Chương 79: Of Course, A Cultivation Story Must Have An Auction Plot

While creating some distance from the girl who gives off an inhuman vibe, Ren Qingquan told me, 'System, add a level 1 subsystem with [Scan] on her.' I anchored her and applied a [Scan] before leaving a small part of my attention to understand her anatomy. While Ren Qingquan wandered around the city, I learned more about the girl. Her name is Bai Yuelan, and she's actually a genius with a heaven-grade ice and yin spirit root.

I know about such private knowledge thanks to the random passerby who was previously given a Level 1 subsystem with [Scan]. That unknown passerby once again became a spectator when Bai Yuelan somehow met a young master who thinks with his lower half and decided to woo her even amid her rejection. That young master only left after pestering her for almost half an hour, but I have a feeling things haven't ended yet.

No matter how I saw it, she fulfilled both the physical description and the trope of those jade beauties in cultivation novels, capable of causing so much trouble just by existing. Just like the jade beauties in those cultivation novels, she also has her fair share of problems. Not long after the first young master left, I already saw her being harassed by another random young master from god knows where.

The second time, Bai Yuelan encountered a random young master who tried to shamelessly pursue her and even wanted to kidnap her. She even found herself in a damsel-in-distress plot and met someone most likely to be another child of destiny. The suspected child of destiny fought the young master and killed many of his lackeys before the young master left with his tail between his legs. The most ridiculous thing is that all this happened in less than an hour.

The life of a child of destiny is indeed extremely fulfilling. Anyway, upon finding a clue about another child of destiny, I informed Ren Qingquan. [Host, while observing the girl named Bai Yuelan, who gives you an uncanny vibe, System detected that she has come into contact with another person suspected of being a child of destiny. System has marked their location. Please check it out quickly before they separate.]'Alright,' Ren Qingquan moved toward a dot I added to the system map.

The moment he arrived, Ren Qingquan used the Turtle Divination Technique and looked at both Bai Yuelan and the man next to her. As I guessed, the man is a child of destiny. Furthermore, his luck is quite massive. It's a tad bit brighter than Bai Yuelan and Su Ping. From him, I sensed something that emitted a subdued yet massive amount of energy. If not for my [Scan]'s upgrade and the fact that my [Scan] was several times more sensitive than a cultivator's divine sense, I might've failed to detect the item he held.

The item that contained massive energy was shaped like half of a small ceramic bottle. While I was observing the newly appeared child of destiny, Ren Qingquan told me, 'System, add a Level 1 subsystem with [Scan] on him.' [Done.] After giving the child of destiny a [Scan], Ren Qingquan continued to travel randomly while constantly activating his Turtle Divination Technique. Even so, he fails to find another child of destiny until the sun sets. But that doesn't mean he gains nothing.

Although Ren Qingquan doesn't see another child of destiny, he still finds four people with pretty good luck. Their luck is around the spectator guy's level. Although it hasn't reached child of destiny level yet, it's still several times brighter than normal people's. Returning to the room provided by the auction house, Ren Qingquan chatted with the excited Fatty Zhang in the room next door before returning to his own room to cultivate.

While he was cultivating, I watched the two children of destiny who have been anchored to me today. After getting involved in a few more problems, the freak of nature, Bai Yuelan, with her jade beauty-like appearance, finally joined others from her sect. She actually came with elders and other disciples from her sect, the Frost Moon Sect.

Thankfully, unlike Bai Yuelan, whose unblemished, poreless, pale white skin somehow doesn't make other cultivators feel uncomfortable, the others from the Frost Moon Sect are normal. I checked the books I've scanned and found that the Frost Moon Sect is actually a sect of a similar level to the Pure Wave Sect. But unlike the Pure Wave Sect, which is a generalist, the Frost Moon Sect specializes in yin and ice-element cultivation methods and techniques.

I observed the Frost Moon Sect elder and disciples around Bai Yuelan and found that most of them are in the Golden Core or Foundation Building Realm, except for the elder, who's in the Nascent Soul Realm. This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. From their conversation, I learned that they're also here for the East Fortune City's decennial auction.

But considering the amount of spirit stones I saw on their person, I don't think they can win anything noteworthy in the auction. While keeping a bit of my attention on Bai Yuelan, I shifted my focus to the other child of destiny. Previously, I conducted a thorough check on the child of destiny using Ren Qingquan's [Scan] and found that this child of destiny should possess a cheat item. Specifically, it's a broken, ceramic-bottle-shaped cultivation weapon of unknown grade and function.

The main reason I focused on him was to guess the function of his treasure and check whether it'll pose a danger to Ren Qingquan. If it's some sort of treasure capable of ultra-long-distance killing, I'll constantly maintain my vigilance and immediately teleport his brain out the instant he tries to endanger Ren Qingquan. Thankfully, the wait to observe his special cheat doesn't last long. At midnight, the child of destiny had left East Fortune City to stay in a cave some distance away.

After creating some crude formations, he went a bit deeper into the cave and retrieved his broken ceramic bottle. After placing some spirit stones on the ground, he held the ceramic bottle and pointed it at them while imbuing a little of his spirit qi. Soon, the ceramic bottle came into action and absorbed the spirit qi from the spirit stones. After a few seconds, the ceramic bottle had finished absorbing all the spirit qi from the spirit stones.

During my [Scan], I detected the ceramic bottle at work, transforming the spirit qi within into an intensely dense energy, all under the supervision of the child of destiny. Once this energy condensed to a specific point, it appeared to undergo a profound transformation that I couldn't fully grasp. The child of destiny also stopped imbuing his spirit qi into the bottle and tilted it to peek inside. Seeing a drop of unknown liquid containing a high density of energy inside, the child of destiny smiled and drank it.

After drinking the drop of unknown liquid, he went to cultivate. I used [Scan] and found out his level is increasing at an incomprehensible speed. Right now, he's at the Fourth stage of the Golden Core realm. The drop of unknown liquid he drank easily turned into refined spirit qi after a few cycles of his cultivation technique. In terms of quantity, that drop of unknown high-density energy liquid gives him a boost equal to Ren Qingquan using the Soul Swallowing Technique on a Nascent Soul realm fish.

The most important part is that it has no side effects! This guy's cheat is basically turning money into a cultivation realm. A literal pay-to-win cultivation cheat! I kept watching him, and after learning the bottle only converts spirit stones into an unknown liquid, I decided to let him keep his brain and not use the [Transfer] function to help his brain escape the confines of his skull. Then I went to study while watching random people I've granted a subsystem.

When morning arrived, Ren Qingquan stopped cultivating and prepared to join the auction with the others. Meanwhile, I had already spread my [Scan] and sensed that many strong cultivators were gathering at the Auction House near the place where Ren Qingquan, Fatty Zhang, Peak Master Feng Yun, and the two elders resided.

Among them, I also sensed Ren Xuan, Bai Yuelan, the child of destiny with a ceramic bottle, Su Ping, the child of destiny with dual pupils, the spectator guy, and a few other people with considerable luck whom I had granted a subsystem not long ago. What surprised me was that the Miscellaneous Hall Master met with Peak Master Feng Yun, and both actually planned to join the auction. This is honestly overkill.

In the Auction House, I sensed only a few Nascent Soul cultivators from various factions and fewer than three Soul Formation cultivators. On the other hand, there were two Divine Transformation realm experts who basically protected Ren Qingquan. Even if everyone in the Auction House suddenly got a brain cramp and attacked Ren Qingquan's group at the same time, his team could probably kill everyone without breaking a sweat. Is this the effect of money?

Even if Ren Qingquan's uncle is forced by his mother to stop paying child support, the investment Gui Ruwen gives to the Pure Wave Sect is enough to make them set Ren Qingquan as one of the highest-priority protection targets. After Ren Qingquan prepared his disguise technique and left his room, an attendant guided him to a private VIP auction room, where Peak Master Feng Yun, Miscellaneous Hall Master, Fatty Zhang, and one of the elders had already gathered. Ren Qingquan nodded to everyone as a greeting.

Miscellaneous Hall Master seemed a bit surprised by Ren Qingquan's disguised self. After Peak Master Feng Yun explained, he tried to keep his mouth from twitching while nodding in response to Ren Qingquan. Then he moves closer to Fatty Zhang and sits next to him. The VIP room is about ten meters wide. Even with five people gathered and two servants standing on the side, the room doesn't feel cramped at all. In the middle of the room, there's a massive sofa with a table holding some refreshments.

One side of the VIP room's wall is made of one-way glass. Because the VIP room is on a higher floor than the auction hall, it allows those in the VIP room to see every part of the auction hall, where many people have gathered. Through my [Scan], I feel a minuscule resistance when it tries to pass through the wall, floor, ceiling, or glass. This means all six sides of the square room are made of material that can interfere with a cultivator's divine sense.

They probably used material that can interfere with divine sense to keep the VIP's identity from prying eyes. Next to the glass wall, there's a formation that works like a hologram, currently displaying lists of items that'll be auctioned. Ren Qingquan studied the lists of items while chatting with Fatty Zhang for a few minutes. Then he excused himself and went to the glass wall to observe the auction hall.

Standing behind the glass, Ren Qingquan activated his Turtle Divination Technique and observed the people below. In the auction hall, about a hundred people have gathered, with about half wearing masks and other disguises to hide their identities. Even so, those measures are useless in the face of Ren Qingquan's Turtle Divination Technique and my [Scan].

Except for the child of destiny and the people with great luck whom I've granted subsystems, Ren Qingquan actually found two other children of destiny in the auction hall below. One of the children of destiny is a beautiful woman who appears to be in her twenties. Her expression is always solemn and serious, which makes her look quite mature. The other child of destiny is a young man with an annoying look who has a constant grin on his face. He looked around the auction hall like a cat looking for interesting toys.

Except for those two children of destiny, Ren Qingquan also found six more people with great luck, whom he granted Level 1 subsystems.