Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 105 Dazzling Treasures, Foundation Establishment Pill [Please Subscribe]

To the east of the Hongyan Mountains lies a uniquely shaped mountain peak, resembling a gold ingot, hence its other name, Yuanbao Peak.

The organizers of this underground auction used this peak as the meeting point for the guests.

On the morning of that day, a Foundation Establishment cultivator wearing a mask and a Qi Refining cultivator wearing a face-covering hat arrived at Yuanbao Peak and handed over their invitations to the welcoming cultivators arranged by the organizers.

Then the two of them were taken to a stone palace on the mountain, which was created with magic, to wait.

The two were Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui, uncle and nephew, who had come all the way from Jiufengling.

Upon entering the stone hall, the two saw that there were already as many as twenty or thirty people waiting inside the spacious hall.

The vast majority of them were Foundation Establishment cultivators; cultivators like Zhou Chun in the Qi Refining stage could be counted on one hand.

And they were probably like him, brought here by their elders to broaden their horizons.

Regardless of who they were, they all used various things to cover their faces, just like the uncle and nephew, to prevent being recognized.

When the uncle and nephew entered, the cultivators sitting cross-legged in the hall only glanced at them briefly before looking away and continuing to close their eyes to rest.

Seeing this, the uncle and nephew didn't greet anyone, but found an open space to sit down and wait.

After waiting for most of the day, the number of cultivators gathered in the main hall exceeded one hundred.

At this moment, a cold voice finally came from outside the hall into the hall.

"The time has come, fellow cultivators! You may now disembark and depart by boat!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the hall quickly got up and left the stone hall.

Outside the stone hall, a black ship nearly ten feet long had been moored in mid-air.

"A third-tier flying warship-like magical artifact, its value is comparable to several third-tier offensive magical artifacts!"

Beside Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiarui whispered something in a deliberately altered tone, as if explaining something to him, or perhaps expressing his own surprise.

Fortunately, there were quite a few other people making similar remarks at that time, so he didn't attract anyone's attention.

So, at the beckoning of a monk with a black veil on the deck of the ship, everyone boarded the ship and entered the sealed cabin.

Unlike ordinary multi-story ships, the cabins inside this flying multi-story ship are not actually divided into sections. Instead, it resembles the inland river passenger ship that Zhou Chun had ridden in his previous life, with a spacious interior that could comfortably accommodate three or four hundred people without feeling crowded.

At this moment, all the doors and windows of the ship were closed, and Zhou Chun and the others inside had completely lost contact with the outside world and had no idea where the ship was going.

After they had been inside the ship for about 15 minutes, the ship's cabin door was opened again.

After exiting the ship, the group discovered that they were in a spacious hall.

The masked cultivator who had previously invited them to board the ship now solemnly instructed, "Fellow Daoists, follow this passage until you reach the auction hall at the end."

Following the direction of his finger, everyone saw a stone door open in one corner of the cave hall, and the light emitted by the "Sunlight Stone" inside illuminated the underground passage.

It's unclear who led the way, but soon Zhou Chun and his group passed through the stone gate and entered the passage.

After they all entered the passage, the stone door closed with a loud "boom".

The group simply glanced back at it and then continued walking down the passage without giving it any further thought.

The hundreds of people gathered here now come from various forces in Lanzhou and the surrounding states.

Unless the organizers of an underground auction are insane, they would never use the guise of holding an underground auction to murder these people.

Even if he were a major sect like Qinglian Temple, he would suffer a severe backlash.

Therefore, no one was too worried about their safety at the underground auction.

After walking along the passage for about fifteen minutes, another spacious underground chamber appeared ahead.

The underground cave was roughly square in shape, with the auction stage on one side, which was slightly higher than the rest of the area by about half a foot. Below it were futons for the cultivators who came to participate in the underground auction to sit cross-legged.

After Zhou Chun and his group of over a hundred people rushed into the underground cave, they first looked at the five auctioneers who were already ready on the auction stage, and then each found an empty seat and sat down.

After waiting for about 45 minutes, another 40 or 50 cultivators entered the underground cavern where Zhou Chun and his group had come from. It was unclear where they had come from.

Including this group, the number of cultivators in the cave hall was now close to two hundred.

After this group of people sat down, one of the five masked cultivators who had remained silent on the auction stage finally stood up and walked to the auction table.

Then, facing the crowd seated below, he cupped his hands and said in a deep voice, "I am Jia Ming, the auctioneer for today's auction. I will now present to you all the thirty treasures prepared by each party for this auction."

"If any of you fellow cultivators are interested in any of these treasures, you may participate in the auction according to the bidding rules."

"Here, I, Jia, would like to remind all fellow Daoists that once a bid is made, it is considered a valid bid and cannot be retracted."

"During the auction, only money matters, not cultivation level or background. No one may use their cultivation level to intimidate others or threaten competitors in any way."

"At the same time, I must warn all fellow cultivators: before you place your bids, you'd better think carefully about whether you have enough spirit coins. Otherwise, if a fake bid occurs, you will not only fail to obtain the treasures, but you will also lose your life and possessions here!"

After explaining the rules of the auction, the auctioneer, named "Jia Ming," didn't say anything more.

He immediately reached into his storage pouch at his waist and took out a jade box.

He placed the jade box on the table in front of him, opened the lid, and took out the contents to show to the audience.

"This is a Blue Moon Spirit Pearl produced by the second-tier demonic beast Blue Moon Clam. It contains extremely rich and gentle water elemental power, which has excellent effects whether used for alchemy or weapon crafting, or for removing certain special fire poisons."

A light blue pearl the size of a fist was held up by Jia Ming and displayed to the cultivators below the stage.

Without him needing to deliberately use his magic to activate it, a soft blue spiritual light emanated from the pearl.

When everyone scanned the area with their divine senses, they could clearly perceive the rich water elemental power contained within.

After displaying it for a moment, Jia Ming put the spirit pearl back into the jade box and closed the lid.

Then he extended his right hand and made a gesture, saying, "The starting bid for this item is five hundred spirit coins, and each bid must be at least fifty spirit coins higher."

"I'll offer five hundred spirit coins."

Almost as soon as Jia Ming finished speaking, a cultivator couldn't wait to chime in.

It's unclear whether they genuinely needed that spirit pearl or if it was a ploy arranged by the auction house.

In any case, after he spoke up, no one followed suit and raised the price immediately.

After all, no matter how nicely Jia Ming put it, it was just a spiritual object produced from the body of a second-tier demon beast, merely a raw material.

Unless someone happens to need it or can use it to achieve a value far exceeding five hundred spirit coins, generally no one would buy it.

But this is the normal situation.

If the Blue Moon Spirit Pearl is an easily processed raw material, why doesn't the auction house process it into pills or magical artifacts for sale?

Wouldn't that make the price even higher?

After waiting for a while and no one raised the price, the Blue Moon Spirit Pearl was actually won by the first person to bid at the reserve price.

While this doesn't exactly constitute a failed auction, it certainly set a bad precedent for the entire event.

Therefore, although Zhou Chun couldn't see the auctioneer's expression, he could still sense the other person's current mood.

Sure enough, when the auctioneer brought out the second treasure, his voice was noticeably lower.

"A set of first-grade high-level array [Illusory Spirit Tracing Array] that can be carried and set up. Once set up, it can bring an area within a hundred feet in radius into the array's protection. Its transformation technique makes it difficult for even a Foundation Establishment cultivator's spiritual sense to detect anything unusual. It can also distort and confuse the spiritual sense and five senses of those who enter the array. It is an essential item for temporary rest when traveling."

After this introduction, the auctioneer immediately placed the array plate on the ground, then waved his hands to strike seven white array flags into specific locations around the array plate, and directly activated the array by performing an incantation.

Instantly, a burst of white light surged from the array plate and array flags, quickly engulfing and covering the auctioneer and the several auctioneers on the stage.

Then, in Zhou Chun's and the others' sight, the auction stage in front of them became empty, with only the illusory stone table and other inanimate objects remaining.

Even a Qi Refining stage cultivator like Zhou Chun couldn't detect anything unusual there, whether using his divine sense or spells like "Qi Observation Technique".

Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Zhou Jiarui would need to concentrate his divine sense to detect even the slightest anomaly.

Such a mysterious formation has indeed aroused the interest of many cultivators.

Therefore, once the auctioneer dispelled the formation and announced the starting price, it immediately attracted many cultivators to bid.

As a result, the starting price of 800 spirit coins was eventually settled at 1,450 spirit coins after fierce bidding among several cultivators.

Seeing how popular this formation was, Zhou Chun couldn't help but think of the formation tools he had obtained from the black-clad elder of the Dragon Transformation Sect three years ago.

Since Zhou Chongshan, the second elder of the Zhou family, took those array-setting tools to study, there has been no news from him since, and he has no idea how the research is going.

Compared to magical artifacts that can be used immediately after being obtained and refined, array formations are quite troublesome in this respect.

If you don't know the corresponding techniques for setting up and controlling the formation, even if you obtain the complete array equipment, you still won't be able to set up the formation.

It can only be left to the array masters to slowly figure out the deciphering and deduce the correct usage.

The successful sale of the second treasure gave the auctioneer a lot of confidence, and he soon brought out the third treasure.

It was a monster egg, and it was the egg of the flying monster Flame Vulture.

Although the Flaming Vulture is only a low-level demon beast, its adult strength is even greater than that of the Iron Feather Eagle. It can also carry people in flight, making it an excellent pet for transportation and combat.

To be honest, when Zhou Chun saw the Flaming Vulture Egg, he was tempted to buy it.

However, considering that his own Silver Lightning Python would also be able to fly once it reached the second tier, he held back.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as a Foundation Establishment cultivator bought the item for 1,200 spirit coins.

The fourth and fifth treasures were both second-tier magic artifacts, each fetching over two thousand spirit coins.

The sixth treasure was an alchemy furnace, which was also auctioned off for 2,700 spirit coins.

The seventh treasure was a seven-hundred-year-old Wind Bamboo Grass. This plant could not be used for alchemy or medicine, and its uses were few. In the end, it was bought by someone for 1,300 spirit coins.

The eighth treasure was a bottle of pills that could enhance the mana of cultivators in the early stages of Foundation Establishment. It contained only five spirit pills, yet it sold for 2,100 spirit coins. Each pill was worth the equivalent of a first-grade high-quality magic artifact like the [Little Thousand Mountain Seal].

The ninth treasure gets much more interesting.

The auctioneer reached into his storage bag, took out a square wooden box, placed it on the table, opened the box, and took out a pair of exquisitely folded wings.

The exquisite wings looked like those of some kind of bat, with a bluish-black color. They were engraved with silver-white spirit patterns and cyan runes, making the wings, which should have been ferocious and ugly, mysterious and elegant.

Unlike the previous magical artifacts, the auctioneer did not activate this item to demonstrate its effects.

Instead, it unfolds its folded wings and holds them up with both hands for the audience to admire.

At the same time, he introduced, "The art of talismans is something that some knowledgeable fellow Daoists should have heard of. This ninth treasure is a second-tier low-grade talisman, the Azure Bat Wing."

"When a Qi Refining cultivator uses this item, he/she can gain a flight speed comparable to the Wind Travel Talisman, and the duration is much longer."

"When Foundation Establishment cultivators use this item, they can fly much faster by controlling their Qi, and the duration of the effect is also extremely long."

"Moreover, this is a brand new talisman, ensuring it can be used at least three times."

After explaining the purpose of the wings in his hand, the auctioneer folded them up and put them back into the wooden box.

Then, in a deep voice, he said, "Due to the special nature of this item, we will not demonstrate its effects to you fellow Daoists. However, please rest assured that this auction house will absolutely not try to deceive you with counterfeit goods. You can bid on this item with complete confidence!"

After saying that, he announced in a loud voice: "The starting price for this item is 1,200 spirit coins, and each bid must be at least 100 spirit coins higher."

"So expensive!"

Zhou Chun let out a low exclamation, his restless heart being forcefully suppressed by the price.

When he heard the auctioneer say that even cultivators at the Qi Refining stage could use the winged artifact, he had considered adding a treasure to his collection that would allow him to escape in a critical moment.

But now that he's heard this bottom price, he has no choice but to give up.

It wasn't that he didn't have enough spirit coins in his pocket, but rather that it wasn't worth it for him.

So they could only watch helplessly as the price of the item kept rising until it was finally bought by someone for 1,800 spirit coins.

After the ninth item was sold, the auctioneer quickly brought out the tenth item.

It was a jade bottle containing only one dark purple pill.

When Zhou Chun saw the pill, he clearly heard his uncle Zhou Jiarui whisper the words "Foundation Building Pill".

Zhou Jiarui succeeded in establishing his foundation by taking the Foundation Establishment Pill, so he naturally wouldn't mistake this kind of pill.

And the auctioneer on stage quickly confirmed this.

"This treasure needs no further introduction: one Foundation Establishment Pill. The starting bid is four thousand spirit coins, and each bid must be at least two hundred spirit coins higher."

I didn't finish writing this chapter until 1 a.m. today, I'm so tired!!

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