Chapter 25: The Auction 2

Meanwhile, as the auction was in motion, some shadowy figures were on their way to what they called the [Underground Qi Routing Control room] beneath the Chang's property. this was the tool for supplying power to the hall.

They silently eliminated anyone who saw them, but that didn't mean they happily carried out an indiscriminate mass murder.

"…the Qi Routing Control room." a hoarse voice broke the silence as it read out the words on the iron door.

They could feel the Qi overflowing from the processed core could be felt from where they stood.

Processed cores were artificial power source that was made to hold heaven and earth Qi in order to power the Airships, lit up the nights in certain areas of cities depending on the size.

It was just as vital to human convenience as electricity to modern Earth, the downside was that, one can't use it to cultivate.

This building was constructed with the premise that its lights would never be off as long as the core exists. So It's expected that  the auction hall will be plunged into darkness after losing its power supply.

The security was somewhat lax as they had all been moved to guard the items. No one would expect someone to go against the Chang clan in such an event.

After taking out the lights, their associates would head right toward the VIP booths, kill their respective targets and then make their getaway.

Should they succeed, the top brass felt that this would further increase their prestige here in the Northern desert.

This was a rather crude scheme, but it was the most effective.

The leading figure took a deep breath and unsheathed his sword.

Without any further action, the control room door was fell apart, exposing what laid within. everyone then charged in, turning everything inside into junk while the leader silently stored away the small sized Core that was the size of a human head.

No one said a thing.

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As the Gu's were observing the auction, a guard knocked.

Gu Yu Xing looked at Gu Lin Fang who nodded in return. Only then did Yu Xing say "come in".

His voice attracted the attention of ju'er whom was watching the competition below.

The guard came in and bowed to Gu Lin Fang first, before turning to Yu Xing while passing a note, "a lady came saying you have a message from someone called Fatty Zhu".

"They're going to do it inside the auction" Gu Yu Xing muttered in incredulity as he read the note.

Gu Lin ju tried looking calm as she asked, "what should I do?".

No matter how she acted tough, she has only been exposed to all this kind of action recently.

"just try and relax, I'm here.

I wonder if they investigated my cultivation realm." Gu Lin Fang says somewhat excited.

Gu Yu Xing shook his head and said, "They don't need to, big scale operations like this with so many targets at the same location.

They only have to use the Heart suppressing formation to block everyone's cultivation for 4 minutes

So everyone would be nothing but mortals during this period.

But...considering your and all the power houses cultivation, that means the time would be even shorter".

The thought of this formation worried Gu Lin Fang.

"Hmm?"

Just as they were speaking the lights in the hall suddenly vanished.

"What happened?"

"Just a bit of theatrics… right?"

"You don't say…."

"Look, the big shots aren't saying anything, why are being restless?".

The auction originally began in a dark hall with only candle lights in the first place, so the attendees weren't thinking too much. Just a bit of chatter, at most. They were yet to aware that this was an incident.

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The moment the core was destroyed, shutting off the light, some staff members began panicking from the sudden blackout.

The main doors and windows were letting in more light near the hall entrance from the next building, so naturally people gathered there.

The staff members were frantically trying to stop the attendees' bodyguards from coming in, saying it was dangerous, all the while stopping attendees from starting a stampede.

Gu Lin Fang promptly signalled Gu Yu Xing by gesturing towards the door with his jaw and the latter hid behind the door, It was then they suddenly felt their body become heavy.

Gu Lin Ju looked really anxious the moment she lost the feeling of her Qi.

"Stand aside if you are uncomfortable ok?" he said to his daughter not knowing how worried he sounded.

Panicked shouts broke out as they must have noticed the changes too, Gu Lin Fang could also notice movement from the other VIP booths.

Luckily all three of them had decent body cultivation due to the awakening of their bloodline, the lowest amongst them was at the foundation establishment realm and to top it off, they could see in the dark as their eyes glowed an ominous red.

The enemy doesn't seem to know of that information though.

Suddenly they could hear the guards scream as they fought off someone or something. The sound of fighting continued for a while before somebody kicked the door down.

Right at that moment, Gu Lin Ju opened her umbrella widely and pushed it towards the enemy, blocking the enemy's view before unsheathing the sword part.

"S...stop!" a guard struggled to say while holding the assassin's feet despite being on the floor. Another charged at umbrella with just his fists. Gu Lin Ju quickly closed the umbrella and stabbed out.

All this happened in a few seconds, the distracted assassin smashed the guards skull while his companion blocked the sword with his bare fist and it gave off a sound like a clash of iron.

At this time Gu Yu Xing moved, he clawed at the enemy but his arm passed through Gu Lin Ju's opponent's back and came out in front.

It was pretty much the same thing Gu Lin Fang did to him back at the Pan mansion.

"What were you doing!?" Gu Lin Ju complained but Gu Yu Xing was too busy staring at his bloodied arm with interest, His black colored claws were slightly extended.

'cool right?' Gu Lin Fang thought while taking a sit.

The other enemy was shocked by the sneak attack and became wary when he noticed that they were bloodline users. He held his sword tightly till his knuckles turned white, his body screamed with determination.

As he glared at the middle aged man on the cushion, he began regretting his decision in taking this job.

Unfortunately he was ignored, he lost his chance to live the moment he hesitated.

Gu Lin Ju kept bickering with Gu Yu Xing but the latter acted deaf, the assassin stood at the center of the booth, unsure of what to do.

Although they acted like that, it didn't mean they let their guard down.

Another man appeared from the corner of the door with a crossbow. Before he fired the shot Gu Lin Fang performed his [Nether poison needle] with his right hand and a poison needle flew straight through his unsuspecting victim's neck.

There wasn't any problems as it was a physical technique that didn't need much Qi to begin with.

The swordsman took a swing at Gu Lin Ju but was repelled by her sword, he used the knock back effect to slash at Yu Xing who evaded the attack while slashing his thigh with his claws.

Blood was everywhere and he fell backwards towards Gu Lin Fang, his primary target.

Gu Lin Fang who had been watching Yu Xing use the claws in a crude manner and decided to show him how it's done by moving his left hand with more than 50% of his strength, slicing the other, sword and all.

'Whoa, this claws actually cut metal…'He thought while being clearly amused.

But he didn't even have the time to be fascinated as he spun around to grab the spear stabbing toward him from the side.

His instincts gave him a warning just in time.

A struggle began between both parties and Gu Lin Ju tried to help, only to be kicked back to the opposite wall as she coughed blood.

'looks like this is the real killer' Gu Lin Fang finally took the battle seriously "Hahh!"

He pulled the spear towards himself while lunging forward in an odd manner. The enemy swung his spear horizontally in an attempt to dislodge him and He subconsciously performed the [Banshee's footprint], only, this time it was without Qi.

It gave him a strange feeling as he narrowly avoided the attack while aiming for the enemy's legs.

But Immediately, the attacker retreated without hesitation, Just in time to avoid the kick.

Gu Yu Xing instantly reacted with a kick but the enemy took the hit without stopping.

'Damn it, combat without Qi is really troublesome!' Gu Lin Fang tried to maintain a straight face as he waited for his leg to recover.

Although, the movement technique had worked earlier, it had to use something to substitute for it and that was blood.

Luckily, the opponent were not completely used to the dark.

He looked at the status bar and noticed that the chains on the Qi bar was fading away.

'I knew it, no wonder they ran!'.