Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 383 Maintaining a Respectful Distance and Achieving Desires

According to past practice.

The grand auction in Lingxiao City is divided into two sessions: one for those below the Core Formation level and the other for those above the Core Formation level. The two auctions are held at different times.

The Foundation Establishment stage auction has ended, but Li Ping is not interested in Foundation Establishment stage auctions and does not pay much attention to them. He is going to attend the upcoming Core Formation stage auction.

Upon reaching the auction venue, Li Ping briefly revealed his Core Formation stage aura. The blue-robed cultivator standing guard at the entrance immediately smiled and said, "Senior, are you here to attend the auction? This junior will now lead you inside."

Li Ping nodded, and with a flick of his wrist, a hundred spirit stones flew to the blue-robed cultivator: "Take me to a private room."

Upon seeing this, the blue-robed cultivator accepted the spirit stones and immediately said respectfully, "This junior will now lead you to the private room on the second floor. Please follow me."

The Core Formation level auction does not restrict entry to lower-level cultivators; however, those who wish to enter must pay a certain entrance fee. This regulation is mainly to prevent overcrowding within the auction venue.

After all, considering the number of long-term resident cultivators in Lingxiao City, plus the cultivators who have come from all over the Great Zhou Dynasty during this period.

If a certain amount of spirit stones were not charged as an entry fee to limit access, even if the auction house were ten or a hundred times larger, it still wouldn't be able to accommodate everyone.

According to the rules, a regular seat costs five spirit stones, while a private room costs one hundred spirit stones.

In this way, those cultivators who are just there to watch the excitement can be excluded, while those who need to enter can still enter. Those cultivators who are willing to spend 100 spirit stones can also get a private, secluded space.

With Li Ping's wealth, he naturally wouldn't care about a mere hundred spirit stones. As long as he could bid for the materials he needed, such as the Supreme Yang Wood, he wouldn't mind if the entrance fee were ten times higher.

The blue-robed monk led Li Ping into the auction house, and soon they arrived at the private room on the second floor.

Just as Li Ping was about to enter the private room, his gaze was suddenly drawn to several figures in the best view of the auction house. At the center of these figures was a young girl in a light blue robe, while the others were intentionally or unintentionally surrounding her.

"It's her." A slight look of surprise appeared in Li Ping's eyes.

However, he was only slightly startled, and his expression quickly returned to normal as he stepped into the private room in front of him.

Just as he stepped into the private room, the girl seemed to sense something and looked in Li Ping's direction, but saw nothing. She frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed and walked into the private room chatting and laughing with her friends.

"Senior, I will wait outside. Please feel free to give me any instructions you may have," the blue-robed cultivator said respectfully.

Li Ping nodded slightly, then quietly left the private room and locked the door behind him.

Standing inside the private room, Li Ping looked down at the bustling crowd below, a thoughtful look in his eyes: "I actually ran into Yu Menghan here."

Yu Menghan once went to great lengths to expose his true identity and sought him out to heal her spirit beast. His third-tier puppet inheritance and thousand-year-old ironwood were the rewards she gave him for the treatment.

Li Ping still vividly remembers her generosity and guessed at the time that she came from an extraordinary background and had a powerful connections.

In retrospect, his guess was correct.

Several Core Formation cultivators surrounded Yu Menghan in the center, as if she were the moon surrounded by stars, which speaks volumes.

"The world of cultivation is really small," Li Ping said softly.

Then he shook his head slightly.

Although he ran into Yu Menghan, who seemed to be someone important, Li Ping had no intention of trying to build a relationship with her.

In fact, given Li Ping's principles of conduct, he would not only avoid befriending someone like Yu Menghan, a second-generation immortal, but would also deliberately distance himself from her.

After all, the cultivation world revolves around these second-generation immortals.

Befriending them will certainly bring benefits and make your path to immortality smoother.

However, they can also easily get involved in the battles and conspiracies surrounding them, and if they are not careful, they will fall into the vortex and die.

Just like when Yu Menghan went to find him before, her natal spirit beast, the Seven-Colored Illusionary Light Butterfly, was beaten to the point of barely having a chance of survival.

With his cheat-like abilities, Li Ping has no shortage of cultivation resources and techniques, and has a bright future. He doesn't need to curry favor with those second-generation immortals to obtain resources, so he naturally keeps his distance from anything that might involve conspiracies or power struggles.

He only hoped to live a peaceful and immortal life.

Just as Li Ping was deep in thought, three chimes resounded throughout the auction hall, marking the start of the Lingxiao City Grand Auction.

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On the high platform directly in front of the auction house, a refined middle-aged cultivator slowly walked up.

He smiled and said, "Fellow Daoists, I will be hosting this auction. Without further ado, let's begin with the first item."

As he spoke, he took out a gleaming silver flying sword from his storage pouch: "A natal flying sword refined by a Core Formation cultivator for a hundred years, starting bid 30,000 spirit stones, each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit stones higher..."

Listening to the middle-aged, refined cultivator's introduction, Li Ping also learned the man's identity from the discussions among the cultivators in the hall below.

Yu Ya, a late-stage Core Formation cultivator and a respected figure in Lingxiao City!

After Yu Ya announced the starting price, a Core Formation cultivator quickly made a bid, clearly indicating that magic weapons were very popular among Core Formation cultivators.

With Li Ping's methods, he naturally looked down on such ordinary magic treasures. Compared to the auction items, he was actually more interested in Yu Ya.

He had to admit that Lingxiao City was indeed powerful. While late-stage Core Formation cultivators could run rampant in the Western Wilderness, they could only serve as worshippers in Lingxiao City.

While Li Ping was pondering, the flying sword magic weapon had already been bid up to a high price of 50,000 spirit stones, and was finally won by a Core Formation cultivator in a private room on the second floor.

After unleashing his flying sword, Yu Ya took out another item from his storage bag and began to introduce it in a rather unremarkable manner.

The grand auction will last for several days.

Apart from the flying sword magic item used to liven up the atmosphere, most of the other items brought out on the first day were of relatively ordinary quality.

While these items are valuable, they are not particularly rare. Core Formation cultivators can collect them outside of auctions if they are willing to spend the time.

Therefore, the cultivators were not bidding as fiercely for these items as they had when they auctioned off flying swords and magical treasures before.

Li Ping also took the opportunity to bid on a piece of third-grade superior 'Nine-Eyed Jade' and a nine-pound third-grade superior 'Golden Carving Stone', thus gathering the earth and metal attribute spiritual materials needed for inheriting the third-grade array.

Just as he was feeling pleased with his gains from the trip, Yu Ya on the stage took out another crimson round bead and began to introduce it: "A high-grade, third-tier Flame Sun Bead, starting price 15,000 spirit stones, each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit stones higher..."

Li Ping nodded slightly, and after Yu Ya stated his bottom price, he immediately shouted in a deep voice, "Twenty thousand spirit stones!"

By the last day, although there was still no news about the Supreme Yang Wood, he had already collected enough top-grade third-tier spiritual materials of the five elements.

All that's missing is a third-grade superior spiritual vein to successfully inherit the third-grade superior formation technique.