Immortal Palace of Eternal Life

Chapter 131: The Auction Begins

Every item in the market here does not guarantee authenticity; it's all up to one's own discernment. However, this does not stop cultivators from hoping to find a hidden treasure.

Once, someone with keen insight picked up a dusty magical artifact from an inconspicuous stall and presented it to a golden core cultivator, subsequently being accepted as a direct disciple and granted a foundation establishment pill, becoming a well-known tale that many cultivators rushed to imitate.

Liu Yu walked around the plaza but found nothing that could help enhance his strength. With his current experience, he did not spot any “treasures” that could be picked up, although there were quite a few fakes, he had no interest in revealing them.

After a fruitless round, Liu Yu felt somewhat disheartened and lost interest in continuing to browse.

So, he left the plaza and headed east to the market, finding the familiar “Immortal Guest Arrives” inn. He spent five spiritual stones to rent a cave dwelling with decent spiritual energy for seven days.

It turned out that this was against the rules, as the minimum rental period was one month. However, having foundation establishment stage cultivation did offer some privileges, so everything proceeded smoothly.

The innkeeper of Immortal Guest Arrives was an elderly cultivator at the eighth layer of qi refinement, who naturally did not dare to slight a foundation establishment senior. Although the inn was not afraid of a foundation establishment cultivator, the innkeeper was cautious, so he respectfully led Liu Yu.

Upon arrival, Liu Yu instructed the innkeeper to have an assistant remind him two days later during the辰 hour, then waved his hand to dismiss him.

Liu Yu used his token to check into a three-story loft. With his mid foundation establishment stage spiritual consciousness sweeping over, he found no issues, then activated the formation and casually chose a room to stay.

He took out a meditation cushion and placed it on the wooden bed, sitting cross-legged. He then pulled out a book documenting the qingyang skill and began to continue his comprehension.

Although he had already memorized the entirety of the qingyang skill, Liu Yu still preferred to take out the book to flip through it, jotting down insights that sometimes flashed in his mind onto paper.

Currently, he had basically comprehended the foundation establishment early stage portion of the technique, but there were still many unresolved aspects regarding the practice of “azure yang devil fire” and the subsequent “demonic fire refining essence,” which did not affect his normal cultivation of the technique.

He planned to participate in this auction, and if there were no better techniques, he would start practicing the qingyang skill.

When one is wholeheartedly focused on a task, time always flies by quickly. Liu Yu alternated between comprehending the qingyang skill and the art of spirit preservation day and night, until an assistant from the inn triggered the formation, waking Liu Yu from his reverie, realizing that two days had already passed.

Liu Yu scanned himself with his spiritual consciousness, repeatedly checking that his appearance bore no flaws before he stepped out of the loft.

Although the auction officially began at noon, he decided to go early.

When Liu Yu arrived at the bustling street where the auction was held, dozens of people were already standing in front of the resplendent high-rise, verifying their qualifications before entering the building.

The cultivators in line were not standing too close to each other, with the queue stretching about twenty zhang long. Even in the market, unfamiliar cultivators were wary of each other, keeping a certain distance to prevent any underhanded tactics, which was a common phenomenon.

The cultivators in this line had cultivation levels no lower than the late stage of qi refinement, with most being foundation establishment stage cultivators, exuding powerful auras that made passing cultivators glance over frequently, not daring to approach casually.