Published: February 24, 2025
“Disciple thanks Master. With the alchemical formula, I can not only survive this crisis but also gain invaluable benefits.”
“Disciple is confident that soon, I can be promoted to a mid-tier sovereign alchemist!” After experiencing some excitement, Shen Subing smiled radiantly, “Hehe, Master, you are so good to me!”
Tan Yun felt a deep appreciation for the benefits he was gaining.
“Ah!” Shen Subing was taken aback.
“What do you mean ‘ah’?” Tan Yun said unyieldingly, “One thing has to do with another. Giving you the alchemical formula is definitely worth more than you offering a reward for four types of spiritual herbs, right?”
“How about this, you just give me ten times the reward for the task!”
“Ten times?” A deep fear flashed in Shen Subing's beautiful eyes, “Master! Ten times is over five hundred billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones!”
“What? You, the chief disciple, don’t have that many Spirit Stones?” Tan Yun glared at Shen Subing.
“Master, where would I get that much? Today’s… oh no, to honor you with seven hundred billion, was still gathered by me, Elder Six from the Danmai, and Elder Shen,” Shen Subing said pitifully, biting her lip, “Master, how about… you give me some more Spirit Stones?”
“I’ll tell you, stop acting cute in front of me, hurry up and leave!” Tan Yun was at his wit’s end.
“Hehe, then I’ll be going!” Shen Subing smiled without showing her teeth, looking triumphant. Just as she turned to leave, she took a step back and turned her head suddenly to look at Tan Yun, “Master, if I miss you, how can I see you?”
“Fate will bring us together if it's meant to be. I don’t want to see you right now; just hurry and get far away,” Tan Yun’s mood was quite unpleasant!
Very unpleasant!
He had planned to extort Shen Xiaoniu a bit but ended up being extorted himself!
“Well then. But Master, I feel like you’re quite an interesting person,” Shen Subing cheerfully said, “Master, do you remember the first thing you said when you met me? You said I’m one of the thirteen great beauties of the inner sect. If you ever miss me, you can come to Ice Clear Immortal Mountain to visit me!”
With that, Shen Subing disappeared like a gentle breeze from the supreme VIP pavilion.
Tan Yun knew that Shen Subing was so playful in front of him because she truly saw him as her master.
He had not expected that the usually aloof and icy Shen Subing also had such a mischievous side.
“If one day she finds out that the disposable disciple in her eyes is her own master, I wonder how she would feel?” Tan Yun muttered to himself. Thinking about how Shen Subing had previously looked down on him, he felt quite pleased at the thought that she would have to call him “Master” in the future.
“Dong!”
Suddenly, a melodious bell rang throughout the first floor hall of Huangfu Shengxing, clearly echoing up to the second to seventh floors, reaching every room, pavilion, and the supreme VIP pavilion.
Tan Yun sat upright on a jade chair, looking down through the mountain and water screen, he saw an elderly man in his eighties standing imposingly at the auction stage. Above his head floated a large Spirit Artifact clock that was about ten-foot tall.
The elderly man was none other than the chief auctioneer and chief appraiser of Huangfu Shengxing: Dantai Zhongde.
Even the chief of the inner sect had to show respect before him.
This was because Dantai Zhongde was a servant of the current sovereign of the Huangfu Sacred Sect!
Dantai Zhongde looked around the hall filled with hundreds of thousands of inner sect disciples, then raised his head to look at the second to sixth floors, and said in a voice like thunder, “Welcome guests to Huangfu Shengxing for the monthly auction.”
“As we all know, anything auctioned by Huangfu Shengxing is certainly not mundane. I won’t say much, the auction will officially begin for three hours!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the Huangfu Shengxing hall fell silent; one could hear a pin drop.