Chapter 518 - Chapter 518 Hidden Items (1/2)

Chapter 518 Hidden Items

The small town at the foot of Tianhu Mountain was the venue for this auction.

Ever since the seal on the town was lifted, it had undergone earth-shattering changes. First, half of the dilapidated buildings were demolished, and then Chen Yu dispatched several engineering teams to systematically develop the area.

The goal was to build a new-type city on the foundation of the town’s original ancient-style architecture.

Although the town hadn’t been completely transformed yet, its size was already sufficient to hold a medium-scale auction.

At this moment, the town was bustling with people, and the streets and alleys were filled with all sorts of vendors.

Many merchants had traveled from far and wide to come here. They rented out a large number of unfinished shops, initiated their own construction and decoration, and even some people obtained the city’s construction plans and paid for the construction of buildings alongside their own.

It was likely that, after the auction, the town would become a complete small city.

Chen Yu and Jin Lingsu made their way through the crowd to the central venue of the city.

The venue was actually quite simple, just a makeshift canopy erected on the original town square.

Even so, all the seats were sold out, creating a scenario where tickets were hard to find.

Chen Yu didn’t care much about that and casually found a place to sit down.

Just then, he suddenly sensed a very strange magnetic field not far away. Turning to look, he saw a middle-aged man sitting steadily there, eyes intently fixed on the auction stage.

Chen Yu frowned slightly. Since he had wiped out the Childe Family, he had rarely seen supernatural power users. The only other time was when people from the Xuanqing Sect’s headquarters came.

The magnetic field of this person wasn’t very strong, but it could be released in linear fashion, and it seemed that his target was the auction stage.

Chen Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, stood up, and moved closer, while extending his system’s coverage.

On the surface, the man seemed no different from a normal person, and there was no emblem on his body, which suggested he wasn’t part of any organization.

However, like most supernatural power users, the system couldn’t scan his brain information.

The auction had already started. Compared with other large auctions, this one was rather rudimentary. To save time, the auctioneer simply displayed a large number of auction items on stage with their prices listed.

If someone took a fancy to an item, they could simply call out its number and then shout their price.

Of course, it was also possible to choose and bid on multiple items at the same time.

In the most central area of the auction scene hung a huge screen, displaying the latest bids for each item.

As the auctioneer announced the start of the auction, the venue instantly boiled with excitement as all the items’ prices changed at the same time.

Chen Yu wasn’t particularly interested in these items. After all, the Sect of Xuanqing would receive 60% of the auction’s profits, which meant these items were effectively his private assets.

However, many of the items at this auction had caught his attention. The Knights of the Round Table were, after all, the second-ranked super organization, and every item in their family collections was extraordinary.

Moreover, among these items, many were hidden treasures.

Those fellows had been brawling in the marketplace for so many years. They always had tricks up their sleeves.

When their assets were confiscated, they used an extremely secretive method to hide the real treasures among the junk and then sought to buy them back from the market, a tactic to safeguard some of their wealth.