Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 378 Millennium Thunder Grass, Tracking [Please Subscribe]

"A rare and precious magical pearl from the distant Celestial Land, nurtured by a second-tier spirit clam for hundreds of years. It possesses its own illusionary magic and is extremely rare and valuable. The starting bid is three thousand spirit coins, with each bid increment no less than one hundred spirit coins!"

"This is also a rare water spirit jade from a distant celestial land, imbued with rich water-elemental spiritual power. It can be used for alchemy and weapon crafting. The starting bid is two thousand spirit coins, and each bid must be at least one hundred spirit coins higher!"

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Inside the Tianyuan Pavilion auction house, Zhou Chun sat in a VIP room, watching with a smile as the auctioneer took out his consigned treasures one by one and sold them for high prices.

Today is Tianyuan Pavilion's low-level auction, held every seven days. Most of the rare aquatic treasures that Zhou Chun brought out will be released at this auction.

As he had predicted, after several days of promotion by Tianyuan Pavilion, these rare aquatic treasures from Longyuanze all fetched good prices, with virtually no items failing to sell.

He waited in the private room for almost half a day until the auction ended.

Shortly after the auction ended, an elderly man with white hair knocked on the door of Zhou Chun's private room.

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Han! All the treasures you consigned for this auction have been sold. After deducting commission, the total amount is 53,700 spirit coins. Please check the count."

"Haha, thank you for your help, Manager Xu."

Not long after, Zhou Chun walked out of the Tianyuan Pavilion auction house with a smile on his face.

Including the income from selling magical artifacts and pills at his previous stall, he has already earned more than 100,000 spirit coins in Tianyuan Immortal City this time.

In the upcoming intermediate auction, some of the treasures he consigned will be put up for sale, which is expected to bring in tens of thousands of spirit coins.

With these spirit coins in hand, he will be able to make a difference at the high-level auction held every six months.

A month passed quickly.

On this day, the Tianyuan Pavilion held its semi-annual high-level auction, attracting many Purple Mansion stage cultivators and some Golden Core stage cultivators to participate.

Zhou Chun also spent 500 spirit coins to buy himself a private room.

Previously, the private rooms he used at lower-level auctions were provided by the auction house; now, at these high-level auctions, he has to pay for his own private rooms.

He had just entered the private room when the auction officially began.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists. I am Wei Yiqing, and I have been appointed to preside over this auction. I hope you will all attend and I wish you all success in acquiring your desired items."

On the auction stage, a gaunt man in white bowed to the four directions, exchanged a few polite words, and then got straight to the point.

"The first item to be auctioned today is the Earth Dragon Stone, a magical material for crafting earth-elemental magical artifacts. This material is produced deep within the mountains and rivers, formed by the creation of heaven and earth. It is an excellent material for crafting earth-elemental magical artifacts. The starting price is 150,000 spirit coins, and each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit coins higher."

The man in white patted his storage bag at his waist, and a five-foot-tall, yellowish-brown boulder fell to the ground.

The boulder seemed to weigh ten thousand pounds. When it fell to the ground, it pressed cracks into the surface of the Diamond Rock. A faint spiritual light flickered on its surface, indicating that it was extraordinary.

"I will offer 160,000 spirit coins!"

Soon, the first offer was made.

"One hundred and sixty-five thousand spirit coins!"

"One hundred and sixty-six thousand spirit coins!"

One bid after another appeared, as if everyone was a Golden Core cultivator who didn't care about money.

Zhou Chun did not participate in the bidding, but he was very interested in the transaction price of this earth dragon stone.

Because if given the opportunity, he also wanted to buy spiritual materials for Lin Hongyu to refine her natal magic weapon.

However, Zhou Chun felt a little pressured because the price of the Earth Dragon Stone soon exceeded 200,000 spirit coins, and it was eventually bought by the first bidder for 225,000 spirit coins.

Zhou Chun could afford the price, but if he spent so many spirit coins on a single spirit material, he would basically be unable to buy anything else.

"As expected, Golden Core cultivators are the real money-burners! Families without any wealth really can't afford to support a Golden Core cultivator!"

Zhou Chun sighed softly; the pressure was indeed considerable.

The Zhou family is already quite wealthy, but supporting a Golden Core cultivator is still somewhat difficult.

Just as Zhou Chun was lamenting how difficult it was to support his family, the auction gradually became lively thanks to the hype generated by the Earth Dragon Stone.

One by one, treasures suitable for cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage were taken out and auctioned off, including even pills that could enhance the magical power of cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage.

However, these kinds of pills are really expensive, with one pill costing seven or eight thousand spirit coins, which is no less than the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Zhou Chun could only look on with envy.

It wasn't that he couldn't afford these elixirs; it was just that Jing Kingdom was currently going through a turbulent period, and the family's spiritual currency needed to be used for other purposes.

Only after the situation in Jingguo has completely stabilized can he use spirit coins to purchase such treasures. At that time, with the Zhou family's financial resources, it should not be a problem to provide him with a stable pill every year.

"A single Thousand-Year Thunderlight Grass. This spiritual herb grows bathed in heavenly lightning, containing pure heavenly lightning spiritual power. It is an essential ingredient for refining certain special pills and can also be used to cultivate certain special secret techniques. Starting bid: 30,000 spirit coins. Each bid must be at least 1,000 spirit coins higher!"

On the auction stage, the auctioneer took out a jade box and placed it in front of him. Inside was a purple-blue spiritual herb that looked like a sugarcane seedling.

The auctioneer raised his hand and released a wisp of spiritual energy towards the herb. Suddenly, the silver-white spiritual patterns swirling around the herb's stem burst forth with silver light, automatically releasing a small bolt of silver lightning that dispersed the spiritual energy. It was truly miraculous.

Upon seeing this scene, Zhou Chun immediately perked up.

"Thirty-five thousand spirit coins!"

He was the first to speak, immediately calling out a price.

This was Zhou Chun's first bid since the start of the auction.

He was determined to obtain this thousand-year-old Thunderlight Grass.

The reason is simple: this item greatly benefits the growth and evolution of the Silver Lightning Python, Bai Bai.

Although Bai Bai, the Silver Lightning Python, has been promoted to a second-tier superior-grade demon beast for some time now, it has not yet reached its growth limit.

Zhou Chun planned to wait until he had exhausted all the potential of his bloodline before planning to transform into a dragon.

This is different from when the Azure Cloud Python transformed into a dragon.

The Azure Cloud Python possesses the inner core of a Azure Dragon, which it can consume. As long as it can digest the power of the dragon's inner core, there is basically no problem in successfully transforming into a dragon.

However, Zhou Chun couldn't find a third-tier Thunder Dragon's inner core for the Silver Lightning Python for free, so he could only start with the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass.

In comparison, the effects of the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass are clearly far less significant than those of the Dragon Core.

Therefore, the deeper the Silver Lightning Python explores and develops its bloodline potential, the higher its success rate in transforming into a dragon when it consumes the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass.

The thousand-year-old Thunderlight Grass before them was undoubtedly an excellent spiritual object to help the Silver Lightning Python unlock and develop its bloodline potential.

Bai Bai, a silver lightning python that is a lightning-attribute demon beast, would be able to fully unleash the potential of its lightning dragon bloodline if it could consume this thousand-year-old lightning grass and be tempered by the heavenly lightning spiritual power contained within the herb.

This could save it countless years of hard work!

However, rare thousand-year-old spiritual herbs like the Thousand-Year Thunderlight Grass naturally attract many competitors.

If Zhou Chun wants to acquire it, he'll really have to invest a lot of money.

"Seventy-five thousand spiritual coins!"

Zhou Chun called out the bid again, this time more than double the starting price.

Even at such a high price, two people were still unwilling to give up.

"I'll offer 78,000 spirit coins!"

"Eighty thousand spirit coins!"

Two voices, one old and one young, rang out in succession, insisting on a very tight price.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun secretly groaned inwardly.

He knew that the cultivator bidding for this item probably also needed the Thousand-Year Thunderlight Grass for great purposes, just like him.

This is the worst thing that can happen during an auction.

Because once someone is after something, many cultivators are willing to risk their entire fortune to obtain it.

Otherwise, once you miss out on something like the Thousand-Year Thunderlight Grass, you don't know when you'll be able to find it again.

"One hundred thousand spirit coins!"

Zhou Chun was unwilling to give up and immediately offered an exorbitant price.

One hundred thousand spirit coins can buy a spirit item that helps one open up their Purple Mansion.

For ordinary thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, ten thousand spirit coins are enough to acquire them.

Back then, in the same Great Zhou Kingdom, in the Immortal Capital Market, an egg of a high-level demon beast, the Poison Dragon Lizard, was auctioned off for a sky-high price of less than 200,000 spirit coins.

All I can say is that Zhou Chun really went all out for this thousand-year-old Thunderlight Grass, and for the Silver Lightning Python to successfully transform into a dragon in vain.

When he announced this exorbitant price, the two men who had been bidding against him fell silent.

After quite some time, the aged voice finally spoke calmly: "To purchase a thousand-year-old spiritual herb for ten thousand spirit coins, you truly possess great ambition. I humbly admit defeat!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another young man said calmly, "Fine, since you're so determined to have it, I'll grant your wish!"

Both of them, without prior arrangement, gave up the bidding.

"Could these two guys be shills planted by the Tianyuan Pavilion?"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself with a pained expression, showing little joy at successfully acquiring the treasure.

If ordinary Zhou family cultivators knew that he spent 100,000 spirit coins to buy a thousand-year-old spirit herb, they would probably all scold him for being wasteful.

After all, those were ten Foundation Establishment Pills!

But that's because of the difference in perspective – the different viewpoints we have.

For Zhou Chun and other high-ranking members of the Zhou family, the addition of five or six Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to the family is not particularly useful; on the contrary, it will increase the family's expenses.

However, having an extra third-tier Thunder Dragon would be much more useful.

Not only do third-tier Thunder Flood Dragons not receive family welfare offerings, they can also produce dragon blood spiritual items to sell for money. The dragon spiritual blood they produce is also a very rare item.

Not to mention the formidable combat power that a third-tier Thunder Flood Dragon can provide.

After bidding for the Thousand-Year Thunder Grass, Zhou Chun's spirit coins dwindled by almost half, and he was relegated to being a mere spectator at the subsequent auctions.

The reason it is said to be "almost" is because he did make a move during that time, using 45,000 spirit coins to buy five third-tier high-grade magic talismans.

This was also one of the things Zhou Mingde had asked him to do during his trip to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

With a major battle imminent, although the Zhou family's strength is not inferior to others, they naturally need to prepare some high-grade third-tier magic talismans that can be used as trump cards.

What relieved Zhou Chun was that no suitable materials for Lin Hongyu to refine her natal magic weapon appeared at this auction.

Therefore, his decision to buy the Thousand-Year Thunderlight Grass can be considered a relatively correct one.

After the auction ended, the two treasures that Zhou Chun had won were delivered to his private room.

After paying 145,000 spirit coins, Zhou Chun left the auction house with the treasure.

His mission in the Great Zhou Kingdom was basically complete, and he had no intention of staying any longer. He just wanted to return to his family as soon as possible.

However, after Zhou Chun had traveled some distance from Tianyuan Immortal City, he suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if someone was watching him.

Could I be being followed?

His expression darkened, and he immediately raised his hand and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, summoning the Golden-Winged Tiger.

Then Zhou Chun had the Golden-Winged Tiger carry him at full speed, while he silently channeled his profound energy into his eyes and looked at the sky behind him.

Zhou Chun had not practiced any special spiritual eye techniques, but after his cultivation reached the Purple Mansion stage, the effect of infusing his eyes with magical power was no worse than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment stage cultivators using special spiritual eye techniques.

But no matter how he observed, he found nothing unusual.

But the feeling of being watched never went away.

Since Zhou Chun opened his Purple Mansion, he had never encountered anything like this before, and he did not believe that this was his imagination.

"I never expected something like this to happen at such a large store as Tianyuan Pavilion!"

Zhou Chun rode the Golden-Winged Tiger with a gloomy expression, his mind racing with various thoughts as he tried to devise a way to escape.

He is currently less than 300 miles from Tianyuan Immortal City, which is not far.

Those who wanted to follow him were afraid of encountering other troubles and did not plan to take action at the moment.

Therefore, returning to Tianyuan Immortal City now is actually a good choice.

However, Zhou Chun also knew that since the other party had their eyes on him, if he returned to Tianyuan Immortal City now, even if the other party did not show up to intercept him, they would definitely continue to keep an eye on him.

He doesn't have that much time to waste on the other party and test his patience.

"Looks like this is the only way!"

With a glint in his eyes, Zhou Chun immediately put the Golden-Winged Tiger back into his spirit beast pouch. Then, golden light surged from his body, and he instantly transformed into a golden rainbow, accelerating his flight.

Zhou Chun, using the "Flowing Golden Rainbow" secret technique, was even faster than a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator flying normally.

As soon as he displayed his extreme speed, the person secretly following him could no longer hide.

A flash of silver light appeared in the sky, and soon a young man dressed in a silver robe was revealed.

After the man appeared, he glanced at the golden rainbow in front of him with surprise, then sneered. He immediately formed hand seals, and silver-white lightning arcs surged from his body, instantly transforming into a silver bolt of lightning and chasing after the golden rainbow. His speed was clearly a notch faster than that of the golden rainbow.

(End of this chapter)