Chapter 156: Far from home

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——(POV third person)——

Huizheng wanted this item for his friend and partner who was here with him when he was searching for good items in the auction. This girl was the same one that was clinging to him in front of the restaurant.

In fact, from that group of 12 who stood in front of the restaurant, 3 were his friends and the other 8 were either his partners or his potential partners.

Huizheng has been traveling the world for some years and this was his first time in the divine central continent. By chance, he got to the continent only four weeks before the auction and as he was traveling, he got the news about the biggest auction of the whole world and he couldn't stop himself from rushing here to see if the rumors about its grandeur were true or there were only empty words.

To his surprise, it wasn't an exaggeration when they said this city would be different from anything that he has seen before. From the moment he got into the city, one thing after another kept surprising him. The fact that you could not fight in the city was something that he thought impossible but it seems that this city could make it possible. There is also the matter with no flying inside the city that put a smile on his face, he couldn't help but imagine the look on the face of those arrogant cultivators when they had to walk on the ground like a mortal.

Alas, when he went to the restaurant to enjoy a meal with his companions, he almost lost his cool when a waiter tried to offer him money in exchange for his table on the top floor. He couldn't believe that even though he had the money to pay for this place, there were still some people who looked down on him.

Luckily for the waiter and him, another employee came and stopped the waiter from insulting him further by offering more money.

He had been training for years so that no one would be able to look down on him but it seemed to him that no matter what he does, there will always be people who try to insult him like this.

Although the matter was handled, he couldn't let it go and tried to find out who was the young master that the waiter wanted his table for. After asking around a little, his friends found out that the one who he was looking for was named Li Huang and he is hailed as a genius of his generation and his family is one of the big families in the divine central continent.

Of course, for Huizheng it didn't matter which family Li Huang came from as he had been handling these types of spoiled brats for years, to him one more didn't make much of a difference.

When they saw the group that matched the description of Li Huang and his companions, Huizheng could only reconfirm his previous assessment of Li Huang. He was nothing but a brat in his eyes.

He didn't put him in his eyes at the moment because he knew that he would be facing him in the auctions and with the wealth that he has accumulated over the years, he could show him where he stood in comparison to him.

Now, a few days after that, Huizheng had the perfect chance to get his revenge for that matter and give Li Huang a lesson so that he wouldn't look down on people just because he doesn't know them.

Li Huang on the other hand had no idea that such a thing happened and Huizheng was bidding against him just because of that, but one thing was clear to him, he wasn't going to let anyone else have this item.

This item was seemingly a stone of unknown origins that would emit heat and keep you warm, but Li Huang had the peeping eye of heaven that helped him find out about the true use of this item. This stone is dark red in color and according to the memories that Li Huang checked from the peeping eye of heaven, it is called [Tribulation Blood Stone]. He didn't know how this item was made but he knew that it could prove helpful for her senior sister and sect's matriarch, Yuan Jia.

From what he knows about Yuan Jia and bits and pieces that he found out with the help of the peeping eye of heaven, Yuan Jia has a special physique that allows her to have much higher power than her actual cultivation level. From what Li Huang could understand in the limited time that he examined her with the peeping eye of heaven, she has a physique that is a variant of the [Internal Furnace] body that helps one with giving them explosive powers when using their Qi.

Li Huang researched more on this when he had free time in the sect (when he was trying to sleep after a long training session with grandpa Long), he found out that this type of physique will get stronger if you absorb different types of natural energies from multiple items and the better quality the item has, better the result.

The [Tribulation Blood Stone] is one of those items and from the information that Li Huang could see on it, it is one of the most valuable items that a cultivator can use to nourish one's physique. From what Li Huang could understand, absorbing this [Tribulation Blood Stone]'s natural energy would help Yuan Jia to improve her power at least twofold.

If you also take into account that this item that Li Huang was bidding for was worth at least 100,000 times what they are bidding for, no matter how high the final price, it would be still worth it by a long shot.

Huizheng who saw that Li Huang not only didn't back down but increased the bid, had a small frown on his face. Without any hesitation, he also added to the bid.

"1,000 high-grade spirit stones." He said and the surrounding people gasped. This sort of money was not something that one would be seeing many times if ever, so this reaction was not far from expectation.

Unfortunately for Huizheng, this number was nothing to Li Huang even if he were to only use his personal reserves and don't touch the money that he got as a 'gift' from grandpa Long.

"5,000 high-grade spirit stones." Li Huang said with a calm tone and despite that everyone heard him clearly.

The auctioneer lost his cool for a moment but it didn't take more than a second for him to regain his composure.

"6,000 high-grade spirit stones." Huizheng didn't give the auctioneer time to say a word and increased the bid.

Li Huang wanted to increase the bid once more but seeing the look on the auctioneer's face he stopped and let him speak.

"Forgive me, but for every bid higher than 5,000 high-grade spirit stones you will have to put that amount in the storage rings that are in front of you." The auctioneer said and two of the servants brought two tables with storage rings on them to Li Huang and Huizheng respectively.

Huizheng shook his head as he thought that they were still looking down on him. In reality, this rule was added so that one would not be forced to overpay for something when the other party only want's to increase the price and has no money to pay for it.

Without batting an eye Huizheng deposited the 6,000 high-grade spirit stones in the storage ring on the table and the number 6,000 was shown on the podium.

"If you don't have this much money, it is not too late to apologize and walk away." Huizheng turned to Li Huang and said smugly. His words were only followed with snickering from his friends and partners, the other cultivators in the crowd were just looking at him wide-eyed. Nobody could believe that someone would try to show his wealth in front of a descendant of the Li family who is also a chief disciple of one of the holy lands.

This silence continued for two or three more seconds before the sound of Cai ZhenKang's laughter filled the surroundings.

"HAHAHA, heavens, HAHAHA!" Cai ZhenKang couldn't even form a sentence as he was thinking about the amount of money that Li Huang had shown him. If he were to remove this amount of spirit stones from Li Huang's reserves, Li Huang wouldn't even notice it.

Li Huang too smiled a little and faced Huizheng.

"You seem to be far from home." Li Huang said with a smile.