Chapter Thirty-Seven: Invitation to a Grand Gathering

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  "This is my last warning to you, don't follow us again." Chu Yu said coldly with a dark face towards Lu Dinghai who was pretending to look at ants with his head down.

  "If you don't agree to accept me as your apprentice and teach me your skills, I'll follow you wherever you go." Lu Dinghai said stubbornly.

  "It started from the school gate, Lu Dinghai had been pestering Chu Yu to take him as a disciple. The latter had driven him away more than once, but every time he followed again without giving up. This has happened at least seven times already. If it weren't for Su Jingyi being by his side, Chu Yu would have used violence to drive him away long ago. Who knows, maybe Lu Dinghai would be even more badly hurt than that unlucky Korean stick Pak Chung-in."

  "Easy, don't get agitated." Su Jingyi gently grasped Chu Yu's arm, seeing the latter clench his fist again, and couldn't help but tighten her grip on Chu Yu's arm as she spoke softly.

  "I'm not looking for trouble, but I had to save this ungrateful and stubborn guy...". Chu Yu sighed inwardly, glaring at Lu Dinghai who was as sticky as caramel. "Firstly, it's impossible for me to take you on as my disciple, that's for sure. Secondly, even if I were to teach you the skills I used earlier, with your clumsy kung fu, you wouldn't be able to learn them anyway. Now, I'll ask you a question, and if you answer correctly, maybe I'll consider teaching you some real martial arts techniques. If you can't answer, then don't bother me again."

  Chu Yu said this with absolute certainty, and Lu Dinghai listened with interest, also nodding his head enthusiastically: "Alright, go ahead and ask." Then he seemed to remember something and hastily added: "However, we must make one thing clear - no asking questions about math, physics, or chemistry, those annoying subjects. As long as it's related to martial arts, I have no objections to this proposal.

  "A ghost would ask you questions related to math, physics and chemistry!" Chu Yu muttered under his breath, shaking his head in dismay. "Listen carefully, I'll only say the question once, and you'll only have one chance to answer..."

  "Ask quickly, ask quickly." After entangling Chu Yu for so long, he finally saw a glimmer of hope. Lu Dinghai, this modern martial arts enthusiast, hastily nodded.

  "What is the ultimate of martial arts?"

  "Ah!" Lu Dinghai was stunned for a long time, wanting to open his mouth but his mind went blank, and he couldn't say a word for half a day.

  "Don't say I didn't give you a chance, the question has been asked, and as for time, I can also give you a concession, ten days. You have ten days to think about it, and once you've figured it out or thought of an answer, you can come find me at any time. However, you must remember one thing: you only get one chance to answer." Chu Yu said with a hint of evil in his smile.

  Lu Dinghai was clearly a simple-minded guy, and after hearing Chu Yu finish speaking, he even thanked him gratefully, while walking away with a thoughtful expression, pondering the question that Chu Yu had raised.

  At this time, what are we waiting for? Chu Yu grabbed Su Jingyi's hand and quickly ran in the opposite direction, crossing two roads in a row, only to confirm that they had shaken off Lu Dinghai.

  "Xiao Yi, you've caused trouble for others and set a deadline to answer questions, but why didn't you leave your contact information?" Su Jingyi asked innocently as usual.

  "Ah! How could I forget to give him my contact information?! But he should know...” Chu Yu casually brushed it off, the questioning method he designed earlier was an emergency plan to get rid of Lu Dinghai, so of course he wouldn't leave his own contact information.

  At the same time, Chu Yu secretly decided in her heart: "For the next ten days or half a month, I will definitely not go to school, so as to avoid being pestered by that annoying person."

  "Xiao Jing, let's go find a place to eat, and don't mention that cowhide sugar again, it's almost driving me crazy." Chu Yu shook off Lu Dinghai, feeling more accomplished than refining a magic treasure.

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  Under Su Jingyi's lead, Chu Yu and she swept through the food street on Wujiang Road after a seafood feast. After sending Su Jingyi home with a sweet and satisfied face by taxi, Chu Yu hurried back to his villa in Tongchen Haoyuan.

  Unexpectedly, after opening the door, he actually saw Huatian Xiong sitting on the sofa in the living room, leisurely drinking tea.

  "Hero, why did you come looking for me so late?"

  Look, Chu Yu has arrived. Hu Tianxiong excitedly stood up to welcome him into the living room, "Boss, I've been calling your phone all day and couldn't find you anywhere, so I had no choice but to come here and wait for you, haha."

  "I simply forgot to bring it." Chu Yu smiled and said: "What's up, speak up."

  "There's going to be a grand auction in Shanghai tomorrow, I think you'll definitely be interested." As soon as the words "auction" and "black market" were mentioned, Hua Tianxiong's eyes lit up, living up to his reputation as a "treasure collector".

  As for the auction, Chu Yu didn't have much interest in it. After all, wanting to buy treasures related to cultivation at a mundane auction was like searching for a needle in a haystack, extremely slim. With this amount of time, he might as well cultivate within the "Heavenly Spirit Gathering Array".

  "Just go if you want to, I think your insight is not much worse than mine in this aspect."

  "Boss, this auction in Shanghai is not the usual kind..." Hu Tianxiong saw Chu Yiyi's uninterested expression and hastily explained: "This auction is not open to the public, with less than 400 people worldwide receiving invitations to participate. Moreover, more than 90% of them are masters from China's major immortal families."

  Chu Yu heard this and slightly raised some interest, asking: "Your meaning is that this auction is specially held for cultivators?"

  Hu Tianxiong nodded and replied, "The organizer of the auction is the current number one cultivation family in the Central Plains, the Longsun Family. This auction has a name, called 'Jubao Conference', which was officially launched ten years ago under the leadership of the Longsun Family's eldest son. It is held every two years, and the items that appear in the auction are mostly things that cultivators can use. Even with my connections and those of Old Bai and Yu Hong, we have only participated in the 'Jubao Conference' once before. However, during that one time, I spent 15 billion euros to purchase various cultivation-related materials and treasures... The two invitations to participate in the auction this time were purchased by Old Bai at a high price from the masters of two declining cultivation families, which can be considered quite lucky."

  "This 'Treasure Gathering Meeting' you're talking about really has that many spiritual materials to bid on?" After all, in Chu Yu's concept, a spiritual family was truly insignificant, and he found it hard to believe that a spiritual family could have the power to collect so many good items.

  "Boss, actually the items up for auction at this auction are not solely provided by the Longsun family. Almost all of the influential immortal families in the secular world will put some of their valuable immortal items into the auction list, some to recoup funds and others to exchange for what they need. However, it's all based on the premise that the Longsun family can keep the scene under control."

  "The number one immortal practitioner family in Zhongtu, that's quite a reputation. Which immortal sect do they rely on?" Chu Yu asked casually.

  "Mount Emei Sect, and according to the intelligence I've gathered, the current head of the Longsun family, Longsun Huo, is a nominal disciple of Zixu Zhenren, the leader of the Mount Emei Sect. With the backing of this largest sect in the Daoist world, combined with Longsun Huo's identity, they can barely be considered the number one immortal-practicing family."

  Hu Tianxiong, although he himself did not embark on the path of cultivation, thirty years ago followed Chu Yu to the right, and under the influence of his surroundings, he also had a deep understanding of the Central Plains' cultivation world. In addition, over the years, he collected various materials for cultivation, so he knew even more.

  "Oh? It seems that Zi Xū's old cow nose is quite particular about worldly matters, and he's actually willing to lose face to take in a disciple from a mortal family as a nominal disciple...” Chu Yu nodded slightly: “In that case, it seems I should go take a good look at this 'Treasures Gathering Convention'."

  Hua Tianxiong, this guy with a crazy passion for collecting treasures, heard Chu Yu agree to go together and nodded his head vigorously, laughing: "Boss, don't worry, when have I ever given you wrong information? Tomorrow, I'll guarantee you'll make a big profit." Hua Tianxiong was full of confidence, clearly it was not his first time participating in the "Treasure Gathering Meeting" auction, and he had bought many good things before. This point, Chu Yu understood very well.

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