Full-Time Magister: I can control you to death

"Don't leave."

Old Bao reached out and pressed his shoulder, saying with a forced smile, "It's so late, stay the night, and I'll have a good chat with you about how to use magic."

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Two days later.

The auction house on the top floor of the Shanghai International Trade Center, a top-tier seat.

Xu Fang had never been to a place like this before, and it was thanks to Lingling that he was able to get a pass.

Lingling said, "These kinds of large auction houses have restrictions. Either you have to spend a lot of money to buy a membership here, or you have to have a certain status, like a master hunter."

"Mommy's YYDS!" Xu Fang exclaimed in praise.

Lingling glared at him fiercely, that little blondie who'd forgotten all his pain once the wound healed!

She decided not to bother arguing with this unreliable guy: "Here is today's auction list. The items we want are numbers nine and twenty-five."

Xu Fang took the list, which was filled with all kinds of cultivation resources, with prices mostly in the tens of millions.

Regardless of level, the things that magicians need are so rare and expensive, which is why so many people are desperate to squeeze into the upper echelons of aristocratic families.

Because all the good stuff in Anjie has been divided up by these powerful families, they can't keep going out to pan for gold like savages every time!

Lot number nine was an opaque box containing some items, with a starting bid of 25 million.

Lot number 25 is a dark red bowl-shaped magical artifact, with an astonishing starting price of 48 million!

Xu Fang flipped through the auction list, and half an hour later, the auction began.

The first item up for auction was a fire-type spirit seed, placed in a spirit seed container, its intense flames palpable even from a distance.

"Starting bid: 15 million. Let the bidding begin!"

As the auctioneer finished speaking, many fire mages bid against each other, and in the end, the spirit seed was acquired by a mage from an Eastern family for 20 million.

The second item was a demon-slaying tool, which was on par with Xu Fang's Cloud-Slaying Sword, and was acquired for 25 million.

One item after another, the atmosphere at the auction grew increasingly lively.

"The following is lot number nine: ten worm larvae from the Mongolian grasslands. The starting price is 25 million, and the minimum bid increment is 1 million. Please place your bids!"

On the big screen, the sealed box was opened, and inside lay several plump, white worms.

It's like being put on pause.

The auction hall, which had just been bustling with activity, was now eerily quiet.

The auctioneer, a young man, panicked upon seeing this and quickly explained, "These worms have been appraised by our appraisers and have amazing potential. Even without poison, they can reach the level of a warrior general by cultivating them with blood!"

Still, no one raised a sign.

"How disgusting! Who would buy something like this?"

"Exactly, using fresh blood to cultivate it, that sounds incredibly evil!"

"I've heard of the Mongolian Death Worm. That thing is cold and violent. If it turns on us, we'll be dead!"

Hearing the conversation from the audience, the auctioneer looked helpless; it seemed the item would have to go unsold.

Just then, a voice rang out: "Twenty-five million."

Swish!

The auctioneer's eyes lit up: "This VIP has bid twenty-five million! Twenty-five million for the first bid! Twenty-five million for the second bid! Twenty-five million for the third bid! Sold!"

As if afraid that Xu Fang might change his mind, the auctioneer quickly brought down the gavel.

Only then did everyone see his face clearly, and they whispered among themselves, "Sigh, what a handsome guy is gone."

"Young people always like to cause trouble; they'll learn their lesson after they've stumbled a couple of times."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to get up this time. I've heard that mages who use blood to feed insects will have their bodies turned into nests of poisonous insects, their entire bodies covered with insect holes..."

"Ugh! Stop talking, I'm already feeling nauseous!"

The tenth item was an egg of a giant blue-velvet bird. According to the auctioneer, this bird possessed the bloodline of the Penglai Skylark and, if properly raised, could rival a fully grown, warrior-level demon…

Nobody listened to him. The bidding had already started in a frenzy, and the price had soared to seventy million without stopping!

Chapter 175 Xu Fang, the Novice in Raising Gu

"This world that judges people by their looks is hopeless." Xu Fang shook his head and sighed, "We're all potential warrior-level talents, so why can one Blue Velvet Giant Sparrow egg buy forty or fifty of my Death Worms?"

"It's not a world that judges by appearances, it's a world where lives matter."

Lingling retorted, "Do you think everyone is a poison mage like you? Non-poison mages who raise insects are very likely to be eaten by the insects and left with only a skin!"

This kind of thing has happened before.

Lingling had read in the Hunter's Notes that there was once an ordinary person who raised Gu worms. When he was bleeding, the poisonous insects would tear open his wound and rush inside!

When people found him, he was sprawled on the ground in a bizarre posture, his body swollen twice its original size, his skin covered in a ghastly white substance, and wriggling worms could be found in every imaginable corner…

Even for a sorcerer, feeding one's body to a venomous insect doesn't end well.

For example, the poisonous insect wizards of the Andes Mountains have sweat glands that attract poisonous mosquitoes, saliva that contains insect eggs, and flesh and blood that serve as a breeding ground for insect swarms... In other words, they exchange their "human" identity for immense power!

Lingling imagined Xu Fang turning into a swarm of insects, his golden hair sticky and stringy, and a whole bunch of insects flying out of his mouth. It gave her goosebumps!

"Besides, do you really think raising insects costs less than raising birds?"

At this point, Lingling said with a hint of schadenfreude, "To cultivate the strongest insect king, you need to keep adding new insects, each of which is worth millions."

Besides consuming poisonous magic energy, they also need poisonous herbs, spirit seed fragments, and dark matter to cultivate their attributes. I don't need to elaborate on the value of these things, do I?

Oh, I almost forgot, the third legal system you reported to the military is the phonetic system, which means there's not even a place to get reimbursed. How pathetic.

Xu Fang: "..."

That wretched brat, how dare he mock an adult!

However, when you calculate it this way, the poison type really is a money pit. Xu Fang has a premonition that his comfortable days when he was in the middle stage are about to be gone forever!

The auction continued, during which several items of interest were put out for auction, but the prices far exceeded his budget.

Soon, lot number twenty-five was brought to the auction stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a storage container newly developed by the Yunnan Research Institute. It is made of extremely precious materials, measuring 64 centimeters in length, 41 centimeters in width, and 22 centimeters in height. Its unique feature is that it can store living things for a short period of time... Starting price: 48 million!"

The auction fell flat once again.

It's certainly unusual that it can store living creatures, but its size is really too small, about the size of a 24-inch suitcase.

Let alone demons, it can't even fit a human. It can only fit a demon cub or something. Compared to the high price of nearly 50 million, it has no cost-effectiveness at all!

Seeing the auction fall silent again, the auctioneer felt even more bitter. Just as he was about to announce his withdrawal after waiting for a while, that angelic voice rang out once more.

"Forty-eight million!"

Benefactor!

The auctioneer looked at Xu Fang gratefully. He even suspected that Xu Fang had a crush on him and was lusting after his body, otherwise why would he have helped him out of trouble twice?

This is so sudden... people weren't prepared at all.

the other side.

“Everyone here is a good person; no one is bidding against me,” Xu Fang said.

"Because such a useless thing, no one but you would buy it." Lingling snorted.

The ability to store living organisms for short periods of time virtually eliminates the possibility of housing other organisms.

Only insects, with their rapid reproduction rate, updated and iterated a batch before the storage time was up, perfectly exploiting the bug!

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As the auction drew to a close, the truly spectacular finale items were revealed.

The young auctioneer stepped down, and an older auctioneer with a snow-white beard took his place.

One after another, top-quality magical artifacts and high-level magical tools were displayed, and the final protective item drove the entire audience into a frenzy.

That's a soul seed!

The Soul Seed, so valuable yet unavailable, drove the powerful families present into a frenzy. Ordinary rogue mages didn't even dare to bid; they'd just gritted their teeth and decided on a price when they discovered the offer had already doubled…

Of course, this has nothing to do with Xu Fang. He hasn't even successfully drawn the constellations yet, so it's too hasty for him to be thinking about soul seeds now.

After arriving backstage, Xu Fang paid by card, took his auction items, and returned to Qingtian Hunting Grounds with Lingling.

The box containing the poisonous insects was unremarkable, but when opened, it was found to be lined with a thick layer of dark soil, covered with a fuzzy fungal carpet.

Ten plump, white, dead worms lay on top of it, as if they were asleep.

"Release the poison-type magical energy," said Old Man Bao.

Xu Fang did as instructed, and as soon as the dark green magic energy surged out, the worms that had been languishing suddenly became alert.

Swish!

The death worm raised its head and emitted a series of faint screams.

The three then discovered that the worms' heads were actually a ring of sharp teeth, and four slender tongues protruded and churned in the air.

The poisonous magical energy released by Xu Fang was shredded by their tongues and then absorbed into his body.

Her fair body swelled up, revealing a hint of pink.

When the entire body turns red, the death worm has entered adulthood.

In addition, Xu Fang also discovered that the surface of these dead worms had a light golden ring, which was difficult to see without close inspection.

"When the old man was young, he saw the Death Worm on the Mongolian grassland. At that time, it mutated into the Thunder Worm, which could release strong electric currents to kill its prey."

As Old Man Bao was reminiscing about the fleeting years, the wind chimes at the door rang, and a tearful young woman, accompanied by a little boy, walked in.

"I'm posting a commission! I'll give you two hundred thousand to find that damned vixen!"

Old Bao went to serve the customers, while Xu Fang and Lingling continued their research on the worms.

"Leng Lingling?"

The little boy approached alone, his face flushed red: "It really is you... Why didn't you go to school the other day?"