Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 106: Spiritual Ascension Fruit, Heavenly Spirit Order [Subscription Request]

As soon as the Foundation Establishment Pill came out, the bidding atmosphere in the underground cave hall suddenly changed.

"I'll give you 5,000 spirit coins!"

A monk wearing a veil covering his face shouted out a high price in a deep voice.

But less than ten breaths after he finished speaking, someone beside him shouted, "Five thousand five hundred spirit coins."

Hearing this, he couldn't help but glare at the man, and then immediately raised the price: "Five thousand seven hundred spirit coins."

"Six thousand two hundred spirit coins!"

Another voice joined the bidding, directly raising the price to a higher level.

Generally speaking, the price of a Foundation Establishment Pill will not be less than five thousand spirit coins, but usually will not be higher than seven thousand spirit coins.

After all, this is just a pill taken by cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.

So at this time, Zhou Jiarui next to Zhou Chun also bid.

"Seven thousand spirit coins!"

He simply added hundreds of spirit coins, pushing the price to a new high.

When it reached this height, many people who were bidding fell silent.

It’s not that they can’t come up with so many spirit coins, but they need to weigh whether it’s worth it.

But since it is an auction, there will always be monks with plenty of money.

"Seven thousand two hundred spirit coins."

Another bid lowered the price Zhou Jiarui offered.

Then it attracted several monks to fight for it.

In the end, the transaction price of this Foundation Establishment Pill was fixed at eight thousand seven hundred spirit coins.

However, Zhou Jiarui shook his head and gave up the fight after the price exceeded eight thousand spirit coins.

Before coming, clan leader Zhou Daoyi also gave him a bottom line. If the price exceeded the bottom line, there would be no need to fight for it.

As the competition for the Foundation Establishment Pill came to an end, the auctioneer quickly took out the eleventh treasure.

It was a second-grade top-grade magical weapon. The starting price was as high as 5,000 spirit coins, and the final transaction price reached 9,800 spirit coins, almost breaking 10,000.

The few treasures that were taken out afterwards were mostly magical instruments, elixirs, formations and the like.

Because the starting prices were slightly lower than the market prices, these treasures were successfully auctioned off.

When it came to the eighteen treasures, the auctioneer took out another foundation-building pill.

"It's still Foundation Establishment Pill. The starting price is still 4,000 Spirit Coins. Each bid increase must not be less than 200 Spirit Coins."

After hearing what the auctioneer said, the cultivators who had previously regretted not being able to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill began to bid again.

"There won't be a third or fourth foundation-building pill later, will there?"

Zhou Chun muttered something quietly, feeling that the auctioneer was playing psychological tactics.

The auctioneer said at the beginning that only thirty treasures were prepared this time.

However, the number of monks who came to the cave hall to participate in this underground auction is five or six times this number, and most of them carry huge sums of money on them.

Now that we have come here and raised the money, if we leave with nothing, wouldn’t it be a waste of time?

Therefore, the competition for the second Foundation Establishment Pill was even more exaggerated than the first one.

The final transaction price was actually nine thousand five hundred spirit coins!
Seeing this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head and could only sigh that there were too many rich people.

He had killed a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage before, so he knew exactly how much a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage had.

It seems that the black-clothed old man from the Dragon Transformation Sect, even if the two second-level magic weapons that were stolen were counted, his entire fortune is only more than 10,000 spirit coins.

Even if the other party had left some things in the cave in the main temple of the Hualong Sect, and even if he was a relatively poor foundation-building cultivator, his total assets could not exceed 20,000 spirit coins.

And now, one foundation-building pill takes up almost half of the wealth of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation-building!

This is undoubtedly very unreasonable!

But this is reality!

Due to its scarcity, which is always in short supply, the Foundation Establishment Pill is ultimately an elixir that can only be taken by a few people.

There are so many cultivators in the foundation-building stage in the underground cave hall now, but not everyone can build their foundation by taking foundation-building pills.

Even in a large sect like Qinglian Temple, among the many foundation-building cultivators there, a considerable number did not take the foundation-building pill.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that when those people are fighting for the Foundation Establishment Pill, they all seem to be very wealthy.

In fact, the spiritual coins they use are most likely the wealth accumulated by a force rather than owned by individuals.

Otherwise, unless it is for one's closest relatives, no foundation-building cultivator would be willing to use half of his family fortune to buy a pill that is completely useless to him.

After the second Foundation Establishment Pill was sold, the auctioneer took out the second talisman.

The second talisman is an inner armor made of some unknown monster's skin, but its grade is as high as the second-level intermediate grade. It is said that it can defend against three attacks equivalent to a full-strength attack from a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

This item is a self-defense treasure tailor-made for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, so it also attracted a lot of competition among cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment Stage present.

These cultivators in the late stage of foundation building often have considerable personal wealth and can afford to buy things worth tens of thousands of spirit coins with their own money.

In order to obtain spiritual objects that can help open up the Purple Palace, they usually go on adventures to various dangerous places.

This definitely means that there is a high demand for such self-defense and life-saving items.

In the end, this talisman was sold at a high price of 6,700 spirit coins.

When the twenty-fourth treasure came out, Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui were stunned, and many cultivators present were also stunned.

I saw that there were five spiritual fruits in the jade box. The shape of the spiritual fruits was a bit like white pears. They were white and crystal clear all over, as if they were carved from jade.

"As you can see, these are five Spiritual Ascension Fruits. Although they don't have the same effect as the Foundation Establishment Pills in protecting cultivators from harm if they fail in their foundation building, they are half as effective as the Foundation Establishment Pills in helping them to break through the foundation building barrier."

Before Zhou Chun could figure out what kind of spiritual fruit it was, the auctioneer had already revealed the answer.

Then the auctioneer stretched out his hand, spread out five fingers and said, "Five Spiritual Boosting Fruits are sold together. The starting price is 5,000 Spiritual Coins. Each bid cannot be less than 200 Spiritual Coins."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was a burst of enthusiastic bidding from the audience.

Just as the auctioneer had said, the effect of the Shengling Fruit in assisting in foundation building was only half that of the Foundation Building Pill, and it did not have the effect of the Foundation Building Pill in protecting cultivators who failed in foundation building from harm.

But there are so many of them!
There are five soul-enhancing fruits in total, which can allow five cultivators at the twelfth level of Qi Refining to dare to break through to the Foundation Establishment level.

This is definitely a great deal for each immortal cultivation family.

Therefore, the number of people bidding at this moment is even greater than the number of people competing for the Foundation Establishment Pill before.

"Zhengchun, how many spirit coins do you have?"

Beside Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiarui suddenly asked about his savings. Hearing this, he immediately knew that the elder was determined to win.

Therefore, after a brief pause, he replied in a voice transmission: "I can probably come up with 2,400 spirit coins."

"so much!"

Zhou Jiarui looked at Zhou Chun in surprise. He didn't expect that he was so wealthy.

You know, even if he has successfully built his foundation, if you don’t count the second-level magic weapon bestowed by his family, his wealth is not half as rich as Zhou Chun’s!

Then he nodded repeatedly and said, "That's enough. With your support of spirit coins, it should be enough to get these five spirit-enhancing fruits!"

Having said this, he was no longer in a hurry to bid, and would just wait until no one else bid.

"Ten thousand and eight hundred spirit coins per time."

"One hundred and eight hundred spirit coins for the second time."

At the auction table, the auctioneer saw that no one had raised the price for dozens of seconds, so he began to enter the final bidding process according to the rules.

It was only then that Zhou Jiarui shouted in a deep voice: "Eleven thousand spirit coins."

He didn't raise the price by much, he just called out the lowest possible bid.

But after this offer was made, the man in front hesitated for nearly thirty breaths before he shouted again: "11,200 spirit coins."

"Eleven thousand four hundred spirit coins."

Zhou Jiarui followed suit and raised the price, his tone neither hurried nor slow, yet putting a lot of pressure on his opponent.

After staring at him in silence for nearly sixty breaths, he said in a deep voice, "Eleven thousand six hundred spirit coins."

"Eleven thousand eight hundred spirit coins."

Zhou Jiarui also raised the price without hesitation as soon as his opponent finished speaking, without any hesitation at all.

This time the opponent remained silent for even longer, so long that the auctioneer had to follow the procedure and start making the final bid again after two or three hundred breaths had passed.

"Eleven thousand eight hundred spirit coins per time."

"Eleven thousand eight hundred spirit coins twice."

"Eleven thousand eight hundred spirit coins three times, deal."

Until the auctioneer shouted "Deal", no one bid a higher price.

After borrowing a thousand spirit coins from Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiarui successfully went on stage to complete the handover of money and goods with the auctioneer and pocketed the five spirit-enhancing fruits.

At this point, this underground auction has nothing to do with them anymore, and they are destined to be spectators only.

The remaining six treasures were indeed more valuable than the last.

When it came to the twenty-ninth item, a treasure called the Soul-Nourishing Jade appeared.

"A soul-nourishing jade, the starting price is 10,000 spirit coins, and each bid must not be less than 500 spirit coins."

At the auction table, the auctioneer held up a thumb-sized piece of lavender jade and showed it to the audience. He then put it back into the jade box and announced the price in a deep voice.

The starting price of 10,000 spirit coins is also the highest starting price of this auction so far.

But this did not stop other cultivators from pursuing the Soul-Nourishing Jade.

Soon, one high price after another was reported by the late Foundation Establishment cultivators.

That’s right, the cultivators who participated in the auction for the Soul-Nourishing Jade were all cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage, and they all came well prepared.

For cultivators in the late stage of foundation building, the most important thing is to open up the Purple Mansion and break through to the Purple Mansion stage.

Although the Soul-Nourishing Jade cannot increase their success rate of breakthrough, it can replenish their souls and spirits in time after a failed breakthrough, giving them the opportunity to continue to impact the Purple Mansion Stage.

Therefore, the importance of this item is no less than some spiritual items that can increase the success rate of breakthrough.

For some families that do not have a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator in charge, nothing is more important than having a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator in the family to raise the status of the entire family.

Therefore, there will definitely be fierce competition for this soul-nourishing jade today.

The price kept rising and soon doubled to more than 20,000 spirit coins.

"Twenty-two thousand five hundred spirit coins!"

A monk wearing a ghost mask shouted out the price in a deep voice.

At this time, there were only three or four people still bidding, and they were all people who were unwilling to give up easily.

Therefore, after this person made the offer, there was silence for less than twenty breaths before someone else made another offer: "Twenty-three thousand spirit coins."

"Twenty-five thousand spirit coins!"

The monk with the ghost-face mask immediately raised the price, and suddenly raised it much higher, as if he was determined to get it.

But this still didn't stop others from giving up.

Soon another monk shouted in a deep voice: "Twenty-six thousand spirit coins."

Zhou Chun just watched these wealthy men raise their prices again and again until the price reached 30,000 spirit coins!
At this point, no one offered a higher price.

Even for a cultivation family with several cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, thirty thousand spirit coins in cash would almost empty the family's assets.

When the Zhou family first took root in Jiufengling, they didn't have so much cash in circulation!
In this way, after the Soul-Nourishing Jade was sold, the last treasure of this underground auction was also taken out by the auctioneer.

"The last lot is very special and its value is hard for us to confirm. You can only decide for yourself whether to bid!"

At the auction table, the auctioneer opened the brocade box in front of him while speaking and took out a silver-white token from it.

The token was only the size of a palm and was pentagonal in shape. One side was engraved with the golden word "Tianling", while the other side was carved with mountains, palaces and other scenes.

Before Zhou Chun could take a closer look at the secrets of the token, the auctioneer had already introduced it: "A token for the Heavenly Spirit Trial. This is a Class C token. When the Heavenly Spirit Trial begins, it can carry a Qi Refining Stage cultivator into the trial ground."

"According to our information, the next Heavenly Spirit Trial should begin within three years."

At this point, he did not introduce what the "Heavenly Spirit Trial" was, but directly said: "The starting price for one Heavenly Spirit Order is one thousand spirit coins, and each bid cannot be less than one hundred spirit coins."

An unexpectedly low price was shouted out by the auctioneer, leaving Zhou Chun stunned.

Generally speaking, the last item at an auction should be the most precious one.

Why did this underground auction put the "Order of the Heavenly Spirit" with a starting price of one thousand spirit coins at the end?
The starting price is so low, even if it increases tenfold in the end, it would only be more than 10,000 spirit coins at most!
"Uncle Eleven, do you know what the Heavenly Spirit Trial is?"

Zhou Chun looked at the "Heavenly Spirit Order" where people had gradually started to bid, and couldn't help but ask Zhou Jiarui about the "Heavenly Spirit Trial" mentioned by the auctioneer.

He just searched through his memory and confirmed that he had never heard of such a "Heavenly Spirit Trial".

But judging from what the auctioneer said, this "Heavenly Spirit Trial" should have a very important origin.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, Zhou Jiarui shook his head and said, "I don't know. I have only been successful in building my foundation for a short time, so I don't know much about the secrets of the cultivation world. What's more, the Heavenly Spirit Trial is probably a secret of Jingguo."

Then he added: "If you are really interested, you should ask the clan leader after you return."

(End of this chapter)