217: New rules! Huangquan Auction House

"Understood! Understood!" Feeling the heavy weight of the huangquan coins in his hand, the old man's heart blossomed with joy.

The wrinkles on his face became more numerous and deeper.

'This guy?!'

Seeing Chen Ming casually pick up at least a few thousand huangquan coins and toss them to the old man, Yin Xiri finally understood why the old man was so respectful towards him.

"You dare to offend a distinguished guest of the Shuiyue Inn, you really don't know what's good for you!" The old man spread his five fingers, and his nails appeared like cat claws.

The sharpness of each one was comparable to a blade.

"You, are you blind, you old geezer? He was clearly the one who provoked me first, and just giving you a bit of money is enough to buy off your conscience?"

Seeing Yin Xiri clench his fists, still wanting to fight back, the old man's body suddenly surged, and his clothes split open.

From a seemingly frail old man, he instantly transformed into a giant figure nearly three meters tall, with an explosively muscular and burly physique, muscles stacked like blocks of tofu.

Yin Xiri went from looking down to looking up, meeting the old man's gaze with a face full of dark lines, his eyes filled with lingering fear.

The golden gauntlets on his fists subsequently disintegrated.

The skill could not be used due to an unstable mindset.

To put it more bluntly, Yin Xiri's body had already given up resisting.

He knew clearly that facing such a powerful opponent, he had no ability to fight back.

The old man didn't waste any more words, raised his arm high, and brought a palm down fiercely.

He instantly cut Yin Xiri into several pieces, dismembering him!

"Sir, this excellent fresh ingredient, do you need me to have someone cook it for you immediately and serve it?" The old man turned his head to look at Chen Ming and asked.

His voice also became younger and much more powerful due to the change in his physique.

"No need, I'm not hungry right now." Chen Ming looked at the intestines and guts that fell out of Yin Xiri's body after the corpse split open, his heart relatively calm.

But if he were asked to eat these things, he truly couldn't do it.

After all, he was human, not a ghost.

"I see." The old man didn't insist, grabbed Yin Xiri, and dragged him towards the kitchen.

He raised his hand to lift the door curtain, and just before entering, he suddenly thought of something, looked towards Chen Ming, and explained, "Sir, that pot of wine is just ordinary wine, nothing else was added."

"Alright." Chen Ming replied.

After the old man entered the kitchen, the door curtain fell.

Chen Ming picked up the wine pot and poured a cup.

He looked at it; the wine quality was very ordinary, there was almost no aroma, the body was relatively clear, and there were no impurities.

If Chen Ming were to describe it, it couldn't even compare to a third-tier, no, a fourth-tier winery on Blue Star.

But to say the old man deliberately served him inferior wine, Chen Ming didn't believe it, certain he didn't have the guts.

If there were no surprises, the best wine in this inn was of this quality.

Most guests who came here probably drank blood + wine, with the focus on the blood, so the wine quality just needed to be passable.

Afterward, five more people successively came to the Shuiyue Inn, applying to become inn employees, odd-job workers responsible for serving tea and water and looking after guests.

One of them was from Great Xia, two were from the Eagle Faction, one was from Sakura Country, and another, Chen Ming heard from the accent, was from India.

The reason they came to apply, Chen Ming thought, was very likely due to the content the system had just announced.

[The Huangquan Auction House will open in twelve hours. At that time, only those with a net worth of one hundred huangquan coins can enter!]

[Note: In the Huangquan Auction House, you can auction various top-tier spirit artifacts, as well as the opportunity to leave the instance!]

'No wonder the end time of the instance wasn't announced, turns out it has to be obtained through auction...'

At this moment, in Chen Ming's eyes, the Huangquan Ghost Realm had already become a working Ghost Realm.

Working for various ghost shops, getting paid, completing system tasks, and receiving huangquan coins rewards were the primary means of acquiring wealth.

As long as one's wealth was high enough, they could not only bribe relationships with ghosts but also purchase powerful spirit artifacts from the auction city!

If they then bid for the opportunity to leave the instance and returned to Blue Star with these spirit artifacts, they would inevitably surpass a large portion of people.

"Opening in twelve hours? Interesting." Chen Ming began to look forward to it.

After all, with ten trillion huangquan coins in hand, how long would it take to spend it just by tipping ghosts?

A money-burning place like an auction house was just right!

"Alright, that's all I have to say, go to work."

The old man arranged the respective job positions for the five people.

One person went to the backyard to chop wood, one person was responsible for carrying water, two people stayed in the shop to receive guests, and one was sent to the kitchen to help out.

The ones who stayed to receive guests were from Sakura Country and the Eagle Faction.

Seeing Chen Ming and Qin Hongyue, two people with Great Xia faces and appearances, able to sit and drink and chat, the two were very puzzled.

They were also human, so why didn't they need to work?

But remembering the eerie and terrifying ghostly aura on the old man, they didn't dare to ask more.

Worried that if they angered him, their heads would not be safe.

The puddle of fresh blood on the ground that hadn't dried yet made it clear to them how dangerous this place was and that they had to deal with it carefully.

Noticing the two observing him, Chen Ming didn't pay attention.

At least they didn't seek death by coming to provoke him like Yin Xiri did.

They were busy wiping tables, mopping floors, transforming into workers, striving to earn huangquan coins.

They were focused on leaving this bizarre world as quickly as possible, not wanting to stay for even a second longer.

After some more time passed.

The old man opened the shop door completely, seemingly indicating it was time to open for business.

Or rather, the ingredients needed for the day were ready.

Earlier, they had heard no shortage of chopping meat and bone-cutting sounds coming from the kitchen.

Clap clap clap!

The old man clapped his hands to get their attention and instructed the two, "The guests will be here soon. Remember what I just told you. If you violate the rules, no matter how the guests deal with you, we at Shuiyue Inn will not intervene."

"Y-yes, understood." The two replied with trembling voices.

After the old man left, the two exchanged glances. "I wonder what kind of guests will be coming."

"Does that even need saying? Guests from the Ghost Realm definitely won't be human."

"Speaking of which, how did you come to this world?"

"I'm not sure. I clearly wasn't fishing or anything, I was just grabbing... *cough cough cough*!" The Eagle Faction member swallowed his words, realizing they were inappropriate. "Anyway, a portal suddenly opened without any warning and sucked me into this world."

"Me too!" The Sakura person quickly added.

The more they thought about it, the more bizarre and strange it felt.

They hadn't done anything, yet they were brought to the Huangquan Ghost Realm.

They worried that such things would become more frequent in the future, making it impossible to find peace.

However, at the moment, what the two cared about and were more concerned about was the guests who would be arriving shortly.

Just thinking that those guests might eat them as a side dish at any moment.

Their mood became restless and agitated, unable to calm down.