Chapter 71: Auction (Seeking Collection and Recommendation Support)

  The second floor of Zhaojia Town's Arms Store, a bright and cheerful middle-aged man looked about 50-60% like Zhao Zhengfeng.

  "How did you get here? Shouldn't you be in school?" Zhao Feihu asked curiously.

  "Fourth Uncle, I met a new spiritual tool master at school and bought nearly a hundred pieces of military equipment from him. Take a look. Some of them are auction items." Zhao Zhengfeng handed over a storage ring to Zhao Feihu.

  "Oh?" Zhao Feihu's tone was slightly delighted, and he took the ring to examine it carefully. Inside, there were indeed several decent third-grade military weapons.

  After carefully checking and verifying, Zhao Feihu's face showed a clear joy, opening his mouth to say: "Very good, this is excellent. Although the work of this spiritual tool master does not have too many bright spots, the quality is indeed very good. The attributes of these auction items are quite excellent, it can be seen that this spiritual tool master has great talent. Can you bring him to our family?"

  "This won't work, I've tried many times already and he's clearly refused. However, this new spiritual master is indeed very formidable, my war knife was personally forged by him." Zhao Zhengfeng handed over his own war knife.

  "Huh? It seems that this person is indeed not simple, the Linghuo's consumption of spiritual energy is a weapon that ordinary spiritual instrument masters can't refine." Zhao Feihu said in surprise.

  The most valuable thing about a weapon, apart from its quality and gold content, is its effectiveness. For example, in battle, the most practical attribute is the reduction of spiritual consumption. To forge such an attribute requires the spiritual instrument master to have a deep understanding of "Energy Circuit Studies". Apart from spiritual consumption, the most important thing about a spiritual instrument is actually its built-in secret technique. "Energy Circuit Studies" is indeed difficult to learn, but if a spiritual instrument master really puts in the effort to study it, they can still achieve something. However, "Sealing Studies" and "Law Secret Pattern Studies" are different, and it's not that a spiritual instrument master will definitely be able to achieve something just by putting in the effort. This field of study requires a certain level of intuition about the laws.

  Yellow-grade secret techniques are nothing to worry about, they're not complicated to use. However, Xuan-grade and Earth-grade secret techniques above that level are almost impossible to release instantly. If a weapon comes with such high-level secret techniques, just imagine during battle, the enemy needs three seconds to use a powerful technique, while you can activate it in an instant - how great would your advantage be?

  At the same time, only with a deep understanding of "Law Secret Pattern" can one refine spiritual tools above grade 5; otherwise, one will be stuck at the spiritual tool master stage and cannot reach the level of spiritual tool grandmaster.

  Yang Tong's true strength actually lies not in "Energy Circuit Studies", but in "Seal Studies" and "Talismanic Pattern Studies"!

  However, the spiritual tools of third and fourth grade are actually very difficult to carry out the secret techniques above Xuan grade, because the grade is not up to standard and the quality is insufficient.

  So, Yang Tong practiced until the time when the probability of producing high-quality golden equipment during his refinement reached over 80%, only then did he have the qualification to refine the ultra-extreme grade among low-grade spiritual artifacts.

  These top-grade spiritual artifacts were naturally refined for himself. During the foundation-building period, Yang Tong could only use flying swords in conjunction with the "Sword Controlling Technique", and then a large number of yellow and mysterious level spells.

  Yang Tong wanted to refine a flying sword that could seal the Xuan-level spell, so it could be used in conjunction with the Sword Controlling Technique to kill enemies and release the spell within.

  Two months later, Yang Tong received an invitation from Zhao Zhengfeng, asking him to attend the auction.

  Yang Tong thought for a moment and refused to attend in person, but he could participate in the auction through holographic virtual network.

  To access the external network at school, an application needs to be submitted to the school authorities. Yang Tong found Director Huang to apply and used his privilege to pass the application, allowing him to access the external network in his dormitory and participate in the auction held in Luoxing City. Fortunately, the auction was held in the city; if it were held in a rural market, Yang Tong would not have been able to participate remotely through the holographic virtual network. Because while "video phones" are available in rural markets, they do not support large-scale holographic virtual networking.

  The auction began, and the scene in Yang Tong's dormitory living room changed instantly. Yang Tong seemed to be in a private room.

  Just then, the auctioneer walked onto the auction stage and said solemnly, "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Zhao's Auction House. Now, please put up the first item for auction in this session."

  A maid walked up to the front with a tray covered in red cloth and placed it on the auction table.

  "Alright, those familiar with our auction house know that we have a unique way of doing things. We will be placing the climax items at the beginning, middle and end of the three time segments for bidding. And this is our first climax item..." The auctioneer lifted the red cloth to reveal a black gold short sword on the tray.

  "It is well-known that a sword is a light weapon, and to forge a practical and top-grade spiritual sword is not an easy task. This golden spiritual sword was crafted by a newly promoted spiritual artifact master, with its body covered in sharp secret runes, which not only enhance its sharpness but also come with a auxiliary yellow-grade high-level secret technique, Exploding Spirit Technique. When activated, its sharpness can pierce through any three-star defensive battle armor. This is a rare and precious armor-piercing divine weapon. The starting price is 80 million spiritual coins, and each bid must be at least 100,000 spiritual coins higher than the previous one. Now, let the auction begin!"

  Yang Tong was somewhat unexpected, because this sword was one of the several golden weapons he had taken out for auction at the beginning, and unexpectedly the first piece was this sword.

  This sword is Yang Tong's trial work. With the quality of this weapon, it can barely seal a mid-level yellow-grade secret technique, but Yang Tong actually sealed a high-level yellow-grade secret technique with his own unique method. It can be said that this weapon has great collection value and practical value.

  Burst Spirit Technique, instantly releases the spiritual power of the input weapon to more than double its original power. When combined with a sharp and permanent enhanced sword, it can pierce through all defensive spirit equipment of the same level. Even four-star white silver-level defensive spirit equipment has a risk of being broken through.

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  "Two billion one hundred million!"

  "Two billion thirty million!"

  The bidding quickly reached over 200 million. Yang Tong was stunned and thought that there were indeed many rich people.

  Yang Tong wasn't quite clear about the average level of weapons in Luoxing City. Three-star spiritual artifacts, with a quality as high as gold, were not uncommon. What was unusual was whether the sealed secret techniques were practical and whether their rank was high enough.

  Ordinary three-star golden weapons can seal some quite practical yellow-grade intermediate secret techniques, which can already be sold for hundreds of millions. High-ranking and top-ranking yellow-grade secret techniques are mostly symbols of four-star spiritual artifacts.

  Now this three-piece golden weapon, with a very practical and difficult-to-seal explosive spirit technique, naturally caused a stir. This black gold short sword is itself a cross-level extreme treasure that transcends grade limits. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been chosen as the final auction item.

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