Chapter 529: Auction
Chapter 529: Auction
Xu Chuniang’s heart fluttered as she picked up the token.
The token was silver in color, slightly heavy in the hand, with the word Zhen engraved on it.
Steward Li explained, ”I, Jumbo Place, will hold an auction on the island every two months. The next auction will be held the day after tomorrow, if you are free, you can go and try your luck, you might be able to meet a spirit that fits your eyes.
I heard that in addition to the many magic weapons and pills at this auction, there is even a thousand year old spirit milk!”
“Thousand year spirit milk?”
Upon hearing this, Xu Chuniang’s heart was moved.
The Thousand Year Spiritual Milk was a kind of spirit that could be encountered but not sought, and could only be condensed in a place where the spiritual qi was thick.
With just a single drop, the depleted spiritual qi could be restored to fullness.
The speed of its spiritual return was ten times better than the Golden Elemental Pill.
“Can this matter be taken seriously?”
“Since I dared to reveal it to Fairy, this matter is naturally conclusive. It’s just that the exact amount of thousand year old spirit milk is unknown.”
Xu Chuniang nodded her head and asked for the exact time and place where the auction would be held before firmly memorizing it.
If she hadn’t learned that there was a thousand year spirit milk auction before she had gotten rid of the spirit materials in her hands, she shouldn’t have gone to participate in the auction.
Although the Thousand Year Spiritual Milk was good, everyone wanted good things, and the price would never be low.
At the moment, a large amount of spirit stones had come into her account, so perhaps she could go and try her luck.
After finishing the materials in her hand, Xu Chuniang didn’t rush to leave the Treasure Shop and directly strolled around the store.
Only after buying numerous formation materials and spending nearly a million spirit stones did she leave satisfied.
Two days later, Xu Chuniang followed the location given by Steward Li and arrived at the venue of the Jumbo Place auction.
“Hello, Fairy, please show me your Treasure Order. If you wish to enter the auction venue without the Jumbo Order, you need to pay an entrance fee of one thousand spirit stones.”
At the entrance of the auction, two Foundation Establishment cultivators stopped her with smiles.
Xu Chuniang gave a slight lurch and showed her Treasure Order.
Seeing the silver luster glowing all over the token, the two Foundation Establishment cultivators’ expressions became even more respectful.
“This Jumbo Token in your hand is a silver token, and according to the rules of our workshop market, you can hold this token and enter the elegant room on the right side of the second floor to participate in the auction.”
As soon as the two of them spoke, a qi practicing child came forward to lead the way.
Xu Chuniang put away the token and followed the boy, entering the elegant room on the second floor.
After taking a seat, there was soon another maid serving fruits and spiritual tea, and explaining the bidding rules in detail.
Xu Chuniang nodded slightly, she had previously participated in an auction, and the rules were much the same.
After the maid finished her introduction, she added.
“If a fairy has something she wishes to auction, she can also hand it over to our workshop and participate in the auction after appraisal. Once it is sold, a 10% transaction fee will be charged. If the auction is unsuccessful, then no transaction fee will be charged.”
The 10% transaction fee was not a small amount, but the transaction price of the auction was often much higher than the normal transaction price, so as long as it could be auctioned off, there would be money to be made.
“I’ll step back first, if Fairy has any needs, feel free to call out to us.”
The maid made a bow and retreated.
Xu Chuniang scanned the elegant room, although the room was small, there were quite a few isolation formations.
One could tell that Jumbo Place had put a lot of thought into it.
Looking out from the room, one could see the scene outside.
Looking in from the outside, both vision and divine sense would be obstructed.
Xu Chuniang got up, walked over to the window of the elegant room, and looked towards the bottom.
The view from her position was excellent, and she could clearly see half of the auction venue.
There was still half an hour before the auction officially began, and there weren’t many empty seats below.
She withdrew her gaze and sat back in her seat, waiting patiently. As time passed, the auction kicked off.
The one who presided over the auction was an old man in the late Jindan stage, and with his three-inch tongue, he boasted about the treasures that should be involved in the auction.
“The next item to be auctioned is a Water Avoidance Pearl. Although the grade of the Water Avoidance Bead is only of the second rank, in addition to the ability to avoid water, it also has many wonderful uses.
Not only is it able to conceal its breath and cultivation, increasing the amount of time it can hold its breath underwater, but it also has an illusory art within it that can save its life at critical moments ……”
Xu Chuniang only swept a glance before withdrawing her gaze.
This kind of second-grade spiritual weapons and treasures were no longer useful to her.
Apart from the small number of Jindan cultivators who participated in the auction, more of them only had Foundation Stage cultivation.
They stared at the water-avoiding pearl in the old man’s hand with warm gazes.
This Water Avoidance Pearl was unattractive to Xu Chuniang, but in the eyes of the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, it was a rare treasure.
Seeing that the atmosphere of the entire room had been mobilized, the old man smiled faintly and stated the base price of the water-avoiding bead.
“Extreme Water Avoidance Pearl, starting price 50,000 spirit stones, each increase shall not be less than 5,000 spirit stones!”
“I bid fifty thousand!”
“Fifty-five thousand!”
“Sixty thousand!”
……
The crowd made a bunch of bids, and soon the price of the Water Avoidance Pearl was speculated to eighty thousand, and it was still going up.
Until the price of the water-avoiding beads approached the 100,000 mark, the number of people bidding on them decreased steeply.
“Ninety-five thousand.”
“One hundred thousand!”
“One hundred and twenty thousand.”
A brittle voice rang out, directly raising the price by twenty thousand, causing the entire room to fall into silence.
Although the Water Avoidance Pearl was good, the price of eighty to ninety thousand was about right, and at the top of the day it could be auctioned for one hundred thousand spirit stones.
Spending one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones to buy and auction this item, had to make people sigh a word of wealth.
Presiding over the auction of the old man with a smile on his face, “120,000 spirit stones once, 120,000 spirit stones twice, there are still bids?”
He gave a slight beat, and after seeing that no one bid again, he continued, “One hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones three times, sold! Congratulations to the honored guest of the B word, Room Sixty-Three, for successfully bidding on this Extreme Water Avoidance Bead.”
With a slight wave of the old man’s hand, a maid came forward to receive the water-avoiding bead and sent it towards the B Character Sixth and Third Room.
“The Water Avoiding Bead has been sold, next to be auctioned, is the Grade 2 Extreme Grade Pill ……”
The auction was still continuing, but the treasures that were involved in the auction were mostly Grade 2 Spiritual Treasures, occasionally mixed with a few Grade 3 Spiritual Treasures.
Among these grade three spirit treasures, there were none that Xu Chuniang was interested in.
She drank a cup of spirit tea and continued to wait up patiently.
Two hours later, the first half of the auction finally ended, ushering in the second half.
In the second half of the auction, the proportion of grade three spirit treasures gradually increased.
Occasionally, there would be some Spiritual Treasures that would be quite interesting to Xu Chuniang.
It was just that these Spiritual Treasures were often in high demand, and most of them would be auctioned off at extremely high prices, with only two or three Spiritual Treasures going under the hammer.
“The next item to be auctioned is an ancient array disk. According to the cultivator who handed this array disk to me, this array disk was brought out from an ancient secret realm, very mysterious and extraordinary.”
Seeing that the crowd’s interest had been aroused, the old man smiled faintly and removed the red cloth used to cover the array disk, revealing its true face.
A formation disk that was a bit mysterious in its antiquity was presented before the eyes of the crowd.
(End of chapter)