Chapter 94: Attending The Auction
Fang Yuan brought the thirteen Gu Immortal captives back to Hu Immortal blessed land successfully.
He first summoned Hu Immortal land spirit and asked for the latest news.
After confirming the situation around Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's letter as well as Hei Lou Lan's situation.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was currently exploring Yu Lu blessed land with Shark Demon and some others.
As for Hei Lou Lan, she had recently undergone tribulation.
After confirming the situation of the people around him, Fang Yuan calculated, only half a month was left until the auction. In Hu Immortal blessed land, because the flow of time was five times as fast, that was approximately slightly less than two and a half months.
Time passed quickly, two months went by in Hu Immortal blessed land's time.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng returned to Hu Immortal blessed land.
Fang Yuan met with him and saw the joy in his eyes, saying: "Old Bai, it seems that you have obtained something great in this journey to Eastern Sea."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed heartily: "Junior brother is sharp as ever, that is right. Guess what gains I made this time?"
Fang Yuan said in curiosity: "Fairy Yu Lu was a female attendant of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, she cultivated earth path and water path, she was skilled in defense and healing. I know about the group that you went with to attack the blessed land, did you unexpectedly succeed in one try, and manage to take down Yu Lu blessed land?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression turned stiff, he sighed: "So junior brother did not expect us to succeed, you were right after all. In this attempt, we attacked the blessed land for seven days and seven nights, but we were defeated by the land spirit, and suffered huge losses. A Gu Immortal nearly died, but I used man as before Immortal Gu to save this person."
"Oh?" Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows. He knew about the value of man as before Immortal Gu, once Tai Bai Yun Sheng exposed this Gu, his value would greatly rise among this group of people.
As expected, Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued: "After my man as before Immortal Gu was exposed, I gained a lot of attention and respect. Next, Shark Demon invited me enthusiastically to go to Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance as a guest. Why would I dare to go to other people's base all alone? Thus, I rejected him.
In the end, Shark Demon and two other immortal zombies hosted me in Hai Shi blessed land, and during the banquet I heard an important piece of news."
Saying so, Tai Bai Yun Sheng paused, halting his words as he looked at Fang Yuan with shining eyes.
Fang Yuan laughed mentally, he followed his intention and asked: "Hehehe, what important news is it? For you to leave me hanging like this?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was solemn, he said: "It is a method that can revive you, junior brother, it is a method to break free of your immortal zombie body!"
"Oh?" Fang Yuan's eyebrows rose.
"What method is it?" Fang Yuan asked.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng said: "Shark Demon has a wife called Su Bai Man, she is also an immortal zombie. A long time ago, she obtained a time path Immortal Gu from an opportunity after defeating strong foes, its name is Time Anchor. This Gu can leave a mark in the river of time, even though that is useless on its own, when paired with other time path Immortal Gu, the effect is incredible."
His eyes shined, but they quickly dimmed: "Old Bai, I understand what you mean. I've heard of time anchor Immortal Gu long ago, if paired with your Landscape as Before, it can indeed make a mountain or river be restored to a certain period in time. If used with Man as Before, it can theoretically send a target back to their body condition at a certain time period as well.
But the requirement for this is, time anchor Immortal Gu has to leave a marking in advance."
"That is correct, my man as before Immortal Gu can only go back by an instant in time, but with time anchor Immortal Gu, we can exceed that limit of a single instant. Junior brother, with this method, you might be able to get rid of your immortal zombie status." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was excited.
"With time anchor Immortal Gu's assistance, man as before Immortal Gu can break free of the single instant limitation, but…" Fang Yuan shook his head, continuing: "The coordinated usage of two Immortal Gu is not as simple as just using them, many mortal Gu are needed at the same time. In fact, other Immortal Gu might also be needed, in order to form an immortal killer move.
Time Anchor and Man as Before can indeed coordinate theoretically. But you do not have a corresponding immortal killer move, I think Shark Demon is providing you such hospitality because he wants you to help them, to contribute Man as Before so that they can research the immortal killer move, right?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded continuously, praising: "Junior brother is smart, you guessed accurately, that was indeed the case."
"Old Bai, thank you." He thanked Tai Bai Yun Sheng sincerely: "Although this method is innovative, it would expend a lot of time, effort, and resources, it is at least a hundred year project. But it is a form of hope at least."
"We are like family, there is no need to say thanks." Tai Bai Yun Sheng responded immediately.
However, Old Tai Bai understood what Fang Yuan was saying, he sighed as he continued: "Exactly, it is at least some hope. Even though it will take a long time, during this period, junior brother, you can use the black oil in Zombie Alliance to slow the destruction of your blessed land.
Even though black oil is hard to get, with my cooperative relationship with Shark Demon, I will be able to get enough."
Fang Yuan laughed: "During the period when you were gone, I had already used a fake identity, called Sha Huang, and made my way into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance."
"So junior brother had such a plan."
Fang Yuan continued: "I want to attend the auction in Northern Plains, come along with me. This is the mortal killer move unfamiliar face, it came from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable. I have a few cloud path killer moves, you can take a look, aren't you cultivating cloud path now as well?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng received these killer move as a warm feeling emerged in his heart: "When I was thinking about my junior brother's problems, he was also looking out for my benefits!"
Fang Yuan showed him the Gu Immortal captives and the deal he had with Lang Ya land spirit.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, he said with worry and excitement: "It seems that this auction will be a great show! I will go with you, it would be best if Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan also are there."
"They will definitely go. But although our alliance was exposed to Hei Cheng, now is not the time to openly travel with them." Fang Yuan said.
"Junior brother makes sense." Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded.
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"Brother Qin, we meet again." Fang Yuan cupped his fists, greeting Qin Bai Sheng.
"Hahaha, brother Sha, I have been waiting for you. But I did not expect you to come directly from Fairy Li Shan's side."
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng went together, they did not travel in Northern Plains, instead, they entered Fairy Li Shan's blessed land and used hole earth Gu to reach Bai Sheng blessed land.
Fang Yuan brought the thirteen sleeping cloud coffins and arrived in the blessed land through this path, meeting Qin Bai Sheng once again.
"There's no choice. I have such valuable treasures with me, with my low cultivation level, I can only come here through this method to reduce the risk." Fang Yuan purposely laughed bitterly.
"Don't be humble brother, you are so well hidden, your depth is unfathomable. With just you and Fairy Li Shan's relationship, who would dare to target you?" Qin Bai Sheng said respectfully.
"No matter how good you are, there is always someone better than you. But if I have brother's battle strength, I would have no fear." Fang Yuan quickly replied, in terms of interpersonal skills, he was not inferior to Qin Bai Sheng.
"I wonder who this is?" Qin Bai Sheng turned around, looking at Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was next to Fang Yuan.
"This is my good friend, Gu Immortal Bai Sheng." Fang Yuan introduced fearlessly.
"Bai Sheng… forgive my ignorance, I did not know that a person of your caliber was hidden in our Northern Plains." Qin Bai Sheng took the initiative to greet.
"No, no, I am flattered." Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly responded.
Qin Bai Sheng brought Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng to the auction hall.
"For this auction, I purposely altered my blessed land to form this huge auction hall." Qin Bai Sheng introduced.
"It is quite extraordinary, there is a very magnificent aura, as expected of brother Qin's setup." Fang Yuan smiled as he praised.
Qin Bai Sheng showed a hint of worry and doubt, saying: "I have no choice, many huge forces and countless experts in Northern Plains were all invited to this auction. As the person in charge, if the auction is too run-down, I will be offending them. Honestly speaking, there had been a huge pressure on me these recent days, I could barely sleep.
Thankfully, with brother Sha, the blessed lands will definitely be a popular item when up for auction, I can't wait to see that commotion. I wonder if you have many?"
Fang Yuan did not say a number, only smiling as he said: "Brother Qin, you can be at ease about it, no need to worry."
"Haha, of course I'm not worried." Qin Bai Sheng's gaze flashed, since he could not probe the answer, he changed the topic: "In this auction, I have the main hall, single rooms, and secret rooms. The main hall can allow free interaction, the single rooms are for those Gu Immortals with strange temperaments or who enjoy being alone.
The secret rooms will hide everything about the Gu Immortal's identity. These three arrangements have been written in the alliance content long ago, brother Sha does not need to worry that I have done some tricks behind the scenes. I wonder which location brother Sha would choose?"
"These three locations, can they be swapped at will during the process of the auction?" Fang Yuan asked first.
"Of course. But if a secret room is already occupied, unless the owner agrees, nobody can get in." Qin Bai Sheng answered.
"Then I will choose a secret room." Fang Yuan said.
"I will choose a secret room too." Tai Bai Yun Sheng followed behind.
Qin Bai Sheng nodded: "The first nine secret rooms have been booked already. I'll give you the tenth and eleventh rooms respectively, how about that?"
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had no reason to say no. After they entered their secret rooms, Bai Sheng blessed land opened its entrance and invited many Gu Immortals in.
In the secret room, Fang Yuan was playing with the Gu worms in his hands.
These mortal Gu were owned by Qin Bai Sheng, but currently they were lended to the secret room's owner, thus Fang Yuan could activate them.
Fang Yuan retrieved the Gu worms and browsed one with his mind.
This east window Gu had many of the auction items listed in it, they were all precious treasures.
Some of the auction items had the conditions written in the description, other than using immortal essence stones to bid for them, one could also trade for them using resources.
Evidently, these resources were what the owner of the auction item were looking for.
Fang Yuan swept through the content of the list and focused on the latter portion.
This portion's information listed a variety of Immortal Gu, they had all sorts of effects and were from all kinds of different paths. The information on how to trade these Gu were all written on the back.
Fang Yuan's focused his mind and quickly saw that his Immortal Gu were also listed there.
There were three Immortal Gu, Rising Azure Cloud, Worldly Wave Trace, and Delight in Water and Mountain.
After the three Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan naturally listed the conditions for exchanging them.
What was worth mentioning was that these three Immortal Gu were all put up using Fairy Li Shan's channel, he was not associated with them.