Leonardo had a look of worry and secretly whispered to Ryu if he needed to borrow some money from him. Ryu shook his head and secretly withdrew a storage ring with five million gold coins from the Judgment Tome. With a simple flick, the ring flew into Qi-Yan’s hands.
After injecting his Qi inside, Qi-Yan confirmed to the crowd that there is more than enough.
“May I?” Qi-Yan asked before Xiao-Wang could retort. Ryu nodded and fifty gold bars was laid out on the stage before them. People below started snickering and whispering amongst themselves again. Some gasped in awe at the amount of gold displayed.
“Wow I didn’t know that sect is so cheap.”
“They just had to ask for trouble tsk tsk.”
Xiao-Wang just left his mouth hanging. He didn’t know what to say at this point. He had inadvertently dug himself into a deeper hole by asking Ryu to show his wealth, proving what a sore loser he was. The vice head of the sect and his own brother, Xiao-Yon, dragged his brother back down to his seat. The armor was delivered up to them but Xiao-Wang was staring at Ryu the whole time, making a mental note to get back at him.
“Wow I should call you rich Dragon from now on.” Leonardo said jokingly. Ryu just politely smiled.
The third item was a dozen enchanted talismans which went for three million as well. Ryu was secretly shocked. With a large effort on his part, he could also create those talismans since he is an Enchanter too. To Ryu who remembers the days where he collected herbs at night for his grandpa and for a living, it was a total rip off in his mind.
The fourth item was a magical mirror that can deflect raw Qi attacks. It was also a rank 7 item but obviously it was much rarer, you had to be both a master mage and blacksmith to craft such an item. This was sold at four and a half million gold coins. It was acquired by the Saint Jade Sect. Ryu was surprised to learn that the sect Eu-Meh was in is also here in this town.
The fifth item was a platinum quartz ore the size of an adult’s torso. This ore could allow one to craft superior rank 7 items. Ryu started bidding for this item at the very beginning.
“Wow Dragon bro, could you be a blacksmith too? What kind of rich genius are you?” Leonardo stared at Ryu with wide eyes.
Ryu could be considered an intermediate blacksmith, he studied it in order to craft steel blades to incorporate into his attacks. If one had to rank him, he should be around rank 5 at the moment. However, that was not the reason why Ryu was bidding on this item. He was bidding it because Xiao-Wang was waiting for a chance to mess with Ryu! The bid went up to four million gold coins.
“Four million and two hundred thousand!” Xiao-Wang shouted as he smirked. Secretly inside he is just waiting to raise it enough and then stop, getting back at Ryu the same way. Crafting a rank 7 item takes years and currently in his sect, no one has the skill yet. This piece of ore is worth over four million gold coins to the right people, you can craft three sets of rank 7 armors that’s worth six million.
“Four million and three hundred thousand!” Ryu shouted once again. He could hear Xiao-Wang’s thoughts loud and clear. Normally he wouldn’t mess with people like this but hearing how Xiao-Wang didn’t look down on his disciples’ behavior at the food stall but instead was mad that they couldn’t get away with evil acts without being caught made Ryu mad.
“Four million and five hundred thousand!” Xiao-Wang shouted. Inside he was smirking, it was his last bid. Since Ryu was bidding from the start, it must mean Ryu really wanted it.
“Going once… going twice…sold to the Resilient Gaia Sect for four million and five hundred thousand! Congratulations on your second purchase!” Qi-Yan said with a bright smile. Obvious he was overjoyed, another item sold for more than the market value.
“This… is…” Xiao-Wang muttered random words. He was so angry that he could cough up blood on the spot. Xiao-Yon looked at his brother and frowned. His brother was the strongest in the sect but he’s too impulsive. He acts before he thinks and listens to no one.
“That kid… find out who he is. I want him dead by the end of the week!” Xiao-Wang hissed at other elders around him.
The sixth item was the Dragon Hawk Berserk pills like Leonardo predicted. There were three of them. These pills are most effective for peak Heaven Domain and early King Domain experts. Instantly there was an uproar, for a competition there is usually no restriction on doping. Even outside of the competition, these pills can be used to save one’s life. At this point, the Resilient Gaia Sect is out of money to bid on the remaining two items so they could only watch. It was eventually sold for four million gold coins to the strange group carrying ring-like weapons.
“Now ladies and gentlemen, we have saved the last item or should I say items for last! We have two rare lightning fruits, one is a rank 5 Three-Colored Lightning fruit and the other is a rank 6 Four-Colored Lightning fruit!” Qi-Yan shouted out with enthusiasm. They were incased in two glass-like containers. “However, as you can see there six different colors between the two of them. If these fall in the hands of a lightning expert user, you can fuse this to a Six-Colored Lightning fruit! A rank 8 item! I won’t lie, the chances are low but it is possible.”
Ryu stared at the two fruits in shock. He has a Five-Colored Lightning fruit himself! Quickly checking his tome, he notes that the Five-Colored Lightning fruit he owns has the following five colors: red, yellow, blue, purple, and orange. Looking at the two lightning fruits on display, there are two new colors he didn’t have, black and white!
Does that mean I can fuse it into a Seven-Colored Lightning fruit? Ryu stared in shock. These fruits are rare to come by, they are produced only after a tree absorbs lightning for thousands of years. One fruit might appear after many millenniums.
Even Xiao-Wang was greatly intrigued by this fruit. I can flaunt this in front of that lightning bastard!
“Let’s start the bid at one million!” Qi-Yan shouted as he banged his gavel.
“One million three hundred thousand!”
“One million seven hundred thousand!”
“Two million thousand!”
“Two million five hundred thousand!”
“Two million seven hundred thousand!”
Inside Xiao-Yon’s mind he was getting frantic. Their sect only brought roughly eleven million gold coins during this trip. They can get more if they had to from a bank but it would come at a high interest rate. More importantly, you have to pay up front during the auction! They had already paid the Miyamoto Clan in advance for their participation.
Hearing this thought, Ryu quickly said “Three million and six hundred thousand!”
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Xiao-Yon and the other elders tried to inform their sect leader that they don’t have enough gold but Xiao-Wang already shouted out, “Three million and seven hundred thousand!”
The spectators seeing that Ryu and Xiao-Wang was going into another bidding war, they stopped attempting to bid. Although there is a lot of potential from these fruits, the one that benefits the most is someone who is proficient in electric Qi. Ordinary practitioner can’t use it to cultivate at all.
“Going once… going twice…sold to the Resilient Gaia Sect for three million and seven hundred thousand! Congratulations on your third purchase! Your sect really lives up to its reputation!” Qi-Yan said as his attendants rushed up to collect the payment. The price was a bit lower than what he expected, there wasn’t any lightning experts in the crowd. However, the auction house made a killing today nonetheless.
A lot of people got out of their seats to leave. There will be two more big auctions before the Thousand Swords Graveyard opens. However, before anyone reached the entrance Qi-Yan made one more announcement.
“Umm sorry for the interruption. It seems like the Resilient Gaia Sect doesn’t have enough gold on them at the moment so the last auction is won by the bidder with three million and six hundred thousand gold coins!”
Ryu promptly paid the attendants when they came to collect the payment. He stored the lightning fruits into his Infinity Tomes right away. The chatter in the audience was louder than ever, today the Resilient Gaia Sect lost a lot of face.
As for Xiao-Wang, if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s inside the auction house belonging to the Xin’s family he would have exploded and killed Ryu and everyone around on the spot. The Xin family is so influential that they have auction houses across all five provinces. The patriarch of the family is rumored to be in the Supreme Domain.
Ryu just smiled. He couldn’t see what happens in the VIP booth but from what he could tell from his Telepathy skill, Xiao-Wang tried to do an “I owe you kind of promise” and was flat out rejected.
Today Ryu had inadvertently stood out but he didn’t mind. He got his hands on the two more lightning fruits that could potentially fuse with the Five-Colored Lightning fruit he owns to a Seven-Colored Lightning fruit. The Five-Colored Lightning fruit was already a rank 7 emperor domain fruit, if Ryu is able to fuse the two additional colors from the Three-Color and Four-Colored lightning fruit to it then it can become a Sovereign Domain fruit.
Besides painting a bull’s eye on his back with the Resilient Gaia Sect, there were three more familiar faces in the crowd staring at him. Unfortunately they were both in the VIP booth in the second floor so Ryu couldn’t see them properly. In their mind they were thinking of the same thing – That boy looks familiar!
Ryu’s cultivation right now only gives off the Qi of the Grandmaster Domain practitioner. Leonardo earnestly suggested that he comes back to the inn he resides at so he can be safe. There are King Domain experts in the city that Ryu can’t defeat at the moment but he should be able to escape. It’ll make his life difficult though so he accepted Leonardo’s offer. The two merrily chatted as they walked to the inn owned by the Xin family. People who won items at the auctions get priority at the inn. It turns out Leonardo’s companion already bought many items from the auction house and that’s why they are residing there.
“Who’s this kid?” A female clad in bright yellow dress spoke in a curious voice. She was sitting in the middle of the living room. It was obvious that she wasn’t from the Heaven Continent. Her eyes were green, her hair was blond and she had snow white skin.
“What are you doing bringing a stranger back here Leo?” An angry voice came from the side, near a window. A tall and muscular man was glaring at them, he had brown hair and very white skin as well.
“Relax guys, this kid saved my life. He also humiliated the pompous rock head sect at the auction house today. I’ll share my room with him.”
“Oh? He seems cute enough but do you think master will agree?” The woman said with a chuckle. The man near the window suddenly increased his hostility towards Ryu.
“Hey, Harry! Don’t bother him, he’s my guest. You too Jane, don’t tease him.” Leonardo warned sternly. Harry seemingly walked past them towards the exit and in a blink of an eye, turned around to attack Ryu. Leonardo was going to protest as he struck his hand out but Ryu pushed Leonardo out of the way as he dodged the blow.
The fist nearly missed Ryu’s neck as Ryu turned sideways. Ryu observed closely and realized that this person was an upper Heaven Domain expert. He seems to be using some sort of Qi concealing technique that Leonardo uses. Ryu had no choice but to raise his Qi to the Heaven Domain as well. Harry was only using his left arm to jab at Ryu’s head repeatedly at high speed. The strength of each punch could puncture a book of steel. With simple neck twists Ryu was able to dodge each blow narrowly. It was part of the movements of the Drunken Dragon Fist, by relaxing your whole body you will imitate a drunk person’s movements making it harder to predict your attacks.
After a barrage of punches from the left arm, Harry let out a growl and unleashed his right arm. An upper cut from below came at Ryu. This strength from on another level and one could hear the air been sliced through by his fist. Ryu knew that this would take his head off if he tried to slip by with a neck twist. Swiftly moving his hands towards Harry’s fist, Ryu superficially grabbed it and pulled it upwards as he spun around. This caused the punch to end up to the left of Ryu’s head as Ryu’s back is against Harry now. With a light step and an upwards flex with his shoulder, Ryu shoulder blade made contact with Harry’s chest. The result was unexpected, Harry actually took three steps backwards and fell on the ground. Ryu used the softness concepts of Tai Chi to redirect the uppercut and used one of the basic movements from the Drunken Dragon Fist to attack Harry. It wasn’t a stance, this move just lets you turn any part of your body into a weapon with minimum movements. Ryu had previous punched the Drunken Master Du-Bai in the chest and was sent flying back tens of meters when Du-Bai just pushed out his chest.
Harry sat on the ground in disbelief. Leonardo who had a good idea of Ryu’s strength was also shocked nonetheless.
“Wow what happened to the boxing you are so proud of Harry?” Jane said as she laughed. The moment she said this, Harry’s eye narrowed and more rage could be seen. He was about to pounce Ryu when the door opened.
“Enough, haven’t you noticed that he hasn’t moved from that spot Harry?