Chapter 2166: Chapter 2166 Sacrificial Lamb
Ye Liuyun ignored him and returned to the Xuankong Stone to refine the Divine Blood Fruit in him. He let his clone take his place. He also took the opportunity to take the two Body Refining Pills that Shi Lianfu bade earlier.
The bidding for the final Divine Blood Fruit auction was just as he thought. There was an intense competition and the price rose steadily. The price hit 27 million High-grade Spirit Crystals after a few rounds of bidding.
Moreover, several major forces were still increasing the price by five hundred thousand each time, showing no signs of slowing down.
"Master is so brilliant!" Shi Lianfu repeatedly praised him from the side.
"Shut up and stop the flattering. Don’t speak unless I tell you to!"
Ye Liuyun interrupted him, afraid that he might slip up in front of others.
"Yes sir!" Shi Lianfu agreed, albeit reluctantly.
He liked being fawned over by others but found it didn’t work with Ye Liuyun.
"That damned Xue Li, let’s see how you end up later!" Shi Lianfu was still cursing Xue Li discreetly.
Earlier, he had been so focused on the auction and being suppressed by Ye Liuyun’s divine Soul power. He was terrified and didn’t get a clear look at Ye Liuyun’s appearance. He even thought it was Xue Li who had attacked him with Divine Soul.
Ye Liuyun didn’t correct him either. He thought it was even better for him to think it was Xue Li. So that if he was exposed in the future, suspicion wouldn’t fall on Ye Liuyun.
"30 million! Anyone willing to bid above 30 million High-grade Spirit Crystals?"
At this moment, the voice of the host once again echoed. The price of the second Divine Blood Fruit had escalated to 30 million.
"If I had known the price would go this high, I would have bid the previous one!"
Some of the martial practitioners who intended to participate in the auction were already beginning to regret it.
Compared to the price of 23 million offered by Ye Liuyun earlier, some were disheartened and gave up completely.
In the end, only martial practitioners from three other private rooms were still bidding.
One of them was a representative of the Zhongxing Dynasty. They were only following the craze to drive up the price, so they wouldn’t be making any more advance bidding.
Of the two remaining, one was a powerful Regalty force and the other was a local major power. The martial practitioners of the Zhongxing Dynasty were fixated on these two factions.
Finally, the Divine Blood fruit was won by the local major power for a high price of 35 million, eliciting sighs from numerous martial practitioners.
The martial practitioner of the Zhongxing dynasty set their sights on the local major power.
The auction came to a complete end with the Alliance of Merchants reaping a huge profit. Whether Ye Liuyun could gain the Divine Blood fruit wasn’t their concern.
They had provided him the opportunity. If he failed, he could only blame it on his incapability.
When the auction was over, everyone left the Alliance of Merchants’ auction venue.
Ye Liuyun noticed that someone was tailing them.
The Zhongxing Dynasty wanted to see if they would negotiate with outsiders and resell the Divine Blood fruit.
However, until Shi Lianfu and others returned to the inn, they didn’t see them interact with anyone.
Once Ye Liuyun returned to the inn, he sent the Ninth Realm guards into the Spatial World and then told Shi Lianfu to return to his room.
Wrapping himself in the Concealcape, he rushed to the Conveyor Formation.
However, when he arrived, he found that the Conveyor Formation had stopped the passage to the foreign race battlefield, stating that it was under maintenance.
Moreover, around the Conveyor Formation, there were many experts hidden in every corner, indicating that the Zhongxing Dynasty was expecting someone to use the Conveyor Formation to escape.
Ye Liuyun thought for a while. If he were to leave Tredgeroh City now, it would take him more than ten days to rush to the nearest Lacoastal City. By then, his connection with Shi Lianfu would be discovered.
By then, the Conveyor Formation in Lacoastal City might also be closed.
Here in Tredgeroh City, as long as this wave of unrest passed, the Conveyor Formation should be reopened.
Therefore, he did not leave Tredgeroh City, nor did he reveal himself. He found a corner and waited in hiding.
The people of the Zhongxing Dynasty began to take action. They captured Shi Lianfu and another martial practitioner who had bought the Divine Blood Fruit.
Ye Liuyun controlled Shi Lianfu, not letting him reveal that he was under control. He should tell them that the Divine Blood Fruit had been consumed by him.
When the martial practitioners of the Zhongxing Dynasty made their move, Shi Lianfu’s guards did not dare to resist. Besides, they were unable to fight them off.
Those martial practitioners from the Zhongxing Dynasty did not notice that there had been two guards missing from his entourage.
Shi family’s guards were told to return to Lacoastal City on their own and inform the Shi family. If Shi Lianfu was innocent, they would release him.
Shi Lianfu and the other person were immediately taken back to Regalty for interrogation. But the martial practitioners in ambush had not yet retreated.
As it turned out, both individuals were suspicious.
Both claimed to have taken the Divine Blood Fruit, but neither did.
The Zhongxing Dynasty did not hesitate to conduct a soul search on them.
However, the result of the soul search was that both of them were controlled by someone else.
The individuals controlling were none other than Ye Liuyun in Xue Li’s form and, surprisingly, Mo Shaowen from the Fairy Clan.
Upon learning the news, Mo Shaowen wanted to do Ye Liuyun a favor, as a way to repay Ye Liuyun for saving his life back then.
He happened to be in Tredgeroh, laying low even before the news broke out. As soon as the information spread, he started manipulating a local force. His actions preceded Ye Liuyun’s by quite a lot, indicating a premeditated plan.
Besides, the moment he got the Divine Blood Fruit, he immediately left the city, unlike Ye Liuyun who was still hiding within the city walls.
However, Ye Liuyun was oblivious to these circumstances. He noticed that the hidden martial practitioner within the city had regained their anxious state and started searching around again.
Ye Liuyun thought Shi Lianfu’s cover must’ve been blown, which was why they were hunting him down.
The Zhongxing Dynasty had sent people to Lacoastal City as well, capturing Xue Li’s family along with Shi Lianfu’s and bringing them to Tredgeroh.
The intention behind arresting Xue Li was to identify the true culprit, whereas capturing Shi’s family was seen as an opportunity to make some quick funds.
However, the Zhongxing Dynasty was more keen on capturing Mo Shaowen.
Because Mo Shaowen was part of the Fairy Clan. When Zhao Tian captured Mo Shaowen back then, he had already reported to the Zhongxing Dynasty and a record about Mo Shaowen had been kept.
Hence, the Zhongxing Dynasty thought that the information regarding the soul oppression from Deliverance Hill might be found through interrogating Mo Shaowen.
Thus, at this moment, not only was Tredgeroh City being watched, but there were guards around the main cities surrounding Tredgeroh. The Zhongxing Dynasty sent people to these locations to wait in stealth. Moreover, all Conveyor Formations within these cities were shut down with only one passage to Regalty in operation.
Therefore, Ye Liuyun was rather baffled.
“Isn’t it just a piece of fruit? Why does the Zhongxing Dynasty need to put in such immense effort?”
But soon enough, Ye Liuyun speculated the reason behind all this.
The Zhongxing Dynasty has already posted portraits of Mo Shaowen, mobilizing everyone in the city to provide information on him.
"Not this guy again! Some fate we have!"
Ye Liuyun had previously left a Sound Transmission Talisman with Mo Shaowen and immediately contacted him.
"Don’t enter the city or any other city nearby. The Zhongxing Dynasty already knows it was you who did it!" Ye Liuyun’s first sentence is a warning to Mo Shaowen, fearing that he would enter the city.
At this point, Mo Shaowen was preparing to enter a city.
Though it was only a small city and the Dynasty’s experts hadn’t reached it yet, the City Lord Manor was under tight scrutiny. They were screening every single martial practitioner.
