The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

The auction site at Longteng Market in Zhongzhou.

“The Soul-Condensing Fruit is cultivated with the power of the soul. It takes five thousand years to grow in the extremely yin land. This spiritual fruit has the effect of enhancing the spiritual consciousness of cultivators.

You all know that only when our Nascent Soul cultivators have strong enough spiritual consciousness, we will have a better grasp of the advancement to the Spiritualization stage. We can take it directly or use it as a material for alchemy."

After the auctioneer finished his introduction, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a series of purple rays fell from the sky and landed on the auction table in front of him.

Xu Zhiyu looked closely and found that they were three shiny purple spiritual fruits, about half the size of a fist and shaped like apricots, emitting rich soul power.

“There are three Soul Condensing Fruits being auctioned here, with a starting price of 20,000 high-grade spirit stones, and each bid must not be less than 1,000 high-grade spirit stones.

As soon as the low price was uttered, many Nascent Soul cultivators in the audience were shocked and immediately competed to make bids.

"I'll give you 30,000 high-quality spirit stones. No one can snatch it from me. I'm determined to get it."

A female voice sounded, trying to take the initiative, and her tone was very arrogant.

"Haha, how funny! Such a precious spiritual fruit, is it only you who needs it? I need it too. I will give you 40,000 high-quality spiritual stones."

Then another quotation sounded, the tone full of disdain and ridicule.

"My two Taoist friends, please don't hurt our relationship. I'm offering you 33,000 high-quality spirit stones."

"..."

In the blink of an eye, the price of this batch of sixth-grade top-quality Soul Condensing Fruits soared to an astonishingly high price.

Almost all those who made bids were cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage. Spiritual fruits that could greatly enhance spiritual awareness were naturally highly sought after.

In the end, these three Soul Condensing Fruits were auctioned for an astonishingly high price of 50,000 high-quality spirit stones.

An old man in the eighth stage of the Nascent Soul flew onto the auction platform and collected all three Soul Condensing Fruits.

There were those knowledgeable people who recognized the old man's identity as soon as he appeared.

“It’s actually Lord Poison Fire. This old guy hasn’t shown up for a long time. I thought he had already fled to another continent and hid. Who knew he would dare to show up openly?

Is he really not afraid that the Fire God Palace's God will attack him?"

"Hehe, the strength of the Fire God Palace has long been declining. Ever since their fourth-level Spiritualization Grand Elder passed away, there has not been a cultivator who can take on the responsibility. Now their ranking is about to slip out of the top 100 in Zuzhou."

Someone who knew the inside story explained the reason, but this answer could not convince everyone.

"That's not right. A lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Even if the Supreme Elder of the Fire God Palace has passed away, it doesn't mean that there are no other Divine Transformation cultivators in their sect.

A thousand years ago, this guy named Poison Fire Master actually dared to launch a sneak attack on their Holy Son on the territory of the Fire God Palace, and beat him so badly that he could not be healed.

This incident spread almost throughout the entire Central Continent at the time, and directly destroyed the prestige of the Fire God Palace. It was said that the death of their supreme elder was also related to this incident.

Do you think they will sit back and do nothing after they learn that old man Duhuo has returned to Zhongzhou?"

"I don't know about that. Maybe he has something to rely on. Otherwise, I really can't think of why a casual cultivator like him would dare to return to the Central Continent alone."

The discussion was very loud, and Xu Zhiyu, who was sitting in the box on the second floor, could hear it clearly, but he was not interested in the gossip.

The reason why he came to participate in this high-level auction that only Nascent Soul cultivators could participate in was because he wanted to bid for some spiritual objects that could assist in forming a core.

Since he left Xuanyang Secret Realm safely last time, he has traveled to several different places and entered several Jindan Secret Realms open to the public. He made a lot of money every time.

Of course, the main reason he sneaked into these secret realms was to obtain the high-level spiritual veins inside. Over the past few years, he has stolen a total of eight spiritual veins, six of which were fourth-level and two were top-quality third-level.

The biggest gain he had ever made was a few months ago, when he paid a huge price of 30,000 mid-grade spirit stones and got a spot in an underground black market.

But I didn't expect that after entering it, I found out that I had been deceived. Although the secret place sounded very famous and it was said that there were sixth-level spiritual objects in it, it was actually pure scam.

There weren't even many fourth-level spiritual objects in there, let alone sixth-level spiritual objects. He searched hard for several months, but his final harvest was only about 30,000 medium-grade spirit stones.

This meant that the trip was in vain. He thought about it carefully and felt that he could not tolerate this and could not suffer this loss in silence.

So he did something very crazy and bold, which was to directly move the only two fourth-grade top-grade spirit veins in the secret realm into his own sealed space.

This is bad. The reason why the secret realm can run smoothly is actually due to these two fourth-grade top-grade spiritual veins.

Now that it had been taken away by him, it was like a person's spine being directly pulled out. The secret realm trembled instantly and then began to collapse.

Then he and more than one hundred other Jindan cultivators who had entered the secret realm were forcibly teleported out.

Of course, with such a big change in the secret realm, the monks outside who were responsible for opening the secret realm naturally sensed it, but when they wanted to take remedial measures, they found it was too late.

However, the owner of this secret realm still attached great importance to it, and sent four Nascent Soul cultivators to open the secret realm at one time. The distance that Xu Zhiyu and his team teleported was not far, and their landing point was basically near the outskirts of the secret realm.

These Nascent Soul cultivators had already locked onto everyone with their powerful spiritual senses when they just came out of the secret realm, and warned them not to move and to stand still and wait, otherwise they would be killed without mercy.

But what about the more than one hundred monks? Some of them were of a status that could not be seen in public. They ignored the warning and chose to escape directly.

Now that there was someone taking the lead, the rest naturally became bolder and started to run away. Xu Zhiyu naturally would not stand there stupidly. He found a direction that no other cultivator had chosen and quickly used his escape technique to escape.

When he sensed that he had escaped the Nascent Soul cultivator's spiritual lock range, he transformed himself and immediately adjusted his own mana fluctuations to the third level of the Nascent Soul through the magic weapon on his belt. Then he did not continue to escape, but chose to wait where he was.

Sure enough, a cultivator of the second level of the Nascent Soul came after him in a short while. Xu Zhiyu took a closer look and found that the other party was not one of the four Nascent Soul cultivators just now. However, the fluctuation of mana and the clothes he was wearing looked very similar, so he might be a helper from the same sect.

The Nascent Soul Level 2 cultivator was also quite puzzled about Xu Zhiyu's appearance here, but seeing that his cultivation was even higher than his own, he did not think much about it. After greeting him, he hurried away.

Afterwards, Xu Zhiyu left there calmly. However, the matter of this secret realm caused a big stir for a while. It was said that the sect behind that secret realm was quite powerful, so the sect directly dispatched the ancestor of Huashen to investigate the matter.

So in order to avoid the limelight, he temporarily gave up his plan to continue entering the secret realm and steal spiritual veins, and instead began to collect various spiritual objects that could assist cultivators in breaking through to a higher realm in major markets.

Since he had enough spirit stones on him, he had actually made quite a good harvest over this period of time. In total, he had collected thirty Purple Yang Pills, twenty ordinary Purple Qi Talismans, and six top-grade Purple Qi Talismans.

It is quite difficult to collect spiritual objects that can form golden elixirs. He went to several large markets and only collected three portions of golden elixir jade liquid and two golden elixirs. Naturally, this little harvest could not satisfy his appetite.

You should know that the Xu family’s current strength is in a blowout stage, and there are many cultivators waiting to form their elixir.

A rough count shows that there are no less than four or five of them. First of all, there are Xu's father and mother. Because they each took a sixth-grade top-grade Ningling Zhu Fruit, their cultivation was already close to the late stage of Purple Mansion when he left the family. Maybe when he returns from his travels, it will be time for them to condense the golden elixir.

In addition, the ancestor Xu Deming and grandfather Xu Chengsheng have also made great progress in their cultivation. They are now basically in a semi-retired state and have plenty of free time to practice. When he finishes his travels and returns to the family, he will probably reach the late Purple Mansion realm.

In addition, his twenty-ninth uncle Xu Zhengji, and his peers Xu Zhifeng and Xu Zhikai will also need to use Dan-forming spiritual objects in the near future, so he has to collect more.

Some people may think that Xu Zhiyu is carrying the family on his own by doing this, and this is not wrong.

But he had already planned to ascend to the spiritual world in six hundred years. Before he left, he had to make arrangements for his family and at least leave enough backup for the family.

Moreover, due to the fact that the Xu family has only been rising for a short time, some of their shortcomings are difficult to make up for in a short time. Take the elixir that can be used to break through a great realm as an example. The Xu family will not be able to be self-reliant for a long time in the future.

The Xu family can’t even refine the Zi Yang Pill now, let alone the higher grade Jin Dan.

Therefore, it is necessary for him to collect more now, otherwise when he returns to Xuanzhou, he will have nowhere to buy spirit stones with him, because these things will not appear on the market there at all.

These days, when he collected spiritual objects, he always pretended to be at the third level of Nascent Soul, and he was very generous in his gifts. Therefore, not long after he settled in this large market, Nascent Soul cultivators came to visit him one after another.

After that, he participated in several exchange meetings between Nascent Souls, and exchanged several fifth-level spiritual medicines for a lot of good things.

Thanks to the knowledge accumulated by the Five Elements Reverend throughout his life, his vision now far exceeds that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. He can now clearly call out the names of many spiritual medicines in the sealed space that he was not familiar with before, and explain their effects.

However, in the exchange meetings between Nascent Souls, treasures that can assist in forming a pill usually do not appear, which makes him not very satisfied. When he accidentally revealed this worry one time, it happened that a well-informed Nascent Soul cultivator told him.

An auction specifically for Yuanying Zhenjun will soon be held in the market town, and participants must have a net worth of at least 100,000 high-quality spirit stones.

After knowing the news, Xu Zhiyu was naturally very happy, but then he was in trouble because most of the spirit stones he had were of medium quality.

However, this did not stump him. After he found two large spiritual medicine shops and sold them three ten-thousand-year-old fifth-grade top-quality spiritual medicines, the problem of spiritual stones was easily solved.

Finally, he walked into this secret auction venue with a huge sum of 180,000 high-quality spirit stones.

After the auction started, he found that the well-informed Nascent Soul was not exaggerating. Every treasure auctioned here was selected from the best of the best, basically the top-grade fifth-level spiritual objects, and there was not a single inferior one.

Before auctioning the three Soul Condensing Fruits, he also spent 40,000 high-quality spirit stones to purchase a set of fifth-order high-quality large spirit gathering array. This was prepared for his future practice. He did not want to slow down his practice because of not absorbing enough spiritual energy.

Even as his thoughts were wandering, the auction was still going on.

"Soul Yin Iron is made by using the full cultivation of ten Jindan cultivators who practiced the ultimate Yin technique, plus a cultivator who was no less than the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. It is a rare material for refining Yin attribute magic weapons. The base price is 15,000 high-grade spirit stones, and each bid must not be less than 1,500 high-grade spirit stones."

The auctioneer stretched out his hand, and a storage ring on the table trembled slightly, and then a dark and hazy light flew out.

What fell in front of everyone was a piece of dark spiritual iron, in the shape of a disc, about a foot in diameter and two or three inches thick, emitting a heart-pounding aura.

"Twenty thousand high-quality spirit stones!"

"Twenty-one thousand five hundred!"

"Twenty-five thousand!"

This piece of Soul Yin Iron was finally auctioned off for an astonishing price, and most of the cultivators who stood up had a strong demonic aura.

If this happened in Xuanzhou, the demon cultivators would not dare to appear in the market so openly, but this is Zhongzhou, so the situation is different.

"Devil's Spirit Tree Weeping Blood Flower..."

One after another, the demonic spiritual objects were taken out and auctioned off by some monks in need with large amounts of spirit stones. The process was very fast and there was no delay at all.

Xu Zhiyu also listened carefully to the introduction on the stage, but unfortunately, among the seven or eight auction items, there was nothing he could use.

Finally, when the auction was nearing its end, the golden elixir spiritual objects he had been longing for appeared, and a large number of them appeared at once, not only golden elixirs, but also golden elixir jade liquid.

In the end, he gave everything he had and got fifty golden elixirs and fifty portions of golden elixir jade liquid.

Do you think this is the end? Not really.

The total cost of these two spiritual objects was less than 50,000 high-quality spirit stones, and the bulk of the money was used to auction the Infant Condensation Pill.

He also didn't expect that the final treasure would be the Nengying Pill. However, this did not prevent him from competing fiercely with a group of wealthy Yuanying cultivators. In the end, he finally got what he wanted and snatched one from them.

However, the premium was also very high, and it cost three times the price to get it, but for him, it was all worth it. (End of this chapter)