After Forcibly Taking The Beautiful, Powerful, And Tragic Demon Lord As A Concubine - Chapter 18

“Bang!”

The copper gong was struck violently.

Under Feng Ruyu’s utterly shocked gaze, Lin Xueqing struck the gong, and simultaneously, bid an astronomical price for the very item Feng Ruyu had just failed to comprehend.

“Ten thousand superior-grade spirit stones. I want them all.”

Feng Ruyu: “……”

The gavel fell; the deal was sealed.

Naturally, everyone at the auction venue heard Lin Xueqing’s bid. Whether they were high-level or low-level cultivators, they all showed expressions of shock.

“Who is it? To actually use ten thousand spirit stones to buy Taotie Pills!”

“Did we hear it wrong?”

“Probably, otherwise they’re a complete sucker. Although Taotie Pills are good, and this batch has new flavors, the market price for one is only a single superior-grade spirit stone.”

“It’s likely some young master from a wealthy family wanting to please a young lady.”

“It’s strange though… I’ve never heard of anyone trying to win someone’s heart with Taotie Pills.”

The whispers of the crowd naturally did not reach Feng Ruyu’s ears.

After all, every private box was soundproofed.

But even if they didn’t reach him, Feng Ruyu knew exactly what everyone was saying.

“Are you crazy!”

Feng Ruyu was fuming with rage, wishing he could give Lin Xueqing a sharp rap on the head. “I told you to bid on something cheap to play around with, not to just squander money like this! Now look at us—everyone thinks we’re suckers!”

Lin Xueqing, however, was pale, his lips trembling as he said, “I know, I know… but.”

But just now, he really couldn’t control himself.

When he heard Feng Ruyu say that these pills were suitable for those with crippled legs who couldn’t take care of themselves, he already felt a pang of distress.

And when he heard Feng Ruyu explain why the pills were suitable for such people.

He just wanted to go back in time and strangle his past self from a few days ago.

So, that was it.

It wasn’t that Ye Mingjing was deliberately ignoring his kindness; it was that Ye Mingjing simply couldn’t eat those mortal foods at all.

It was his own self-assertion.

It was his own failure to consider things thoroughly.

That day, when Ye Mingjing saw that table full of breakfast, what was he thinking?

Would he be thinking: Is this person intentionally trying to humiliate me?

Or would he think… Oh, it turns out I’m a useless person who can’t even eat a meal.

Lin Xueqing felt he truly deserved to die!

He shouldn’t have been so self-righteous; he shouldn’t have made that breakfast, and he certainly shouldn’t have brought it before Ye Mingjing.

A few days ago, a servant had actually told him.

They said that since the Mingjing Sword Venerable arrived at the manor, he hadn’t eaten a single bite of food and drank very little water.

At the time, Lin Xueqing only thought it was strange, wondering if the food didn’t suit his taste, or if he simply didn’t want to eat.

After all, the other party was a Great Demon Lord.

Currently, his hostility toward the Chengtian Valley was still very deep, so it was normal for him not to want to eat their food.

But of all the reasons Lin Xueqing had considered, he had never thought of this one.

Endless annoyance and regret overwhelmed Lin Xueqing, causing him to impulsively call out that price, but he did not regret it.

He lowered his eyes and said quietly and calmly, “Lord Ghost Doctor, I beg you, just let me be willful this once.”

Seeing him like this, Feng Ruyu probably guessed the reason. He gave a cold snort, turned his head away, and ignored him.

At this moment, the auction manager asked, “This young master, no one has followed the bid. Are you sure you want them?”

Lin Xueqing came back to his senses and said repeatedly, “Yes, I want them, all of them.”

The manager beamed with smiles, saying “Good” three times in a row. “Good, good, good! I will immediately send someone to deliver the pills to your box.”

Money in one hand.

Goods in the other.

Such was the rule of the auction.

Soon, Lin Xueqing received the entire bottle of Taotie Pills he had bid on.

After getting them, he treated them like a precious treasure, not only carefully wiping the bottle but also taking one out to taste it first, only putting it away once he was sure there was no problem.

But this scene, in Feng Ruyu’s eyes, was met with more disdain.

“Why don’t you look at the bottom of the bottle?”

“What’s wrong with the bottom?”

“Just look and you’ll know!” Feng Ruyu said crossly.

Lin Xueqing, skeptical, turned the bottle over to take a look. As a result, it would have been better if he hadn’t; once he saw it, he was nearly moved to tears by anger.

“Wait, why is the character ‘Lin’ written here! Could these be my family’s pills?”

“Otherwise? Why do you think I just called you crazy! In this cultivation world, ninety-nine percent of pills come from the Pill Sect, and of that ninety-nine percent, ninety percent are the masterpieces of your Lin family. And yet you, you silly boy, spent a fortune to buy a bottle of pills that are piled up like mountains in your own home. I really…”

In the end, Feng Ruyu was so angry he couldn’t even speak. He pointed at Lin Xueqing’s nose and cursed, “Ten thousand bright and shiny spirit stones! If I were your mother, I’d have to give you a thrashing!”

Lin Xueqing: “……”

“Well, I didn’t know that just now.”

Lin Xueqing rubbed his nose awkwardly, feeling very guilty.

“Spendthrift!”

Such was Feng Ruyu’s evaluation.

Lin Xueqing wasn’t upset either; he soon became playful again. “It’s fine, Lord Ghost Doctor, just consider it practice. Didn’t you just say earlier to let me practice first?”

Feng Ruyu glared at him again. “You heartless fellow, you have no idea what a mess you’ve started.”

Lin Xueqing: “?”

Lin Xueqing was very bewildered—how had he started a mess?

But when he asked Feng Ruyu, Feng Ruyu wouldn’t answer him.

Instead, the previously relaxed Feng Ruyu suddenly looked grave and pulled two blocks of wood out of his storage ring.

After taking them out.

Feng Ruyu held a small knife and began to carve these two seemingly ordinary wooden blocks with extreme concentration.

Lin Xueqing asked him a couple of questions, but he didn’t explain, only telling Lin Xueqing to go ahead and bid on things.

Lin Xueqing stopped asking and focused intently on the auction.

It wasn’t until he had spent a full three hundred thousand superior-grade spirit stones to forcefully win the Heartless Flower and the Soul-Settling Grass at an unrivaled price.

Feng Ruyu finally finished his carving.

At this time, the manager personally brought two maidservants to their private box, faces full of smiles.

“Lord Ghost Doctor, congratulations! These Heartless Flowers and Soul-Settling Grass are treasures that haven’t appeared in the cultivation world for hundreds of years. I didn’t expect them to actually be taken by you! Lord Ghost Doctor is indeed generous and grand!”

Feng Ruyu forced a stiff smile. “Not at all. How could I afford such precious things? As I said before, I’m just running errands for someone.”

The manager smiled as well. “I see. It seems our situations are quite similar.”

Feng Ruyu sighed. “There’s no choice. The other party holds a high position and great power; I have no choice but to follow orders!”

The manager bowed to Feng Ruyu, his words very sweet. “Then I wish Lord Ghost Doctor a smooth journey.”

Feng Ruyu gave a hollow smile and, after checking the quality of the two herbs, reluctantly returned the bow to the manager.

But as soon as the manager and the two maidservants left.

Feng Ruyu’s expression changed drastically.

“Quick, this place is not safe for long. We’re running!”

Lin Xueqing panicked too. “Why? Run? How do we run?!”

Feng Ruyu didn’t bother explaining much. With a flick of his sleeve, those two small wood carvings were thrown out. After a puff of white mist, they actually transformed into the likenesses of Feng Ruyu and Lin Xueqing.

Lin Xueqing couldn’t help but marvel, “They look so much alike!”

“Of course they do. Look whose work it is.”

Feng Ruyu gave a proud snort and then pulled two cloaks out of his spatial bag. The cloaks were miraculous; once put on, a person would instantly vanish into thin air.

After Lin Xueqing put his on.

Feng Ruyu was in a frantic hurry. Without explaining, he immediately used his spiritual power to break a path through the void, grabbing Lin Xueqing and running.

As they ran, he kept urging, “Run faster!”

In this situation, Lin Xueqing was no fool and naturally understood Feng Ruyu’s intention.

He was letting the wooden substitutes stay at the auction in their place while their true bodies fled immediately.

It made sense.

Just now, Lin Xueqing had spent three hundred thousand spirit stones to buy those two herbs.

The feeling of overwhelming the crowd was indeed very satisfying and flashy.

But this was the cultivation world!

The place where the law of the jungle was most severe, and where robbery was most common.

Although Feng Ruyu was a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, this auction was one of the top large-scale auctions in the cultivation world, with cultivators from all over the world present—even demon cultivators.

In such a situation, Feng Ruyu’s Nascent Soul cultivation was simply not enough.

Therefore, Feng Ruyu taking Lin Xueqing and running was exactly the right move.

Lin Xueqing didn’t want to be a burden either, so he poured all the spiritual power he had into his feet, following closely behind Feng Ruyu.

The two of them ran for a full day and night.

Finally, Lin Xueqing reached his limit, and Feng Ruyu was exhausted as well.

Only then did they find a riverside to rest.

“Alright, it should be about enough. No one should have followed us here,” Feng Ruyu said, panting heavily.

Lin Xueqing was already collapsed with exhaustion. Taking off the cloak, he couldn’t even speak; he could only keep pouring spiritual power recovery pills into his mouth to barely maintain some color in his face.

However, danger always descends quietly just when one thinks they are safe.

This place was located on the boundary line between the Pill Sect and the Weapon Sect.

A few hundred miles ahead was the Pill Sect, and a few hundred miles behind was the Weapon Sect. Both the Pill Sect and Weapon Sect had guardian arrays around them to protect their disciples within their borders.

But it was precisely this “no-man’s-land” boundary zone.

Where neither the Pill Sect nor the Weapon Sect had anyone on guard.

When three demon cultivators suddenly appeared, Lin Xueqing was sitting cross-legged, adjusting his breath to recover spiritual power according to the method Feng Ruyu had taught him.

He had just finished a small cycle of breath adjustment.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew in gusts, and the sky darkened.

Feng Ruyu immediately opened his eyes, his expression changing drastically. “Not good! Someone has caught up!”

Lin Xueqing didn’t have time to react.

Before Feng Ruyu’s voice had even faded, the shrill, sinister laughter of the demon cultivators rang out in their ears.

“Hahaha, Feng Ruyu, you certainly run fast. Unfortunately, this ‘fat sheep’ beside you can’t run anymore!”

Feng Ruyu had seen much of the world after all. Facing this situation, he didn’t panic and started with a verbal sparring match:

“Fellow Daoists, I do not know where you come from, but I am only taking someone’s money to eliminate their troubles. When have I, Feng Ruyu, ever possessed such capabilities? I can give you the things you want, but if I do, you must bear the consequences yourselves.”

“Feng Ruyu, what are you pretending for? Your employer is none other than this fat sheep beside you. Did you think we couldn’t tell?”

Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Feng Ruyu simply stopped trying.

But he said, “He is no ordinary fat sheep. The young master of the Lin family of the Pill Sect—is he someone you can afford to provoke?”

If those words were spoken.

If the pursuers were people from the nine righteous sects, they might have given up after weighing the consequences.

After all, the Lin family of the Pill Sect was quite famous in the cultivation world, and Lin Meimei’s methods were known to all; she wasn’t someone just anyone could provoke.

However, it just so happened that these three cultivators who came to block the way and rob them were demon cultivators.

Demon cultivators.

They practiced the path of evil.

How could they be cowardly or afraid of trouble?

“What of the Lin family? Just right, I haven’t eaten the flesh of someone from the Lin family yet, jie-jie-jie! Today, my brothers and I can consider it a taste of something exotic!”