49: Chapter 48 The Auction! The Horror Behind the Ancient Scrolls!!

The next afternoon, outside the usually secluded and quiet Yang Family Courtyard.

Convoys of high-hazard item transport vehicles lined up in a long queue, guarded by specialized personnel in uniform.

Not far away, a small helicopter was even parked.

This small auction was somehow made to look extremely grand.

However, after agreeing yesterday, Sun Po felt a bit unsure inside.

He was not entirely clear whether the Divine Firmament Meteorite Talisman he made would definitely successfully bestow a true name upon the Heavenly Soldiers.

After all, President Chen Wang's Heavenly Soldier was also a singular piece of evidence.

Therefore, that morning, Sun Po first practiced with Principal Zhu Chang's Heavenly Soldier.

After all, having spent three years at Number Two High, Sun Po felt that the principal was a pretty good person.

He didn't put on airs, managed the school very well, and was quite friendly to commoner Card Makers.

The result went very smoothly; the principal's Heavenly Soldier successfully loaded the Divine Firmament Meteorite Talisman and became a member of the Thunder Department.

But this time, when seeing that ancient scroll, Sun Po felt as though he was a bit closer to it, and he still did not understand the origin of this ancient scroll.

The batch of materials given by the principal was of good quality, successfully earning 2,100 points of spirituality value. At this moment, his spirituality value reached an unprecedented 4,100 points.

Sun Po had an unreal feeling of a poor person suddenly getting rich, but the gradually noisy human voices outside the house pulled him back to reality.

After all, this was just flexing his muscles.

Tonight was the real main course!!

...

The sun sank westward, and the sky gradually darkened.

Soon, the agreed-upon time arrived.

The bids of each visitor had also been tallied up.

There was a vice president of an out-of-province Card Association who bid the ruthlessly highest.

He offered 25 purple materials in one go, plus 1 orange material.

The others basically all offered 20 purple materials plus 1 orange material,

or over 25 purple materials.

Sun Po decided to give priority to keeping the people who held orange materials.

After all, purple materials might be encountered by sheer luck,

but orange materials could only be encountered by borrowing Liu Jianren's ultimate dog-luck, and they were even niche field card materials.

These orange materials might have even better uses after the system upgraded.

The first person to enter was a young, capable fellow who was the secretary of a vice president from a neighboring city's Card Association.

Smiling broadly, he had people carry in a golden chest over a meter tall.

As soon as the chest was opened, Sun Po only felt that this thing was even more dazzling than gold.

The entire room was illuminated in a golden glow.

Sun Po stepped forward, narrowing his eyes,

and reached out to touch this material.

In an instant, he decided in his heart to keep this precious orange material.

The material information is as follows:

[Card Making Material Analysis]

[Indestructible Golden Body Shell]

Quality: [Orange 7-Star]

Description: [Derived from the golden body remains of a certain Arhat; although it has lost its true essence, it still retains a certain degree of divinity.]

MOD [Vajra Guardian Ape Demon] and [Changyou] adaptability: 0.003%

MOD [Vajra Guardian Ape Demon] loading success rate: 0.000051%

...

Although this orange material had little adaptability with [Changyou], if Sun Po guessed correctly,

its adaptability with Yang Xinyue's card [Yang Wulang] should be very high.

For no other reason than that [Yang Wulang] was originally a monk,

and later had incense and worship passed down among the folk, while also being one of Buddhism's guardian deities.

This material was almost tailor-made for [Yang Wulang].

Having been taken care of by Yang Xinyue for so long, Sun Po failed to fulfill his promise to make a MOD for her last time.

With a suitable opportunity this time, naturally, he could not let it go.

Therefore, without hesitation, Sun Po accepted the young man's Heavenly Soldier card.

Afterward, Sun Po did not see any particularly suitable orange materials,

but Sun Po did not lose out either; even if disassembled, orange materials yielded a lot of spirituality value.

Soon, the transaction ended; some were happy while others were worried.

Holding nine Heavenly Soldier cards in his hands, Sun Po made an appointment with everyone

to come collect them in two days.

...

Time flew by. Over these two days, Sun Po felt as though he had undergone high-intensity repetitive labor,

feeling like a 3D modeling worker, making the Divine Firmament Meteorite Talisman over and over again.

At the same time, Sun Po also clearly felt that

he was getting closer and closer to that ancient scroll, yet he still could not understand the text on it.

At the same time, when seeing the ancient scroll, Sun Po also felt a gradually intensifying pulling force, as if it wanted to drag him into it.

When Sun Po pinched the last Heavenly Soldier card, he felt that his mental state was already approaching its limit.

After all, making MODs also required the guidance of his spirituality.

When loading, Sun Po once again saw that familiar ancient scroll together with the Heavenly Soldier beside him.

Sun Po already felt that the ancient scroll in his perspective was at least half larger than when it first appeared.

He did not know the reason behind this, but the closer Sun Po got, the more panicked he felt.

Merely staring at it for a moment, he felt faint whispers continuously echoing by his ears.

That sound was like the murmurs of wandering ghosts drifting from beyond the nine heavens, making one feel eerie and dangerous.

Deep in his heart, Sun Po increasingly felt that this ancient scroll was not simple and might harbor extreme danger.

In the future, he should take on fewer gigs of bestowing true names for Heavenly Soldiers or Heavenly Generals.

This ancient scroll was simply too mysterious.

...

Soon, that Heavenly Soldier returned to Sun Po's side holding the Divine Firmament Meteorite Talisman.

Just as Sun Po's consciousness was about to return to his body like the previous few times,

suddenly, Sun Po vaguely saw that there was actually something on the ancient scroll.

Sun Po could not clearly see what that thing was, only seeing a general outline.

That was a mysterious Taoist priest tied with a tattered yellow Taoist robe around his waist, with many pairs of eyes growing on his upper body.

Holding a sharp sword and stepping with profound footsteps, the Taoist priest seemed to be dancing, yet also roaring.

Suddenly, the eyes on his body all turned uniformly toward Sun Po's direction.

A terrifying scene suddenly flashed back into Sun Po's mind:

a mysterious ancient scroll burning in the starry sky, turbulent clusters of energy light filling the sky,

an Arhat with a fractured golden body, a Buddha whose head drifted in the void,

flying celestial maidens, mighty warriors wearing animal skins and drawing bows to notch arrows,

a giant snake torn into several sections, and even Sun Po vaguely saw Western angels

whose wings were dripping with blood, seemingly having experienced an extremely tragic and fierce battle.

Just as Sun Po was about to watch closely,

the next second, a vast expanse of giant eyeballs popped up before his eyes.

Only then did Sun Po see that it turned out to be that bare-chested,

terrifying Taoist priest growing many eyes on his body who had already arrived right in front of him.

Being far away just now, Sun Po hadn't felt how tall or massive the Taoist priest was.

Now that he was up close, Sun Po discovered that

even a single eyeball on the Taoist priest's body was about as big as himself—this was a true, tangible colossal entity.

Within the gaps between the eyeballs in the Taoist priest's eyes, some granulation tissue seemed to be continuously crawling outward,

looking extremely disgusting and making one's scalp tingle.

At the same time, the Taoist priest's face grew three large mouths constantly extending and spitting out tentacles,

and the places where eyes should have grown had also turned into mouths spewing tentacles.

This was the first time Sun Po had seen such a sanity-draining thing.

Immediately following that, his vision blurred,

and his perspective had already returned to inside the room.

At the same time, the system's electronic prompt appeared on the panel:

"[mod loading system has upgraded!! Please check the specific information!]"