Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 28
“800,000 once!”
“800,000 twice!”
“Bang!” The auctioneer brought down the hammer, excitedly saying, “Congratulations to this esteemed guest for successfully bidding on the fifth-grade spiritual artifact, the Evergreen Sword!”
Unlike Guan Luowei’s indifferent expression in the VIP room, Mu Yunze’s face below was ashen. But soon, he recovered, thinking it was probably just an accident.
“Next, we will be auctioning a sixth-grade pill, the Rejuvenating Pill… starting bid of 500,000 spirit stones! Each increase must be no less than 10,000 spirit stones!”
Hearing the name Rejuvenating Pill, Mu Yunze’s eyes flickered, and he followed the bid, “550,000!”
However, as soon as his voice fell, he heard the woman who had spoken earlier say again, “560,000.”
Mu Yunze’s expression changed slightly, and he gritted his teeth, “650,000!”
“660,000.”
“…”
Two other people also raised the price during this period. Mu Yunze gritted his teeth so hard they almost broke, and he said, “750,000!”
However, that voice remained calm, following his bid with, “760,000.”
As if to humiliate him, the woman’s voice always followed closely behind, and only increased the price by 10,000 more than his. Mu Yunze’s face was unsightly. Those who could sit above were all VIPs of Lingbao Pavilion. In other words, any of those people could make the cultivation world tremble with a casual stomp of their feet. How could such a big figure make things difficult for a “small fry” like him?
Mu Yunze didn’t speak again. In the end, the pot of pills was auctioned off to someone else for 780,000, with no one else competing. But Mu Yunze’s mood became even heavier because he was certain that that person was indeed targeting him.
So, in the subsequent auctions, no matter what was being auctioned, he would place a bid, hoping that the woman would realize he was doing it on purpose and stop when he really wanted to bid on something.
But the woman clearly had no such intention. Not only did she take everything, but even her voice remained faint, without the slightest fluctuation.
This also led to Mu Yunze not bidding on anything in most of the auction.
His face was gloomy, and a hint of sinister intent flashed in his eyes.
Soon, more than half of the auction had passed, and finally, the seventh-grade Yin-Yang Flower that Guan Luowei needed was presented.
“Next, we will be auctioning a peculiar flower, the seventh-grade Yin-Yang Flower… five million spirit stones! Each increase must be no less than one hundred thousand spirit stones!”
The seventh-grade Yin-Yang Flower was greatly beneficial to cultivation, but this kind of flower was extremely rare. It could only possibly bloom at the intersection of Yin and Yang in the far north or far south at a specific moment, and if it wasn’t picked and properly preserved within a quarter of an hour after blooming, it would wither, making it very rare.
The moment the auctioneer said its name, many people’s eyes lit up. The atmosphere at the auction reached a small climax.
Someone immediately raised the price, “Six million!”
“Six million five hundred thousand!”
“Seven million five hundred thousand!”
“…”
Guan Luowei quietly listened to the people below bidding, not participating in the competition. After a short while, only two bidders remained, and after one of them bid the astronomical price of “twelve million spirit stones,” the last person also fell silent.
The auctioneer’s face was about to cramp from smiling. Just as he was about to bring down the hammer, a faint female voice came from upstairs, “Fifteen million.”
The person who had bid earlier widened his eyes, cursed angrily, and sat down in fury. Even the auctioneer hadn’t expected such a pleasant surprise. What he didn’t expect even more was that after the woman made her bid, another man spoke up.
“Fifteen million and ten thousand.”
The bidder was naturally Mu Yunze. He saw the woman’s determination to win and, remembering the trouble she had caused him earlier, his desire for revenge arose.
Wasn’t it just following the bid? He could do that too.
The woman didn’t even pause upon hearing this and directly bid, “Twenty million.”
The people present took a deep breath. Who was this big shot? That was twenty million spirit stones! How could this woman say it so easily, as if it were just drinking plain water?
In the auction house, if you bid on an item but didn’t have the money to pay, you would be blacklisted by the auction house. Not only that, but you would also have to pay a penalty of 1% of the bid price to the auction house.
Mu Yunze knew this very well. The spirit stones he had were only slightly more than twenty million, so he only intended to bid one last time to make this woman bleed heavily.
Mu Yunze gritted his teeth and said in as calm a tone as possible, “Twenty million and ten thousand.”
After saying that, he stared intently at the stage.
However, until the auctioneer excitedly brought down the hammer to finalize the price, he didn’t hear the woman’s bid.
A buzzing sound filled his ears, and Mu Yunze’s brain crashed. He hadn’t expected this woman to not bid. He really wanted to stand up and question her, but this was the auction house. Not to mention the woman’s identity, if he made any unusual movements, the people at the auction house would be the first to not let him off.
Mu Yunze could only swallow his anger. Twenty million! Twenty million spirit stones could buy so many things, yet he ended up buying a broken flower! And it was even something he didn’t need right now!
Mu Yunze almost fainted. In the end, he didn’t even know how he walked out of the auction house and paid the twenty million spirit stones.
And Ling Chenyan in the VIP room was also dumbfounded. Mu Yunze had been scammed out of twenty million spirit stones just like that? And along with this thought arose another thought: how much money did the big villain actually have?
[System, I suddenly realized I’m really stupid.]
[How so?]
[The big villain is so rich, yet I was eagerly giving her all the treasures I found earlier. Won’t she think I’m stupid in her heart?]
[It is quite stupid, so I hope you can leave a little more for my share next time.]
Guan Luowei heard Ling Chenyan’s words without missing a single one. She suddenly turned her head to look at her and said, “Yin Ye, is there anything you want?”
Ling Chenyan came back to her senses and stammered, “I, me, ah, I don’t want anything.”
“Mm,” Guan Luowei nodded and said, “If there is anything you want, just tell me.”
Hearing the big villain’s arrogant tone, Ling Chenyan was momentarily speechless. She blinked her eyes and said, “Anything is okay?”
“Yes,” Guan Luowei gave her an affirmative answer.
“Okay! Thank you, Master!” Ling Chenyan grinned and said, “But I don’t have anything I want right now! If I do, I’ll tell you!”
Guan Luowei nodded, paused for a moment, and then said something out of the blue, “You are very smart, I… like it very much.”
After saying the last two words, Guan Luowei seemed to have used up all her strength, quickly glanced away and no longer looked at the silver sword. And Ling Chenyan, looking at the suspicious redness on Guan Luowei’s earlobes, was also a bit dumbfounded for a moment.
[System, did you hear what she just said?]
[Said you’re smart?]
[No! She said, she said she likes me?! I like her too! Doesn’t that mean we’re mutually in love!]
The system, hearing Ling Chenyan’s tone, knew exactly what kind of infatuated look she had right now. It shook its head helplessly. It also thought in its heart that Sword Sword’s personality was indeed quite likable, but it was an exception. At most, it didn’t dislike her, yes, that was it!
[System!]
[Hmm? What is it again?]
[Am I being kept? How exciting!]
[Where there’s one, there’s two. Be careful she keeps you and then goes and keeps a mistress.]
[The big villain wouldn’t keep a mistress, okay? Even if she did, I’d be the first wife!]
[…Whatever makes you happy.]
Guan Luowei, hearing Ling Chenyan say “mutually in love” in her mind, the corners of her lips slightly curled up, finding it a bit amusing. Her and a sword mutually in love?
But after a moment, the silver sword’s focus had already shifted from “like” to keeping a “mistress.” She ground her back teeth, thinking that once Yin Ye had a human form, she would definitely make her read more books.
Her mind was full of all sorts of nonsense.
••••
On the other side, Mu Yunze at this time held his storage bag with a blank expression, his eyes dull, his heart aching to the point of suffocation. Mu Yunze’s intestines were about to turn green with regret. He just didn’t understand what had happened to him just now. Competing with an unknown VIP was one thing, but he had actually wanted to trip the other party up.
He naturally didn’t understand that Guan Luowei had used demonic sound on him when she made her first bid, disturbing his mind and filling him with anger, thereby making him do irrational things.
What he thought was a momentary impulse was actually Guan Luowei’s carefully laid trap.
After leaving the auction house, Ling Chenyan slowly came back to her senses. “Master, we didn’t bid on the Yin-Yang Flower, so where should we go to find it? Could it be that we have to go to the far north and far south to wait now?”
Hearing this, Guan Luowei lightly glanced at her, a strange smile appearing at the corner of her lips. “No need, we’ll go borrow it.”
“Borrow?”
[Borrow?]
Ling Chenyan and the system both shivered simultaneously, instantly understanding Guan Luowei’s meaning. She, she was going to rob someone!
At night, Mu Yunze was cultivating when he suddenly felt that the surroundings were eerily quiet.
His keen intuition from his previous life told him that he was in trouble.
Suddenly opening his eyes, Mu Yunze saw a woman in a moon-white long dress, wearing a bamboo hat, slowly walking into his room.
Mu Yunze, having already prepared a killing move in his hand, asked vigilantly, “Who are you?”
Under Mu Yunze’s gaze, the woman walked towards him with light steps. With each step, the unfathomable pressure emanating from her made his muscles tense. Just as Mu Yunze couldn’t help but want to make the first move, the woman stopped three meters away from him.
“Hand over the Yin-Yang Flower.”
As soon as the woman spoke, Mu Yunze’s pupils shrank, and he looked at her with shock and fury, “It’s you?!”
He recognized it, this voice was the woman from the auction house today!
Guan Luowei didn’t deny it. Mu Yunze gritted his teeth, a ruthless look flashing in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, a box containing the Yin-Yang Flower appeared in his hand. “Alright, meeting you today is my bad luck, but dare you take off your hat…”
Before he could finish speaking, Guan Luowei suddenly made a move. Mu Yunze didn’t have time to dodge and was struck in the chest by this move, flying backward.
Guan Luowei caught the Yin-Yang Flower, opened it to take a look and confirm it was correct, then closed the box and turned to leave, leaving behind a sentence that almost made Mu Yunze spit bl00d.
“Too much nonsense.”
From arriving to leaving, it didn’t even take a minute.
Ling Chenyan swallowed her saliva and said, [The big villain seems to deeply understand the principle that ‘villains die from talking too much’.]
[Or maybe when dealing with Mu Yunze, she really doesn’t want to waste words.]
Mu Yunze lay on the ground for a long time before recovering. His gaze was sinister, almost dripping with bl00d. This time he came out, not only did he not buy anything he needed, but even the Yin-Yang Flower he had bought with all his spirit stones was snatched away.
Thinking about the misfortunes of the past few days, Mu Yunze’s eyes darkened, and he spat out another mouthful of bl00d, fainting again.
••••
The next day, before Guan Luowei went to find Master Guixu, Qingtan invited her to Lingbao Pavilion, requesting her to take a look at her younger sister first.
Her invitation was very urgent, as if something major had happened to Qinghan.
Guan Luowei also wanted to know what would happen to someone who had lost one of their three souls and seven spirits, so she followed the person who came to invite her.
After arriving at Lingbao Pavilion, the servant led her into a room and then bowed and withdrew.
Qingtan was sitting by the bed at this time, her charming and beautiful face full of anxiety, completely losing her previous dignified and proper demeanor. Seeing Guan Luowei arrive, she looked at her as if she had grasped a life-saving straw and said, “Miss Guan, please quickly take a look at my sister. She has been like this since last night.”
Qingtan moved aside, and Guan Luowei stepped forward and lifted the curtain. Only then did she see that Qinghan’s face was full of pain, covered in tears, as if she was being tormented.
Guan Luowei’s expression remained unchanged. She reached out, and demonic power gathered, slowly probing the young girl’s body.
After a long while, she released her hand. The expression on the young girl’s face also returned to normal, with no more crying or tears.
Seeing this, Qingtan was both happy and worried, asking anxiously, “Miss Guan, what happened to Hanhan?”
“This is good news, but it can also be considered bad news,” Guan Luowei said faintly. “The fact that she can have expressions means that the soul she lost is nearby. However, the fact that her expression was so painful and uneasy shows that the soul she lost is being tormented, and perhaps, there is even a risk of it dissipating completely.”
Qingtan’s face was full of joy when she heard the first sentence, but the second sentence struck her like a bolt from the blue.
Before she could speak, Guan Luowei turned to her, the corners of her lips curving into a mocking smile, “Miss Qingtan, are you truly unaware of where this soul is?”