This young man who stood out from the crowd and wore an ink-wash gown was surrounded by five people.
To his left was a reserved and silent middle-aged man. The middle-aged man had a calm face and said nothing. He only glanced around with his eyes from time to time to see if there was anything unusual. This middle-aged man has a well-proportioned figure. Like the young man, he is carrying a flying sword. He is dressed in ordinary black clothes that are as simple as they come, without any decoration. At this moment, this middle-aged man is standing in front of the young man. A sense of immovable heaviness.
As for his right side, there is also an old man with pale hair. The old man looks a little thin, and his eyes have no luster. On the contrary, they look a little turbid, as if he has not woken up. His eyes are half open and half closed, and he is holding a hand. He was wearing an ordinary black crutch. It seemed that he was too old to walk without the support of this crutch.
The old man is wearing white linen clothes. If you don't know better, you will definitely think that he is a dying old man. However, Ye Ding, who is highly cultivated, can feel the turbulent spiritual power in this old man's body, which makes people have a feeling. A very dangerous feeling.
Although these two people have ordinary looks and do not reveal any spiritual fluctuations, they are all protecting the safety of the young man in the middle. The middle-aged man on the left is called Li Changhao. He is a casual cultivator who later joined the Bai family as a worshiper. He was assigned to be a bodyguard for the eldest son of the Bai family. The old man on the right is a member of the Bai family and is called Bai Yang. He is also used as a guard for this young man. The two of them can serve as bodyguards for the eldest son of the Bai family. Naturally, their strength is also Not to be underestimated.
As for the three men in white clothes behind them, each of them has spiritual power on the surface, and they all have the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Realm. They are all generals of the Bai family in Qingcang City. The cuffs of the three white clothes also have certain drawings on them. There is a pattern, but the pattern is different from the pattern on the man in black guarding the door.
"Sir, what's wrong?"
Seeing the young man in long robe staring blankly in front of him, a man in white behind him couldn't help but asked doubtfully. As the bodyguards of the eldest son of the Bai family, they naturally wanted to ensure his safety. As for the two advanced monks beside him, It's very strange. One of them can go for days without saying a word, and the other never seems to wake up. It's just a dream to expect the two of them to say a word. Under normal circumstances, they won't do it. No movement, unless they need to take action.
"It's okay, it's just that the figure I just saw looked like an old friend of mine in the sect. But how could he be in Qingcang City in Huangzhou? Maybe I saw it wrong."
The man in the long gown who spoke was surprisingly Bai Zimo, a member of the aristocratic family who practiced with Zhao Jiuge at the outer gate of Xuantian Sword Sect! It's just that he is much more mature now than he was back then, and his sharp-edged aura has been restrained very well. His handsome face has become even more outstanding, and he has the aura of a young master in every move he makes.
After Bai Zimo thought about the familiar figure just now, he couldn't help but smile. How could there be such a coincidence in the world? Could it be that his hatred is so deep in his heart? Maybe he really recognized the wrong person. Then he shook his head and stopped thinking about what happened just now.
"Why haven't you seen Mr. Li today?"
Bai Zimo turned his head and looked at the man in black who was in the early stage of the spiritual elixir realm and asked casually, "The auction house happens once a month. The four major families take turns to come. Today is the Li family. Mr. Li is very familiar to him." , who is well versed in family affairs, is naturally also very familiar with the procedures of the auction house.
"Mr. Bai, Mr. Li just took a few distinguished guests to the box inside. How about I take you up today?"
The big man in black who was in the early stage of the spiritual elixir realm slightly bent down and said respectfully. The person in front of him deserves his respect. Bai Zimo, the eldest son of the Bai family, will inherit the position of the Bai family in the future if nothing unexpected happens. But it’s amazing.
"No, I'll go up myself."
Bai Zimo said lightly, rejecting the kindness of the man in black. With his status, there was no shortage of people who fawned over him, and he was used to it. Although he no longer had the domineering attitude of the past, his attitude was not good either. Where to go.
The entire auction house is actually divided into two floors. Although it is said to be two floors, the second floor can overlook a table. Unlike the crowded situation on the first floor, the second floor is all private rooms. The environment in the private room is naturally much better than that on the first floor.
Because some people are worried about exposing their identity, snatching items for auction, and being remembered for revenge, or they are worried that taking pictures of items and possessing valuables will attract people to kill people and steal the goods, so later the box was born, and eventually it will become a capable Those who entered the box were all people with special status, either rich or noble. In fact, this was indeed the case. In general, most of the precious things in auction houses were taken away by customers on the second floor.
As one of the four major families in Qingcang City, the Bai family naturally has a private box that belongs exclusively to the Bai family on the second floor of the auction house. Soon Bai Zimo climbed up to the second floor through the stairs with ease. The reason why he came to this auction today was because of an item that was the highlight of today's auction. Now that he has reached the late stage of spiritual elixir realm, he needs some powerful magic weapons, and today he has a top-quality magic weapon material.
As for the things in the auction house, because the four major families check and balance each other, there are clear regulations. For the things that appear in the auction house, any of the four major families is prohibited from forcibly buying them privately. Instead, they must be sold through the auction house, and each of them competes with their financial resources. Fighting for it, they can only have the right to know the information of these auction items in advance. This is why the four major families want to prevent any family from encountering precious and hard-to-find things and directly buy them privately. Although the four major families in Qingcang City seem to be united and exclusive, Privately, there are also undercurrents of competition with each other. Originally, it was a small matter like auctioning things. Bai Zimo ordered someone to take care of it, but after practicing in seclusion for several months, he wanted to take the opportunity to come out for some air and take a walk.
Zhao Jiuge quickly arrived at a box under the leadership of the three people. Mr. Li said a simple hello and then quickly left to greet other people. Although the auction at the auction house started in the evening, it was almost dark now. , and even many have come, so he has to be busy.
The box in front of you is splendid and extremely gorgeous. Except for the window in front of you, you can see the items being auctioned on the table below. The remaining three walls are all painted with fluorescent powder, with a kind of fluorescence. As for the picture on the wall The Linglong Enlightenment Picture is an elaborate magic weapon, and some of the furniture it sits on is made of yew!
At first, a few people were a little curious as to why the auction rooms in a second-rate city were so high-end. Later, after Mr. Li's explanation, they found out that the four innermost rooms were fixed and belonged to the four major families, and this one belonged to the Li family. , because there are more people coming every time, the box is usually given to people with invitations, so it is full. It just so happens that no one from the Li family came today, and there was nothing that caught their eye, so the box belonging to the Li family was empty. He came down and gave it to Zhao Jiuge and others to use.
Not long after Mr. Li left, a tall, sweet woman wearing a blue gauze dress came in with a plate of pastries and a pot of spiritual tea with a little bit of white smoke in her hands. Look at this The woman's appearance should also be from the Li family, and she was responsible for serving some distinguished guests who came to the auction house.
The pastries are mung bean cake and red bean cake, which are the best of the three. As for the fragrant tea, Zhao Jiuge doesn't know what kind of tea it is, but there is some spiritual energy in the tea, and the smell is refreshing.
Sanwu couldn't take his eyes away when he saw the food. He had been clamoring for something to eat when he entered the city, and he finally got what he wanted. Zhao Jiuge and Pei Susu didn't care about him. He just wanted to be leisurely and at ease alone.
Looking at the direction towards the high platform downstairs, Zhao Jiuge was still a little excited. This was the first time he had enjoyed this treatment, and it was also the second time he had entered a place like the auction house. The first time was when Mo Longjie took him in Dongyang City. As he left, thinking about the past, Zhao Jiuge couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
"Just take a photo of whatever you want later. Auntie, I'm in a good mood now, so I'll give it to you!"
Seeing Zhao Jiuge standing and looking down, Pei Susu, who had her arms folded on her chest, said proudly to Zhao Jiuge that she never worried about anything, even if she asked for an immortal weapon, she believed that her father would give her one. As for the other things Naturally, there are as many small items as there are, including spirit stones. The savings ring alone contains tens of thousands of dollars.
Zhao Jiuge did not agree immediately because of these words, nor did he reject it immediately. Instead, he pondered slightly for a while before saying, "No, unless the Cold Flame Flower appears."
Nowadays, he has no worries about his skills, techniques, and magic weapons, and the quality he possesses is not much lower than others. His biggest wish at present is to break through the Nascent Soul Realm as soon as possible, so that his strength will naturally increase geometrically, instead of In order to improve his strength like this, he could only search everywhere for the whereabouts of the Han Yanhua.
snort.
To the ungrateful Zhao Jiuge and Pei Susu, they just snorted coldly and stopped talking. She knew in her heart that Zhao Jiuge had always been brooding over the delay in breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm. He, a grown man, was even more embarrassed when he used his own things. The considerate Pei Susu thought that when she came across something useful to Zhao Jiuge, she would take a photo first, and then give it to him without believing that he would not want it.
There are noisy sounds coming from downstairs from time to time. The first floor below seems quite crowded. Where are the comfortable rooms on the second floor? At this moment, most of the seats on the first floor are occupied, and as time goes by, people continue to enter. The sky is dark. It was already late, and the sun had already set. Even in the private rooms on the second floor, many people had already taken their seats, and the rest would definitely come before the auction started.
At this moment, Bai Zimo was sitting in the box next to Zhao Jiuge with his legs crossed and his arms stretched out on the stool behind him. He was sitting leisurely and looking at the lively scene downstairs. For some reason, his eyes were looking at him vaguely. There were every figure downstairs, but none of them looked like the back figure I saw when I came here today.
He didn't know why, but when Bai Zimo thought that the figure from behind today might be the guy he hated the most at Xuantian Sword Sect, the more he tried to calm down, the more he couldn't calm down. This was his own territory, and he was in I thought that if the figure I saw before was really Zhao Jiuge, then he would be finished. I could retaliate at will, change the shame of the year, and even kill him!
Thinking of this, Bai Zimo's eyes suddenly became hot. He kept looking carefully at all the crowded figures below. He looked at them three times before giving up. He was sure that he had seen it wrong. He originally thought it might be on the second floor. Inside the box, but when he thought that he couldn't enter the box on the second floor without a certain identity, he didn't believe that Zhao Jiuge could reach the Yuanying realm in just three years. He was only in the late stage of the Talented Pill realm with his family's resources.
Thinking of this, Bai Zimo became a little more balanced, but he would never forget this hatred. Even if the world is so big, he didn't believe that he would never have the chance to meet Zhao Jiuge in the future. By then, he would definitely find his place again.