As long as you meet the qualifications for this auction, you can join the auction at any time. For example, after Qin Ran came in, other cultivators also came in, and similarly, you can leave at any time.
Qin Ran had already bought the Star Stone and the Star Shadow Sword Technique, so he planned to leave. He exchanged all the pills he had taken out for display for spirit stones, and after stepping down from the stage, he went straight out.
He pushed the door open and the waiter at the door led the way and took him to trade the items he had won. Then, without any hesitation, he left the teahouse directly through a secret door.
After exiting the secret door, he found a remote alley outside. Qin Ran tightened his cloak, identified the direction, and walked out onto the street. There were many people on the street, which made it easier to confuse people and hide.
Not long after Qin Ran came out of the secret door, two people followed him out, one in front and one behind. The one in front was dressed in red, and the one in the back was thin.
They stood at the door. The thin man sensed the direction for a moment and pointed to the street outside: "Over there."
They followed the direction and chased to the street outside. There were people coming and going on the street. The man in red narrowed his eyes and looked around. He soon saw the black shadow in the crowd and hurriedly chased after it with the thin man.
But unfortunately, when they chased over here, the black figure had disappeared.
"Be alert." The man in red said, "And be quite cautious."
The thin man sneered and said, "It's useless."
He closed his eyes and sensed the direction again: "Over there!"
Taking the man in red with them, the two men chased him all the way into the air and to the top of the city wall.
On the city wall, the two men stood still. The man in red looked forward and saw that Master You in the black cloak suddenly split into two and flew out in two directions, one on the left and one on the right. The one on the right flew out for dozens of meters and suddenly turned into a pool of water and fell down. The one on the left took on a human shape and flew forward until it finally disappeared into the darkness.
"Which one?" His eyes couldn't tell the truth from the false, so he turned around and asked the thin man.
"Humph! Just a little trick!" The thin man snorted with disdain, raised his hand and pointed to the place where the puddle of water disappeared, "That."
"What a great escape technique!" exclaimed the man in red, and then he used his skills to chase over there.
“You can’t even get rid of this?” Qin Ran frowned, and turned around to see the two men coming towards him without hesitation. “They didn’t even hesitate.”
"There's something wrong with the item!" He realized what was happening and quickly probed his consciousness into the storage bag. "A jade slip for cultivation techniques? Spirit stones? Star stones?"
Soon, he found the problem.
Star Stone! A mark was hidden on the Star Stone, almost assimilated with it.
Fortunately, it was divine consciousness, otherwise it would have been difficult to discover the trace of assimilation into stardust.
"The Star Stone was tampered with... How did they know I would buy the Star Stone? Did Li Shiyin betray me?"
The two men were approaching quickly. Qin Ran adjusted his breathing and analyzed calmly, "No, it's impossible..."
He suddenly remembered that the man in red at the auction had exposed his disguise, and he realized something terrifying. "It was all planned! The teahouse betrayed me! No matter when I came or what I bought, I would be killed. This method was not used by a private individual, but by a certain organization that had been targeting me for a long time!"
At this time, he had arrived at the top of a small hill. He adjusted his mentality, emerged from the rain, stood on the top of a big tree on the top of the hill, waiting for the two people who were chasing him quickly.
The two men came closer and stood guard not far away. Qin Ran asked in a hoarse voice, "We have been following you since we entered Linxian City. What can I do for you?"
The man in red looked at the thin man, who nodded to him, indicating that the man in front of him was the real person. The man in red laughed loudly and said, "I have heard of Master You's name for a long time, but I have never had the chance to meet him. Now that I have met him, I naturally have to get to know him."
Heard of bullshit, in fact he didn't even know Qin Ran.
"Who are you?" Qin Ran asked.
"It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is..." The man in red smiled, "I have always respected Master You. I know that Master You is an alchemist, so I would like to ask Master You for a favor."
Alchemist? The key is the alchemist! Qin Ran understood that his identity as an alchemist was what attracted people's attention. Even though he had been cautious enough, he had been selling pills all the time and finally attracted people's attention.
"What can I do for you?" He found that Batman's voice was really useful.
"It's just alchemy!" said the man in red. "It's hard to find pills of the quality that Master You has in the world of immortal cultivation. Master You has superb skills. We want Master You to help us refine a few high-quality barrier-breaking pills. After success, spirit stones won't be a problem."
The man in red looked like he was in a serious negotiation, with a good attitude and a gentle tone, which easily made people let down their guard. However...
While he was talking, the thin man had quietly approached from the right front. They had no intention of asking Qin Ran to make the elixir. Their target was Qin Ran himself!
Qin Ran didn't know who he was. He didn't trust them from the beginning and was on high alert. The thin man's small movements could not be hidden from his cautious eyes.
“Barrier Breaking Pill?” Qin Ran said as if he was ready to bargain. “Barrier Breaking Pill is very difficult to obtain. With my cultivation level…”
But he was halfway through his words when he suddenly jumped up, unexpectedly...
Turn around and run.
Well, yes, fighting is impossible, the only way to survive is to run away.
Qin Ran knows his own business. His frontal combat capability is very strong. If someone gets close to him, he will be defeated in seconds.
Then the question is, if they are going to run away, why is he still waiting here
because…
“Bang!”
Qin Ran suddenly fled. The two men were stunned, but they didn't think too much and chased after him. However, when they just reached the top of the hill where Qin Ran was just now, the hill below them suddenly exploded.
In an instant, a terrifying shock wave carrying countless stones and nails shot towards the two people like bullets, and among these bullets, there was also some invisible sword energy.
"It's a formation! A killing formation!" The man in red deployed his protective shield in time, recognized what it was, and hurriedly reminded the thin man, "He set up the formation in advance."
The thin man's reaction was not as fast as the man in red. He deployed the protective shield only after his body was pierced by several holes from the iron nails. But even so, he was still cut by several flying sword energy.
"You bastard!" He was furious. The magic power in his body exploded. An invisible shock wave spread out from him, directly blowing away the iron nail sword energy that was blown out by the formation.
He went forward to look for Master You, only to see the black cloak in the darkness shake, and two figures separated, one on the left and one on the right. One flew to the left, flew a hundred or eighty meters, then turned into a pool of water and merged into the rain, while the one on the right maintained its human form and kept flying, eventually disappearing into the darkness in the distant sky.
"A clown trick!" the thin man sneered, "What a brainless trick."
He saw through it the first time, but he dared to do it the second time.
He sensed it slightly and found that the mark on the star stone was on the water flow on the left.
He snorted coldly, gathered his own blood into a ball in the rain, and then exploded. He passed through the exploding blood mist, his speed increased dramatically, and in a few blinks of an eye he caught up with the stream of water on the left.
"Die for grandpa!" He punched out, piercing the human figure mixed in the rain.
The transparent figure struggled on his fist to reveal itself, and transformed into a figure in a black cloak. It looked at him with horror and opened its mouth, but like a fish struggling to death on the shore, it could not utter a word.
"Humph! Coward!" The thin man retracted his fist and grabbed Master You's neck like a chicken, his face grim, "Grandpa, let's see where you run!"
At this time, the man in red flew over. From some distance, he suddenly saw that the fear on Master You's face disappeared. His mouth opened and closed, with a sarcastic look on his face, as if he was saying something. The thin man moved closer.
The man in red realized something and shouted in fear: "Run!"
The thin man looked back at him, not quite understanding. He then looked at Master You, only to see that Master You in his hand suddenly turned into a pool of water. The water flowed through his hand and fell from mid-air.
"Fake?" The thin man was very unhappy and angry that he had been cheated.
He looked forward again and saw a temporary Qiankun bag left in mid-air where Master You disappeared.
Only then did he finally realize something...
The next moment, the temporary Qiankun bag exploded!
A ray of lightning lit up in the darkness, piercing through heaven and earth.