The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 119 Auction
Shopkeeper Liu then took the second wooden box from the servant, and took out a dagger from it: "This sword is called 'Surge', a water-attribute flying sword, and Qu Jiajiang, a five-star craftsman of the Wuliangjian Sect. Produced, forged from the ice vortex cold crystal produced in the North Ocean. Just pour spiritual energy into it in advance, and the user can rely on the guidance of the divine sense to cut out a water-attribute light blade equivalent to the level of Qi refining Dzogchen. It is a sharp weapon used by low-ranking monks to kill people, and the starting price is... 4 yuan in spirit stone coins."

The special effect of this flying sword named Surge sounds very similar to that of a talisman.However, unlike the spiritual energy stored in the talisman seal that will slowly lose over time, the spiritual energy stored in the ice vortex crystal can be preserved for a long time, and can also be handed over to other people to repeatedly infuse the spiritual energy into the interior.

Although Shopkeeper Liu didn't actually use the flying sword, no one doubted his description of the Surge Sword. After all, everyone was a respectable person, and Liu Qi wouldn't use deceitful methods to make money.

After listening to shopkeeper Liu's introduction, the reactions of the monks on the field were polarized.

Qi refining stage monks are generally a little eager to try, but foundation building stage monks mostly show dismissive expressions. After all, a full blow of Qi refining Dzogchen is like scratching an itch for high-level monks.

Yang Lu also noticed that after Liu Qi introduced the special effects of the Surge Sword, he took a special look at himself. Apparently Shopkeeper Liu also thought that this flying sword should arouse his interest as a monk at the beginning of Qi refining.

Shopkeeper Liu guessed right this time, after listening to the introduction of the Surge Sword, Yang Lu was indeed moved.

Just look at Li Wen, the killer of Heyu Pavilion, to know how powerful the full blow of Qi Refining Dzogchen is.

Although this surge sword only has the power of one blow, with such a blow, I am afraid that even a monk in the middle stage of Qi refining can be beheaded. Even if a monk in the late stage of Qi refining uses it, it is equivalent to instantly raising the upper limit of his output. times.If it is said who this sword can improve the most, it is naturally Yang Lu.

For a rookie like Yang Lu who has just cultivated his spiritual consciousness, as long as he takes this sword, he can guest-star as "One Sword Superman".

It is very appropriate to describe this surge sword as "the treasure of low-level monks, and the tasteless rib of high-level monks".

As soon as shopkeeper Liu finished speaking, a masked monk over there took the initiative to ask for a price: "I will offer 41000 yuan of Lingshi coins!"

However, this person's voice was immediately drowned out by the shouts of other monks.

"I will offer 42000 yuan of Lingshi coins."

"I will offer 43000 yuan of Lingshi coins."

"43500 Lingshi coins!"

……

This surge sword is indeed very useful to certain groups of people. In just one minute, twelve practitioners made more than 1 rounds of quotations, raising the price of the surge sword to 20 yuan in spirit stones. currency.

Yang Lu also tried to quote a second price, but was quickly overwhelmed by others.

However, the Surge Sword is a magic weapon that cannot be used in the foundation building period after all. When the quotation exceeds the 6 yuan mark, the number of cultivators participating in the quotation has obviously decreased a lot. With so much wealth, it is indeed a bit too extravagant to spend such a huge sum of money to buy a flying sword exclusive to the Qi refining period.

When Su Yuanfeng, the president of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, directly offered a sky-high price of 7 yuan, there were no practitioners who continued to bid.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Yang Lu took the initiative to bow his hands to Su Yuanfeng and said, "President Su, I also like this surge sword. I am willing to offer 71000 yuan of Lingshi coins. I wonder if you can give it up?"

In normal auctions, most bidders are not allowed to blend in private, but this auction of the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce is not large in scale, and there are more elements of emotional communication than transactions, so there are no such strict rules.

Su Yuanfeng was slightly taken aback, then said with a smile: "I bought this Surging Sword for the sake of the younger generation of my family. Since Mr. He has taken a fancy to it, then naturally I won't be able to win people's love."

Hearing that Su Yuanfeng gave up the auction so easily, all the cultivators present were a little surprised.

After all, Su Yuanfeng, the president of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, is definitely the strongest financially among all the monks present. It's not that he can't afford the price, but that Mr. He has a lot of background, so Su Yuanfeng can voluntarily back down.

Yang Lu didn't notice the strange eyes of the other monks, he just took the Surge Sword from Shopkeeper Liu as if nothing had happened, and kept it carefully in a special sword case.

The shape of the surge sword is too conspicuous. If you wear it on your body at any time, it is very easy to reveal your identity. Therefore, Yang Lu only intends to use it as a means of suppressing the bottom of the box. It is best to let the enemies who have seen its power not survive!
The sword case he used to keep the surge sword is also extraordinary, but he bought it from Xiuzhenfang City yesterday at a price of 200 yuan Lingshi coins. Its surface is engraved with special formations, which are specially used to seal the breath of flying swords and shield magic weapons. The snooping of other monks.

Shopkeeper Liu nodded to him, and then took the third wooden box from the servant...

In this way, the auction went on without any twists and turns, and the items that shopkeeper Liu brought out were more precious and rare than the other ones. Even in the second half of the auction, the starting price of all the items exceeded 10 yuan in spirit stone coins.

After Yang Lu won the Surge Sword, his entire net worth was less than [-] spirit stone coins, and he could only sigh in dismay when faced with the high price of the lot.

Only one item caught Yang Lu's interest.

"The general contract for the restoration project of the official road from Tianshu City to Luanshi City, the starting price is 15 yuan Lingshi coins, labor costs and building materials costs are at your own expense. According to the experience of dozens of previous restorations of official roads, it is expected that after the completion of the project, the merits will be equivalent In a golden wheel of merit."

Yang Lu was still wondering why Tianshu City asked someone to repair the road, instead of paying them, they asked them to pay labor and materials instead.

But after hearing the word "merit", he understood everything.

Similar to cultivation resources such as spiritual stones, magic treasures, medicinal materials, and talisman seals, Heavenly Dao Merit is also a cultivation resource, and even in terms of importance, Heavenly Dao Merit is the most important cultivation resource, not one of them.

Repairing bridges and repairing roads has always been the most important livelihood project, and this kind of action will naturally be rewarded by heaven.

Most of the official roads in the Tianshu Mountains are maintained by the Shanying faction, but the Shanying faction is the supreme ruler of the entire region after all, and it is impossible to do everything by themselves. After all, the internal management efficiency of any organization will increase exponentially with the expansion of the management scale decline.Under the circumstances that the management level cannot be further improved, the Shanying faction must outsource some non-core businesses.

Infrastructure projects such as road construction obviously belong to the kind of non-core business that is very difficult to manage.

This is like the collection of real estate tax is definitely the most beneficial to the government, but the collection process of real estate tax is too cumbersome and the cost of tax collection is too high, so in the end it often turns into land finance that directly sells land.

This is not to say that land finance is better, but that the management cost of land finance is lower.

Letting the Shanying faction personally handle the work of repairing bridges and roads is equivalent to letting local governments directly participate in real estate development projects, and their operating efficiency is definitely not as good as that of market-oriented real estate companies.

Therefore, the Shanying faction will also outsource such "merit projects" that are extremely wasteful of management resources and have a low risk-benefit ratio, and let the chambers of commerce established by comprehension capitalists help them complete them.

Since the reward for road construction is paid through the way of heavenly merit, the Shanying faction is not worried about the comprehension capitalists cutting corners.

For the Shanying faction, although the faction received less merit from heaven, it successfully divested the most cumbersome non-core business, which not only promoted the economic development of the Tianshu Mountains, but also allowed the faction to obtain additional income.

For the comprehension capitalists who contracted the project, this is equivalent to spending money to buy merit. The effect is similar to opening a homeless shelter, but whether it is worthwhile depends on the cost control and operation capabilities of each chamber of commerce.

Overall, this cooperation model is undoubtedly a win-win situation.

As expected, this "official road restoration project" really attracted positive quotations from representatives of major chambers of commerce. In the end, Su Yuanfeng was strong enough to win this merit for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce with an offer of 47 yuan in Lingshi coins project.

After another half hour, the last lot was sold.

The most precious treasure is a set of portable array flags called [Five-Color Rainbow Light Array], which can even temporarily withstand the attacks of Jindan stage monks after they are laid down by monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage. The hand of Master Tao.

The starting price of this array flag alone was as high as 200 million Lingshi coins. After several rounds of quotations, it was finally bought by a masked monk at an astonishing transaction price of 428 million yuan.

In nearly two hours, more than 40 items were auctioned, and the transaction efficiency of the auction was indeed not very high.

After the last auction item was traded, the monks who won the bid began to pay for the goods, while the monks who failed the auction, a few chose to leave directly, and most of them began to chat with monks they knew well.

(End of this chapter)