Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

“Executive Jin, kill this chicken first!”

“You leveled up! You leveled up!”

In the Half City Shop, a large group of players stood behind a golden-robed, middle-aged man and watched him play.

“There are such things in the world!?” As a small executive in the auction house of the inner city, Jin Wu didn’t have a high opinion of the shops in the outer city.

But now, he was filled with shock and bafflement, and many thoughts flashed through his mind.

This shop had been hiding under my nose?!

After he looked down at his crude cotton clothes, he glanced at the grand-looking items of the other players in the game and saw the big difference.

“Where did you get the items that you’re wearing?!” Jin Wu was envious.

Good items gave the players the abilities to kill monsters and level up faster. With good items, players could go to more dangerous places to kill more powerful monsters and get better treasures.

“Hahaha!” Wearing a Devil Robe and holding an ultimate magic stuff in his hand, Black Demon had a great sense of achievement. “These things cost me great efforts!”

“Come on! I’ll show you the power of the Magic Shield Spell!”

“…”

Sometime later, Jin Wu finally understood that the Taoist’s ‘dogs’ were like bosses, a wizard with a shield was tougher than a warrior, and Enchanting Light was a powerful spiritual spell that could enchant seven demon beasts that were on the same realm as the summoner.

TL Note: These Chinese players call the creatures that Taoists summon ‘dogs’.

By now, Jin Wu’s attitude completely changed. “Guys! Don’t worry! I will not underestimate these treasures! I ensure you that they will sell for great prices!”

After all, these items could attract more than the players from this shop!

Although the Summon Godly Beast Spell might be useless to grand cultivators, it could be gifted to the geniuses in the young generation. Since a Taoist with godly beasts was unrivaled, with such a Taoist on a spiritual boat, it means that there was a mobile cannon turret!

As for the Magic Shield, although it could only block one powerful attack, it was a life-saving trump card.

The other skills had their own advantages.

Jin Wu was excited and couldn’t wait for the auction to begin!

…

“Senior Sister, did you hear that two disciples went missing last night… We haven’t found them yet!” Liu Ningyun was cultivating in the faction powerlessly, and the only entertainment that she got was listening to the gossip in the faction to kill time.

“Maybe the two disciples just went down the mountain for fun,” Liu Ningyun said with a sweet smile, “Junior Sister, don’t be so paranoid. In the past thousands of years, no thief has ever dared to come into our Nanhua Faction to mess with us!”

At this moment, Liu Ningyun suddenly heard voices from outside. “Master, I told you that Junior Sister Liu isn’t a lazy disciple! Look how hard she is cultivating these days!”

“Junior Sister Liu will for sure correct her mistake. Among us, she is the most obedient and diligent one!”

“Junior Sister Liu…”

Several female disciples chirped like birds around the Xichi Spiritual Master, and the latter was a little fed up with the high praises. “Okay! That’s enough!”

Although baffled, the Xichi Spiritual Master was still pleased that her disciples had finally forsaken their old grudges, and she wondered what caused the transformation and who she should thank.

Therefore, she even showed a rare smile today.

Today, she came here with another purpose. A powerful spiritual treasure appeared in Half City, and it looked like the one lost by an ancestral master of the Nanhua Faction. The Nanhua Faction planned to take it back.

Since the Nanhua Faction didn’t have the intention of starting a war with Half City, the only option was to attend the grand auction in Half City.

Besides the Nanhua Faction, the Haoran Faction, Yimu Daoist Palaces, and some other big factions in the Morning Star Sea Realm had also come to Half City with different purposes.

Big families such as the Feng Family also came to Half City.

However, Half City was so big that it didn’t show any congestion due to the arrival of so many outsiders; their presence only added some colors to small parts of the city.

…

The auction house in Half City was named Heaven-Hiding Pavilion, and it was the core of the whole city. There were rumors outside that said one could buy anything in the world in Half City; the rumors were talking about Heaven-Hiding Pavilion.

Despite its reputation, it was the first time that virtual items were auctioned in this place!

“What are these things?” Before the auction began, a woman with snow-white skin, brown hair, and green eyes puzzled over the list of auctioned items in her hand. “Summon Jin Wu for me!”

…

Right now, Ruan Ning was in a formal red silk dress and looked more sedate than usual.

Looking at Fang Qi who glanced around the place and mocked everything he saw, she teased him, “Guild President, is this the first time that you attended an auction?”

Xi Yue and the other girls giggled with their hands covering their mouths.

Mo Tianxing strode before them and said with a light cough, “I’ll go and find the seats for our Heaven-Defying Online Games Guild.”

Why are you speaking the truth? Although I have lived in this world for several years, I was broke before. Where can I find the money to participate in auctions?

With a snort, Mr. Fang instantly looked calmer. “Do I look like someone who knows nothing about grand occasions in the world? It’s just that auctions in the place that I come from are different from yours.”

“Guild President Fang, what do your auctions look like?” Xi Chenzhou asked.

The internet café’s players almost all came to the auction in groups, and the major forces walked in together with Mr. Fang.

“Our auctions?” Mr. Fang smiled with a mysterious expression. “I’ll tell you a small story about our auctions.”

“You have stories about auctions?” Ruan Ning asked in doubt.

Fang Qi began telling the story, “They were auctioning an immortal egg that a Daoist found in an immortal palace in some ancient ruins. The egg was named Tea Egg.”

TL Note: Tea egg is a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked slightly and then boiled again in tea and sauce or spices.

“Ancient Immortal Palace?!” the girls exclaimed after hearing that.

“Tea egg?!” Xi Chenzhou frowned. “What kind of an immortal egg is that?”

Mr. Fang chuckled, “I guess you don’t know the miraculous effects of tea eggs. If you are dying after being severely wounded by an enemy, eating one tea egg will immediately heal your injuries and restore your vitality. It’s a magic item that can’t be measured by crystals.”

“So powerful?” Ruan Ning exclaimed.

“Auction begins!” Fang Qi told the story vividly as if he had been there. “That old man yelled, ‘the reserve price is 10,000 ultimate crystals!'”

“At this moment, a voice came from the second floor, saying, ‘I offer one bag of spicy sticks!'” Fang Qi said, “What are spicy sticks? They are ultimate godly items that were created in the chaos before the world was born. Even my shop can only copy their flavor but can’t re-create their essence!”

“Really?” Doubts appeared in Xi Yue’s beautiful eyes.

“Of course! Why do you think the spicy sticks in my shop are so delicious?!” Mr. Fang said confidently, “All the people looked toward the voice and saw a guy in his early twenties. They were even more shocked when they saw the logo on his Daoist robe; it was the logo of the mysterious and powerful Lanxiang Academy! And he came from the most horrifying Excavator Department…”

TL Note: The Shandong Lanxiang Vocational School was founded in 1984, and it admits about 20,000 students per year and offers courses in subjects like cooking, auto repair, construction equipment operations (specialized in excavator), hairdressing, as well as computer skills. This school is a meme in China since they aired a lot of student recruitment commercials advertising their excavator department.

“Do you know what kind of a school Lanxiang Academy is?”

They all shook their heads.

“It was heard that a big faction offended a student from the Excavator Department of Lanxiang Academy, and that student drove an excavator to this faction’s headquarters. This faction’s grand protective array was as fragile as a piece of tofu in front of this spiritual artifact, and all the members in the faction were killed! You can just imagine how frighteningly powerful the Lanxiang Excavator was! ”

“Huh?” They heard Mr. Fang’s vivid story and felt like they were there, but they felt like something wasn’t right.

What on earth is an excavator? How come it is so powerful?!