A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Yun Shanghe was not angry when he heard this, as if he knew the girl's background.

Seeing that no one was bidding anymore, he slowly counted down to three, thus ending the auction of the alchemy furnace.

The cultivators in the hall were all shrewd and perceptive, and they naturally noticed the unusual situation. A hint of apprehension crept into their gazes as they looked at the woman in the white dress.

The person who can disregard the Qin family of Dianyun must be someone of great importance. Neither of the two people in this battle are people that these rogue cultivators can easily provoke.

Qin Changming was slightly taken aback when he saw Yun Shanghe's attitude, but quickly withdrew his gaze from the woman in the white dress.

He also sensed that the other party was unusual, seemingly not caring about the power and background of his Dianyun Qin family at all, so he decisively abandoned his plan to continue to use his power to intimidate others.

The woman in the white dress took the Huangjing medicine cauldron brought by the servant, glanced at it briefly, and put it into her storage bag. She then continued to sit with her legs crossed, turning her gaze to the center of the venue.

Seeing that everyone had recovered from the earlier interruption, Yun Shanghe cleared his throat and continued the auction.

"As for the specific uses of the Golden Spirit Seedling, I won't elaborate. The starting price is ten spirit stones, and each subsequent bid must be at least one spirit stone higher."

Upon hearing the name Jin Lingzi, Zhou Ping felt his breath catch in his throat for a moment.

He has now collected all the other auxiliary ingredients for refining the Golden Marrow Pill, but the most important main ingredient, Golden Spirit Seed, is still missing.

When he heard Yun Shanghe mention Jin Lingzi, his heart suddenly pounded violently.

Although we didn't get a more cost-effective Golden Spirit Seed, we were already very lucky to have encountered a seedling.

According to the general procedure of the auction, if both the Golden Spirit Seed and the Seedling appear at the same time.

They would definitely put the less valuable spirit seeds first in the auction, and it's impossible for them to appear after the seedlings.

Therefore, Zhou Ping was fairly certain that no more Golden Spirit Seeds would appear in the future, and this Golden Spirit Seed seedling was his only chance today.

His cultivation had stagnated for a long time. Although taking the Dragon Beard Pill and the Black Scale Pill brought a slight improvement, it was almost a world of difference compared to before, and his cultivation speed had become extremely slow.

He must refine the Golden Marrow Pill as soon as possible; only then will his cultivation speed advance by leaps and bounds once again.

"Eleven spirit stones."

"Twelve!"

"Fifteen!"

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The competition for the Golden Spirit Seed seedlings was even fiercer than the competition for the alchemy furnace.

Many cultivators are aware of its effects and value. Even if they are not alchemists themselves, they can still collect materials and ask a professional alchemist to help them refine it after it has been cultivated to maturity.

Yun Shanghe is the top alchemist of Guiyuan Pavilion, and he often helps cultivators refine various primary or intermediate pills.

Of course, asking him to help is not without conditions; as long as the corresponding reward can be paid, there are plenty of alchemists willing to do so.

If one can successfully refine a batch of Golden Marrow Pills, it will surely improve one's cultivation level by several points. It is even possible for some cultivators who are stuck in the middle stage and find it difficult to break through the bottleneck of the later stage to advance to the late stage of Qi Refining by chance.

Even if we take a step back and don't use it ourselves, if we put it up for auction, its value would be ten times that of the Golden Spirit Seedling at this time.

This is why these rare medicinal herbs have always been so expensive in the cultivation world.

Seeing that the crowd had quickly raised the price to twenty-five spirit stones, Zhou Ping couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

He only had fifteen spirit stones on him, and the bidding price had already far exceeded that amount.

If you want to continue bidding, you can only choose to exchange goods for goods. This is a way to convert spiritual stones into cash that the auction house has prepared specifically for cultivators who are short of spiritual stones.

Any cultivator can take out some of their belongings, which will be appraised by the auction house's appraisers and converted into spirit stones.

Of course, this valuation will definitely be 10% or 20% lower than the normal value, which is also a way for auction houses to make money.

Alternatively, cultivators can temporarily entrust their items to the auction house and add them to the auction process.

Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Regardless of which method the cultivator chooses, the auction house will always make a profit.

Zhou Ping hesitated for a moment, then finally stopped waiting and spoke directly.

"Twenty-eight spirit stones!"

He added three spirit stones at once, just to intimidate his many competitors.

Sure enough, after hearing his bid, almost half of the bidders chose to back down.

Seedlings are seedlings after all; they need a long period of cultivation to grow into mature plants.

Even after spending a lot of time and effort to gather all the necessary materials for the Golden Marrow Pill, there is still a hidden danger of pill refining failure.

Therefore, with the auction price approaching thirty spirit stones, the risks that everyone had to bear were already somewhat high.

A seedling of a Golden Spirit Seed is generally priced between fifteen and twenty spirit stones.

However, due to their rarity, they are often available but not for sale.

The actual items can only be seen at certain auctions, and the value at auctions is far higher than the market price, which keeps the value of these spiritual medicines, such as Jinlingzi, consistently high.

Some cultivators at the mid-stage of Qi Refining often have to use all their wealth to barely gather enough materials to refine a batch of Golden Marrow Pills.

The risks involved are undoubtedly too great. If it fails, it will be extremely difficult to move forward in the cultivation world.

Thirty pieces.

A man in a yellow robe gritted his teeth and offered his price again.

"Thirty-five."

Zhou Ping pretended to be calm and collected, and then directly called out a price that surprised everyone present.

Even Qin Changming and the woman in the white dress, who were not interested in this, looked curiously in his direction.

Golden spirit stones are not particularly rare in some large cultivation families or sects, so Qin Changming and his companion did not care about them.

Zhou Ping sat calmly in his seat, but his mind was in complete turmoil.

He felt his heart pounding, nervous but also secretly heartbroken at the thirty-five spirit stones he had just spent.

But unlike other cultivators, for him, obtaining this seedling was like acquiring a hen that lays golden eggs.

From now on, we can have as many Golden Spirit Seeds as we need, and we will never have to worry about pills again.

Moreover, the excess mature plants could be auctioned off, and the value of that was enough to make him envious just thinking about it.

If the seedlings of the Golden Spirit are already so precious, wouldn't he make a fortune if he cultivated many mature ones?

No matter what, we must take it down!

While excited, Zhou Ping made a firm decision: he would do anything, even exchange all the pills he had on him.

"Golden Spirit Seedling, 35 spirit stones, once."

"twice."

"Three times! Congratulations to this fellow Daoist on obtaining the spiritual medicine."

Yun Shanghe smiled as he finished the auction of the Golden Spirit Seedlings, then looked at Zhou Ping and congratulated him.