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Chapter 59 - CHAPTER 59: BEGINNING OF AUCTION

Morgan's advancement to the Late Foundation Realm was kept under tight wraps. 

Aside from Misha and John, who were present during the breakthrough, no one in the city knew that their city lord had made a quiet breakthrough. 

Morgan didn't want anyone to know about his breakthrough, so he quietly consolidated his realm over seven days. 

Nearby cities were buzzing about the consecutive auctions happening in Black Rock City. Many individual cultivators came to consign their treasures and bid on various exercises, treasures, and other exotic materials being auctioned. 

The rise in individual cultivators intensified conflicts in the city. To combat the disruption of order, City Lord Morgan temporarily recruited individual cultivators to maintain peace. 

This timely increase in security thwarted thefts and other disruptive forces from executing their plans. 

The forces attending the auction at Black Rock and the Jade Pavilion in the city faced the dilemma of whom to consign their treasures. 

Morgan secretly released the news about the ultimate treasure that could heal the internal injuries of qi cultivators, maintain their qi and blood, and solidify their foundation before taking the foundation pill for a breakthrough. 

He also created hype by announcing that it could cure deep injuries in the foundation establishment realm and aid in realm breakthroughs if consumed in larger quantities. 

Many cultivators who were hesitant to choose the auction house immediately made up their minds and headed to the Black Rock City Auction House. 

The Jade Pavilion received the information and quickly announced that they were auctioning a peak second-grade exercise and a second-grade meteorite, which attracted quite a bit of attention. However, many favored Black Rock City over the Jade Pavilion because of the treasure that could cure hidden injuries.

With many foundation establishment items appearing in the auctions of some third-tier cities, quite a bit of attention has been drawn from foundation establishment realm cultivators in nearby cities, where foundation cultivators serve as lords and guest officials.

Many weapons manufacturing professional cultivators have come to the city to purchase the Meteorite which is being auctioned in a jade pavilion auction house.

Morgan invited all the foundation establishment realm cultivators to his mansion for entertainment and secretly released his cultivation realm to stop others from thinking that they could steal the items under his watch.

This scrubbed the ideas of a few fellows who are always on the tip of the knife and taking risks for profits.

They could take risks if Morgan was in the middle stage of the foundation realm, but the late stage is beyond their reach, as many who have come are in the early stage or at the peak of the early stage of the foundation realm.

Even if they start the fight, Morgan can activate the city defense, trap them for a while, and then pick off the weakest ones, killing them one by one with ease.

As the days went by, the city's auction day drew nearer, and the city bustled with crowds from early morning. The city lord amplified security measures throughout the city.

The cultivator families have taken on the responsibility of protecting the outer city, which has reduced the burden on the city lord. In return, he has generously issued rewards for their voluntary participation.

On the day of the auction, the city lord invited all the foundation-building experts who had come to attend the event. After praying to the heavens for success, he unveiled the auction house.

Eight foundation experts from nearby cities attended the auction, and with Ray and the expert from the Jade Pavilion, there were a total of ten foundation realm experts in the city.

Morgan personally assigned the private rooms on the third floor of the auction house, while the remaining rooms were allocated to the Qi families in the city.

Various shows were played from morning until evening to entertain the guests.

In the evening, with the auction house packed with cultivators, Morgan stepped onto the stage and began his speech.

"Fellow cultivators, who have come from afar for this auction I hope you have enjoyed all the shows which were presented during the entire morning session." Morgan started.

"Thank you all for traveling such a long distance to attend the inauguration of my city's auction house."

"Now without any further due let me explain the rules of the auction,"

The first item is a traditional auction in our city, offering the management rights for a section of the city's outer area.

2) The second section will feature items consigned by the qi cultivators, ranging from pills to puppets.

3) The third section will be about the inheritance arts up to second-level low-grade exercises. 

4)The fourth section will be about the second-grade peak formations which I have personally made.

5) The final item will be in the last bracket, divided into 90 batches. The first 10 batches can only be bought by qi cultivators, while everyone else can participate in the remaining batches.

The rules of the auction are simple: no one is allowed to intimidate other cultivators during the bidding. I hope everyone will compete with their spirit stones to win the items in the auction.

I wish everyone a very good afternoon once again and hope you all find the treasure you seek in the auction. With that, I'm signing off, and my butler John will take over from here.

As Morgan wrapped up the speech, Ray, along with Lily, Jessica, and Jay, calmly entered their assigned room, took their seats, and listened to the introduction.

Ray was shocked to learn Morgan was the city lord of this city when Jessica introduced him by pointing to him when she saw him on the stage.

While Ray was in shock, John then took the stage calmly from Morgan and started the first lot of the auction.

Now the first auction would be the management right for the outer city section which was recently vacated. You can start bidding.

"100 low-grade spirit coins," Ray immediately instructed the servant to place the bid for the amount he had just mentioned.

The servant was immediately stunned upon hearing Ray's bid and stood there in shock. Meanwhile, several other bids were made, and the price quickly rose to 20 low-grade spirit stones.

The servant snapped out of his stupor and shouted, "Room one, the bid is 1000 low-grade spirit stones!"

The entire auction house was stunned into silence by such an exaggerated bid, causing everyone to withdraw from the first lot. John immediately struck the gong three times, sealing the deal.

With it began the auction of the Black Rock City.

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