After quickly leaving Ray's villa, John began wandering around the city, visiting all the family cultivators and inviting them to the opening of the new auction house.
Everyone was excited to hear that second-level exercises would be auctioned during the event, and these families also consigned several top-grade first-level artifacts, pills, talismans, spirit beasts, puppets, and valuable spirit plant seeds from the treasury.
With these various treasures, John started his return journey to the mansion.
After entering the mansion, John didn't find the city lord or Misha, so he assumed they were at the headquarters. He slowly made his way to the basement and teleported to the mountain where the city lord resides.
When John reached the main house on the mountain, he found Misha and Morgan both present, discussing something seriously inside.
John reached next to them and informed them of the successful completion of his mission.
He then observed that there was no joy on their faces, and they still held serious expressions. So, John asked them the reason for their serious expressions.
"Uncle, it's all because of the Jade Pavilion auction house. When I went there to extend an invitation, they informed me that the elder of the pavilion would visit our city in a few weeks to conduct an auction."
"The one who is coming is a late foundation realm expert, and they haven't informed us of this auction until now, just as we've made all the preparations."
"If we can't conduct the auction properly by making the final item grand enough, they will suppress us by auctioning a costly item and diminish the prestige of our auction house and the city lord," Misha informed John gloomily.
"I heard the auctioneer has a family member working as an elder in the Jade Pavilion but inviting him at this time seems like a spiteful move," Morgan flared.
"Master, don't get angry. We'll try to get some important items for the auction in the next few days and negate any negative influence with our customer service, which they can't easily provide for every cultivator attending the auction," John advised, calming Morgan down.
"Yes, I will arrange various troupe shows during the auction for the entertainment of the guests and will supply the participants with various spirit fruits in limited numbers to dine." Misha excitedly came forward with another idea.
John coughed to get Misha and Morgan's attention, then informed them once again that he had completed the mission assigned to him.
Then he started taking out the items that were consigned to them by the city qi families to auction them and placed them on the ground.
Misha helped them rearrange the items according to their value and began noting down the details of the items and the person who had consigned them into a notebook of hers.
Then John hesitantly took out the tea sachets Ray had consigned and handed them personally to Morgan and informed him that:
" Sir, Master Ray whom you have asked to invite has also consigned an item for the auction, but he asked us to them to try the product first and place them in the auction if they like it."
Morgan took the tea leaves and smelled them which felt refreshing and fresh and asked Misha to prepare three cups of hot water.
Misha immediately went inside and brought back three cups and a pot of hot water on a tray.
Morgan took the cups and placed the three sachets in them, slowly stirring as he poured hot water.
The tea leaves instantly dissolved upon contact with the hot water, turning it a light green color. A refreshing aroma wafted from the cups, with bits of life energy seeping out.
Morgan noticed the life energy leaking from the cups and began to observe carefully to confirm if it was just his imagination.
To his surprise, the energy was gradually fading away from the tea leaves in the cup and dispersing into the surroundings.
Morgan sprang forward and drank it without wasting a single drop, urging Misha and John to do the same so as not to waste such a precious treasure.
Perplexed by Morgan's actions, Misha and John quickly followed his lead and gulped down their tea in one go.
As soon they drank the tea they quickly observed the damages they had taken in battles and the damage caused during the cultivation was slowly healing.
Both of them immediately sat there on the floor cross-legged and started actively directing their energy mixing with the life energy and healing all the body's hidden wounds in one go.
While Misha and John were meditating, Morgan made another cup of tea and drank it as soon as the tea leaves dissolved in the water.
An hour later, Misha and John woke up from their meditation and discovered that they had both reached the peak of the Qi cultivation realm and had the tendency to break into the foundation realm. However, they quickly suppressed it to accumulate more experience.
Unlike Misha, who grew up in the city with resources provided by Morgan since childhood, John traveled the world and accumulated many hidden injuries during his journey before settling here. All those injuries were cured with just one cup of tea.
John used to have many wrinkles on his face and a lot of white hair, but now he has only a few stray white hairs on his head and no wrinkles on his face.
"Now that you have woken up go outside and do the work required for the auction event, we have secured the final item for the auction," Morgan commanded while showing the sachets to both of them.
Everyone who tasted the tea knew the benefits of drinking it, so all the dark clouds that had gathered over them had now cleared.
"The tea affects foundation-building realm experts but only when taken in large quantities, So, I'll use this tea to heal my injuries and aim to reach the late-stage foundation realm today if possible."
"So, I'm going into closed-door training and will come out by tomorrow morning after consolidating my realm. Don't disturb me until then," Morgan told them, grabbed 10 tea sachets, and quickly left the room.
Misha and John didn't anticipate this sudden surprise and quickly followed him and started guarding his room so no one could disturb him during his meditation.
The next morning, Morgan stepped out of his room cheerfully, exuding the pressure of the late foundation realm.