Chapter 28: The Auction House

Huiyou Auction House was located in the heart of Beiluo City.
After figuring out the direction, Qu Yi immediately took off and flew straight toward the center of Beiluo City. Compared to other cities in the Divine Realm, the cities on Beiyang Island did not restrict cultivators from flying; as long as a cultivator had reached the Divine Weapon stage, they could fly freely above the cities.
Thus, it didn’t take long for Qu Yi to reach the center of Beiluo City.
There stood a tall and majestic tower-like building, surrounded by a faint blue glow, reaching high into the clouds and standing out sharply. This tower was the location of Huiyou Auction House.
In the air, cultivators from all directions flew densely toward Huiyou Auction House like islands in the sky, which further demonstrated its status in Beiluo City.
Qu Yi quickly landed in front of Huiyou Auction House and entered the hall with ease before looking around.
Huiyou Auction House had a total of 100 floors. The first floor was used to register and contact information of cultivators attending the auctions, while the 99 upper floors housed 99 separate auction halls. Items in the Divine Realm varied in grade and were classified accordingly, so Huiyou Auction House also categorized the items to be auctioned into different levels, each corresponding to a specific auction hall. Naturally, the items on the 100th floor were of the highest grade.
After understanding the layout of Huiyou Auction House, Qu Yi crossed the hall and entered a room in the registration area at the back.
This registration area was dedicated to collecting information from cultivators who wished to enter the auction halls.
Inside the room was a beautiful and delicate woman. Upon seeing Qu Yi enter, she smiled and said, “Cultivator, please show me your identity card. Also, do you intend to attend an auction or bring valuable items for auction?”
Qu Yi handed over his identity card to the woman and replied with a calm smile, “Cultivator, does Huiyou Auction House have any virtual jade for auction recently?”
The woman took Qu Yi’s identity card and scanned it with her spiritual sense, recording all his personal information. The identity card had several functional areas, one of which stored Qu Yi’s personal details and could be viewed by anyone’s spiritual sense. Of course, areas like the one showing his current points could not be scanned by other cultivators.

“Virtual Jade? Fellow cultivator, wait a moment. I’ll go check the grade of the Virtual Jade right away.” The woman returned Qu Yi’s identity card, then took out a jade slip and began scanning it with her spiritual sense.

It wasn’t long before the woman smiled. It seemed she had found information about the Virtual Jade in the jade slip, and indeed, it would be auctioned during this auction period.

“Fellow cultivator, our Huiyou Auction House will indeed have an auction for Virtual Jade in a year. But in our auction house, Virtual Jade is classified as a Level 70 item, to be auctioned at the 71st floor. However, since you’ve never transacted at our auction house before, your points are zero, so your access is limited to auctions below the 50th floor,” the woman said with a smile.

Qu Yi nodded. He was aware of how auction houses worked—each participant had certain privileges. Those who had never entered an auction house to trade naturally had no points and the lowest access level, limiting the places they could bid at. This was also an unspoken rule among auction houses to retain customers: the more they traded at the auction house, the higher their privileges would become.

“So… I want to raise my privileges now. Is there any way?” Qu Yi asked with a smile.

The woman nodded and smiled back, “Yes. If you purchase items from our auction house or bring in items of equivalent value for auction, your privileges can be upgraded accordingly.”

Qu Yi immediately took out a divine weapon of the Divine Weapon stage—a divine sword—and said with a laugh, “How many such Divine Weapon stage divine weapons do I need to raise my level to 70?”

To participate in the auction of Virtual Jade, one needed Level 70 privileges, so Qu Yi just needed to raise his level to 70.

Seeing the divine sword on the table—actually a Divine Weapon stage divine weapon of top quality—the woman stared at Qu Yi for a while, guessing his identity.

Soon, she calmed down and said lightly, “Fellow cultivator, from what I can see, your divine weapon is of top quality among Divine Weapon stage items, and it can be sold for at least one billion divine crystals. Given the grade of the Virtual Jade, it’s only worth about one trillion divine crystals. So, if you want to raise your level to 70, you must bring in 100 such divine weapons for our auction house to auction.”

After hearing this, Qu Yi smiled faintly and suddenly took out another 99 divine weapons, piling them all on the table.

“Fellow cultivator…” The woman exclaimed in shock, covering her mouth. She hadn’t expected Qu Yi to possess so many divine artifacts. Although the number of divine artifacts at Huiyou Auction House was enormous, it was still strange to see a cultivator produce so many at once.

While crafting five hundred thousand divine artifacts, Qu Yi had naturally exaggerated the amount of materials used, which allowed him to create some divine artifacts for himself. There were as many as a thousand of these, so taking out a hundred of them now was certainly no problem.

“Alright, please go register these hundred divine artifacts and upgrade my access rights. I’ll return for the auction in a year,” Qu Yi said with a smile before getting up to leave.

The woman nodded eagerly and took those hundred divine artifacts to help Qu Yi complete the registration for the auction.

After leaving deliberately, Qu Yi went to the first-floor hall of the auction house and soon saw many people staring at the entrance, watching a group of people approaching.

Those people were dressed in splendid and luxurious attire, exuding an air of nobility. At the head of the group was a young man with an extraordinary presence and a fierce aura. Although he was only at the Divine Weapon stage, the pressure he emitted made even ordinary Divine General-stage cultivators feel afraid.

“Gongye Bo, the tenth-ranked figure on the Human Ranking List. I never thought he would come to Beiluo City.”

“Heavens, it’s someone from the royal family of the Zedui Divine Realm—the Gongye family.”

“The Gongye family has everything. Why would they come to this auction house? And it’s even one of their elite descendants who’s here in person.”

……

Throughout the hall, many cultivators were whispering among themselves, all looking at Gongye Bo with envious expressions.

The Zedui Divine Realm is located in the west of the Divine Realm and is ruled by three Divine Kings: Gongye Ming, Gongye Zhong, and Gongye Yu. Thus, the Gongye family is the royal family of the entire Zedui Divine Realm.

The Human Ranking List is a special ranking system on Beiyang Island, created based on the strength of cultivators at the Divine Weapon stage across the Divine Realm. There are only a hundred names on this list, and Gongye Bo, who has appeared now, is ranked tenth.

Gongye Bo was already accustomed to the gazes of the cultivators in the hall. Having been born extraordinary, he had always been surrounded by such looks, so he naturally ignored their attention.

As if taking just one step, Gongye Bo crossed the hall and went to a room behind, likely to register his identity in order to participate in the upcoming auction.

Qu Yi calmly glanced at Gongye Bo and the ten followers behind him, a slight smile appearing on his lips before he left the hall. He checked into an inn in Beiluo City. Once in his room, he began communicating with the Artifact God. “Artifact God, back then, the divine kings of the Zedui Divine Realm and the Tianqian Divine Realm joined forces to attack you. Now, members of the Zedui Divine Realm’s royal family have arrived. Should I go and give them a lesson? Coincidentally, that Gongye Bo is also at the Divine Weapon stage and ranks tenth on the human list. I really want to fight him once,” Qu Yi transmitted his thoughts to the Artifact God. “There’s no need. I’ll settle my score with those six divine kings later. Don’t get involved in their descendants’ affairs. As long as they don’t provoke you, there’s no reason for you to target them. However, during the great chaos fifty thousand years from now, when the royal family disciples from the Zedui Divine Realm and the Tianqian Divine Realm appear, you can eliminate them. It would be good to anger those two royal families a bit,” the Artifact God said calmly. Hearing this, Qu Yi went straight to sleep. A year passed quickly. Qu Yi left the inn and rushed to Huiyou Auction House, then entered a large hall called the Cloud Ladder. Inside this hall, there was a special array that could send the cultivators participating in the auction to the auction houses they desired. In essence, this array was a simplified version of a space-time array. Qu Yi took out his identity card. The information recorded on it had changed slightly—his access level at Huiyou Auction House had risen to level 70, and the number of divine crystals he owned had increased by 110 billion. He inserted the identity card into a special slot, sent a thought through his consciousness, and instantly vanished. The next moment, he was on the 71st floor of the tower. Qu Yi sat in a seat in the front row and scanned the area, noticing that the auction hall on the 71st floor had ordinary seats and VIP booths. There were 10,000 ordinary seats and 10 VIP booths. Soon, cultivators began filling the ordinary seats one after another, and they were all occupied quickly. Meanwhile, when the ordinary seats were full, the VIP booths lit up simultaneously, and the VIPs entered there. At that moment, Qu Yi heard the Artifact God’s voice in his mind: “Qu Yi, that Gongye Bo is in VIP Booth No. 1.” Hearing this, Qu Yi smiled slightly and replied to the Artifact God, “I hope he’s not competing with me for virtual jade stones. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind competing with him in terms of wealth.” “You can’t beat him,” the Artifact God replied indifferently.