Ninth In the World

Chapter 69: The Madman Of The Auction

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Di Jiu truly believed that, if one ring had already been found on the Fairy Planet, a second ring would appear.

The next auction item was a long spear from the Fairy Planet. Di Jiu, who remained completely uninterested, took out the second jade slip to look at it instead.

The second jade slip contained an introduction to a sect called the Crimson Sea Array Sect and all the essential information one needed to know when they entered it. This included information on monthly missions, sect contribution, sect rules for outer sect disciples, and more.

Di Jiu pushed the jade slip carelessly aside. This information was useless to him. If he had not looked at the jade slip that introduced this language, he would not have understood anything on this jade slip anyway.

Di Jiu lifted the third jade slip to his forehead. The first line of words explained how to refine array flags for disciples of the array flag peak.

Then, there were various kinds of low-level array flag refinement techniques and some simple descriptions on how to identify the materials required for refining array flags. The contents were very detailed. There were even some diagrams added in. Although he mostly recognized the materials used for array flag refinement, this was still useless to him.

After looking at it for a long time, Di Jiu put down the jade slip in his hand. Although the first jade slip had been a pleasant surprise, the other two had basically been garbage.

The owner of the three jade slips had most likely been a new disciple of the Crimson Sea Array Sect. When the disciple had died, the three jade slips had been left at some unknown place until the batch of people who had entered the Fairy Planet had obtained them.

According to Dai He, the jade slips and the ring had been obtained from the same place. Di Jiu found this suspicious. Based on his understanding of cultivation, storage rings were high-grade items. Where could a new disciple obtain a storage ring, when he most likely did not even own a storage bag?

“Congratulations! A guest just obtained an unnamed enormous egg at the price of 700,000,000 alliance dollars. The next item is a ticket to the Fairy Planet. The starting price of the ticket is one billion. Bids will be raised at minimum increments of 10,000,000…”

Di Jiu shifted his attention to the auction once again. The second ticket to the Fairy Planet was currently being sold. Di Jiu thought of the huge amount of money he still possessed and the fact that he did not know when his aircraft would be ready. He should bid on a ticket, just in case.

This ticket was slightly more expensive than the previous one, so Di Jiu had to spend 1.4 billion to obtain it.

“It has already been almost a day since the auction started. A few hours ago, a ring worth 210 billion and three jade slips worth 50 billion were sold. The value of the next item will probably be no less than that of the two previous treasures. Everyone, please pay attention. The next item is a map to a cave abode on the Fairy Planet…”

Dai He’s words immediately caused many people to start talking among themselves. The three jade slips and the ring sold previously had supposedly been obtained from the same cave abode. Now, a map to a cave abode was being auctioned. If there was a map, why wasn’t the cave abode not being auctioned off instead?

As if she knew the questions the crowd had in mind, Dai He added, “I know what everyone is thinking. The reason why this cave abode map is being auctioned off is because this cave is filled with danger. The Earth Union has already sent over 30 experts, but none of them has returned. These warriors include Senior Di Jue and Senior Wang Jiwei, both warriors who ranked fourth and eighth amongst the top great connate warriors of the Fairy Planet respectively. Both of them went missing during the search for the cave abode.”

“If that’s the case, then how was the location of the cave abode discovered?” someone asked in a loud voice immediately.

Everyone else was wondering the same thing. After all, other than the Fairy Square, there was no other place on the Fairy Planet that was accessible by aircrafts. The surface of the Fairy Planet was covered with a layer of inexplicable force, so no information could travel and no satellite map existed.

Dai He pushed her hand in a downward motion. “Everyone, please quieten down. This cave abode was discovered because a person from the Earth Union found its entrance. Unfortunately, as soon as he reached it, he was eaten by an unnamed ferocious beast. The directions on this map and the location of the cave abode were transmitted before his death.”

When her explanation calmed down the crowd, Dai He added, “The treasures sold at the highest price earlier were found at a cave abode, so who could be certain that this cave abode does not contain items of an even higher value? Of course, this cave abode is very dangerous, so the value of this map will be significantly lower. Its starting price is one billion alliance dollars. Bids will be raised at minimum increments of 10,000,000. The bidding may start now.”

“Three billion!” Despite the fact that everyone knew very well that they would not be able to get to the cave abode even if they got their hands on the map, the three jade slips and ring sold earlier incited them. As soon as it was announced that the map was related to the ring, someone bid three billion.

Di Jiu did not want to waste any time. Even though he was not really interested in the map, he still placed a 10-billion bid on it.

Now that he had attained the cultivation jade slip, he felt even more desperate to go to the Fairy Planet. He still had more than 200 billion alliance dollars, but he had no intention of staying on Earth, so there was no need to keep that money. Therefore, regardless of whether he liked the item or not, he still attempted to obtain it.

The massive bids Di Jiu placed suppressed anyone who wanted to participate in the bidding. Even though Dai He wanted to sell the map at a high price, Di Jiu eventually obtained it for 10 billion.

Dai He had no choice but to bring out the next item. “The next auction item is a round disk. Although we are unsure of the exact use of the disk, according to the appraisal of a man on the Fairy Planet, it seems to contain the engravings of a mysterious esoteric image that could be related to a form of cultivation method. The starting bid is five billion. Bids will be raised at minimum increments of 100,000,000.”

When her speech was over, Dai He lifted the round disk in her hand. As soon as Di Jiu looked at it, he knew that Dai He was talking nonsense. Before looking at the jade slip, he would have not known the use of the round disk and fallen in her trap just like the rest of the crowd. However, he now realized that it was an array disk.

Array disks could also be categorized by rank. Although Di Jiu was unable to determine the rank of the disk from such a big distance, he knew that array disks were extremely useful to beginner-level cultivators.

The jade slip had stated that when beginner-level cultivators went into seclusion without knowing how to set up a protection array, they would purchase an array disk for the protection of their cave abode.

“10 billion!” Di Jiu said without hesitation.

His continuous attempts to quickly obtain auction items at a high price had angered some of the tycoons at the auction. This time, Dai He had not even promoted the item, when someone raised the bid by 10 billion, increasing the price to 20 billion. This action was meant to show Di Jiu that he was not the only rich person there. He was also not the only one who could raise bids by tens of billions.

Di Jiu did not want to waste any time. He had already decided to spend all of his money quickly so he could use a few Spirit Stones to get to the Fairy Planet.

“50 billion!” Thanks to this mindset, the rate at which Di Jiu raised the bid became an unstoppable force.

No matter how displeased other people were, they would need money in order to show their displeasure.

The bidder who had raised the bid to 20 billion had wanted Di Jiu to raise the bid at a lower pace. At this rate, the auction house would be the only one benefitting. Unfortunately, Di Jiu had placed a bid of 50 billion. The moment he did, the displeased bidders had to withdraw from the bidding. All the auction guests considered Di Jiu a madman.

Dai He, on the other hand, was immensely pleased. She appreciated Di Jiu’s attitude when it came to raising a bid.

The items auctioned next included ores, information on the Fairy Planet and weapons obtained from the Fairy Planet. Di Jiu obtained all of them at high prices.

Other than Dai He, Di Jiu was the only one participating in the auction. Everyone else had become a spectator. Di Jiu had even purchased a deal on a shop on the Fairy Planet despite the fact that he had not been interested in it earlier.

The majority of the auction participators were wondering when this fella would run out of money.

Dai He held up a jade slip made of hide. “We do not know what kind of hide this jade slip is made of, but it was found at an extremely occluded location. We also failed to understand how it has remained unscathed after so many years. Top-notch experts and connate experts have examined it, but have been unable to identify the information it contains. Based on the diagrams on it, we are guessing that it’s a list of herbs.”

“We all know that cultivating and high-level herbs come hand-in-hand, so this jade slip could be a herbal diagram that could aid one’s cultivating process. The starting bid is five billion. Bids will be raised at minimum increments of 100,000,000.”

Dai He opened the jade slip made of unknown hide. Since the words recorded on it were unrecognizable, she thought she might as well show it to everyone before the start of the bidding. In any case, so long as she said that the jade slip was related to cultivating, the price would certainly soar.

When Di Jiu looked at the jade slip, his heart skipped a bit. The row of words at the top of the jade slip said clearly “The Foundation Establishment Elixir Formula”. Below this were the alchemy materials required to brew the elixir and things to take note of during the process. The appearance of the herbal ingredients required was also noted in the formula.

Dai He did say something right. The Foundation Establishment Elixir was indeed one of the most important elixirs that aided one’s cultivating process.

Although the elixir was currently useless to him, Di Jiu knew very well that he would need it in the future. The Di Family’s ancestor had left the family to search for techniques to attain Foundation Establishment. Di Jiu now knew that using the Foundation Establishment Elixir was the best way to attain Foundation Establishment. Perhaps if he obtained this formula, Di Yue would finally have a direction in his search.

Di Jiu had to obtain it. Suddenly, the screen showed a new bid of 30 billion.

Had someone else realized that this was a Foundation Establishment Elixir Formula? That was impossible. If someone had really recognized it, they would also have bid for the ring.

“50 billion!” Di Jiu raised the bid by 20 billion without hesitation.

When they saw that the bidder was Di Jiu, everyone fell silent. So long as Di Jiu bid, no one would beat him, no matter how high their bid was.

“60 billion…” Di Jiu’s bid did not subdue his opponent, who increased the bid by 10 billion this time.

Di Jiu estimated that the amount of money still left in his card was around 1.1 billion.

Thus, he raised the bid to 100 billion without hesitation. He would leave as soon as he obtained this elixir formula. Should his opponent continue to raise the bid, then he would ask the auction house to help him pool money.