434: Iron skin, iron bones, and iron viscera! The Black Iron Battle Body!

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Wu Hongzhong shook Su Lie's hand: "You have now passed the application trial for the Cross Star Black Market and possess the qualifications to serve as a Refiner within the Cross Star Black Market!"

"Are you willing to join us?"

"We..." He once again introduced the Cross Star Black Market.

Su Lie nodded: "Alright! I agree to join you!"

"Haha! Congratulations on successfully becoming a member of my Cross Star Black Market, brother! This is the position we are giving you based on your performance!"

Wu Hongzhong took out a bronze, four-sided cauldron-shaped crest. Handing it to Su Lie, he explained: "This is the crest of a Bronze Rank Great Refiner. You can place it together with the Cross Star Black Market coordinate token. Once they merge, you can use the token to obtain Treasure Refining missions for Cross Star!"

"Of course, the submission of missions, settlement of contributions, exchange and extraction of materials, and so on, are all handled through this token!"

... Under Wu Hongzhong's narration.

Su Lie placed the bronze four-sided cauldron crest together with the black market token in his hand.

To his surprise, the two items automatically merged together.

"What kind of power is this?" Su Lie raised his head and asked.

Another reason he joined the black market was to learn about and witness the rules and powers of other black markets.

He possessed a Gold and Silver Dharma Realm secret realm, which could be refined into a black market.

If he wanted to establish a black market, he would need to study the management and working experience of other black markets.

This time was an excellent opportunity.

Wu Hongzhong smiled and explained: "This is an item of the rules! You can understand the token as the main body of a network software, Cross Star is the server, and the crest is the key to activating VIP management authority!"

"I understand!" Su Lie nodded.

He sensed the black market token again. This time, he found that through the black market token, he could activate a panel.

Through the panel, he could see the Refiner's missions, as well as his current position: Bronze Rank Great Refiner.

He could also see his current contribution points within the Cross Star Black Market.

This token also supported Su Lie in exchanging Mist Points for rationality pills and Purification Pills.

However, if he wanted to exchange contribution points from the Mist Survivors Guild for these two types of pills, he would have to come here to the black market.

Additionally, he could teleport to the black market's second area, which was the headquarters, at any time.

As for the first area, the auction area, entry was only permitted according to scheduled times.

After Su Lie had mastered the black market token.

Wu Hongzhong smiled and said to Su Lie: "Mr. Liu! The auction is about to begin. We have prepared a Grade A private room for you as an apology gift for this incident!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed, and a portal leading to the auction floor appeared right in front of Su Lie.

"This is a direct portal to the auction hall!" Wu Hongzhong explained.

"Thank you very much!" Su Lie's eyes lit up.

Just as he was about to step through the door.

Su Lie suddenly turned his head to look at Qing Qing in the corner. He turned back to Wu Hongzhong and asked: "Director Wu! How will you handle this Qing Qing?"

"According to the requirements of the mist rule, she will naturally be promoted!"

Wu Hongzhong laughed: "She will also be your exclusive service personnel in the future!"

This instantly overjoyed Qing Qing, who was standing nearby.

Su Lie, however, shook his head: "No! Replace her for me! The matter between Zhang Shun and me wouldn't have escalated to this point, but she actually used us as pawns to create benefits for herself. That makes me very uncomfortable!"

"Hmm?" Wu Hongzhong glanced at Su Lie, then nodded: "I understand! You will never see her again!"

Qing Qing froze. She looked at Su Lie in disbelief: "Why? Why are you ruining me? Why?"

All that was left in her now was despair.

Clack! Su Lie, who had already stepped halfway into the light door, stopped. He turned his head and looked at Qing Qing: "You could trigger the life-gambling contract for Zhang Shun and me today!"

"Who knows if tomorrow you won't use me and someone else from the black market to create opposition? To set up a gamble? All to achieve your goal of escaping the black market!"

"We are not familiar with each other! I hate being schemed against by others!"

As his voice fell, Su Lie had already stepped into the light door.

Buzz! After the light door closed, Wu Hongzhong turned his head and looked mockingly at Qing Qing: "Hmph! Such a reckless thing! To actually dream of leaving the black market, truly foolish!"

Poof! As his voice fell, Qing Qing directly exploded into a cloud of blood mist... On the other side.

Su Lie, guided by the service personnel of the auction hall, had arrived at the Grade A VIP private room via the internal teleportation array inside the building.

"Sir! Guests in the Grade A private rooms enjoy a loan limit of 100 billion trillion rationality pills! Furthermore, no collateral is required, and the guarantor is this black market itself! If you need it, you can notify me using the button over here!"

The private room attendant enthusiastically served Su Lie some fruits and wine that could only be consumed by Second Turn professionals and above.

He also pointed to the function buttons on one side of the private room wall and gave a brief introduction.

Subsequently, the attendant bowed ninety degrees and exited the room.

Su Lie found that this luxurious VIP private room was similar to a KTV room on Blue Star.

On the wall near the Guest, there were numerous function buttons.

For example, there were thirty-six buttons for drinks, desserts, female, male, public, private, attendant, loan, checkout, bidding, and so on.

And on the table, there was also a bidding button with remote control functionality.

Pressing the button indicated that the private room Guest had participated in the bidding.

Unlike a KTV, where the lighting is generally dim.

This place was quite bright, magnificent, and filled with Brilliance.

Directly opposite the seating was a barrier constructed from a massive energy light screen.

Through this light screen, the entire venue could be seen.

Moreover, the scene on the stage could also be projected onto this light screen.

This allowed the Guest in the private room to clearly see the auction items on the stage, even from several kilometers away.

That's right! This auction house was a cylindrical structure, 10 kilometers in diameter.

The bidding stage was located in the center of the venue.

The first three floors were tiered seating for the venue.

At this moment, the seats in the tiered venue were already filled with various types of life forms.

From the third floor up to the twelfth floor were VIP private rooms.

The Grade A VIP private room where Su Lie was located was at the very top, overlooking the entire venue.

He could also project his voice throughout the entire venue.

Soon, the time reached 12:30 AM.

The venue was full, and all the private rooms were lit up.

The host was a middle-aged man wearing a sharp suit. He began the opening speech for this auction with a magnetic voice that carried a slight power of enchantment.

Su Lie also picked up the auction schedule at this time.

This detailed the auction process and the treasures to be bid on during the intermediate stage.

As for the final, show-stopping items at the beginning and end, they were only described using a few keywords.

Su Lie was not interested in this.

Instead, he was determined to buy a Talent called Iron Viscera that was set to appear in the middle.

According to the introduction, this was a special Talent originating from the Martial Dao Great World.

It needed to be combined with the four Talents—Iron Skin, Iron Bone, Iron Head, and Iron Brain—to awaken the Martial Dao Battle Body, the Black Iron Battle Body.

As for the specific effect of this Battle Body, the description did not mention it.

The reason he paid attention to this item was that he had already awakened the Iron Skin and Iron Bone Talents.

It was certainly not impossible to acquire one more Iron Viscera Talent.

After he finished reading the schedule, the first item of the auction appeared on the auction stage.

This was a pair of beautiful, nearly identical twin sisters.

The two women had pointed ears and a pair of crystal-clear wings growing from their backs.

Their skin was like white porcelain, reflecting a sheen under the light.

These were White Elves of the elf race. They were both Lower-Rank Deities, level 99.

"If everyone thinks this is just a pair of playthings, then you are greatly mistaken!"

The host laughed. He took out a manufacturing blueprint and solemnly stated: "This is a pill formula researched by a Refiner, named the Twin Star Elf Pill! It requires a pair of Lower-Rank Deities from the elf race as the main ingredients!"

"Supplemented by... Once successfully refined!"

"It can allow women to maintain eternal youth, increase their Lifespan by 10,000 years, and awaken the elf race's unique Enlightenment Talent—Moon Spring!"

... As soon as this was said, everyone in the venue was roused.

Following the host's introduction, the cylindrical large screen in the venue displayed 360-degree, comprehensive information about the auction item, as well as the panel information for the formula.

Su Lie in the private room could not only see more clearly than the life forms in the main venue, but he could also use the private room's function keys to display a three-dimensional, realistic model of the auction item right before his eyes.

He could even manipulate the model to examine every part of it.

After watching, Su Lie couldn't help but sigh: "I originally thought it was normal for the black market to auction slaves, but I didn't expect them to be resources!"

To his astonishment, this pair of elves was auctioned off for the terrifying price of 10,000 trillion rationality pills.

Subsequently, what utterly surprised Su Lie was that not only elves were auctioned here, but also Beastmen, half-Beastmen, special fierce beasts, humans, angels, the Undead Race, and all other races.

And all of these were actually materials. Every type of material was equipped with a specialized refining formula.

"Hoo! This must be the true darkness of this world! Everything here is a material! There are only bugs that don't work hard, not useless ants!"

Su Lie let out a breath. He did not participate in the bidding.

It wasn't that he wasn't tempted, but his inner intuition told him that this was not suitable for him!

After the opening auction concluded, it was time for weapons and armor.

Not only were all of these god-level items, but the refining blueprints were also god-tier blueprints.

These resources were suitable for various professions and were quickly bought up.

Subsequently, a new round of resource auctions began.

Just like that, the auction house proceeded to the middle stage, alternating between rounds of resources and rounds of other items.

Su Lie finally waited for the Iron Viscera he wanted.

"Everyone! This Iron Viscera Talent can make your internal organs as hard as iron. Even if you cannot gather all the Talents required to condense the Black Iron Battle Body, you can still use this to Enhance your internal organs!..."

The host rattled on for a bit, then immediately started the bidding: "The starting price for this item is 1 million rationality pills! Each bid must not be less than 1 million rationality pills! Let the bidding begin..."

Soon, dozens of people successively placed bids, raising the price of this talent scroll to 91 million.

These bidders were all from the main venue. Bidders from the VIP rooms were extremely few.

Seeing this, Su Lie immediately bid 100 million rationality pills!

This caused the bidders in the venue to sigh one after another.

Just when Su Lie thought he had secured the item, bidders from other private rooms surprisingly placed bids consecutively after his.

For a time, more than twenty private rooms placed bids.

Su Lie finally had to bid 2 billion rationality pills before the gavel fell, securing the talent scroll.

Before long, the attendant delivered the auction item into Su Lie's hands: "Guest! This is your item! According to the black market rules, you enjoy a 20% employee discount at the auction house! You only need to submit 1.6 billion rationality pills!"

Su Lie quickly completed the payment of the rationality pills, and the Iron Viscera talent scroll, which had been shrouded in a restriction layer on the table in front of him, instantly lost the restriction's protection.

The attendant also withdrew at this time.

Su Lie immediately used his Identification Talent to look at the Iron Viscera talent awakening scroll.

[talent awakening scroll (Iron Viscera): Red God-level Quality; Awakening Requirement: Martial Dao Talent;]

Your internal organs will be as solid as steel, immune to all physical damage.

Note: This Talent can be fused with the Iron Skin, Iron Bone, Iron Head, and Iron Brain Talents to form the Martial Dao Battle Body, the Black Iron Battle Body.

Note: This scroll is a necessary combination Talent for the Ancient Martial Battle Body system; successful integration requires fusion of the Talents.

Note: There are two ways to fuse Talents: one, awakening a unique Talent fusion; two, using a special item of the mist rule that fuses Talents.]

"Hmm? The Battle Body isn't a Talent? Then after the Talents fuse into a Battle Body... does it become a separate attribute?"

Su Lie pondered in confusion.

It was also at this moment that an item appearing on the auction stage caught his attention.

This was a buff item that had not appeared on the schedule.

This buff item made Su Lie's eyes go straight, leaving only one thought in his mind—buy it!

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