Chapter 317: Auction Gossip (2/2)
Previous to this, Xue Wei had been handed a VIP card, so that they would have a booth for them to sit in during the auction. It was quite hard to get access to a VIP card, only the most prestigious families within Treasure City had access, alongside the strongest rogue cultivators and those who had treasures surpassing a certain value.
Xue Wei had gotten the VIP card because of him putting up such an amount of Rainbow Pills and rare materials up for auction.
When they arrived at the entrance to the Thousand Treasure Pavilion, Xue Wei took out the VIP card and handed it to a servant.
He quickly accepted it and found another person to take over his tasks, before he respectfully led Xue Wei and his friends towards another entrance.
”Who are they?” Someone in the crowd could not help but ask, but as soon as the question escaped his lips, another looked at him in disdain, ”I don't know, but he is special. He had a VIP card, and they are almost impossible to get without an overwhelming backing or earth-shattering strength.”
”What are you talking about?” another person could not help but ask. ”If he had an overwhelming background, all of us would know of him!”
”And his strength is decent, but it is merely at the Knight Rank, he has not broken through to become a Saint, neither has anyone in his group,” someone else commented. ”It is known that to get a VIP card; you need to be a Saint ranked expert.”
The voices in the crowd were a mixture of knowledgeable people and less knowledgeable people who shared their thoughts and information.
Just as Xue Wei and the others had left, a ten-year-old young boy appeared with a splendidly dressed middle-aged man.
He was wearing purple robes, and while a smile was playing on his lips, his eyes were incredibly cold.
The many conversations which had been going on within the crowd suddenly died out, and no one dared to say a word.
Had Lin Xiao and Luoluo been here, then they would instantly have recognized the young boy as the one who had tried to grab Luoluo before, but they had already walked out of sight.
By the time the others caught up, Xue Wei and his friends had already been led into a small booth where no one else could look inside, only those on the inside could see the rest of the auction house unhindered.
The booth number they got was booth number one. It was the utmost honor to be placed here, and not even the usual VIPs were allowed to be seated in this booth.
There was only one person who was allowed, but for once they had made an exception and allowed Xue Wei and his friends inside while the usual occupant of booth one had been moved to booth two.
If Xue Wei had been capable of looking into the booth next to theirs, he would look rather shocked. In there were also people he was familiar with, the people he would have seen were the King alongside Tao Wu.
It is evident that Tao Wu, the pirate King, was the most famous figure in the entire Sea of the Enchanted. His status could not be shaken, and his strength was unquestionable.
These booths were filled with inscriptions that protected the boxes from being looked into by other people, however unknown to Xue Wei, some people were strong enough to ignore these inscriptions, and Tao Wu happened to be such a person.
He had been surprised when he arrived and was told that booth one was occupied by someone else. He had not been insulted by it, nor had he taken it to heart.
However, as a leading figure in the Sea of the Enchanted, he was unsure about which kind of character was more important than him, what kind of person had appeared to make him become their second choice, and when he sneaked a peek into the booth a smile slowly bloomed on his lips but his eyes were filled with disbelief.
He had heard of Xue Wei's wondrous changes to Yan Dalu from the King, and he was very grateful towards Xue Wei for having given her freedom, and even encouraged her to live her dreams, so that the two of them could reunite, but he had never taken too much notice of him. He was still too weak to matter to him.
Now he understood that Xue Wei and his friends might be more than what met the eye. As a demon, he was unable to sense the Sovereign Beast blood in Xue Wei's body, so he had classified him as a normal human being, not worthy of too much attention.
Now he understood that this group of youngsters was nothing but a group of misfits, freaks who went against nature. The stories that the King had told him about were not as farfetched as he first had thought.
Then a thought erupted in his mind, and his eyes widened.
”Dear, is this Xue Wei friend of yours capable of creating Rainbow Pills?” he suddenly asked the King who was seated by his side, and the King nodded her head.
”He created quite a few Rainbow Pills back in Yan Dalu. Even I was fortunate enough to get to taste one,” she answered honestly.
”I see,” Tao Wu smiled and suddenly understood why the Thousand Treasure Pavilion so valued him.
Tao Wu was well aware of the two-colored Rainbow Pill recipe that was present in the Thousand Treasure Pavilion, but no one had been able to create the pills before. Had Xue Wei succeeded?
This was something that required extra thoughts. If this human was capable of creating two-colored Rainbow Pills, then he had to make good friends with him, and hopefully convince him to refine a few for his own sake.