Realms In The Firmament

The Dark Evil Spirit was sitting in meditation when he jumped up in shock. He was frightened by Qiu Luo’s shout, but then he slightly nodded to confirm the answer.

Qiu Luo took a deep breath. His eyes were suddenly filled with tears.

‘He is from the great Ye Clan!’

‘The heavens bless me. My opportunity has come.’

The next day.

When the Dark Evil Spirit woke up from the deep meditation, he was terrified by what he saw. He looked at the old man and said, “You… You…”

Of course, who wouldn’t be frightened to see that?

Qiu Luo was a totally different person after resting for one whole night. His shaggy hairs became neat and clean. He was an old man, so some of the hairs had become gray, but he did not look like an old man anymore.

He stood right there and naturally showed the sharp aura of power on him. He looked steady, experienced, tough, and free…

The wrinkles on his face had mostly disappeared. He didn’t have a dying old face anymore.

For nearly one hundred years, he hadn’t stood straight up, but now he stood up like a spear pointing to the sky.

He had changed his clothes, wearing all dark.

In his eyes, there were unidentified lights. That short knife that he was going to use to kill himself, was now casually held on his belt.

It was the weapon of his wife, who had already died.

“From now on, this knife is my new Cyclone Saber!”

Qiu Luo stared at the short knife emotionally.

The senility of an old man had left him. Qiu Luo looked just like a middle-aged man who was in high spirits at the moment.

Ye Xiao was still wearing his white clothes. As he walked out the door and saw Qiu Luo, he took a look at the short knife on Qiu Luo’s waist. Ye Xiao blandly said, “Qiu Luo, give me that knife. Let me reforge it for you.”

Qiu Luo was confused. “What?”

“You can use your cute knife to kill a chicken, but not a man.” Ye Xiao blandly smiled and said, “Let me reforge it for you. You will need a weapon that you can at least use to kill somebody.”

“Thank you so much, master!” Qiu Luo was thrilled.

Since Ye Xiao said it, he must have confidence about it.

Qiu Luo knew that the knife of his wife was just a normal knife because it was made of some normal metals. People call it weapons on the street. If he used such a weapon to fight a real cultivator, before he could hurt anybody, the knife would probably break into pieces itself.

As Ye Xiao promised to reforge the knife, it would definitely become something extraordinary.

…

The news about the rare metals kept spreading out. Every day, there were a lot of people crowding into the City of Chaos.

The Dark Evil Spirit and Qiu Luo went everywhere, trying to find somewhere that they could use as the base of their organization…

A few days later, under the guidance of Qiu Luo, the experienced local citizen, Ye Xiao chose a big mansion, which covered nearly several hectares of land. The owner of the mansion was leaving the City of Chaos, so the mansion was on sale.

There was one good thing about this mansion. There was a huge empty land near it. With enough money, he could buy the land at the same time, so that he could expand the mansion.

If he really bought that land as well, including the mansion, he had almost two hundred hectares land! That would be a wonder!

Of course, it was definitely not enough for a super-powerful force in the world, but it was way much more than enough for Ye Xiao since he had only three men in his organization after all.

“This is it.” Ye Xiao said, “Get it done. After the auction, we pay the money and get the land and the mansion.”

“Yes, Master.”

The auction was definitely highly anticipated since there were many rare metals on sale.

Ye Xiao was the owner of the metals, so he got some tickets to the auction.

However, he chose to enter the bidding block when the auction was starting. Of course, he would put on a disguise.

When Ye Xiao got to the bidding block, there were no empty seats already. The auction was started.

What drew Ye Xiao’s attention was the colorful cloud floating up on the ceiling of the auction hall. It made a circle around the place. Behind the cloud, there were some secret rooms. It must be where some influential people stayed…

Ye Xiao leisurely took a seat on the back of the hall. He was not going to buy anything in the auction. All he wanted to do was to open his eyes. He wanted to know how valuable the metals that he made in the Space exactly were.

He wanted to know how much money he could make from them.

With the sound of the gavel, the auction was officially started.

The first article for sale were some bottles of dan beads. They said these dan beads were made by some famous master dan-maker. Ye Xiao took a casual look at the dan beads and then closed the eyes. He absolutely had no interest in those things.

That was not his fault. Ye Xiao had seen too many supreme dan beads that were made by Erhuo. Those dan beads for sale did not have dan clouds, not even dan mist, but only a little dan glow. They were like trash to Ye Xiao. How on earth was it going to attract Ye Xiao?

The next moment, when people started to bid, Ye Xiao immediately opened his eyes. He opened his eyes widely, with surprise and joy.

“One hundred purple spirit coins!”

“One hundred and fifty!”

“Two hundred!”

“Two hundred and fifty!”

“Two hundred and fifty for your a*s, you idiot!”

The crowd burst into laughter.

“Three hundred!”

“Four hundred!”

…

In the end, several bottles of dan beads which were just valueless trash in Ye Xiao’s eyes actually were sold for seven hundred purple spirit coins!

Seven hundred big warm purple spirit coins!

That was equal to seventy billion yellow spirit coins! It was a fortune!

It was seven hundred million white spirit coins!

That was a huge amount of money that most of the people in the world could imagine.

“Holy hell!” Ye Xiao kept his mouth open in shock. He suddenly had no words to describe his feelings.

In the several days before the auction started, Ye Xiao had walked around the fourth and fifth floors of the Mountain of All Medicines. There were a lot of medical materials, and he didn’t know the value of most of them because his knowledge was limited. However, he knew that those materials were all in higher quality than most materials he could find in the market of the Human Realm Upon Heavens…

It meant when Erhuo woke up, it would make him a lot of supreme dan beads.

If he took the dan beads out and sold them on the auction…

‘Look at those rubbish. They are sold for seven hundred purple spirit coins. If I put my supreme dan beads on sale, aren’t I going to get ten thousand purple spirit coins easily?’

‘What does the number even mean?’

‘What is the number?’

‘Is it even more valuable than one rare metal?’

“It seems the Dark Evil Spirit was right. Dan-makers are rich… Easy money…” Ye Xiao murmured in shock.

“Dan-makers in the Human Realm Upon Heavens were robbing money!”

Ye Xiao gave a conclusion to the dan-making profession in this world!

Two cultivators beside Ye Xiao who sat straight up looking like two righteous men happened to hear Ye Xiao’s words. Both of them rolled their eyes up and looked at the ceiling. ‘Where the hell is this bumpkin from? Everyone knows that dan-makers make huge money… Hmm. That’s not the point. Those were Master Han’s dan beads! Seven hundred purple spirit coins are actually not expensive at all! If not that there are rare metals to be sold, people wouldn’t be so self-restrained like this, and the dan beads would definitely be sold for a much bigger price! Stupid bumpkin! Look at him. He is shocked! Just a little money and he got shocked. How ignorant is he? How foolish is he? Why is the salesroom of the Brotherhood Alliance getting lower and lower now? There are so many people outside who couldn’t get one ticket no matter how much they would like to pay, yet they let this bumpkin get into this place!’

“Poor peasant!”

A young man spoke out in a low voice and then continued watching the auction. It seemed he didn’t want to be around a man he looked down upon.

The Dark Evil Spirit was annoyed, so he turned around to stare at the young man.

However, as he saw the man beside the young man, he was surprised.

“Bai Long? It is you!”

The man beside the young man turned over and saw him, so he said with a smile, “Dark Evil Spirit, what is it? Is that your owner?”

The Dark Evil Spirit humphed and said angrily, “Bai Long, tell your master that he should better watch his mouth! Be careful! A loose tongue is a source of evil!”

The man was annoyed, so he blandly said, “Dark Evil Spirit, you must know that you are not qualified enough to speak about that. If you don’t agree, I can prove it if we meet up outside the gate of the City of Chaos tomorrow morning.”

The Dark Evil Spirit proudly said, “Let’s meet outside the gate of the City of Chaos then! A deal is a deal!”

“Deal!”

The two of them sat back down with anger in their eyes.

Ye Xiao frowned. He felt that the Dark Evil Spirit was a bit different today…

The young man hadn’t talked at all, just listened with an ambiguous smile on his face. Deep in his eyes, there was greed and cruelness. Ye Xiao pretended not to hear the conversation like he didn’t care about it at all.

After a few rounds of tea, there were already three articles sold on the stage. Three articles were all sold to three different buyers. The young man seemed to think of something all of a sudden, so he turned over and smiled at Ye Xiao. “Brother, if you don’t mind, what is your name? The Dark Evil Spirit is actually willing to be your servant, so it seems you are from a really powerful force.”

Ye Xiao blandly said with a smile, “He is not my servant. He is my follower. He is my right hand!”

And then he smiled and said, “Well, your guard seems to be quite professional. It would be even better if he can be less impulsive.”

The young man half close his eyes and said, “Oh, really? I see. Good to know.”

He intended to sow discord between Ye Xiao and the Dark Evil Spirit.

He thought that no matter what Ye Xiao said, the Dark Evil Spirit would feel uncomfortable.

What if Ye Xiao said he was a brother to him?

Nobody would believe it. Even Dark Evil Spirit himself wouldn’t believe it!

What if Ye Xiao said he was a friend?

It was apparent to all that they were not friends. If Ye Xiao said so, it would lower Ye Xiao’s position but get nothing good in return!

However, Ye Xiao said that he was his follower! It was a perfect answer to the malicious question.

A follower and a servant were both a subordinate, but a follower was more respected. A servant was more like a slave, which was a mark of humiliation.

Other than that, Ye Xiao also said that the Dark Evil Spirit was his right hand. That totally rose up the man’s position.

A right hand in an organization meant the most important person among all members.

The Dark Evil Spirit would definitely love to hear it.

As Ye Xiao said the perfect answer, Bai Long’s face looked sullen immediately.

His master just went forward to humiliate his opponent but got slammed back by an answer that sounded soft, but was tough inside. Ye Xiao gave an answer to defend the Dark Evil Spirit’s pride, yet Bai Long’s master did even think of doing the same thing for Bai Long.

Ye Xiao mentioned Bai Long in the conversation, but the young man didn’t respond to it.

The young man blandly smiled and said to Ye Xiao, “Tomorrow morning, maybe it can be a game for us? What do you think?”

Ye Xiao frowned and said, “What game?”

“Bai Long and the Dark Evil Spirit… I say we can make a bet on the fight.” The young man’s eyes flashed in some dangerous lights. He blandly said, “What do you say we put ten thousand purple spirit coins on each of our own men?”

“You know, I usually won’t refuse a playful game like this. However, I never make a bet on my man’s life.” Ye Xiao blandly smiled and said, “I won’t let my man risk his life just for me to enjoy a game. That is how I respect my man. They serve me with their lives, and I will show them respect.”

The Dark Evil Spirit was quite happy, while Bai Long seemed to be a bit upset. One master proposed to make a bet on his subordinate life, while the other refused it for respect to his subordinate.

Two masters in two extremes.

The two subordinates definitely had different feelings.

The young man seemed to be excited, and he said, “It turns out you are a man who would like to talk big! What do you want? What is good enough to make your bet?”

“Well, if we have to do this, why don’t we make it a fight between you and me? Who wins the fight wins the bet.” Ye Xiao half-closed the eyes, staring at the young man. The young man pretended to be calm, but actually not. He was quite grumpy. Ye Xiao slowly said, “Fine. Ten thousand purple spirit coins. Let’s fight. In fact, you know what? We can raise the number. But I won’t insist if you don’t dare to.”

The young man in luxurious clothes seemed to be mad.

“Deal! It is done! Tomorrow morning, let’s have this fight between you and me.” The young man took a heavy breath. His eyes flashed a sly smile.

‘Stupid bumpkin! You don’t even know who I am, yet you dare to fight me… Embrace death, you stupid!’

Ye Xiao’s eyes shined with an ambiguous expression.

He did not know who this young man was, but the Dark Evil Spirit knew.

The Dark Evil Spirit knew who this young man was, yet he still dared to challenge Bai Long, which meant he was not afraid of Bai Long’s master. The young man was not from some super force anyway.

One thing happened as well, which was quite important…

When Ye Xiao was having that conversation, the Dark Evil Spirit had already told Ye Xiao everything he knew about that young man through mind connection.

That young man was Sun Shaoping.

He was the son of a rich man in the City of Chaos. The man had some men working for him, but he was definitely nobody in the Limitless Ocean. His house was falling.

When the young man—Lord Sun was born, the house had never stopped wasting money. This young man had almost wasted up all the savings of his family.

Bai Long was the only guard in Sun’s House that was capable. Sun Shaoping’s father used to save Bai Long’s life, and that was the only reason Bai Long kept staying with the House of Sun. The other cultivators who could fight had all gone.

The House of Sun was falling… It was going to reach the bottom of the world soon.

One thing interested Ye Xiao a lot. The young Lord Sun loved gambling, but he was terrible on the gambling table… He always repudiated a debt! People went to his family to claim money all the time. His father was such a terrible person, who bully the weak and fawn on the strong. He would put on a smile to the people who he couldn’t mess with and give them as much money as they want, but to the people who were weaker than him, he would close the door and start beating those people up… Those who went to his family couldn’t get their money back and even lost more money to get out…

All in all, his entire family bullied the weak and feared the strong. They hadn’t widespread indignation and discontent yet, but people definitely disliked them.

Ye Xiao had a clear recognition about this kind of people. The only thing that he had to do to those people was to make as much money as he could from them.

“What comes next is the most important part of the auction today.” The auctioneer was hopping and talking on the stage. People heard his words and all sat straight up, staring at the stage in full concentration.

In fact, the auctioneers always said the same words in all auctions. People who usually participate in the auctions should already get used to what the auctioneer said. However, it was a different situation this time. Why were these people all gathering in this salesroom?

They were here for the shining, hard, rare metals that were only heard in the stories, not seen in reality!

As a matter of fact, most of the audience had almost fallen asleep before that. When they were so bored, the auctioneer finally started to bring up the metals, so they were all so excited and spirited up!

No! They were extremely concentrating at the moment! They wouldn’t want to miss any tiny detail!

“First rare metal is…” The auctioneer looked around and spoke loudly, “One small piece of this metal could become as heavy as a big mountain, but is actually just light as a feather. Such metal is totally against the rule of the world! Feather Bronze!”

Before he finished his words, Ye Xiao clearly felt the vibes of the people in the hall were getting stronger and stronger.

At this moment, in a guest’s room behind the colorful clouds, Master Xiao was sitting with his legs crossed. His pretty face did not show any facial expression, as if he did not care about the Feather Bronze at all, even though he needed it so much.

However, no matter how he pretended to be calm, his long and fair fingers curled up and made a fist. He was not as indifferent as he pretended to be, was he?

In fact, Master Xiao had given the Brotherhood Alliance’s salesroom an offer, as an exchange for the two metals. He wanted the Brotherhood Alliance to sell him the two metals for the highest price the salesroom had ever had and promised the salesroom a favor.

However, the Brotherhood Alliance’s salesroom turned it down decisively!

They hadn’t shown him any respect about that.

The head of the salesroom didn’t talk nice. “We have done more than enough to tell you the information, and now you are asking for manipulation behind the scenes… Who do you think you are? A conqueror? One of the five Sky Kings?”

Which meant, ‘Master Xiao? Who the hell do you think you are? Master Xiao is nothing! Do you actually think you can manipulate our auction in our salesroom?’

That was extremely strident!

Master Xiao was annoyed, but no matter how angry he was, he couldn’t rage upon them, because they were the second powerful force in the Limitless Ocean after all.

The Brotherhood Alliance had a lot of superior cultivators who were all united to each other. If they wanted to kill Master Xiao, it wouldn’t be a difficult thing.

“A block of Feather Bronze, starting with ten thousand purple spirit coins!” The auctioneer’s voice sounded up on the stage. “Make sure your bids go one thousand purple spirit coins higher than the previous bit. Anybody likes the Feather Bronze, you may call it now. Let’s start with this lot. Any bid?”

Master Xiao deeply took a breath, and his eyes flashed with some sharp lights.

Two young girls wearing white clothes stepped forward beside him and prepared to call their bids.

Somebody had already shouted with a deep voice down in the hall. “I do. Eleven thousand purple spirit coins.”

“Guest number one hundred and seventy-nine calls for eleven thousand purple spirit coins. Eleven thousand appears now. Any more bid? Anybody?” The auctioneer was obviously quite excited about holding the auction for the rare metals, so he worked pretty hard for it.”

“Feather Bronze! We all know how good it is. A tiny bit of Feather Bronze added into your weapon, the weapon will become half lighter. If there is ten percent of Feather Bronze in a weapon, the weapon can be as light as a feather. You won’t even feel the weight when you hold it in your hand. No matter how you reforge the weapon, the Feather Bronze will always make it weightless! It is just as it is called, like a feather!”

The auctioneer kept shouting loudly on the stage, “One block of Feather Bronze for sale in the auction! One huge block of Feather Bronze that can make two ordinary weapons weightless! Two! As we all know, if one piece of Feather Bronze that is enough to make one weapon half lighter, then it is a priceless piece of Feather Bronze! Now, this lot, this single block of Feather Bronze here can make two weapons weightless! What does it mean? Two weapons! Two weightless weapons… Ah ah ah…” He was spluttering.

Many people down in the bidder’s block were annoyed.

‘F*ck you, you f*cking fool! Why do you tell them all these? What the f*ck are you thinking?’

‘We are never going to get it if everybody knows how good it is!’

‘Look at you, you excited f*cking bastard! What? Sell it for a hundred million purple spirit coins, and so what? Do you think you can get any from it?’

‘Listen to you! You are f*cking shouting yourself hoarse! You won’t get more even if you spit fifty kilograms of saliva! Why do you work so hard?’

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