Li Family Stirs Up Trouble (Please Keep Reading!!!)

Inside the hall, quite a few cultivators who practiced fire-attribute techniques immediately began calling out bids.

"One hundred ninety!"

"Two hundred!"

"Two hundred fifty!" Ye Jingcheng directly called out a high price, one that had already surpassed the Redleaf Fruit from the previous round of auction!

In terms of value, the Redleaf Fruit was naturally on par with the Red Dragon Fruit!

Ye Jingcheng had named that price precisely because he wanted to suppress everyone else.

Yet at that very moment, an ill-timed voice rang out:

"Two hundred sixty!"

Ye Jingcheng looked to the side and saw that it was the young Li Family cultivator, Li Xiangcai.

He rose to his feet, brimming with swagger as he provocatively glanced in Ye Jingcheng's direction.

"Two hundred seventy!" Ye Jingcheng forcibly suppressed his anger and continued bidding!

"Two hundred eighty!" Li Xiangcai spoke again!

At this moment, it was as though the other party had decided Ye Jingcheng was determined to buy it.

"Jingcheng, I still have a hundred spirit stones. If you need them, I'll give them to you as well!" Ye Jingli said from beside him. He too could not stand the Li Family cultivators' smug faces.

That gave Ye Jingcheng confidence!

He directly bid three hundred spirit stones!

"Three hundred ten spirit stones!" Li Xiangcai spoke again, provocatively.

Seeing this, how could Ye Jingcheng not realize that Li Xiangcai was deliberately causing trouble!

At this rate, let alone his three hundred seventy spirit stones, even a thousand might not be enough to secure it!

Just then, Ye Xinghe's voice sounded in his mind.

"Stop bidding. The family will bid for you!"

"Understood, Uncle!"

Ye Jingcheng froze upon hearing that, then hurriedly replied through voice transmission.

On the surface, however, he still looked desperately anxious. He even took out his storage pouch and kept peering into it, as if counting how many spirit stones he had left.

At the sight of this, Li Xiangcai looked even more arrogant and pleased with himself.

He cast Ye Jingcheng a mocking look, as though laughing at him for being some country bumpkin.

"Three hundred ten spirit stones. Any further bids?" Fallen Fragrance Fairy continued in a seductive voice.

Her voice was so soft and syrupy that the cultivators could not help wanting to bid a few more times!

"Three hundred twenty spirit stones! We can't let Fallen Fragrance Fairy be left hanging!" a Rogue Cultivator suddenly said with a laugh!

Li Xiangcai did not bid this time. Instead, he cast Ye Jingcheng a provocative glance before calmly sitting back down!

The Red Dragon Fruit was ultimately won by a Rogue Cultivator for the high price of three hundred twenty spirit stones.

Naturally, this left Ye Jingcheng somewhat resentful. Li Xiangcai's target had been him all along.

Although Ye Xinghe had helped him win it, those extra spirit stones were a real expense.

The auction continued, and magical artifacts were brought out next.

The auction grew ever more fevered.

All kinds of magical artifacts and heavenly treasures left Ye Jingcheng deeply envious!

As an alchemist, he naturally recognized many precious spirit materials.

Just then, the Fallen Fragrance auctioneer took out a string of beads.

This string of jade beads was entirely fashioned from various jade spirit stones. Not only was it exquisitely beautiful, but the spirit patterns engraved upon it were also quite profound.

"These are Spellfall Beads. There are six beads in total, capable of storing six first-rank high-grade spells—equivalent to six spirit talismans that will never run out. Cultivators who frequently enter and leave Taihang Mountain may begin bidding!" Fallen Fragrance Fairy stroked the surface of the jade beads. Spiritual light drifted around them, complementing her graceful, alluring figure and the flashes of springtime revealed beneath her garments.

The cultivators below immediately stirred restlessly!

"This magical artifact starts at three hundred spirit stones. Each increase must be no less than ten spirit stones!"

"Three hundred fifty!"

"Four hundred!"

Almost the instant the bidding began, many cultivators impatiently began shouting their offers.

Each bid climbed higher than the last!

Li Xiangcai was among them as well!

He called out the high price of eight hundred!

In an instant, the auction pavilion fell silent!

Clearly, this price had already reached the limit for the Spellfall Beads.

"Eight hundred and ten!" At that moment, a lazy voice rang out!

The speaker was none other than Ye Jingcheng.

He, too, rose to his feet and looked at Li Xiangcai as though provoking him!

Seeing this, Li Xiangcai was furious. He had only just treated Ye Jingcheng that way, yet now Ye Jingcheng was raising his bid instead!

"One thousand spirit stones. Do you dare follow?" Li Xiangcai directly raised the price by two hundred!

Ye Jingcheng did not stand up again. He had only meant to jack up the price and disgust Li Xiangcai. If he raised it again, Li Xiangcai might well give up!

He simply had not expected the other man to raise it by two hundred spirit stones in one go, like some gullible fool.

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist, on obtaining the Spellfall Beads!" In the distance, Auctioneer Fallen Fragrance brought down her hammer to seal the deal.

However, Li Xiangcai's expression was quite ugly at the moment. He could clearly have bought them for eight hundred, yet he had spent a full two hundred spirit stones more!

In the following auctions, Li Xiangcai continued to bid recklessly, but Ye Jingcheng remained unmoved!

Instead, Li Xiangcai ended up buying several more items.

To Ye Jingcheng, continuing to raise the prices now might end up hurting himself instead.

There were only a little over two hundred spirit stones in his storage pouch. It worked the first time, but it would not be nearly as effective the second time.

Once was enough for this sort of thing.

"Alright, next come the three grand finale treasures you have all been eagerly awaiting!"

As a burst of noise rose up, Fallen Fragrance Fairy clapped her hands. Three female cultivators veiled in gauze emerged, each carrying a tray.

Every tray was covered with spirit cloth, concealing even the slightest trace of spiritual aura.

When the spirit cloth over the first tray was lifted, a pincer-like magic artifact was revealed.

"This is the Black Flood Dragon Pincers, a second-rank mid-grade magic artifact. It was crafted from the scales of a second-rank black flood dragon, and no fewer than eighty-one formation diagrams have been inscribed upon it. All you Foundation Establishment seniors are in for a treat. Let me also add that this treasure is a magic artifact with an artifact spirit!"

"The starting bid is two thousand three hundred spirit stones! Each increase must be no less than ten spirit stones!" Fallen Fragrance announced.

This time, few voices rose from below.

There were not many Foundation Establishment cultivators or Foundation Establishment factions present.

The first to speak was Li Xiangcai:

"This should be the magic artifact of an old friend of the Ye Family. I'll support it with ten—two thousand three hundred and ten spirit stones!"

"Not a single stone more!" Li Mutian said with malicious amusement.

"What does the Li Family mean by that? Are you trying to suppress this old man's bid?" At that moment, a dark-faced burly man in a neighboring private room glared at the Li Family.

"So it is Blackwood Daoist. Of course not. Li merely misunderstood!" Li Mutian hurriedly replied with an apologetic smile.

Although Blackwood Daoist was only a Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator, what cultivator who could establish their foundation as a Rogue Cultivator was not kind-faced and black-hearted?

Moreover, Rogue Cultivators had no attachments and could act without scruple. Even the Li Family greatly feared cultivators like him.

"Two thousand five hundred spirit stones!" Li Mutian adjusted his bid again, this time making it a normal one—not too low, not too high.

"Fellow Daoist Li truly has thick skin. Two thousand six hundred spirit stones!" Ye Xinghe also spoke up to bid for the first time!

He shot Li Mutian a glance, as though looking at an idiot.

This scene made Li Mutian even more enraged!

The price of the Black Flood Dragon Pincers rose once more!

In the end, it was sold to Li Mutian for a full four thousand spirit stones!

This sight shocked the entire auction hall.

Even Fallen Fragrance Fairy, as the auctioneer, was glowing with delight, her smile radiant.

Ye Xinghe, meanwhile, began making calculations in his heart. Li Mutian had been acting rather wildly today. That Bloodheart Pill coming up next seemed as though it had been prepared specifically for the Ye Family!

When things were abnormal, there was bound to be something amiss. The Ye Family had not been targeted for merely a day or two.

"The second grand finale item is a second-rank low-grade spirit puppet. This spirit puppet possesses strength equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage. There is no need for this little woman to explain its usefulness—I trust none of you will misjudge it!"

"The starting bid is two thousand five hundred spirit stones, and each increase must be no less than ten spirit stones!"

After another round of bidding, this magic artifact was ultimately sold for four thousand eight hundred spirit stones.

Unlike second-rank magic artifacts, which could only be used by Foundation Establishment cultivators, a second-rank spirit puppet could serve as part of a family's foundation.

In the end, it was purchased by a Chu Family cultivator from Idle Cloud Peak!

"Alright, everyone, I believe quite a few cultivators can hardly wait any longer. This next grand finale treasure is precisely the Bloodheart Pill!" Fallen Fragrance Fairy lifted the brocade cloth, revealing a pill bottle!

Inside the pill bottle was a blood-red spirit pill, brimming with spiritual radiance.