"That's fine." Chen Ge said.
"Do you want to buy something?" When he heard Chen Ge ask this, Guo Lin Tian had some curiosity.
"There's nothing I want to buy, it's better to go and see what's going on, in case there's something good, I'll also auction it off." Chen Ge shook his head, he originally did not have any interest in this auction. But thinking that it was once every five years, knowing that there might be quite a few precious auction items inside, if he came across the right one, he would definitely take it straight away.
After all, money was just a number to Chen Ge now.
"Then I should warn you, this auction is not like the auctions you've come across in China before, where a random item is picked up for millions or tens of millions, and this is still a ground floor item. If you want to compete at the auction, a few million is the cheapest, and I'm afraid you'll need tens of millions to get your hands on it."
Guo Lintian knew that Chen Ge was coming for the first time. So he couldn't help but speak up and introduce them.
He felt the need to give Chen Ge a heads up, otherwise when the time came and he saw an auction item but didn't have the money to auction it, that kind of feeling wasn't good, now that he had prepared his heart in advance, when he saw those prices that were too high, he could simply not bother to consider them.
"I know." Chen Ge nodded lightly.
From the first time he heard from Guo Lintian's mouth that this was a five-yearly auction, Chen Ge already knew that this was a game for the rich.
"Well, I guess we still have to be on the boat for a few hours, there is a special place for us to rest when we arrive at the island, the auction should start early the morning after tomorrow, but those stalls will be there tomorrow, so we might be able to pick up quite a few treasures from them." Guo Lintian said as he leaned on the side of the boat and looked around at the same dozen of boats.
Chen Ge did not reply, but closed his eyes.
However, the true qi in his body spread out, and with the augmentation of the power of the Ninth Turning Yuan Shen, he sensed almost all of the sea in a ten kilometre radius, this was because there were many cultivators coming to the auction. Chen Ge had to be more careful.
Under his perception, Chen Ge clearly knew that almost every boat had cultivators on it, and their cultivation levels varied from high to low. Some of them even had cultivation levels above his own, but they were only slightly stronger than himself.
As for those without cultivation, Chen Ge did not let his guard down either, who knew if this group of people really had no cultivation, or if their cultivation was already so strong that he could not even sense it.
If it was before, Chen Ge would definitely not have thought this way. But now that he had continuously met Master Zhou and the old man inside the Dharma Signs, Chen Ge understood that there were not many cultivators in this world who were stronger than himself. It was just that he did not have the strength to reach that level yet.
"Brother Chen, do you think that such a large number of people leaving won't be discovered by ordinary people?" Bai Xiaofei looked at those boats around him and couldn't help but ask.
"Every time the auction starts, it will be disguised under various names, so even if some ordinary people find out, they won't care. At most, they would just stand on the shore and take a look, there are at least tens of kilometres from here to the island, which is not enough for the naked eye to see, not to mention the sea fog here."
Guo Lintian looked up at the fog that gradually appeared not far away and said indifferently.
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After five or six hours of drifting, the outline of the island had appeared in sight. Chen Ge stretched his back and his eyes turned profound.
Although this was an auction, there were countless cultivators. Chen Ge had to keep his spirits up at all times in order to face the dangers that could appear at any moment.
After another half an hour or so, the boat finally arrived at the shore.
On the shore. There were quite a few people standing, and several young men in robes waving ropes with iron hooks on them, swinging them out and hooking them onto the boat to bring it to the shore.
"Three people from the Guo family of South Vietnam." Once ashore, Guo Lintian showed them his identification and said.
"Please come inside." After just one look, he said.
"Come on, let's go and find a place to stay first. There are still three hours of darkness left, so I don't think there will be any stalls, so we'll have a meal and rest." Guo Lintian put away his ticket, waved to Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei, and walked towards the front.
It appeared to be a small island, but when they came up, they found that it wasn't small. It was a bit bigger than even the Fuguang Island Chen Ge had visited before.
Moreover, the whole island was not modern and deserted, but simple like the ancient times of China. When stepping on the island and looking forward, it was as if he had travelled back thousands of years.
"Do people often live here?" Chen Ge was a little curious.
"I don't think so as far as I know, it seems that just a month or two before the auction starts, the organizer would send people from the family to clean the place thoroughly and then receive all the sellers, and then when the auction is over. It's sealed off after another cleaning."
"One amazing thing though, there are quite a few people who have attended the auction and passed over the nearby sea when the auction wasn't held again, but never saw it."
"It's as if the island only appears during the auction and hides at other times, and there are quite a few people who know this. But no one knows why."
Guo Lintian walked at the front of the line as he followed the route provided on top of the invitation to find a place to stay, looking around him as he did so. While doing so, he said to Chen Ge.
"What?" After hearing this, Chen Ge immediately frowned.
"What's wrong with you?" Guo Lin Tian stopped in his tracks and asked.
"Uncle Guo, you mean to say. This island can only appear around the time of the auction, and can't be seen at any other time even if you walk from here?" Chen Ge instantly thought of the Phantom Dragon Island.
When he was in contact with those cultivators of the Chen Clan, he had gradually, sporadically known some of the condition of the Phantom Dragon Island, which was almost the same as this island, existing in itself but not being found at all.
"It may be so, but it is only a legend, how it really is is unknown." Guo Lintian shook his head and said, "Could it be that you have seen this island before?"
"No, this is the first time I've even heard of the auction." Chen Ge frowned tightly, in his mind he had already classified this island in the same category as the Phantom Dragon Island, both falling into the category of abnormal islands.
"Brother Chen, you're thinking of the Phantom Dragon Island, right?" Bai Xiaofei, who knew Chen Ge and who had been with him all this time, had also thought of it when he heard Guo Lintian's introduction.
"That's right, I was thinking about the relationship between this island and the Phantom Dragon Island, if I can figure out the secrets of this island, I might know the secrets of the Phantom Dragon Island as well." Chen Ge said without evasion, nodding his head.
"What Phantom Dragon Island?" Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei's conversation had, in turn, confused Guo Lintian.