After recovering his thoughts, Yang Cheng took out a jade plaque and waved it at the cave door, and the door immediately opened.
Yang Cheng strolled in and immediately looked around.
The cave is quite large and is divided into the living room as soon as you enter, and there are bedrooms, guest rooms, practice rooms, and utility rooms inside.
There is also a room with many small holes on the outer wall, allowing sunlight to filter in. It seems to be used to grow medicinal herbs or serve as a spiritual animal room.
In addition, the cave was fully furnished with tables, chairs, and exquisite materials, which made Yang Cheng, who had just rented it for fifty years and paid a large sum of spiritual stones, feel that it was worth the money.
The floor of the cave is covered with thick carpets, and there are glazed windows on both sides of the living room door, which provides very good lighting.
It is very convenient for the cave owner to drink tea by himself or receive guests.
Of course, this is not all the services this place can provide.
At the bottom of the canyon is a small stream, with countless small bridges built. There are restaurants and shops on both sides of the stream, and monks can choose according to their needs.
In addition, outside the canyon, there are several buildings near where Manager Su is, where some information is released regularly.
Mainly for the time and place of auctions held by various merchants in Flower City, interested monks can follow the information to participate.
In addition, it is also available for everyone to use.
For example, if someone needs a certain material but is hard to find it at the moment, they can post information here.
If someone else happens to be willing to take action, the two of them can make an appointment to trade privately.
There are also people who want to organize a small exchange meeting or something. As long as you specify the time and place, you can also post the information here.
You can even ask for the number of participants to avoid having too many people come, which would be bad.
Including Yang Cheng who wants to exchange cultivation experiences with some colleagues, he can also publish information.
Moreover, Manager Su and the others do not charge for the information and services provided above, leaving it up to everyone to solve their own problems.
With such a set-up, Yang Cheng immediately felt that living here was worth the money.
After sitting on the chair in the living room for a while and replacing the spiritual stone for the cave ban, Yang Cheng opened the door and went out.
In the previous introduction, Manager Su happened to mention that there was an auction to be held today, and Yang Cheng was going to take a look.
After flying out of the canyon, Yang Cheng fell into the light and walked into the hall where information was released.
Soon Yang Cheng found the information about the auction, which was indeed the same as what Manager Su said. But seeing that there was still some time, he curiously browsed in the main hall.
Looking at them one by one, there was a wide variety of information released by the monks, and there was actually everything. In addition to elixirs and herbs and other alchemy and weapon refining materials, there were also some weird demands, which made Yang Cheng eye-opening.
For example, a monk posted a message saying that the spiritual wine he carefully prepared and has a twenty-year life span has been brewed. Now he invites guests and fellow believers to attend his wine tasting party on a certain day and place. The number of people is limited to thirty people.
Buy quickly!
Below the message hangs a string of small wooden signs with numbers written on them.
Yang Cheng took a look and saw that there were still five days left before the wine tasting, and there were only seven or eight small wooden signs left. It seemed that there were quite a few people interested in the twenty-year-old spirit wine.
There is another message with a picture of a cat, saying that his spiritual beast, the civet cat, has been out for several days but has not returned. If any Taoist friends see it and provide accurate clues, there will be a heavy reward!
What made Yang Cheng laugh the most was that a mid-stage foundation-building monk named Shang Hai posted a message seeking Taoist companions.
When Yang Cheng saw that Shang Hai's requirements for Taoist monks' appearance and figure were: beautiful appearance, fair skin, slender figure, gentle personality, and no bad habits, he couldn't help laughing anymore.
This also made a short old man with a white beard next to him, who was admiring Shang Hai's calligraphy, very dissatisfied and glared at Yang Cheng from time to time.
After hurriedly walking around a few places, Yang Cheng came to the Jingmeng River again. After crossing the bridge, he hired a carriage and went to attend the auction.
When he arrived at the place, Yang Cheng got off the bus and paid the fare, then raised his head and began to look around.
The buildings are the same as those in Zijin City, with the same carved beams and painted beams and elegant decoration.
However, Yang Cheng was only interested in today's auction items and lost interest after just two glances.
Under the guidance of the reception maid arranged by the auctioneer, Yang Cheng, who was in the middle stage of foundation building, came to a private room on the second floor and sat on a large chair.
After the maid served Yang Cheng the spiritual tea, she retreated to the door and stood waiting, waiting for Yang Cheng's call at any time.
After taking a look at the chaotic scene in the hall, Yang Cheng simply leaned back on his chair and closed his eyes to rest, waiting for the auction to officially begin.
After tea time, the auctioneer came on stage and the hall became quiet.
After the opening introduction, three or four more female qi-refining cultivators appeared on the stage carrying the auction items, and the auction began.
Yang Cheng's main goal today is elixirs, and Yang Cheng can also take action when he encounters a suitable magic weapon.
There are not many elixirs available in Fanhua City, and they are mainly suitable for the early stages of foundation building, which makes Yang Cheng a little worried.
On the other hand, from time to time at auctions, some elixirs suitable for mid- to late-stage foundation building will appear.
"Advanced magical weapon Yin Yang Sword..."
"Ice Blade..."
"Five Elements Ring..."
"The main function of the top-level magic weapon Nine Sons Connecting Needle is..."
Under the inflammatory words of the auctioneer, each magical weapon was auctioned off.
Yang Cheng was not interested in these low-level magic weapons. He drank tea slowly and watched the monks in the hall shout out their bids. Occasionally, there were also foundation-building monks sitting in the box bidding.
After hearing the auctioneer mention the top-level magic weapon, Yang Cheng took a closer look and saw that it turned out to be a complete set of flying needle magic tools.
This type of magical weapon is suitable for monks with powerful souls, and Yang Cheng is also a little tempted.
However, before Yang Cheng called out the price, the bidding for the Flying Needle Artifact suddenly became popular, and the price skyrocketed, quickly exceeding its own value.
Obviously, there are many foundation-building monks who are interested in this set of magical tools.
After hesitating for a moment, Yang Cheng had no choice but to give up and watched as another person bought this set of flying needle instruments for nearly twice the price.
"Three Flower Pills, a bottle of ten pills, the price..."
Then the auctioneer read out the elixir suitable for the middle and late stages of foundation building.
"Four hundred spirit stones!"
After Yang Cheng shouted out a price that was already quite high, his eyebrows wrinkled slightly and returned to normal.
But when he saw the price rising and falling, quickly reaching the seven hundred spirit stones, Yang Cheng lost his intention to continue bidding.
"Three drops of the essence and blood of the blue-eyed black-striped tiger in the elixir formation stage, the starting price is three thousand spirit stones, and each increase in price must not be less than fifty spirit stones!"
Half an hour later, just as the auction was coming to an end, and Yang Cheng thought that the auction was going to be a failure, he suddenly heard the auctioneer's words, and his heart suddenly moved.
There was a sudden silence in the hall, which made the auctioneer a little worried.
Precisely because it is not widely used, they did not dare to set the starting price too high. However, judging from the reaction at the scene, it seemed that there was a possibility that the auction would not be successful.
"Four thousand spirit stones!"
Suddenly a voice sounded from the box.
After seeing that no one spoke at the scene, Yang Cheng called out the first offer and raised the price of a thousand spirit stones in one fell swoop.
Yang Cheng had to buy the essence and blood of the demonic beast in the pill formation stage, but he didn't want to get caught up in the bidding. In this case, by raising the price sharply for the first time, he could scare many people who wanted to fish in troubled waters.
"Four thousand spiritual stones! A fellow Taoist bids for four thousand spiritual stones. Is there any other fellow daoist who will continue to bid?" Upon hearing someone bidding, the auctioneer breathed a sigh of relief and immediately heightened the atmosphere.
"Four thousand one hundred spirit stones."
Amidst the auctioneer's hard work, a voice came from the box on the third floor.
Yang Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly, but he felt that the tone of this pill-forming stager was not too firm. He paused and said again: "Five thousand spirit stones."
Sure enough, after Yang Cheng increased the price by another nine hundred spirit stones, there was no sound anymore in the private room on the third floor. Yang Cheng successfully photographed the essence and blood of the blue-eyed and black-striped tiger.
Then the maid outside opened the door, and another maid came in carrying a tray.
After taking a look, Yang Cheng picked up the porcelain bottle from the tray, opened it gently and checked it, then immediately changed his expression, capped the porcelain bottle, and re-sealed the seal.
Then he took out a prepared storage bag and threw it into the tray, then carefully put the porcelain bottle away.
After successfully capturing the required materials, Yang Cheng immediately relaxed and began to watch the final product.
"The Panlong Seal is a slightly damaged magic weapon that can exert 70% of the original's strength. The starting price is eight thousand spiritual stones, and each increase in price must not be less than one hundred spiritual stones."
Following the auctioneer's introduction, a late-stage foundation-building monk who brought this treasure to the stage began to demonstrate several subtle powers of the Panlong Seal.
Seeing that the demonstration was completed, the auctioneer announced the start of the bidding.
"Eight thousand spirit stones!"
"Nine thousand spiritual stones."
...
"Twenty-five thousand spirit stones, I will decide on this thing!"
"Hmph! Old monster, you just want to take the damaged magic weapon with these few spiritual stones. Are you thinking too simplistically? I will give you 30,000 spiritual stones."
...
"Fifty-nine thousand spiritual stones! Are there any more bids? Fifty-nine thousand spiritual stones! The last time!" the auctioneer said loudly, holding the gavel in his hand.
"Boom!"
Seeing that no one bid, the auctioneer's gavel fell heavily, and the last auction item was finally sold at the high level of fifty-nine thousand spiritual stones.
Yang Cheng looked at Panlong Yin and his eyes flickered.
In fact, if the price was not too high, he would be a little tempted to get this damaged magic weapon.
But it's a pity that the two old monsters in the Danjie stage who made bids seemed to be unable to deal with each other, and they actually quarreled and raised the price to a high level that he could not bear.
Before paying the rent of the cave, maybe Yang Cheng would consider it. Now, Yang Cheng can only watch it fall into someone else's storage bag.
As far as Yang Cheng knows, the price of some magic weapons with slightly biased functions is between 60,000 and 80,000 spirit stones.
The auction price of this incomplete magic weapon was nearly 60,000 spiritual stones, which seemed a bit high. It was only a thousand spiritual stones away from the lowest intact magic weapon.
But in fact there is a huge difference between the two.
One is an auxiliary magic weapon, and although the other one has been damaged, it can be used both offensively and defensively, and still has 70% power.
If it were Yang Cheng to choose, unless the auxiliary magic weapon happened to be useful to him, he would definitely choose the slightly incomplete Panlong Seal.
With his current level of cultivation, this kind of magic weapon that cannot exert its full power is just right.
Following Yang Cheng seemed to have suddenly thought of something, he understood immediately and smiled bitterly. It can only be said that these pill-forming stages are all cunning and cunning, and they cannot be fooled at will.
It is simply harder than climbing to the sky to pick out the leaks from these people. This chapter has been completed!