章節 100: CHAPTER 100

Heaven Dou city was always a loud and bright place, but today was a bit louder and brighter than other days. The cause of this slightly unusual brightness and fervor was the Heaven Dou Auction house, or more precisely the annual Heaven Dou auction that was to be held there in a few hours.

Carriages of various shapes and sizes appeared one after the other, each carrying a person or people of high importance, either due to their power, status, or influence and each person went into the auction house with their invitation as their access key. It had almost become a place to show off as you could see the pride in the eyes of those with the higher-ranking invitations.

Things went that way for a while until a white-haired man suddenly appeared out of thin air at the front of the auction house, and even without making any moves to appear flamboyant or even saying a word, he immediately stole the show from the various posers who depended on their various material possessions to show off.

So great was the aura of power and authority flowing off of him that everybody that his eyes swept across, straightened up their posture and looked away quickly, afraid to draw his ire, but he didn't seem to pay any extra attention to them after barely glancing at them once as he began to walk up the stairs of the auction house toward the entrance, his hands occupied with holding and stroking the beautiful silver scaled creature that nestled itself in his arms.

Houryu continued walking up the stairs until he reached the entrance of the auction house where a few men stood guard, though they didn't really look all that threatening, the spiritual undulations coming from them were enough for the general audience to know that they were not to be messed with.

Well that was for the general audience, for the people who stood at the top of the food chain, these people were no more than slightly bigger bugs and for someone like Houryu, this place was as if it wasn't even being guarded at all as he could take care of them without so much as snapping his fingers, but as he was trying to blend in and not make too much noise(though not too successfully) he decided to follow the procedures that had been laid out, so when he got close enough, he used his spiritual energy to bring out from his spatial earring, the invitation he had commandeered from that generous comrade he had met just the day before.

The invitation floated right in front of him with the aid of his spiritual energy until one of the men standing at the entrance took hold of it to check the invitation if it was genuine. After checking the invitation carefully, the man returned the invitation to Houryu and gestured for him to go through the entrance.

"Welcome to the Heaven Dou auction house, esteemed guest, may I see your invitation so I can lead you to your assigned room?" A young beautiful woman asked Houryu as soon as he stepped into the auction house. Houryu looked over at the dark-haired woman, while also noting the other women who stood behind her in a well-organized line.

It seemed they took turns to lead every newcomer to their seats in the general hall or to the independent rooms for the VIP visitors, and the woman standing in front of him right now was the woman that was supposed to be attending to him, so Houryu simply manipulated his spiritual energy to send his invitation towards her, slowly enough for her to be able to pick it up mid-air.

"This way Master Houryu," the hostess said after reading the information displayed on the invitation card. She led Houryu down a passage and through different parts of the building until they arrived at an obviously more luxurious part of the building and then stopped in front of a golden door.

"This room is equipped with a soul spirit screen and a comfortable environment to make your time here very enjoyable, I will also be your personal hostess for this auction, I am Quing Ya, so you can ask me for anything you may need," she said as she opened the doors of the room and led Houryu inside the room, and true to her words the room did look very comfortable.

"Hmmm," Houryu nodded absentmindedly as he looked around the room, '…I didn't expect this world to have televisions,'

"From here you can participate in the auction and bid on items, we will deliver the item to this room as quickly as possible, you only need to pay the bill in the end," the waitress said with a pleasant smile as she stood beside Houryu, patiently waiting.

"Ok…" Houryu moved forward and went to sit on the most comfortable chair he could see in the room.

"We will now start the auction," Qing Ya said as she turned off the lights, slightly surprising Houryu who wasn't the lights to go off, 'Why are they even turning off the lights, this is an auction house not a cinema.'

A young beautiful woman appeared on the screen in a very regal dress, she had purple hair, and her face gave off an impression of power and beauty as she started to speak,

{Welcome everyone to the Heaven Dou Auction House}

{Tonight, we will auction off 9 treasures. The items will go to the highest bidders, I hope everyone will have a wonderful time tonight}

{I am today's auctioneer; I am blessed to host this event tonight}

'I really hope I find something worth all the drama, or…'

{Our first item is from the Sun and Moon kingdom Ming De Tang's 8th-grade spirit weapon} the auctioneer said as she gestured towards a very glamorous-looking sword that was just brought out and uncovered for people to see,

{Using a 15000 spirit bone as the main ingredient, so it bestows a spirit bone ability…} Houryu zoned out whatever the auctioneer was saying at that moment because whatever she was going to say couldn't get him interested in a sword like that, his Arie blood didn't even feel a slight stir when he set his eyes on the sword so it couldn't be that impressive as a sword, and also, he already had a better sword… a way better sword.

The auction continued, but of all the items brought out, none was useful enough or even interesting enough to even slightly trigger Houryu's curiosity, but when the auctioneer mentioned the 8th item for sale, Houryu immediately sat up in his chair with different thoughts running through his mind, but it wasn't only him that had gotten shocked from hearing about the 8th item, every other person in the auction house was currently looking at the auction item with undisguised greed in their eyes.

'Did something like this even appear in the original storyline?' Houryu's thoughts were clashing against each other as he looked at the 8th item.

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