"Slap!"
A crisp slap echoed.
The woman's head turned to the left, and a bright red palm print immediately appeared on her right cheek.
Zi Linling said coldly, "Who are you calling a bitch?"
The woman was stunned for a moment before she finally came to her senses and yelled, "Bitch, you..."
"Slap!"
Another crisp slap.
On the woman's left cheek, a palm print appeared, symmetrical to the right one.
"Bitch, I'm going to..."
"Slap!"
The woman, halfway through her hysterical roar, was interrupted by the third slap.
Zi Linling said with a cold face, "Say another word and see what happens!"
"Ah! I'm going to kill you!"
The woman roared in fury and lunged at Zi Linling.
Her posture was less like a cultivator fighting and more like a common shrew.
Zi Linling took two steps back and kicked the woman in the stomach.
Because the woman had lunged too fiercely, she couldn't dodge and was sent flying twenty feet away, landing on the ground like a curled-up shrimp.
Her shrieking also stopped, replaced by groans of pain.
"Keep your mouth clean from now on, or the next time we meet, it won't be just two slaps!"
After speaking, Zi Linling greeted the thin old man and headed towards the seventh floor.
The thin old man watched Zi Linling's retreating back, his eyes flashing, and murmured, "Deeply hidden! So deeply hidden!"
He had just noticed that Zi Linling's three slaps and one kick were nothing special.
Yet, the woman in the red wide-sleeved immortal dress couldn't dodge them at all.
"Bitch, just you wait! If I don't avenge this, I'm no human!"
The woman in the red wide-sleeved immortal dress finally endured the pain and stood up.
She roared loudly in the direction Zi Linling had left, her eyes filled with venom.
"Hmph! Is Linxian Wine House a place for you to roar? Guards, throw this person out and ban her from entering Linxian Wine House for life!"
A cold voice echoed from the sixth floor.
It was the same voice that had appeared on the first floor earlier, Shen Liuxing's voice.
Soon, a team of cultivators in uniform black attire, all in the Minor God Realm, appeared.
Without a word, they hauled the woman in the red wide-sleeved immortal dress away and threw her out of Linxian Wine House.
"Linxian Wine House, I, Duan Ru, will remember today's humiliation!"
The woman gritted her teeth and muttered to herself, leaving indignantly.
Zi Linling was unaware of all that happened later.
At this moment, she was in the appraisal room on the seventh floor, leisurely drinking tea.
Beside her, an appraiser was carefully examining a pill in his hand.
This pill was what Zi Linling intended to consign for auction – a Heaven-grade top-tier three-turn Great Return Pill.
This Heaven-grade top-tier three-turn Great Return Pill was naturally the one she had kept aside when she was assessed as a senior alchemist.
At that time, she had refined a total of nine pills but only gave two to Nian Youyu.
Of course, Zi Linling wasn't foolish enough to bring them all out. After all, rarity drives up value, and too many would make them less precious.
Therefore, Zi Linling only intended to auction two pills this time.
"Miss Zi, this is a Heaven-grade top-tier three-turn Great Return Pill, are you sure you want to auction it?"
Xuanyuan Zhe looked at the pill in the appraiser's hand with a pained expression, his heart bleeding.
"What do you think? If I don't auction it, should I just show it off?"
Zi Linling said indifferently.
She planned to refine another batch tonight to be prepared for any unforeseen circumstances.
Of course, Zi Linling still had the Heaven-grade top-tier seven-star Soul Gathering Pills, wrapped in pill garments, which she had set aside when she was assessed as a Grandmaster alchemist, but she had no intention of selling them.
"But..."
Xuanyuan Zhe, unwillingly, wanted to say something but ultimately said nothing.
Although he felt sorry for the pills, they were Zi Linling's property, and he had no say in the matter.
Zi Linling glared at him, annoyed, and said, "Can you be more ambitious? You ate the nine-turn Great Return Pills, and you're still bothered by these three-turn ones!"
Her words, instead of calming him, made Xuanyuan Zhe even more heartbroken.
If he had known those two were nine-turn Great Return Pills, he would never have eaten them.
Oh well, out of sight, out of mind.
Xuanyuan Zhe simply closed his eyes, no longer looking at the two pills.
"Miss Zi, I, Zi Lin, have completed the appraisal. This is indeed a Heaven-grade top-tier three-turn Great Return Pill. The estimated value for both pills is two million mid-grade spirit stones.
At the auction, the price will only be higher than this. Of course, we need to charge a ten percent commission, is that acceptable?"
Zi Linling nodded and said, "Yes!"
She was quite satisfied with the price estimated by the appraiser.
"Very well, I'll go prepare the spirit stones now!"
The appraiser finished speaking and turned to leave.
A moment later, he returned to the room, holding a spatial storage bag containing two million mid-grade spirit stones.
"Miss Zi, please verify it."
The appraiser handed the spatial storage bag over, waiting for Zi Linling to check.
Zi Linling didn't even look at it, directly throwing it into her Nine Spirit Ring and said, "I trust you!"
The appraiser was stunned for a moment and then smiled, "Thank you, Miss Zi!"
After speaking, he took out a VIP card from his robe and respectfully handed it to Zi Linling, saying, "Miss Zi, this is our highest-level Obsidian Card, please accept it!"
Zi Linling did not refuse and took it directly, throwing it into the Nine Spirit Ring.
"Thank you! I should be going now!"
She said, standing up, but then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Your Linxian Wine House always gives me a very familiar feeling, can you tell me why?"
The appraiser was taken aback and replied with a smile, "I apologize, Miss Zi, but I cannot answer this question, as I do not know either."
"Then never mind!"
Zi Linling did not dwell on it, and with Xuanyuan Zhe, she strode out of the appraisal room and left.
After she left, a figure slowly appeared in the appraisal room. It was none other than Shen Liuxing.
Shen Liuxing sniffed the familiar fragrance in the appraisal room, a gentle smile appearing on his face.
"Sister Zi, I'm sorry, but it's not time for us to meet yet."
He murmured to himself and then vanished once more.
The next day was the day the auction on the eighth floor of Linxian Wine House began.
Zi Linling put away her Nine Extremes Qiankun Cauldron, stretched, and washed up.
A moment later, she appeared at Linxian Wine House.
After showing her Obsidian Card, a dedicated service staff member led her to a private room.
This private room was specially arranged for her by Linxian Wine House, or rather, by Shen Liuxing. It was the best private room on the eighth floor, without exception.
Before the auction began, there would be a performance of song and dance to entertain the guests, to avoid the abrupt start.
Outside the auction hall, the crowd was immense, testifying to the fame of Linxian Wine House's auctions.