Chapter 711: Earth Spirit Fruit
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
"Yes, every time the hidden sects take in disciples, they hold a massive auction in the headquarters of the magical merchant association. This time, it's tonight."
Then, Liu Lei hesitated before saying, "Each person has to pay 100 gold coins to enter."
100 gold coins was 10,000 silver coins. A silver coin was enough for a normal family to live for a week.
After Ye Mo bid Liu Lei farewell, he took Mu Xiaoyun to look at a few hotels. They were all full indeed. If he wasn't planning on going to the auction, Ye Mo would just stay at the Hang Shui Hotel. However, since he was going to the auction, if he caused any trouble, Liu Lei would know something about him. Although he was a good person, Ye Mo didn't want him to know too much about him when they had just met.
Thanks to Ye Mo's large quantity of gold coin, he finally found a good place to stay a little further away from Hang Shui Square. It was the Blue Sea Hotel. It was very clean, but slightly more expensive. However, Ye Mo didn't care about that. He took Mu Xiaoyun inside the room and immediately started changing his appearance.
Half an hour later, Ye Mo had turned into that big-bearded man again, while Mu Xiaoyun had become an older female warrior.
"Are we going to the auction?" Mu Xiaoyun asked.
Ye Mo nodded and smiled, "I still have a few hundred tonnes of gold in my storage ring. I'll trade them for some gold coins here. I wonder how many gold coins my gold bricks can get."
Ye Mo's gold bricks were from the US - each of them was almost 10 kg.
Ye Mo took Mu Xiaoyun and they jumped out off the window. They bought a chariot before heading towards the Magical Merchant Bank.
Although it was already dark, the Magical Merchant Bank hadn't closed yet.
Ye Mo went there and took out 1009 gold bricks. He stacked them on the ground and covered them. Then, he told Mu Xiaoyun to wait for him while he went inside. 1000 gold bricks were about 10 tons.
When Ye Mo went inside, he found the inside a bit modernized. Although there weren't any computers, there were magnetic cards. Still, gold checks were the most frequently used.
The moment Ye Mo took out a gold brick at the guest room, the manager was immediately interested. He had seen pure gold before, but never one cut that cleanly and with such size.
Because Ye Mo's gold brick was much purer than gold coins, the bank gave the offer of one brick for 10000 gold coins. Ye Mo was very happy with this price.
When the manager heard the big-bearded man say there were 1000 bricks left, he almost went crazy. This guy was too rich. The moment he saw the big pile of gold bricks, he was dazed.
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An hour later, Ye Mo left the bank with Mu Xiaoyun. He had gotten 10 million gold coins with the bricks. Other than 10000 gold coins, which he decided to keep in Mu Xiaoyun's ring, he changed the rest into 100,000 gold coins worth checks.
Soon, the news startled the higher-ups of the merchant association. When Yun Ziyi arrived to the bank, she was also shocked at the gold bricks. That customer was too wealthy. Had he really carried them over on a horse cart? Still, there weren't any marks on the gold bricks.
Of course, Ye Mo had wiped the English words off the gold bricks.
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When Ye Mo arrived to the auction with Mu Xiaoyun, there were already a lot of people there.
100 coins was just the entrance fee. If you wanted a room, the price could go up to 1000 coins. Of course, there were more expensive ones, but Ye Mo only needed the 1000 gold coins private room.
After paying 1000 coins, Ye Mo and Mu Xiaoyun went into their room, number 392. There were fruits in it.
They didn't have to wait long until the auction began.
Ye Mo scanned his spirit sense in and immediately became wary. There were more than 10 great heaven masters and three whose power he couldn't tell. This gave Ye Mo a new perspective on the different power levels there.
He had to be careful or he would sink into the abyss. What made Ye Mo feel at ease was that Jie Xun wasn't there. However, he did see the Ci Hang Jing Mosque's room. Luo Xuan and her big martial sister weren't there.
Ye Mo also saw Taiyi's room. There was an old Daoist monk that he couldn't see through, another great heaven master and a young Daoist monk. However, next to the young Daoist monk there was a busty pretty woman, which didn't seem quite fitting.
Ye Mo also saw the Shang Qing Mountain sect. Yu Yuyan had joined them, but they seemed much poorer compared to Tai Yi.
The auctioneer was a young woman. She was wearing a red tight dress that was quite revealing. The young woman reminded Ye Mo of Yun Bing.
Like Yun Bing, she had a very voluptuous body. The only difference was that her eyes were full of seduction, while Yun Bing's were very cold.
Thinking about Yun Bing, Ye Mo sighed. He wondered how she and Ting Ting were doing. If he had time, when he got back, he could go visit them with Luo Ying and Ning Qingxue.
"Welcome everyone to the triennial Hang Shui hidden sects auction! I'm Meng Lan, I'll be holding the auction today. There will be many good things tonight and everyone will certainly find something they like.
Okay, the auction begins now! The first item is called a solar-powered camera. We can't produce this item here and it can clearly record your image."
Ye Mo was speechless. If the entire auction was full of this kind of things, then he would really regret attending.
What Ye Mo didn't expect was that it was sold for 10000 gold coins. That was as valuable as a gold brick, which was worth about a few hundred thousand USD. But the gold coins had the buying power of a few million USD. They were doing very good business there.
Ye Mo scanned his spirit sense out and saw the contemptuous look on the faces of many hidden sects members. Clearly, they knew the real value of the camera.
Luckily, real good items started appearing -magical artifacts, ores, pills and cultivation methods. But Ye Mo didn't want any of them yet.
"The next item is an Earth Spirit Fruit. Everyone knows what it is for, but I'll still explain it again. It can give a black level 90% chance of reaching earth level. An earth level peak will also have 20 % chance of reaching great heaven. It can improve smaller stages 100%. The starting price is 50,000 gold coins, and each bidding must be no lesser than 100 gold coin-"
Before she finished, the audience rumbled.
When Ye Mo heard the words 'Earth Spirit Fruit', he was also shook. He scanned his spirit sense in the wooden box - it was an Earth Spirit Fruit indeed. The name was the same as the one used in Luo Yue Continent. It was strange.
If Ye Mo had the Earth Spirit Fruit, he could make a cauldron of essence increasing pills immediately. With that, he could reach tertiary stage of chi gathering.
He had to get it.
Chapter 712: F*cking Hell, Who’s Afraid of Who!
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
"52 thousand gold coins," someone bid immediately.
"55 thousand."
"57 thousand."
"60 thousand."
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It was just a moment before the price rose up to 93 thousand gold coins. There were many people who wanted it, and that price was obviously not their bottom line yet. Soon, it rose up to 150 thousand.
At this price, however, there weren't a lot of people bidding anymore. It was mainly people from the wealthy families and sects fighting over it.
"200 thousand," Ye Mo called his bid.
With this, the scene fell silent. Not because the price was absurd, but because it came from a small room. It was clearly just an ordinary room.
This wasn't an issue of money anymore, it was a normal person fighting over it with the sects.
"210 thousand," someone called out from luxury room 009 with displeasure. It was a man in his 30s. How dare a nameless, sectless guy dare fight over the Earth Spirit Fruit with him?
Ye Mo could sense the anger in that voice. He scanned using his spirit sense, and it was the Gemini Sword Sect. Ye Mo knew from his talk with Liu Lei that they were a first grade sect.
No wonder they were this cocky, they probably looked down on him due to the room he was in.
Now Ye Mo was the one who got angry. This was an auction, why would he have to give something away? Even if it were a special grade sect, Ye Mo wouldn't give up on tge fruit.
"250 thousand," Ye Mo added. If this guy was going to add more, he would go straight to 300 thousand.
At this moment, no one bidded anymore, and the Young Master of the Gemini Sword sect was unhappy. Even the special grade sects wouldn't want to get into unnecessary conflict with the Gemini Sword Sect for an Earth Spirit Fruit. After all, it could at most create an earth level warrior. 250 thousand was really the highest price it could be said to be worth.
Qi Qichong's eyes flashed with fury - how dare this ant dare take his fruit and act cocky in front of him! Although he wanted to keep bidding a higher price, he couldn't go too far even if he was the Young Master of the sect.
"Investigate who that cocky guy is. Even if he's willing to give me the fruit later, I will make him suffer no matter what," Qi Qichong said coldly.
"Yes." A middle-aged man in the room soon left.
Ye Mo picked up on this with his spirit sense and sneered. If this guy dared to look for trouble afterwards, Ye Mo would just kill him.
After paying 250 thousand worth of gold cheques, the Earth Spirit Fruit was sent to Ye Mo's room. Ye Mo quickly moved it to a jade box as wooden boxes wouldn't be able to preserve its properties well.
Although Lan Meng knew that Ye Mo wouldn't have a good ending after offending Qi Qichong, she liked idiots like Ye Mo.
"Wow, the Earth Spirit Fruit allowed us to see what true wealthy men look like! The master from room 392 is a young but wealthy hero indeed. Please continue to watch out for the following items."
Ye Mo sneered. He knew what the woman was doing, she was using him. Her words not only agitated Qi Qichong, but those who had some pride wouldn't give up on the next items easily either.
Soon, everyone looked at room 009 and Qi Qichong's face which was green with anger. He understood what the woman was doing too but couldn't help feeling angry.
"Young master, we'll let him act cocky for now. After the auction, we can make a move," the beautiful woman inside the room comforted.
In a certain markless room, a woman in purple was shaking her head. She didn't think there would be such an idiot present. Without any power faction to back him up, he offended the Young Master of the Gemini Sword Sect. This was suicide.
"Miss, that guy is just too dumb. He's asking to die, a pity for the friend next to him," the girl dressed in green sighed.
"Investigate those two," the other woman said.
"Okay, everyone stay calm as the next item is a meteorite ore. It's a metal essence and can be used to make unparalleled weapons. The starting bid is 80 thousand. Each increment must be no less than one thousand." Lan Meng waved her hand and some staff immediately carried out a basket-sized ore.
People who didn't know how to forge weapons lost interest immediately, so for a moment, no one made bid.
But Ye Mo was shook - this was no ordinary metal essence, this was Geng metal essence! He got some fist-sized Geng metal essence from Yu Miaodan and had already used it all. Geng metal essence was very precious in the cultivation realm - it was the best material for making magic artefacts! Magic artefact or spirit artefacts made with Geng metal essence had extremely potent offensive power.
Such a big piece of it was right there, yet no one knew what it was. If this appeared in the cultivation world, how many spirit stones would be needed to buy it? Ye Mo had long since thought of making a strong offensive magic artefact after he reached the foundation establishment state, so how could he let this Geng metal essence go by him?
"81 thousand," someone from room 011 made a bid.
No one was surprised about this as room 011 was the Forgery Hall's room. Although they were just a second grade sect, they were renowned on the continent for their forgery. Most of the weapons from the big sects came from the Forgery Hall, so their actual status was that of a first grade sect.
But no matter what, Ye Mo wasn't going to give up on the ore.
"85 thousand," Ye Mo made a bid, and the venue fell silent. What did this idiot from room 392 want to do, really? He had just offended the Gemini Sword Sect, and now he was going to take on the Forgery Hall? How much money did he have? How many lives did he have?
A bald man with a red face in room 011 was dazed. He was a master of forgery and was a half step great heaven cultivator. He didn't expect someone would fight him. If he really wanted to take it, even Taiyi would give it up to him, yet this idiot dared fight over it with him?
"100 thousand!" The bald man was angry. He, Xia Chongyan, was one of the three Vice Sect Leaders after all.
Everyone could tell from Xia Chongyan's tone that he was angry, but Ye Mo didn't seem to hear that. He called out "110 thousand" slowly.
"200 thousand!" Xia Chongyan's cold voice sounded.
"210 thousand," room 329's voice followed.
"Hmph, 300 thousand!" Xia Chongyan added.
Ye Mo was also getting furious. This baldy dared keep throwing money at him like that, trying to scare him even. F*cking hell, who's afraid of who!
"1 million!" Ye Mo no longer had the mood to be bidding merely 10 thousand more each time.