Ten or so breaths later, the price of the Crystal Bone Water had risen to 80,000 spirit stones at an alarming rate. At this time, no one in the boxes above Li Yan's head spoke anymore, and only the two people in the box with white daffodil patterns on their cuffs and the one with red rose patterns on their sleeves in the hall were still bidding.
Li Yan called out the price only once and then fell silent. He was waiting to see the final price before making his move. There was no point in bidding in turns, and he didn't have the spirit stones to make the final decision. Besides, he didn't want to spend a huge amount of spirit stones to make the final decision.
"One hundred thousand!" said the man with white daffodil on his cuffs, but anyone could tell that his voice was trembling.
"One hundred and twenty thousand!" said the person in the box with a flashing red rose pattern in a deep voice.
Li Yan was stunned. This was just a first-grade crystal bone water, why did it become so outrageous? Many people present felt that the atmosphere had become extremely weird, but there were still some people who seemed to be thinking about it. In addition to being rare, the refining materials also depended on whether you needed them, and you really needed them. If this was a special case, it was still possible to break through the original cognition. The abnormality of these two people must be that the refining materials in their hands were more rare, so rare that they would not hesitate to spend a huge amount of spirit stones to buy a bottle of first-grade materials. This was the idea of many people in the auction.
As the person in the box with the flashing red rose pattern spoke, the hall fell silent again. The only person who spoke was Wang Wuzhong. With his Golden Core cultivation, he had lost some of his composure, and his eyes had narrowed into slits due to smiling. Even he himself had not expected that such a strange thing would happen in his singing hall, and he would get a lot more share because of it.
Seeing that no one was talking around, Wang Wuzhong cleared his throat and said, "If there are no more Taoist friends singing, after three breaths, the Crystal Bone Water will be obtained by the Taoist friend in the Red Rose Box."
"130,000!" Just as he finished speaking, a voice rang out again. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a person in the last row of the hall raising his hand. There was a golden plum blossom embroidered on his cuffs. It was Li Yan.
Although the matter was full of weirdness, and even Li Yan suspected that these people were trying to help out the clothing guild and deliberately raised the price, he was helpless at this point. He had to buy it no matter how expensive it was, otherwise he would never know when he would have the chance again.
"Okay, I didn't expect that there are still Taoists who are bidding. It seems that the Crystal Bone Water is still in great demand. So, are there any other Taoists who are willing to bid? It's still three breaths. I guess I have to wait for a while before I can come across Crystal Bone Water next time. The countdown begins..." Wang Wuzhong said in a persuasive manner.
Li Yan felt a little uneasy. He looked up at the man with white daffodils on his cuffs and the box with a red rose pattern. These two were the only ones who kept raising the price, and each time the price was so high that it made people shudder, as if what they took out were not spirit stones but just ordinary stones.
However, just as the three breaths were about to expire, a voice sent Li Yan's heart directly into the bottomless abyss.
"Fifteen thousand!" The voice came from the box with a red rose pattern flashing, and the man with white daffodils on his cuffs did not speak, but many people clearly saw his body tremble, and then he looked up at the box above.
As the sun sets, Li Yan flies in the sky. His face is expressionless, even extremely cold. This time he entered Yuguan City and gained nothing. The final price of 150,000 spirit stones completely overwhelmed him. His total net worth was less than 160,000 spirit stones. The other party was clearly determined to win. Even if he added a few thousand more, Li Yan had no doubt that the other party would directly increase the price by ten thousand spirit stones.
Afterwards, Li Yan had the urge to snatch the item from the other party, but the formation at the Changyi Club's auction hall was too powerful. It completely obscured his spiritual sense and made it impossible to track the other party. As for taking action on the spot, even if Li Yan had more courage, he would not dare to do so.
Finally, watching the things he needed being taken away, Li Yan was in a very bad mood. He got up and left without waiting for the auction to end.
After Li Yan calmed down during the flight, he repeatedly thought about the Crystal Bone Water in his mind. Of course, he was not entangled in the fact that he did not get the problem, but why so many people were willing to use a lot of spirit stones to bid for the Crystal Bone Water as soon as it was taken out. This was simply unreasonable. Although it was his first time to participate in the auction, except for the "You Wuxian" tree, he had also inquired about the other materials and knew the approximate prices. However, no matter how hard he thought, he could not figure out the reason. In the end, he could only think that he was unlucky today. It happened that several groups of people might need this thing to melt some kind of refining material, and this kind of refining material must be a rare thing, and it cannot tolerate any loss. It is very likely that if it fails once, there will be no chance to start over. Only this can explain it.
Li Yan thought of this, shook his head, and continued to fly north in desperation. He wanted to get to the Pure Land Sect and enter the "Northern Demon Suppression Tower" as soon as possible to see if he had a chance to obtain the "Red Mother Essence". It was not an auction, and it really depended on his luck and strength. Just when Li Yan left Yuguan City, the two Golden Core Buddhas of the Pure Land Sect in the city had just returned from outside the city. They had searched for most of the day but to no avail, and did not find any clues at all, so they could only return in disappointment.
Li Yan looked at the barren mountains passing by, all bare. He had been flying for three days. The further north he went, the more desolate the ground became. Suddenly, Li Yan's expression changed. While flying, he sensed in his consciousness that two beams of light were flying towards him quickly.
Li Yan did not use the Cloud-piercing Willow to fly at the fastest speed before, but was thinking about the next journey in his mind. There was a teleportation array in Yuguan City. Li Yan was in a very bad mood, so he flew away directly, wanting to get rid of the depressed mood. After he flew away for several hours, he remembered that in the jade slip map, except for Yuguan City, there were no major sects with teleportation arrays nearby. So he hurriedly took out the jade slip to confirm, and finally found helplessly that it was true. Moreover, this jade slip map was only detailed up to the vicinity of Yuguan City. After going deeper into the Pure Land Sect, there were only some important cities and sects. This was re-marked after checking from the Hu Chen family map. Not many members of the Hu Chen family entered the Pure Land Sect. They mainly went to some important cities, usually by teleportation.
Li Yan was thinking about the route ahead in his mind. If he flew straight north in his current direction, it would take another ten days to reach the next city called "Daning City" by using the Cloud-piercing Willow at his full strength. And if he flew east now, it would take five days for a sect to provide a teleportation array. He couldn't help but slow down and measure it. While he was thinking, two people had entered his consciousness. They were about a thousand miles away, and their flying speed was also very fast. They were clearly in the Golden Core stage. Li Yan glanced back coldly, then destroyed the magic weapon under his feet, changed direction and quickly left. He deliberately deviated from the original route. He didn't want to have any intersection with the two of them. It was clearly a chase and a kill. Moreover, with his current cultivation level, although he could barely deal with the early Golden Core stage, that would come at a price. How could he get involved in this mess
The Cloud-Piercing Willow was indeed a gift from Shuang Qingqing. With Li Yan's full strength in activating it, the figures of the two people soon disappeared from his consciousness. Li Yan turned to the east, so he simply went to find the teleportation array.
After flying for another hour, it was dark, and the north wind was getting stronger and stronger, with a whistling sound. Although Li Yan could not blow any of it on his body after he put up the protective shield, the black clouds rolling in the sky were a sign of heavy snow. Li Yan's flight was very boring, and he didn't want to go forward against the wind and snow. After a sweep of his spiritual sense, he flew towards the barren mountains with his magic weapon. The mountains in the north were either steep and precipitous, piercing the sky, with large rocks exposed and little vegetation; or they were low and continuous hills covered with desolate weeds. Li Yan was in a precipitous mountain range at the moment, with black and gray rocks exposed one by one, and the whistling north wind made this place bleak and desolate.
Li Yan landed on a shorter hillside, surrounded by other higher steep peaks like a basin. Looking around, Li Yan felt that the wind was much weaker here. Without hesitation, he waved his sleeves and a flying sword fell into his hand. With a casual swing, those dark brown rocks that seemed as hard as iron flew around like tofu. Half an incense stick later, a small cave appeared in front of him.
Looking at the cave in front of him, Li Yan smiled. During this period of time, as he flew alone for longer and longer periods of time, he either had to use abandoned wild beast nests or dig out a cave by himself when he had to rest. Now he was becoming more and more familiar with this matter. However, apart from the size of the cave being opened according to his wishes, there was no beauty to be found in it. However, this was just a place for him to take a rest, and Li Yan did not care about it at all.
Next, it was a set of things that couldn't be more familiar, entering the cave, setting up the illusion array, the warning array, etc. The most important thing was that Li Yan used the fragmentation poison in each of these layers of the array to ensure that if any cultivator invaded, he would be poisoned silently at the first moment.
After everything was done, Li Yan sat cross-legged, holding a spirit stone in one hand. He first had to recover the spiritual power consumed during the journey, so that he could return to his peak state as soon as possible. Although Chuanyun Willow could also be driven by spirit stones, it would not work if he wanted to increase his speed. This was related to the grade of the spirit stone, so Li Yan sometimes had to use spiritual power to drive it.
After a few breaths, Li Yan entered a state of meditation, and in less than half a cup of tea, Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes. In his consciousness, someone was flying towards the mountains. Of course, Li Yan could not always use his consciousness to the fullest while meditating, but he would pay attention to the surroundings. Now he could sense the fluctuations of spiritual power in the distance.
Li Yan quietly sent out his spiritual sense, and after a moment, Li Yan frowned. Because the person passing by here actually had a familiar aura, and it was the two people who were chasing and fleeing an hour ago. At this moment, the two people had flown above the sky of the mountain where he was. At this time, the sky outside was already filled with white snow, blowing everywhere in the howling north wind.
Previously, Li Yan only sensed someone entering a thousand miles away with his spiritual sense, then he withdrew his spiritual sense and flew away immediately. Although he left an impression of the aura, he did not look at the other party carefully. At this time, Li Yan had already seen the faces of the two other people clearly.
The person being chased in front was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the person chasing him from behind was actually a Jindan cultivator. What surprised Li Yan was that the person being chased actually escaped all the way here. This made Li Yan pay attention to the flying magic weapon under the person's feet, which was a jade hairpin that emitted a light blue light all over. It was obviously not an ordinary object, otherwise he would not have been able to escape all the way here while being chased by a Jindan cultivator.
What surprised and shocked Li Yan even more was that he actually knew this foundation-building cultivator.