“How strange... I can understand making it an illusion realm first, but why didn’t he create a new one? Why put it inside the Xianyuan Continent Operation instead?”
Zhong Yi entered the Xianyuan Continent Operation illusion with some confusion.
At that moment, a brand-new mode called [Auction King] had just gone live.
“Speaking of which, how do you even make an auction interesting?”
Zhong Yi muttered to himself.
He had decided not to participate in this challenge.
First, because the shift from an illusion realm to a secret realm had killed his interest.
Second, because no matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t figure out how to make an auction fun.
Still, Zhong Yi entered [Auction King] full of anticipation.
The background of this mode was that members of the righteous alliance, during their downtime, traveled all over the world to participate in auctions and shopping.
The moment he entered the Auction King mode, his character turned into Mai Xiaowen.
The teleportation array beneath his feet flickered through a dizzying array of patterns before finally settling on a map called [Spiritual Energy Technology Shipping Container].
In the next instant, Zhong Yi’s figure appeared inside a uniquely styled auction house.
The most striking feature was a medium-sized, deep blue container standing in the center of the auction hall.
Originally, shipping containers didn’t exist in the cultivation world.
But as Lu Ze’s illusion realms continued to roll out, cultivators gradually accepted these novel items—after all, they weren’t that hard to understand.
[Spiritual Energy Technology Shipping Container: This auction lot is an air-shipped container sent from Xianyuan Continent to the Kingdom of Asara. Rumor has it that inside is a batch of priceless spiritual energy items.]
“Oh? Everything is inside the container? What treasures could there be?”
Zhong Yi raised an eyebrow, then immediately noticed something off.
The container was sealed tight, surrounded by formations that blocked any spiritual energy detection. There was no sign of it being opened.
“A blind open!?”
Zhong Yi froze.
Then the beginner’s guide appeared:
[This is an ownerless container sealed by spells. Its internal storage space and contents are unknown.]
[You possess a special skill that allows you to detect some information.]
[Every so often, the auction will reveal certain details about the container. Use them wisely.]
[Synthesizing the information you obtain, try to win the container in the auction.]
“A whole container, auctioned off as one lot?”
Zhong Yi’s curiosity was instantly piqued.
At the same time, the first piece of public auction information appeared:
[The highest quality grade in this auction is: Gold]
“Gold?”
Zhong Yi’s inspiration was stirred again, and he began to guess how this illusion realm’s gameplay worked.
The next moment, his character’s skill activated automatically.
During the tutorial phase, the default character was Mai Xiaowen, and her skill was [Detail Perception].
[Detail Perception: At the start of the auction, randomly reveal the quality grade of 5 items. Then, each round, reveal the quality grade of 2 unknown items.]
In an instant, a thick, dark grid appeared on the surface of the container.
Within the grid, five single-square blocks of different colors appeared scattered here and there.
Three green, one purple, and one gold.
“Is this... grave robbing!?”
Zhong Yi immediately understood why Lu Ze hadn’t made a separate illusion realm and instead included [Auction King] inside Xianyuan Continent Operation.
The process of inspecting the container was essentially very similar to grave robbing in Xianyuan Continent Operation!
Anyone who has touched a container would immediately understand how this game works.
A shipping container is a massive container—how many slots of items are inside, what quality each item is, how many slots it takes up…
None of that is known!
You have to use public information and character skills to speculate, judge, and then place your bids.
Compared to traditional competitive bidding, this is far more interesting and much more thrilling!
“As expected of Junior Brother Lu—he can even turn an auction into something extraordinary!”
Zhong Yi sighed with admiration.
Anyone who has played Action in the Immortal Abyss Realm knows how addictive the process of using spiritual sense to search for loot can be.
Lu Ze had perfectly transplanted this key gameplay mechanic into the auction fantasy realm—it was practically a stroke of genius!
Guided by the tutorial, Zhong Yi placed a bid of 20,000 spirit stones.
It was higher than the bid from the AI competitor, but it didn’t win the round.
Another rule of the fantasy realm appeared before Zhong Yi:
[Auction Closing Rules:]
[First round: The highest bidder must bid at least twice the second-highest bid.]
[Second round: The highest bidder must bid at least 60% more than the second-highest bid.]
[Third round: The highest bidder must bid at least 40% more than the second-highest bid.]
[Fourth round: The highest bidder must bid at least 20% more than the second-highest bid.]
[Fifth round: The highest bidder only needs to outbid the second-highest bid. If bids are equal, an additional bidding round is triggered.]
“I see… This is a game of information!”
Zhong Yi stroked his chin, excitement gleaming in his eyes.
Unlike traditional auctions where the highest bid wins outright, the closing rules changed with each round.
It seemed pointless at first, but Zhong Yi immediately spotted the trick behind it.
Not allowing a single round to decide the winner was meant to introduce more variables into the match.
Because as the number of rounds increased, the situation would constantly shift!
For instance, the character he was using now, Mai Xiaowen, could immediately see the quality of five random items at the start, but in subsequent rounds, she could only check two more per round.
She was strong at the beginning but gradually weakened as the game went on.
However, another character on the auction floor, [The Nameless One], was completely useless for the first four rounds but could see the full quality and outlines of everything inside the container in the fifth round.
He was a complete liability early on, but if dragged to the fifth round, he essentially gained divine sight—absolutely unbeatable.
On top of that, there were various tools and magical artifacts…
Different characters, different tools, different public auction information.
With all these layers stacked together, the number of variables was enormous!
Soon enough.
After three rounds, Zhong Yi easily won the tutorial match.
He secured goods worth 90,000 spirit stones for just 45,000, making a tidy profit.
“Interesting, interesting!”
Zhong Yi lavished praise on this mode.
He had never imagined that an auction could be played this way!
Instead of jumping straight into a match, Zhong Yi first reviewed the character skills.
The characters from Lu Ze’s previous life’s King of the Auction had mostly been replaced with operatives from the Delta Force, and they still shared similar traits.
For example, the original influencer Sophie had become the equally beautiful and charismatic Mai Xiaowen.
For example, Raul, who was skilled at hiding and striking at critical moments, had become the ult-invisible, sneaky veteran The Nameless One.
For example, Aunt Maria, who could reveal the quality of all white, green, and blue items at the start, had become the potion doc who always filled her backpack with all kinds of junk…
…
After browsing through all the auctioneer skills, Zhong Yi had a general impression of each character.
“Heh! A fantasy realm that relies on brains like this—no one can beat me!”
Zhong Yi confidently began bragging to his livestream audience.
He entered auction mode and immediately set his sights on a high-difficulty deep-sea shipwreck map.
[Entry fee: 5 million spirit stones]
[You cannot enter yet!]
Seeing the system prompt pop up, Zhong Yi’s face reddened slightly. He hadn’t expected that the map had an entry requirement.
As a newbie, his starting funds were only 200,000.
There were only two maps he could enter.
“A mere five million…”
Zhong Yi smiled with confidence and stepped into the most basic map, the [Blind Box Pile].
“Let me show you how a genius like me, with the Midas touch, wins 25 million from just 200,000!”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
+ Slow Paced + Main Character Thrives Together with His Disciples】 Transmigrated into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakens a discipleship system that reveals the tags of his disciples! Starting from scratch, he builds the strongest sect. Disciple One: Li Yingling 【Gold Tag: Genius Cultivator】【Purple Tag: Extremely Lucky】【Blue Tag: Bewitchingly Beautiful】 Disciple Two: Li Hangtian 【Gold Tag: Reincarnated】【Purple Tag: Ruthless and Decisive】【Blue Tag: Loyal and Noble】 Disciple Three: ??? 【Orange Tag: Alluring Demoness】【???】【???】 Thus, in the cultivation world, an unremarkable little sect appears out of nowhere, but little do others know that each member of this sect is a powerhouse in their own right. The book is also known as: Cultivation? It's Exactly Like This!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
