Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 799 - 799 0495 Cleaning Your House for Free_2

Chapter 799: Chapter 0495: Cleaning Your House for Free_2 Chapter 799: Chapter 0495: Cleaning Your House for Free_2 This forbidden house was too important, every major power in Wanjie City wanted to have it, and also didn’t want it to fall into the hands of the other powers. Consequently, they had prepared an abundance of spirit stones for the auction and deployed a large number of people to guard the exterior of the house day and night, in case someone disregards the rules of Wanjie City, breaks the restrictions of the forbidden house ahead of time, and pilfers everything inside.

As Huang Lulu announced the street number of this forbidden house, Liang Yuqi immediately straightened her back. She was given orders by the high-ranking officials of Wanjie City to acquire this forbidden house at all costs.

Qi Tian knew he didn’t have any chance with this forbidden house. He indeed had the wealth to purchase it, but that would mean using top-grade spirit stones or even top-grade spirit stones. If he were to use only middle-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones, he’d fall short. If he brought out top-grade spirit stones or exclusive spirit stones, he would probably not even be able to leave this private box of Wanjie Commerce.

Qi Tian could only be a silent observer, at most, emulating the other Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators in the box. Following each new high price announced by Liang Yuqi, he would express admiration.

The competition was fiercer than ever before. In a short while, someone had raised the price to 10 million middle-grade spirit stones, but this price merely eliminated less than one-third of the competition. There were still hundreds of people in the auction competing.

Qi Tian waited for more than half an hour. When the competition finally ended, Liang Yuqi, representing Wanjie Commerce, won with a sky-high price of 99,990,000 middle-grade spirit stones and bought the forbidden house.

When Huang Lulu struck the gavel, the audience broke into applause. One part was congratulating Liang Yuqi for winning the auction for the forbidden house, and perhaps the Wanjie Commerce would have another Nascent Soul Master in the future. On the other hand, the high price fetched by the forbidden house auction would benefit every cultivator present. A significant part of the auction proceeds would go towards the maintenance of Wanjie City. The more spirit stones raised in the auction, the more beautiful and large Wanjie City would be built in the future.

After a long period of bidding, Liang Yuqi felt somewhat depleted. She rested for a moment, recovering her energy. Afterwards, she stood up and asked, “I should go take a look at the forbidden house now. Would anyone like to join me?”

Some people immediately stood up. Liang Yuqi was a master of Gold Core Stage Level 6 and held a high position in Wanjie Commerce. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been given such an important task. Now that she was going to the forbidden house to take charge and clean up, those who followed and helped could certainly make a good impression on her.

Almost everyone in the box raised their hands. Qi Tian was one of the few cultivators and the only one at the Foundation Establishment Stage who did not raise their hand. The other few who didn’t raise their hands were the Gold Core Realm strong cultivators of Wanjie Commerce.

Liang Yuqi immediately noticed Qi Tian. She had some impression of him. Besides, not too long ago, Qi Tian had successively bought three forbidden houses. She wasn’t as successful as him. It would be hard for her to not notice him.

“Qi Tian, don’t you want to help me?” Liang Yuqi asked, looking at Qi Tian.

Qi Tian quickly replied, “Elder Liang, you misunderstood. How can I not want to help you? I just feel that my abilities are limited, and I wouldn’t be of much help. You don’t need to go through the trouble of considering me.”

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Liang Yuqi’s mouth. It was unclear what she meant by her smile. She said,”No, you’ve got it wrong. The others may not be able to help me, but I’m sure you can. So, while the others can choose not to go, you must accompany me.”

“Can I refuse? Wasn’t it Elder Wan who called me here? Shouldn’t I help whoever called me?” Qi Tian still wanted to plead for himself. He wanted to stay at the auction. He still hadn’t secured the two targeted forbidden houses. If he missed the later auctions, he would regret it terribly.

Liang Yuqi glanced at Wan Xiaolan and asked, “Wan Xiaolan, do you mind if I borrow Qi Tian for a while?”

Wan Xiaolan didn’t dare to refuse Liang Yuqi and hurriedly said, “Of course, that’s not a problem. Qi Tian, the auction I was responsible for has already failed. If there are no special circumstances, I don’t need your help anymore. You should go with Elder Liang. Otherwise, you won’t be able to clear the debt you owe to our Wanjie Commerce.”

Hearing this, Qi Tian could only nod his head. Who he owed a favor to, he dared not owe a favor to such a large power like Wanjie Commerce. If he couldn’t clear this favor this time, who knows how it would snowball in the future.

Liang Yuqi nodded satisfiedly. She picked a few more people, then took Qi Tian and the others out of the box, leaving the auction.

Once they got outside the auction, Liang Yuqi waved her hand and released a flying artifact, a fan. She jumped onto the fan, then let Qi Tian and the others come up. Afterward, she formed a spirit rune, and the fan carried them towards Master Jianzhang’s haunt.

Liang Yuqi’s fan was not very fast. During the flight, Liang Yuqi sent out several Message Paper Cranes, and soon after, she received replies in return. After reading all of the return messages, one by one, she frowned and thought for a while. Suddenly she turned around and looked at Qi Tian, saying, “We still have some time. Qi Tian, I just remembered, as we fly past the haunt you bid for at the auction, why don’t we use this free time to take a look? I’ll clean the house for you free of charge, and won’t take a single spirit stone from you, how about that?”

Qi Tian wanted to say “no need,” but seeing Liang Yuqi’s unquestionable attitude, he knew he could not refuse. He could only squeeze out a smile and said, “I’m just afraid that the house I bid for will greatly disappoint a great expert like you after you see it.”

Liang Yuqi laughed, “What would I be disappointed about? It wasn’t my money anyway. But if we do find treasures in your haunt, you will have to treat us.”

Seeing that Qi Tian didn’t object, Liang Yuqi controlled the fan to turn around and headed towards the haunt that Qi Tian had just won in the bidding. She didn’t even ask Qi Tian for the address of the haunt and accurately landed them right there.

Seeing the haunt that Liang Yuqi had chosen, Qi Tian’ s uneasy heart calmed down. He had won three haunts in total. One was very valuable, one had unknown value since he hadn’t had time to check beforehand, and the last one, which he had just won at the most recent auction, had almost no value at all after he checked it.

The one Liang Yuqi chose was the least valuable of them all. Qi Tian took out the deed and the proof provided by Wanjie Commerce than he had just received and handed them to a cultivator guarding the haunt. After the guard checked everything carefully, he took out a token, pressed it against the barrier outside the haunt, making it disappear instantly. He then revealed an Array Disk and Array Flags, took them and left.

An old haunt appeared. It was easy to see the walls had several collapses, and the courtyard overgrown with weeds and houses fallen in.

Liang Yuqi raised an eyebrow, then waved her hand and said to the cultivators who had come with her, “What are you standing around for? Quickly go help Qi Tian clean up this haunt.”

The cultivators were somewhat reluctant, but it was Liang Yuqi’s order so none of them dared to disobey. They could only go inside the haunt and begin their cleanup.

Liang Yuqi stood outside the haunt watching Qi Tian and the others clean up. From start to finish, Liang Yuqi didn’t lift a finger.

Qi Tian and the others cleaned up quickly. The results were the same as when Qi Tian used the Heavenly Dao Engine to scan for Spirit Qi earlier–they didn’t clean up anything valuable. The only thing of value was an empty storage bag.