Chapter 759

Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit’s relationship has not deepened enough for trading Immortal Gu recipes. Lang Ya land spirit is stingy about anything tied to refinement, having already refused to sell his hairy men slaves for that reason. Eat strength Immortal Gu grows strength path dao marks. Those marks perfectly suit the body of whoever gains them. It would compensate for his stalled cultivation and move him, as it would any strength path Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 759}

From the twenty-third secret room, someone bids one iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu and fifteen drops of rule eye blood. It is Tai Bai Yun Sheng, moved into that room by Fang Yuan through Qin Bai Sheng. He bids the iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu Fang Yuan traded for anonymously, a deal only Qin Bai Sheng knows and cannot leak. Fang Yuan gives no response for a while. Chu Du starts bidding too, offering another beast strength Immortal Gu, wanting only to trade delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu to Feng Jiu Ge for eat strength Immortal Gu, since Feng Jiu Ge had refused him directly. Fang Yuan, amused, judges Chu Du’s exposed identity his own fault, and stays silent as the auction runs. ^{ch. 759}

At Fang Yuan’s direction, Tai Bai Yun Sheng raises again, forcing Feng Jiu Ge to raise as well. Feng Jiu Ge, suspecting a trap, pauses rather than be drawn further. Swordmaster You Lan stops bidding entirely, as if unwilling to part with eat strength Immortal Gu, and every gaze in the hall turns to her. ^{ch. 759}

Chu Du, pleased, again urges Feng Jiu Ge to sell him eat strength Immortal Gu directly, and is refused again. Fang Yuan has Tai Bai Yun Sheng keep raising until only Chu Du and Tai Bai Yun Sheng remain. Chu Du bids on to keep eat strength Immortal Gu from others. Winning would also give him a chance to trade for it. Tai Bai Yun Sheng simply obeys Fang Yuan, since the cost returns to him regardless. The price climbs unusually high for a wisdom path Gu that produces only joyful will, and the hall credits Chu Du’s involvement. Qin Bai Sheng privately admires the seller’s plan as brilliant, noting that Chu Du’s thin finances are now plain. ^{ch. 759}

Chu Du, his finances truly exhausted, finally withdraws, judging that whoever sits in the twenty-third secret room probably has some special need for the Gu. Only Tai Bai Yun Sheng remains. Fang Yuan transmits his decision to Qin Bai Sheng: he is selling to his own apparent ally. Qin Bai Sheng is stunned, then guesses Sha Huang and Tai Bai Yun Sheng may not be as close as they appear. He announces it twice, going once, going twice, and the hall murmurs this may rank among the auction’s ten priciest rounds. Before the third call finishes, Feng Jiu Ge interrupts: eat strength Immortal Gu, plus four hundred kilograms of red refinement metal on top of Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s bid. The hall gasps at the leap, Chu Du pales, and Fang Yuan laughs, praising Swordmaster You Lan’s patience. ^{ch. 759}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng sounds annoyed, and bids on as Fang Yuan directs. Feng Jiu Ge, now convinced the twenty-third secret room is serious, wonders whether all the rooms opposing him belong to one person. That person might know of Water Pavilion through Mo Yao’s inheritance, or the other nine Central Continent sects might simply not want Spirit Affinity House to recover it. Regardless, he decides he must obtain delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu for Water Pavilion’s sake, and bids again. ^{ch. 759}

He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng bid without yielding. The price climbs into the auction’s top five, then second place, behind only Feng Jiu Ge’s own earlier two-for-one purchase of Worldly Wave Trace. Feng Jiu Ge feels the same crushing pressure Chu Du had felt, and dreads another two-for-one exchange. He fears it would expose his true motive and hurt his future search for water harmony Gu, the third of Water Pavilion’s three core Immortal Gu, since only two have appeared at this auction. Uneasy, he goes on the offensive, shouting for the seller to name a price. ^{ch. 759}

Fang Yuan pauses as if in thought, then answers through Qin Bai Sheng: a complete wisdom path inheritance. The hall gasps at the audacity. Feng Jiu Ge is dumbfounded, since the inheritance he holds is only incomplete. Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly claims an incomplete inheritance of his own, and Feng Jiu Ge matches him. Tai Bai Yun Sheng dares the seller to name yet another condition. ^{ch. 759}

Qin Bai Sheng relays Fang Yuan’s next demand: a killer move able to disguise one’s identity, the better one taking the sale. Tai Bai Yun Sheng offers first: a complete mortal killer move from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, called unfamiliar face. The hall erupts at the Demon Venerable’s name. Feng Jiu Ge, sweating, hesitates before answering with his own: an incomplete immortal grade move, also from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, called vaguely familiar face. Fang Yuan stands, eyes shining: the rumor from his previous life was true, Spirit Affinity House really does hold vaguely familiar face. ^{ch. 759}

In his previous life, Spirit Affinity House had held vaguely familiar face but never once admitted it. Both enemies and allies confirmed it through analysis during the five regions chaotic war. Unknown to Fang Yuan, the move actually belongs to Feng Jiu Ge himself, who had contributed it to his sect in that previous life, starting the rumor Fang Yuan now relies on. That does not stop him from extorting it, since he does not know the bidder is Feng Jiu Ge. Feng Jiu Ge will not hand over the complete version, but even an incomplete one beats Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s mortal grade unfamiliar face. Fang Yuan confirms the sale at once, giving delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu to Swordmaster You Lan. In return he gains a huge haul of immortal materials filling half his list, eat strength Immortal Gu, an incomplete wisdom path inheritance, and the incomplete killer move vaguely familiar face. ^{ch. 759}