Chapter 36: Successfully Acquired - Battle Through the Heavens: The Flame Emperor Is My Grandson

Successfully Acquired

"Let me ask one more time: is anyone bidding on this Basic Formation Annotations? If not, this item will be withdrawn, and we'll begin the bidding for the next item."

Seeing that not a single person in the auction hall was actually making a bid, Mittel Tengshan, who had spent so long talking it up earlier, felt rather embarrassed.

"Ah, I knew this Basic Formation Annotations would probably go unsold, but Hai Bodong told me to bring it out and make use of it. Now look at this—I can't even step down from the stage..."

Faced with this scene, Mittel Tengshan could not help muttering to himself.

If Hai Bodong had not mentioned it, he had been ready to use this Basic Formation Annotations to prop up a table leg at home!

After all, in this world, if someone could cultivate Dou Qi, who would bother with formations?

In the world of Battle Through the Heavens, no one knew what had happened in the past, but inheritances such as formations and artifact forging had nearly been severed.

Only alchemy had continued to be passed down to the present day.

No, that was not quite right. Although formations and artifact forging still existed in the current world—

Relatively speaking, these two professions were simply far too niche!

Leaving artifact forging aside, formations alone were enough to make the point.

In the world of Battle Through the Heavens, formations were mostly used to protect sects, clans, and similar places.

Although there were some powerful offensive formations, such formations were generally set up beforehand by one side before the battle began.

As for setting up a formation on the spot during battle to kill an enemy, that was simply a dream!

You might not even have finished setting up half the formation before the enemy killed you first.

Tell me, under those circumstances, how were you supposed to set up a formation in the middle of a fight?

Even some sect-protecting grand formations, such as the Misty Cloud Sect's Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation, required vast amounts of resources for maintenance even when they were inactive.

Once activated, the consumption of resources would increase severalfold.

Only the wealthy Misty Cloud Sect could afford such expenses. A Dou Wang household like the Xiao Household simply could not bear the cost of a large-scale formation!

Besides, even if you set up a formation beforehand, someone might accidentally destroy it.

Taking all these factors together, pursuing formations in the world of Battle Through the Heavens had no future!

Looking through the entire original Battle Through the Heavens novel, had a single Formation Master ever appeared?

The answer was no.

Only those who truly had no talent for Dou Qi would consider becoming Formation Masters.

And if you could only set up a few small formations, you would still be useless.

Even if you could set up large-scale formations, once a sect had you finish setting one up, you would still be of no further use.

That was precisely why Formation Masters in the world of Battle Through the Heavens could be described as utterly worthless!

After all, if some formations could be set up even by people who were not Formation Masters, what was the point of having Formation Masters?

The reason the path of formations on the Dou Qi Continent was so distorted was most likely because its inheritance had been severed, leading to the decline of Formation Masters.

However, Xiao Lin knew that in the world above Battle Through the Heavens—the Greater World—

Formation Masters shone brilliantly in that incomparably dazzling world!

That was because the Greater World possessed a complete inheritance for the path of formations.

Therefore, Formation Masters held an extremely high status in the Greater World.

In the Greater World, powerful Formation Masters could set up a heaven-shaking grand formation in an instant to face their enemies.

Even relatively weak Formation Masters could instantly create a powerful formation through formation disks.

It could be said that Formation Masters in the Greater World could set up formations at any time during battle to confront their enemies.

Naturally, this gave Formation Masters a completely different level of status.

Xiao Lin had never imagined that he could instantly reach the level of a Greater World Formation Master, but he could still start with the basics and prepare in advance for ascending to the Greater World someday by clinging to his grandson's thigh.

In any case, there was still quite some time before the original plot began. He could take this opportunity to study formations whenever he had free time and add another side profession for himself.

After all, he could no longer become an alchemist, so becoming a Formation Master—or a Spirit Array Master, as they were commonly called in the Greater World—should be fine, right?

Although Xiao Lin did not know whether he would succeed, there was no harm in giving it a try.

Therefore, just as the Basic Formation Annotations was about to be withdrawn, Xiao Lin finally spoke.

"11,000 gold coins."

Xiao Lin's voice clearly rang through the entire auction hall and reached Mittel Tengshan's ears on the auction stage.

The next second, with a swish, everyone's gazes converged on VIP Room No. 6 on the second floor, where Xiao Lin was located.

Even Mittel Tengshan, the auctioneer on stage, was stunned for a moment.

He truly had not expected that just before he was about to declare the item withdrawn, some kind-hearted person would actually place a bid!

Heavens and earth, which kind-hearted person had stepped in and saved him from continuing to embarrass himself?

Although the other party had only raised the bid by the minimum amount of 1,000 gold coins, that voice still sounded like heavenly music to Mittel Tengshan.

At that moment, he only wanted to properly thank the person who had made the bid.

And when he saw that the bidder was someone in VIP Room No. 6 on the second floor, his favorable impression of the Xiao Household instantly soared to the maximum.

As the auctioneer for this large-scale auction, how could Mittel Tengshan not know that the people in VIP Room No. 6 were from the Xiao Household, a newly risen Dou Wang household?

"The Xiao Household really knows what they're doing! If there's an opportunity in the future, we should expand our cooperation with them!"

That was Mittel Tengshan's truest thought at the moment.

As for the others at the auction, they all looked at VIP Room No. 6, where Xiao Lin was, as though looking at fools.

Even if the Xiao Household was a newly risen Dou Wang household with plenty of money, they should not spend it like this, should they?

At that moment, quite a few people took Xiao Lin's bid as the Xiao Household showing off and trying to save face!

In response, Xiao Lin could only give them two words: "Hehe."

"Alright, the honored guest in Room No. 6 has bid 11,000 gold coins. Is anyone willing to offer a higher price?"

After recovering, Mittel Tengshan immediately asked.

However, no one still stepped forward to bid against Xiao Lin.

But Mittel Tengshan no longer cared in the slightest.

As long as the Basic Formation Annotations did not go unsold today, he had a way out!

"11,000 gold coins, once!"

"11,000 gold coins, twice!"

"11,000 gold coins, three times! Sold! From this moment on, this Basic Formation Annotations belongs to the honored guest in Room No. 6."

Xiao Lin did not know whether it was just his imagination, but he felt that Mittel Tengshan had announced the sale far too quickly this time.

In the previous bidding rounds, every time Mittel Tengshan asked for higher bids, he had always waited no less than five seconds.

But this time, the interval had actually been shortened to three seconds!

What did that mean?

It meant Mittel Tengshan wanted to get rid of this Basic Formation Annotations as soon as possible. From the look of things, he even seemed afraid Xiao Lin would regret it.

Sure enough, from the announcement of the successful bid to the delivery of the Basic Formation Annotations into Xiao Lin's hands, less than three minutes had passed!

After obtaining the Basic Formation Annotations, a smile also appeared on Xiao Lin's lips.

During this trip to the auction, he had successfully acquired everything he had planned to bid on!

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Successfully Acquired