Chapter 751

Qin Bai Sheng distributes mortal Gu through the hall to set the Immortal Gu auction’s order at random, since goods sold first draw a wider range of bids, and built the method so no one can manipulate it. The Gu Immortals inspect the Gu and find nothing wrong. Even the rank eight Gu Immortals accept the method as fair. ^{ch. 751}

The first Immortal Gu named is conceal luck, a rank six luck path Immortal Gu shaped like a white-skinned beetle half the size of a palm, hiding its owner’s luck, with the seller wanting a metal path defensive Immortal Gu and no lower limit set. Luck path mortal Gu are scarce, because Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, who created the path, kept it hidden and secretive rather than letting it spread, and conceal luck has value only against someone who owns a luck inspection Gu. No one bids. It goes unsold from the single room of the female Gu Immortal who owns it. ^{ch. 751}

The second item is heavenly gong, a big-headed, silver cicada-shaped rank six sound path Immortal Gu, with the seller wanting a transformation path Immortal Gu in trade. A Gu Immortal in the hall shouts in fury that the Gu was his and that He Lang Zi snatched it. He Lang Zi walks out of a secret room and sits across from him. The hall names him as he sits: a famous demonic path loner of Northern Plains, raised from childhood by a female wolf, cruel and insidious and very unlike normal people. Rumor says he carries an inheritance of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable that lets him snatch other Immortal Gu, and he once refused recruitment from Old Ancestor Xue Hu. ^{ch. 751}

Unfettered Scholar offers demon ferret skin, a transformation path Immortal Gu that resists wisdom path attacks, refined from a heart demon ferret he killed and already spare since he has other defenses. He Lang Zi weighs it as a step toward an immortal killer move, but he already holds three immortal wolf transformations and wants a Gu for fighting in water, so he declines without speaking. Fairy You Lan, representing Prince Feng Xian, offers a moon demon bat claw Immortal Gu; secretly, she is Feng Jiu Ge, a sound path Gu Immortal who wants heavenly gong for himself. He Lang Zi declines this too. He is poor at aerial combat and hates the sky. ^{ch. 751}

A Gu Immortal in the first secret room then bids a grand smoke sea turtle shell Immortal Gu together with verified information on Ascending Heaven Plain. The sea turtle suits He Lang Zi’s needs, though its illusions and weak speed and defense differ from his battle style. Xiong Yuan mocks him for not knowing what Ascending Heaven Plain is. Qin Bai Sheng explains: it is a place that lets anyone, even a mortal, enter the immemorial nine heavens, and legend holds that Northern Dark Ice Soul reached black heaven by passing through it. ^{ch. 751}

He Lang Zi, a rank seven lone cultivator, must fight for every resource himself, since Northern Plains’ super forces hold what little there is. The immemorial nine heavens lie behind a heavenly wind qi wall that only a very strong Gu Immortal can force through. Only white and black heaven remain intact, the others broken or destroyed, and both the intact heavens and the fragment worlds hold abundant resources. His battle strength is enough to break the wall, but he cannot fly. The thought of getting the Ascending Heaven Plain information moves him further. ^{ch. 751}

Five Gu Immortals in all bid for heavenly gong, Xiong Yuan among them. He Lang Zi settles on the first secret room’s offer, taking the grand smoke sea turtle shell Immortal Gu together with a large group of water wolves. Because the Gu Immortal in the secret room cannot show his face, Qin Bai Sheng serves as go-between, and the trade completes in public. After reading the Ascending Heaven Plain intelligence he stares with furious eyes and starts to shout. ^{ch. 751}