Chapter 481
What is the Ancient Martial World?
It was a place where ancient martial artists lived and was not open to the outside world at all.
It was only after Ji Yiyuan had followed someone from his own family in a few times that he learned that there was actually such a magical place in the world as the Ancient Martial World.
The invitation to this auction was also obtained because Ji Yiyuan was on good terms with a member of his own family
With Ji Yihang’s current merit, he wouldn’t even be able to enter the Ancient Martial World, let alone get an invitation.
As for Wen Fengmian?
He had regained his status, but in such a short period of time, no one in the ancient martial arts community had approached him either.
In terms of connections, there was no way for Wen Fengmian to compete with him.
Ji Yihang gritted his teeth, “Ji Yiyuan, it’s fine for you to target me, don’t target Fengmian and the others!”
He had naturally heard about that auction and did want to find an invitation, bring enough money and go and auction off those medicines.
It was just that the Inner Academy had never had much interest in these auctions in the ancient martial world, and usually asked for resources from his own family, not even to exchange the invitations.
He was also not capable enough to have someone from his own family send him an invitation specifically.
Mrs. Ji’s father was indeed physically ill.
Those who do scientific experiments have more or less health problems, even his own lungs have been bad in recent years.
Mrs. Ji’s father would retire, also because his health was greatly affected, and always had to take medication as well, but it did not get better.
There are some diseases that Chinese and Western medicine cannot cure, but ancient medicine can.
But even for the Ji family, it is not that easy to hire an ancient doctor.
“How am I taking this personally? Yihang, how can we still be considered brothers?” Ji Yiyuan smiled and sighed, “If it were anyone else, do you think I would go to him? It won’t happen.”
The Ji family did not forbid struggle, instead they encouraged it.
As long as he didn’t kill or set fire to the house, he did whatever was attached to the rules.
“Alright, think about it.” Ji Yi Yuan put away the invitation, “What about this auction, it starts tomorrow night, I’ll give you one day, you come to me before noon tomorrow, or else, tsk, you’ll be waiting for your old man’s early death.”
Ji Yihang clenched his fist in a deathly grip, his expression darkening by a few degrees.
He pursed his lips and left the lab, going to the other side of the villa to Mrs. Ji’s father.
**
Evening.
Ying Ziji went to Nie’s house.
Master Nie hadn’t seen her for a long time and had specially asked the chef and the dessert chef to set up another banquet table.
On the sofa, Xiu Yu was playing a game online with Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan was in the ancient martial arts world, but the Ling family was very open-minded and had installed a lot of wifi and signal transmitters.
After Jiang Yan finished training every day, Ling Chonglou granted him two hours to play games.
“Ying Dad, sit down and have a seat.” Xiu Yu patted the seat next to him, “I’ll give you a report on my recent performance, I can now run into one minute and thirty seconds a lap.”
The world record was one minute and twenty-four seconds, this speed was really impressive.
Ying Ziji unscrewed a bottle of juice and nodded, “When is the race?”
“It was supposed to be next year, but now it’s been changed to the end of September, at a sudden notice.” Xiu Yu shrugged, “When the Manson family holds the tournament, it all depends on the mood of their family head, they can hold it twice a year, or not for two years.”
Just like last year, the Manson family held two f1 races on a whim and made a lot of money.
Ying Zidian looked tired and lazy: “That’s quite unique.”
“Ying Dad, are you going?” Xiu Yu turned his head, “I’ve already signed up and can get tickets in advance.”
“Go, a film queen under my command just happens to start filming at that time.” Ying Ziyi nodded slightly, “It’s in the same city as your racing car, I just happen to be dropping by.”
The project she was investing in represented money, and she was going to go for a spin.
“Good.” Xiu Yu snapped his fingers, “That’s on my way.”
After eating, Ying returned to the bedroom the Nie family had reserved for her.
Fu Yunshen walked in, holding a piece of paper, “Yao Yao, the auction is tomorrow, here’s the list, is there anything you want to auction?”
Ying Ziji reached out and took a look at it, her eyes narrowed slightly, “Something really good.”
She saw a few very rare medicinal herbs that could refine some new medicines.
The Ancient Martial World had a special common currency, but it would also take cash and bank cards.
This part of the money was used to make deals with the four major plutocrats of the O Continent.
“Well, pick.” Fu Yunshen sat down on the sofa, his long arms unfolded and stroked the girl’s hair, “Buy them all, next time I’ll help save them for you in advance, so they won’t be on the auction.”
This time the list for the auction was made just as he came out during the time he was injured in O Chau.
By the time he woke up, the auction items on the list were all basically already known for the major ancient martial arts families, it was not good to remove the auction items.
The Hall of Justice was judicial, so it was important not to disrupt the order first.
Ying Ziji took a pen and finished drawing the herbs and some cold weapons she needed, and thought for a moment, “Are there any more invitations?”
Ji Li wanted to go to the Ancient Martial World, and it was just the right time to take advantage of this auction, so she took Ji Yihang’s family to have a look.
“There are.” Fu Yunshen didn’t ask, he directly instructed, “Yunshan.”
“Coming coming I’m coming.” Yunshan was standing guard outside and immediately jumped in when he heard the sound, “Miss Ying, there are many invitations, and many different colours, take as many as you like.”
Only then did she notice that Yunshan was carrying a bag behind her back: “……”
Yun Shan put the bag down, untied the rope and poured out a bunch of invitations with a clatter.
There were hundreds of them.
There were indeed many colours too, and some invitations had different box names on them.
Fu Yunshen tidied up the invitations that Yunshan had poured out: “It’s just paper.”
It was originally a joint venture between the Justice Hall and the ancient medical community, and the invitations were also made by the Justice Hall, so there were indeed as many as you wanted.
Ying Zigui didn’t look at them specifically and took a random stack: “Sir, thank you.”
Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows, his voice trailing off, “Is that all? Can I have some privileges?”
Yunshan immediately jumped out again, running far away and covering his ears.
What was to follow was probably restricted and not for him, a good boy, to watch.
In the bedroom.
Ying Ziyang raised her head, her gaze slightly paused.
When Fu Yunshen was about to speak, a hand suddenly grabbed his collar and pulled him down just like that
The action was very forceful.
Immediately afterwards, a slight coolness pressed against his lips.
Soft and squishy, like candyfloss and jelly.
As if triggering something, the man’s back tightened abruptly.
But in the next second, the girl pulled him by the collar again and pushed him out the door.
The voice was cold and clear, still smooth: “Okay, I’m going to bed.”
And with that, the door was closed.
Fu Yunshen leaned against the wall, his hand propped up on his forehead, and gave a low laugh.
Just light the fire, don’t care if it goes out.
It was really cruel.
Fu Yunshen looked lazy: “Yoyo, good night.”
And then, as soon as he turned around, he saw Elder Nie staring at him with open eyes.
Fu Yunshen’s peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly and his lips curled up: “Elder Nie?”
“Huh? Oh.” Old Master Nie pretended to be pa*sing by and coughed solemnly, “I just came to see if you’ve gone to the wrong room.”
“……”
Fu Yunshen tugged at his clothes and lifted his eyes, “I’m going to the bathroom.”
Nie Laozi stared at him for a moment longer before leaving.
Outside.
With a gun in his arms, Yunshan stood guard outside, taking a look at the lights in the villa and couldn’t help but sigh.
With so many elders staring, their young master was really miserable to the extreme.
**
The following day, near noon.
Ji Yihang thought about it for a long time, but finally decided to go with the suggestion of agreeing to Ji Yi Yuan.
Madam Ji wouldn’t let him go: “Yihang, he deliberately targeted you, you can’t agree to him.”
The failure of the godly experiment was also subject to the deduction of merit points.
This was a Grade A experiment that Ji Yihang had been preparing for half a year, if it was so deducted, at least five thousand merit points would be gone.
Ji Yihang’s position, too, would be revoked.
“Madam, you’ve sacrificed a lot for me.” Ji Yihang shook his head, “It’s just an experiment, and since Feng Mian has now regained his identity, I’m even more relieved that this invitation must be obtained, and I don’t know if there will be such an opportunity in the future.”
He was solemn: “It doesn’t matter if I suffer a little, you guys can’t.”
Mrs. Ji froze violently in place.
“Dad, Mom!” At this moment, Ji Li returned from outside, very excited, “Cousin said she was going to invite you guys to go around the ancient martial world, eh, you guys ……”
Seeing Mrs. Ji with red eyes, she was stunned, “Mom?”
Madam Ji had always been strong, and Ji Li had never seen her show any expression of vulnerability.
She also knew that their family was in a difficult situation and had been struggling.
“It’s nothing.” Mrs. Ji shook her head and sighed, “Crying in anger from a fight with your father.”
Ji Li: “……”
She didn’t believe this at all.
The phone rang at this time, and the caller was Ji Yi Yuan.
His voice was full of sarcasm and mockery: “Yihang, ten minutes left, are you coming? Don’t look for it, the Ji family is just me and Miss Yan with an invitation, do you think Miss Yan will give it to you?”
Ji Yihang pursed his lips, “I’ll come, I’ve already typed up the lab report.”
“That’s right.” Ji Yi Yuan smiled, “I’m waiting for you, better hurry up, maybe I’ll change my mind.”
Ji Yihang was being held in his hands, what else could he do?
Ji Yiyuan’s voice was not small and Ji Li heard it vaguely, “Mom, what invitation?”
Madam Ji was silent for a moment and spoke, “It’s just-”
“Isn’t it the invitation to the auction?” Ying Ziji walked in and pulled out a pile of invitations from her school bag, spreading them out on the table, “Second uncle, second aunt, do you see if you like the name of the box?”
Chapter 482
When Ji Li saw this action of the girl, she remembered that earlier Ying Ziji had also mentioned to her about the invitation.
That’s why she ran back to say it with high spirits.
She didn’t expect that she would really be able to go around the Ancient Martial World, and even go to an auction that only comes once a year.
Ji Yihang’s movement of putting on his clothes gave a pause.
Madam Ji, on the other hand, was stunned.
They looked at the table of invitations and were both stunned by the grandeur, people were a little dumbfounded.
The invitations were colourful, and a few had names written on them, all of which were the names of words from ancient poems.
Changxiang Si, Niannu Jiao, Acacia, Ru Meng Ling ……
Not only was Ji Yihang looking for the invitations, but so was Madam Ji.
That medicine was made by an elder of the ancient martial world and could cure all kinds of diseases, so she was trying to take a picture of it for her father.
She had seen the photo of the invitation over at the inner courtyard.
The invitations issued jointly by the Ancient Martial World and the Ancient Medical World were different from the outside world.
There would be a special seal of the Hall of Justice on it, and inside the invitation there would be an ice heart flower attached.
The Ice Heart Flower is a transparent coloured plant, the veins of the leaves and petals can be clearly seen and is only the size of a small thumb.
It has no special effects, but it can meditate the mind, and one plant is better than the incense pouches you can buy outside.
Only a small number of ancient doctors know how to refine the Ice Heart Flower.
After successful refinement, the Ice Heart Flower is very popular in the ancient martial arts world.
Because the internal energy in the body of ancient martial artists is inclined to be violent, a careless cultivation may result in a riot of internal energy.
The Ice Heart Flower can help calm the mind of ancient martial artists and reduce the possibility of internal energy riots.
As many invitations as there are here, there are as many Ice Heart Flowers as there are invitations.
The only one who could be so generous was the Hall of Justice.
It was only after a long time that Madame Ji reluctantly returned to her senses: “Yao Yao, this invitation is ……”
“A random pile.” Ying Ziji looked at it and repeated Fu Yunshen’s words, “It’s just paper.”
Ji Yihang: “……”
Mrs Ji: “……”
Ji Li: “……”
Is this, in the eyes of the big brother, an invitation?
Ji Li silently bowed her head.
But it was indeed the right paper.
“Yoyo, thank you.” Mrs. Ji’s lips moved and the tears that were playing in her eyes fell all at once, she raised her hand and couldn’t stop wiping it, “I’m really so grateful, I’m not much use, I don’t know what I can do to help you ……”
It was hard on Jiri’s psyche too, “Mom ……”
If she could, she’d rather they were a very ordinary family.
But no.
The children of the Ji family were not allowed to break away from the family.
If they broke away, the downfall would be the word death.
This was the rule of the Inner Academy, and even more so, it was set by the Ancient Martial World’s original family, and it hadn’t been changed to this day.
The Ji family was so cruel that Ji Li even envisaged the outcome of being executed if she broke the rules when she was in junior high school.
The competitive style of the Ji family originates from the ancient martial world.
It was useless to overpower the ancient martial world, even if one mastered the Ji family.
But with the family continuing for over a hundred years and the ancient martial arts in their possession, where could they be fought against by ordinary people?
But now, she finally saw hope.
“My father’s return was one of the reasons that contributed to Ji Yiyuan’s move against Uncle Er.” Ying Ziji held her up, her eyelashes dropping, “I am responsible, I will take the blame.”
Mrs Ji went on to wipe her tears, but her tone was solemn, “Yaoyao, it’s not your responsibility, it’s Ji Yiyuan’s problem, and if you take it as our responsibility, it’s victim guilt theory.”
It is the perpetrator, who is the root of the problem.
Ying Ziji was silent for a moment, “I understand.”
“D**key, can you really pick?” Ji Yihang also didn’t expect that he would be able to see so many invitations that the Ji family’s 10,000 people were asking for, and thought he was dreaming.
“Mm.” Ying Zigui nodded, “It will also take a while to get to the Ancient Martial World, so once we’ve picked them, we can leave now.”
Ji Yihang nodded and looked at them seriously, picking up one of them, “Let’s take ‘Longevity’, madam, everything I want to say is in those three words.”
Madame Ji didn’t say anything, but was obviously very happy.
Ying Ziji collected the other invitations, “Let’s go.”
Ji Li couldn’t stand it and complained after her, “Ying Shen, look at them, they’re still like this even though they’re an old couple, don’t pay attention to the impact.”
She was the only single dog.
It was humble.
I’m sorry.
**
Ji Yiyuan’s side.
He specifically said that he was going to give the invitation to someone else, but it was actually a false statement, just used to force Ji Yihang.
Ji Yi Yuan was winning.
Ji Yihang and his wife were very much in love and Ji Yihang would definitely make a choice for the sake of his old husband.
But Ji Yiyuan waited left and right for a full hour, but did not get Ji Yihang to come, and finally got a little impatient.
“Dad, Ji Yihang isn’t coming?” On the side, Ji Yundong took a glance at the time, “We have to go, Professor Yan has gone to the entrance, we can’t let the people of this family wait impatiently.”
To go to the Ancient Martial World, they had to have a pa*s order, they didn’t have one on them, they had to be led by their own family to do so.
“Come as you like.” Ji Yiyuan snorted, “It’s not like I’m the one who died old man anyway, when the time comes, we’ll let the word out in the Ji family when his old man dies.”
“Saying that he doesn’t even care about his old husband for the sake of his own career, watch, once his reputation in the Ji family is ugly, he will also be finished sooner or later.”
This was Ji Yiyuan’s second move.
For there had been such things before.
In order to cover up bad gossip, the Inner House would also execute some members of the family.
“Dad, this is a really high move on your part anyway.” Ji Yundong laughed, “After this incident, Ji Yihang and his wife will definitely be centrifugal, they really deserve it.”
“Serves you right.” Ji Yiyuan let out another cold snort, “Let’s go.”
Since Ji Yihang was so insensitive, he would wait for Ji Yihang’s miserable downfall.
**
5:00 pm.
Ji Yihang and his wife, Ji Li and Wen Fengmian arrived at the Ancient Martial World for the first time.
Ji Li was curiously poking around, “It’s even more real than those ancient TV dramas, I thought I had travelled back in time.”
“Hmm.” As she walked, Ying Ziji also introduced, “The Ancient Martial Realm has a long history and is considered a place of ancient ruins.”
The auction was held inside the big tavern in the centre of Justice City.
The architecture of the tavern was still ancient, and outside were the Justice Hall’s guards, wearing armour.
They surrounded the tavern in a circle and guarded it closely.
After all, every time there was an auction there would always be so many ancient martial artists who didn’t know how to sneak in and steal the auction items.
Madam Ji exclaimed, “So this is how the ancient martial arts world works, it’s really like a costume drama.”
“Ugh, I suddenly don’t like the ancient martial world anymore.” Ji Li held up her phone, mournfully, “My phone doesn’t have a signal.”
Ying Ziji pressed her head.
She had forgotten that the Ancient Martial World rejected the high technology outside.
The wifi and signal transmitters were there, but not all of them covered.
At least not here in the tavern.
Mobile phones and computers were indeed quite useless in the Ancient Martial World.
“Little Li, play with your phone less.” Madam Ji disapproved, “It hurts your eyes.”
“I’m doing data for Ying Shen.”
“Then you can play.”
“……”
At this moment, Wen Fengmian’s footsteps suddenly lurched.
He turned his head and his gaze landed not far away, his expression changing slightly.
It was rare for Wen Fengmian to show a different emotion, and Ying Ziyi noticed it at first: “Dad?”
She followed Wen Fengmian’s gaze and looked over.
It was a flamboyantly dressed woman, wearing high heels and a shawl wrapped around her cheongsam.
Her age was already on forty-five, but she looked only in her early thirties with proper maintenance.
Very pretty indeed.
It was only because her looks were so outstanding that they favoured her with a more light-hearted air.
The woman noticed them too, and for a moment was stunned and incredulous.
But Wen Fengmian had already withdrawn his gaze: “Let’s go.”
Ying Zidian’s phoenix eyes narrowed, and she gave a hint in her heart.
The five of them entered the restaurant.
The hall on the ground floor was for casual seating, and the first floor was for private rooms.
Those who could get an invitation to the first floor were either powerful or rich.
Although the staff in charge of checking the invitations had never met Ying Zigui and the others, they all respected them a lot.
“Second uncle your ‘Chang Xiang Si’ is here, and dad and I are going to ‘Qing Ping Le’, which is just opposite.” Ying Zidian pointed to the name of the box, “If something comes up, come and see me.”
“Okay.” Ji Yihang responded, “Ask your second aunt to make you goulash chicken later, I swear, I won’t crave chicken legs this time.”
“……”
**
The other side.
In the Jade House Spring box.
The woman’s face was very white and her feet were weak, and only after she sat down did she barely settle down.
“Madam, what’s wrong with you?” The butler who followed the woman in saw that she didn’t look right and her face was still a little pale, “Is it because you’re not feeling well?”
The Ancient Martial World had one temperature and one season all year round.
The four seasons were like spring, not cold or hot, very suitable for cultivation.
But the woman felt her body cold, and she couldn’t help wrapping her shawl around her, her eyes dodging, “No, it’s nothing, I accidentally crooked my foot just now.”
The butler nodded, still concerned, “The family head is still busy and will not come until later, please wait here now, Madam, and call me directly if you need anything.”
After he finished, he retreated.
The woman’s expression was still in a bit of a trance, and her nails were whitening as she squeezed the cup.
Wen Fengmian, how did he get back to the Ji family?
Hadn’t she been dead set on staying in Qing Shui County and not going back?
She had put up with it for five years, and had engineered the birth of two children, but she hadn’t been able to get Wen Fengmian to go back to the Ji family.
But Wen Fengmian did treat her well.
Wen Fengmian lived in poverty for those five years, but she didn’t. She still wore gold and silver and ate and drank well.
Wen Fengmian gave her all his a*sets, and she later managed to run away with them.
But it was the Ji family she had her eyes on, and she didn’t have any feelings for Wen Fengmian.
If she hadn’t known that Wen Fengmian was a member of the Ji family, would she have lived with him for so long?
If Wen Fengmian had returned to the Ji family some years earlier, she would have been happy.
But not now.
She could not allow Wen Fengmian to show his face in the ancient martial world, absolutely not.
It would affect her daughter’s status and position.
The woman’s eyes were obscure as she gripped her teacup tightly and slowly took a sip of tea to calm herself down.
**
At this time, outside the auction building.
Yan Ruoxue and Ji Yiyuan had also come.
The invitations given out by this family were for casual seating.
Both Yan Ruoxue and Ji Yiyuan could only wait for the auction in the hall on the ground floor.
Because Yan Ruoxue was not a member of the Ji family, only Ji Yihang followed the Ji family’s guards up to the first floor to pay his respects to the head of the Ben family.
Ji Yiyuan was surprised: “My lord, is there any difference between this first floor and the ground floor?”
The guards on the first floor were a cup of the ground floor.
They were all ancient martial artists with high cultivation levels, not the kind of martial apprentices he had around him.
None of these ancient martial artists had released their internal energy, but the kind of killing aura that mixed with Ruo Tiancheng was also almost overwhelming him.
“There’s a big difference, this is a private box, which represents a prestigious status, and there’s only one for the Ji family.” The guard glanced at Ji Yiyuan, “This family is the family head and matriarch, and several elders are here, you can just pay your respects and stay here?”
Ji Yiyuan shivered in fear and asked again, “Dare I ask your Excellency, how long will this auction last?”
“If it is quick, it will be able to end today.” This question was answered by the guard, “If it is slow, it is not impossible to shoot for three days and three nights, but whether you can hold out or not is unknown.”
Ji Yiyuan wiped his sweat.
An ancient martial artist did not eat, drink or sleep for a few days or a month. It was indeed not a big deal.
But he, an ordinary person, couldn’t last long.
But it didn’t matter, he could at least come and watch this auction, what about Ji Yihang?
Ji Yihang would have to go cry to his old man’s grave later.
He deserved it.
Ji Yiyuan sneered in his heart as he followed the guards towards the boxes where the Ji family’s own family was located.
He also sighed in his heart as he looked at the names of the boxes.
As expected, the ancient martial arts world still continued in the ancient style of China.
Ji Yihang and the escort were walking when a compartment door opened.
The escort immediately stopped Ji Yihang and coldly: “We have to be respectful to the person in the box, make way first.”
Ji Yihang nodded and, with a casual glance, saw the name of the compartment – Changxiangxie.
He also knew that those who could get inside the box must have a much higher status than him.
This place was full of ancient martial artists who did not dare to be messed with.
The door opened and Ji Yiyuan looked over.
Ji Yihang and Ji Li walked out from inside.