Chapter 180

Chapter 180: On the Way Back to the Sect 1

After Wei Yun Qing confirmed that Yun Xi had left Kun Yu City, she actually felt relieved. She started fawning over the Wei Family Old Ancestor who had just come out of seclusion. Only after the injury to her divine sense had healed by seventy percent did she bid the Old Ancestor farewell and set off to leave Kun Yu City.

With the sect tournament coming up, Wei Yun Qing still wanted to make a name for herself through the competition so she could formally become a disciple under Fire-Commanding True Lord. That meant she had to return early to prepare. After she and Du Ruo Lan parted with lingering reluctance, she took a flying ship back to the sect.

On the other side, Yun Xi was much more relaxed. She would also take part in the sect tournament, but because she had advanced to the Golden Core Stage, she would be competing in the Golden Core Stage matches. Her main goal was to gain combat experience, so she planned to train along the way back to the sect. As long as she made it back in time to register, that was enough.

Yun Xi had another reason for doing this – waiting for Wei Yun Qing. She was sure the other party would return to the sect for the tournament too. Wei Yun Qing had not taken a master yet, so she would definitely seize this rare chance.

Yun Xi was afraid Wei Yun Qing might run into another new opportunity on the way back. So she had Little Fei Xia Butterfly monitor her, and also send news back immediately.

Once Yun Xi confirmed that Wei Yun Qing had boarded the flying ship, she told Fei Xia Butterfly to keep tracking. She herself headed to the next city at an unhurried pace.

Although she came from Kun Yu City, she had never left her family before the age of five. After she turned five, she was sent to cultivate at the Hao Ran Sect. So she did not know much about the cultivation cities around Kun Yu City. Taking this chance to look around was part of her plan as well.

A day later, Yun Xi reached Wen Zhou City. This city was a small cultivation town where immortals and mortals lived together, but most of the cultivators here followed the path of Confucian cultivation. On the streets, cultivators wearing Confucian scholar robes made up the majority.

Yun Xi came here to replace a talisman brush. The talisman brush she had picked up at the sect market had long since broken because it could not withstand her Golden Core Stage power. She had not found a suitable one in Kun Yu City either, so she planned to try her luck in Wen Zhou City.

After entering the city, a Qi Refining junior cultivator came forward and volunteered to be a guide. Yun Xi casually picked a young girl cultivator and had her lead the way to “Wen Yuan Pavilion.” Despite the elegant name, it was really just a general shop that sold all kinds of cultivation-related goods.

“Senior, Wen Yuan Pavilion has an internal auction lately. If you want to attend, this junior can introduce you,” the young girl cultivator said cautiously.

Yun Xi was quite interested. She smiled and said, “I didn’t expect it – your connections are pretty wide. You even know about an internal auction like this.”

“Hehe, it’s mainly because my father works as a clerk at Wen Yuan Pavilion, so I hear some internal news,” the young girl cultivator explained.

“Fine. Let’s go take a look first. If I see something I’m interested in, I can consider it,” Yun Xi said.

In just a few words, the young girl cultivator led Yun Xi to Wen Yuan Pavilion. She waved at a male cultivator who was tidying things inside the shop and called out, “Father, over here!”

The male cultivator immediately put down his work and came out to greet them.

The young girl cultivator smiled and said, “Father, this senior just arrived in Wen Zhou City and is very interested in Wen Yuan Pavilion’s internal auction.”

The male cultivator immediately bowed respectfully and said, “Honored guest, please come inside.”

Yun Xi tossed the young girl cultivator two low-grade spirit stones as payment for leading the way, then stepped into Wen Yuan Pavilion.

After taking over the guest his daughter had brought, the man explained politely, “Xiao Xi wants me to earn more spirit stones, so she recommended Wen Yuan Pavilion to you. But our goods are complete and well-stocked. What would you like to purchase, Senior?”

“A talisman brush,” Yun Xi said.

“Honored guest, please go up to the third floor,” the man said.

Noticing how powerful Yun Xi’s aura was, the man escorted her to a private guest room on the third floor.

Not long after Yun Xi sat down, the man entered the room with three people and placed three talisman brushes in front of her. Then he introduced them one by one.

One of the three talisman brushes was a spirit treasure. It was refined from flawless white jade and the fur of a Fifth Rank Snow Wolf. It could be used all the way until ascension to the spirit world, but the price was just as beautiful – ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.

“Honored guest, this talisman brush is Wen Yuan Pavilion’s treasure of the shop. Many talisman masters have taken a fancy to it, but they had to give up because they lacked spirit stones,” the man said.

Yun Xi held the talisman brush and examined it carefully. She even smiled and said, “You decided I can afford it, so you recommended this spirit treasure right away?”

The man immediately smiled and said, “Since you want to attend the internal auction, you must not be short on spirit stones. And with your aura and cultivation, honored guest, only this White Jade Wolfhair Talisman Brush suits you. Also, if you buy this talisman brush, you can directly attend tomorrow night’s internal auction.”

Yun Xi could not help feeling that salespeople in the Cultivation World really were something. Their flattery sounded so reasonable that it was honestly pleasant to hear. She smiled and tossed him a storage bag. “Since you’ve put it that way, wouldn’t I be losing out if I didn’t take it?”

“It’s because you have good taste, honored guest,” the male cultivator said.

After he counted the spirit stones, he returned the storage bag to Yun Xi and added an invitation to the internal auction.

Yun Xi accepted the items and left Wen Yuan Pavilion. She found an inn nearby and stayed there. First she refined the White Jade Wolfhair Talisman Brush, then tried drawing talismans: first First Rank talismans, then Second Rank, and finally Third Rank. After confirming the brush was indeed fine and used smoothly, she focused fully on drawing Third Rank talismans.

Early the next morning, Yun Xi reluctantly put away the talisman brush. Then she wandered around Wen Zhou City, bought some blank talisman paper and beast blood, and only then returned to the inn.

That night, Yun Xi used the rabbit-head earrings to change her appearance. She also put on a cloak that concealed her figure before heading to Wen Yuan Pavilion.

After the guards at the entrance checked her invitation, they let Yun Xi go up to the fourth floor.

The fourth floor was a hall. It seemed to have been enhanced with a Space-Expansion Technique, but including her there were still fewer than ten people, so it looked rather empty.

No one was curious about Yun Xi’s arrival. Everyone waited quietly for the auction to begin.

Within a quarter of an hour, two more guests arrived. Then a middle-aged Golden Core cultivator stepped onto the auction platform and clasped his hands with a smile. “I am Wen Tao, responsible for this auction. Welcome, honored guests.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his sleeve and placed a spirit sword on the auction platform. “This is tonight’s first item, a Third Rank flying sword, Ao Xiang…”

Master Wen Tao then launched into a long introduction of the flying sword.

Yun Xi had already formed her Golden Core, and she wanted to refine her own life-bound sword, so she did not bid.

However, someone seemed to like this flying sword a lot. Once Master Wen Tao announced the price, that person began raising the bid.

One auction item after another was placed on the platform. Yun Xi did not see any treasure that made her heart move. Just as she thought she would leave empty-handed, Master Wen Tao smiled and said, “Tonight’s final item is not a weapon or a treasure. It’s a piece of information.”

He even paused. After he saw everyone focusing on him, he continued, “This information concerns the strange flame Profound Thunder Violet Flame.”

Yun Xi’s eyes lit up. This was Profound Thunder Violet Flame, a top ten strange flame on the strange flame list. She felt like she was about to drool, and this strange flame would definitely match her spiritual roots.

At that moment, another voice sounded and interrupted Yun Xi’s daydream. “Master Wen Tao, you’re joking. Profound Thunder Violet Flame is a strange flame from the spirit world. How could it appear in the Vast Cosmos Realm?”