Chapter 762

Qin Bai Sheng ends the main auction and announces a two hour break before the open transaction. He leaves the stage worn out from hosting, especially from the luck path true inheritance sale, where his own profits were at stake. Many sense his schemes, but the gains are too great for him to care. He ends the auction its biggest winner, piling up immortal materials and many metal path Immortal Gu suited to his cultivation. He means to vanish from the world once it closes, spend most of a century on his gains, then roam. ^{ch. 762}

The break is meant less for rest than for Gu Immortals to mingle. The auction has shown everyone each other’s resources. Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng stay hidden in their secret room, since Unfamiliar Face’s disguise has limited effect. Fang Yuan regrets gaining nothing from the luck path true inheritance. He wants to deal with Ma and Zhao, who know the truth of the Imperial Court incident, but lacks the strength to interfere. He still has his own Gu Immortal captives to sell once open trading begins. ^{ch. 762}

Two hours later, Qin Bai Sheng opens the open transaction, using Gu worms to pick the trading order fairly. The first seller trades a large stock of broken wave flowers for fifteen hundred kilograms of prosperity soil. The open transaction runs at a lower threshold than the auction, though not always. ^{ch. 762}

More than thirty rounds pass before Fang Yuan’s turn comes. Qin Bai Sheng announces that the thirty seventh secret room is selling a Gu Immortal captive: the sleeping Loner Hong Yu, a rank six fire path Gu Immortal at one heavenly tribulation. Gu Immortals in the hall call Loner Hong Yu’s blessed land a little barren and badly managed. Fire path Gu Immortals want his aperture, to skip a tribulation and calamities. Gu Immortals of other paths want the land too, which killing him would leave ownerless, and Loner Hong Yu becomes a sought after commodity. Fang Yuan lists many requests: materials, killer moves of several paths, rare recipes, and specific Gu including battle bone wheel Gu and lifespan Gu. Loner Hong Yu goes to Five Elements Grandmaster, useful to him since he cultivates all five paths. ^{ch. 762}

By the later rounds Fang Yuan has sold more than half his Gu Immortal captives. He finishes Lang Ya land spirit’s checklist with resources to spare, and gains a desolate beast bat corpse. Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu also sell captives openly. The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal sells three immortal zombie bodies, angering Yin Liu Gong and Dragon Commander Ye Cha, though Yao Huang buys all three. Fang Yuan keeps changing secret rooms throughout, so no one learns he is behind most of the captives sold. ^{ch. 762}

Trading thins as sellers meet their goals, though the offers left grow more valuable. By the ninth round Gu Immortals are starting to leave. A lone cultivator then makes a stunning request: the complete Gu recipe for the Immortal Gu House, Red Fiend Divine Boat, along with the method to use it. He wants wood path resources in return. Zombie Alliance has been trying to eliminate this seller, who hides too well for them to find an opening, so at the auction they could only urge him and offer a high price. Swayed by its atmosphere, he grew greedy, tried to extort them, and when talks broke down, put the recipe up for open sale. ^{ch. 762}

A chaotic bidding war erupts, offers of essence stones and rare materials flying from every side. Super forces and rank eight experts join in, forcing Zombie Alliance’s two leaders to compete. Meng tribe’s representative offers a wood path Immortal Gu. Yuan tribe’s Yuan Rang Zun offers a wood path Immortal Gu and three hundred of his precious true martial carps. Yin Liu Gong vows on his reputation to resell the recipe if Zombie Alliance wins it, backed by Yao Huang. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu counters with a wisdom path Immortal Gu, Unravel Mystery, which can deduce all traces of any inheritance, plus three vats of lingzhi liquid. Fang Yuan’s heart stirs: that, if he heard right, is the unravel mystery Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 762}