Chapter 152: Encountering an Auction
At this time, Yu Ning and his group had already arrived at the center of the ghost market, and the further they went in, the quieter it became.

There is still a short distance ahead, and at the end of the ruins, a towering iron gate can be vaguely seen. It is the gate of hell.

They were only halfway there when they felt danger. The old man holding the skull bowl made Yu Ning feel uneasy. Just as she was about to turn around and walk back, a familiar smell suddenly wafted from the front.

Yu Ning swallowed subconsciously. Although the smell was very faint, she could smell it. It was fruit!

In a place like this, there are actually the five desire fruits!
After Yu Ning's brief craving passed, she suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.

The Five Desire Fruit absorbs human desires. In a place like the Ghost Market where all kinds of people gather, once an evil person with a high level of cultivation gets the fruit, it is very likely to hatch on the spot.

After hatching, the fruit absorbed so many souls. How could this be tolerated?

Yu Ning raised her wrist to check the time. It was 3:30 in the morning, which coincided with the time she calculated that Xiao Kui would need stimulation.

Xiao Kui and Lin Zheng did not smell the scent of the fruit, but they both sensed a dangerous aura at the same time. Lin Zheng was about to remind Yu Ning to go back quickly when Yu Ning grabbed him by the scruff of the neck.

"Take Hei Mei and retreat first!" Yu Ning stuffed the black cat into Xiao Kui's arms.

"No, I want to follow you."

"You can't use your breath now. Following me will be a burden to me."

"." Xiao Kui bit her lip. She couldn't refute Yu Ning and could only convey her hurt feelings with her eyes.

Yu Ning didn't want to be so vicious, but in order to protect Xiao Kui, she had to be a bad person.

"Take my cat out of here, if you still consider me a friend."

After saying that, he walked forward without looking back. The black cat wanted to chase him, but was held down by Xiaokui.

Xiao Kui's eyes were red as she watched Yu Ning's figure gradually disappear into the distance. What she thought about in her mind was the time she had wasted.

If she used the time she spent on eating and playing games to practice, she would definitely be stronger than she is now.

If she could be stronger, she wouldn't be a burden to her friends.

Xiao Kui clenched her fists and pursed her lips.

She doesn't want to be a burden, she wants to become stronger.

She had never felt as guilty about the time she had wasted as she did now.

Yu Ning walked faster and faster with her back to Xiao Kui. There was a moment of guilt in her eyes under the facekini, but she quickly regained her composure and focused her attention on finding fruit.

After walking a few dozen meters further in, the smell became stronger and stronger. Suddenly, Yu Ning's pupils trembled.

In front of the ghost gate, there stood a masked woman with a very weak breath, neither like a human nor like a ghost.

Yu Ning couldn't even tell whether she was a dirty thing or a cultivator like herself who wore magic tools to conceal the breath of the soul.

One can only tell from her graceful figure that she is a woman.

What shocked Yu Ning was that the woman was holding a tray in her hand. On the tray was a transparent cover. Inside the cover was something the size of a walnut. It was a fruit!
That transparent cover was also a magical tool. Yu Ning guessed that it was used to suppress the fruit.

At this moment, the fruit was sealed, and it was as silent as if it was in deep sleep.

Around the woman, dozens of red-level evil spirits were staring at her with eager eyes, and there were also several cultivators whose faces were protected by auras, so their facial features could not be seen.

But the fact that they can appear among a group of red-level evil spirits shows that the cultivation levels of these practitioners are not low.

The reason why there was no looting was because behind the woman whose depth Yu Ning could not tell, stood a "person" wearing a black robe with his face covered.

Yu Ning recognized it almost immediately. This "person" had a treasure bag issued by the underworld on his waist.

A low-level yincha like Laoliu is not qualified to receive it.

The bag can only be owned by a Night Wanderer, who patrols the upper realm at night. When he encounters a scared child, he collects the child's soul in the bag and sends the child's soul home. This "person" is equivalent to the superior of Lao Liu's superior.

If this level of cultivation were in the mortal world, the level would be close to that of a great heavenly master.

In the profession of spiritual practitioners, the Grand Master is considered the top one, but there is still a big gap between each Grand Master.

Yu Ning's master is already a half-step immortal, so he is the most powerful heavenly master in the world today. Some slightly weaker great heavenly masters are only slightly higher than the heavenly master.

No wonder these red-level evil spirits only dared to watch and not take any action.

In fact, Yu Ning's original plan was to grab the fruit and put it into Xuan's mouth first after entering.

As long as she eats this thing, even if she is beaten to death by a group of people, this fruit will not harm her.

But she obviously oversimplified the problem.

It turned out that this fruit did not fall to this place by itself, but was sealed by someone with more powerful Taoism.

Yu Ning remained silent and blended into the crowd, wanting to see what the masked woman in front was going to do.

"Gentlemen!" the woman spoke. Her voice was very young and clear. Yu Ning was sure that she had never heard this voice before.

But there is an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

It was as if she had seen the person under the mask before.

"What we are going to auction today is this treasure in my hand. As long as you have it, you can fulfill any of your wishes. It has a beautiful name, Wuzang Mountain Treasure Fruit."

Bullshit. Yu Ning cursed in her heart.

Damn the Five Zang Mountain Fruit, that's just the Five Desire Fruit!
However, this name indirectly confirmed that the information given to Yu Ning by Zhu Rongrong, a person from the Lin family with a mysterious background, was correct.

The paintings by Zhu Rongrong that are highly similar to fruits are from "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and another name of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is "Classic of Five Zang Mountains".

Yu Ning was complaining madly in her heart. The woman laughed sarcastically and said contemptuously in a tone that was enough to irritate Yu Ning for a whole year:
"In the world of the living, there is a small sect that is not very popular. They gave this treasure in my hand an unpopular name, the Five Desires Fruit. Ha, it's very childish."

Not up to standard. Yu Ning clenched her fists and insulted her master, saying, "This old woman deserves a beating."

As if Yu Ning was not angry enough, the woman continued to stir up hatred.

"That second-rate sect, with its sanctimonious appearance and false pretense, claims to be saving the world, but in fact it keeps the treasure that can fulfill one's wish for itself. Isn't that despicable?"

"cheap!!!"

"Let me know which damn sect this is, I'll beat them to pieces right now!"

Yu Ning looked over silently and said, "Very good, I'll remember you."

"This evil sect that wants to monopolize the fruit deserves to be punished by the Three Realms. I can't stand people monopolizing the fruit. Today I will take out a precious Wuzang Mountain fruit. The highest bidder wins!"

After the woman had trampled upon all of Ningshan's families, she finally revealed her purpose.

She wants to auction the five desire fruits.

"Fifty merits!"

Someone immediately called out a price.

Yu Ning couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

Many of these dirty things are wanted criminals in the underworld. They have negative merits, so where do they get the merits to offer a price?
But soon, Yu Ning thought of it.

These dirty things without any bottom line, in order to get the fruit, may very likely go to the upper realm to kill people, take people's lives, and may even do more things that are against the will of heaven and earth.

If they were allowed to take the fruit, not only would there be a risk of it hatching, but countless ordinary people would also be killed or injured.