C96 Treasure Auction
The auction market of the Divine Gate was an independent department of transportation in the Heaven Gate market. It was mainly engaged in the Cultivation Realm, where all kinds of magic treasures, Medicine Pill, and tools used by cultivators above the Human Rank were auctioned. Moreover, the lowest auction price was more than one million RMB. It was truly a place for the rich to spend money.
The Heavenly Gate Auction was divided into three levels, namely the ordinary auction, the advanced auction, and the special precious auction!
The ordinary auction items were usually between one million and fifty million, while the Advanced Auction items were above fifty million. However, the Treasure Auction was different. The lower ones might only be worth one million, and the higher ones could be auctioned for over a hundred billion. For example, the spatial bag that sold eight million, which was only half a cubic meter, was considered a treasure auction item.
Tianchen was prepared to go to this auction to sell a storage bracelet that was only thirty cubic meters in size. The original ten-cubic meters Tianchen felt that he wouldn't be able to make much money, so he exchanged it for one.
After coming to the Heaven Gate Market in Beijing again, Tianchen did not go to the Zhong Hua Building to prevent himself from being spotted by those flies again. He came to the Heaven Gate Auction House, which was the only independent place in the market. Tianchen clearly felt that the Heaven Gate Auction House was unusual.
"The Heaven Gate Auction House is indeed unusual. It is not even worse than the China Gate Auction House!" Although Tianchen's Divine Sense was blocked by the faintly discernible layer of Barrier outside the Heaven Gate Auction House, he was still able to tell that there were many experts hiding in the Heaven Gate Auction House by relying on the sensitivity of the Consciousness Controlling Aura toward the fluctuation of Spiritual Force.
Not only was the Consciousness Controlling Aura extremely sensitive to ghosts and spirits, but it was also due to the fact that a person had a weak Spiritual Force. In addition, the higher the level of an ancient martial artist's cultivation, the stronger the Spiritual Force would be. Tianchen could vaguely feel the Spiritual Force emitting from the many powerful souls in the Heaven Gate Auction House, although it was not as clear as a ghost because it was a living human being. However, he could still vaguely sense it.
After entering the Heaven Gate Market, a beautiful young lady came to ask Tianchen what level of auction he was going to participate in.
As the Heaven Gate Auction in Jinghua City had a treasure land in the capital, there would be an ordinary auction every day, and there would be one or two high-level auctions every week. Treasure auctions would be held at random times, but there would be at least one in a month. If there were extremely valuable items, they could even make an exception and carry out the auction ahead of time.
Tianchen's eyes lit up when he saw the beauty in front of him. He didn't expect that there would be such a beauty in the Heavenly Gate Auction as a service lady. She didn't seem much older than him!
"When will your precious auction be held?" Tianchen asked.
The beauty smiled professionally. "I'm sorry, honorable guest. Today is the fourth of August. The next treasure auction will only be held on the 30th of August. If you don't mind, there will be a high-level auction today at two o'clock in the afternoon. What do you think?"
"En, I want to entrust a treasure auction item to someone. Who should I look for?"
"Oh, is this a treasure item that needs to be appraised by an appraiser to know if it is a treasure item or not? If it is indeed a precious item, our appraiser today happens to be our manager on duty today. He can arrange a suitable auction item for you. " When Miss heard that I am here to request an auction, her smile became brighter and brighter. When she mentioned the appraiser, her eyes revealed a trace of a strange expression.
Tianchen's expression did not change. "You still want to appraise? Alright, bring me to the appraiser. "
"Please follow me. " The young lady led the way to a passage in the auction hall.
Tianchen had some confidence now. After entering the auction hall, Tianchen felt that the strength of the Divine Gate was getting stronger and stronger. Although it was just an alliance of experts, he didn't think that there would be a few Heaven realm experts in charge of the auction. If they cherished the auction, who knew how many experts they would need?
The moment he entered the door, there were several undetectable Divine Sense approaching Tianchen. Perhaps it was because he felt that Tianchen's strength was only at the Earth Grade. After checking Tianchen's body for a while, it was transferred to another customer who followed him in. If it wasn't for Tianchen's Consciousness Controlling Aura being especially sensitive to this area, he would have been dead by now. He really didn't know that someone had already walked around him a few times.
Tianchen was a little angry in his heart, but he couldn't get angry. This was his responsibility. Tianchen couldn't find the person's leg, so he had to endure it. He followed the service lady, who also had the strength of an Earth Level, into the passageway, and finally arrived at an old man's office.
"Girl, what kind of goods do you have for me to appraise?"
The person sitting in the office was an old man in a Tang suit. He was playing with a green cauldron that even Morning Sky could see the long history of. When he saw the beautiful service lady, it was as if he had seen a treasure. He grinned from lying on the sofa chair to sitting up straight.
If it was someone with a lot of thoughts, they would definitely think that this old man had some sort of unclear relationship with the etiquette lady when they saw this scene.
The etiquette lady's expression was calm. Unexpectedly, with a business-like expression, she said to the old man, "Manager Zhou, this mister wants to entrust a precious item to you. Please appraise it for him!" After saying that, she gave up her seat at the back and stood to the side, revealing Tianchen's face.
"Oh?" The old man's spirit shook. He looked at Tianchen as if a weasel had seen a hen. One should know that it was very hard to distinguish between high grade items and precious items. Perhaps with just a word from the old man, this precious item would become a high grade item. The difference in price was very big. Although the price might not be low, But in general, the price of the precious items would be higher than the high level items. Sometimes, it was even the difference of one zero.
Hence, this appraiser was extremely popular in the Divine Gate Auction. Many people would bribe the appraiser in large numbers in order to get a higher price. This old man Zhou was one of the experts in the auction. He had taken countless bribes as the chief appraiser of the Divine Gate all these years. If it wasn't for his high appraisal ability. . . His own strength was at the peak of the Heaven Rank, no one would be able to find any loopholes in his appraisal. Thus, others could only hate his itch, but they still obediently sent money to him.
This was when they heard that Tianchen was here to entrust precious items to him. In Old Zhou's eyes, it was simply money waving at him! Although he might not care about this bit of money at all, this was his hobby, and no one else could do anything about it.
Tianchen did not know Old Zhou's background, but when he saw Old Zhou's gaze, Tianchen was very surprised. That kind of gaze was too familiar. He often had this kind of gaze towards certain things. Could it be that he had met someone in the same trade? Tianchen only felt a cold wind blowing past him, as if he was being slaughtered!
"Sir, please take a seat. Also, please take out the auction item and let me appraise it for you. As for whether it is a precious auction item, we will only know after the appraisal results are out. " In that instant, Old Man Zhou's temperament became incomparably sacred, as if he was preparing to do something great.
Tianchen did not waste any words. He took out the bracelet he had prepared and said, "What do you think of this?"
Old Zhou said with a smile, "En, it looks like the workmanship is not bad. Huh? "
Old Man Zhou took the bracelet and carefully observed it. He immediately discovered something unusual. When Tianchen took out the bracelet, Old Man Zhou thought it was an ordinary defensive magic treasure. At most, it had more effects. It was hard to say whether the Defense Strength was a treasure or not if it was stronger. He also had an excuse to carefully touch and take back the buckle.
However, after observing it for a few seconds, Old Zhou, who had been in this line of work for decades, immediately noticed the problem. The divine sense he sent out was actually unable to activate any of the defensive measures within. Could it be that this brat in front of him had used an antique bracelet to fool him? Ancient antiques from the historical era, but that was an extremely special case. Ordinary treasures also had to conform to the rules of the ancient Cultivation Realm and have a certain effect. For example, defense, attack, and cleansing.
However, if it was just an antique, unless it was a foreign national treasure or a family heirloom, it could not be auctioned. Not to mention it didn't have much effect on the people of Cultivation Realm, just the crime of stealing and selling national treasures was not enough.
However, normally speaking, as long as it was used for auction, it definitely wouldn't be an item that had already been recognized as its owner. Generally speaking, as long as an appraiser used ordinary Divine Sense, they would be able to find out the approximate function of the item. The rest would be determined by experience.
However, Old Zhou discovered that the bracelet on his hand could not be activated with Divine Sense. This was strange.
Looking at Tianchen sitting on the opposite sofa with a smile on his face, Old Zhou's heart skipped a beat. After many years of experience, he knew that there were indeed some magic treasures that couldn't be activated with just Divine Sense. They needed to be explored with Spiritual Strength first, and only after it was confirmed could they be activated with Divine Sense. Among them, the most famous was spatial storage magic treasures.
When Old Zhou thought about it as a storage magic treasure, he immediately felt that he might have guessed correctly. In order not to make a fool of himself, he focused his attention on the bracelet.
"Sigh. . . I didn't expect this! Has the Pavilion really decided to auction off this bracelet?" After Old Zhou confirmed it, he suppressed his excitement and asked Tianchen when he found out that it was actually a storage bracelet that was thirty cubic meters in size.
"Of course. Otherwise, why would I come to the Divine Gate? What? Is it enough to be auctioned off?"
"It's a treasure, an absolute treasure!"
"However, I have a request. I wonder if it can be done?" Tianchen saw that the old man seemed to be too excited to faint and immediately tried to ask.