Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 214 Auction: A Series of Extraordinary Treasures [Please Subscribe]

Yunzhou, Xianyunfang Market.

After being persuaded by Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun, Zhou Daoyi finally reluctantly agreed to raise money to buy spiritual items to help him open up his Purple Mansion.

To be honest, this matter put a lot of pressure on him.

If we succeed, that's fine, but if we fail, we'll really be ashamed to face our family and elders!

However, Zhou Chun made a good point at the time: since he had become the clan leader, he should shoulder this heavy responsibility.

Now the Zhou family needs him to step forward, and he should step forward!

If he is afraid of being ashamed to face his family elders after failure, and therefore feels burdened and dares not take on this heavy responsibility, then why did he become the clan leader in the first place?

After the plan was finalized, the three members of the Zhou family quickly took action, each selling some of their temporarily unnecessary items to raise spirit coins.

After this series of actions, the three of them raised a total of more than 93,000 spirit coins, of which Zhou Chun alone contributed nearly half of them!

"These spirit coins are almost enough to buy a spirit item to help open the Purple Mansion, but we also promised the Crimson Dragon Protector to buy the Crimson Sun Flowing Pearl Pill. What if such a spirit pill actually appears?"

Inside the inn, after the three members of the Zhou family had finished counting all the spirit coins, Zhou Mingde suddenly remembered something and said it on the spot.

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun exchanged bewildered glances.

After a slight frown, Zhou Daoyi said, "Then we'll see which spiritual item appears first, and that's which we'll buy!"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Chun shook his head and said, "No, since we agreed to purchase spiritual items to assist you in opening your Purple Mansion, how can we let the affairs of an outsider affect such an important matter as your opening of your Purple Mansion!"

After saying this, he added with a serious expression, "With a great battle imminent, fully supporting that Crimson Dragon Protector's cultivation at this time would inevitably be seen as aiding the enemy, and it would be extremely disastrous if this were exposed!"

"In my opinion, it would be fine if the Crimson Sun Pearl Pill didn't appear at the auction. If it did, we can say afterwards that we didn't have enough money to buy it and will find another opportunity to buy it for her later, or we can compensate her with spirit coins for the Purple Pattern Golden Peach she gave up."

"She can't just expose our true identities because she lost a purple-veined golden peach, can she?"

Doing so would inevitably be unethical.

However, considering that Lin Hongyu had also threatened the Zhou family to cooperate with her, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi agreed with Zhou Chun's statement.

According to the three major sects, the seventh day of the trade fair is the day the auction will be held.

This auction has no requirements regarding the cultivation level of the cultivators who enter; the only requirement is verification of funds.

You must carry at least 10,000 spirit coins to enter the auction venue.

This requirement alone prevents many Foundation Establishment cultivators from having the opportunity to enter.

After all, once a Foundation Establishment cultivator has so many spirit coins, most of them will directly use them to buy magic weapons and pills, rather than keeping them on their person.

However, this time, the Zhou family had all five Foundation Establishment cultivators and Zhou Mingde enter the arena.

After their funds were verified, they entered the auction venue together and handed over the spirit coins used to pass the verification to Zhou Mingde.

It's not just the Zhou family that does this; many families do it too.

After all, this auction was hosted by the three major sects, which was an excellent opportunity for Foundation Establishment cultivators to broaden their horizons.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators from all the major families had just fought and bled for their families at the "Hundred Clans Assembly," so if there was an opportunity to broaden their horizons, they would naturally try their best to bring them to the scene.

When Zhou Chun and his group entered the scene, they saw a sea of ​​familiar faces.

Many of them were opponents they had fought in the ring before.

Of course, they were rivals back then, and even if they can't be friends now, no one would really hold a grudge about what happened in the ring.

If you don't even have this much magnanimity, if you can't even see this clearly, then you're not qualified to enter this place.

Therefore, most people greet each other politely by nodding, and some even bow and say hello.

And so, the Zhou family quickly found an empty table in the venue and sat down.

After Zhou Chun sat down, he looked around and saw that the auction venue was set up like a stage. In the middle was a platform that was half a zhang high above the ground, and there were tables and benches all around, which looked like two or three hundred tables. In addition, dozens of separate seats were arranged for some solo travelers.

At this point, nearly half of the tables were occupied, with most people sitting at separate tables as family units.

After waiting for about half an hour, maids and servants entered with tea and snacks, setting a pot of tea and a plate of snacks on each table, just like those watching a play.

After all the food and drinks had been served, the Golden Core cultivators from the three major sects—Bi Qiuyue, Zhen Bingyang, and Shan Yangzi—entered the venue together.

After the three entered, they didn't greet anyone and immediately sat down cross-legged in a triangular formation on the high platform in the middle.

Immediately, a beautiful woman dressed in a pink dress followed the three of them and leaped onto the stage, landing in the middle of the platform.

Previously, everyone's attention was drawn to the three Golden Core cultivators, and although they saw the beautiful woman, they didn't pay much attention to her.

Seeing her do this, everyone seemed to realize something.

Sure enough, after the beautiful woman stood still, she smiled and bowed to all four sides, saying, "I am Su Yunniang, and I greet you fellow Daoists."

She continued, "I am deeply grateful for the trust placed in me by the high-ranking members of the three sects to preside over this auction. I hope all fellow Daoists will do me the honor of supporting you. I am eternally grateful!"

Her voice was soft and melodious, unlike the clear and pleasant sound of a young girl, but it was like fine wine, becoming more and more soothing the more you listened to it.

This was the first time Zhou Chun had ever discovered that a simple woman's voice could possess such charm.

Zhou Mingde's expression hardened, and he immediately transmitted his voice, saying, "This woman is no ordinary person. She has probably cultivated some kind of secret technique to bewitch people with her voice. You all need to be on your guard and not fall into her trap unknowingly!"

Upon hearing this, the Zhou family cultivators who had been staring at the beautiful woman Su Yunniang all tensed up and dared not look any longer.

After her opening remarks, Su Yunniang didn't waste any more words and quickly got to the point.

She reached out and touched the storage pouch at her waist, and a white jade bottle appeared in her hand.

Then, holding the jade bottle in his hand, he smiled gently and said, "The first item for auction is a bottle of five Spirit-Boosting Pills, which can improve the mana of early Foundation Establishment cultivators. The starting price is only two thousand spirit coins, and each bid should not be less than one hundred spirit coins."

"What a treasure! A pill to enhance the mana of a Foundation Establishment cultivator—something that's hard to buy even with money under normal circumstances!"

Zhou Jiarui, standing next to Zhou Chun, immediately lit up and couldn't help but whisper a word of praise.

Just as he said, the Spirit-Clearing Pill is exactly what the cultivators present today are looking for.

The price of two thousand spirit coins is also relatively low.

As a result, the atmosphere at the scene immediately became heated, and the cultivators at each table started bidding.

In just a hundred breaths, the price of the item, which was originally 2,000 spirit coins, was raised to 4,000 spirit coins, and people were still bidding on it.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiarui, who had just joined in the bidding, couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly, saying, "That's insane!"

He had previously taken Zhou Chun to underground auctions, so he wasn't exactly a country bumpkin.

But the situation at today's auction still left him speechless.

It's amazing how many rich people there are in the world!

An underground auction might only have a couple hundred people in attendance, and most of them don't even have ten thousand spirit coins.

However, there are more than twenty Golden Core cultivators and hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators at today's auction, and each of them nominally possesses at least ten thousand spirit coins.

In this situation, some cultivators are clearly willing to spend more spirit coins as long as they can acquire something useful.

The bottle of Spirit Elixir was quickly sold for a high price of five thousand spirit coins.

After the first item set the stage, Su Yunniang on stage quickly took out the second item with a smile.

It was still a bottle of pills for improving one's magical power, but it was also useful for cultivators in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

The bidding atmosphere heated up again, with prices being announced one after another from all sides of the audience, and shouts of bids filling the air.

Thus, the first five auction items were all extremely useful elixirs, and their sale completely enlivened the atmosphere of the auction.

"The sixth treasure is a third-tier, low-grade metal element attack talisman. The starting bid is 2,000 spirit coins, and each bid must be at least 100 spirit coins higher."

As Su Yunniang's melodious and beautiful voice rang out, a talisman radiating a faint golden light appeared in her hand.

Third-tier magic talismans are rare treasures that are difficult to obtain, and most talisman makers are unable to create talismans of this level.

Talisman makers who can create such talismans generally do not easily sell talismans of this level to others, lest they be used against themselves or their families in the future.

Therefore, the appearance of this third-tier magic talisman quickly sparked a frenzy of bidding.

In particular, families that had already learned of the three major sects' plan to conquer the Dragon Transformation Sect in the south were fiercely competing for such treasures.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that it was already decided to buy spiritual items to help Zhou Daoyi open his Purple Mansion, Zhou Chun would definitely have competed for it too.

He still has a high-grade third-tier magic talisman that Daoist Mingxia gave him. If he can get two or three more third-tier attack magic talismans, he can hold his own against cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage.

Unfortunately, now we can only watch helplessly.

Next, just like before, Su Yunniang put up as many as six third-tier magic talismans for bidding before switching to third-tier magic artifacts.

However, compared to the pills and talismans mentioned earlier, third-tier magic weapons are not selling as well.

It's not that this thing is useless, but rather that there are relatively few cultivators who can use it, and most of them already have it.

Items like third-tier magical artifacts can be passed down for thousands of years as long as they are not damaged.

Furthermore, cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage rarely fight each other, making it difficult for magical artifacts to be damaged.

Therefore, all major cultivation clans have third-tier magic artifacts passed down from their ancestors that can be inherited. Only some newly promoted Purple Mansion stage cultivators who lack sufficient foundation need to purchase such magic artifacts.

Of course, truly good Tier 3 magic weapons are also very popular.

After all, having one or two good magic weapons can indeed directly enhance the combat power of a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage.

Unfortunately, such exquisite magical artifacts are unlikely to be auctioned off; they are all directly consumed internally by the three major sects.

So no matter how eloquent Su Yunniang was, two third-tier magic artifacts still failed to sell, with no one bidding at all.

The failure of such auction items to sell obviously has a significant impact on the auction atmosphere.

So Su Yunniang decisively changed to an auction item that could ignite the atmosphere.

She swept her jade-like hand across her storage bag, and a cyan jade box appeared in her hand. Then, in an alluring tone, she said, "Fellow Daoists, please take a good look at this next treasure. It is a box containing three sticks of Soul-Guiding Incense, a secret recipe from the Azure Lotus Temple. When opening the Purple Mansion, light one stick and place it in a secret room. It can help one easily guide their divine soul!"

As he spoke, he opened the lid of the jade box, revealing three purple-gold incense sticks, each about a foot long.

She merely showed the three purple-gold incense sticks for a glance before quickly closing the box. Then, in her uniquely seductive tone, she announced, "One box of Soul-Guiding Incense, starting bid 10,000 spirit coins, minimum increment 500 spirit coins!"

No sooner had the words been spoken than a deep voice rang out from beside a table.

"Fifteen thousand spirit coins!"

Zhou Chun looked up and saw that the person bidding was a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage. If he remembered correctly, it seemed to be a senior elder of a family surnamed He.

Then he turned his gaze to Elder Zhou Mingde beside him and asked in a low voice, "Should we make a move?"

"No need. Although this Soul-Guiding Incense is good, its effect on opening the Purple Mansion is very limited, and it's not worth wasting our spirit coins on it!"

Zhou Daoyi, however, responded to Zhou Chun directly, stating his position.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately fell silent and simply watched as the others vied for the item.

After a fierce competition, the three Soul-Guiding Incense sticks were finally bought by someone for 43,500 spirit coins.

After that, Su Yunniang quickly reached into her storage pouch at her waist and took out another jade box.

This time, she didn't even open the box. Instead, she smiled charmingly and said, "As you all know from the previous auction, this auction also features a rare Ice Jade Soul Silkworm that can assist in opening the Purple Mansion!"

After saying that, she raised her hand and shook the jade box in her hand, saying in a sweet voice, "One Ice Jade Soul Silkworm, starting bid 20,000 spirit coins, each bid must be at least 500 spirit coins!"

"Okay, let's take a picture of this!"

At the table where the Zhou family was sitting, Zhou Mingde, after listening to Su Yunniang's words, quickly slammed his hand on the table and made a decision on the spot.

First update of the day

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