C728 Rusted Sword
C728 Rusted Sword
Nangong Xin replied calmly, "This is Su Ming, Mr. Su, a friend of mine."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qing said in a strange tone, "I thought it was someone else, but it turns out to be someone close to His Royal Highness. No wonder he is so arrogant!"
At this moment, the old man with the sword on his back said in a cold voice, "I've long heard that the Third Royal Highness of South Huai is extremely powerful, but today, I see... As expected, his reputation is well-deserved. Even a small follower by his side... He actually rushed to be disrespectful to the current Imperial Chariot General! "
The old man's words were just as sharp as Jiang Qing's. He used the matter of Su Ming to point the spearhead straight at Nangong Xin.
Nangong Xin's expression turned cold. Just as he was about to retort, the old man flew into the arena and left an extremely disdainful look in Nangong Xin's eyes before he left.
"I still have matters to attend to, so I won't disturb Your Highness." Seeing the old man leave, Jiang Qing coldly said, "Farewell!"
After saying that, he led his subordinates and followed the old man into the hall.
From the beginning to the end, there was no change in Su Ming's expression. On the contrary, it was Nangong Xin and Shangguan Jie who were extremely angry.
"He's just a divine staff that walks the martial world. His eyes are so wide that they can almost reach the sky. This is really infuriating." Shangguan Jie scolded.
Situ Zhong also said coldly, "If he didn't come from the Upper Realm, I would definitely lock him up in South Huai Wei Heavenly Prison."
Nangong Xin frowned and said, "Alright, stop talking. This old Taoist is from the Upper Realm after all. Unless it's absolutely necessary, we don't have to offend him easily!"
At this moment, Su Ming suddenly said in a light voice, "Are you sure he really came from the Upper Realm?"
Nangong Xin nodded and said, "That's right. It's rumored that this person is from our Lower Realm. He entered the Upper Realm by chance, but he did not pass through our South Huai Nation's Supreme Tower. However, a few years ago, he was expelled from the upper realm because he made a mistake in the higher realm. These things have been confirmed by the immortal on the Supreme Tower. There shouldn't be any mistakes."
Upon hearing this, Su Ming frowned.
"What's wrong, Mr. Su? Is there something wrong?" Seeing Su Ming's puzzled expression, Nangong Xin asked in a low voice.
Su Ming shook his head and said, "Nothing."
However, at this moment, he had some doubts in his heart. In that exchange just now, Su Ming had used his spiritual energy to scan the old Daoist's body with his divine sense.
The result of the feedback was very different from what Nangong Xin had said. The first thing that caught his attention was that Su Ming did not detect any trace of spiritual energy on the old Taoist priest!
There were only two possibilities for such a situation to occur. Either the old Daoist's cultivation was far above Su Ming's, and Su Ming could not sense any trace of the old Daoist's aura under the concealment of his own aura.
Or, this old Daoist was an ordinary person!
Compared to the old Daoist's profound cultivation base, Su Ming was more willing to believe the latter.
After all, if the other party's cultivation base was much higher than his, then Su Ming's divine sense probing just now would definitely be detected by the other party.
"Alright, alright." Situ Zhong said, "This auction should be starting soon. Let's talk about the Immortal Entrance."
Everyone nodded and walked into the hall.
Inside, it was already crowded with people. The interior of the room was decorated. Although it was not as luxurious as the Stone House, it looked grand and grand.
The auction stage was located on the first floor. At the same time, the one with the most number of people was also on the first floor.
There were no seats on the first floor, so it was naturally crowded. As for Su Ming and the others, they were led by Shangguan Jie to the second floor.
The second floor was the room. All the rooms were arranged in a circular shape along with the auction stage on the first floor. Each room could clearly see the situation downstairs.
As soon as everyone sat down, the staff at the auction house served tea. Everyone continued to chat while drinking tea.
Shangguan Jie first frowned and said, "Your Royal Highness, forgive this old man for speaking too much. Today, for a moment, I feel that Your Royal Highness should be on guard."
Nangong Xin frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
Shangguan Jie said, "Although I am not in the official circles now, I have heard of the changes in the situation in the Imperial Court in recent years."
"Not only is Jiang Qing fighting for power in the Imperial Court, but he has also extended his hand to the people. Although that Spiritual Cloud Householder is arrogant, he cannot be underestimated. I am afraid that he will become trouble for the Royal Highness in the future!"
Situ Zhong slowly said, "Lord Shangguan is right. The Royal Highness should be more careful."
Nangong Xin sighed and said, "I understand. Thank you very much."
Su Ming, who was standing at the side, opened his mouth slightly. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a bell ring downstairs. Everyone looked down and saw that the auction was about to begin.
"It's starting." Nangong Xin said slowly.
As soon as he finished speaking, on the auction stage downstairs, a thin woman wearing a veil slowly climbed up the stairs.
The moment he appeared, the originally noisy venue became quite quiet at this moment.
"Thank you all for coming." The veiled woman said straightforwardly, "You are all our regular customers. I won't say too many polite words. Then, I declare that today's auction will begin!"
"Now, please let us bid for the first item today!"
As the woman's voice fell, dozens of big men slowly lifted up a bronze cauldron and walked up.
With a rumble, when the cauldron fell to the ground, a cloud of dust was blown up by the impact. From this, one could see that this bronze cauldron weighed thousands of kilograms!
"This is our first auction item today, the Xia Clan's Heavenly Sky Cauldron!"
Just as they were waiting for the woman to continue speaking, the crowd burst into exclamations the moment they saw the cauldron.
"I've long heard that this cauldron will appear in this auction. I thought it was just a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true!"
"Yeah, this cauldron is a legendary treasure. In the era before the establishment of the South Huai Nation, it was once the treasure of the largest tribe in the land of South Huai Nation, the Heavenly Worship Treasure. I didn't expect that I would actually see it in this place today."
"Yeah, this is an incredible treasure. It's the most suitable place to buy it back home!"
... " ... "
Everyone's words caused Su Ming, who was upstairs, to laugh in his heart.
According to the customs of the outside world, this cauldron, as an offering to the heavens, must have been stained with the blood of many wild beasts and even living people.
To put it bluntly, after being soaked in fresh blood for a long time, this cauldron had already carried a bit of murderous aura. How could such a vicious object be used to guard the house?
However, the people downstairs did not expect that this level would actually be sold at a high price of 14,000 silver....
Time passed minute by minute.
The auction items downstairs were exchanged for one after another. Su Ming slowly lost interest.
In this auction, the items auctioned were much rarer than the ones outside, but to Su Ming, they were all useless.
It was only when the next item appeared that Su Ming's expression changed.
It was a rusty iron sword. Other than the vermillion gemstone embedded in the hilt, the entire sword appeared ordinary.
But even with the appearance of such a sword, Su Ming's eyes gradually became fiery hot.