Auction House (4th Part)

"Brother-in-law!" Exclaimed Chu Yawen when she saw Xi Qiye entering their designated VIP cabin.

He gave the nod, but his eyes drifted to two pairs of eyes staring at him from the side. Nanfeng Yunxi was stuck to Chu Xueli like glue; they truly were best of friends.

Chu Xueli has a questioning gaze, while Nanfeng Yunxi had a warning glare. He nonchalantly ignored their eyes and sat down next to Yawen.

It was a small chamber with two couches on opposite sides. Yunxi and Xueli were on one, whispering something about Qiye, while Yawen and Qiye were on another.

"Brother-in-law, are you interested in anything in this auction?" Yawen asked after she saw Xi Qiye putting the pamphlet down.

"Not really. I would rather sleep now." Saying so, he threw his leg back and actually put his head on dumbfounded Yawen's thighs.

"B-brother-in-la—"

"You bastard. Isn't Xueli enough for you?" Before Yawen could say anything, Yunxi abruptly stood up from the other couch and shouted.

Still with his eyes closed, hand-covered ears, he indolently argued, "but you are hogging my wife."

"Grr." She hissed in anger.

Xi Qiye opened one of his eyes. 'Truly a fiery beauty. Looks even better in anger.'

Out of nowhere, a familiar feeling bloomed inside Xi Qiye's Dantian.

"Or what? Should I use your thighs? They don't lose out to her." He said unabashedly. And subsequently, he experienced a breakthrough. 'Finally Qi Solidification Realm. I did piss off quite some powerful people today; I guess that was to be expected.'

"You..." Nanfeng Yunxi's breathing turned unstable from the anger. This useless husband of her best friend didn't take her seriously from the moment she met him.

"Don't be so angry; it was a joke." Xi Qiye waved his hands at her shiftlessly like swatting a fly.

All the anger on Yunxi's face drained, turning into a twitching smile. "Xueli, your husband do have a skilled mouth; I will give him that."

Qiye spoke before Xueli did. "I would rather have my women's mouth skilled."

It looks like Yunxi was still a pure maiden in that aspect, as this statement left her confused. But not the other two women in the room. Yawen's face instantly turned red, while even Xueli's ever so indifferent face also had a pink hue.

Yunxi obviously noticed that, after a few seconds of thinking, an idea came to her mind and her face also turned red from anger and embarrassment. "I will kill you one day." Shouting in rage, but she simply laid against the couch grumpily.

Obviously, she couldn't actually kill him.

"Women~ women~" Xi Qiye lamented and nestled comfortably in Yawen's smooth thighs. Closing his eyes and no longer paying attention to Yunxi.

Yunxi was fuming, looking like she couldn't wait to kill this barefaced male chauvinist.

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After two hours, Xi Qiye's sleeping eyebrows twitched, and suddenly he jumped up, scaring Yawen.

"Is there anything interesting?" Yawen inquired, seeing Xi Qiye ambling towards windows through which you can see the stage where the auction host and item was.

"Hmm. I think so." A spark of interest lit in his eyes.

"All the good items have been sold already. Aren't you too late to get interested?" Yunxi couldn't let off a chance to belittle him, which once again was ignored in an apathetic manner.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is today's last item. We don't really know what it is inside it, but I am sure you can also feel this aura permeating from it." The alluring voice, which seemed a bit tired, belonged to Jing Fenfang. She held a small rectangular chest with strange, intricate blue carvings.

Although she said the aura, it was more of an intuition, a dread people felt from someone stronger than them. The blue box was completely sealed; there was no key slot; it required a special method to open it.

Xi Qiye was sure no one here could feel what was sealed inside it. It was a sealed soul of Saint Realm beast. If he could obtain it, with some auxiliary items, refining a Soul Puppet wasn't hard. Found the appropriately strong items, and he could refine a Peak Half-Saint Realm Puppet.

With the soul sense earlier, he had discovered three people in the same room with the cultivation of Sovereign Realm. But they haven't move a movement... till now. That means they had come for this item particularly.

'So there is someone in Sacred Ground with Saint Level Cultivation. Without it, they wouldn't be able to peek into the sealed box. That means the probability of me directly buying the item is zero. A power that controls multiple dozens of Kingdoms shouldn't lack in the financial aspect.'

"Brother-in-law, do you want to buy it?" Yawen seeing how interested Xi Qiye was, asked intriguingly.

He shook his head and sat back. "Probably, we would go bankrupt buying it."

"Huh?!"

"Humph. So you also like to act. How would you know that item's price." Yunxi argued.

"You will see."

"Everyone, the starting price of this item is 1000 Low-Level Qi Stone."

"1,100 Low-Level Qi Stone."

"2,000 Low-Level Qi Stone."

"1 Mid-Level Qi Stone."

[A/N: 1 Mid-Level = 1,000 Low-Level]

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The price increased very quickly, even though people didn't know what it contained, the greed of obtaining something valuable had blinded their eyes.

"10 Higher-Level Qi Stone." An eerie voice interrupted everyone.

"Ten times the price?" Yunxi's eyebrows raised as she took a glance at Xi Qiye.

"It's just the start." Xi Qiye smirked. Another two Sovereign Realm experts joined the meeting now. And they were much stronger than the previous three.

"100 Higher-Level Qi Stone." In contrast to the malice-filled voice that silenced the whole arena, this voice was a soft as cotton, eliciting a protective feeling towards whoever it was.

Xi Qiye was indifferent. He only wanted to see them fight each other. And not just verbally...

"150..."

"200..."

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In the blink of an eye, the price reached 10,000 Higher-Level Qi Stone. Everyone just looked back and forth as two parties spew numbers like spit, but no one was willing to interrupt them. They already understood these people were not someone they could offend.

The sinister voice of a man that was gradually getting angrier roared. "20,000 Higher-Level Qi Stone."

"25,000." The soft voice said calmly, exactly opposite to the sinister voice.

"Lady, you don't want to incur our wrath. I suggest you back down." It was another person among the group of three that spoke. Bloodlust burst out of their cabin, invading everyone's senses. Some people directly coughed up blood in the face of a malignant aura.

"Humph. Are you out of money? Didn't expect much from you guys anyway." Another Sovereign Realm expert with the soft-voiced woman spoke, the mocking haughtiness naked in the tone. It seems like they knew each other... to an extent.

Jing Fenfang, although was displeased at them doing what they want in her auction. She knew better than interrupting them.

"25,000 Higher-Level Qi Stone. One!"

"Two!"

No response of bidding came from trios, only an heavy voice. "I hope you will be prepared." And the trios aura disappeared.

"Three!"