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Chapter 6

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While they were discussing the arrangements regarding their marriage, the auction was proceeding smoothly outside their room.

Wen Qiao lifted her head and looked through the wall of crystal mosaics, she could observe the situation on the centre stage.

There was a beautiful girl with the cultivation rank of Yuan Ming Realm standing on the stage, who had a graceful and charming figure. While she was explaining the main features of each item, her soft voice was filled with incentives, which could easily influence people’s decision to purchase. And now, she was briefing a type of defensive spiritual weapon that looked like a piece of jade, and it was said that it could defend against attacks from a Yuan Wu Realm cultivator.

The appearance of the defensive jade caused an enormous sensation, the cultivators who attended the event actively took part in the auction which caused the price to rise.

Wen Qiao was not interested in the auction, she took a glance and stopped looking.

When their conversation came to the end, Ning Yu Zhou handed the list of products sold in the auction to her and asked in a warm voice, “Are there any items you are interested in?”

It listed various types of items from the Ling Xu Pavillion, including amulets, arrays and spiritual herbs except for the last three items.

Wen Qiao shook her head and replied honestly, “I don’t have any Spirit Crystals.”

Ning Yu Zhou couldn’t help but smile, “I have, tell me if there are any items you’re interested in.”

Was he planning to send her a gift? Wen Qiao blinked her eyes, drank the cup of tea slowly, thinking even if he had it, how many Spirit Crystals could a mortal who was unable not cultivate possess? Maybe it was given to him by Emperor Cheng Hao.

Ning Yu Zhou saw through her thoughts easily and smiled once again, “You are my fiancée.”

Wasn’t it normal for a fiancé to send a gift to his fiancée?

Wen Qiao knew his words were fair, but she still shook her head after looking through the items.

The items put up for auction in the Ling Xu Pavilion were top-notch and expensive. Due to her low cultivation level, these items were not useful to her, just as employing a steam engine to crack a nut.

Although Ning Yu Zhou was being refused directly by her, he was not angry, he looked at her gently and waited as he would immediately buy her the item she wanted.

They sat for a while, but Wen Qiao didn’t see any items she was eager to buy.

Until the last three items.

The emcee of the auction, a female Yuan Ming Realm cultivator, was holding a jade dish with an oval-shaped item that looked like a finger thumb of an adult. It was black-golden with a light metallic lustre. Its cold metallic appearance stood up in relief against the white jade dish.

Wen Qiao can’t help but move her body forward to have a look.

As if understanding something, Ning Yu Zhou took his eyes off her concentrated expression and looked at the item placed on the white jade dish.

“This seed was from an ancient site, our appraiser identified it as a seven-term seed of a spiritual plant, but unfortunately we can’t identify its breed and function. If there’s anyone interested, the price starts from One Yuan Bead.”

After the female emcee finished her words, some people started bidding.

However, the buyers were not as enthusiastic as they were in the previous bidding sessions, they weren’t foolish, although it was said that this was a precious seven-term seed of a spiritual plant. But now it was still a seed, no one knew whether it could grow or not.

The Ling Xu Pavillion was an outstanding place; the cap off items in the auction were usually unique but not valuable items. The more unique the item, the later it would be placed in the sequence.

It was said that the Ling Xu Pavilion had made a mistake in the past, once there was an item that looked like a mysterious treasure map and many people participated in the bidding session. At last, a family bought it at a high price. But when the family solved the clues in the map and headed to do a treasure hunt, they found out it was just a habitat of a King realm beast. It caused the family to suffer a huge loss and embarrassment.

The best situation would be if there were people able to identify the value of these unique items.

The Ling Xu Pavillion utilized the psychology of people who were greedy for advantages; this influenced the price cap of the item.

Just like the unknown seven-term spiritual seed, the Ling Xu Pavillion promoted it as a seed of an unknown ancient spiritual plant to attract attention.

No one knew whether it could be cultivated or not, and after the cultivation, how long it would take to grow until it could be used as medicine.

Wen Qiao was still staring at the seed.

“You liked it?” Ning Yu Zhou asked.

Wen Qiao replied to him with a soft “En” without any further explanations.

Ning Yu Zhou understood the situation after he recalled the rumours about her preferences in his mind.

Lastly, the unknown seven-term seed was sold out at the price of One Thousand Yuan Crystals.

In the Tanglin Kingdom, One Thousand Yuan Crystals was not a small amount, but it was still an affordable amount to the aristocratic families, it was cheaper compared to the deal price of some defensive spiritual weapons sold in the previous bidding sessions.

As expected, people were not determined to buy items with an unspecified value.

The crew of Ling Xu Pavillion continued the bidding session with another item.

Wen Qiao took another sip of tea and hid the sense of loss in her heart.

She wanted to buy the seed, maybe it was because her half-demon blood made her interested in plants. When she saw the seed, she wished to possess it.

But, she didn’t mind that she was unable to have it.

She thought the flower pots of the five potted spiritual plants at the window should be changed.

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After the auction, they agreed on a date for their marriage.

Next, Ning Yu Zhou left together with Wen Qiao.

Lian Yue followed them, secretly peeping at the Seventh Prince who was walking together with her lady in front of her, and also the fiancé of her lady.

Ning Yu Zhou sent his fiancée to the beast carriage and stopped outside the Ling Xu Pavillion.

He lifted his head to look at his little fiancée who was sitting in the carriage and said, “Miss Wen, after I clarify the situation to Father Emperor, the betrothal gifts will be sent to the Wen family.”

Lian Yue was shocked together with the imperial bodyguard and the eunuch after listening to his words.

Betrothal gifts? What betrothal gifts?

Wen Qiao slightly nodded her head, since it was decided by their parents, she wouldn’t oppose their marriage even if there were problems.

Ning Yu Zhou smiled at her, his eyes were as bright as shining stars, and Wen Qiao was dazzled by his beautiful eyes.

Then, she saw Ning Yu Zhou give her a white jade box as he said softly, “Today I’ve used your time, this is a gift for our first meeting, be careful while going back.”

Wen Qiao took a glance at the white jade box and dumbly received, “Thank You.”

“No need to thank me, you are my fiancée, you deserve it.”

“En.” Wen Qiao looked at his debonair face, she had no idea how to answer him.

Lian Yue felt worried while she was watching them.

The Seventh Prince was not merely with a good look, but also had a good temper, as he sent gifts to her lady, he was entirely perfect. On the other hand, wasn’t her lady’s response too cold? Even though due to her weak constitution, she rarely communicated with others and her personality was not particularly good during conversation, she should talk more to her fiancé.

While Ning Yu Zhou was helping her to get up the carriage and gave her the white jade box, the Wen Family was leaving the Ling Xu Pavillion and saw the whole incident.

The reason Wen Zhong Qing brought the younger disciples to the auction was to let them experience the outside world, the Wen family also bought a few items. Wen Mei and Wen Xian got an item each, and they were very happy.

But the ladies never thought that they would see the Seventh Prince, who was rumoured to be unable to cultivate, and was sending his fiancée a gift while they were leaving the Ling Xu Pavillion.

Frankly, no one could compare with the Seventh Prince, he was stunning in his looks and had an outstanding personal quality, his only weakness was his inability to cultivate. Although they were female cultivators, they admired Wen Qiao who was being treated sincerely by the Seventh Prince.

It was a pity that the Seventh Prince was a waste cultivator and unable to cultivate.

Wen Xian sighed with emotion in her heart and looked at Wen Qiao with a pathetic look in her eyes.