Chapter 348: Closed Door Cultivation

When he entered, he saw that the entire first floor was as crowded as a market place. People were everywhere, some were being led up the stairs to the upper floors, some were standing in a queue and waiting to buy materials and resources, yet most were walking around, looking at the many items that had been put up on display.

"The first floor is where people buy and sell the more common items," the General explained in his ear. "Here all the mercenaries will sell what they have gained after going into the forests, and many merchants and sailors will also come here and sell their wares from different parts of the country, even from different continents and islands."

Xue Wei absentmindedly nodded his head as he looked at the resources that were on display.

They were widespread materials. Stuff that could help someone enhance their strength or heal, but not at a quality that could be considered good. Even the pills were of decent quality only; they had some impurities within them. Otherwise, they would never be sold on the first floor.

"How do Ito meet with an appraiser?" Xue Wei asked suddenly. He knew that the items he had would quickly end up as the finale at the auction if these common materials were looked at as being unique.

"We havegot to queue up," the General said as he pointed to another queue than the ones who were selling and buying items.

"Here you will have to show off what you havegot, and they will send you to a floor depending on how rare your items are."

"I see," Xue Wei did not care about standing in a queue and went to the back, standing still and observing the surroundings.

The General had been worried that Xue Wei perhaps would not be satisfied with having to wait, but seeing his casual actions, he suddenly understood that he had been overly worried.

Xue Wei was casually standing in the queue, he didwas not careing too much about how fast it moved, and he never complained.

The queue was long, and it took some time before a person was called forth.

Xue Wei had been waiting for a long time, and he was getting further and further towards the front when he looked around and noticed a young man entering the auction house.

It was not only him who noticed this young man. He was walking with arrogance, and a haughty air was all around him. He scanned the auction house, and when he saw that all looked at him, he felt important and puffed up his chest.

Wanting to show off his mighty air, he suddenly yelled, "Who do you think you are looking at?!"

Seeing his behavior, Xue Wei could not help but mumble, "Idiot."

Although he was mumbling it with a low voice, it reverberated through the entire hall. The General could not help but shake his head while laughing wryly, Xue Wei was skilled at pissing people off.

"Who said that?!" the man exclaimed, his expression contortded in hatred. He had just felt as if everyone were admiring him, but now he felt that he was a joke.

"I did, so what?" Xue Wei crossed his arms across his chest as he looked at him with the same carefreeness as before.

He had long since sensed that this self-assured young man was merely a Heavenly Knight, and he did not need to take him seriously.

Looking at him, the young man's face was about to say something, but then his eyes landed on the General who was standing by his side, and his expression froze slightly before he frowned.

"Who are you?" He asked hesitatingly before glancing at the General. Everyone knew the generals of this continent, to be protected by a general, it was evident that he was not some common man.

"I'm Xue Wei," Xue Wei said casually as he looked at the young man, whose face was turning paler and paler.

Everyone with knowledge knew who Xue Wei was. Even the ordinary people stared at him with wide-open eyes and dropping jaws.

Xue Wei was the full name of Sir Xue, the Sovereign Beast that was heavily favored by the Emperor.

The Azure Dragon that had appeared out of nowhere, and although he ought to be weaker than their geniuses, he could beat them with his eyes closed.

The Sovereign Beast who could cultivate before the age of thirty, and was capable of practicing human techniques.

Every one of these were enough to make a person's name resound throughout the continent, but all things had landed on one person's body, and now that they knew he was present, everyone looked at him curiously.

"This one apologizes," the previously arrogant young man quickly bowed deeply to Xue Wei, sweat started beading on his forehead, and he started cursing himself for having been too full of himself, causing problems with such a rising star.

Xue Wei did not really care about what had happened before and waved his hand, "it's fine, but be more careful in the future," he said apathetically as if he was bored.

Having waited in the queue for more than an hour, this was the most exciting thing that had happened, so he did not plan on making things hard for the young man, and he instantly felt relieved when he realized this.

Thanking Xue Wei profusely, he finally left the auction house, as if he was afraid that Xue Wei would change his mind.

Shaking his head in amusement, Xue Wei returned to look towards the front of the queue, waiting for it to be his turn, but everyone was now looking at him as if they could find some sort of secret hidden beneath his skin.

Finally, after three hours of queueing, it was time for Xue Wei to display his items.

"What would you like to have appraised?" the clerk asked, with a voice that sounded as if he had asked the same question so many times that he had gotten sick of it.

"I have a lot," Xue Wei said casually as he took out one jade vial from his storage treasure.

"A lot?" the clerk frowned and quickly assumed it was just some common materials, but just as he was about to tell Xue Wei to go to another counter, he caught a glimpse of what lay within the jade vial, and his heartbeat quickened.

"This is one of the things you wish to sell?" he asked, his previously monotonous voice was now trembling slightly from excitement.

"Yes." Xue Wei smiled and knew that he had finally taken Xue Wei to be a serious customer.

"Lead this gentleman and his friends to the seventh floor," the clerk ordered a woman that was standing by his side, and her expression turned grave when she heard what floor they were going to.

One has to know that the seventh floor was the highest floor, where one could get their things appraised.

"Follow me." the woman gestured for them to follow her, after which she started leading the way up the stairs.

Xue Wei was not the only one being led up and down the stairs. Many women were leading customers around, depending on what they needed.

When they reached the seventh floor, Xue Wei found that here was quiet and no other customers, only the staff were making their way around the floor.

The woman led them to a room, where they entered, only to find an elderly man seated within.

His hair and long beard was white, his eyes deep, and gave off a feeling of someone who had seen the vicissitudes of life.

He took one glance at Xue Wei, and then his eyes landed on the vial he held in his hand.

An eyebrow rose in surprise as he recognized the item that had been placed within the vial.

"You are here to auction off a two-colored Rainbow Pill?" the elderly man asked with a friendly voice.

"That, amongst other treasures," Xue Wei admitted with a nod of his head.

"Llet me see." The old man sounded excited as he rubbed his hands and looked at the things Xue Wei took out from his storage treasure.

"Ten thousand-year-old Lightning Bamboo!"

"Thunder Lily Leaves!"

"Corpse grass at least a few thousand years old!"

"Blood ginseng of tens of thousands of years!"

"Scorpion tailed Hyacinth!"

The more materials Xue Wei removed from his storage treasure, the more shocked the elderly man became.

All of these items were seen as real treasures, and even one of them were hard to come by, but Xue Wei had so many of them and all these different ones as well!

Although Xue Wei took these things out, they were not even a tenth of the total amount of herbs he had gotten. He took out two corpse blades of grass but kept fifty for himself. He took out three blood ginsengs and kept the other seventy for himself.

"Wonderful! Simply Wonderful!" The elderly man was so excited that he was trembling. He had initially thought that just the two-colored Rainbow Pill was a great harvest, but thisese many items were simply outstanding, e. Especially since their quality was this high.

"I want to put them all up for this month's auction," Xue Wei said casually. He was not able to wait for a later auction, so he wanted to get them sold as soon as possible.

"Understood." The elderly man had already guessed his identity, and knowing that he was going to enter the Ascended's Realm, he did not have a lot of time to waste, so he did not try to persuade him into selling them later.

Although they could not advertise as much as they wanted, and the prices would be somewhat lower than normal, but Xue Wei had already accepted this.

After appraising every single item, the value turned out to be worth as much as a second-rank family in the Demon Phoenix Continent. The elderly man could not help but sigh.

Not long after, they left the auction house, Xue Wei had a VIP badge in his storage treasure, and he had been given a booth specially prepared for him when he was coming to the auction a few days later.

After this, Xue Wei returned to shop for random materials across the entire town, and he did not stop before the sun had started to set in the sky.

"Let us return," he said, quite satisfied with the items he had managed to get his hands on during the day.

As he returned to the room, he instantly found his cauldron and began refining medicinal pills.

While Xue Wei was busy refining pills, Bai Tianyi was busy creating inscriptions.

Xue Wei only had so much time a day, and he was not able to both refine pills and create inscriptions, and thus they split it up.

Bai Tianyi also was of a higher rank than Xue Wei, and when it came to creating inscriptions, one's spiritual energy truly mattered, so the higher the rank, the better the results of the inscriptions.

Like this, a couple of days went by. Xue Wei had been in closed-door cultivation where he had been entirely focused on creating and refining medicinal pills, and Bai Tianyi had inscribed one inscription after another.

"It is time for us to go to the auction," was the first thing that Xue Wei said when he emerged from the room. He seemed as usual; his clothes were clean and neat, his expression normal. It was hard to imagine that this person had been the one who had been going mad refining for a few days.

Bai Tianyi was not as unruffled. He looked like a ghost, big circles were underneath his eyes, and his skin had turned somewhat pale.

They waited for Bai Tianyi to freshen up, and when he returned out from within the room, he no longer looked as pale, but the black circles underneath his eyes were not so easy to get rid of.