“But there isn’t such a sword mentioned in Duen Fei’s autobiography, Sword God Biography.” Kam Chin Kee frowned.
“As you said, it’s an autobiography. The author would definitely boast about his powerful strength to improve his legacy. Why would he mention the sword and let the world know that his success is all thanks to the sword? It would be so embarrassing.”
“Right, there was a sentence in the book “For a hundred years, with a wooden sword in hand, I battled the world and became invincible.” Chui Yim suddenly recalled. “The world thought he had such power that a simple wooden stick was enough. But who would’ve thought that it was actually a godly sword!”
“Duen Fei’s most famous battle that earned him his title was when he defeated a five-chambered elite, the Eastern Wind Knife King, Lee Tung.” Chau Cheung sneered. “Everlasting wood has a special characteristic to absorb shocks, and it achieves immortality after turning a hundred years old. Nothing was able to destroy it. There were rumours that everlasting wood was just another form of heaven and earth. It would never perish, and the only way to destroy the wood was to ravage the world.
“Of course, this was an exaggeration, but its most powerful characteristic was its defence. Duen Fei received Lee Tung’s gliphility and attacks forcefully with his sword, counterattacking when he was exhausted. Without this godly sword, he wouldn’t have survived even three attacks from Lee Tung.”
“Since it’s such a great secret, how do you know about it?” Chui Yim clicked his tongue.
“I’m a businessman, so I need to be able to identify all forms of valuables, or it could become a great loss,” Chau Cheung laughed. “Duen Fei was the only four-chamber glipher to beat a senior cultivator in over a thousand years, and he shared this information accidentally when he got drunk during his celebration. Not many knew about this, but the everlasting wood became famous in some social circle.
“They had a tacit understanding to keep it a secret due to the ingredient’s rarity. Everyone hoped to secretly strike the jackpot. Even so, there’s only been a small amount of everlasting wood in circulation over the countless years.”
“That’s indeed quite a treasure.” Chui Yim turned to Kam Chin-Kee, who had excitement all over his face.
Puppets were mostly made of wood, and gliphic plants were once living things. This made it more suitable for a puppeteer to control than if they used metals or minerals that weren’t as spiritual as wood and gliphic plants. That was why Kam Chin Kee only used metal on certain areas of a puppet.There were puppet grades within the Thousand Mechanism Sect too. They were graded into heaven, earth, obsidian and amber in descending order. The blue wolf puppet Kam Chin Kee used previously to fight the giant demonic spider was only of the obsidian grade.
Despite his multiple lives, Kam Chin Kee had never built a heaven-grade puppet. It wasn’t due to the lack of skill but because it was near impossible to forge heaven-grade puppets. There were strict requirements for creating one, and being the highest grade of puppet; it needed to be mentally bonded with the puppeteer, even possibly sharing the same mind. Thus, it needed to be cultivated from amber grade, gradually maturing to the heaven grade.
Many in the Thousand Mechanism Sect couldn’t accept Kam Chin Kee for constantly choosing to create amber-grade puppets with his precious ingredients instead of many peak earth-grade puppets.
But Kam Chin Kee was unlike the others; he was born obsessed with puppets. It could be felt from his skills. Chui Yim could understand how he felt just from the passion burning in his eyes. He was the same, willing to sacrifice an arm just to cultivate a divine weapon successfully with his blood and flesh.
Chui Yim laughed bitterly as he shook his head.
The auction started in no time. Compared to when Kam Chin Kee sold his Ferocious Predatory Tiger, there were fewer white and yellow-grade guests, but there were about twenty red-grade private rooms, and almost all the black-grade rooms were lit up! This was because it was an internal auction today, and besides the special guests, the news wasn’t widely spread!
Chui Yim acquired many metals and minerals from the auction as well. As a fire forger, the variety of ingredients he owned represented the amount of gliph weapons he could forge. Very soon, they were auctioning the Thousand Mile Aroma.
“The next item is the Thousand Mile Aroma,” The elderly auctioneer below spoke in his low voice. “Thousand Mile Aroma, brewed by the Wine God, Tsui Tung Nuan. It’s centuries old, and a mysterious cultivator is only selling it because he urgently needs cultivation resources. Now, it’s said that there are less than ten jars of Thousand Mile Aroma left, and the consumption of one jar means one less in existence. The starting price is one hundred thousand taels; the bidding starts now.”
Madame Yuen watched the elder conduct the auction. The elder was an auctioneer that worked at the auction house for years. As an auction house that has been around South Imperial City for years, it has its strengths and reputation. Their guests today were all knowledgeable, and there wasn’t a need for any beautiful or handsome auctioneer. Instead, a well-informed auctioneer was the most suitable.
None of their guests today were idiots, and they wouldn’t bid impulsively, only according to their needs. Madame Yuen didn’t even blink when she heard that the bidding had reached 300000, as it was just a small deal for her. The actual treasure was the piece of everlasting wood. That was the auction house’s most important treasure since its inception! Even if the bid might not end up that surprising, many procedures were involved, and their staff had stayed up for almost a week just to settle the matters surrounding it.
To Madame Yuen, what bothered her the most was the invitation list for this auction. She looked down at her name list and was reminded of the mysterious teenage great master…But very soon, she shook her head. The everlasting wood made this auction of great importance, and many powers had paid the auction house to keep the news a secret. Under their joint pressure, they could only hide the news from a few black-grade members. Thus, she spent a lot of time choosing who to invite.
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