With this, it should be absolutely foolproof.”

Lu Yao nodded in satisfaction, and stored the “top-grade spirit stone” into his Space-Time Bubble.

Accompanied by twisting and blurring light, his entire figure disappeared.

No sooner had he left than several powerful fluctuations scoured the area back and forth three or four times.

“[Strange, there clearly was a disturbance suggesting the emergence of a rare treasure, but why has it suddenly vanished?]”

“[It seems someone was refining a treasure and moved quickly, not leaving a single trace behind!]”

“[This person has drawn spiritual energy from within a thousand kilometers, possessing the strength of an Immortal Emperor. From where did such an expert come!?]”

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The mighty ones from Zhao Country searched for a long time but to no avail.

Leaving aside direct combat strength, if Lu Yao were to play dirty, he could have them going in circles.

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The crown prince of Zhao Country was named Zhao Yuanjie, who ascended to the Divinity Transformation Realm 30 years ago and was conferred the title of King Su.

The joint auction event was to be held in his traveling palace.

Lu Yao arrived just in time and saw the sky filled with stars descending, all guests coming for the auction event.

Half of them were Nascent Soul Cultivators, with a very few Divinity Transformation grand cultivators and some Golden Core cultivators who came along to broaden their horizons.

Anyone could enter, as long as they paid an entrance fee of one top-grade spirit stone.

Lu Yao paid for ten, rented a private room, and was respectfully led inside by an attendant, arriving at a palace resembling a giant opera house.

With about ten thousand people in the audience, Lu Yao thought to himself that the crown prince knew how to do business—just the entrance fees alone would net a tidy profit.

There were also many imposing Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers standing guard, who were the crown prince’s personal guards.

With a subtle investigation, Lu Yao sensed that these men all possessed Martial Dao cultivation from the Divine Land. It seemed that Zhao Country had begun popularizing the practice of the Martial Path.

The private room he rented was on the second floor, occupied by four beautiful maids clad only in thin gauze, their vital areas barely concealed.

At this moment, they simultaneously bowed and said in sweet voices, “Welcome, honorable guest.”

After all, he had spent ten top-grade spirit stones; the service was indeed not bad.

These were all maids from King Su’s mansion, all with Foundation Establishment cultivation, professional in serving others.

But Lu Yao didn’t dare to assert anything in other areas, his taste in beauty having been raised quite discerningly.

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The ones before him were merely at the standard of top-line actresses from Blue Star, and he didn’t take any notice of them, instead sitting solemnly, awaiting the start of the auction.

The maids couldn’t help but reveal disappointed and resentful looks in their eyes; this man could afford a private room, clearly having both wealth and strength.

They certainly wouldn’t mind if something happened; perhaps with a little luck, the other party might bestow gifts on a whim, enough for them to enjoy indefinitely.

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After a short wait, they first heard a clear bell sound, followed by a familiar, sweet female voice:

“[Welcome, fellow Daoists, to our event. I am Du Lan from Baoding Pavilion, and I will be hosting today’s auction. May you all fulfill your desires and acquire your coveted treasures!”]

The beautiful woman on the stage was Du Lan, the same one who had traded with Lu Yao the day before. She was quite popular, with people in the crowd occasionally shouting “Fairy Du.”

After a brief opening speech, the auction commenced immediately.

The maids didn’t bother making small talk with Lu Yao about the rules of the auction—it was simply bidding starting from a base price, with the highest bidder winning the item.

Meanwhile, Lu Yao, after working hard all night to create his “immense fortune,” was already itching to spend!

The first item was an “Earth Spirit Root,” which was essentially a mutated sweet potato grown in spiritual soil, extremely nourishing for Nascent Soul Cultivators, with a starting price of 300 medium-grade spirit stones.

Lu Yao planned not to let a single spiritual medicine or spirit fruit pass him by.

While other people in the audience were increasing their bids by 30, 20 increments, he immediately offered 500!