Chapter 799: The Grand Auction of the Treasure Vault

All over 800 Magic Crystal Gems were found to be of satisfactory quality, with no one cheating.
With the wisdom of an Immortal Emperor, Su Che surely anticipated that the five veteran Immortal Emperors would help conduct the inspection. Using any underhanded tactics would only bring trouble upon oneself.
“Alright, everyone may enter the core treasure vault. However, the way the treasures will be contested is certainly very different from what you expect…”
Su Che wore a mysterious smile. “Please, Immortal Emperors, resist not. I’m going to transport you in.”
Whoosh!
Over 800 people vanished, all entering the core treasure vault.
Once inside, the Immortal Emperors were surprised to find that the place was completely different from what they had imagined. It was simply a bare hall, with only dozens of chairs and a display platform—no other valuable items in sight.
“Is this a meeting room or an auction hall?”
When they turned around, they saw that the others with them were all Immortal Emperors of the same realm. Those at the First Heaven level stayed together, so this was indeed the area reserved for them.
That’s right—Su Che had prepared eight venues, or eight auction halls, where fair bidding would take place. He intended to sell some items from the Immortal Emperor’s treasure vault that these Immortal Emperors wouldn’t need.
Heavenly-grade immortal artifacts were indeed powerful and valuable, but one only had one head and two hands—how much could one use? Even if one had six arms, keeping just a dozen of the most powerful ones for backup would suffice. Moreover, one had to reach the rank of Immortal Emperor before they could wield such artifacts.
On top of that, since they could now craft Heavenly Destiny Treasures on their own, Su Che clearly didn’t value these so-called heavenly artifacts.
With so many unnecessary items, they couldn’t just leave them in storage to gather dust and rust. So, even if Su Che took the entire Immortal Emperor’s treasure vault for himself, he would still have to go to the Cloud Immortal Realm to sell them one by one.
It would be better to hold several auctions within the treasure vault at the same time, using the pretext of seeking opportunities to sell them all and exchange them for other treasures that would be more useful to him.
In fact, in Su Che’s eyes, all material possessions were unimportant. What mattered most were things that could help him rapidly advance his cultivation, such as more Emperor Essence Fruits.
The reason there were eight auction halls, ranging from the First Heaven to the Eighth Heaven, was to create a fair and just competitive environment for those lower-ranked Immortal Emperors.

If they are mixed together, established Immortal Emperors like Guangzhong setting the starting prices, how could the lower-ranked Immortal Emperors compete with them? From the First Heaven venue to the Seventh Heaven venue, Su Che arranged for seven soul slaves to take on his appearance to oversee the auctions, while he stayed in the Eighth Heaven venue. Within each venue, only one treasure would be auctioned at a time to maintain order, so that the Immortal Emperors wouldn’t go crazy over just one treasure and act uncontrollably. “Auction format!” Su Che’s voice rang out simultaneously in all eight venues: “By competing for treasures through auctions, all the Immortal Emperors will avoid damaging their relationships. Moreover, there are absolutely enough treasures in the Immortal Lord’s Treasury, so I believe every Immortal Emperor will be able to get something.” Auctioning treasures? The Immortal Emperors were puzzled—even the worst treasures in the Immortal Lord’s Treasury were Heavenly-grade immortal artifacts. Could such treasures be bought just with Immortal Crystals? If not Immortal Crystals, what currency would they use to bid? Su Che had anticipated such doubts and took the initiative to explain: “There are two bidding methods. The first is to use other treasures of equal value—either one or multiple items, or even a combination of various items from different series…” At this point, Su Che deliberately paused to give them a chance to ask questions. Sure enough, in each venue, an Immortal Emperor raised their voice and asked, “Using a large number of items to bid will surely cause chaos. How can their values be determined?” Su Che replied, “I will decide the value. The Immortal Emperor whose total value of the items displayed is the highest or most useful will be the winner of the bid…” Su Che patiently explained that to bid for a certain treasure, the Immortal Emperors could bring out everything they considered valuable. They could even display their entire personal space—representing all their possessions, a mess of everything—saying they wanted to exchange it for a Heavenly-grade immortal artifact. Then, Su Che would decide which Immortal Emperor’s possessions interested him the most and declare that person the winner, with payment and delivery following. In short, Su Che’s plan was to use the treasures in the Immortal Lord’s Treasury that he didn’t need to plunder the personal wealth of these Immortal Emperors. If the personal wealth of over eight hundred Immortal Emperors were gathered in his hands, how astonishing would that be?

Even if most of these things are useless to Su Che personally, they can still be used to enrich the World of Immortal Prison and benefit all its inhabitants. After all, it’s far better than holding onto those top-grade immortal artifacts that no one else needs.

“As for the second bidding method…”

Su Che continued, “What if an Immortal Emperor spends all his savings to buy one treasure and then becomes interested in another, but has no money left?”

“No problem. They can use their Immortal Energy as currency to bid further.”

“Treat that ticket used when entering as ‘one unit of Immortal Energy.’ If an Immortal Emperor bids one hundred units of Immortal Energy, they must stay in the treasure vault and practice constantly until they’ve paid the full amount before they can leave.”

All the Immortal Emperors understood. By ‘one unit of Immortal Energy,’ it meant infusing 90% of their own Immortal Energy into a celestial crystal—this crystal serving as a unit of currency. If an Immortal Emperor bid ten thousand units of Immortal Energy for a treasure, they would have to stay here and practice for three thousand years, contributing all the Immortal Energy they gained to Su Che to settle the payment.

“That’s too harsh!” Lao He muttered in the World of Immortal Prison. “Keeping them in the Immortal Emperor’s treasure vault to constantly produce Emperor Essence Fruits is like keeping temporary cows!”

“Cows at the level of Immortal Emperors,” Su Che added in his mind.

They eat grass and produce milk—what else could they be if not cows?

While Su Che and Lao He were pleased with this, all the Immortal Emperors in the eight auction halls were also secretly delighted. They all thought the second currency system was very advantageous, as it only required celestial crystals and time. Using celestial crystals to replenish losses and convert Immortal Energy was the most basic form of cultivation. What were celestial crystals or time compared to that? Each Immortal Emperor had lived for hundreds of millions, even billions of years, so a few thousand years of seclusion wouldn’t matter at all. No Immortal Emperor would mind such a payment method.

Su Che needed them to provide a large amount of Immortal Energy to create Emperor Essence Fruits, while the Immortal Emperors wanted to buy powerful top-grade immortal artifacts or other treasures from Su Che. Rather than calling it an auction, it was more like a mutually beneficial cooperation where everyone got what they wanted and was satisfied.

“Now, let’s present the first item for bidding. Please offer your bids generously.”

With Su Che’s announcement, a treasure appeared simultaneously on the display platforms of the eight auction halls.

Auctions from number one to six all feature Heavenly Grade Immortal Artifacts, as for these lower-ranked Immortal Emperors, the allure of such artifacts is sufficient. However, Auction Hall number seven (the Seventh Heaven) and Auction Hall number eight (the Eighth Heaven) display not Heavenly Grade Immortal Artifacts, but two even more precious treasures. In Auction Hall number eight, only the five Eighth Heaven Immortal Emperors—Guangzhong, Diqiu, Leilong, Hongguang, and Xuanli—are personally received by Su Che. At this moment, Su Che holds a milky-yellow jade slip that appears quite ancient, but it’s easy to imagine that anything presented before Eighth Heaven Immortal Emperors must be extremely special. “The Primordial Dao Explanation!” Su Che said with a smile, “Its importance doesn’t require me, a mere Lesser Xuanxian, to explain further.” Though he spoke casually, the expressions of the five veteran Immortal Emperors changed drastically as they stared at the small jade slip in Su Che’s hand; the excitement in their eyes could be described in one word: fanaticism! This seemingly unremarkable jade slip contains vast amounts of information—understandings and insights into the Great Dao left behind by the Primordial Immortal Lord. If this information were written down in books, with each character the size of a fly, it would fill several rooms without issue. Anyone who obtains it and absorbs its immense knowledge would essentially become a direct disciple of the Primordial Immortal Lord, one of the closest and most trusted disciples. All Immortal Lords have disciples, but generally, no Immortal Lord would impart all their knowledge to them. As the saying goes, “Teaching a disciple may starve the master,” and at the levels of Immortal Emperors and Immortal Lords, such selflessness is even less likely. Unless a master feels his life is coming to an end, he would pass on all his knowledge to the disciple he values most, so that the disciple can carry on his legacy. But can Immortal Lords die? Throughout the entire history of the Immortal Realm, only one has died. And now, Su Che is about to represent the Primordial Immortal Lord and sell this legacy to one of the Immortal Emperors before him. Of course, Su Che had already made a copy of this Primordial Dao Explanation and could replicate it infinitely. Yet he saw no use for this knowledge, as his path of growth was different from others’, and he didn’t need to follow in others’ footsteps. It could only serve as a reference, nothing more. But for the five veteran Immortal Emperors like Guangzhong, it was truly an invaluable treasure, the most precious asset in the world.

Although merely relying on this knowledge cannot achieve the ultimate realm of an Immortal Lord, it can still enable one to reach the pinnacle among the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperors, bringing them infinitely close to the threshold of an Immortal Lord. In other words, it represents the strongest being below an Immortal Lord. This is the true treasure! Guang Zhong and the others never expected that Su Che would reveal the most valuable item in the Immortal Lord’s treasure vault right from the start. “We must get it at any cost!” That was what Guang Zhong and the others were thinking at that moment.