Free Web NovelChapter 1479: Chapter 1326: My Younger Brother Is the Villain 23
Feng Qiao stood on the auction stage, smiling as he watched the people below discuss among themselves, allowing them to make numerous guesses without refuting them.
Inside the box, Feng Feiyu blushed after seeing the group of naked men and women and automatically turned his back, avoiding looking at the naked men and women on the high stage.
In fact, Feng Feiyu, in his past life, mingled with low-level cultivators, although exhausted from running around, he had also seen many sordid things. It wasn’t to the point of being shy about seeing naked men and women.
But at this moment, sitting beside Nie Shuangshuang, Feng Feiyu suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable watching this scene for some reason.
It felt like doing something bad in front of an elder, causing Feng Feiyu’s face to flush red, quickly turning around as if stung by a hornet.
As he turned around, Feng Feiyu seemed to vaguely hear a girl’s exclamation from the adjacent room, seemingly the voice of Qin Meng.
Thinking of Qin Meng also witnessing this scene, Feng Feiyu couldn’t help but be a bit curious, wondering what Qin Meng’s reaction was at this moment.
Probably with a flushed face just like him, her master was also sitting beside her, a male master at that, it must be very awkward.
Feng Feiyu secretly glanced at Nie Shuangshuang and found that Nie Shuangshuang’s attention was not on him, but looking at the naked men and women on the high stage, with a pondering look.
Feng Feiyu’s gaze darkened, and for some reason, he felt a bit upset. He lay on the table, idly fiddling with the nuts on the table, producing a distinct clattering sound.
Nie Shuangshuang did not notice Feng Feiyu’s unusual behavior, her eyes were staring at the ten young men and women on the high stage, naked, her spiritual sense scanning them back and forth, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.
She didn’t expect the Treasure Pavilion to be so willing to spend this opening auction. The first treasure is indeed quite interesting.
If what she just saw was true, then this would indeed make many cultivators flock to it. After all, this treasure can resolve one’s greatest regret in life.
The boxes of several great cultivators around were very quiet, except for some noise from the boxes with juniors, the others had no fluctuations at all.
Clearly, these people, like Nie Shuangshuang, saw through the key to the auction’s opening today.
Seeing the people in the auction seats below discussing more and more loudly, Feng Qiao on the high stage finally acted. She cleared her throat and clapped her hands.
"Friends, please be quiet. Next, let me introduce what this treasure really is."
As soon as Feng Qiao spoke, the chattering crowd immediately quieted down, all focusing intently on Feng Qiao, waiting to see how she would explain.
With a smile on her face, Feng Qiao said, "Do you think that these ten people on the auction stage are corpses, and that our Treasure Pavilion’s auction opening today is just to entertain everyone?"
Upon Feng Qiao’s question, the crowd hesitated again. How could the Treasure Pavilion mess around with such an important opening auction just to entertain them? Could it be that these ten corpses are actually treasures?
Some people began to think outside the box, imagining that these ten corpses might not be real, but some sort of puppet that could be used to assist in combat.
Apparently, more than one person thought this way; for a moment, a row of spiritual senses scanned over the ten corpses, and then they were puzzled. Yes, it’s indeed flesh and blood.
Fortunately, before these people were confused for too long, Feng Qiao on the auction stage began to clarify, "Everyone, these are not real humans, nor are they puppets.
Of course, they are not real flesh and blood, though they look indistinguishable from humans and, in perception, seem just like flesh and blood too.
I say so perhaps you do not understand, but if I show you one place, I think you will understand what they really are.
After all, although this thing is rare and hard to see, its fame is quite high. You should all know, or at least have heard of its reputation."
As Feng Qiao spoke, she clapped her hands again, and the ten strong men on the high stage immediately picked up the ten naked corpses of young men and women, cradling these corpses at their waists.
Under the puzzled eyes of the crowd, the ten strong men aimed the tops of the corpses’ heads at the auction stage and the windows of the boxes, then parted the thick long hair at the tops of these corpses’ heads.
A magical thing happened. Between the tops of these corpses’ heads, there was a finger-thick, brown, rough thing like a fruit stem!
When the crowd’s spiritual senses had scanned earlier, as they were all scanning the bodies, internal organs, and brains of these corpses, they had overlooked this spot on the scalp.
Seeing this fruit stem, many people were somewhat incredulous, instinctively using their spiritual sense to scan it, confirming that it was indeed a fruit stem—how could a fruit stem grow on a human head?!
As everyone was astounded, suddenly someone shouted: "It’s the fruit of the Creation Tree!" A single stone stirred up a thousand waves, and in an instant, everyone was enlightened!
It turned out to be the fruit of the Creation Tree! This is truly an infamous treasure known to all in the Cultivation World.
Sadly, the fruit of the Creation Tree is so rare that though it is famed, it’s rarely seen. If it weren’t for the fruit being so recognizable, those who hadn’t seen the Creation Tree couldn’t have conjured up the image of the Creation Tree by themselves.
There is a strange tree in the world, named the Creation Tree. It grows for a thousand years before it starts flowering. Each flowering takes a hundred-year interval, flowers for ten years to bear fruit, and the fruit takes fifty years to mature. Once mature, it automatically falls from the tree.
Aside from the fruit stem on top, the fruit of the Creation Tree resembles humans exactly, with flesh and blood, bones, internal organs, and even different facial features, with both male and female fruits.
The Creation Tree is called so because its fruits can serve as a body, allowing a mortal’s soul to reside and continue living as a living person.
Although there’s a Hundred Ghosts Alliance in the Cultivation World, filled with ghost cultivators, just as few humans possess Immortal Roots, only a handful of ghost souls are strong enough to cultivate.
Back then, when Hong Xiao’s entire family tragically died, the resentful energy conjured up several fierce ghosts, not just Hong Xiao. Ultimately, only Hong Xiao managed to enter the Hundred Ghosts Alliance to cultivate, while the others still needed to go to the Underworld to reincarnate.
After mortals die, if their souls don’t immediately report to the Underworld to reincarnate, they will slowly dissipate. Even if they become fierce ghosts, lingering longer due to resentful energy, they can’t last more than a century.
Moreover, if they exist as fierce ghosts for a long time, their soul bodies’ resentful energy will be too overpowering, losing the chance to reincarnate. Once the time is up, they will be utterly obliterated, without even a chance to be reborn, let alone cultivate into a ghost cultivator.
However, it’s different with the fruit of the Creation Tree. It can prevent human souls from reincarnating, allowing them to enter the fruit and continue living directly.
