Martial Peak

Martial Peak – Chapter 1373, Room B-13

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Translator: Silavin & PewPewLaserGun

Editor and Proofreader: Leo of Zion Mountain & Dhael Ligerkeys

 

The masters from the various great forces on Shadowed Star had a complicated relationship with Old Black Face Yan Pei. What they loved about him was that once he organized an auction, the items sold were all guaranteed to be superb, but what they hated was naturally how he made sure each of these items was sold for an outrageously high price, even making their powerful forces feel like they had been taken advantage of.

 

Two Third-Order Origin Returning Realm masters standing here showed just how much importance Treasure Trove Pavilion placed on this auction.

 

Seeing Yang Kai arrive, whether it was Fei Zhi Tu or Yan Pei, both suddenly wore smiles on their faces. When the young girl Qing’er saw this, she couldn’t help feeling greatly stunned. According to her memory, Head Manager Yan Pei rarely showed a smile, and it was enough to cause her to become quite excited.

 

Such a reaction illustrated that Yang Kai’s status was incredible, which in turn meant that the rewards she might receive were also greater. If she was lucky enough to have Yang Kai take a liking to her, then she wouldn’t need to worry about having enough cultivation resources ever again. Anyone who could attend this auction definitely didn’t lack Saint Crystals.

 

“Greetings, two Seniors!” Yang Kai’s brow twitched but he still had to step forward and salute.

 

At the end of the day, he was still the Junior here so he couldn’t just ignore decorum.

 

“Haha, there’s no need to act overly courteous,” Fei Zhi Tu smiled lightly and waved his hand, causing an invisible force to lift Yang Kai up in a kind and friendly manner. Since seeing the Phoenix Soul Remnant Yang Kai was carrying in his body back in the Emperor Garden, Fei Zhi Tu no longer dared underestimate him.

 

Even if it was just a weak Soul Remnant, it still belonged to a legendary Ancient Divine Spirit that had disappeared long ago. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that as long as Yang Kai didn’t die and his strength kept improving, the power that the Ancient Divine Spirit Soul Remnant could display would also increase. Although Yang Kai may not have an opportunity to break through to the Origin King realm while suppressed by Shadowed Star’s World Principles, once he reached the peak of the Origin Realm, with the help of that Ice Phoenix Soul Remnant, he would be absolutely invincible.

 

If Fei Zhi Tu didn’t take advantage of this opportunity to curry favour with Yang Kai while the latter was still small and weak, once he became strong it would be too late.

 

“Boy, I heard you stirred up some trouble again recently,” Fei Zhi Tu grinned meaningfully and commented.

 

“I don’t know what Senior is referring to,” Yang Kai replied doubtfully.

 

“Don’t feign ignorance, didn’t you kill someone from Sea Heart Sect?” Fei Zhi Tu glared at him.

 

“So it’s about Sea Heart Sect. En, I killed him, so? Did Senior hear some kind of rumour about this?” Yang Kai asked curiously.

 

“Not really,” Fei Zhi Tu shook his head slowly, “Sea Heart Sect is based far away, on the Limitless Ocean, but it is still counted as a second-class Sect after all, not a force that can be casually humiliated. Acting so unscrupulously right from the start, have you considered the possible consequences?”

 

Yang Kai grinned back meaningfully, “After being intolerably bullied, did Senior expect me to simply stand back and bear it?”

 

Seeing the sharp look in Yang Kai’s eyes, Fei Zhi Tu failed to stifle his laughter and nodded, “If you could bear it, then you wouldn’t be you.”

 

Last time, Yang Kai had made a mess in Heavenly Fate City despite being surrounded by eight Origin Returning Realm masters and had even killed one of them that belonged to the Xie Family. Fei Zhi Tu had long known that Yang Kai was not one to settle things peacefully, but he still warned lightly, “I heard that the people from Sea Heart Sect are now staying at the Xie Family’s residence and the relationship between the two forces seems to be quite good.”

 

Yang Kai narrowed his eyes. A cupped his fists said, “Many thanks for Senior’s reminder.”

 

“En, in addition, there seems to be another force staying in the Xie Family called Flowing Cloud Valley. In any case, you should be careful.”

 

“Flowing Cloud Valley?” Yang Kai frowned, his expression changing slightly.

 

“What, don’t tell me there’s some kind of grudge between you and that Flowing Cloud Valley too?” Fei Zhi Tu was stunned.

 

Yang Kai just laughed.

 

Seeing him acknowledge it, Fei Zhi Tu was speechless and quickly waved his hand, “It’s fine, young people should be energetic, so raising a big fuss is only natural. If it gets to be too much of a problem just come to my Heavenly Fate City, that Flowing Cloud Valley won’t be able to stir up anything here.”

 

“Junior will remember,” Yang Kai gently nodded.

 

Fei Zhi Tu believed that Flowing Cloud Valley was just a trivial little force, but Yang Kai was actually most concerned about it simply because that Lu Ye came from Flowing Cloud Valley! Yang Kai really didn’t know what he had done to offend Lu Ye to the point where the latter wanted to put him to death back in the Flowing Flame Sand Field, and although Yang Kai successfully cut off one of Lu Ye’s arms during that conflict, the latter has still managed to escape.

 

At that time, Yang Kai felt that Lu Ye was somewhat unusual, even an elite like Wei Gu Chang might not be his opponent.

 

Facing Lu Ye, Yang Kai felt no less pressure than when facing that young man named Leng Qing from Star Emperor Mountain. Both of them could pose a great threat to him, something not possible for Qu Chang Feng or Fang Tian Zhong.

 

Flowing Cloud Valley was actually able to cultivate such a disciple, so even if they themselves weren’t too powerful a force, Yang Kai didn’t dare look down on them. As such, he had especially collected information on Flowing Cloud Valley since then and after hearing Fei Zhi Tu mentioned them, Yang Kai’s first thoughts were naturally about Lu Ye.

 

Now that several years had passed, it was impossible for Yang Kai to tell how much Lu Ye’s cultivation had advanced. If he were to fight him again, it wasn’t certain who would emerge the victor, but Yang Kai wasn’t afraid. After all, his own strength was also much higher than when he first fought Lu Ye and he had obtained many more methods with which to confront powerful enemies.

 

Yang Kai’s conversation with Fei Zhi Tu ended here, but Yan Pei seemed to be waiting to jump in and quickly said, “Little Friend Yang being able to participate in my Treasure Trove Pavilion’s auction is a great blessing.”

 

“Haha, Senior is too polite. It is this Junior’s honour to be able to participate in this auction,” Yang Kai replied humbly.

 

Yan Pei maintained an affable smile as he lowered his voice to ask, “Does little friend perhaps have anything he would like to auction today? Although the auctioned items have already been determined, if little friend has something to contribute, this old master is willing to make an exception. This is not difficult for this old master.”

 

“Senior must be joking. The good things accumulated by my Honoured Master were all taken out many years ago for the previous auction, there’s really nothing left worth contributing,” Yang Kai said casually. In any case, he had always used this non-existent master to deflect trouble and no one as of yet had been able to determine whether such a powerful master really lived on Dragon Cave Mountain, so speaking nonsense here wasn’t a burden for Yang Kai in the slightest.

 

“Is that so…” Yan Pei showed a disappointed look, suddenly lowering his voice further and whispering again, “How about this old master reduces the commission by fifty percent again?”

 

“I truly have nothing to contribute!” Yang Kai replied bitterly.

 

“Oh, seems this old master was being too forceful. En, little friend, since you’ve arrived then you shouldn’t have to stand around outside. Go inside and rest for a moment, the auction will begin in an hour!” Yan Pei reluctantly relented and allowed Yang Kai’s group to pass.

 

Yang Kai cupped his fists once more before he and Yang Yan were led inside by Qing’er.

 

Like the last time he was here, the hall of this grand building was already full of cultivators here to participate in the auction. Even if there were occasionally a few free positions, the number wasn’t high and in the centre of the auction hall was a large round raised platform. It was from this stage that Treasure Trove Pavilion presided over its auction. The walls were all inlaid with glowing stones that spotlighted the high centre platform.

 

“Two Seniors, please wait a moment,” The young girl named Qing’er asked after walking inside before she moved to a nearby spot and discussed something with another Treasure Trove Pavilion cultivator.

 

A short time later, she returned with a smile and respectfully handed Yang Kai a wooden token, “This is the control token for two Senior’s private room.”

 

Yang Kai accepted this token, glanced down at it, and found it was inscribed with the characters ‘B-13’.

 

After having participated in such an auction before, Yang Kai was familiar with this type of token and knew that it was for room B-13.

 

However, this was an interesting coincidence. The last time he participated in the auction here, he had been seated in room C-13. But today, he was assigned to room B-13. Although the number had not changed, the grade increased a level.

 

Last time, it was because of Qian Tong that he could obtain a private room, but this time it was not due to anyone else’s prestige, it was entirely due to Dragon Cave Mountain’s reputation.

 

Considering all this, Yang Kai curled his lips slightly before storing away this token and indicating to Qing’er to lead the way.

 

Shortly after, Yang Kai and Yang Yan were seated in the room B-13 and Qing’er was attentively serving them tea. There was no one else in the box except for the three of them.

 

Motioning to the spirit fruits arranged on the table, Qing’er explained, “These are Sparrow Spirit Fruits which were specially collected by the pavilion for this auction. They are quite sweet and can help purify one’s Saint Qi. Please feel free to try them.”

 

Yang Kai nodded lightly, picked up one of the fruits, and stuffed it into his mouth, nodding with satisfaction a moment later.

 

Seeing his pleased expression, Qing’er became slightly emboldened and continued, “The auction will not start for another hour. If two Seniors would like, I can arrange for some dancers to entertain you.”

 

“Oh? Is your Treasure Trove Pavilion’s hospitality so thorough?” Yang Yan asked in surprise.

 

Qing’er smiled, “Not every guest receives such treatment, only those in Block B and above.”

 

Yang Yan swept her eyes over Qing’er and smiled tenderly, “It’s not necessary to call anyone else, from your supple waist and slender legs, it’s obvious you’re also versed in such forms of entertainment, why not show us how you dance?”

 

“Me?” The girl blushed as she timidly shot Yang Kai a glance. Although her cultivation and status weren’t high, she could tell that of these two, Yang Kai was the lead, so naturally, she sought his approval first.

 

“Don’t cause trouble!” Yang Kai glared over at Yang Yan before saying to the young girl, “She’s just joking with you, you don’t have to take it seriously.”

 

“Yes,” Qing’er whispered softly, both happiness and disappointment flashing across her eyes.

 

Fortunately, these two Honoured Guests she was assigned to seemed easy going. Although the woman seemed to like to tease her, there was no malicious intent behind her actions while the man was obviously an upright person so she didn’t have to worry about being put in an awkward position. What disappointed Qing’er was that she didn’t have a chance to perform here.

 

Yang Kai saw the look on her face and could guess what she was thinking, so he lightly said, “We have no special requirements. You can just tend to your own matters for now. After the auction is over, there will be plenty of benefits for you.”

 

Qing’er heard this and smiled very happily, “Many thanks, Senior.”

 

Seemingly having figured out the temperaments of these two Honoured Guests, Qing’er withdrew a few steps and remained silent, only taking the initiative to speak or act if Yang Kai or Yang Yan called upon her.

 

Soon after, Wei Gu Chang and Dong Xuan’er came over to chat with Yang Kai.

 

It wasn’t surprising that these two knew which room he was in as all they needed to do was ask Yan Pei.

 

These two only left just as the auction was preparing to start.

 


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22 thoughts on “Martial Peak – Chapter 1373, Room B-13”

  1. Wonder if the final item is a blood stone? For another stone puppet. If he had another, he could keep one with him and leave one with yang yan. I hope Yang Kai keeps Xiao Xiao

    1. Might be, or something for the body tempering art, but I think blood essence stone.
      And I don’t think he can afford it even… That dude that MC cut one arm off, will probably want it if my guess is right

    1. No matter how much you are tempted to read machine translated…once you try to complete reading even one chapter..you end up being frustrated and don’t understand what is going on anymore lol

  2. Thanks for the chapter Silavin, PewPewLaserGun, Leo of Zion Mountain, and Dhael Ligerkeys! Bet the next time they get into a fight Yang Yan is going to battle like a seasoned veteran and thrash their enemies lol.

  3. How is Yang Kai ever going to get enough capital for a sect if he passes up on great opportunities like this to amass wealth. Just have Elder Qian be the go between for the goods. He doesn’t have to bring out a pill vein pill to give Yan Pei face. Just throw in a regular origin condensing pill or make up something that you found in the Emperor Garden. He’s way too cowardly. This is not caution

    1. True, he should be saving up a few hundred million saint crystals on the side for his future sect. Selling a lot of unremarkable pills and artifacts is the perfect way to do so without drawing attention.

    2. If he needs money in the future he can make money in the future, especially once he can truly afford to show off his means and wealth. After all he is only going to establish a sect after he has the strength to contend with other first class sects. At that point even if he reveals that his place has an origin grade artifact refiner and alchemist he will be fine and he can make all the money that he needs. Right now it’s too premature.

      If he wants to sell stuff at this auction without getting any attention, he would have to use Saint king grade high rank, and frankly that’s not gonna make much money. Even if he sold a few of those kinds of things, he would probably only make a few million. In the last auction he sold 2 Saint king grade high rank origin condensing pills, but because of the difficulty to refine they are worth as much as regular origin low rank pills, 1 origin low rank artifact and one origin mid rank artifact. The pill without pill veins sold for a million but only because qian tong artificially raised the price, normally it would only sell for 300,000, and the origin low grade artifact only sold for 2 million. But the origin mid grade artifact sold for 10 million, and the pill with pill veins sold for 100 million, cause it was rumored to help people eventually break through to origin king.

      So clearly only stuff at and above origin mid grade are worth selling at these auctions, anything below that really won’t make as much money. That’s because it’s possible to get origin grade low rank stuff outside the auction, especially for first class forces since alot of them would have origin low rank alchemists and artifact refiners. If he is not going to bring anything that’s at least at origin low rank minimum, there is no point, especially since Yan Pei is expecting him to bring stuff worthy of being the finale, if he just brought him a shirt ton of Saint king high rank stuff that guy wouldn’t accept at all since it would just lower the value and reputation of the auction. People are expecting high value stuff here, if he is going to sell stuff like that he can and should sell them elsewhere.

  4. So he won’t auction off ANYTHING AT ALL?! Wtf, seriously? He will probably spend all he has on that item, and perhaps not even afford it, and Yang Yan uses an insane amount of resources. AND THE FUTURE SECT? I mean ffs, what is he thinking with? He doens’t have to use the real good things, but Yang Yan previously made over 100 artifacts that were just for sale?
    In you ask me, he should use one thing worthy of being in the finals because he needs money, and a couple of “regular” artifacts and a pill or two….

    No I am dissapointed honestly

  5. I feel the same as you all. Why would he not sell off SOMETHING. It’s kind of ridiculous to me. He needs the money. He currently only HAS 70 million, which is NOT enough.

  6. 📜”Yang Kai grinned back meaningfully, ‘After being intolerably bullied, did Senior expect me to simply stand back and bear it?’ Seeing the sharp look in Yang Kai’s eyes, Fei Zhi Tu failed to stifle his laughter and nodded, ‘If you could bear it, then you wouldn’t be you.'”

    😕Yeaaah, I think the author forgot which novel he was writing. Yang Kai has been “simply stand[ing] back and bear[ing] it” for a long time now. The previous Heavenly Fate City burning incident was basically the first time Yang Kai didn’t lower his head and ignore the insults since coming to the Starry Sky.

  7. 📜Yang Kai grinned back meaningfully, “After being intolerably bullied, did Senior expect me to simply stand back and bear it?” Seeing the sharp look in Yang Kai’s eyes, Fei Zhi Tu failed to stifle his laughter and nodded, “If you could bear it, then you wouldn’t be you.”

    😕Yeaaah, I think the author forgot which novel he was writing. Yang Kai has been “simply stand[ing] back and bear[ing] it” for a long time now. The previous Heavenly Fate City burning incident was basically the first time Yang Kai didn’t lower his head and ignore the insults since coming to the Starry Sky.

  8. 📜’Yang Kai grinned back meaningfully, “After being intolerably bullied, did Senior expect me to simply stand back and bear it?” Seeing the sharp look in Yang Kai’s eyes, Fei Zhi Tu failed to stifle his laughter and nodded, “If you could bear it, then you wouldn’t be you.”’

    😕Yeaaah, I think the author forgot which novel he was writing. Yang Kai has been “simply stand back and bear it” for a long time now. The previous Heavenly Fate City burning incident was basically the first time Yang Kai didn’t lower his head and ignore the insults since coming to the Starry Sky.

  9. 📜Yang Kai grinned back meaningfully, “After being intolerably bullied, did Senior expect me to simply stand back and bear it?” Seeing the sharp look in Yang Kai’s eyes, Fei Zhi Tu failed to stifle his laughter and nodded, “If you could bear it, then you wouldn’t be you.”

    😕Yeaaah, I think the author forgot which novel he was writing. Yang Kai has been “simply stand back and bear it” for a long time now. The previous Heavenly Fate City brnig incident was basically the first time Yang Kai didn’t lower his head and ignore the inslts since coming to the Starry Sky.

  10. 😕All you people… No matter how much people repeatedly keep on saying pretty much the same thing, over and over again, it is an undeniable fact that bringing more things out increases the future risk for Yang Kai. It’s like everyone here has forgotten that in just literally the previous arc, the absence of just one single person, Qian Tong, had led to the strong suppression of Dragon Cave Mountain. And if things had gone just a bit worse, even the destruction of Dragon Cave Mountain was possible. Nothing has been mentioned to indicate that they can protect themselves from the attacks of Third-Order Origin Returning Realm masters yet.

    Pills are basically completely a no-go area. The most expensive pill that Yang Kai can refine is the Origin Condensing Pill (Chapter 1148), whose refinement difficulty is equivalent to refining Origin Grade Low-Rank pills and the expected price for the normal pill is “just” three hundred thousand High-Rank Saint Crystals (Chapter 1155). Aside from the fact that Yang Kai should be keeping this precious pill for his own people (because of the almost negligible supply of the required Emerald Silk Grass), the price is paltry to what Yang Kai already has.

    And what, just claim that he found them? Seriously? Tell me, what would the other forces think is more likely? A minor Saint King Realm junior _repeatedly_ finding such immensely precious and incredibly rare pills, _or_ that he knows an Origin Grade Alchemist who can refine such pills? Furthermore, given the “low” price, Yang Kai will have to bring out literally dozens of these precious pills. Yeah, try explaining this as “luckily finding them in some ruin”.🤦‍♂️ Publicly exposing possession of high-grade pills is clearly a huge risk.

    Not selling Artefacts is a bit difficult to defend, but it can still be justified as the payment not being worth the risk. Last time, for all that high exposure, the benefit was still “only” ~10 million High-Rank Saint Crystals (Chapter 1162).

    Also, why can’t Yang Kai simply make all these sales later in the future when he has the strength to protect his interests? What’s wrong with that?

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