NOVEL WEB Chapter 268 Vicious Cycle
The fifth floor of Tianbao Auction House is not open to the public, and the boxes on the fourth floor are not open to the public. Only distinguished guests can go up to the boxes on the fourth floor.
If you don't have a certain identity and cultivation level, you won't be qualified to go to the fourth floor, no matter how many spiritual stones you pay.
But An Lan and Lu Fan are naturally qualified.
Even if Lu Fan comes alone today, he can easily go to the box on the fourth floor.
Of course, this is Lu Fan now.
If the news of killing Wang Teng, Xing Daojie, Lu Tong and others had not spread throughout Daqian, Lu Fan would not be qualified to go to the fourth floor.
After the middle-aged man sent Lu Fan and his group to the private room on the fourth floor, he asked the maid to bring melons, fruit cakes and spiritual tea and spiritual wine.
After doing all this, the middle-aged man turned around and left with great respect. He was extremely enthusiastic throughout the process and his attitude was not very good.
And Lu Fan also knew the identity of this guy. He was the manager of Tianbao Auction House.
Lin Hai.
Although Lu Fan knew why Lin Hai was so warm and polite, he didn't care.
After all, this is true everywhere.
Without status or strength, it is impossible to gain the respect and enthusiasm of others.
And if this guy can do this, he is considered a smart person.
It is always more comfortable to get along with smart people than with stupid people. Even if the other person has some small thoughts, it doesn't matter.
Because such smart people know their own sense of proportion and will never do anything disgusting.
After casually picking up a cup of spiritual tea and taking a few sips, Lu Fan sat down on the couch facing the auction table.
The wall in front of you is made of a very special crystal. You can clearly see the scene outside, but you can't see what's inside the treasure box from the outside.
This kind of thing naturally has no surprises for Lu Fan.
However, seeing something like this in the world of cultivation still gave him an inexplicable sense of intimacy.
Looking out through the spar, it is clear that the auction stage occupies the center of the auction house. The stage is covered with a red carpet and looks very luxurious.
All the seats surrounding the auction table on the first floor were filled with monks, who were looking around and looking up at the boxes upstairs from time to time.
It was Lu Fan's first time to participate in the auction, so he was particularly interested at the moment and kept looking outside.
After half an hour like this, the door of the auction house closed with a bang, and a charming young monk in a red dress stepped onto the auction stage.
Lu Fan could see through the cultivation level of this young woman in a red dress at a glance. She was a third-level expert in the True Alchemy Realm.
When he was sizing up the young woman in the red dress, the alluring voice of the young woman in the red dress spread throughout the auction house.
"Welcome all distinguished guests to our Tianbao Auction House to participate in the semi-annual super auction..."
After the young woman in the red dress made a simple opening statement, she quickly and neatly presented the first item for auction.
A maid was seen walking onto the auction stage carrying a jade plate covered with red silk, and placed the jade plate on the table in the center of the auction stage.
The young woman in the red dress came to the table, held the red silk covering the jade plate with one hand, and said with an extremely charming smile:
"This first auction item is a third-grade elixir, which can allow monks in the Condensation Realm to break through to a small level. The starting price is 200,000 low-grade spiritual stones, and the single increase in price is not less than 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones."
After the words fell, the young woman in the red dress opened the red silk, revealing the jade bottle placed inside the jade plate.
At the same time, the monks in the hall on the first floor also started bidding.
"Two hundred and one hundred thousand low-grade spiritual stones."
"Two hundred and thirty thousand low-grade spiritual stones."
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In a short time, the price of this elixir soared to 300,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
Looking at the monks bidding frantically, Lu Fan couldn't help but feel a flash of surprise in his eyes.
Most of the monks sitting in the hall on the first floor were in the Qi Refining Realm and Yuan Condensing Realm, and there were also a few in the Spiritual Sea Realm.
It stands to reason that a monk of this level should not have many spiritual stones.
But when they started to compete and bid, each of these guys was more active than the other. It was obvious that they all had a lot of spiritual stones in their hands.
This made Lu Fan secretly surprised. It seemed that he had underestimated the casual cultivator.
However, he also knew clearly that such wealthy casual cultivators were in the minority, and the vast majority of casual cultivators lived extremely difficult lives.
In order to get a little spiritual stone, you have to take risks to search for resources, hunt ferocious beasts and sell them to obtain spiritual stones.
The vast majority of spiritual stones are in the hands of major forces, including relatively top cultivation techniques and top magic weapons.
They searched for all resources in every possible way and accumulated all the resources they collected.
If things go on like this, they will accumulate more and more resources and their comprehensive strength will become stronger and stronger.
And casual cultivators are getting less and less resources, and they can't get any top cultivation techniques.
This naturally forms a vicious cycle.
For the major forces, this situation is naturally the best. They would like the scattered cultivators to be as weak as possible.
Only in this way can they obtain more resources and select elites from the casual cultivators to train, thus improving their overall strength.
But for the imperial power, this situation is not a good thing.
Because the stronger these forces are, the greater the threat to the imperial power, and it is easy to cause turmoil within the dynasty.
The more resources these forces collect, the fewer resources the royal family and the court have.
The number of these forces is small to begin with, but they occupy a large amount of unused resources.
In addition to supporting civil and military officials, the royal family and the court also have to support more than two million soldiers and patrol guards and guards in various cities.
This expenditure alone is an astronomical figure.
Because of this, the royal family and the court are very short of resources, but there is no other channel to obtain resources.
If this continues, the royal family and the court will become more and more difficult.
Therefore, if you want to improve the strength of the royal family and the court and obtain more resources, the best way is to take action against the top forces in the dynasty.
Only by making all the top forces in the dynasty completely surrender and confiscating all the accumulated resources in their treasure house.
In this way, they can be completely controlled and the absolute rule of the imperial power can be guaranteed.
Of course, the confiscated resources can only be controlled by the royal family and must not be distributed to individual cultivators.
There are many ways to make Daqian strong, but blindly distributing resources to individual cultivators is the most stupid.
And doing so will not only fail to make Daqian strong, but will instead cause Daqian to fall into civil strife.
However, the premise of all this is to suppress and subdue all the top forces in the dynasty.
While Lu Fan was staring at the auction table and thinking about this, the first three items had been auctioned off and the fourth item was brought to the auction table.
When the fourth item was placed on the table, a prompt sound suddenly rang in Lu Fan's mind.
The sudden prompt sound woke Lu Fan up from his thinking state and he immediately looked towards the auction table...