Spiritual Roots

With the announcement from the city master of the Ding city, the most awaited yearly slave auction started to finally begin. " Bring the slaves from number D01 to D10 upon the stage", the manager ordered the staff to bring the slaves in a sequence according to their Identity numbers.

Slaves starting from D01 to D10 started to line up in front of the crowd in their sequence, The ten slaves were aged from 12 to 70 years, with three children from 12 to 16, five adults, and two elderly. The children had tears and terror in their eyes, While the adults were standing with a blank and expressionless face while only the two elderly were showing some unknown expression.

Seeing the three children's with age less than sixteen standing among the slaves on the stage, a sharp glint started to form on the Marques Nan's face as he was fondling the precious Spirit roots testing stone and thinking about something, seeing the all smiling face of the Marquess Nan, the color of the face of the old foggy Luo started to change while remembering something finally, he wasn't able to control himself but ask "Brother Nan are you thinking of increasing your position in marquis rank through this auction by earning large merits If I'm not wrong than you had got this precious spirit root testing stone to check the spiritual roots of these children under the age of sixteen and by obtaining some real talent to be nurtured until they aged sixteen and than send them to his highness Duke Jian of the great Lian city for further nurturing and in return avail the position of higher Marquiss directly under the command of his highness duke Jian".

" Hahaha, I knew that you old foggy Luo would definitely realize my purpose of getting this precious spiritual roots testing stone, but what can both of you do even after knowing my purpose, I will buy all these children and later test them for their talent for cultivation" Marquess Nan replied smugly after knowing that he can't hide his purpose of bringing the spiritual root testing stone anymore. Getting the direct confirmation from the Marquiss Nan, anxiety and uneasiness started to appear on the body of both the Marquises Luo and Marquises Tian, their mind started to get messy as thoughts about being ruled or ordered by the Marquiss Nan in the future started to appear in their mind.

"Brother Nan, how about you share this spirit root testing stone with these small brothers of your's, instead we promise to be there for any big or small help you need in the future, also we promise to form a union between over three cities if you help us with your spirit root testing stone" Marquiss Tian started to plead in front of the Marquiss Nan after having some discussion with Marquiss Luo and finalizing their conditions."Haha, you both old foggies do you take me as some fool, and what about this small brother's, don't try to talk crap with me when both of you are much older than me and over a hundred years old and as for forming union When I can easily rule you and other marquises by becoming a higher marquis under the protection of the duke Jian than what is the need for me to form some bullshit union with you two who are already on their death bed".

Hearing the insult and mockery from the marquis Nan, anger started to fume on the faces of both the marquises Luo and Tian and if not for being currently present at the venue of the annual slave auction, they would have started a fight, "you baby faced Nan, Don't try to be so smug about obtaining the spiritual root testing orb, So what if you have got the testing stone if you can't even purchase the slaves from this auction what can you do if both brother tian and I join hands and not allow you to in a single bid then let's see how much you have got to buy these slave children after having already spent your big fortune in obtaining this spirit testing stone" after hearing the taunt from Marquis Nan, the old foggy Luo wasn't able to hold his anger and challenged him directly. " hmm, so you old man Luo can't hold it anymore and started to show your true color, ok if you want a fight than let's fight I'm ready to spend every nick of my money that has been left with me", getting the challenge from Marquis Luo, even the always calm and tranqill marquis Nan was not able to hold anymore.

Seeing the situation getting from worse to worsen and no one getting any benefit if the competition to get more slave children started to get more intense between them than the one in the greatest losses would be themselves and they would instead benefit the Auction house indirectly by increasing the bid unnecessarily so Finally, Marquisis Tian tried to meddle the ongoing situation before it get's too late" Brother Nan and brother Luo, how about all three of us take a few steps back and find some common solution instead of arguing pointlesly with each other", hearing the plea from marquis Tian both marquis Nan and marquis Luo tried to calm themself and started to pay their attention towards marquis Tian in hope of finding a way out of the ongoing messy situation before the auction can start, " how about this brother's, we all three will join hands to buy all the slave children being auctioned here and after buying them test each of them individually with brother Nan's spiritual root testing stone and after categorizing the talent based on the spiritual roots, brother Nan will get's to have the choice to select the child with highest talent out of all of them and the remaining children will be divided equally between the three of us.

"You old grotty Tian, do you take me as some dumb-head, even though you have provided us with this solution but the person who would still be in the biggest loss would be me and both of you would be getting the benefit for free" feeling completely biased by the solution provided by the Marquis Tian, Marquis Nan started to argue with him in anger," brother Nan you should hear me first completely before pointing out, what if after testing the children's we find a hidden gem like an Earth spiritual body, also the distance from ding city to your Nan city is quite large and if other marquis came to know about your purpose and planning to become higher marquis and rule them...., than brother Nan should be smart enough to understand the situation more clearly about what could further happen in your trip...", gulping a mouthful of saliva after hearing the argument provided by the marquis Tian, Marquis Nan finally started to calm down and started to run his mind rapidly towards the direction he has neglected earlier.

"Okay, I am fine with your condition but you two brothers should also take the heaven's oath that the information about purchasing of the slaves and then testing their spiritual roots would not reach outside us three, and also the safety of this younger brother would be in the hands of the two big brother's", " Don't worry, Don't worry, we both takes the heaven's oath that the information will not reach the ear of the fourth person outside us three, also this big brother Luo has got the highest cultivation of the third stage Foundational realm among the three in this region, and not even a bird can fly without being noticed by my sharp eyes So, brother Nan should feel complete ease about the secrecy of our work here" the color of the Old foggy Luo's body started to change as he started to talk amicably with marquis Nan as if he had just found his long lost brother. Finally, all the three marquis quieted down and started to cooperate with each other.

"These are the first ten slaves that will be auctioned today, I hope each one of you should remember that these slave auctions are being held under the orders of the great Qin dynasty and the same rules will be followed in this auction also that has been set by the dynasty, so before creating any disturbance or nuisance and interrupting the proceeding of the auction you should know about the consequence and punishment given under the Dynasty rule book. Finally, before starting any bidding you should be completely aware of the fund you have, insufficient funds after a successful bid will lead to a permanent ban on your entry to any slave auction being held in the future anywhere under the jurisdiction of the great Qin Dynasty.

Now let's start the bidding procedure for the slave number D01..

*NOTE: Ranking of spiritual roots are in the following order

Mortal spiritual roots< Earthen spiritual roots< Heaven spiritual roots< Innate Divine Body< Saint body ...