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Chapter 215: Driving the Tiger to Devour the Wolf, Lichen Pill [Subscription Request]

Ice Jade Soul Silkworm, a very peculiar insect.

This strange insect was born in the icy wilderness. It had an extremely long lifespan and only grew one inch every thousand years!
They are born not to eat grains or blood. They only parasitize in the bodies of creatures that have frozen to death, and feed on the souls that dissipate after the creatures freeze to death.

So they have another frightening nickname - Soul-Eating Ice Silkworm

However, it should be noted that the Ice Jade Soul Silkworms will not actively harm creatures that can still walk normally in extremely cold places. They will only appear next to dying creatures and devour the creatures' dissipated souls after death.

Because of this, many cultivators do not think it is an evil thing.

The Ice Jade Soul Silkworm is definitely a rare treasure for immortal cultivators.

It feeds on souls and can also be used to nourish the souls of cultivators. It is extremely effective in assisting in the development of the Purple Mansion.

Even some monks whose souls are damaged can refine it and use it to repair the damage to their souls.

It is said that the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm that is more than three inches long can even restore the soul damage of a Jindan-stage cultivator.

Of course, if it really was an Ice Jade Soul Silkworm of that level, it would definitely not be auctioned at this auction.

"Thirty-three thousand spirit coins!"

"Thirty-five thousand spirit coins!"

"Forty thousand spirit coins!"

At this moment, the bidding price of the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm continued to rise, and one Purple Mansion Stage cultivator after another shouted out prices, wanting to get this rare treasure for their family.

But Zhou Mingde remained silent.

Not only did he remain silent, but some people who also wanted to obtain the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm also remained silent.

By the time the price reached 60,000 spirit coins, most of the bidding had stopped.

It’s not that the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm is only worth this price.

In fact, things like the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm have no fixed market price at all.

How much it is worth depends entirely on how much money the person who wants to buy it can afford.

The reason why the bidding has stopped now is that the leaders of most of the major immortal cultivation clans can only come up with so much liquid funds.

There are not many immortal cultivation clans in the entire Jingguo that can come up with 60,000 spirit coins. In fact, the liquid funds of most immortal cultivation clans are unlikely to exceed 50,000 spirit coins.

After all, such a large family has huge expenses every year. If there is no unexpected fortune, it is difficult to increase the income dramatically.

Moreover, in order to give the tribesmen hope, a lot of money has to be spent every eight or ten years to buy spiritual objects such as foundation-building pills to help a tribe member build his foundation, which makes it even more difficult to save a lot of money.

If Zhou Chun had not made a fortune from Qinglian Temple last time and collected a lot of spirit coins by selling some rare treasures from the waters of Longyuanze, the Zhou family would not have been able to collect so many spirit coins this time.

But obviously not every family's supreme elder, clan leader, etc. are willing to raise money out of their own pockets to buy spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion for someone in the family.

So it is normal that there are fewer bidding sounds at this time.

"Seventy thousand spirit coins!"

At this moment, Zhou Mingde suddenly spoke up and raised the price by thousands of spirit coins.

At this moment, everyone's eyes immediately turned to the Zhou family's table. Su Yunniang on the high podium also turned her beautiful eyes and looked at Zhou Mingde who spoke.

"So you are Brother Zhou from the Lanzhou Zhou family. No wonder you are so wealthy!"

A deep, old voice sounded slowly, and then continued: "However, our Lin family also has a crush on this Ice Jade Soul Silkworm. Everyone can only bid according to their own capital. Lin will offer 73,000 spirit coins!"

The Yanzhou Lin family?
Zhou Chun looked at the old man who spoke, and immediately recognized that the other party's family was also one of the top 30 families this time.

Obviously, after learning about the upcoming southern expedition to the Hualong Sect, he also wanted to capture the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm in order to add another Purple Mansion Stage cultivator to the family.

Meet your match!
The three members of the Zhou family looked at each other, with solemn expressions in their eyes.

Then Zhou Mingde nodded and said, "Friend Lin is right. Let's bid according to our own capital."

After saying that, he didn't raise the price again.

Seeing this scene, the old man from the Lin family not only did not show any joy, but his expression was very solemn.

Sure enough, seeing that Zhou Mingde did not raise the price, another voice suddenly sounded and said, "Eighty thousand spirit coins!"

In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to the monk who spoke, wanting to see who was so generous.

But when they saw the person who spoke, everyone's pupils shrank.

Because the person who made the bid was actually a Jindan-stage cultivator from a Jindan family!
To bid against a Jindan-stage cultivator, one needs not only financial resources but also courage!
After all, they are not familiar with each other, and no one knows how tolerant the other person is.

If you happen to meet a narrow-minded person who holds a grudge against you because of this incident, then it would be a real disaster!

So the old man from the Lin family who had just said that he would bid based on his capital, now remained silent.

Even Su Yunniang on the stage looked at Bi Qiuyue, Zhen Bingyang, and Shan Yangzi for a few seconds, and quickly said softly: "Eighty thousand spirit coins at a time, are there any Taoist friends who continue to bid?"

This is something that has never happened before.

Before, she would wait for at least several hundred breaths before asking this!
After she finished speaking, the old man from the Lin family and several other cultivators who were also interested in the conversation felt their throats pounding, wanting to say something but not daring to.

But Zhou Mingde said in a deep voice at this time: "Eighty-one thousand spirit coins!"

Ok?
In an instant, the situation that everyone was paying attention to happened to the Zhou family again.

At this moment, many people admired the Zhou family's courage.

Don’t talk about money, just the courage is impressive!
But the Jindan stage cultivator just glanced at Zhou Mingde lightly and said again: "Eighty-five thousand spirit coins!"

"Eighty-six thousand spirit coins!"

Zhou Mingde raised the price again without hesitation.

At this moment, he looked very calm and composed, as if he was completely unaware of the various gazes coming from all directions.

This made the Jindan stage cultivator's eyes change slightly, and then he said in a deep voice: "Ninety thousand spirit coins!"

"Ninety-one thousand spirit coins!"

Zhou Mingde's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was extremely calm, as he still raised the price by one thousand spirit coins.

This was his third time raising the price, and actually also his last time.

Because if the price is any higher, he will have no money.

But there is a saying that goes, "Three times is better than the other." Zhou Mingde dared to raise the price three times in the face of the bidding of the Jindan stage cultivator.

Not to mention how courageous he is, his determination to win is enough to make people look sideways.

Even the Jindan stage cultivator fell silent at this point and remained speechless for a long time.

After hundreds of breaths passed without anyone saying anything, Su Yunniang on the stage seemed to understand that the Jindan-stage cultivator had given up, and immediately said softly, "Ninety-one thousand spirit coins for the first time, are there any fellow Taoists willing to raise the price?"

After the words were spoken, no one spoke.

So after waiting for more than ten breaths, she repeated it again.

"Ninety-one thousand spirit coins for the third time. Well, congratulations to Brother Zhou for winning this Ice Jade Soul Silkworm!"

As Su Yunniang spoke for the third time, everyone in the Zhou family breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what, they still captured the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm.

Although it was very difficult to achieve and the price paid was huge, now is the time to celebrate instead of thinking about bad things.

Zhou Mingde let out a sigh of relief, then immediately bowed to the Jindan-stage cultivator and said, "Thank you, Senior Ye, for your kindness."

Then he cupped his fists and bowed to all four directions, saying: "Thank you all for your love!"

In response to his action, the Jindan stage cultivator named Ye just looked at him deeply without responding.

The other monks knew that he was just being polite and there was no need to respond.

So, amid all the complicated gazes, Zhou Mingde stepped forward with a large amount of spirit coins to complete the transaction and took the jade box containing the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm in his hands.

After buying this item, the Zhou family could only be spectators at the auction.

Next, the auction was still in full swing. Treasures that were rarely seen in normal times were put up for auction, and they were always sold at astonishingly high prices.

As you progress further, more precious treasures will appear.

During this period, some talismans were even taken out for auction!
This was also the first time Zhou Chun saw a talisman being auctioned in public, and the price was not as expensive as he thought.

The starting price for a complete talisman that had never been used was 30,000 spirit coins, but the final transaction price was only 83,000 spirit coins, which was not as good as the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm bought by the Zhou family!

Zhou Chun was a little confused at first, but after Zhou Mingde's explanation, he felt relieved.

Although talismans are extremely powerful, unless they possess some special magical powers, it would be difficult to kill another person in a single fight if one's cultivation has reached the Purple Mansion Stage.

An early Purple Mansion cultivator with a talisman in hand may be able to fight against a middle Purple Mansion cultivator across levels, but it is difficult for him to easily kill another early Purple Mansion cultivator with this talisman.

Generally, Purple Mansion Stage cultivators would cultivate the ability of escape that could be used at critical moments. Once it is used, even if the opponent also possesses similar ability, they may not be able to catch up immediately.

When such magical powers of escape are activated, the speed is usually too fast, and the cultivators themselves cannot accurately control the destination of the flight, and can only fly in a general direction.

In this case, unless one's own cultivation is much higher than that of the opponent, or one has cultivated the art of escape to a very high level and can control the speed and direction freely.

Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult for a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator to kill another Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

Therefore, it is normal that a talisman cannot be sold for a price higher than that of the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm.

After selling countless treasures, Su Yunniang on the stage reached into her storage bag as usual and took out a fiery red pill bottle. She introduced, "The next treasure is a magical pill called Red Bright Flowing Pearl Pill. It can help Purple Mansion cultivators who practice fire-based techniques to break through bottlenecks. The effect is quite good."

After saying that, he held up the pill bottle in his hand and said, "One Red Bright Flowing Pearl Pill, the starting price is 20,000 spirit coins, and each bid must not be less than 500 spirit coins!"

“This thing really exists!”

At the Zhou family's table, the three members of the Zhou family looked at the Chi Ming Liu Zhu Dan in Su Yunniang's hand, and they all looked at each other in bewilderment, unable to say a word.

"Since the money is all gone, let's just follow the plan!"

Zhou Chun whispered to himself, which served as his answer.

So the three of them could only watch as the price of the item continued to rise, and finally it was bought by someone for 78,000 spirit coins.

However, what the three of them did not expect was that the person who bought the Red Bright Flowing Pearl Pill was actually the mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator from the Jiang family.

"What does the Jiang family want to do? Could it be that he wants to use this Red Bright Flowing Pearl Pill to break through to the late Purple Mansion stage?"

Zhou Mingde's expression changed slightly, and he looked at the Jiang family's Purple Mansion cultivator with suspicion.

"That old guy is indeed practicing the Fire Element Technique, so he might really think so!"

Zhou Daoyi spoke with a serious expression, his tone suddenly becoming heavy.

If the Jiang family only had one mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator and one early-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, then the Zhou family would not be afraid of them.

But if the Jiang family had a late Purple Mansion cultivator, the Zhou family would really not be able to gain any advantage in terms of strength.

"Why don't we just notify Lin Hongyu and ask her to grab the Red Sun Flowing Pearl Pill! At the very least, we'll ruin that old man's breakthrough to the late Purple Mansion stage!"

At this time, Zhou Chun also secretly sent a message to the two of them, and expressed his thoughts in a harsh voice.

It must be said that his bottom line is very flexible.

Previously, he had used the reason of not wanting to aid the enemy to persuade clan leader Zhou Daoyi to accept raising money to purchase spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion. Now, after seeing that the Jiang family had purchased the Red Yang Flowing Pearl Pill, which might pose a great threat to the Zhou family, he immediately wanted to drive the tiger to devour the wolf!

Of course, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi knew that he did all this for the sake of the family, so they naturally wouldn't tease him about this at this time.

What's more, Zhou Chun's strategy of driving the tiger to devour the wolf is indeed simple and easy to use.

But after Zhou Daoyi thought about it for a while, he frowned and said, "But I'm afraid it's too late. It will take at least a month for Lin Hongyu to receive our news. In that time, the old man from the Jiang family would have gone home and taken the elixir. Is Lin Hongyu that stupid?"

"Then we should find a way to delay the old man from the Jiang family so that he can't take the elixir and break through so quickly!"

Zhou Mingde stated his plan in a deep voice, indicating that he had already agreed with Zhou Chun's strategy of driving the tiger to devour the wolf.

So the three of them had various discussions on how to delay the time for the Jiang family's mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator to go into seclusion and break through, and they had completely lost interest in the upcoming auction.

As the three people were discussing fiercely, the auction gradually came to an end.

"The following is the last treasure in this auction. It is also a treasure specially prepared by the three major sects for this auction!"

On the high platform, Su Yunniang spoke as she reached into her storage bag and took out a jade box.

At the same time, the three Jindan stage cultivators who were sitting cross-legged on three sides all stood up and walked forward to protect her.

Then she said in a tempting tone: "It is the elixir in the jade bottle in my hand, the famous Lichen Pill, which can help people condense the golden elixir!"

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