Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 341 Soul-Stabilizing Pill [Please Subscribe]

"This is outrageous! Just the qualification to participate in the auction costs a thousand spirit coins; it's practically robbery!"

After leaving the "Huihai Trading Company", Zhou Chun couldn't help but complain about his experience inside.

This was definitely the most expensive admission ticket he had ever seen.

Based on this price, I'm afraid the entrance fee alone could bring in hundreds of thousands or even millions of spirit coins.

This is much faster than robbing someone!

"An auction that only happens once every hundred years, an auction where even ordinary third-tier magic artifacts are not qualified to be auctioned, this entry price is a bit expensive, but still acceptable."

Zhou Daoyi, however, took it all in stride and didn't care too much about it. He simply waved his hand and said, "Let's go. Since this private room comes with a courtyard, we don't need to spend money to find other accommodations. Let's just go and stay there for now!"

The included courtyard is certainly not a pleasant place.

Its location can be described as the most remote area in the market, situated at the end of a small street in a narrow alley, and it only has three rooms.

Fortunately, this is a courtyard inside the "Immortal Capital Market". A complete set of separate warning and protection formations has been set up to ensure that cultivators passing by will not be able to see the scene inside the courtyard as soon as they release their divine sense.

Zhou Chun and the other two were only staying temporarily, so they didn't complain. They simply set up a new protective array themselves before settling down.

For the next month, none of the three had the heart to cultivate in their residence, and instead wandered around the "Immortal Capital Market".

It must be said that there is a reason why this place is prosperous.

In order to sell some items in exchange for spirit coins, Zhou Chun visited many shops, and what he saw and heard there broadened his horizons.

For example, in Jingguo Lanzhou, if he wanted to buy pills that could improve the magical power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could only obtain them through underground auctions and treasure exchanges, or through publicly held auctions.

However, many large shops in this "Immortal Capital Market" sell this kind of elixir, only at a slightly higher price.

Even for Zhuji Dan (a type of medicinal pill), some shops claim they can accept pre-orders and guarantee delivery within three years.

Of course, the price for this kind of pre-order is also relatively high, at 10,000 spirit coins per coin!

In addition, regarding magical artifacts, many large shops can easily sell third-tier magical artifacts, not to mention second-tier magical artifacts.

Some shops even accept custom orders for magical artifacts, guaranteeing successful crafting or no charge if unsuccessful, but the price is still very high!

Other items, such as talismans and formations, are also much easier to buy in this "Immortal Capital Market" than in Jingguo.

If the cultivation world is divided into developed and underdeveloped regions, then Jing Kingdom would undoubtedly be the underdeveloped one.

If Zhou Chun weren't currently focused on acquiring spiritual items to aid in opening his Purple Mansion, he would have taken the opportunity to go on a major shopping spree at the "Immortal Capital Market".

In his opinion, although many things here are very expensive, it is still acceptable if they can be bought directly with spirit coins.

After all, many things are hard to buy even with spirit coins in Jingguo.

Thanks to the bustling commercial environment of "Xiandu Market", Zhou Chun sold many of his rare spiritual items for a good price.

It's important to understand that sponsoring Lin Hongyu's Core Formation drained the Zhou family's cash flow, and a large family like the Zhou family certainly couldn't afford to let its cash flow dry up.

Therefore, Zhou Chun brought many rare spiritual items accumulated by his family to the Great Zhou Kingdom, intending to sell them for spiritual coins to supplement the family's working capital.

This includes the Fragrant Musk Incense, which can dispel turbid and evil energy; the "Soul Cleansing Water" produced by the Soul Cleansing Water Demon in Longyuanze; and many rare treasures that the Zhou family obtained from the wilderness and Longyuanze.

Such rare and precious items are almost always sold if one is willing to do so.

While the "Immortal Capital Market" has many treasures, rare spiritual items like these are in short supply and difficult to obtain.

Therefore, Zhou Chun not only easily sold the items, but also sold them for a price that far exceeded his expectations.

What he didn't dare let Lin Hongyu know was that the number of spirit coins he held in his hand had now exceeded 200,000!

This is all thanks to him having a good Daoist partner.

When Su Yuzhen heard that he wanted to borrow spirit coins to buy spiritual items to open up the Purple Mansion, she gave him all the spirit coins she had without saying a word.

The Su family of Jiangzhou is a Golden Core family, and they have always been generous in distributing spirit coins as welfare offerings to their clansmen. Su Yuzhen is a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, and every year the Su family alone distributes five hundred spirit coins as welfare offerings to her.

She basically doesn't need to spend spirit coins anywhere.

So she lent Zhou Chun more than 47,000 spirit coins all by herself!

Time flies, and a month has passed in no time.

On the day the grand auction began, Zhou Chun and his two companions arrived at the auction venue very early.

The auction venue was located behind the "Huihai Trading Company" where they purchased the tokens that day. It was a circular stone building similar to a colosseum, but much smaller and without as many seats.

After Zhou Chun and his group verified the tokens, they were taken to a stone chamber on the lower level of the auction venue.

The number "57" is written on the door of the stone room, which represents the number of this private room.

The space inside isn't very big; it would feel crowded if six or seven people sat there.

On the other side of the stone gate they entered through was the auction stage, with a specially made crystal floor-to-ceiling window that allowed them to clearly see the central auction stage and some of the seats in the stands.

However, due to the special manufacturing process of the crystal floor-to-ceiling windows, they cannot see into the private rooms through the crystal floor-to-ceiling windows on the opposite side of the room.

Moreover, the walls of the private stone room and the crystal floor-to-ceiling windows have the function of blocking divine sense detection, so their divine sense cannot detect the private room.

However, to make it easier for them to bid and hear the sounds from the auction stage, a crystal ball and a conch shell ritual implement were placed inside the stone chamber.

Neither of these magical artifacts requires refining. To place an offer, simply take the crystal ball in your hand, infuse it with magical power and divine sense, and state your price.

The conch shell ritual implement was used to transmit sounds from the auction stage.

"Although it's a bit pricey, it definitely has its advantages. Sitting here to participate in the auction is much safer and more comfortable than sitting in those seats!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded slightly and sat down on the armchair placed to the side.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu also took their seats.

After waiting for nearly two hours, most of the seats in the auction hall were filled with people.

Because it was a formal auction, most of the monks in the seats did not cover their faces, with only a few concealing their faces.

At that moment, a charming and sexy woman in a red dress gracefully descended onto the previously empty auction stage; she must be the auctioneer for today's auction.

The woman in the red dress was tall and slender, with a curvaceous figure. Her red dress was semi-transparent, revealing glimpses of her inner beauty, which was extremely alluring.

After landing on the auction stage, she first gracefully curtsied to all four directions, then smiled charmingly and said, "I am Liu Mengyan, greetings to all fellow Daoists."

The voice was soft yet carried a hint of seduction, like the laughter of a fox.

After this self-introduction, the woman in the red dress casually exchanged pleasantries and then began to talk about the rules of the auction.

She clearly knew that not many people would like to hear these words, so she spoke very quickly.

After uttering all the necessary platitudes in one breath, she let out a charming laugh and quickly got to the point.

With a wave of her hand, a black stone box appeared out of thin air in front of her, and then the lid opened automatically, revealing a greenish-blue beast egg inside.

"Fellow Daoists, please take a look. This is our first treasure today: the egg of a high-level demonic beast, the Poison Dragon Lizard."

The woman in the red dress introduced the name of the beast egg while explaining:

"Many fellow cultivators who have come from afar may not know about the Poison Dragon Lizard. It is a ferocious beast that lives on the Dolan Grassland. Its poisonous supernatural powers are comparable to those of a Poisonous Flood Dragon of the same level. It can easily kill cultivators of the Purple Mansion stage of the same level. Even Golden Core stage cultivators who are accidentally exposed to its poison will have to greatly deplete their vital energy to get rid of it."

"This venomous dragon lizard egg was found on the Dolan Grassland by a Golden Core cultivator; it's definitely genuine!"

With that, she smiled slightly and said, "Alright, the auction for this item will now begin. The starting price is 80,000 spirit coins, and each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit coins higher!"

As soon as the words were spoken, people began to place bids.

Every time someone makes a bid, the beautiful woman in the red dress on stage will announce the bidder's price in a sweet voice and use seductive words to entice more people to bid.

Inside private room number 57, Zhou Daoyi listened to the sound emanating from the conch shell artifact and looked at the monster egg in the stone box on the auction stage. He said thoughtfully, "This reminds us that since we've come all this way to the Great Zhou Kingdom, we should buy some monster illustrations from here to take back with us, enrich our family's collection, and broaden the horizons of our clansmen."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun nodded in agreement and said, "Elder, you are right. This matter is indeed very necessary. I will personally take care of it after the auction."

Then the group watched as the price of the poisonous dragon lizard's egg rose steadily, eventually being auctioned off for a high price of 195,000 spirit coins, and was won by a cultivator in a private room.

This price isn't actually that outrageous, since a high-level demon beast, as long as it doesn't die young, will definitely become a third-tier demon beast.

For a faction, spending 200,000 spirit coins and a hundred years to obtain a loyal and powerful third-tier demon beast is entirely worthwhile.

After the venomous dragon lizard egg was auctioned off, Liu Mengyan, the beautiful woman in the red dress on the stage, immediately took out a second item for auction.

It was a silver-white flying sword magic weapon with its sharp edge fully exposed.

Liu Mengyan held the flying sword in front of her, flicked the blade with her slender finger, and made it emit a crisp tinkling sound.

He then introduced, "The Silver Light Soul-Splitting Sword, a third-tier superior-grade magic weapon, is a sword of slaughter. It is a top-grade flying sword forged by a Golden Core cultivator using Hundred-Refined Profound Iron as the main material and refined through his own alchemical fire. To enhance its sharpness and hardness, two ounces of iron essence were added!"

"This sword inherently possesses extreme sharpness, which increases the power of its sword energy by 30%, allowing it to withstand 80% of the mana infusion from an early-stage Golden Core cultivator without damage!"

"Starting bid: 50,000 spirit coins; minimum bid increment: 1,000 spirit coins!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the cultivators in the seats began to bid loudly.

There was no obstruction between the seating area and the auction stage, and the sounds from above could be clearly heard into each private room, so Liu Mengyan herself did not need to repeat them.

Those who participated in the auction for the Silver Light Soul-Splitting Sword were mainly the cultivators seated there.

Watching the intense bidding process, Zhou Daoyi suddenly seemed to remember something, turned slightly to look at Zhou Chun and said, "I remember that our family also obtained a piece of iron essence from the Zhang family back then, I think it was about half a jin?"

"There is such a thing; that piece of iron essence weighs a full six ounces and seven mace!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, confirming his words.

Upon hearing this answer, Zhou Daoyi glanced at Lin Hongyu but said nothing more.

His action startled Lin Hongyu at first, but then a smile involuntarily appeared on her lips.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun instantly understood Zhou Daoyi's meaning.

He then smiled and said, "That piece of iron essence is useless if it stays in the family. Once Elder Lin successfully forms his core, we can give it to him to refine his natal magic weapon!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Hongyu couldn't help but smile and say, "Hehehe, it's a bit early to talk about that now. Let's talk about it later!"

That's what she said, but judging from the smile on her face, she was clearly very pleased with Zhou Daoyi's kindness.

This made Zhou Chun secretly admire the methods of his elder, Zhou Daoyi.

Clearly, Zhou Daoyi was using the same methods he used to win over his clansmen on his Daoist partner, Lin Hongyu.

And the results look very good.

And so, with their clear objectives, Zhou Chun and his two companions watched as Liu Mengyan took out one rare and precious item after another and sold them for exorbitant prices in the private room.

During the discussion, all three of them commented on some of the treasures, but none of them offered to bid on them.

This continued until the eighth item was auctioned.

On the auction stage, Liu Mengyan waved her hand, and a jade bottle appeared in her hand.

Then he slowly said, "One Soul-Stabilizing Pill, which can assist in opening the Purple Mansion, has a starting bid of 50,000 spirit coins, and each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit coins higher."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun, who was in room number 57, immediately perked up.

From the stands, a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator immediately shouted, "I bid 60,000 spirit coins!"

"Sixty-five thousand spirit coins!"

Another cultivator in the seats raised the price, and the competition became fierce.

Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi, who was in the private room, handed the crystal ball artifact to Zhou Chun and said, "Zhengchun, you do it yourself!"

"I understand."

Zhou Chun responded, immediately took the crystal ball, poured in his magic power and divine sense, and announced his price.

"Ninety-five thousand spirit coins. Room 57 has offered ninety-five thousand spirit coins. Is there a higher offer? The [Soul-Stabilizing Pill] doesn't just assist in opening the Purple Mansion; sometimes it can even save lives!"

On the auction stage, Liu Mengyan, a beautiful woman in a red dress, announced the price Zhou Chun had offered while simultaneously trying to entice other cultivators to bid higher in a seductive tone.

The second update is here!

(End of this chapter)