The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Appraising Treasures? Showing Off Before a Master!

A brilliant, seven-colored radiance quietly appeared in her fair, tender right palm.

As the Douluo Continent's foremost auxiliary-type tool Martial Soul, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda possessed not only terrifying amplification abilities, but also an instinct for appraising treasures that surpassed all others under heaven!

Through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's senses, Ning Rongrong clearly perceived that the blue ore and three ancient coins on the tray below contained a pure essence of law that even the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones she had seen could not compare to!

What amazing treasures! If I buy these things and bring them back for Father, Grandpa Sword, and Grandpa Bone, they'll be overjoyed. Then, even if they find out I snuck out, they definitely won't have the heart to punish me!

Ning Rongrong's large eyes curved into crescents. Without the slightest hesitation, she walked straight to the railing of the private room and called out in a clear, sweet voice tinged with arrogance:

"Ten thousand Gold Soul Coins! I'm taking all three!"

She had doubled the bid in a single breath!

Several noble Soul Masters in the hall below who had been considering tentative bids sucked in sharp breaths and promptly fell silent.

Seeing that no one dared answer her bid, Ning Rongrong's lips curved into a smug smile.

In the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she had never failed to get anything she wanted since she was little. In an auction house in a mere little city of the Balak Kingdom, who would dare compete with her wealth?

The old auctioneer was overjoyed. Just as he was about to raise his gavel and call, "Ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, going once," Chu Yuan cast an indifferent glance at Zhu Zhuqing behind him in Heaven Room Three.

Zhu Zhuqing instantly understood her master's intention. She stepped up to the window, and her bone-chilling voice carried throughout the room:

"Twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins."

Whoa!

The whole room erupted!

In Heaven Room One diagonally across from them, the smug smile froze on Ning Rongrong's face.

She turned and glared toward Heaven Room Three.

"Someone actually dares fight me for something? And they raised it by ten thousand just like that?!"

The Little Demoness, who had been pampered in the palm of her sect's hand since childhood, instantly lost her temper. Without a second thought, she slapped the railing and shouted again:

"Twenty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"Fifty thousand."

Zhu Zhuqing did not so much as lift an eyelid. Her voice remained utterly calm, as though she had named a trivial string of numbers rather than a fortune large enough to buy a small manor.

"You!"

Ning Rongrong's fair, pretty face flushed bright red.

She had snuck out of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect this time with only sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins in spending money on the purple-gold card she carried!

That single bid of fifty thousand had backed her straight into a corner!

"Sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins!!"

Ning Rongrong steeled herself and bid the entire sum on her card, then shouted viciously toward Room Three:

"Hey! You people over there, I've got my eye on these stones! If you know what's good for you, stop fighting me for them, or you'll have more trouble than you can handle!"

Hearing the childish yet overbearing threat, Keqing shook her head gently in Heaven Room Three.

"She's so arrogant just because her family has some wealth and influence."

Chu Yuan sat upright in his cushioned chair, his lips curving into an indifferent smile.

With a turn of his wrist, he took a heavy bag of Gold Soul Coin cards from his personal space, spoils from the Star Luo Empire's Soul Ancestor deathsworn the previous night. At the same time, he drew forth a thread of law power woven from the [Crown of Heavenly Principles] and [Irminsul] with his fingertip and casually infused it into an ordinary hundred-year crystal ore on the table.

Hum!

The ordinary crystal, originally worth only a dozen or so Gold Soul Coins, was permeated by the Heavenly Principles' origin. Its internal impurities were instantly stripped away, transforming it into a flawless purple-jade crystal suffused with rich life essence and the divine resonance of lightning!

"Zhu Zhuqing, throw it down to the auctioneer. Tell him one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and let the gavel settle it."

"Yes, Master!"

Zhu Zhuqing respectfully accepted the purple-jade crystal and a Gold Soul Coin card with both hands, then flicked her wrist.

Whoosh!

A streak of dark purple light crossed several dozen zhang and landed steadily on the edge of the cold-jade tray atop the auction platform.

"Heaven Room Three bids one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins! This associated spirit crystal and Gold Soul Coin card are payment in full. You may bring down the gavel, sir."

Zhu Zhuqing's icy voice echoed through the auction house.

The old auctioneer on the platform looked down in shock. When he felt the pure life energy emanating from the purple-jade crystal, his breath stopped!

This single supreme-grade spirit crystal, which could be absorbed directly to aid cultivation, could fetch an astronomical price of at least eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins in Heaven Dou City, to say nothing of the fifty thousand in cash on the bearer Gold Soul Coin card!

"Th... this is a supreme-grade life spirit crystal that money can't buy!!"

The old auctioneer was so excited that his beard trembled. How could he dare hesitate?

But in Heaven Room One diagonally across from them, Ning Rongrong was beside herself.

She had only sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins on her card and could not possibly produce one hundred thousand!

Seeing that the old auctioneer had already raised his gavel high, Ning Rongrong no longer cared about revealing her identity. She quickly leaned over the railing and called out anxiously:

"Wait! Don't bring down the gavel! I bid one hundred and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins! I only have sixty thousand on me right now, so put the remaining sixty thousand on my account. I'm Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect! Just send someone to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in Heaven Dou City to collect it. Never mind sixty thousand-even if it were six hundred thousand, my father would pay you!!"

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?!

At those words, the Soul Masters in the hall below broke into an uproar, looking toward Room One with eyes full of awe.

The old auctioneer on the platform and the chief steward who had hurried over both jolted, troubled expressions appearing on their faces.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, was indeed rich enough to rival a nation. No one dared doubt the young lady's ability to pay.

But the chief steward looked up at the deep, silent interior of Heaven Room Three and recalled the godlike bearing of the black-haired youth when he had entered, as well as the way he had casually produced a supreme-grade life spirit crystal. A fine layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was far away in Heaven Dou City, and this young lady had evidently snuck out without even a sect elder to guard her. The mysterious young master in Heaven Room Three, on the other hand, had actually produced one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in immediate payment, and the strength of the guard at his side was unfathomable!

The auction house's foremost rule was that payment and goods changed hands together; no credit was extended.

After weighing the pros and cons for no more than two breaths, the chief steward gritted his teeth and signaled the old auctioneer on the platform. Then he personally bowed deeply toward Heaven Room One and called out:

"Please forgive us, Miss Ning! The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's reputation is known throughout the world, but our establishment has had an ironclad rule since its founding: bids for the finale items must be paid in full, and there has never been an exception for credit! Our honored guest in Heaven Room Three has already paid in full. By the rules, these three strange objects from beyond the heavens belong to our honored guest in Room Three!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the old auctioneer's wooden gavel came crashing down.

"One hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins! Sold!!"

"You... you actually dare refuse to give me face?!"

At the crisp sound of the gavel, Ning Rongrong froze in Heaven Room One. Her exquisitely delicate little face went deathly pale with anger, and the rims of her eyes reddened faintly.

All her life in the sect, she had played pranks on even Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong until they had no temper left. Yet today, in this little auction house in Suotuo City, someone had crushed her with money until she could not hold her head up, and no one had even cared when she invoked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's name!

In Heaven Room Three, the chief steward soon came in personally, carrying the cold-jade tray with the utmost respect.

Chu Yuan brushed his fingertips over the tray. The Lumenstone Ore, three Adeptal Ancient Mora, and Plaustrite fragment turned into streams of light and vanished into his palm. The branches of [Irminsul] within him swayed gently, sending out a joyful resonance.

He reached out with both hands and gently stroked the delicate, silky backs of Keqing's and Mona's hands as if to soothe them.

"We have what we came for. Let's go."

Keqing and Mona exchanged smiles, then obediently rose and followed Chu Yuan out of the room.

But as the four of them crossed the red-carpeted VIP corridor on the third floor and reached the white marble stairs leading to the outer courtyard, a petite but aggressive figure in white suddenly rushed out from the side and spread her arms, blocking the center of the corridor!

"Stop! You're not allowed to leave!"

Ning Rongrong tilted up her small chin, her large, bright eyes fixed on Chu Yuan, who was walking in front, and huffed arrogantly:

"Hey! You're the one who snatched my auction items in the private room just now, aren't you? I made myself perfectly clear: I'm Ning Rongrong, a direct disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect! Hand over the blue stone and the three ancient copper coins you just bought. I'll give you all sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins I have, and write you an IOU for the remaining forty thousand. When we get to Heaven Dou City, I'll pay you back double!"

In her view, her willingness to compensate them twice over was already an enormous favor. Upon hearing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's name, these people ought to offer the items up with both hands in gratitude.

Yet Chu Yuan merely paused, casting her a downward glance with eyes as deep and dark as an abyss. He could not even muster the interest to speak to her.

There was no need for Chu Yuan to say a word.

"How dare you! You dare block Master's path!"

Zhu Zhuqing, who had been standing silently behind Chu Yuan, suddenly turned an icy gaze on Ning Rongrong. She stepped forward and instantly placed herself in front of Chu Yuan!

Boom-!

The presence of her [Hell Thunder Shadow Cat] Martial Soul at the peak of level twenty-nine erupted without restraint!

Fine arcs of dark purple lightning flickered over Zhu Zhuqing's slender, taut body. Murderous intent filled her dark purple cat eyes, and a terrifying pressure, blending the thunderous might of the Heavenly Principles with the bloody killing aura of an assassin in the dark, swept toward Ning Rongrong like a solid wave of cold!

"Ah...!"

How could Ning Rongrong, an auxiliary-type Soul Master with only level twenty-six cultivation and no practical combat experience, withstand the murderous intimidation of Zhu Zhuqing, who had just come through a bloody battle of life and death and a baptism of the Heavenly Principles' lightning and shadow?

She felt as though a primeval ferocious cat wreathed in startling purple-black lightning was pouncing straight at her!

Such... such a terrifying presence... She looks about the same age as me, so how can her pressure be this strong?!

Ning Rongrong's heart pounded. She instinctively looked up over Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder and met the deep eyes of the black-haired youth behind her.

Their eyes met for only an instant, yet an unprecedented, inexplicable wave of heart-pounding dread and trembling rose from the depths of the soul of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's fearless Little Demoness.