Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 158 — Mirror Portal
Zhou Yuan had not expected there to be such a type of mirror in his world other than the mirror from Grandpa Bai. Judging from the price offered, Zhou Yuan was sure that no one knew the function behind the mirror that could open a portal.
Apart from its function, the portal mirror does look like a beautiful decorative mirror so it is only natural that the price offered at the beginning reaches 10 gold pieces.
Without further ado Zhou Yuan immediately stood up and proposed to have the mirror.
"I took 1000 gold pieces to buy that mirror!"
All the attention of the auction attendees was instantly turned towards Zhou Yuan including Yifei and Jiang Long, clearly they had not expected Zhou Yuan to offer such a high price just to buy a mirror.
"A thousand gold pieces, well, no more then this mirror sold by you!" The auction committee knocked on his hammer.
Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing no one bid a price higher than him, this showed all the auction participants were indeed no one knew the secrets of the mirror.
"Yuan'er I didn't expect you to really like such decorative mirrors, you turned out to have a unique taste for art." Jiang Long stroked his chin.
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly, he had trouble replying to Jiang Long's statement. "I don't have a mirror so I happen to want to buy it here."
The auction continued, this time a stealth gem was auctioned off on stage. The stealth gem looked big indicating that the quality was also very high.
"As you can see, this is a stealth gem that has reached 1000 years of age. Someone who sold it got it from a dead demon carcass." The auction committee explained the gem briefly. "With high quality then of course the price is very high, the initial price reaches a hundred thousand gold pieces."
The participants held their breath at the price offered by the committee, especially for the warriors.
A thousand-year-old stealth gem is very rare in the martial world like this because getting it is also not an easy matter, at least someone swordsman must reach the Light Realm to be able to match a thousand-year demon.
"I'll buy it for 120,000 gold pieces!" A person wearing a hood over his head and covering his face suddenly raised his hand.
The auctioneer looked surprised, that much money was not something that was easy to find, even the nobles held their breaths when they heard it.
Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes at the hooded man, the coat he was wearing was exactly the same as the beast-human race he had met a few hours ago.
Zhou Yuan then turned his head towards Yifei who had just been watching, thinking that Yifei would be interested in the demon gems but he did not seem to have any interest in obtaining them.
"Fei'er, that stealth gem is good for your inner power increase, you can form at least 50 circles if it absorbs it entirely." Whisper Zhou Yuan at the girl.
Yifei is a swordsman who focuses on controlling the inner energy so that the number of energy circles in the girl must be large.
"I can't wear it, this year I've absorbed 5 stealth gems to increase my inner strength..."
In the martial world, swordsmen generally only absorbed two to three stealth gems per year, while with the Jiang Family technique that Yifei possessed, he could absorb 5 stealth gems for a year.
If more than nominal, it is feared that the side effects of stealth gems will be felt and can affect physical appearance.
Zhou Yuan smiled with Yifei's worry before whispering something into the girl's ear, long enough.
Zhou Yuan explained that he had a high stealth gem absorption technique so that warriors could absorb as many stealth gems as they wanted without worrying about the side effects.
Zhou Yuan nodded then stroked the girl's head, "I'll teach it to you but for now, you should have the stealth gem first..."
Yifei nodded in agreement, the girl then raised her hand while shouting out loud. "150,000 pieces for stealth gems!"
All the attention was on Yifei, no one would have thought that someone who offered such a high price was a teenage girl.
"I bid 180,000 gold pieces." A hooded person again raised his hand, not to lose.
Yifei put on a pouting face. "I paid 200,000 gold pieces.
"250,000 gold pieces for stealth gems."
Yifei snorted, "300,000 pieces of gold."
The spectators who saw the two bidding each other to the point of breaking out in cold sweat, no one expected that at this annual auction there was someone so rich that he could spend such a large sum of money just an item.
Zhou Yuan and Jiang Long watched in silence, both of them not stopping Yifei from agreeing that the girl should get the demon gem at all costs.
"I bid 500,000 gold pieces!" Yifei shouted once more.
"Ughhh!" This time the hooded person could not reply to her anymore.
"Well, the thousand-year-old stealth gem was taken by the beautiful lady, congratulations you can pick it up later..." The auction committee did not breathe the nominal price offered by Yifei but he tried to smile.
Not only did the auction get there, it continued on until midnight, other than the portal mirror he was about to buy, Zhou Yuan did not find any items that could attract his attention anymore.
On the other hand Jiang Long bought quite a lot of resource crops from the auction, though, I don't know how many tens of thousands of gold coins he used until the other participants were disinclined because of the middle-aged man's incredible wealth.
On the same side Yifei did not say much or have any desire to buy items at the auction other than the previous embroidered gems.
After the auction ceremony was over, Zhou Yuan, Yifei, and Jiang Long went backstage to pick up as well as pay for the items they had ordered.
"This is really the portal mirror that Grandpa Bai gave me..." Zhou Yuan clasped the mirror in his palm, after taking a closer look, he grew more and more confident in the secret of the mirror.
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Zhou Yuan returned to the academy inn after the auction had finished, in his room he tried to scrape the mirror but found nothing he expected.
"It looks like this mirror can only work if I slam it and break it..." Zhou Yuan scratched his head, hoping that there was a secret behind the mirror so that it would not have to destroy it.
Zhou Yuan actually wanted to test the portal mirror right now but he was worried that there was an unwanted risk coming after.
You could say Zhou Yuan still did not know much about the portal mirror information, it could have been when the mirror was slammed there was a terrible creature appeared behind it.
Zhou Yuan could not be rash about something he did not know the information clearly, he chose to keep the mirror first for a while.