Fiery Eyes!

After selling his only valuable possession, the next items up for auction had nothing to do with Liang Qu.

He sat in the private room, enjoying the music and broadening his horizons with everyone.

"Divine Gang Dew, can regenerate severed limbs up to the level of Wolf Smoke, clears meridians and removes stagnation, starting bid is one thousand taels!"

"Ksitigarbha Wood, a precious tree species that survives a thousand years buried underground and is reborn. It is half charcoal and half plant, half alive and half dead. The tree in front of you is Golden Thread Phoebe Wood tree. The starting bid is 1,200 taels!"

Half-alive, half-dead; half-charcoal, half-plant.

Clearly, like the Two Lives Flower, it is a treasure that Similar Yet Dissimilar, and it is excellent as a resource for cultivating the Dragon Tiger Golden Body.

Unfortunately, Liang Qu was not qualified to make a purchase, as he only had a little over three hundred taels of silver on him, and had to listen to others buy it for a huge sum of four thousand six hundred taels.

"Purple Bamboo Tendon, a single section every hundred years, a treasured bowstring, starting bid eight hundred taels!"

"Thunder Character Seal Technique, intermediate-level martial arts, starting bid five hundred taels!"

"Bone Transformation Axe, Spirit Weapon."

"Ice Step, each step leaves behind frost."

heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Cultivation Method techniques, and Spirit Weapon and armor—the auction will have everything.

When the number of items auctioned reached sixtieth, the transaction price soared to over ten thousand taels of silver.

Inside the private room, Yang Dongxiong spent a huge sum of 18,000 taels of silver to bid for a heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Liang Qu is not surprising.

The Guangwu Martial Arts School used to generate several thousand taels of revenue a year when it was in Ping Yang Town, and now it's even more than ten thousand.

Not to mention that Yang Dongxiong has other sources of income, such as the fact that the County Magistrate of Chao River County invited his Master to oversee things last year, which must have cost a lot.

As the starting price increased, the competition gradually shrank from the first and second floors to the very front of the first floor and the second floor. After a hundred items were sold, it became rare for anyone from the first floor to bid.

A full hour passed, and more than a hundred items were sold in succession, leaving Liang Qu astonished at just how Fugui the people of Ping Yang County were these days.

Zhu Bingcan on stage showed no signs of fatigue, his face was still rosy, and he was even somewhat excited.

A waiter pushed a cart onto the stage, which was covered with a black cloth.

"The last item up for auction today."

Zhu Bingcan pinched the black cloth between his fingers, suddenly lifted it, and slowly floated down to the audience.

"The Ten Thousand Year Immortal Vine can extend the lifespan of ordinary people by eight years! Even Perfected Elephant Grandmaster can extend their lifespan by more than three years. Starting bid: 50,000 taels of silver!"

Finally, it was time for the last item to be auctioned.

The longevity-extending treasure, named the Ten Thousand Year Immortal Vine, lasted a full eight years!

As the main item for the first auction in Ping Yang County and the future Pingyang Prefecture, the starting price alone was as high as 50,000 taels of silver, but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the auctioneers at all, and the entire venue was swept up in a bidding frenzy.

"One hundred thousand taels!"

"One hundred thousand! The bidder with license plate number eight has offered one hundred thousand!"

Liang Qu recognized Xu Yuelong's voice. The voice was somewhat nonchalant, lacking any seriousness, and even less serious than when Xu Yuelong went fishing on the river every day with his fishing rod.

"150,000!"

"150,000! Number Fifteen has bid 150,000!"

"160,000."

"180,000."

Two hundred thousand!

From 160,000 to 200,000, each increase of tens of thousands of taels of silver was casually mentioned by the crowd as easily as the few copper coins that Aunt Zhang in Liang Qu's family would shave off every day when she went to buy vegetables.

Two hundred and fifty thousand.

Liang Qu felt that the voice that shouted 250,000 sounded familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that it was the County Magistrate of Ping Yang County.

He had met her at the academy before, and the disdainful look she gave him while he was writing remained fresh in his memory.

The bidding was incredibly enthusiastic, and the price of the Ten Thousand Year Immortal Vine quickly reached a staggering 300,000!

At this point, even Yang Dongxiong was no longer qualified to participate, and the number of people in the entire venue who could continue to bid was no more than two hands.

Liang Qu counted, and on the surface, there were roughly the leaders of the Three Laws Department, two from the Demon Subduing Division, two from the River Conservancy Office, plus Jian Zhongyi, making a total of six people.

Of course, there may be other big shots hiding in the crowd who are simply not interested in the life-extending treasure.

As the highlight of this auction, the bidding has already lasted for half a cup of tea's time, more than twice that of the other lots, and the value is still increasing.

Three hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred and eighty thousand, four hundred thousand.

"Four hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Four hundred and eighty thousand!"

Four hundred and eighty thousand!

Everyone was overwhelmed by this enormous number.

Even if it's not your own money, hearing about such terrifying wealth will still make your heart skip a beat and your hands and feet go cold.

"480,000 per time!"

"480,002 times!"

"480,003 times!"

"Make a deal!"

Zhu Bingcan's hammer fell like an iron nail driven into Wooden Head.

"Congratulations to Player Number Three for winning the Immortal Vine!"

The final price was 480,000 taels of silver, and the winner was Jian Zhongyi, the County Magistrate of Ping Yang County!

It was 200,000 taels more than the second-to-last item's price of 280,000 taels, effectively doubling the price! The crowd fell silent.

Inside the venue, there were more than a dozen large Ice Platform emitting cold air, yet some people still couldn't resist pulling down their collars to get some fresh air, as if they were caught in a torrent of money and couldn't breathe.

"480,000? How long would it take me to earn that much?"

Xu Zishuai muttered to himself, counting on his fingers how much money he would need to live one more day.

"Forty-eight hundred thousand, that's sixty thousand taels of silver a year. With over three hundred and sixty days a year, that's a total of one hundred and sixty-six taels and six mace per day..."

If Grandmaster were to take it, the dosage would be 438 taels, 3 mace, and 5 fen per day.

Liang Qu looked at Xu Zishuai in surprise, not expecting that his Fourth Senior Brother was so good at math. He was sure that he could make a lot of money as a shopkeeper.

However, he was also shocked by this exaggerated number.

An ordinary farmer toils in the fields for a year and can only reap a few taels of silver. The cost of living just one more day is equivalent to the entire output of an ordinary person over thirty or forty years.

How long can a person live? Fifty or sixty years, maybe ten years less, ten years older, then forty more, and then sixty.

In other words, the cost of extending one's life by one day is equivalent to the output of someone else's entire life.

Time truly is precious, and even a pound of gold cannot buy back an inch of time.

What is the most precious treasure in the world? Only the treasure that prolongs life.

Once you reach the Grandmaster level and comprehend Divine Ability, relying solely on heavenly materials and earthly treasures is no longer sufficient to break through your current realm.

If you want to live a few more years, you can only rely on external things.

With power and wealth, and the willingness to spend, one can naturally drive up the price of longevity items to an astonishing level, far exceeding the reach of ordinary treasures.

Liang Qu was a bit strange.

"If I remember correctly, County Magistrate Jian should be in his prime, so why is he so obsessed with the treasure for prolonging life?"

He had met Jian Zhongyi once in person. People would believe he was in his twenties, let alone his thirties or forties.

"Perhaps it was given to an elder in the clan." Xu Zishuai pondered for a moment. "I remember that among the three Perfected Elephant Grandmaster of the Jian Family, one is extremely old, over three hundred and twenty years old. He has lived from the previous dynasty to the present day and has almost reached the limit of True Image. That one seems to be a direct descendant of Jian Zhongyi?"

No wonder.

Perfected Elephant Grandmaster's lifespan was no more than three hundred years, but he lived to be over three hundred and twenty. He must have consumed countless longevity treasures, which must have been an astronomical figure.

That's terrifying.

Such a powerful Aristocratic Clan background! "Our most talented one should be our junior brother. Who knows, he might even build a Liang Family that will last for a thousand years! When that time comes, don't forget us senior brothers and sisters."

Liang Qu laughed and said, "If I can establish Aristocratic Clan, I will definitely marry into the family with my senior brothers."

"Then I'll arrange a marriage between my junior brother and me."

"Count me in," Xiang ChangSong interjected.

Establishing Aristocratic Clan is not easy; even Perfected Elephant Grandmaster is not guaranteed unless there are multiple Grandmasters or a Martial Saint emerges.

How difficult it is to become Martial Saint!

"It's not impossible..."

Having possessed the Ze Cauldron himself, and with the Marsh Ape only at thirty percent fused with it, he could already deal with ordinary Great Monster Spirit. If it were fully fused, wouldn't he even be able to contend with Hunting Tiger- Demon Beast? And beyond that, the Water King Ape, and ultimately, the Wu Zhiqi ...

The Young Dragon Martial Saint is not the end for Liang Qu.

Rainbow Transformation, a state of Feather Transformation to immortality, with an aura like a rainbow stretching for ten thousand miles, and a lifespan of unknown length...

Lu Gang patted Liang Qu on the shoulder. "Let's go, Junior Brother, didn't you win a pair of Golden Eye? It's time to go get them."

"Good."

Liang Qu followed behind his Master and several senior brothers. Zhu Bingcan was already overseeing the end of the auction, arranging a free meal for everyone, and sending people to trade the auctioned items.

Liang Qu, holding his number plate, found the Golden-Eyed Beast, number eight.

As he got closer, the allure of those Golden Eye doubled; he couldn't help but want to chop them off and devour them on the spot.

The accompanying attendant carefully removed the pair of dazzling eyes from the enormous head of the Golden-Eyed Beast using special tools, immersed them in a transparent glass bottle, placed them on a tray, and handed them to Liang Qu with both hands.

Liang Qu picked up the glass bottle, then looked at the corpse of the Golden-Eyed Beast that had been pushed away, and felt a strange mix of emotions.

Why.

I spent 3,600 taels of silver, and all I got was a pair of eyes; I couldn't even get a piece of meat to eat.

Fortunately, the most valuable part of the Golden-Eyed Beast is its pair of Golden Eye.

The presence of two eyes makes it far more valuable than ordinary Great Monster Spirit; the rest of its features are merely embellishments.

It's not too bad.

"Will I ever be able to obtain the Fiery Eyes Golden Eyes...?"

Liang Qu was filled with excitement.