Xia quickly looked around and bought the first blank book from the first shop inside ready to leave. As she was wandering around prices of everything around her skyrocketed imaginably stopping all other citizens from buying and some merchants astronomically increased their sales thanks to not being under the influence of Feng Shi who had no way to increase their prices.
More and more people went to buy from them and thanks to most people being cultivators everything around happened at an unimaginable pace. Thanks to Feng Shi's intervention he managed to ruin nearly all stability in the auction-house causing all his subordinates to lose large amounts of profit.
Xia in the meantime slowly left for the exit, two tall guards in green cultivation robes stopped her from coming out of the auction-house determined to not let her go. Both of them were nearly two meters tall with the spears in their hands.
"Miss show us your identification token, we suspect you from stealing this in the auction-house this book. As you know prices there are very high and someone informed us about the possibility, that you are from the yellow zone not to mention a non-cultivator, who is this young."
Xia knew that she was set up, so she showed them her green token, which Mei Lin acquired for her. Both guards looked at the green token and one of them took it. As soon as he used his spirit sense to inspect the green token, he knew, that it really belonged to Xia and he had leverage over her, as she was officially a citizen of the green zone, so their only claim to stop her was invalid.
"Miss you are not a cultivator so you can't have a green token. There is now a wisp of spirit sense inside so you can't be identified."
Before Xia wanted to defend herself, one of the guards grabbed her hand and went with her inside the building again. All three of them went directly to Feng Shi passing by everyone on the first floor of the auction house. Xia felt terrible as she was at the center of attention for everyone.
"What a waste. Such a young girl and she tried to steal from the auction-house directed by the lesser families."
"What do you think will happen to her?"
"I don't think that she will be able to do anything. They will surely punish her severely or sell her like a slave."
"Maybe they will only punish her and not her family as well."
More and more rumors went by as Xia was dragged more like luggage than a person and everyone around put their heart into scolding her, as she was caught and the sudden rise of the prices made everyone agitated.
"People also saw you steal a book you didn't pay for. As the witnesses arrive you will be punished by the Feng Shi for stealing."
"What?! I paid for the book one low-grade spirit stone."
"Price is four low-grade spirit stones for the book you bought. You need to pay the rest or we will be forced to arrest you!"
As soon as they went to the second floor directly into the office of Feng Shi, he looked extremely happy. Xia didn't understand why could he be so happy, but she knew that she was in very deep trouble and no one knew that she was there.
"So what will it be? Will you pay for it or you will go to prison?"
"I didn't steal anything, that lady told me that the book cost one low-grade spirit stone."
Xia knew that she was in big trouble. Mei Lin prepared only one spirit stone for her, so she didn't have more spirit stones. Along the way, Xia made up her mind and decided to abandon the book if necessary.
"I don't want this book anymore I will give it back to you and you will give me back my spirit stone."
Xia put the book on the table and wanted to leave. She was not happy that she ended up once again in the room with Feng Shi and two other people in very beautiful cultivation cloths sitting next to him, so she was wowed, that once she got ride of the book she would never come here again.
"Well you gave the book back, but you already stole it."
Feng Shi was looking at her with a deadly calm face. He wanted to pay for Xia and with that she will need to pay him back despite being it complete scam on her.
"I will not pay for this book only a blank book so why should this book be more expensive than books with words? I looked here for a while and saw that normal books were only for one and a half low-grade spirit stones so why is this book much expensive."
When others heard about this, they knew that Feng Shi was behind this scam. The situation in the room suddenly changed as both remaining QI Condensation used their spirit sense massaged to their subordinates and the cultivators all around started looking for someone.
Neither of them didn't want to get into this mess, but when Feng Shi's competitors in the auction-house heard about sudden changes in prices and the sudden capture of someone totally unrelated to the matter they started to attack Feng Shi's integrity.
Shi Ming Lia, one of the biggest competitors from the Shi family started to put out all her guns and start arguing with Feng Shi.
"Well, if Miss here isn't able to pay for the blank book I will pay for her. Unlike you, I did noraisese price on the goods just to destroy customers and my reputation. Isn't the shop, where this miss bought the book your shop? Maybe because of that prices of the goods are so high even for shitty products, this matter could never appear."
She tossed three more low-grade spirit stones after Feng Shi with such force, that the spirit stones were partially damaged as he caught them. Unlike him, Shi Ming Lia was at the fifth stage of QI Condensation and her tactical attack had no real way to hurt Feng Shi.