Stronger from Earth

Chapter 355 - 354: The Auction

The spaceships flying in the sky are like the stars strewn across the heavens, and the starships breaking through the atmosphere to reach the moon are as frequent as airplanes in the twenty-first century.

Accelerating beyond one starship after another, after breaking through the atmosphere, the Void Python coiled around them, and with the next breath, they appeared on the distant moon.

Setting foot on the ground, Wang Xuan strolled on the moon. After the satellite’s transformation, its gravity had changed, and its environment became suitable for biological proliferation.

Soft moonlight permeated the air, and the pedestrians on the street were all handsome and slender with cultivation levels above Bone Refining.

It can be said that every inch of the moon is worth its weight in gold; it is the residence for many major cross-star domain groups whose headquarters are here, such as Life Science, Divine Gene, Starry Sky Mecha Group, and Cosmic Battleship Group, among others.

Adding to that, the Federation Government headquarters is here, along with many top universities led by Federation University, making the moon a gathering place for the social elite.

As a tourist destination, political center, and economic hub, ordinary people might be able to come to visit after saving their salary for a year or two, but a prolonged stay would be impossible.

Yue Yiyi stood on Dominator’s shell, while Xiaojin the Golden Turtle transformed into the size of a washbasin, carrying the child swiftly.

The Golden-winged Roc transformed into a foot-high version, perched on Yue Yiyi’s shoulder, its amber eyes watching everything around.

"Is the moon really like this?"

Yue Yiyi wasn’t surprised by the scenery, but was extremely happy to fulfill her wish of leaving Earth, since she had never been here before.

"Busier and more prosperous," Wang Xuan said, having seen so much, he was already unmoved.

Starships shuttled through the air, with various artistic buildings shimmering with silver light, like a three-hundred-story building shaped like a seated Elephant, with its trunk spraying water into the sky.

The auction Wang Xuan was attending would start soon, created by the alliance of several major families. Hengyuan Auction House headquarters often held large auctions, where even the most ordinary items were coveted by Earth Immortals, and the star items were generally contested by True Immortals.

In fact, impossibly wondrous items had appeared here, attracting Half-Step Immortals to attend, showing the immense power of Hengyuan Auction House.

The Crescent Bay’s mountain embracing water layout surrounded by plains, its spiritually rich grass seemed peaceful but was interlaced with large arrays. Anyone daring to invade would trigger restrictions and end up dying miserably.

At the center was a tiered building revealing the lake ahead, where Spiritual Lotuses bloomed year-round without withering.

A floating Jade Platform ten feet long and wide, seemingly ordinary, but its antiquity gave the impression of a large Array Disc.

At present, Hengyuan Auction House was bustling. The graceful maids ushered various Human Immortals and Earth Immortals into the venue.

In this age, robots were rampant, yet to demonstrate its opulence, Hengyuan Auction House employed students from well-known moon universities as maids, elevating their status indirectly.

Shortly afterward, the two took their seats at the top of tiered seating, with Human Immortals and Earth Immortals seated below them, as if they were concert-goers on an open-air stage.

Earth Immortals in the middle layer had small rooms of dozens of square meters, with transparent, open windows offering a clear view ahead; the upper levels housed Celestial Immortals, with ascending status, and the top tier had just fifteen positions.

Wang Xuan held Yiyi in an independent compartment; a room of hundreds of square meters fully belonged to them, luxuriously furnished, attended by over a dozen maids.

Beside them were Pure Yang Cultivators; Wang Xuan had voluntarily changed his appearance due to the scheming from Abyss Powerhouses, paying more attention to his safety now.

Yue Yiyi felt uneasy sitting down, jumping out of his embrace, "I want to sit by myself!"

Wang Xuan waved a hand, instructing the attendants to bring two large and one small throne, one for Yue Yiyi, one for the Golden-winged Roc, while the Golden Turtle lay on a small pure gold seat.

This scene was indeed quite amusing.

The floorboards were made from Spirit Tier material Iron Halberd Wood, extending to the purple sandalwood pillars in the corners. The walls bore a gentle white light from the Thousand-Year Pearls, which repel water and resist fire.

Under Wang Xuan’s seat was Snow Mink Fur, at the Peak of Earth Demon level, incredibly soft and smooth, as well as exceedingly rare and expensive, with a cost beyond ordinary imagination.

The auction hadn’t started for half a day; Human Immortals and Earth Immortals entered punctually, not waiting for latecomers, but a few True Immortals hadn’t arrived, so the auction had to wait a bit.

"Why hasn’t it started yet?" Yue Yiyi felt bored, kicking her little jade-like feet back and forth.

A middle-aged woman looking like a supervisor signaled the attendants to bring Spirit Fruit Immortal Beverage, but Yue Yiyi took a whiff and didn’t want to touch it.

"This stuff doesn’t taste good." The things she ate as snacks were the kind Celestial Immortals would wince at parting with, yet she disdained them.

The attendants, wishing to speak but unable to, dreamt of tasting it once by spending their entire wealth, yet she dismissed it.

Indeed, it deeply highlighted the disparity in status.

"Do you play chess?" Wang Xuan asked.

Yue Yiyi cautiously glanced at him, thinking he, her martial uncle, might exploit his age advantage to play Go against her.

After all, she knew adults have the quirky pleasure of teasing kids, leveraging their intelligence and experience.

"I do." Yue Yiyi answered sweetly, mentally taking note.

Wang Xuan nodded, taking out a Pure Yang-level Demon Elephant Tusk, the Path of Creation extracted the essence from the hardened parts, crafting a chessboard and pieces; the black pieces were casually dyed with ink.

"Xiaojin, accompany Yiyi in chess. You win a game, I’ll give you ten Pure Yang Pills." He gestured, then focused his thoughts on contemplating the continuation of the Creation True Scripture.

At Immortal Martial Mountain, he had reviewed many True Immortal-level Cultivation Technique Manuals; as Taoist, he had the privilege to freely browse the Library Tower’s Immortal Scriptures.

With numerous Immortal Scriptures as resources, absorbing their wisdom essence to nurture the Creation True Scripture; otherwise, relying solely on himself, its difficulty would be akin to Pangu’s Heaven and Earth Creation.

Yue Yiyi glanced at Xiaojin, knowing the Dominator bloodline was supposedly pure, but it seemed quite dim-witted; surely she could win against it playing chess!

"Come, let’s play Go." Yue Yiyi said.

Xiaojin’s eyes sparkled; hearing Wang Xuan mention rewards, it felt as though itching with anticipation, saying, "Quick, let’s play."

Yue Yiyi set up the chessboard and started playing with Xiaojin; soon Yue Yiyi’s laughter and Xiaojin’s distress echoed.

"You fool, you can’t place Go stones like that."

"These pieces are going to die; I’ll capture them."

"I’ve captured your pieces again, hehehe."

Yue Yiyi was very happy because Xiaojin hadn’t learned Go, so with an advantage in rules, she began her crushing victory; Xiaojin’s setbacks kept accumulating in experience.

The first game was undoubtedly Xiaojin’s total defeat.

In the second game, Xiaojin managed to resist a little.

In the third game, Yue Yiyi found herself contemplating longer.

In the fourth game, Yue Yiyi felt she might lose, as Xiaojin had endured enough losses.

She was just a five-year-old, smart but her mind couldn’t compete with Xiaojin in the Dharma Body Realm, since what she pondered over for an hour, Xiaojin might figure out in a second.

She didn’t want to admit defeat; she felt so indignant that she wanted to flip the chessboard but didn’t, as that would be too unreasonable, unbecoming of her status.

So, she opened the floor-to-ceiling window and shouted out, "The auction has been waiting for two hours, let it begin! Our time is precious!"

If the auction started, this game of chess could be abandoned, Yue Yiyi thought happily with her little head.

Above, more than ten True Immortals glanced around, surprised inwardly, their Primordial Spirit powers swept the surroundings; if Yue Yiyi was here, Hong Xuanji could be too.

For Hong Xuanji was the Sect Leader of Immortal Martial Mountain, a newly ascended Immortal, his status and position unimaginably high.

The disciple of an Immortal, even without cultivation, those True Immortals would not dare provoke; they’d rather act as though Yue Yiyi didn’t exist, neither touching nor concerning themselves.

"Begin." A voice resounded from below, from the Star Lord guarding the headquarters, recognizing Yue Yiyi whom every True Immortal knew as easy to provoke but too intimidating to offend.

The girl’s words seemed like a child’s tantrum, tens of thousands of Human Immortals and Earth Immortals couldn’t comprehend it, thinking she’d be reprimanded, yet unexpectedly the auction really started.

(There should be another update before twelve; I’ll dine and rest before continuing to write.)