Dragon Monarch
Chapter 410 - Auction
Alchemist Association
The waiter escorted Lin Yan's group into the VIP Diamond's living room. The room was very spacious and could be occupied by twenty people.
For invited guests, they will be divided into three categories namely Silver VIP guests, Gold VIP Guests and Diamond VIP Guests.
For a Clan as big as the Li Clan to actually be invited to be a Golden VIP guest. But because of the relationship between the Yao Ancient Clan which was with their most important business partner the Li Clan, it was certain that they would become guests of Diamond.
There were only a few Diamond guest invitations, and naturally they were the Han Empire, the Snow Palace Sect and Heavenly Light, the Lin Ancient Clan, Zhu and Xiao.
“Grandfather, how much longer will the Auction start?” Asked Li Hao staring towards the Patriarch of the Li Clan.
“Not until half an hour.” replied the Patriarch of the Li Clan and sat in a very comfortable seat together with the other five Elders.
As for Lin Yan, Gu Yin and Li Hao were seated next to each other.
“Lin Yan, do you want?” Gu Yin took the fruits on their front desk and gave them to Lin Yan with a warm smile.
Li Hao only glanced at what the two couples were doing then shook his head.
Of course Lin Yan would not refuse at all because he knew what could make Gu Yin happy and it was simple things like they were doing right now.
As for Xia Yue'er, he sat on Gu Yin's shoulder while staring outwards. Just this time he saw the number of cultivators gathered inside one room that much.
“Why didn't the Yao Clan make the Li Clan host? All I know is that the Li Clan is the one managing the Alchemist Association.” Gu Yin asked and looked towards the Patriarch of the Li Clan, supposedly as the Patriarch and Chairman of the Alchemist Association, he would participate in the Auction because it was held in the Alchemist Association.
“The auction held once every fifty years will only be managed by the Yao Clan. Even before we had the cooperation as of now, they had been doing this Auction since ancient times so it had become a habit for them to be the sole host in the Auction.”, said the Patriarch of the Li Clan.
Hearing that, Gu Yin simply nodded. To Lin Yan, he had also actually wondered about it before and this time he already knew about it as well.
Time continued to pass, and without feeling the Auction was about to begin. Currently, it was estimated that there had been around twenty thousand cultivators gathered in one place. Since the Yao Clan had been doing Auction like this, then they would not be surprised by the number of cultivators participating.
All the great powers that were invited to become Silver, Gold and Diamond VIP Guests had also arrived.
For Diamond VIP Guests, times there are only eight rooms filled.
The VIP Room of the Number One Diamond was filled by a group that came from the Han Empire. The VIP Room of Diamond Number Two was occupied by the Heavenly Light Sect.
As for the VIP Room of Diamond Three was the Snow Palace Sect, Room Number Four was filled by the Xiao Clan.
Number Five of the Lin Clan, Number Six is the Zhu Clan, Number Eight is the Li Clan.
Only for the Number Seven Diamond VIP Room to be filled by someone unknown to cultivators. But anyone knew that the cultivator occupying the room must not be simple.
When the time had been very close to the one that the Auction had set to begin, a beautiful woman in charming clothes was seen on a very spacious stage.
The woman was a member of the Yao Clan in charge of hosting the auction this time around.
“Hei.. isn't he.”
“Ya, no longer wrong.”
Discussions of the cultivators in the ordinary seating were even when looking at the figure of an amazingly beautiful woman.
The woman had a very beautiful face with crystal blue eyes, long black hair, average height and who definitely had an amazingly charming body.
Every member of the pure-blooded Yao Clan would have blue-colored eyes like a crystal, unlike the members of the Branch Clan. That was the hallmark for the members of the Main Yao Clan.
“Enterviews to all the cultivators who have been present in this place. Thank you for coming to the Auction this time which will only be done once fifty years. I am Yao Ran, the host of this Auction.”
“This time the Yao Clan will offer more items for auction, it is likely that Auction will run for a few days and there is a pause in each day to prepare all the objects that will be auctioned.”
“Rules for this Auction is, each increase in the auctioned goods offer is 1 high-end spiritual stone like Auction last time.”
“No need to waste any more time, we will start auctioning things first!” Yao Ran also shouted quite loudly and made many cultivators excited. Because, the first object will determine the next object is very valuable or not.
Among the several Diamond and Gold VIP Rooms, their faces were a little serious when looking towards Yao Ran, naturally they all knew who the woman was.
In the Diamond VIP Room that Lin Yan was in, the current Patriarch of the Li Clan looked slightly surprised by Yao Ran's presence.
“What's grandpa?” Asked Li Hao staring towards the Patriarch of the Li Clan who was currently putting on a serious face.
“He was Yao Ran, one of the strongest cultivators of the Yao Clan and was considered the second-ranked best Alchemist in the Yao Clan. And also, of the many women, she was one of those who entered the ranks of Martial Masters, and she was ranked twenty!” said the Patriarch of the Li Clan explaining the identity of Yao Ran.
Lin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly as he stared towards Yao Ran who looked to be the same age as Gu Yin and himself.
“If he is a twentyth ranked Martial Master, then his strength must be at the peak of the Sage Realm level!” gu Yin said with a serious face because he certainly knew that the first rank up to twenty had the same cultivation level that is, the peak level of the Sage Realm.
“Yes. After all, he used to be your Master's nemesis.” said Clan Patriarch Li glancing towards Gu Yin.
“What? Teacher's mortal enemy? I don't know at all about it.” Gu Yin was now staring at Yao Ran with a serious look.
“They are from the same generation, and your Master and Yao Ran have very opposite powers. It would not be surprising that the two would become sworn enemies.”, said the Patriarch of the Li Clan.
Hearing that, Gu Yin did not refute at all because her Master was an expert in the Ice and Snow element while the members of the Yao Clan were experts in using the Fire element. No wonder they are going to be the opposite.
“If not mistaken, your Master is ranked Sixth in the ranks of Martial Masters right?” Asked Li Hao staring towards Gu Yin.
“Yes. If he was ranked twenty, then surely my Master defeated him!” Gu Yin said with a proud tone.
Lin Yan simply kept silent with Gu Yin's reaction. He had been speculating about the prowess of a Martial Master ranked combat power.
The first to third rank must have very close strength. And the fourth to sixth rank had strength below the first to third rank. Since their cultivation levels were all the same, it was certain that the first to third rankers had something capable of suppressing cultivators at the same level as them, namely the Qi King.
His grandfather Lin Ming before retiring was also at the Third rank, he was the owner of the strongest Qi King in his time, he was the strongest Qi King in his time, but there were still two other cultivators on top of it which meant that the two cultivators were able to dispel the unreasonable qi of King Lin Ming.
“Who is the current first rank Martial Master?” Lin Yan asked curiously as he did not know any of them who entered the ranks of the Martial Master.
Gu Yin looked at Lin Yan seriously and replied, “He is the leader of one of the Ancient Clans, the Demi-Human King, the Patriarch of the Xiao Clan!”