Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 807 - 807 0499 Still Falling for This Trick_2

Chapter 807: Chapter 0499 Still Falling for This Trick_2 Chapter 807: Chapter 0499 Still Falling for This Trick_2 In the blink of an eye, three days had passed, and the entire decaying mansion had been cleaned inside and out. Furthermore, Xiang Shuiliu and his team had even dug three feet into the ground to ensure that the previous owner hadn’t buried anything underneath.

Qi Tian was quite satisfied with the work of Xiang Shuiliu and his team. After they finished cleaning, Qi Tian generously gave them two extra days’ wages, delighting them greatly.

Looking at their reactions, Qi Tian couldn’t help but feel a pang of melancholy. The seven people’s labor, amounting to five hundred low-grade spirit stones a day, when converted to middle-grade spirit stones, was only five. This amount of spirit stones, even for Xiang Shuiliu alone to cultivate, might not be enough, yet they still had to share among several. This is, in fact, the most common situation in the Cultivation World. Back when he first started cultivating, he also had to vie with Zhao Qian for just a few low-grade spirit stones.

Despite his sentiments, Qi Tian had no intention of giving Xiang Shuiliu and the others a large amount of spirit stones. Favors for grain increase gratitude, favors for grain build resentment; he did not want to do a good deed and have it backfire. Besides, giving Xiang Shuiliu and his team too many spirit stones might not actually help them and could even end up harming them.

After sending Xiang Shuiliu and the others away, Qi Tian closed the Defensive Barrier again and stayed within the decaying mansion to carefully inspect the items they had helped him unearth over the past few days.

There were plenty of things, with three wooden boxes each the size of two suitcases. Starting with the first box, Qi Tian sifted through its contents but didn’t find anything of value. By now, Qi Tian’s knowledge was substantial enough that he wouldn’t fail to recognize something valuable when placed before his eyes.

Qi Tian began to inspect the second box, and still, he saw nothing valuable. Turning to the third box, the result was the same.

Qi Tian couldn’t help scratching his head in confusion. He thought for a moment, took out an empty Storage Bag, and not only did he put all three boxes into it, but he also collected everything from the decaying mansion—the broken walls and all—into the Storage Bag. He refused to believe that he couldn’t find anything valuable among these objects; if that was the case, he would simply have to find more people to help him look.

Qi Tian emerged from the decaying mansion to find the streets outside bustling with an unexpected liveliness. It turned out that the Wanjie Commerce’s auction of decaying mansions had already ended the day before, and the mansions that had been sold were all going through the cleaning phase. While a considerable number of these mansions held no value, some hid astonishing wealth. The cultivators who had managed to acquire these mansions would keep the valuable cultivation resources they needed and naturally wanted to sell the rest. Some set up stalls right outside the mansions and started selling directly.

One could say that these days were the best time for the entire Wanjie City to hunt for treasures and strike gold. Every time after the auction of decaying mansions, this was when all the city’s cultivators would come out, looking for cheap and good items.

A thought crossed Qi Tian’s mind, and he took out a flying sword, stepping on it and maintaining a low-altitude flight as he began weaving through the streets and alleys of Wanjie City, hoping to find some good deals.

Qi Tian specifically visited the streets he had not surveyed before the auction of decaying mansions. For those he had already checked, he knew well whether there were any good items, so there was no need to look again.

Not to say one wouldn’t find a good mansion at the auction, but it was certainly a rare occurrence. Qi Tian went through several streets in a row without encountering anything that piqued his interest.

Qi Tian couldn’t help but increase the speed of his flying sword. He had to speed up the process and get things done quickly because he also needed to hurry back to the Great Zhao Nation.

After much wandering, Qi Tian arrived in the block where Master Jianzhang’s decaying mansion was located. This was an area he had never visited before the auction started, but it was also where the competition for decaying mansions had been most fierce during the auction. Those who had successfully bid on the mansions here were typically from the most powerful forces in Wanjie City; even if the occasional one slipped through the net, the buyer would still be a notable figure in Wanjie City. Others either lacked the financial strength or were like Qi Tian, who, even having the capability, wouldn’t get involved aimlessly.

Of course, just because they didn’t vie for the ownership of these dead estates, it didn’t mean they weren’t envious of the treasures excavated from them. Therefore, over the next few days, these dead estates would become the most closely watched places by the cultivators of Wanjie City.

By this time, Qi Tian had changed his appearance and concealed his aura. He rode his flying sword, leisurely following the crowd as he entered the street where Master Jianzhang’s dead estate was located.

Before long, he followed the crowd and arrived in front of Master Jianzhang’s dead estate, where to his astonishment, he found that the place had essentially turned into an open-air market. Wanjie Commerce had set up over a dozen stalls there, selling a variety of items to the passing cultivators, covering all aspects needed for their cultivation.

The stalls offered tens of thousands of items, and many of them were new, clearly not dug out from Master Jianzhang’s dead estate. Yet they were openly sold here, and surprisingly enough, many cultivators were willing to pay, happily parting with their money under the pretense of wanting to share in Master Jianzhang’s good fortune.

Qi Tian immediately deployed the spiritual Qi sensing function of the Heavenly Dao Engine to cover the dozen or so stalls of Wanjie Commerce. He wanted to see if there was anything he could use, and if there was, he would purchase it.

However, Qi Tian quickly realized that there was nothing here that caught his eye, and even if there was, the prices were higher than the usual selling prices in Wanjie Commerce. Wanjie Commerce was clearly treating the passing cultivators like cash cows to be milked.

Qi Tian shook his head, then without looking back, he rode his flying sword away and continued toward his next target. Not long after, Qi Tian arrived at another dead estate, and to his surprise found that the situation here was not much different from that at Master Jianzhang’s place—with over a dozen stalls in front of the dead estate, selling all sorts of items.

The only difference was that over at Master Jianzhang’s dead estate it was Wanjie Commerce in charge, while here it was another power from Wanjie City. At first, Qi Tian didn’t pay much attention, but he quickly spotted a familiar face.

A thought struck Qi Tian, and he followed the flow of people until he was in front of that familiar face. He squatted in front of the stall and picked up an item, pretending to examine it.

The female cultivator guarding the stall glanced at Qi Tian but said nothing.

Qi Tian carefully surveyed the surroundings, then used the Heavenly Dao Engine to sense the spiritual Qi around him, confirming that nothing untoward would happen before he secretly communicated to the female cultivator manning the stall, “Sister Liu Yan, it’s me.”

The woman guarding the stall was none other than Huang Liuyan. Huang Liuyan was startled and looked around; she had not expected that the Qi Tian transmitting the message to her was right in front of her eyes.

Qi Tian couldn’t help but find it amusing as he said, “Stop looking, Sister Liu Yan, I’m right in front of you.”

Huang Liuyan then focused on Qi Tian, who playfully winked at her. Seeing Qi Tian, whose temperament and appearance had greatly changed, Huang Liuyan almost cried out in shock.