My Dao is Spending Spirit Stone: Our Sect Leader Is too OP and Rich!-Chapter 33: As Always, The Auction

"Hehe."

"Fellow Dao doesn't need to listen to what he says. He's just joking. You must know what their relationship is like, right?" Ping Wu asked.

"I don't know," Li Shen replied coldly, leaving Ping Wu speechless.

"Ah, yeah. The most important thing is that we won't bother Fellow Li Xun again, we promise on behalf of our family," Ping Wu explained, swearing in front of Li Shen.

Li Shen was silent, then sighed softly. He patted the magic pouch and brought up the Li Family's auction invitation token. When he activated it, a notification panel appeared on it displaying the 25 materials that would be auctioned today.

Among those 25 materials, they were divided into three different tiers, ranging from low, medium, to high level auction items. With their capabilities, they could at least compete for the low and medium level auction items.

"I never said the relationship between Xun'er and your son was bad. I might be able to consider your relationship and his marriage proposal," Li Shen replied.

"YEAAAY!"

"When are we going to start holding this wedding, Father-in-law?" asked Ping Ho, enthusiastically.

"Father?" asked Li Xun, his face flushed.

'Hmm, it seems like he and Xun'er have been friends for a long time and are good with each other. Separating them would only make Xun'er sad,' explained Li Shen.

Li Shen stared ahead, then pressed the three items to be auctioned from the token panel he activated. The man showed those three items directly to Ping Hao.

Ping Hao was puzzled, curious about Li Shen's intentions. Ping Wu and other elders of the Ping family also looked at the name of the items, then asked Li Shen.

"Don't be happy yet. I will allow you to befriend her again if you are able to meet my expectations," Li Shen replied.

"Whatever it is, Father-in-Law. I'm even willing to burn my age so that I can spend one night with Xun'er," Ping Ho replied, truly in love with Li Shen's daughter.

The three auction items Li Shen showed were a 6th-level pill, a 4th-level lightning elemental technique, and a map to the ruins of Xia Ancient City.

The 6th-level pill and the ruins map were medium-level auction items, while the 4th-level lightning element technique was a low-level auction item.

"You must obtain these three items at any cost. Once you get them, bring it to the Li residence," Li Shen explained.

"What if we fail?" asked Ping Ho.

"Then you must immediately prepare a farewell letter to Xun'er."

Ping Ho was stunned, as were his father and the two elders of the Ping family. Their original intention in coming here was to obtain a rare sword at the medium level, which was likely to be fought over by many practitioners throughout the kingdom.

But, Ping Ho received a direct challenge from Li Shen to be able to continue with Li Xun. Ping Wu, as the head of the Ping family, was in a real dilemma.

"If you understand, I will leave," Li Shen explained.

He flew from the city center to the Golden Palace where the auction was about to begin, Li Xun following behind her father. Ping Ho was still sitting listlessly on the city street, then his head shot up to stare at Li Xun from afar.

"No matter what happens, I will try to fulfill your father's expectations, Xun'er."

Li Xun continued to remain silent, her face looking sad and not daring to ask Li Shen any further questions. She turned her head briefly and clearly saw that her father's face looked serious and cold, it seemed that the incident earlier had quite affected his mind.

The two arrived at the front of the palace, greeted by soldiers asking for their invitation tokens. After it was identified that they belonged to the Li Family, an auction staff came and readily escorted them to the reserved space.

The auction room had a very high ceiling, with three different floor levels in the shape of a letter U. The floor levels indicated the hierarchical status of a practitioner or family.

The third or highest floor was reserved for members of the royal family, such as the King, Queen, Princess, and Prince of Qing Yan Kingdom. Although they do not participate, they are required to be present in front of the entire practitioner family.

The second floor was filled with the Three Great Families of Cultivators in Qing Yan Kingdom, which were the Tang family, the Ji Family, and the Yuan Family. They came represented by their Young Masters.

The first floor was filled with all the practitioner families from all the cities in Qing Yan Kingdom. It was a round table made of iron and gold and was not in a special room. All the city's practitioner families gathered there.

Li Shen and Li Xun sat down, on the table were cups and teapots filled with hot tea. One by one, all the practitioner families came until all the seats were filled.

From the sky, a golden dragon flew over and landed on the circular podium. The dragon transformed into a human wearing a golden robe, typical of the Qing Palace.

"Welcome to the Palace Auction. I'm Qing Yun, I'll be hosting this event," Qing Yun explained, accompanied by two slender beauties beside him.

Li Shen raised his head, seeing that there were many people on the second and third floors. His attention was drawn to the King of Qing Yan Kingdom, Qing Fei.

"Please allow His Majesty King Qing to start this event," Qing Yun said, speaking towards King Qing while bowing his head.

King Qing Fei rose from his seat, stepped firmly forward and made a loud voice. Everyone rose from their seats, including Li Xun. As a result, Li Shen had to follow her even though he hated it.

"Wishing you health and prosperity, His Majesty King Qing!" everyone said, in unison.

"Thank you to all the practitioner families who attended the Palace Auction. Hopefully, with this gathering, we can understand each other and unite to protect the Qing Yan Kingdom," King Qing Fei replied, his voice echoing loudly.

"With this, the Qing Palace Auction begins!"

Everyone applauded, King Qing Fei returned to his seat, followed by the rest of the invited practitioner family members. King Qing Fei turned his head to the side, speaking to his son, Prince Qing Feng.

"Make sure that the Tang Family, Ji Family, and Yuan Family get each of the main auction items," Qing Fei replied.

"The three main auction items have the highest prices, only the Three Great Families of practitioners can afford them, Father," Qing Feng said.

"Yes. It should be so, we must not disappoint them," Qing Fei explained.

Qing Yun asked his servants to bring the 22 items, not displaying the three main items at the start of the auction. They nodded in understanding, one by one, they left with the items.

Li Shen sat back, he had no interest in the items at all. He just waited until the main items were ready for the auction.

The auction began, items from the 25th to the higher tier items. Many of the city's practicing families got auction items, but only the Li Family had not bid on anything.

"Who are they? Did they come just to watch?"

"Tch! Looks like they don't have any money or items to bid on."

"If I were them, I wouldn't come to this auction. Just bring shame to the family name!"

Li Xun started to worry after hearing their remarks. But her worries vanished when she saw Li Shen's expression. Her father looked resolute and confident in his decision.

Ping Ho and Ping Wu looked at the Li family. Ping Wu was quite curious about what kind of items they were going to buy, as the medium-level auction items would run out soon.

"What are they doing? We've gone to the trouble of buying these items, but they're not doing anything," explained the Ping family elder.

"Maybe they're just using us to get the goods?" another elder asked.

Ping Wu was silent, unable to respond to them due to his ignorance of Li Xun's ambitions.

The low and medium level auction items were all auctioned off. Now, it was Qing Yun's turn to move on to the main session, auctioning off the high-level auction items.

For this moment, one maidservant came carrying one high-level auction item. It started with an eighth-grade pill.

"This pill is called the Energy Divine Pill. A practitioner who takes it will instantly ascend the realm by two levels, even helping Foundation Establishment practitioners to Nascent Soul, and Nascent Soul to peak Soul Formation," the man replied, showing a sparkling blue-gold pill that continued to emit a powerful boom of spiritual energy.

"We're opening the price from 50,000 spirit stones," Qing Yun replied.

"Is the pill that great?" asked Li Xun.

"The Energy Divine Pill is indeed great, what he said is true. However, there are consequences," replied Li Shen.

"What?"

"The spiritual power is weakened and could potentially damage the meridians, that's due to the powerful nature of the pill. If not added with the Physical Strengthening Pill, then those consequences are even greater for a practitioner," Li Shen replied.

"Besides, rushing cultivation is not a good thing, especially when it's boosted by pills. That's forceful cultivation."

Even so, the three great families bargained with each other. They didn't seem to care about what would happen to their physiques. As long as they could ascend the realm quickly, that was enough!

"You'd better pull over, Daoist Fellow Tang. You can get the Earth Shattering Spear and let us get this pill," said the Ji Family elder, the Ji Family was famous for their pill refining abilities.

"The Energy Divine Pill is useful to me. If I can reach the Peak Soul Formation stage, then you guys won't be able to do much!" stated Tang San, the Tang Family Young Master.

King Qing Fei smiled. He was happy to see his auction item being sold and fought over by two great families of practitioners. However, only the Yuan family had yet to make a move.

"Feng'er," called out King Qing, Prince Qing Feng facing over.

"If Tang San ascends the realm to Soul Formation Peak quickly, it will be a sign of danger for you," King Qing replied.

"Have the servants go to the Ji Family and give them 10 high level spirit stones. Make sure the Ji Family gets the pill."

"Yes, Father."