Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 798 - 798 0495 Cleaning Your House for Free

Chapter 798: Chapter 0495: Cleaning Your House for Free Chapter 798: Chapter 0495: Cleaning Your House for Free Chapter 0495: Clearing Your Mansion For Free

Although this auction of haunted mansions is hosted by Wanjie Commerce, Wanjie Commerce does not gain any preferential buying right in this event. For the haunted mansions that the commerce sees as promising, Wanjie Commerce also needed to bid for them through its representatives. As a result, many Gold Core Elders like Liang Yuqi and Wan Xiaolan were appointed by the senior executives of Wanjie Commerce. Each of them is responsible for at least bidding on one haunted mansion. For them, this was a task. Completing tasks came with rewards, while not completing them might not necessarily result in punishment; however, it would definitely be unfavorable in terms of their future assessments by the commerce.

At this point, for Wan Xiaolan to complete the task, he had to dig into his own pockets to fill the gap. If this gap were smaller, amounting only to a few thousand middle-grade spirit stones, Wan Xiaolan could grit his teeth and provide it. He could even afford ten times this amount by tightening his belt. The problem is that the gap is too big. Filling it could seriously hurt him. The rewards he would get after the event would be far less than this amount. Whatever the case, he could not afford it, and he could only watch as the only haunted mansion he was responsible for bidding on slipped from his grasp.

Among the several Gold Core Realm powerhouses in the booth, none of them intended to help Wan Xiaolan. They also had their tasks, and they were competing with Wan Xiaolan. If they were to help Wan Xiaolan, enabling him to successfully complete his task, while they failed to complete their own tasks, it would be disadvantageous for them. There were only a few cultivators who would do such a thing that would harm themselves for the benefit of others.

Qi Tian was also not inclined to help Wan Xiaolan. Strictly speaking, he and Wan Xiaolan used each other. This time, Wan Xiaolan trapped Qi Tian in the Wanjie Commerce’s booth, which greatly restricted Qi Tian’s freedom to act and caused him many losses.

Of course, if it was convenient to lend Wan Xiaolan a hand, Qi Tian would not refuse. But like right now, where he would have to put out several hundred thousands or even one million middle-grade spirit stones, Qi Tian would not bother seeking trouble for himself.

The auction for the haunted mansions continued. After the unsuccessful bidding of Wan Xiaolan, a few more haunted mansions quickly took the stage, each sparking an intense struggle.

After consecutively auctioning ten haunted mansions, Huang Lulu once again went down to rest, replaced by Zheng Jianwei.

During Zheng Jianwei’s tenure, Qi Tian bought another haunted mansion. He had previously examined this mansion, and it had no investment value. Given the price Qi Tian paid – over two million lower grade spirit stones, so long as he could retrieve 20% of his investment, it would be considered good. Despite knowing this, Qi Tian still bought it. He was still setting off more smoke bombs.

Zheng Jianwei hosted the auction for fifty haunted mansions in total. Occasionally throughout, Qi Tian would bid, but he no longer showed determination to win at any cost. During this period, a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage from the same box made a move and successfully bid for a haunted mansion. However, he was purchasing it for personal investment. It had nothing to do with Wanjie Commerce.

After Zheng Jianwei, Huang Lulu came to the stage again. This time she directly brought up a tide she had never seen before and brought out a haunted mansion that everyone considered the most valuable. The reason this mansion earned unanimous praise from everyone and was seen as the best investment is very simple – it was left behind by a Nascent Soul Master, universally acknowledged in Wanjie City as one of the most promising.

The Nascent Soul Master, known as Master Jianzhang, traveled over a hundred years ago. At the time, he left a word to the city, stating that he would keep his travels within a hundred years. If he had not returned after the hundred years, he would allow his house to be auctioned off as a haunted mansion.

Master Jianzhang had descendants in Wanjie City, not only disciples and grand-disciples, but also his own children. He owned more than one mansion. Apart from the one being auctioned off, the rest was all in the possession of his family. As the houses were inhabited, they would not be auctioned off as haunted mansions.

Master Jianzhang had an illustrious reputation in Wanjie City. When he was leaving, he was already one of the top five experts in the city. This haunted mansion was his residence before he ascended to the Nascent Soul Realm. After ascending to the Nascent Soul Realm, he moved out. Given this history, it was rumored throughout Wanjie City that Master Jianzhang’s secrets to ascending to the Nascent Soul Realm were hidden within the mansion. If someone could dig out these secrets, another Nascent Soul Realm master might emerge in Wanjie City.

The number of Nascent Soul Realm masters in Wanjie city were few and far between, while the population of those whose cultivation levels were half a step weaker than or a full step weaker than the Nascent Soul Realm, the Half-step Nascent Soul, and the Peak Gold Core Realm cultivators were much greater. There were hundreds of times more of these cultivators than Nascent Soul Realm masters, amounting to several thousand individuals. They were stuck at the stage before ascending to the Nascent Soul Realm, having spent countless years there. Hope was scarce in their eyes, and the frustration was intense. If they could acquire this house, they might be able to break through the bottleneck, causing them to become one of the top figures in Wanjie City overnight. Their clan or their sect’s power would swell immensely, maybe allowing them to rise to become a top force in Wanjie City overnight.