Black Box Operation

The Violet Cloud Town

The semi-monthly auction was held at noon as scheduled.

Sect disciples from the vicinity of the Violet Cloud Town and cultivators scattered in nearby villages and abodes entered the town early, either alone or in groups of three to five.

Before the auction started, the market would have a period of warm-up.

Many cultivators would go to the market on this day to search for all kinds of materials and spiritual objects they need.

Spiritual spring was an indispensable and the most consumptive spiritual object for every cultivator. Daily diet, making talismans, refining spiritual vessels, making wine and tea were highly dependent on spiritual spring.

The cultivators in the Violet Cloud Town have long been accustomed to the semi-monthly auction, and did what they should do as usual.

The guards of the guard battalion were responsible for collecting the fees for entering the town.

The three families entered the auction venue in advance, each preparing to bid or expecting the things they brought out to fetch a good price.

For mortal attendants, there was no difference today, they sold out all kinds of spiritual objects and went to play early;

No one noticed that a wave of artificially created and suppressed undercurrent was accumulating crazily, waiting for someone to take the initiative to uncover the blowout.

In the market, there were more and more people...

Danny squatted in an alley in the market with several young boys like attendants, playing happily, while paying attention to the increasing flow of people on the street.

There was still some time before the auction started!

The streets with sparse customers were gradually filled with the figures of cultivators of first, second and third grade.

The other two streets of the market were fine, everything was as usual with the transaction, shouting and bargaining, lively and noisy!

Only this street, which sold spiritual fruits, spiritual spring and spiritual grain, had more and more cultivators stationed there.

"Damn it, what the hell?"

"What's the matter, Lawson?"

A few cultivators walking together came down all the way from the streets of the market. The cultivator carrying a green spiritual wooden sword frowned deeper and deeper. At the end of the street, he finally broke out and immediately attracted the inquiries of his companions.

Lawson was a third-grade scattered cultivator , who had killed several third-grade demonic beasts with a wooden spiritual weapon. He was well-known in the Violet Cloud Town and was very hospitable. He would usually prepare some spiritual fruits, spiritual wine and spiritual tea in his abode and invite his friends to a small gathering from time to time.

But what he never expected was that this time he came to the Violet Cloud Town to supplement spiritual objects, he did not find a single stall with spiritual fruits on it.

All the spiritual fruits seemed to disappear from the Violet Cloud Town overnight.

As soon as he said this strange thing to his friends, someone immediately explained with a smile:

"I know a little about this, Lawson."

"Oh? Please tell me, my friend."

"Ha-ha, just a few days ago, the Cabinet Elder of the guard battalion in the Violet Cloud Town took office, many cultivators prepared gifts for him, and the spiritual fruits in the Violet Cloud Town were sold out, many families even took out their stock, eventually causing the highest price of the spiritual fruit to soar to four spiritual coins..."

Hiss!

Hearing this, Lawson showed an expression like he had a toothache:

"Four spiritual coins? Crazy?! The price of an excellent spiritual fruit produced by the three families is only three spiritual coins!"

"The problem is that excellent spiritual fruits are all prepared for auction and can only be purchased by the elders of the nearby sects. Where can ordinary cultivators have this way?"

"It's true! And those days, the price of excellent spiritual fruit was even more expensive."

The Taoist priest who dispelled doubts was obviously not a person who often paid attention to the market. He only knew one-side of the story, but he succeeded in relieving Lawson.

……

At the same time, more and more cultivators found that there was no ordinary spiritual fruits to sell in the market of the Violet Cloud Town.

All of a sudden, a stone stirred up a thousand layers of waves!

Even some cultivators who normally did not like to eat spiritual fruits have a vague sense of crisis and asked the cultivators the inside story when purchasing the necessary materials.

Soon!

The cultivators in the Violet Cloud Town all seemed to start discussing, and most of the topics revolves around the spiritual fruit and the new Cabinet Elder Joseph Woods.

The undercurrent kept accumulating.

The vortex was expanding!

Cultivators who did not need spiritual fruits were asking about spiritual fruits, and those who needed spiritual fruits were even more anxious and worried!

"Where can I buy spiritual fruits?"

"Ask him!"

"Hey boy, it's you. I remember you used to sell spiritual fruits. Take me to your master. I want to buy spiritual fruits from him."

The attendant who was stopped was none other than Danny.

Suddenly stopped by the cultivator ferociously, the attendant was frightened:

"My, my master, my master has no fruits in his hands now. All of them have been sold out."

The cultivator frowned and threw a lie detector directly onto the attendant.

Passed!

The boy didn't lie.

The fierce cultivator was even more depressed and angry, then turned and left.

"That man is so fierce."

"Well, I remember, he seems to be a cultivator of the KingKong Sect. He usually rewards ordinary spiritual fruits to his apprentices. If he cannot buy spiritual fruits, he must replace them with excellent spiritual fruits." An attendant proudly told the gossip.

……

With the passage of time, the flow of people gradually began to converge on the auction.

"It's too much. I specifically promised my senior brothers and sisters to help them bring back some spiritual fruits. There was not a single fruit in the whole street!"

"The excellent spiritual fruit is so expensive!"

"If it really doesn't work, we can only go to the auction to bid some fruits."

Many cultivators gritted their teeth to prepare for spending a lot of money.

……

"What is this for?"

"This is the entrance to the auction venue. What does this man put a counter at the entrance for?"

Two cultivators in charge of maintaining order at the venue suddenly found that several servants moved a counter and placed it on the left side of the door. They immediately ran to stop it, but one of then stopped the other quietly.

He said:

"They are people on our own side."

"They are?"

Only then did the cultivator who was maintaining order find out that, after the servants walked away, a young man dressed in the Juel family's butler's gown stood beside the counter.

"It's the lady's people."

The people who were ready to come over to reprimand hurriedly turned around.

The lady was the second top third-grade cultivator in the Juel family, a disciple of the Mystery Sect. Her future achievements were bound to be above those of the master. Making trouble for the lady's butler meant to slapping the lady's face...

As long as they did not block the entry or incommode them, they would turn a blind eye and let them be.

Luke's hearing was better than that of the second-grade cultivators. Hearing the conversation of the two, he smiled and his heart was greatly settled. He simply began to make arrangements and took out a striking slogan prepared in advance from the universe bag:

"The spiritual fruits cost 22 spiritual coins per box, with two boxes minimum to be sold. The quantity is limited, and it will cease when sold out."

After pasting it on the back wall, Luke took out 20 delicate and small jade boxes from the universe bag and placed them on the counter one after another.

"Huh?"

Lawson just came to the auction venue and looked up to see the line of golden slogans, as well as the one-meter-high counter and the young man standing behind the counter like the shopkeeper and butler.

"Twenty-two coins a box?"

It was slightly higher than usual.

But compared with the price of four coins a few days ago, it was much more conscientious...

Without further ado, Lawson hurried to the front of the counter, dropped three pieces of spiritual stones, pointed to the 20 boxes of spiritual fruits on the counter and said, " I'll take them all."

Luke looked calm. He quickly checked the number of 160 spiritual coins and took out ten boxes of spiritual fruits from the universe bag and put them on the counter.

Lawson left with satisfaction.

With Lawson making a start, more and more cultivators were attracted by slogan one after another.

There are only ten boxes?

"I'll take five boxes!"

"I'll take the remaining five boxes."

"Damn, I'm too late ."

Luke's heart was filled with agitation, but his face did not show any sign of it. He was quick with his hands, taking money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other. He finished the transaction with half a minute's delay. Then he took out ten boxes of spiritual fruits again.

The people behind thought they didn't have the chance. When they saw Luke's actions...

"Huh?"

"Hey, hey, hey?"

"How much do you have in your hand?"

The man of the KingKong Sect gnashed his teeth and went to the counter. When he saw Luke silently trading with another cultivator who asked for five boxes, he was immediately anxious: "I want 20 boxes, do you have them? If not, ten boxes will do."

Of course, compared with excellent spiritual fruits, ordinary spiritual fruits were still economical.

Luke did not ignore him again this time and quickly picked out the goods:

"Twenty boxes of spiritual fruits, two pieces of inferior spiritual stones and 40 spiritual coins."

"Buy it and leave. Don't waste everyone's time."

"That is, the auction is about to begin!"

The people behind saw the cultivator of the KingKong Sect take 20 boxes at one go and pushed him away without hesitation...

They didn't know, the spiritual fruits in Luke's hands were as much as a mountain, and now only less than one sixth had been sold.

However, because the speed of transaction was extremely fast, it gave the following people an illusion that he had just started selling! They must seize the time.

Whether the cultivators were in need or not, they all lined up to buy some.

From two boxes to 20 boxes, and the wealthiest one took 50 boxes as gifts directly!

Stimulated by these cultivators, the team was getting longer and longer!

Luke's hands cramped when counting money. On the one hand, the mountain of jade boxes of spiritual fruits piled up in the universe bag reduced rapidly. On the other hand, there were more and more spiritual coins and spiritual stones.

In less than five minutes, 540 boxes of spiritual fruits were sold out.

The spiritual fruits purchased with 8,000 spiritual coins turned into 11,880 spiritual coins.

Sold out and left!

Before leaving, Luke gave each of the cultivators responsible for maintaining order 50 spiritual coins and left with Elena and Fiona.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged man on the second floor of the restaurant opposite the auction venue could not help but sigh with emotion to his smiling daughter:

"Flora, what do you think of selling this little guy named Luke's deed of sale to your father?"

"He is not for sale."

"Two hundred pieces of inferior spiritual stones!"

"I won't sell him even for 1,000 inferior spiritual stones." Flora couldn't help laughing: "Father, this is your daughter's first hanger-on and you want to take him away from me, a bit unjustified, right"

"Ahem..."

Mr. Juel's face turned red and coughed violently.

"Just kidding, just kidding."

"But..."

After a pause, Mr. Juel switched the conversation to some other subject, "After all, this kid is not someone who does not have far-reaching ambitions. You must be careful."

"His reward and punishment system is very good. Father, if you are willing to follow suit and promote it, our family's resources can double in three years."

Flora suggested.

Mr. Juel shook his head slowly. "It's not as simple as what you said. Although the Violet Cloud Town is a small place, it is also a pool of muddy water. The depth is very murky. It's not a good thing that our Juel family being too dazzling. When you break through the fourth grade, and our family really have the decisive right to speak, we'll talk about it."