Chapter 39: The Other Side of the World
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On the bullet train, Lin Yi was on his way to Changyang City with two empty hands.
The journey from Xiang City to Changyang City was still relatively short, it took more than ten to twenty minutes to arrive on the high-speed train, this speed was hard to compare even with a cultivator of the peak qi practice stage, it could be said that modern technology was advanced.
"Dear passengers, Changyang City has arrived, please ..."
At this moment, upon hearing this voice, Lin Yi, who had originally closed his eyes to rest, slowly opened his eyes.
After getting off the bullet train, Lin Yi walked towards the exit with his head down.
Just as he was about to leave the station and find a place to land first, a person suddenly pulled him back.
"Big Brother, buy a box of chocolates!"
Lin Yi looked back, but it was actually a little boy who looked to be eight or nine years old pulling his arm.
Seeing the little boy blinking his big eyes at him, Lin Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "Little friend, I don't eat chocolate.
However, the little boy didn't give up, he pointed to a woman of about twenty years old who was walking past Lin Yi and said, "Buy it for this sister, she's very pretty!
Hearing this, the woman who was passing by stopped.
She looked at the little boy and said with a slight smile, "Little Masamune, your sister doesn't know this big brother.
The little boy stubbornly said, "You two are obviously a couple, my mother said that a man is a good-looking woman, sister, you and big brother are beautiful and handsome, they are a natural couple, they must be a couple!"
Lin Yi and the woman were stunned for a moment, they didn't expect that this little boy was actually quite witty.
"Little friend, I don't know them and I don't like chocolate." Lin Yi touched his nose.
After saying that, he was ready to leave.
But the little boy dragged him and said in a voice that was slightly tearful, "Brother, just buy one box!"
It seemed that if he didn't buy it, the little boy wouldn't let him go.
Lin Yi's eyes turned cold.
Being pulled three times by a little doll, even Lin Yi couldn't help but frown a little at this moment, he was neither a saint nor a fool, this little boy was obviously not a simple and pure child, I'm afraid he didn't know how many disgusting things he had done in this bullet train station.
Perhaps there was a group behind this little boy that specialized in this.
Lin Yi was already used to such things.
It wasn't like he didn't eat chocolate himself, and he didn't have any friends around who wanted to eat it, so why did he have to buy it? Just because he was a little boy?
For moral kidnapping, Lin Yi scoffed.
"What are you doing, just buying a box of chocolates won't do anything!"
At this time, the woman couldn't stand it anymore, she patted the little boy's head and said, "It's okay, if he doesn't buy it, his sister will buy it and eat it.
Hearing this, the little boy's ghostly eyes flashed with a hint of cunning that was quickly buried.
However, Lin Yi still caught him.
"Little friend, how much is it?" The woman asked.
The little boy revealed an innocent smile and said, "Sister, this box of chocolates is six hundred and eighty-eight dollars!"
The woman was stunned and then asked in surprise, "That expensive?!"
Her incomprehension, all was Lin Yi's eyes, inner indifference, since she is willing to go to be the wrongdoer, he also naturally no need to intervene to stop.
The little boy, however, shook his head and said, "Not expensive oh, this is imported from the Australian side".
"This ..."
The woman hesitated for a moment, then took out her purse and gave the little boy some money.
The little boy also obviously did not expect the process to be so smooth, took the money and thanked her repeatedly, saying, "Thank you, sister!"
The woman smiled sweetly.
Seeing the little boy turn around and walk away, Lin Yi stared at his pace for a while, pondering.
"So it's a dwarf ..."
Lin Yi was silent, this was not a little boy at all, the posture of a child walking was very different from an adult, Lin Yi judged that this 'little boy' was at least 25 years old!
However, he didn't break it down.
Including bullet train stations, train stations, and even airports, there were countless such people all over the country every day, and they couldn't be managed even if they wanted to.
At this time, the woman suddenly opened her mouth, "You really are too, as for bothering with a little kid?"
"... "Lin Yi was stunned.
The woman snorted coldly, gave Lin Yi a blank stare, and said, "A great man is still like that, I really despise you.
After saying that, she glared at Lin Yi in disgust before walking away.
Leaving Lin Yi alone where he was, he rubbed his nose and smiled bitterly to himself before leaving as well.
That day.
Lin Yi found a place to stay, a relatively clean express hotel.
Sitting on the bed, Lin Yi's mind moved and he took out the entry scroll from his storage ring, as well as the map.
"July 15th, the auction unfolds."
Lin Yi's eyes flickered with thought.
At first, he was slightly confused and didn't quite understand why the time was set to July 15th, but now he finally figured it out.
--The fifteenth of July was a Ghost Festival, and on the night of the Ghost Festival, almost no one would go out!
Therefore, the Lake Province Cultivator Auction was scheduled to be held on that day, so that there would be little chance of it being discovered by ordinary people.
It was right to think that in the twenty-first century, cultivators who could ascend to heaven and descend to earth were just too terrifying!
It was no wonder that ordinary people hadn't realized that there was a cultivator with fairy-like abilities standing right next to them, or maybe even standing next to someone.
"Tomorrow night, it's time for the auction to begin."
Lin Yi was quietly cultivating and consolidating his cultivation, for some reason, he always had a premonition.
I'm afraid this trip to the auction won't be too peaceful ...
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It was night.
The breeze blew coolly past, and the streets of the ever-prosperous Changyang City were empty.
The streets of the city are empty.
It took Lin Yi a long time to open his eyes.
Unconsciously, he had been cultivating for a whole day and night, and it was already the night of the fifteenth day of the seventh month.
"It's time to go and see what the Earth Cultivator Auction is like ..."
Lin Yi, who was dressed in black, put on another duck-tailed hat, pushed the hat down very low, and walked out of the Express Hotel's guest room with his head bowed.
Looking for the map, Lin Yi arrived in front of a ramshackle suburban mansion.
"Could it be here?" Lin Yi's face was strange.
As far as the eye could see, the private house was still a mud house and looked like it hadn't been inhabited for a long time.
How could the place chosen for a once-in-a-decade auction be so shabby?
Just as Lin Yi was wondering, he suddenly heard footsteps.
Lin Yi turned around and was stunned.
"It's you?!"
The two of them spoke in unison.
The person who came was clearly the woman he had met at the bullet train station earlier in the day!
The woman obviously did not expect to meet Lin Yi here either, "You ... are here to participate?"
"You too?" Lin Yi didn't expect her to be a cultivator at all!
At this point, Lin Yi suddenly realized that he had never bothered to look at her during the day, so of course he hadn't noticed that she was a cultivator.
"Since you're on the same path, why do you need to spare even a few hundred dollars?" The woman's willow eyebrows frowned slightly.
Now that they were reunited, the woman hated Lin Yi even more.
Lin Yi was silent and offered no explanation, he had always been like this.
Just then, many more footsteps came.
"Haha, I did not expect that someone would actually arrive before us!"
A few figures slowly appeared, both male and female, and among them, there were a few cultivators wearing masks or disguises who didn't want to reveal their identities.
"Fellow Daoists, long time no see!"
"Hehe, isn't that Daoist Pure Yang from the Ba Shu side, why is he here too?"
"There's also Elder Dashan, rumor has it that he's already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage, with one foot touching the Jindan Gate, he's already at the half-step Jindan realm!"
Just as the crowd was talking, many more silhouettes appeared.
"Look, isn't that the little devil from the Shocking Feather Sect?"
"Even he's here? It seems like the Surprising Feather Sect is trying to cultivate this little devil as a true disciple within these few years... ..."
"Tsk, there's something to see in this auction."
Listening to the words in his ears, Lin Yi secretly frowned, he didn't expect that the cultivation level of the vast majority of these cultivators would be no lower than his!
If he picked any of them at random, they would all be at the upper levels of the Qi Practice Stage, and occasionally he would see a few Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, and even old monsters with half-step Jindan had come!
As the crowd talked and laughed, they entered the private mud house.
Lin Yi and the woman hesitated for a moment before following them.
At that moment, Lin Yi stepped through the wooden door!
Heaven and earth shifted!
"Formation?!" Lin Yi reacted at the first moment.
The next moment, what he saw in front of him was no longer a ragged and tattered dungeon, but a huge underground trading place with a large number of people, initially several hundred cultivators!
Lin Yi's eyes have flashed the color of surprise, "I did not expect, a small dirt house actually has a cave, can put down this kind of array ... This auction behind the people, not easy ah ..."
The woman's expression changed, and she was surprised for a while, as if it was her first time to come as well.
"First go to sell the pills, ready to wait for the auction to start is."
Thinking about this, Lin Yi was silent and walked towards the backstage room of the auction with his head down.
The woman glanced to the side, she didn't expect that this hateful guy would still have something to sell at the auction!
"A miserly cultivator who can't even spare a few hundred dollars would have something to sell?"
Eyes rolling, the woman quietly followed, "Hmph, this isn't a food market, not some trashy stuff the auction will take, I'd like to see what this guy has to offer!"
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Far away in Xiang City.
There was a hotel where someone died in the guest room.
The hotel manager didn't dare to make a big deal out of it, let alone spread the word about it, while keeping his mouth shut and secretly contacting the deceased's family.
Today, the manager finally contacted some men who claimed to be his elder brother.
"Who is it!!!"
A loud roar came from inside the luxurious guest room.
Looking at Bai Lin, whose body had already become a bit stinky, several men's faces turned blue as they received the bad news and came from out of town without stopping.
Among them, a burly man gritted his teeth and said, "Investigate! It must be found out! I want to see which of these things that don't know how to die dares to kill the disciples of my Shocking Feather Sect!"
After saying that, the burly man viciously kicked the long-dead Bai Lin and coldly snorted, "Shameful waste!"
These people were all Bai Lin's elder brothers.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a skinny man sniffed his nose and discovered a long hair on the carpet.
"Breath Chasing Technique!"
The skinny man squeezed his hands together, and the black hair, which was originally a bit withered, instantly stood upright and pointed in one direction.
"A female cultivator?"
The stocky man led the way, sneering coldly, "Let's go, grab her and ask her clearly, I want to see who messed with my Shocking Feather Sect!"
"I will let him ... die without a whole body!!!"
"All his relatives and friends, not one of them can escape!"
"My Shocking Feather Sect's wrath is something no one can withstand!"
The words fell.
Several men with dark faces jumped down from the tall building, and soon their figures disappeared into the hazy night.
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