Chapter 306

Wei Yang, the White Light Swordsman and one of the five great generals of Shang clan, arrives and uses his intelligence agency Feng Yu Manor to learn that the bitter strength Gu is the thirteenth item. He warns Fang Yuan that Shang Ya Zi, already in the fifth private room, reportedly withdrew all of his assets and holds at least one million and two hundred thousand primeval stones. Besides him, the greatest competitors are Shang Bi Xi and Ju Kai Bei. ^{ch. 306}

Shang Bi Xi, the tenth son, is a strength path Gu Master with the turtle tire Gu and the strength of ten turtles, not inferior to Fang Yuan. His brothers Shang Pu Lao and Shang Suan Ni, rich from brothels, restaurants and silk stores, would surely help him. Ju Kai Bei is a rank four Gu Master who dominates the third inner city battle stage and rejects every invitation. He shares the title half the sky of battle stage with Yan Tu and vows not to leave until he defeats him. Yan Tu, a fire path Gu Master, has no desire for the Gu. Ju Kai Bei is a genuine strength path Gu Master who has won numerous battles, so he must have a lot of primeval stones. ^{ch. 306}

Wei Yang passes Fang Yuan a primeval elder Gu holding nearly a million primeval stones, giving up a light type Gu at this auction useful to him. Fang Yuan hesitates, but Wei Yang forces the Gu onto him as a loan and names himself the creditor. Shang Xin Ci likewise lends a primeval elder Gu holding around a hundred to three hundred thousand primeval stones, saved from the pocket money Shang Yan Fei gives her each month. Fang Yuan keeps both and says he will definitely repay them later. Shang Chi Wen does not take hers out. ^{ch. 306}

Ju Kai Bei enters, a muscular man eight feet tall. Servants crowd around with invitations from Shang Ya Zi, from Pu Lao in the fourth private room and from Chao Feng. He snorts coldly and sits down in the first row. ^{ch. 306}

Shang Bu Li enters with a face bright red on the left and pale blue on the right, and Wei Yang names him to Fang Yuan. Shang Bu Li, titled Two faced man, is the number one general under Shang Yan Fei and a rank four clan elder with fire and ice Gu worms. He controls the entire slave trade market, with more authority than Wei Yang or the ten young masters. Doctor Su Shou, one of the southern border’s four great doctors, a rank five Gu Master who once treated Fang Yuan, rebukes Shang Bu Li for walking slowly, and he bows to her at once. As the rumored lover of Shang Yan Fei, she is beyond his reach. She enters a private room with her servants, and he laughs bitterly. ^{ch. 306}

Yan Tu, Shang Yan Fei’s fifth general Yi Huo, the Yi clan elder Yi Bu Hui, the Fei clan elder Fei Luan Feng and others arrive. Fang Yuan wonders how many will become obstacles. The hosting female Gu Master opens the auction with the first item, frost arrow Gu, a rank four ice type Gu treasured in Ju clan village. Its primeval essence cost is low enough for even a rank three Gu Master to use it, and bidding opens at seventy thousand primeval stones. ^{ch. 306}

Bidding slows past ninety thousand, and Bai Ning Bing makes the first private room bid, a hundred and ten thousand from the ninth room. Shang Ya Zi counters from the fifth room, and the two trade bids up to a hundred and fifty thousand. He targets Bai Ning Bing because she shares a room with Fang Yuan, and stops bidding, wanting them to suffer. Bai Ning Bing buys the frost arrow Gu but pays forty thousand extra. Wei Yang sighs that Shang Ya Zi has come with a vengeance. Shang Xin Ci frowns, worried for Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 306}