Auction house

  "What's so good about this scroll?" Du Qian asked softly, looking at Du Fei who was staring blankly at the scroll in his hands.

  "Heh heh, I just think that this blank thing shouldn't be placed here for no reason, maybe there's some secret inside." Du Fei said casually.

  "This thing is something that anyone can see, what secrets could it have?" Du Qian smiled slightly, then her expression turned serious, "Alright, let's not talk about anything else... whether it's a skill or a technique, we people of the Du family can only choose one from this selection, and even if you come in again next time, you'll still only be able to choose that one thing. So, Du Fei, you should just make your own choice."

  "Is there such a rule?" Du Fei was taken aback, and it was slightly strange.

  "If there wasn't this rule, wouldn't it be possible for an outsider to come in and steal all of the Du family's secrets?" Du Xiang said calmly, "But you don't have to worry about that either. After you make your selection, you won't be able to look at any others again. In short, just choose the one you like best. However, my personal suggestion is to choose a seventh-grade martial skill. After all, this ninth-grade technique really isn't worth looking at."

  Upon hearing this, Du Fei nodded in understanding. For a family with a thousand-year history, if there wasn't some special protective measure for the martial skills and techniques within the family, then as soon as a traitor appeared, wouldn't that mean the entire foundation of the family would be overturned?

  I guess my father left back then also because of this relationship, otherwise, he would have cleared out this place long ago.

  His gaze slowly swept over the jade boxes around him and finally landed on a jade box at the edge that was emitting a faint cold glow.

  "Eight Trigrams Martial Arts, Ice Blade Kick!"

  This martial skill can be said to be the only eighth-grade martial skill in the third layer. As for why it can be included here, Du Fei is clear that this Ice Edge Leg is not very powerful in peacetime, but when combined with the Du family's Ice Heart Decision, the power it unleashes is even comparable to some seventh-grade martial skills!

  However, among the younger generation of the Du family, no one can cultivate the Ice Heart Technique anymore, so naturally, no one knows the Ice Blade Kick either.

  After hesitating for a moment, Du Fei still walked over, opened the box, and slowly unrolled the scroll under Du Qian's strange gaze.

  As soon as the scroll was opened, a cold air rushed towards him.

  "Xiao Bai, enter the data into the system!"

  Du Fei narrowed his eyes slightly and gave a calm order.

  "Command accepted, system begins data entry, entry complete, confirm?"

  "Not for now." Du Fei responded mentally, but had already quickly stuffed the scroll back into the box and casually pulled a few times on another box.

  It's strange to say that this box, which should have been easily opened, somehow couldn't be opened no matter how hard I tried.

  "Indeed, there's some skill involved!" In his heart, he praised her and then looked at Du Qian with a smile, saying: "Besides these, is there anything else to see?"

  "What else do you want?" Du Qian slightly rolled her eyes, "You chose this fighting technique, I won't say much about it, it's your personal hobby...... At the same time, I'll give you a suggestion. Since you've chosen fighting techniques, then there's no way to obtain any martial arts from your family. So, your next choices are only two: first, go to an auction house and try your luck; second, join some sect or school...... If not, without any martial arts to cultivate, even if you're a genius now, in the future it'll be just like that!"

  "Thank you for your advice." Du Fei smiled slightly, "I'll find some time to go take a look at the auction house, thank you for pointing it out, Sister Du Qian!"

  "To be honest, did you get the Ice Heart Decree's oral formula from your father?" Du Qing suddenly smiled strangely and walked a few steps closer, saying calmly.

  "Of course not, you know I was a useless person before!" Du Fei said calmly, his expression unchanged.

  "There's no best, if there is, you'd better be careful...... Ice heart decision, this Du family is what many people yearn for day and night..." After saying a somewhat inexplicable sentence, Du Qian smiled faintly and her figure flashed slightly, but she had already walked out of the gate first.

  "Hmm—"

  He let out a long sigh, feeling the true breath slowly circulating within his body. Du Fei exhaled and released a rather comfortable moan.

  It has to be said that compared to before the seventh layer of refinement, whether it's the power of the tempered body or the feeling of cultivating it, everything is completely different.

  Now Du Fei can clearly feel that the true breath in his body is circulating and growing stronger with each practice of his Tempering Body Fist.

  However, what made Du Fei feel depressed was that the medicinal liquid that had a miraculous effect on his cultivation before had basically lost its effect. Even if he gritted his teeth and drank all of it in one breath, the effect would not be great. According to Du Fei's calculations, it seemed that he still needed a lot of time to reach the eighth level of Body Tempering!

  "If we could refine a genuine marrow-washing pill instead of this semi-finished medicinal liquid, I think there should be quite some benefits."

  Muttering to himself for a moment, Du Fei also shook his head and sighed. He was well aware that before he truly became a martial artist, wanting to refine a finished elixir was basically just a fool's dream!

  "But if you can't make it yourself, buying some is a good option!"

  This thought flashed through Du Fei's mind, and it gave him a feeling of clearing the clouds and seeing the moon.

  However, the value of this hair washing Dan is extremely high, and the places where it appears are generally auction venues. If you want to get your hands on it, I'm afraid it's impossible without tens of thousands of gold coins.

  Although Du Fei's status in the Du family is different now, he doesn't think it would be a good thing for him to openly take money from Du Fei to buy hair dye.

  After a moment of contemplation, Du Fei actually came up with a pretty good idea.

  Shampoo can be auctioned off, shampoo liquid seems to work too!

  Three days later, Du Fei walked out of the inner room again, squinting his eyes at the sunlight, with a feeling of being reborn.

  For the past three days, he had been groping to refine the marrow-washing potion again. Although there was systematic assistance, he still failed several times in this refinement and only managed to produce something with a few strands of hair standing on end after much difficulty.

  It wasn't until now that Du Fei had to admit that refining the elixir was indeed not something that ordinary people could do. With his systematic assistance, he could refine the elixir with considerable precision, and the result was this. As for others who refined elixirs, who knew how much harder it would be?

  But if it weren't for the difficulty of refining elixirs, wouldn't things like dan medicine be incredibly expensive?

  After fumbling over the crystal bottles in his arms for a moment, Du Fei chuckled and quickly left the Du family's house from a secret corner, heading towards a large auction house outside the city.

  Not to mention in the entire southern part of the Da'an Dynasty, Bu Yue's reputation was not small even outside the auction house, because the items that could be put up for auction on the stage were undoubtedly rare things.

  It is precisely these things that can attract a large flow of people to the auction scene.

  After standing at the entrance of the auction house and squinting for a moment, Du Fei walked into the alley in the corner, found a bamboo hat to cover his face, and understood that it was not good to show off one's wealth. Moreover, in such a large-scale auction house, someone from the Du family must have participated, and he did not want to be recognized as himself.

  After confirming that no one could easily see his identity, Du Fei slowly walked towards the gate of the auction house. Under the vigilant eyes of the guards on both sides of the gate, Du Fei did not head straight to the main hall of the auction house, but instead walked into a small side door.

  Seeing this scene, those guards finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, most people who come here to sell things will have similar attire.

  After entering the small gate, a fairly spacious small hall appeared in front of Du Fei. Behind the small hall, there were several windows, each with black cloth hanging down, only allowing people to vaguely see that there was a figure behind it.

  Du Fei was clear that behind these windows were the appraisers of this auction house, and only these seasoned appraisers could see the value of an object.

  Zuo Yi sat down in a window and Du Fei rummaged through his bosom for a moment before placing five crystal bottles in front of him.

  "Huh?"

  The person sitting behind the window seemed to be slightly surprised for a moment, then opened one of the bottles and put it in front of him to sniff, before hesitating and saying: "This is... Dan medicine!?"

  "It's not exactly a Dan medicine, but this thing is also a product of the alchemy technique. I call it the Marrow Washing Liquid. Taking it after the seventh level of body refinement has an amazing effect, especially for those who are stuck at the sixth level and can't take the Marrow Washing Pill. Who knows, maybe they'll have a chance to advance to the seventh level!" Du Fei casually interpreted.

  "Really? There's such a thing? How come I've never heard of it......" The person at the window was shocked by Du Fei's explanation for half a moment, before hesitantly speaking.

  Because of what Du Fei said, if this thing is true, then its value to those who can't advance to the seventh layer of Body Tempering is more precious than anything else.

  He let out a somewhat helpless sigh and said indifferently, "Is it true or false? Can't you tell? Even if you can't, just try it yourself..."

  "Hmm... " He hesitated for a moment, and the person behind the window bowed and said, "Sir, is it Dan Shi? If so... "

  "Do you still need to reveal your identity when selling things?" Du Fei said coldly.

  It seemed that he had detected Du Fei's impatience, and the man hastily said: "I apologize, sir, but I really can't appraise this item. Would you mind waiting for a moment? I'll have our auction house's Yuan sir come over to take a look."

  "Whatever!" Du Fei hummed and said indifferently.

  "Then, please, sir, take a rest in the VIP room for a moment!" As soon as he finished speaking, two maids had already come out from behind the window with great respect and immediately respectfully invited Du Fei to go through a passageway on one side.

  Du Fei shrugged and didn't say anything else. He followed the maid into the room and sat down casually.

  After sitting in the VIP room for a while, I heard a loud and clear laughter coming from the entrance, and then a middle-aged man dressed in luxurious clothes walked in with big strides.

  The middle-aged man walked into the room, nodded slightly at Du Fei, took a few steps forward, picked up the crystal bottle on the table, opened it, and poured out a drop, which he then swallowed.

  In an instant, this middle-aged man's whole body shook, and immediately a respectful expression appeared on his face.