“T-There are even Sage items! Those are difficult to obtain even for a party of people!” the only thing Lady Ping can think of was “how in the world did this one person get so many Sage items from a Chance of fate!?”

But like the professional she is, she smiled while hiding her thoughts, “Sure, I will put the Sage items as well as a few Spirit items, however the Earth grade items are not important enough to land a place in the auction.” Han Ling stared at her for a while, nodding silently before taking the Earth rank items back into the ring.

It took a while for Lady Ping to count the value of all the sage items, a total of 9 of them. Sage Items are generally classed into the low, mid and high tier, based on the ability and the demand, if it was a known artifact.

Lady Ping smiled, “The total value of the 9 Sage items amount of around 75 thousand spirit stones, what do you wish to start the starting price at?” Han Ling pondered for a bit, “Keep it at 75 thousand.” Lady Ping widened her eyes in surprise, “Are you sure? You won’t be making any profits if nobody wants it.”

Han Ling just nodded, to which Lady Ping curiously wondered what the young man was thinking. In fact, Han Ling didn’t really care about the price, all he wanted was the money. “When is the auction tomorrow?” “When the sun is at the highest, the guests from other sects will arrive then as well.”

Han Ling nodded and promptly left with Ye Qing, not even saying a thing to Lady Ping. Lady Ping blinked at the disrespect but chose to ignore it, someone able to obtain 9 sage items along would not be a simple person.

“Xiao Li.” A young girl entered the room, bowing deeply towards the lady, “Yes, Lady Ping.”

“Inform my father, I think I’ve found an interesting person.”

>>>

“I’ll be in my room if you look for me.” Han Ling just shut himself in, and Ye Qing could feel an immense pressure from the other side. “Heh, he’s still the mad man.” Ye Qing shook his head before walking away.

Inside, Han Ling pulled the scroll of the Thunderous Overload Bolt, and beside it was a small pile of elixirs, Soul cores and other scrolls. “These should be enough for a breakthrough…” without any additional thoughts Han Ling absorbed everything, all scrolls, all elixirs, all soul cores.

A staccato of tings sounded in his ear but he never checked them, already memorized everything he had absorbed.

And sure enough…

RUMBLE!

The ground begun to shake around the building where Han Ling is staying, the people inside screamed, pouring out the building only to find the building shaking.

In a flash, the elders of the White Tiger Sect surrounded the building. Bai Qing Tian looked at the building with immense shock, “A 6th step Immortal Supreme! Where did this power come from?”

An elder growled, “None of our clan elders live in this house, it must be an intruder!”

The other elders agreed and readied their techniques, dense qi permeating the air as the elements formed around the single building.

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But then…

“Wait! Elders! My friend is in there!” Bai Ye Qing panted as he rushed up to the puzzled elders. “Your friend?” then the elder remembered, a young man that saved the young master, even going as far so to pressure the elder in an instant… But he’s now a 6th step Immortal Supreme!

“Is it that Han Ling guy?” The elder asked, though highly doubting it. “Yes it is, elder.” The Elder nearly fell on his butt. “But wasn’t he an Immortal Spirit a few days ago?!”

Ye Qing himself could only shrug, unsure of how Han Ling did it as well.

RUMBLE!!!

An even more powerful wave of qi erupted from the building, causing the elders to reel back in shock. “T-T-This presence!” With a white flash, the Grand Elder of the White Tiger Sect had appeared. “A Sage Lord Technique!” Bai Long Quan then arrived, his eyes darting around to find his son there. “What are you doing here son?” Bai Ye Qing helplessly told him of Han Ling.

“A 6th step Immortal Supreme??!” He gazed at the figure inside the building with immense shock, “Nobody in the history of cultivation cultivates this fast… a 6th step Immortal Supreme in a span of less than a week…” Nobody would believe it, yet it was happening right in front of him.

“And a Sage Lord technique as well?” “He obtained it from the Thunder Tiger Sage Lord, the one I told you about.” Bai Long Quan nodded in a daze, unable to even imagine the power of a sage lord technique.

Shawak!

Shukshukshuk…

The qi disappeared; all trace of the Sage Lord Technique disappeared. The elders tentatively moved closer but sprung back like a spring as the door opened. Han Ling stepped out of the building, puzzled at all the elders around him. Then it dawned on him…

“I apologize. I forgot to retract my presence.” Han Ling bowed to the crowd of elders before moving his way straight to Bai Long Quan. He then promptly threw a scroll to which the man caught gingerly. “Um, why are you giving my this?” Bai Long Quan couldn’t help but ask as he looked at the contents of the scroll.

“Thunderous Overload Bolt?” then his eyes widened to a comical rate, “SAGE LORD TECHINIQUE!!!” “I have no more use for it, so I want to learn some of your sage techniques in exchange.” Han Ling spoke indifferently, sighing tiredly but his eyes were filled with excitement, “Please have them ready when I return. I’ll be away for a while.”

With that he promptly flew into the sky, zooming towards the mountains.

“Did he just give you a Sage Lord technique?” Grand Elder Bai Huo Kong asked the Long Quan, and the other man just dumbly nodded. “Hmm, who was that guy?” Everyone turned to Ye Qing and he sighed tiredly, recounting everything he knew.

>>>

“Thunderous Overload Bolt!”

A vortex formed above Han Ling and a purple pillar of light slammed on a perfect patch of grass, except the entire thing was scorched in a single strike, a deep hole gaping where the lightning struck, red sears on the sides, intense heat from the Lightning.

“Very good…” Han Ling was grinning from ear to ear, a very rare expression but nonetheless a happy one. “This Sage Lord Lightning Technique would decimate any beings below Immortal Supreme, but with my level of control, it’ll be difficult to control trajectory and power.”

Han Ling had just learned a single percentile of Thunderous Overload Bolt, but even that could leave a gaping hole in the ground… he couldn’t imagine how powerful it would be if he mastered it…

“Today is a good day, hopefully there’ll be some interesting things in the auction tomorrow…” Han Ling just couldn’t stop thinking of the Techniques he’ll be getting when he returned to the White Tiger Sect, a powerful sect that runs a middle grade city would definitely have a few interesting sage techniques.

If they even had a Sage Lord technique, even better.

“Hmm?” Han Ling felt a presence in the mountains, his figured blurred and he disappeared. Not 10 seconds after, a young woman stepped out of a bunch of rocks, her face masked with shock and wary. She was beautiful, so much so even her frowning would cause many men’s heart to leap. “That was a Sage Lord Technique, very rare, only belonging to the top sects or the Royal Family…but I would recognize a top member of the top sects or the Royal Family…”

“So, who was that person?” She gazed at the spot where Han ling disappeared, sighing helplessly. What she didn’t know though, was the Han Ling was actually right behind her the entire time, for a 6th step Immortal Supreme, it wasn’t hard for him to mask his presence in front of only a 1st step Immortal Supreme. Yet he did nothing but watched her, sighing inwardly as he recognized the woman.

“The Pure Princess, Wang Hua Rong.”

Han Ling stared at her with a strange gaze, “We meet again…”