Chapter 755

Qin Bai Sheng announces a new bid from the tenth secret room: an intact skeleton of a sky dragon and fifteen hundred grams of fury powder, on top of Chu Du’s heaven pillar wind. Chu Du frowns. He judges the tenth secret room a strong foe, since it marked up his price without hesitation. The pressure is public: everyone recalls how the room profited greatly from the earlier two-for-one bidding war between Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 755}

Chu Du’s fortunes have changed. Once he had ample wealth to spend as a rank seven cultivator, but a recent tribulation thinned his foundation, and the costly, if profitable, trip into white heaven that followed left him at an overall loss. Never before finding a strength path defensive Immortal Gu, he presses on rather than risk regretting it later. ^{ch. 755}

No matter how much he adds, Fang Yuan matches him, and after several rounds Chu Du secretly asks Qin Bai Sheng to open contact with the tenth secret room. Fang Yuan permits it. Chu Du’s letter offers a favor owed and a task of equal value if Fang Yuan withdraws, sealed by an Immortal Gu vow should Fang Yuan doubt him, plus information on Reckless Savage Demon Venerable’s true meaning. ^{ch. 755}

Fang Yuan is surprised and pleased, but refuses. He wants cauldron strength Immortal Gu for himself as a fellow strength path cultivator, and already has a rough understanding of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable’s meaning, having personally benefited from it. He judges Chu Du wrote the letter because he wants the Gu and his funds have run short, mocks it privately, and raises his bid again. ^{ch. 755}

Chu Du keeps bidding, but his goods become a mismatch of odds and ends. The hall begins to notice. Gu Immortals whisper that he underwent a tribulation months ago, was badly injured, and had to borrow healing Immortal Gu from Yao Huang at a heavy price. Fang Yuan answers with high-value rank seven materials; Chu Du can only match the sum with a pile of rank six materials. ^{ch. 755}

Watching, Feng Jiu Ge grows anxious. Chu Du’s thin wallet threatens his hope that reputation alone could overpower the tenth secret room. He cannot bid for delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu directly, since its mysterious owner in the tenth secret room might be the Imperial Court case’s culprit and could grow suspicious. Nor can he bid openly as Swordmaster You Lan, since a second purchase under that identity would greatly raise the chance of exposing himself, should that Gu Immortal know Water Pavilion’s secret. ^{ch. 755}

He has no one to send in his place. His own killer move cannot pass to another, and using Prince Feng Xian’s men would risk the prince’s exposure too. ^{ch. 755}

Feng Jiu Ge secretly contacts Chu Du under the Swordmaster You Lan identity. He offers to fund Chu Du’s bid and asks in return that Chu Du sell him true heaven silver, of which Chu Du holds three hundred kilograms from his white heaven trip, extremely rare even in treasure yellow heaven. Chu Du is somewhat doubtful of the true motive, but his need is urgent, so he accepts, promising to reveal the exact location of more true heaven silver once the auction ends. In Fang Yuan’s previous life, Chu Du died in battle, killed by Feng Jiu Ge; now, by a stroke of fate, the two work together instead. ^{ch. 755}

The price climbs higher, and Chu Du seems revitalized, bidding without hesitation. Fang Yuan, surprised, exhausts the materials from Lang Ya blessed land and starts bidding with materials obtained earlier, including several that once belonged to Feng Jiu Ge himself. Fang Yuan paces the secret room, reasoning that Chu Du’s letter proved he had no hope, so the sudden wealth cannot be pretense: someone is quietly helping him, though he cannot yet grasp who or why. ^{ch. 755}

Thinking with the wills in his mind, Fang Yuan forms his conjectures, then shouts as an empty show of power that he will satisfy whatever the seller wants, and Chu Du follows suit. The seller answers with a single demand: a wisdom path inheritance. Wisdom path has always passed down in a single line, rare even among the ten great ancient sects, so both Chu Du and Feng Jiu Ge can only give a bitter smile. Fang Yuan recalls once offering a high price for such an inheritance in treasure yellow heaven and finding no taker, receiving only an incomplete one in the end. That came only because the other party urgently needed an ancient desolate beast corpse. Wisdom path Gu worms are common, but inheritances are not, and for a while Fang Yuan and Chu Du both go quiet. ^{ch. 755}