Surprise! The popular villain is actually Long Aotian's wife

Ning Jingan called her brother to her side and said, "The finale item is lost. I'll leave this matter to you. What are you going to do?"

The little golden man thought for a moment and said in a serious tone, "First, we should transfer items from other auction houses for emergency use. It would be best if they are similar items of equal value. If there are none for the time being, treasures of higher value will also do."

His brother taught him all these when he was a child.

"Of course, the other ten major ghost vines have similar value and function to the Yinmu Mingying vine, but I think spiritual vines or other plant pets are better. After all, the target audience of ghost vines is not ordinary cultivators. Brother, didn't you say before that your men caught a Cordyceps Beast?"

Ning Jing'an glanced at the guard beside him, and the man in black immediately took out a small box carved from gold and wood.

"Can the Cordyceps Beast ask you to take out the lost ghost vine for emergency? What arrangements are you going to make?" Ning Jing'an asked.

The little golden man took the small box and opened it slightly an inch.

In the center of the box blocked by pale golden restrictions was a palm-sized earthworm Cordyceps beast, with two soft tentacles curved like crescents. The little insect beast curled itself up into a crystal ball and lay in the box soundly asleep.

The Ning family ran an auction house for generations, although only Ning Jing'an made the auction house the best in the continent.

There are countless treasures in the auction house, which has always easily attracted the attention of external and even internal thieves.

But things from the Ning family have never been easy to get.

Whether asking the powerful men supported by the family to take action, or offering a large reward for the thief's life, in short, those who covet the items in the Ning family auction house will have a hundred deaths.

This is both a deterrent and a way to prevent someone from wanting to steal the items at the auction.

When the little golden man heard his brother's words, he raised his head and looked around, and finally his gaze fell on Qi Wu Yue. He looked at his brother in confusion.

"Didn't the boss say he would get it back?"

Qi Wu Yue admitted all the "crimes", so Gui Teng will naturally look for him.

Find it... and it will be forgotten naturally.

Ning Jing'an raised her hand and touched the little golden man's head: "What is the reward?"

The little golden man said as a matter of course: "Ghost Vine, how can you let the boss and Brother Xiao make a wasted trip."

Ning Jing'an: "..."

He sighed, "Okay."

Over there, Huanyi had already used the ghost doll to locate the ghost cultivator's escape route through the ghost cultivator's remaining breath.

The traces of ghost cultivators have always been hard to find, but Huanyi was born into the Corpse Puppet Clan, so the ghost energy he was tracking, even if it had a different origin, was of the same clan.

The little girl held the ghost doll with a suspicious look on her face: "It turned out to be the Taoist priest who picked melons!"

Brother Crow: “Who is that?”

Huan Yi said slowly: "A pervert."

Notoriously perverted.

Qi Wu Yue and Xiao Lin took Huan Yi to find the whereabouts of Gui Xiu, while the rest of them stayed at the auction house temporarily and returned to the academy together.

When going downstairs, I passed by the handover of auction items. A beautifully dressed maid held a tray to deliver the items, and the seller paid the balance.

The Spirit Summoning Flag and Soul Gathering Banner were auctioned for a high price of three million.

Ordinary space magic tools have limited storage space, and few people carry millions of spirit stones on them, so it is naturally impossible to pay directly with spirit stones on the spot.

More often than not, a warrant symbolizing their identity would be left behind, and the family would then send the money in full.

There are also guests who want to hide their identities and do not want others to know them. In this case, they will use more valuable spirit crystals or top-grade spirit stones as high-level currency to pay.

Just like when Qi Wu Yue went out, the Holy Servant of Southern Xinjiang only carried three million spirit stones.

Of course, these three million are only used for small expenses such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. After all, three million cannot even buy a better earth-level magic weapon.

If you enter an auction house where money is spent like water, you only need to leave a receipt from Southern Xinjiang, and then you can go to Southern Xinjiang to withdraw the money with the receipt.

The so-called token is more like a spiritual card with a fixed face value.

You can even use the Pingling as a huge currency for other regional forces.

The families in Zhongzhou use one kind of token, while those in Southern Xinjiang, Western Cave, Demon Realm, and Monster Realm are each unique.

As for the Snow Region, the temperature is so low that the breath turns into frost. Apart from the unique ice-type monsters, it is almost impossible to find human beings. It is not prosperous, so naturally there will be no business such as banknote offices or money houses.

Families in Zhongzhou all like to hide their surnames in the patterns on their clothing.

When Qi Wu Yue and the others went downstairs and passed by the backstage of the auction house, they saw that several people who were trading were wearing robes with fiery red maple leaf patterns.

The color was very eye-catching. Qi Wu Yue had a vague impression of it. It seemed to be the Qiu family's robe with magical patterns.

The Qiu family was once prosperous a thousand years ago, and was one of the major families in Zhongzhou at that time. But now it has fallen into decline and has long been lost among many families.

Qi Wu Yue glanced at the forbidden jade box that the two parties opened when inspecting the goods, and saw a pattern of a corner of the soul flag on the black and white flags.

It was the Qiu family that bought the spirit-summoning flags and soul-gathering banners.

He glanced at it, too lazy to think any further, and followed the steward who led the way out of the auction house through the secret door.

Huanyi held the ghost doll's arm and sensed: "The old melon-picking ghost didn't run too far. He's just outside the city, in a farmhouse on the border a hundred miles away."

"A hundred miles? Not far."

Qi Wu Yue was playing with a two-inch long spiritual boat in his hand that looked like a jade carving. The patterns on it were extremely exquisite. Upon hearing this, he threw the thing back into the storage space.

Xiao Lin: "Stand still?"

Huan Yi: "Yes, the old guy's range of activities is very small, and he is almost motionless. To subdue the Yinmu Mingying Vine, we need to prepare various materials. If we want to increase the success rate, we even need an altar and a ceremony. The old guy must have set up a temporary nest!"

Huan Yi was very sure, and she asked again: "But a hundred miles is not close, how can we get there? It will take half a day just to fly the sword."

"Boss, should we release Xiao Jin?" Huanyi blinked.

After all, Xiao Jin's speed is still considerable.

Xiao Lin said: "No, wait a moment."

After a moment, Xiao Lin took out several talismans from his sleeves as if by magic.

Fifth-grade spiritual talisman, a hundred-mile teleportation talisman.

The painting was done by Yu Feng Yan.

Yu Fengyan's shadow seemed to fade a little, and she was a little crazy: Do you still have a conscience to use a soul so blatantly!

Xiao Lin: The immortal spiritual plants in the mustard seed ring that have the effect of nourishing the soul have just matured. If you don’t want them, Master Canhun and Xiao Miao—

But no one dislikes it.

He who strikes first is the strongest; he who strikes later will be left with nothing.

Yu Fengyan started to eat it quickly, and shouted: What are they in a hurry to eat? I am older, so of course I should eat first!

……

"Master, I got the things." Luo Xixi's hands were trembling slightly as she held the things.

A few slightly pale fingers pushed open the forbidden jade box, and on the man's drooping face were a pair of dark and cold eyes.

There was no emotion in those dark pupils except for bleak and dead silence.

Like fire, like a ball of extinguished fire, after the residual heat disappeared, only two balls of inky black ashes were left in the eyes.

"I thought you were still alive."

His pale fingers touched the intertwined black and white soul flags, and his face suddenly became terrifyingly gloomy.

"Hehehe..."

The man placed his fingers on his brow and forced a creepy low laugh from his throat.

The sound did not seem to come from the chest, but rather a low moan from the soul.

"I thought you were still alive!"

He repeated it again slowly, with some gnashing of teeth and a nervous frenzy.

"I didn't expect you would still die without me."

"It's okay, you will survive."

He gently stroked the soul flag with strange patterns, muttering to himself, like a rekindled ember, with a strange scarlet light shining in his eyes.

Under the raised blood-red sleeves of Feng was the inner courtyard's white fabric with blue piping and gold patterns.