Heavenly Asura Path(Percy Jackson)

Chapter 11: Shocking Auction

Slowly moving through the halls of Heaven Dou's auction house, an elegant middle-aged man with a calm and scholarly appearance and dressed in sky-blue robes, was feeling quite expectant about this auction. A few weeks ago, he was informed that this auction would be the best one since the auction house was founded. Emperor Xue Ye himself had supported the announcement and invited several noble houses and the three sects.

"Fengzhi... do you believe the rumors?", beside the elegant man, an old man with a withered face asked. He was neither robust nor muscular, but he still had an astonishing stature that clearly exuded his power. His muscles and skin were withered, his eye sockets were deep caves, and if seen late at night, it would simply be like an immense skull. On his scalp there were only a few strands of white or grey hair.

"Grandpa Bone...", the man looked at the old man with a small smile. These two were actually Ning Fengzhi and Gu Ron, the head of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and Bone Douluo, a level 95 titled douluo.

"Yes, I think the rumors might be true. The Emperor himself has spoken about it, saying that this auction could change the course of spirit masters completely," Ning Fengzhi smiled lightly, but his eyes didn't seem at all excited. His daughter just passed away a year or so ago, but his wife has been sick ever since.

Seeing his wife decline and eventually die, wasn't something that made him happy in the slightest.

Gu Rong nodded before stopping in front of a door. A woman was waiting and bowed to the two of them.

"Esteemed guests, please show your qualification certificate."

Ning Fengzhi only nodded and showed a black colored card. Inside the auction house, you couldn't enter to buy unless you obtained a bidding certificate. And this could only be achieved if you showed that you possessed more than ten thousand golden soul coins. The other way was to be a guest of someone distinguished or sell something that the appraiser deemed to be worth 10,000 golden soul coins.

"Please…" the charming woman opened the door and let the two men in. When they entered, they saw that the huge hall filled with chairs below them was already almost full. Around them, all the VIP boxes like theirs were fully occupied.

"It seems that even the spiritual hall couldn't stay quiet," Gu Rong narrowed his withered eyes looking ahead, noticing two women and a man. The man was a bit famous, an old man, dressed entirely in red robes, wearing a platinum pentagonal hat, both eyes small as if he was asleep, with slender shoulders and a slender build like a javelin.

It was Salas, a Bishop of the spiritual hall.

The woman was undoubtedly beautiful. In fact, so beautiful that many men tried to secretly see her. She was a beautiful lady who looked like she was 30 years old despite being over 50. She had fair skin and almost perfect complexion with an air of noble radiance. She wore a luxurious black robe with gold lining, a nine-pointed purple gold crown with a scepter that was over two meters long in her hand, inlaid with countless precious stones.

She was Bibi Dong, the pope of the spiritual hall and someone extremely powerful. And, beside her, was her disciple, Hu Liena.

"The Emperor was too enthusiastic in talking about the auction," Ning Fengzhi stated as he sat down. "Although… I don't understand his reason, it should be something that even the spiritual hall would have a hard time obtaining. Therefore, he decided to be more free about the topic. Or so I think."

The two of them simply sat and chatted as they watched people continue to arrive, until half an hour had passed and the place was packed. At this moment, a beautiful girl appeared on the stage as the lights dimmed slightly.

"Welcome to all the distinguished guests!" the girl spread her white arms as she smiled at the audience. "Today will be an unparalleled day at the Heaven Dou Auction House. Invitations have been given to many people to be able to see each item on sale."

The girl lowered her arms and her eyes sparkled for a moment as she raised a finger.

"This time there will be no auctions on materials, minerals, or herbs. In fact, there will be no auctions for slaves either."

Listening to the girl's words, everyone became more and more curious and couldn't wait to see what would be displayed.

"Today, the only thing that will be sold are innovative, revolutionary items… and ones that will change the world of spiritual masters forever!" When her words finished, two men rushed over with a wheeled table that had something covered with a red blanket.

"Distinguished guests… Here is the first item!!" When the hostess pulled back the blanket, everyone saw a shiny, silver sword. Its sleeve seemed to have a coiled dragon with its head roaring at the end. The blade shone in silver and gold patterns that looked ancient.

 "You might be curious… but I'll tell you, this isn't just a sword."

Smiling, the girl took the sword and slashed while spinning around. Everyone looked on in surprise and exclaimed when they saw a cyan-colored sword slash shoot out from the sword towards the walkway behind the girl.

"Let me introduce to you what is called… a Soul Guidance Device!"

"It can also be called a spiritual tool. This spiritual tool is called the Dragon Assault Sword. It has a requirement for the user to be three spirit rings and can even injure spirit masters below level 40. And it's important to note that even if you are an auxiliary spirit master, you can still use this spiritual tool!"

"This is no longer a simple weapon that can be used by attack-type system spirit masters! Anyone who has three spirit rings will be able to use it!"

"What!?"

"It can actually be used by auxiliary system spirit masters?"

"This is unheard of!"

 People began to shout excitedly upon hearing the emcee's words. Even Ning Fengzhi, who had been calm, clenched his hands on the armrests and leaned forward in excitement.

"The sword is created by a high-level master blacksmith. Its core is refined with rare and precious materials. The blade is made of a thousand-year-old icy silver, so attacks have a certain chance of slowing down the enemy. All in all, adding up the materials it was created with, and its utility, make this spiritual tool something valuable."

"Guests... the auction for this Dragon Assault Sword begins with 500,000 golden soul coins."

At this point, people inhaled sharply. 500,000 golden soul coins was no small amount, so many fell silent and reluctantly listened as in just a few seconds, the first auction had reached the sum of one million.

 "Master… won't you bid on the sword?" Hu Liena asked curiously.

"No…" Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes slightly. "Even with how shocking this spiritual tool is, it is only the first item up for auction. If I am not mistaken, the following things might be better and more expensive. There is no point in bidding and losing money unnecessarily."

"Salas," she said coldly.

"Yes, Your Holiness," Salas replied respectfully immediately.

"I want you to investigate the person who is selling this when the auction is over. But be careful, someone capable of creating something like this should not be weak and foolish."

"As you command."

In front of the spiritual hall's box, Gu Rong looked at Ning Fengzhi.

"Don't bid on the sword…" he commented.

"No… I'm tempted, very tempted, but I won't. There should be better things later," Ning Fengzhi sighed a little. This sword was great, in fact, more than great. As most of his clan were auxiliary-type spirit masters, these kinds of spiritual tools were like a gift from heaven. They were even capable of harming people below level 50! This meant that a three-spirit ring spirit master could fight against a four-spirit ring one! It was a difference of ten levels!

While everyone was excitedly bidding on the sword and increasing its value to over two million, in a VIP box, a man and a woman were smiling. The latter more than the former.

"Damn, after tonight, you'll be pervertedly rich, Percy!" Liu Erlong said in surprise and excitement.

"I just hope you don't have a stroke from the last two things I'm selling," Percy snorted a little, but yeah, being rich didn't feel bad at all.

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