Hangzhou auction 2

The interruption now dealt with, Xiao Fan got inside the auction house where at the end of the lobby, a woman was taking everyone names and allocating them to seats.

Most of the people who had been on the line went straight into the main hall where everyone only had seating amongst others.

Seemingly this didn't fit with everyone since, during the time they had been waiting, a few sounds of people being displeased about their seating area had been heard.

However, every young master who was trying to get a better spot by yelling or demanding were quickly shut up after realising that they weren't inside their home fields anymore.

They didn't have family experts attending them, making things easy for them, nor did their name carry nearly enough value.

As Warlord Zou Zexi was now again responsible for everything that was happening in his domain, he had made sure that none of his most profitable future vassals and taxpayers wouldn't be killed.

So everyone here except his men could move around freely without constant harassment from the local policing force.

In simpler terms, this meant that everyone expects Zou Zexi's men could roam the streets holding order in place. This, in turn, meant that these young master came to realise that in Hangzhou, their names weren't worth much even if one shouted really hard.

In the end, it had still taken a few people to be thrown out before everyone in the line went where the receptionist ladies send them while gnarling their teeth.

When it came, Xiao Fan's and Du Lan's turn to get their spots people around them were little curious about his name as he should also be fighting in this tournament.

And as Xiao Fan was very much so stronger than them, most people stopped chatting to hear his name.

Xiao Fan knowing this well had a big smirk on his face when he went and talked to the receptionist lady, who looked at him like he was another high and mighty young master soon to cause trouble.

Only for her face to turn when she heard ¨Xiao Fan Hefei City, I take I don't need to stand with the others¨ He smirked while holding Du Lan.

Although Xiao Fan thought himself as a modest man, in reality, he was more of a boastful one, marked by him looking at everyone's reaction to his name.

Also, when looking at them, his face told them that they would never be like him, he had the fame and the woman while they only had their family names.

Now behind his looks, the receptionist, of course, knew this name, yet seeing him in front of her was a little different.

Because if the youths around the Warlord Zexi's area would be put on a list would this man be without equal, for the youth in front of her could pull enough string to meet the Warlord himself.

So after the moment that it took her to come back, she stuttered some words out back to Xiao Fan ¨U-Upstairs p-please¨ She somehow could say the words she had been told to say before if something like this would ever happen.

Xiao Fan looked at the direction she was showing him, and then walked towards the stairs, still taking peek behind him at the other people left standing there in the lobby.

Weirdly when he got to the second floor, there were also people here, but unlike the youths downstairs these were all adults with a very few juveniles amongst them.

That didn't, of course, mean that this was unsuspected. What was weird and unsuspected was how Du Lan's head started running through names, faces, affiliations and telling about them to him.

¨Thats Yuan Hua if I'm correct he's currently a Body Activation first grade...¨

¨And He's Shi Yong; furthermore he's also at the same grade as Yuan Hua but is said that in a fight he has won Yuan Hua¨

Xiao Fan didn't collect information about local talents for the reasons that he wouldn't need to remember their names in a year anyway.

On the other hand, Du Lan was doing so to gain experience in keeping tabs on people. And she had done a lot of homework about the contestants.

Her information was mostly bought or gathered some other ways during their stay in Hefei City and focussed on talents that would be taking part in this tournament.

She had done so that they could have some idea about their opponents, but it still was an impressive list containing tens of contestants.

Nevertheless, Xiao Fan wasn't a whole lot interested in these things much until she said someone particularly strong person from the group ¨Fan'er look that's Qian Wei!¨ She exclaimed almost raising her voice too much.

He looked towards the direction she was looking towards, and from there, he spotted the woman she was talking about so loudly.

Qian Wei was a woman in her teens but was the same height as the people around her who seemed to be her family.

The woman herself was beautiful no doubt, her most notable part was how tall her body was, and due to that, her long legs were on a different level as they were almost like sculptures made from snow.

However, one would be wrong to think that all her beauty was focussed on her legs, for she had the face of an angel.

Even Xiao Fan would think that she was on par with Du Lan yet didn't say anything like that to her ¨Who is Qiang Wei?¨ He quietly asked her not to alert anyone present of his ignorance.

Du Lan glanced back at him with a slightly bitter face ¨Didn't you read the report that I made for you about the other notable youths here?¨

¨You mean that report that was the thickness of a book?¨

¨Excatly that report that I gave you when we left Hefei City so that you could study it in peace¨ She snarled.

¨Oh I never got to read that book, but that was only because other things required my presense¨ He defended himself, realising that he had forgotten about the report she had given him since after seeing how much there was to read, he had kind off let it slide to the bottom of his collection.

Understanding this Du Lan could only roll her eyes, giving him a quick report about Qiang Wei.

And after hearing about her Xiao Fan was convinced that he should have read the report as she wasn't even a person that he could contend against.

Qiang Wei on top of her beauty was also a third grade, third grade as in Body Activation realm Xiao Fan exclaimed in his mind.

Why the hell there was such a strong person here? And on top of that, she was a daughter of one of Warlord Zexi's most trusted commanders.

On the scale that Xiao Fan got the top spot because he borrowed a thing from the First Steps Toward Medicine book, Qiang Wei would be the closest person to him there because of her cultivation.

After Du Lan stopped telling about her, Xiao Fan did the only thing logical to him ¨Didn't you say that a Body Warming realm peak was guaranteed a top ten spot?¨

Hearing about the two men before got Xiao Fan little hesitant; however, now adding in learning about Qian Wei his plans of easily sailing to top three were becoming pretty slim in his mind.

On her side, Du Lan was assured that Xiao Fan hadn't even opened her book and she was now thinking that should she help her anymore with this thing, yet she was his woman, so she should help and forgive him.

¨I'm not sure about it myself as the knowledge I have regarding this tournament is that Body Activation realm is enough for top three but the last years have been weird¨

¨What do you mean?¨

¨There have been a lot of rising talents all around the Ohin continent. Much more than ever before¨

¨No one knows why this is happening. However, one thing can be taken for granted is that the younger generations speed of cultivations is generally faster. Soon even the old cultivators will start feeling pressure due to this¨ She reported the short version to him.

Hearing this Xiao Fan's senses about someone meddling here became tingling however Cao Cao next to him shook his shoulders. Cao Cao, of course, knew about this but he wouldn't at this point never tell about it.

As currently no one else than he knew about a small thing happening in the sky. But telling about it to Xiao Fan would serve zero purposes and would make no difference. Cao Cao had been keeping this a secret for thousands of years already.

And Xiao Fan could in no way determine what Cao Cao truly thought, he could only take this as the truth, yet there was little difference in his thinking due to this.

Currently, this information didn't concern him much, and the only thing that did so was that his opponents were stronger and he needed to be stronger; that's it the end of that story.

The number one thing was to become stronger himself anyway, so others really didn't matter.

Additionally, Xiao Fan got another pump up from this because hearing about this he looked at Du Lan, was she one of those people? And how many people like her there were to be met?

But back to reality, he now knowing some more regarding his opponents, Xiao Fan made his way where the other people were also waiting for another shorting of places.

When it was Yuan Hua's and Shi Yong's turn, they got a place on the middle gallery with their statuses but when it had come to Qian Wei and the people with her they went straight into the Upper gallery that was filled with private booths for every group.

After the people from Qian Family had gone, the next ones were Xiao Fan and Du Lan who came forward to the receptionist taking the more highly profiled guests.

And not lying she was little weirded out when Xiao Fan came strolling with an entourage that consisted of him and a woman of the same age. It was weird since no one should be powerful enough at their age to get here.

Yet again, when Xiao Fan said his name to her, he made even a bigger ruckus compared to the first floor.

This floor made a bigger ruckus since the youths on the lower floor weren't in their family business yet while most of the people here were family heads.

For Xiao Fan, this meant that he got stuck greeting almost everyone in the second floors lobby, and trying his best to dodge any attempts of getting him to agree into any trade of Greenheart.

Because of this, it took them over an hour to get to their spots inside the auction.

When there it was almost the time for the auction start, so they took a comfy place on the couch and played around a bit before they saw a person walking towards the stage.