Sword and Blood

Wang Xue raised his voice and announce his bid, everyone from the audience of the lower floor to the people bidding from the upper floor they were not expecting this man with the bamboo hat to bid once again, was he doing it to attract the attention to himself or did he simply want to annoy the people of the upper floor.

'I currently have around 75,000 spirit pills from selling my items, hehe, after getting this manual I will be able to leave immediately.' Like he had always been, Wang Xue didn't care about what others think of his action.

He bid for the Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation manual because he needed to learn the basics of the placing a spirit formation, Wang Xue was a peak cultivator in his past life and in that life he had always disregarded spirit formations as he was too focus on mastering the dao.

Although he did have advance tier spirit formations in his memories compared to what he is currently using, Wang Xue cannot use them if he didn't have the foundations set up properly.

Mid A peak tier Alchemist cannot become a Blacksmith in a day even if he possesses a heavenly flame and a high tier recipe for creating a spirit weapon this is also the case why Wang Xue who was a peak tier cultivator cannot use any advance tier spirit formations.

Even if he did want to use them and have the knowledge and experience to do it, Wang Xue still had to break through the limits of spirit energy. Placing a spirit formation use spirit energy and currently, Wang Xue lacks the acceptable amount of spirit energy to use anything higher than Low-Tier 2 spirit formation.

Even if he still lacks the acceptable amount of spirit energy Wang Xue still wanted to get the Mid-Tier 2 Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation in order to gain some insight regarding spirit formations.

'Why is this young man bidding for a spirit formation at this level? Wait… if he is bidding for spirit formation at this tier then, can this young man already create spirit formation lower than Mid-Tier 2?' White Old Man thought as he watches Wang Xue from above.

"41,000 spirit pills." White Old Man started to bid higher, 'Well even if he can I still have to get this spirit formation for myself.'

"43,000 spirit pills." A middle-aged man on room 19 had a big smile on his face as he also continued bidding, this man's name was Liu Jie great warrior whose strength is already at level 9 of the Jade palace realm.

"Haha, whoever this kid is I like how he has the guts to compete for what he wants." Liu Jie was laughing without a care in the world, everyone knew how free willed he was and will do anything that he wanted, and although he's a sword for hire and will kill for money Liu Jie was known as a man of high morals.

"45,000 spirit pills." Wang Xue raised the bid once again.

"46,000 spirit pills." The man from room 10 announced.

"What delight, four people are competing for the same item, who will go to the powerful Mid-Tier 2 Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation manual?" Cheng was getting excited, he was originally expecting the Mid-Tier 2 Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation to be sold for about 45,000 spirit pills but now it had exceeded its original value.

'Seems like our Thousand Gold Pavilion will earn extra from today's auction.' Cheng was full smiles.

"48,000 spirit pills"

"50,000 spirit pills"

"51,000 spirit pills"

Right now only Wang Xue, White Old Man, and Liu Jie were bidding… as for the man from room 10 he had stopped bidding in fear of not having enough spirit pills for the 500-year-old Blazing Salamander Fruit that he came for.

"53,000 spirit pills, White Old Man you must be getting low on spirit pills better stop now or you won't be able to live as luxurious." Liu Jie said to White Old Man as he continued to increase the bid, his eyes then turn to Wang Xue "That goes for you too young man, haha!"

"56,000 spirit pills, Liu Jie stop talking trash and just bid, if you don't have enough money you can just sit there quietly and watch those who do have them, don't try to cover yourself by spouting nonsensical sh*ts to others." Said White Old Man.

The atmosphere in the auction was starting to get a little heated by the moment, as the bid goes so does the anticipation of the audience on who will win the Mid-Tier 2 Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation manual.

However amidst the talks of excitement Wang Xue was as calm as he came inside the auction hall, "60,000 spirit pills."

When White Old Man and Liu Jie heard Wang Xue suddenly bid they were suddenly startled, they were surprised to hear that he was still bidding until now and he just raised the bid by another 4,000 spirit pills, 'How can this young man be this rich… is he from some big family?'

The two of them thought at the same time 60,000 spirit pills was a lot and seeing someone from out of nowhere suddenly spending this much money for a single item made them have a second thought of this man's identity.

At this point when Liu Jie heard Wang Xue raised the bid to 60,000, he was now about to reach his bottom-line, his mouth twitch then said "61,000 spirit pills."

"63,000 spirit pills." White Old Man announce, his eyes were both starting to turn red as he was in the same position as Liu Jie… he was also about to reach his bottom-line.

"65,000 spirit pills." Said Wang Xue.

"67,000 spirit pills."

Liu Jie didn't bid anymore, he didn't want to compete anymore with Wang Xue and White Old Man, 'It is sad to give up the spirit formation, however, I came here for the 500-year-old Salamander Fruit, not for some spirit formation I will just apologize Mei I guess.'

He had given up when he heard it had been raised to 65,000 spirit pills,

This time no one answered for a long time, White Old man grit his teeth he truly wanted to get the Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind spirit formation but he can't bid anymore as the number of spirit pills that he have with him was not enough and if he were to bid anymore he will be breaking the rules of the Thousand Gold Pavilion.

'Damn it!' gritting his teeth White Old Man gave up the idea of bidding. Looking at Wang Xue who had so much spirit pills with him White Old Man was put into deep thought as who this young man truly was, although he didn't belong to any top power in the Province White Old Man still held a bit of an influence and power over others, and seeing how Wang Xue didn't even flinch at competition with him in this bid made White Old Man think things through.

Cheng noted that no one was bidding any higher than Wang Xue's last bid of 67,000 spirit pills, so with a wide smile, Cheng said in a loud voice, "67,000 going once, going twice… sold to the man wearing the bamboo hat."

The clear look of elation can be seen to Cheng as he handed out the manual to another female attendant, looking at Wang Xue who had stood up from his seat Cheng smiled and thought, 'who is this young man?'

Wang Xue had enough of the auction, he had acquired what he had planned to get and he had acquired plenty enough, although he may have made some enemy he could mostly avoid them by leaving early.

Handing over a storage bracelet which had 67,000 spirit pills to a female attendant Wang Xue and followed out of the auction hall, many people were focused in the auction but some had their eyes on Wang Xue and one of these people.

Stepping out of the auction hall Wang Xue finished the transaction and took the Fiery Ice Flower and the Blue Mist Tiger Devouring Wind taking the two items with him Wang Xue walked out of the Thousand Gold Pavilion.

He didn't waste any time looking around and directly went to the direction of the Gale City's city gate.

It didn't take long for Wang Xue to reach the city gates, he exited the city and went to the direction heading to the Rolling Thunder State, Wang Xue moved fast and after a short, while he was already a 500 meters away from the city gates.

The sun was about to set when Wang Xue exited the Thousand Gold Pavilion and by now as he runs in the open field the moon hangs over his head as he went forward towards his destination.

The Rolling Thunder State was a day of travel from the Gale City but with Wang Xue's speed he should be able to reach the Rolling Thunder State in half the time, however, his pace seemed to drop as he noticed someone was following him from behind and three people were waiting in the path in front.

Wang Xue had his suspicions of being followed right after he left the city, however, now he was able to confirm it, he was currently at an open field anybody for 300 meters were present.

Wang Xue spread out his sense and noted the distance he had with the people following him, 'a hundred and fifty metes.'

The two people behind him were actually pretty strong as both of them were actually already level 4 Jade Palace realm expert, 'I have to handle these guys very carefully."

As for the people in front of him Wang Xue was able to vaguely remember who the three goons waiting for him up ahead, they were the men of Demon bear who he had killed two days ago for following him, seeing the three up ahead Wang Xue didn't know if the three were loyal or plain id*ots.

Wang Xue knew the reason why those three were there and he also knew what they want to do, 'Are they still looking for me? I heard they were trying to find me earlier so they can avenge their Demon Bear… well seeing how much they love him it would be better to let them meet in the underworld.'

Thinking about this Wang Xue prepared to take out his Ice Steel Sword from his storage bracelet, the three were a hundred meters away from him but this distance was nothing.

The three men of Demon Bear saw Wang Xue running towards them and seeing this all of them took out their spirit weapons, as they took them out, Guo, Demon Bear's right-hand man step forward and attempted to make Wang Xue stop by releasing a great pressure and murderous intent to scare Wang Xue.

He and his two companions have been doing this trick for half a day and everyone who had lower cultivation strength than Guo would make people instantly stop on their tracks the moment the murderous aura pressed down upon them and seeing Wang Xue was only a level 2 Jade Palace realm they were expecting him to stop there and then.

Shooo!

As expected the moment murderous aura from Guo was released Wang Xue's body suddenly dip down, from their perspective Wang Xue's body was about to drop to the ground and his chest was only about a couple inches away from it.

"Hehe, this guy is a total wimp, I had not seen anyone actually dropping this low from your aura brother Guo." A man laughs aloud seeing Wang Xue's awkward position.

The people laughing at the moment wasn't just him but also the two men following Wang Xue, seeing him drop down like this made them feel as if they were watching a comedy skit.

Wang Xue's awkward body positioning was not because of the pressure boring down upon him… Wang Xue quickly circulated his spiritual energy to its maximum then took out his Ice Steel Sword with his eyes were locked on Guo's head.

"Five Surging Demonic Slash." Wang Xue mumbled to himself, positioning his Ice Steel Sword shone with gleaming light as the moon above gave light.

Wang Xue's spirit energy circulated in top speed.

Boom! Swoosh!

The ground where Wang Xue stood on earlier suddenly exploded, dust exploded the ground cave in and Wang Xue's body moved in a straight line. Guo and his companions saw this happened and were startled, they raised their weapons to meet him however Wang Xue had already scaled the 100-meter distance that he had from them in that single moment.

"DIE!!!" from Guo's eyes Wang Xue's body was blurry, but he still tried to hit him with his sword by swing his sword horizontally.

However, Wang Xue's body was too low and was simply too fast for him to even grave him, Wang Xue's Ice Steel Sword moved like lightning and when the moment it met with Guo's body it cut through it without any kind of stain.

Guo's right hand was still moving to cut Wang Xue, however when he finished his movement his body was already split into two and the moment his sword reached it's the moment from his strike resulted for his upper body to left his lower half, his body flew in the air with his intestines hanging like a vine.

Wang Xue didn't stop nor did his speed drop, on the contrary, his speed actually increased, the spirit energy inside his body surge in his meridians with great intensity.

Slash!! Slash!!

Two simultaneous slashing sound was heard and before Guo's body drop to the ground two of his companions were already savagely decapitated by Wang Xue's blade.

The body parts that Wang Xue had just cut down started dropping one by one to the ground. And what followed then was blood raining down as it intestines and a part of their brains flung all over the place.