Necropolis Immortal

ing Yu snuggled into Lu Yun’s arms rather than pulling away.

Lu Yun lightly caressed her hair with a smile.
“What makes up the components of formations and pills… a method for refining talismans and treasures… their formula! Your method… No, it should be considered a type of dao now.
Let’s call it the formula dao!

“Formula can be applied to everything in the world.
From now on, your combat art deduction method will be known as formula dao.”

As they chatted, Lu Yun isolated his voice with a combat art to prevent it from traveling beyond the two of them, lest the immortal dao sense it and incorporate formula dao within, leading to Qing Yu’s premature tribulation and ascension.

Her curse hadn’t yet been resolved, so the time wasn’t ripe for her to become an immortal.

Qing Yu nodded in agreement.

……

The venue boiled over with exhilaration as proceedings continued.

The presentation of flawless primordial arts sent frissons of excitement through the attendees.
Those lucky enough to be the winning bid on any of them began cultivating them on the spot.

These primordial arts were more than just combat arts; they contained a great variety of techniques and cultivation methods as well.
As the distilled wisdom of the primordial immortals, they contained a complete legacy of dao.

Each primordial art was worth more than hundreds of billions of premium crystals.
Many void-ascended immortals bankrupted themselves to acquire one, ignoring the formation of heaven and earth that would be placed on the block at the end of the auction.

“What?!” Another commotion spread throughout the summits.
“That’s Xing Chen’s Sword Atlas.
Why is it on sale as well?!”

Its power had been proven to the world back during the Sovereign Meet and in the battle of Dusk Province.
It was no exaggeration to call the Sword Atlas one of the best of the flawless primordial arts.

But Lu Yun was auctioning it off now!

This was a combat art without an accompanying cultivation method or other techniques.
Otherwise the Sword Atlas would’ve been buried in a tomb, rather than a burial mound.

“Why is this combat art in your possession, Lu Yun?” demanded a Ling immortal.

While the Ling Clan originally hadn’t been invited, an invitation had later been issued after the thirteen merchant guilds decided to organize the auction together, along with other factions that’d been previously passed over, like House Donglin and the Corpse Refiners.

None of the belated invitees would miss the opportunity.
They wanted the Sword Atlas more than anything else, and couldn’t retain their composure when it was put up for sale.

“Didn’t you guess it already?” Lu Yun yawned and walked out lazily.
“I am Xing Chen.
Xing Chen is me.”

He’d originally planned on continuing the act, but Scarlet Ape had spilled the beans immediately upon arriving in Dusk.
Qing Yu wasn’t disguising herself as Qing Han anymore, either, so there was nothing stopping Lu Yun from revealing his identity.

In the end, it all came down to power.

Compared to who he’d been in Destiny City, Lu Yun was now powerful enough to not have to bother with concealing his actions.
Xing Chen had ascended to the golden immortal realm from the void realm; even arcane dao immortals would only take a punch to kill.

“Nonsense!” A Fangyang immortal shot to his feet.
“Our arcane dao immortal examined you with an immortal mirror.
You and Xing Chen are two different people…”

“Tsk, believe what you want.” Lu Yun waved his hand dismissively.
“Since no one’s gonna bid for the Sword Atlas, Wanfeng, we’re buying it in.
Next!”

“Understood.” Wanfeng beamed widely when she saw Lu Yun.

“Don’t! I’d like to bid—” Immortals hurried to shout prices.

Sword Atlas was a powerful combat art that enabled one to wield tens of thousands of swords at the same time.
With enough inner energy, that would kill almost anyone.
However, Wanfeng waved the art off the block and motioned for the next item to be brought on stage.

Killing intent permeated the air as many directed resentful glares at the Ling Clan and the Fangyang Nobles.
The two clans kept their mouth shut; they knew they’d angered the room.

“I believe many will be interested in this next lot,” Wanfeng announced.
“The trump card of every heavenly court in the world of immortals is a weapon of war.”

Everyone in the room gaped at the young woman, their expressions filled with dread and anticipation.

“Weapons of war tend to be extremely complicated to set up.
Formations must be established and the weapons have to be connected to an earthen vein.
One misstep can send all your efforts down the drain.
The weapons of Sir Lu Yun’s invention, however, don’t require these extra steps.”

With a wave of her hand, a giant black veil slid off to reveal ten pitch-black cannons.

The crowd shot to their feet, eyes threatening to pop out of sockets.
Had Lu Yun really lost his mind?! Why would he put such things on sale?!

The world of immortals was already on the brink of a great war.
Him selling the weapons was adding fuel to the flames!

“These aren’t regular weapons of war, Sir Lu Yun has named them crystal cannons.” Wanfeng scanned the venue with a smile.
“I’ll cut to the chase.
A set of ten crystal cannons, if imbued with the power of three billion crystals for full capacity, can severely injure or even kill an arcane dao immortal.
The starting price is fifty billion crystals.

“Bidding may begin.”

1.
In the world of immortals, immortal crystals can be found in the premium > common > inferior grades

2.
”Placing (an item) on the auction block ” means to sell something at auction.

3.
If there are no bids on a lot, or if bidding does not reach the lowest possible selling price, the lot is “bought in,” meaning it is unsold and remains the property of the owner.