In Mount Xianyun, time flowed leisurely, like a white horse flashing past a crack, and two hundred years passed in a blink of an eye.

For more than two hundred years, the various "recluse hermits" residing in Mount Xianyun still composed poems and painted, indulged in romance, and lived their days like years, enjoying their "immortal lives" in their own preferred ways. Most of them were not particularly interested in cultivation or seclusion.

They naturally didn't care much whether there were a few more or a few less people in the mountain. After all, being able to come to Mount Xianyun in their lifetime and meet each other was fate. Since they didn't care about the past, why bother asking about the future?

The True Immortal World was still the True Immortal World, but the mortal realm had probably undergone several dynasties, countless grievances and killings, and even changed its dynasty.

As the saying goes, "One day in the Immortal World is like a thousand years in the mortal realm."

Since Wang Yu settled Mo Guang and acquired a "new identity," he would still travel great distances to enter Jukun Inner City every once in a while to search for "Xuanzhi Crystal Stones."

Over time, many shopkeepers in the inner city became familiar with him through several elixir trades, and they all knew that there was an outer sect elder in the Fireleaf Sect who was single-mindedly searching for "Flower Heart Stones."

However, during his recent visits to the city, Wang Yu noticed that many places in the city were being renovated, and some main streets had already been decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, preparing to welcome merchants from all directions for the grand city-building celebration held in Jukun City every thousand years.

Especially in recent months, ferry boats from other parts of the Black Mountain Immortal Domain and even neighboring immortal domains flew densely into the city across borders, and the ports throughout the city became even busier.

Various shops in the city had also long hung up various banners and notice boards, with words such as "Genuine Goods at Fair Prices" and "No Deceit Between Immortals and Mortals" written in gold powder to attract merchants. Some merchants, not following the old ways, creatively wrote words such as "Buy One Get One Free," "Discount Offer," and "Once in Three Thousand Years."

Compared to ordinary times, the flow of people in Jukun City became even denser. The immortal inns opened by various chambers of commerce in the city were already in short supply, crowded with foreign merchants and cultivators. Many sects in the city also temporarily rented out their courtyards and guest rooms to earn some rental income.

Even the Floating Cloud Mountains far outside the city had their usual tranquility broken. Many reclusive cultivators who lived in the mountains were also eager to move, planning to take advantage of the celebration season to enter Jukun City and exchange for things they found pleasing.

It should be said that they had the advantage of being close to the water and should not have such a strong enthusiasm for the Jukun City Celebration, but in fact, they, like those foreign cultivators who had traveled thousands of miles, eagerly looked forward to the arrival of the celebration day.

The reason was simple: during the seven days of the Jukun City Celebration, the boundaries between the inner and outer cities would be broken. At that time, the four city gates of the inner city would be opened, without any restrictions, allowing anyone to enter the inner city.

Moreover, during the opening of the inner city, hundreds of auctions of varying sizes would be held under the auspices of various forces. Among them, the most eye-catching was naturally the Yukun Tower Grand Auction co-hosted by the Northern Palace under the Black Mountain Immortal Palace and a branch of the Hundred Crafts Mountain.

The reason why this auction could attract the attention of almost half of the Black Mountain Immortal Domain was not only because it had a strong official background, but also because almost every auction would feature several top-level treasures that even Grand Luo Immortals would covet.

And whenever such treasures appeared, they would attract various forces to compete fiercely, relying on their respective foundations and strengths to fight each other. No matter who the final winner was, it would be passed down as a good story for a time.

Seven days before the celebration, Wang Yu had already entered Yukun Tower with Jingyang Shangren.

The tower had an underground palace, which was decorated with various ingenious formations and mechanisms, and guarded by three Grand Luo Immortal elders who stayed there at all times. Auction items transported from the Black Mountain Immortal Domain and even other places were stored here.

Wang Yu and the other two elixir appraisers, accompanied by Jingyang Shangren, identified the elixir and spiritual herb treasures among them. After confirming that they were correct, they were all registered and written into the auction list.

It was not until the evening of the day before the celebration that all the auction items were transported to Yukun Tower and registered into the warehouse.

Jingyang Shangren, who had long been accustomed to a leisurely life, was overwhelmed by the disturbance. After finally finishing these trivial matters, he came to the other courtyard arranged for Wang Yu, taking advantage of the moonlit night.

Arriving outside the door, before he could speak, Wang Yu had already waved his sleeve to open the door and invited him inside.

"How is it? The feeling of doing everything yourself is not bad, right? Haha..." After Wang Yu invited Jingyang Shangren to sit down, he poured him a cup of clear tea and joked with a smile.

"It's been a long time since I participated in these detailed affairs, and I'm indeed a little unaccustomed... Don't make fun of me, kid..." Jingyang Shangren waved his hand and said with a wry smile.

After saying that, he glanced at the tea Wang Yu poured with some disgust and said, "Is there any more Firesaliva Wine?"

"Didn't I give you the wine recipe? Why are you still asking me for wine?" Wang Yu chuckled and asked.

"Don't be so stingy! Your wine is more aged! The ones I brewed are less than a hundred and fifty years old, and the taste is far worse. Besides, I won't drink your wine for nothing. I have some inside information to reveal to you," Jingyang Shangren lowered his voice a bit and said mysteriously.

Hearing this, Wang Yu smiled helplessly and with a wave of his palm, a dark gray wine jar appeared on the table.

"This is the last jar I have secretly hidden. The vintage is even older than the one I took out last time. Your inside information can't be unworthy of my wine," Wang Yu said, patting open the mud seal on the jar.

As the mellow aroma of wine filled the entire room, the greedy worms in Jingyang Shangren's stomach were immediately hooked. He couldn't wait to pour himself a full cup with a teacup and drink it all in one gulp.

With the fine wine in his throat, he looked up and smacked his lips, savoring the aftertaste, with a look of intoxication on his face.

Wang Yu watched from the side, wanting to laugh a little, but he didn't urge him.

"Sure enough, it's good wine..." Jingyang Shangren gave a thumbs up and praised.

As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed the wine jar and wanted to pour himself another drink, but Wang Yu stopped him.

"Aren't you going to tell me what the news is?" Wang Yu asked.

"Hehe... Can't you let me have a few more sips before I say it?" Jingyang Shangren said with a dry laugh.

"Tell me quickly," Wang Yu said, ignoring him.

"Okay... I'll tell you, the Xuanzhi Crystal Stone you want has been found. In the last batch of goods that arrived this afternoon, there happens to be this item," Jingyang Shangren said, shaking his head.

"Is that really true?" Wang Yu immediately asked with joy.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy. The price of this thing is not low. The starting price is one thousand immortal essence stones, and the final transaction price could be several times that. Is your purse fat enough?" Jingyang Shangren deliberately looked him up and down and asked.

Wang Yu laughed in his heart. Even if it was several times the price, it would only be a few thousand immortal essence stones. Although it was a considerable sum for other ordinary Grand Luo Immortal cultivators, it was nothing to him now.

"Fellow Daoist Jingyang, don't forget that I am an alchemist. Although I spend money like water, the speed at which I earn money is not slow either. I have been planning this matter for so long, so I am naturally prepared," Wang Yu said with a smile.

Seeing Wang Yu looking confident, Jingyang Shangren only thought that Wang Yu was new here and didn't know the "danger" of the auction. If he was not careful, he would be killed and left penniless.

"If you don't have enough immortal essence stones at that time, you can first mortgage some elixirs to our Hundred Crafts Mountain. I will definitely give you a satisfactory price, and if you want to redeem them later, you can also buy them back at the original price. How about it, am I righteous enough?" He didn't directly pour cold water on Wang Yu, but said so instead.

Wang Yu pushed the entire jar of Firesaliva Wine to Jingyang Shangren and said cleanly:

"Righteous."

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The next morning, a loud bell rang throughout the entire Jukun City.

All four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northeast of the long-forbidden inner city were opened, and all the verification cultivators stationed here were evacuated, while the number of patrolling cultivators distributed on the city walls increased several times.

As the light of the rune restrictions on the city gates disappeared, the cultivators of all kinds who had been waiting outside the city gates could not wait to pass through the gate and pour into the inner city.

The once quiet streets and alleys of the inner city suddenly became noisy. The chaotic crowd dispersed along the roads towards various places in the inner city, some going to the shops selling magic treasures and immortal artifacts, and some going directly to some auction venues.

The entire inner city actually became more lively than the outer city.

At night, the inner city of Jukun was brightly lit, with red lanterns lit everywhere, and the entire area was brightly lit. There were also bursts of fireworks rising on the city walls to add to the fun, and the lively atmosphere did not diminish at all.

Six days passed in this way, and the most eye-catching Yukun Tower Auction in the city finally opened.

Wang Yu and Jingyang Shangren, as the organizers, naturally entered the Yukun Tower auction venue one step ahead.

After entering, he was surprised to find that the internal space of this Yukun Tower, which looked like only a tower from the outside, was so vast.

In the center of the building, there was a circular stone platform with a large area, which was obviously used to display the auction items. Around it were small, closely connected VIP rooms, arranged in a neat circle.

After the first floor was full, the second and third floors each surrounded another circle, which looked like there were probably hundreds of them.

Each VIP room had a low table and a futon. A furnace of sandalwood was lit in the upper right corner of the table, and some immortal vegetables, spiritual fruits, and a pot of fine wine were placed in the center.

Wang Yu and Jingyang Shangren picked a VIP room on the second floor and walked in first.

There was a young woman in the room, dressed as a palace maid, who immediately added a futon for the two and poured them fine wine.

Wang Yu glanced sideways unintentionally and was somewhat surprised to find that the palace maid was not a real person, but just a puppet, because her aura was weak, only equivalent to a Core Formation stage cultivator, making it less likely to be noticed.

"Fellow Daoist Jingyang, are you really not going to preside over the conference?" Wang Yu asked, retracting his gaze.