But Wen Jingshu was a cultivator. If she was given everything she wanted on a silver platter, how was she supposed to temper her state of mind?
“It's fine, Uncle Li. I just wanted to place a bid for fun.”
She was only mildly interested in the Flying Eagle Bird. Her budget was eight million top-grade spirit stones; if she won it, great, and if not, so be it.
While Wen Jingshu thought this way, the person bidding against her certainly did not.
In Heaven-grade Private Room No. 3, Gu Ji saw his bids being intercepted for the third time, and anger flared within him.
“Ten million top-grade spirit stones! There is nothing in this world that this young master wants but cannot get!”
“Little girl, I advise you to give up!”
The bidders for the first two items had used Divine Sense Plates, so he didn't know who they were. Now that Wen Jingshu had spoken aloud, he finally found someone to vent his frustration on.
Hearing Gu Ji's words, Ying Zhen couldn't help but break into a cold sweat on his behalf. Threatening Wen Jingshu, the little ancestor of the Pill Sect, right here in Yundan City? This guy was truly a piece of work.
Wen Jingshu, who had been snapped at for no reason, was full of questions.
“Uncle Li, is he threatening me?”
Since the day she was born, he was the very first person to threaten the young Wen Jingshu.
Li Xunzhi continued to stroke his beard and said, “Yes.”
Faced with this provocation, Wen Jingshu was not only unafraid but actually felt a bit excited.
After all, her current identity was completely different from her days as a mere talisman cultivator. Her background now was incredibly powerful.
Wen Jingshu cleared her throat and spoke up, “Twelve million top-grade spirit stones! Who do you think you are? How thick-skinned do you have to be to tell me to give up just like that?”
As a direct descendant of the Gu family, Gu Ji naturally had his own pride. He retorted, “Fifteen million top-grade spirit stones! This young master doesn't hide his name. I am Gu Ji!”
“Sixteen million top-grade spirit stones. Who is Gu Ji? Never heard of you.”
“Seventeen million top-grade spirit stones! Who are you then? State your name!”
“Eighteen million top-grade spirit stones! Since you dare to declare your background, so do I. I am Wen Shuyi's younger sister, Wen Jingshu.”
“Nineteen million top-grade spirit stones! Who is Wen Shuyi? I've never heard of her either.”
...
The two, who had initially been snapping each other, had suddenly started chatting while bidding. This turn of events was entirely unexpected for everyone.
However, listening to the content of their conversation, the onlookers in the hall could barely catch their breath.
Wen Jingshu didn't know the Gu family, but they did!
Gu Ji didn't know Wen Shuyi, but they did!
The Gu family was the number one clan in the Eastern Azure Continent, and Gu Ji was a direct-line young master of the family. He possessed a ninety-seven percent top-grade heavenly fire spiritual root and was a genius who had established his foundation at the age of seventeen!
Few people might know the name Wen Shuyi, but surely they knew of Daoist Sovereign Ziyang! She was the Grand Elder of the Pill Sect, born into a family of alchemists. Before their parents ascended to immortality, they were legendary figures of the alchemical path whom everyone looked up to. This was even more true for Wen Shuyi; at just a thousand years old, she was already an Eighth-Grade Alchemist! She was indisputably the youngest Eighth-Grade Alchemist in the Eastern Azure Continent!
With Wen Shuyi's status, even if this was the first time they had heard of Wen Jingshu, and even if she were a waste without any spiritual roots, they would still have to treat her with the utmost respect!
As the two favored children of heaven continued to raise their bids, the price of the Flying Eagle Bird had long surpassed its actual market value.
Eventually, Wen Jingshu found it boring and stopped bidding. “Forget it. Since you like it so much, I'll let you have it.”
Wen Jingshu genuinely meant it, and Gu Ji did not think she was maliciously bidding up the price either. After all, with their respective backgrounds, neither of them would deign to play petty tricks on the other.
“Then thank you, Little Sister Wen, for letting me have it. Once the auction is over, I'll treat you to a big feast!”
Gu Ji saw nothing wrong with this, and neither did Wen Jingshu. However, Xiao Yan, who was standing beside Gu Ji, was highly displeased.
“Cousin, that Wen Jingshu was clearly going against you. Why are you still offering to treat her to a meal?”
“You are a direct-line young master of the Gu family. She is just the younger sister of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist. Is there any need for you to yield to her like this?”
Upon hearing his words, Gu Ji immediately rolled his eyes at him.
Then, he felt a wave of vexation.
Why was it that there were always malicious fools hovering around geniuses like them?
An elder of the Gu family let out a cold snort upon hearing Xiao Yan's words.
As the head of the Eight Great Families, the Gu family naturally had Eighth-Grade Alchemists in their clan.
But how many members did the Gu family have? And how many alchemists? Even if Gu Ji was a direct-line young master, if he wanted to request an Eighth-Grade Alchemist to refine pills for him, he still had to be extremely respectful, bring ample compensation, and wait his turn in line.
Waiting two or three years was considered fast.
Cutting the line? That depended entirely on whether the alchemist was willing to give him face.
But what about Wen Jingshu? She was the younger sister of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist from the Pill Sect! For pills below the Seventh Grade, there was no need for Wen Shuyi to lift a finger; she could simply ask the sect for them.
As for pills of the Eighth Grade and above...
Perhaps before their parents ascended, they had already prepared a whole basketful of them for the two sisters.
While others treasured a single pill as a priceless heirloom, they probably wouldn't even bother to pick one up if they dropped it!
Furthermore, in terms of influence, Wen Shuyi, as the youngest Eighth-Grade Alchemist, had a long lifespan ahead of her and possessed exceptional talent. The number of Dao protectors wishing to follow her might not be a hundred, but there were easily forty or fifty.
Additionally, the parents of the two sisters had forged many good karmic relations in the past, and these favors would ultimately be repaid to the two sisters.
It was just that the members of the Wen family were, to put it nicely, low-key, or to put it bluntly, incredibly cautious and reclusive. Naturally, outsiders knew nothing of these secrets.
“The young master did the right thing. This young friend Wen must never be offended. If we can build a friendship with her, that would be even better.”
Since Elder Gu had spoken, Gu Ji knew he had to seize this opportunity to befriend Wen Jingshu. He immediately handed a storage ring to an attendant and had them deliver it to her.
In the Bing-grade private room, Yun Xiange's expression turned slightly unsightly when she heard Wen Jingshu reveal her identity.
In the original novel, the female protagonist had clearly always taken a low-key approach, laying low whenever possible to temper her state of mind. Why had everything changed after she transmigrated into the book?
If Wen Jingshu remained this assertive, would she really be able to snatch her opportunities away?
If it weren't for the fact that several events she had verified matched the original work, she would have seriously doubted whether she had actually transmigrated into a book.
For a moment, Yun Xiange felt extremely worried about her future.
Upon hearing the name Wen Jingshu, Fu Sinian's first reaction was to think of his own disagreeable little junior sister, but on second thought, he felt it was impossible.
If Wen Jingshu were truly the younger sister of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist, wouldn't she be walking tall and proud on Hidden Star Peak? Why would she be like she was now, not even daring to show her face to him?
They definitely weren't the same person. At most, their names were homophones.
Wen Jingshu had no idea that her nominal senior brother and senior sister were also present. At this moment, she was looking at the dozen or so storage bags and rings presented by the attendants with some distress.
She knew that alchemists were highly valued, but she hadn't expected them to be this revered.
She was currently only using the title of an alchemist's younger sister, yet so many people had already come to deliver gifts?
Wen Jingshu had no intention of dealing with these people and said directly:
“Keep the storage ring sent by Gu Ji. Return the rest.”
Upon hearing Wen Jingshu's words, the attendant replied respectfully and did as bidden.
The people whose gifts were returned were not angry either.
On the contrary, they would have found it strange if it were really that easy to curry favor with Wen Jingshu.
After the minor interlude with the Flying Eagle Bird, several more auction items that Wen Jingshu had no interest in were presented one after another.
This continued until the second-to-last item of today's auction was brought up:
“A token discovered in an ancient ruin! Appraised by a formation master, this token possesses a teleportation function! Furthermore, it can be used repeatedly, making it a life-saving treasure in critical moments!”
“The starting bid is one hundred top-grade spirit stones!”
Wen Jingshu stared blankly at the design of the token, temporarily lost for words.
While the people of the Eastern Azure Continent did not know what this object was, the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu knew it all too well!
This token was the very same token distributed to participants during the Grand Hundred Sects Tournament of the Northern Dark Continent!
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