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The Treasure Appraisal Pavilion in Xia Yu City occupies a huge area. Aunt's Pingfeng Mountain Local Specialty Wholesale Market is located in the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion on the right side of the street, while the exhibition of Elder Tao Hong of the Qi Sect, who was to meet Su Yan, is located on the second floor on the left.

During the Wanlinghui event, the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion reserved booths for various forces and resource-rich areas, so that they didn't have to set up stalls at the entrance like those independent cultivators.

With a reluctant farewell to her aunt, Su Yan went directly to the second floor of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion on the right, and then crossed the sky bridge to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion on the left.

However, the second floor of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion is no longer a place where people can freely enter and exit as before. There is now an additional verification process at the entrance to control the flow of people entering the left-hand pavilion of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion.

"Young Master Su!"

Upon seeing Su Yan's arrival across the overpass, the staff at the appraisal pavilion, who were verifying his funds, immediately smiled and ran forward to greet him. They led Su Yan and his aunt to the VIP passage next to the queue, saying:

"This way, this way, please. You've already spent over ten million spirit stones at our Central Province Appraisal Pavilion," the attendant said deliberately after greeting Su Yan and glancing at the queue, flattering Su Yan, the princess's favorite, while reassuring the cultivators in line.

"How can we let you queue in the open air? Please come inside and have some tea."

"What's going on here?" Su Yan glanced back at the crowd still queuing, the Earth Immortal verifying their credentials at the front of the line, and then looked at the long queues at the other entrances and asked:

"If all the immortals got together, they could probably put together two or three tables of mahjong players, right?"

In the left pavilion of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, there are already four Earth Immortals visible to the naked eye, not including those in the building, as well as other Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation stage cultivators who are not Earth Immortals.

With the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion putting on such a grand show, it was hard for Su Yan not to be curious about what was going on inside.

"There's an auction at the end of the Wanlinghui event, and judging from the situation, there should be auction items displayed there, right?" Auntie glanced at the surrounding guards and directly explained the reason why the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion had put on such a grand show.

"Yes, sir."

The attendant looked at his aunt with embarrassment and said, "Inside, there are not only exhibits from our Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, but also items consigned for auction by other fellow cultivators and forces. If..."

"Cough cough cough, we can't explain it to them, so we can only transfer personnel from headquarters and branches."

The servant dared not continue, fearing that his choice of words, such as those of thieves and robbers, would anger his aunt.

"The shopkeeper had previously mentioned wanting to hire Shopkeeper Chong to oversee the security forces and monitor the flow of people, but at that time Shopkeeper Chong wasn't in Xia Yu City."

The hiring was a pretense; Manager Huang's real intention was to offer his aunt some spirit stones as a token of respect, hoping she would be lenient and not notify relatives and friends to come and freeload.

In the cultivation world, the Proud Insect Clan doesn't care who or what power is behind you; they'll rob you without hesitation. The Treasure Appraisal Pavilion was once targeted by the Proud Insect Clan, and even the intervention of the Celestial Master behind it all proved futile.

If the owner of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion hadn't run away quickly, he would have almost perished in the eastern prefecture as well.

Such domineering behavior naturally aroused the dissatisfaction and hostility of other celestial beings. In addition, the owner behind the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion brought together three celestial beings to stand up and seek justice.

Three celestial beings arrived first. The next instant, the nine-tailed fox celestial being broke through the air and began a massacre. The other foxes and proud insects recognized the faces of the newcomers and swarmed out, pointing at the three's family records and killing them all. They killed all the related people without saying a word.

As if they had rehearsed countless times, they carried out the task methodically and systematically.

Clearly, the three celestial beings had trespassed on Pingfeng Mountain and violated some taboos.

Then, apart from the owner of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, the three Celestials and their subordinate forces were all wiped out, with no survivors. Even the secret method of summoning souls could not be summoned.

Although more than two thousand years have passed since that incident, all beings in the cultivation world understand two things.

The arrogant insects really don't care who you are; all they care about are spirit stones and treasures.

Visitors are not welcome inside Pingfeng Mountain. Any cultivator who tries to enter Pingfeng Mountain will have their entire family killed and will be besieged by the creatures of Qingqiu Kingdom. They will not say a word throughout the process and will only believe the results of the soul search of the dead after the entire family is slaughtered.

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The arrogant and domineering nature of Jiao Chong is well-known in the cultivation world. Therefore, before the Wanlinghui event, Manager Huang prepared to give Jiao Chong some tea money and arrange the best booth for him. Whether he used it himself or rented it out to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, it was as if they couldn't see it.

However, since Auntie wasn't home at the time, Manager Huang gave all the money for tea and gifts he had offered to Auntie.

That tea money was no small sum. It wasn't that the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion was using the guise of tea money to pay the bullies, but rather to pay protection money to the businessmen of Pingfeng Mountain. They just hoped that the businessmen would be lenient and not try to take advantage of them.

We are all business people, and we all know that business people in Pingfeng Mountain are loyal and righteous. Therefore, we made a special trip to offer some tea money and invite everyone to have tea, a meal, and a foot bath together.

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"Huh? What is this?"

Su Yan entered the pavilion. The second floor of the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion had been basically emptied out. All that could be seen were rows of cylindrical glass domes standing on the ground, protecting the exhibits inside.

Su Yan had only glanced at it briefly, but something caught his eye out of the corner of his eye, and he was so drawn to it that he instinctively walked over.

The cylindrical glass dome in front of us is three meters high and about eight meters wide, and inside it is an exhibition of a painting.

The painting itself was unremarkable, just an ordinary river landscape, yet it held Su Yan's gaze captivated. At that moment, in the previously still painting, a girl on a small boat, holding an umbrella and crossing the river, slowly turned her head, revealing the character "Evil" in red on a white background on her cheek.

"Su Yan?"

When Sister Evil saw that the person standing in front of the painting was someone she knew, the word "evil" that had been slowly emanating from her back was pulled back by her.

"Uh"

When Su Yan saw the scroll inside fluctuating, changing from static to dynamic, he was initially overjoyed at discovering a treasure. However, when he saw Evil Sister, the joy on his face immediately faded, replaced by a look of shock. He had no idea what Evil Sister, one of the Nine Netherworlds, was doing inside the scroll.

"What are you doing, you wicked sister?"

Su Yan subconsciously took a step back, looking at the evil sister hidden in the painting, and glanced at the label indicating the origin of the item out of the corner of her eye.

The title is simple, just the word "painting," but the description is anything but simple. It states that the painting has been around for about 80,000 years, and the scenery depicted is from a time before the distinction between immortals and mortals, an authentic immortal landscape. Price: 2 billion spirit stones.

"Oh, young master, are you interested in the painting?"

Seeing Su Yan stop to look at the painting, the attendant quickly stepped forward and said with a smile:

"Although this painting has a listed price, it is actually one of the non-sale items. It is a treasure that we exhibit every time we hold the All-Spirit Gathering. It depicts a corner of the fairy realm."

"It is said that every time the scroll is exhibited, a cultivator can comprehend a powerful secret technique from it."

"If you are interested in this, young master, we can arrange a seat here for you to enjoy at your leisure."

Su Yan: "."

Forget about seats, okay? There's such a big, wicked woman standing inside glaring at me. I'm afraid that if I look at her a second time, she'll get angry, jump out, and give me a good spanking.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 487 The Beautiful Skirt

"Whose little rascal did you catch?"

When Evil Sister and Su Yan first met in front of the painting, they stared at each other in silence, seemingly not expecting to meet under such circumstances. Just as Su Yan was about to take his leave with an embarrassed expression, a very familiar voice came from behind him.

"Oh, so you caught a little dumpling!"

Noticing something amiss with Sister E'er, Sister Xi'er, who had arrived using the Shrinking Earth Technique, immediately saw Su Yan standing awkwardly in front of the painting, looking very uncomfortable. Sister Xi'er couldn't help but tease her.

"All of you, get out of the way and don't disturb my official business."

When Sister Evil saw Sister Joy arrive, she pointed to the side outside the scroll, telling the two of them that if they had nothing else to do, they should leave their hunting area and not come here to cause trouble.

After saying that, Sister Evil turned around again, ignoring Su Yan who was disrupting her work.

"Nine Netherworlds?"

When Su Yan's aunt noticed something unusual about his appearance and expression, she seemed to realize something and asked the appraiser's servant who had been following them to come over, so that Su Yan and those strange things could have a space to talk.

My aunt used to be indifferent to the Nine Netherworlds, but after actually meeting them, she disliked them, feeling that those unreliable and evil things could very well corrupt her little fox.

"Sister Xi'er".

Su Yan subconsciously moved to Xi'er's side and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

The image of the evil girl appearing in the painting almost made Su Yan's heart stop. He couldn't understand why he had run to the painting as if he were possessed. It was only because he could see the figures of the Nine Netherworlds that Su Yan felt he would be in great danger.

Before the evil girl saw herself, she had obviously used some kind of magic, so much so that a large number of evil characters floated out from behind her and attacked the people outside the painting.

"Nothing's wrong."

Sister Xi, who missed out on the excitement, raised her hand with a regretful expression and touched Su Yan, saying:

"It's simply a matter of selecting suitable cultivators and giving them some unfinished spells. They'll be either Xia Yu people or spies planted in various locations."

The cultivation world is currently dominated by humans. Over the long years, it has not been uncommon for humans and demons to intermarry or seek pleasure. Naturally, there are quite a few mixed-race children born with demon blood.

The scroll currently on display actually has a history of less than 80,000 years. It was painted by Sister Le'er last month, and Sister E'er used certain methods to give it an aged look.

The sole purpose of this painting is to attract hybrids of exotic beasts and divine beasts, and to serve as a means of examining a cultivator's talent. Once a cultivator becomes captivated by the scenery within the painting, the wicked sister hidden inside will set a trap for these hybrids.

The Primal Immortal Realm Scroll is actually a lure, specifically designed to ensnare promising cultivators. Mixed-blood cultivators chosen by the Evil Sister will receive unfinished spells.

"Well, how should I put it? Those who come to Wanlinghui with such cheerful faces are either selling goods or making purchases, but major powers have special offices and envoys who exchange information with each other." Sister Xi'er explained to Su Yan after a moment's thought:

"In other words, you can understand it as large forces selling their own specialties to make money, while small and medium-sized forces gather at Wanlinghui to buy what the large forces are squeezing out from between their fingers."

"Those who are selected to join a sect and brought to the Myriad Spirits Gathering by their elders are basically the chosen ones or the best among the small and medium-sized forces."

Sister Xi'er made it very clear that major powers generally don't wander around Wanlinghui unless there's something special going on. They usually leave after attending the private tasting event.

The Wanlinghui is a carnival for small and medium-sized forces, where they can buy specialties from various forces. At such a grand event, sects and clans usually bring their favorite disciples and outstanding juniors to broaden their horizons.

The wicked sister then set a trap, giving those young cultivators some half-finished spells as small favors, making them realize the vastness of the cultivation world, and thus secretly recruiting them.

The scroll, like a vine, offered talented cultivators the opportunity to climb to the Xia Dynasty.

It's alright if you refuse. Although the semi-finished techniques bestowed by the Xia Yu Dynasty are called semi-finished products, their power is not weak at all; they are all excellent foundational Daoist traditions. Those cultivators with exceptional talent, once they use them, will naturally try their best to perfect these semi-finished Daoist traditions.

Perfecting a lineage requires a large amount of resources. While they are perfecting their lineage, the marks on the cultivators will also simultaneously benefit from the process of perfecting the lineage, thus achieving the result of draining resources from small and medium-sized forces.

The people of Xia Yu never did business at a loss; all gifts were secretly priced.

Otherwise, given the resources available to Emperor Yu of Xia, to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people in the Demon Suppression Division and the imperial court for Taoist magic, he would have had to expend an enormous amount of resources. Consequently, the intangible benefits available to the people, as well as the maintenance of daily necessities and the level of public security, would have declined.

The Xia Yu barbarians' worship of Wusheng Di was not limited to admiration for her power, but also stemmed from their aspiration for a higher standard of living for the people during her reign. The people believed that under Wusheng Di's leadership, they could live a comfortable life.

The common people don't care where the resources come from, and the Emperor of No Life doesn't care about living beings outside of his people.

The Xia Dynasty was consistently referred to as barbarians by leaders of the other four continents and four seas, and there was a reason for that.

The vampire tentacles spread so far that they were alarmingly long.

Of course, there are some things that Sister Xi'er will not tell Su Yan. The source and distribution of resources, as well as the dark side inside, are all hidden. The people and tourists only need to see the prosperous side of the Xia Yu Dynasty.

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While chatting with Sister Xi'er, Su Yan arrived at his destination, in front of the exhibition hall set up by the Weapon Sect.

Because it was still early and there were restrictions on the number of people, there weren't many people in the Qizong Exhibition Hall.

Elder Peach Blossom sat leisurely in her recliner, savoring freshly squeezed spiritual fruit juice. Her two disciples and other disciples of the Weapon Sect were carrying out routine maintenance on the exhibits and the weapons of the customers.

This scene inexplicably reminded Su Yan of the daily lives of graduate students and their supervisors.

"Senior Tao Hong".