Heavenly Dao Child

Ryuu let out a huge yawn as he watched the auction proceed near its end, he was more bored than tired of the entire affair.

'I hope it ends soon enough.'

"Your Highness, are you tired?"

"More like bored to death and waiting for the auction to end."

As he spoke Ryuu let out another yawn causing Yamamoto to let lose a chuckle as he spoke, "Then you should have taken Yu Wu's advice and left with her to meet and greet the guest."

Ryuu simply blinked at him owlishly as he spoke, "I already did that when I welcomed them from the stage and as for why I did not go to meet and greet them individually you know why, after all I do not wish to be a distraction when our hardworking host it trying to squeeze as much money as possible."

Yamamoto simply smiled at his words as Ryuu continued to speak, "I was hoping something exciting might happen but at the end of the day it is boring nothing happened."

Yamamoto sent an incredulous look towards Ryuu as he spoke with disbelief in his voice, "You want something to happen, anyone in your shoes would want to do the opposite after all it might harm the reputation of the institute."

"I know but as long as the transgressors are caught without any harm to the customers we can get some positive reputation."

Yamamoto deadpanned at him as he spoke, "you simply want to see your arrays work."

Ryuu pouted as he spoke, "Of course I would want to see them work, I placed them and it took me so much time to painstakingly draw them."

Yamamoto sighed as he spoke, "It took you hardly half an hour to draw the array for the entire hall, and even then it was because you were busy with other works or it would have been done much faster."

"But still all your work would turn useless if it is not used."

Yamamoto shook his head as he spoke, "Sometimes it is better if your work is not used at all, but I can now fathom how bored you are."

As Ryuu simply smiled back Yamamoto spoke with a sigh, "I believe the pills created by you will now be put on auction."

Ryuu gave a nod as he spoke with a frown, "Yes, they are though why have my creations being distributed amongst various branches."

"Simple it is to boost the price, if items of similar types are available in large quantities then its price falls, but not only that Her Highness wants to boost your reputation a bit."

Ryuu grunted at that as he spoke, "I see but I already have a reputation."

"Yes you do with a large bounty on your head that many would not mind getting their hands on but showing your other talents would make many want to cultivate a relation with you and in case you are in a pinch they will help you."

A frown formed on Ryuu's face as he spoke, "Huh, will it work?"

"Of course it will, as many cultivators who are not affiliated with major powers do so often, I hope it sells for sky high price."

"I doubt it, as even a single Deva Crystal makes them lose their minds it would be difficult for my pill to manage to gather a large amount."

"So true."

With that a comfortable silence descended as Ryuu's creation was soon put up for auction.

The auctioneer that was present during the execution was swapped with a female one who with a large smile on her face introduced the next item which was none other than 'Stone Heat Pill'.

Su-Min's parents looked at each other after they were able to calm their own hearts that were thrown into turmoil upon hearing the quality and function of the pill they decided to buy it for their beloved daughter.

As Su-Min's father began to bid on the item, Su-Min could not help but voice her concern, "Father, for whom you are buying this pill for?"

The Emperor smiled towards her daughter as he spoke, "My beloved daughter is trying so hard so I decided to lend you a hand."

"But father…"

"No let me but it for you and do not think about the cost."

Su-Min sighed she was indeed greatly moved seeing her father preparing to spend a fortune for her but at the end of the day it was meaningless as such she quickly intervened, "Father thank you but I already have a couple of those pills."

Her words made everyone head to snap at her as the Empress spoke, "How do you have those pills Su-min? I have never heard of them and according to Shangri-la it is rare."

"Of course it is rare and I got it from the same source who is supplying them.", as the confusion and disbelief on their faces deepened Su-Min continued with a large smile on her own, "Who else but Ryuu, I got it from him while travelling in Eden."

"You are joking."

As those words reached Su-Min's ears she turned to one of her aunts as she spoke, "No aunty I am not joking, during our travels in Eden Ryuu had slowly become the leader of our group, his words became our law and when we came across the people from the Deva realm we had a friction with them, they did not wish to follow his lead and they challenged him to a pill duel."

"So he won."

Su-Min looked towards her father as she spoke with a snort, "Won, he thoroughly thrashed them leaving them in the dust, it was a one sided massacre.", Seeing the curious look on everyone's face Su-Min decided to elaborate a little.

"They decided that instead of one on one it would be several of theirs against him, each of them would submit a pill with enclosed in a paper containing the name and recipes, then three pills were chosen at random and then the pills were broken and samples of it were given to the competitors for an extremely short amount of time to study and identify the ingredients."

As she spoke, Su-Min had managed to gain the undivided attention of everyone which brought a small smile on her face as she continued without a pause.

"The terms were simple they could only make a single set, they would have to write down the formula for the pill down and then they would have to make the pill and the one with the greatest purity would win. The Deva realm tried to shamelessly cheat in fact at one point one of them attacked Ryuu yet he made those pills and succeeded."

"What pills were being used?"

Su-Min turned towards the speaker as she replied back, "'Realm Ascension', 'Yin Body Replenishing' and finally the 'Stone Heart Pill', of those I had never heard about the later two, while the others struggled Ryuu made the three of them together triggered a pill tribulation and fell asleep after being tired of waiting."

"What!?"

As a few send an incredulous look towards Su-Min she let out a small chuckle as she spoke, "Yeah that was my thought as well when I saw him fall asleep, it was later on that I realized the true reason why he was sleeping every free time he had.", as she spoke her smile disappeared as she spoke with a sombre tone, "The poison he got while trying to save me was tearing his body apart he was so sick during that time yet he pushed forward without fear he is really something else."

Su-Min looked towards the stage as she spoke with a sigh, "He is talented to the point that anyone would be green with envy, he is someone whom the Heaven's itself has blessed but more importantly he is someone I do not wish to stand on the opposite side during a battle."

As Su-Min spoke his eyes suddenly widen as she spoke with a sigh, "What a fool that one is."

Her words drew everyone's attention towards the stage where it was covered by lots of smoke and as the smoke cleared everyone was stunned to see a pair of cultivators with one of them with his hands outstretched as he tried to grasp the prize on the stage while the other with his hand outstretched as he had flung his weapon towards the female auctioneer, but drew everyone's attention was the fact that the duo hung on air paralyzed even the weapon flung was hovering on air without being able to move an inch.

Su-Min sighed as she spoke, "Fools."

Yujie looked at the cloak covered figure and judging from the looks of it they were males, he at first was alarmed before a sense of anger rose within him upon seeing his descendants had worked hard work getting destroyed by some charlatans, only for it to subside upon seeing the transgressors being stopped by some form of array making him let out a sigh of relief, only to be stunned by the scene in front of him.