Magic Treasure corresponding to Heaven And Earth Treasure Rank can be designated as Three-Rank.
Just like Three-Rank Talisman and Three-Rank Medicinal Pill!
There's a reason for it being expensive.
First Grade Medicinal Pill can often be bought for a few Spirit Stones!
However, when it comes to Second Grade Medicinal Pill, the price will increase significantly.
Take Qi Gathering Pill and Gathering Spirit Pill, for example. A First Grade Qi Gathering Pill costs only two Spirit Stones, but a bottle of twelve Gathering Spirit Pills, even when bought from an Alchemy shop, costs two thousand Spirit Stones.
The average unit price for each pill is over one hundred sixty Spirit Stones.
Why?
Because the cost is too high.
First Grade Medicinal Pill only requires First Grade Spiritual Plant for Alchemy, and First Grade Spiritual Plant is very easy to cultivate. As long as it is a Spiritual Field with exposed Spiritual Qi, after sowing seeds, a large quantity can be harvested in a year.
As for Second Grade Spiritual Plant, it cannot grow in a year.
Take the main Materials for Foundation Establishment Pill, centennial purple ginseng, for example; it is exactly as the name suggests, purple ginseng that is one hundred years old.
Not to mention that cultivating this item is extremely complicated, its age alone hints at the difficulty of cultivation.
Talismans are the same.
The main cost of a Three-Rank Talisman is Three-Rank Talisman paper.
How is Three-Rank Talisman paper obtained?
It's simple: it's refined from Three-Rank Spiritual Plants such as 'Heavenly Spirit Flax' and 'Immortal Reed Grass', or from the fur of Golden Core Stage Yao Beast.
Which of these things is easy to obtain?
This is the fundamental reason why a treasure only increasing one Rank causes its price to multiply by dozens or even hundreds of times.
“One hundred thirty-five thousand Spirit Stones!”
“One hundred forty thousand!”
“One hundred forty-five thousand…”
“One hundred fifty thousand…”
People kept bidding.
Especially the Golden Core Cultivators in the VIP section, who bid the most.
After all, not everyone can obtain satisfactory Artifact Refining Materials to refine their own Magic Treasure.
In this situation, they can take the shortcut of purchasing a Magic Treasure and nurturing it.
Wiping away the previous owner's aura and imprint to nurture it oneself is also the same.
There is not much difference.
Ultimately, this Magic Treasure was acquired by a female Cultivator for a price of one hundred seventy-five thousand.
He Pingsheng roughly guessed that the female Cultivator should be at the Golden Core Stage.
“That’s so damn expensive…” Wang Dun curled his lips and said, “I haven’t even started on the Nascent Origin Pill yet. If I’m lucky enough to Breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage, I’ll have to prepare a massive amount of Spirit Stones to get a Magic Treasure…”
“Sigh… Wealth, Dao, Companions, Land. Indeed, wealth comes first!”
“Next to be auctioned is a Three-Rank Talisman, named ‘Golden Thunder Talisman’, its quality is Low Grade!” The beautiful woman in the blue Daoist robe spoke again, saying, “Once this Talisman is activated, it can summon a bolt of lightning, capable of causing certain damage to Cultivators in the Early Stage of the Golden Core Stage!”
“If used properly, it’s not impossible to kill an Early Stage Golden Core Stage Cultivator!”
The so-called Early Stage Golden Core Stage refers to the first, second, and third layers.
This kind of Talisman is exactly what He Pingsheng needs.
He will buy it, strengthen it, and then keep it for self-defense.
The higher the Rank of the Talisman, the greater its power, but the stronger the Divine Thought required to activate it.
Otherwise, if it cannot be activated within a dozen breaths, then this treasure is useless.
Currently, He Pingsheng's Divine Thought is indeed a bit weak to activate a Three-Rank Talisman.
But it doesn't matter.
As long as his Divine Thought becomes a bit stronger, and he consumes a Double Divinity Pill, he will instantly possess Divine Thought strength comparable to that of the Middle Stage Golden Core Stage.
Activating it at that time will naturally be effortless.
“The starting bid is one hundred fifty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and each bid increment must not be less than five thousand Spirit Stones!”
Jinlan finished speaking and then reminded, “This is an item consigned by a Senior, so after the auction is successful, we will also charge a five percent related fee!”
“Please bid carefully!”
“Alright, let’s begin now!”
As soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, someone immediately bid.
“One hundred fifty-five thousand!”
“One hundred sixty thousand!”
“One hundred seventy thousand!”
“One hundred eighty thousand!”
…
Soon, the price of this Talisman was pushed above two hundred thousand.
He Pingsheng no longer had any thoughts about this item.
Two hundred thousand!
He did have it.
But how could a mere Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator like him dare to openly take it out?
The key is that there is also Wang Dun, who knows his background, next to him. If he were to take out over two hundred thousand Spirit Stones to bid on a Three-Rank Talisman at this moment, the outcome would be predictable.
Wang Dun could easily eliminate him.
“Damn it…” Wang Dun cursed, “These dog-faced Golden Core Cultivators, they really are rich old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years!”
“But it’s not surprising, if they save ten thousand Spirit Stones every year, they can accumulate several millions!”
Amidst Wang Dun’s curses, the price of this Talisman was driven up to two hundred forty thousand and sold.
This was just the transaction price.
In addition to the transaction price, there was also a five percent handling fee, which amounted to twelve thousand.
“Too expensive!” He Pingsheng said, “If a Nascent Origin Pill appears later, it won’t be this expensive, will it?”
He looked at Wang Dun with a worried expression.
Wang Dun waved his hand and said, “No… Among Heaven And Earth Treasure of the same Rank, Talismans are the most expensive.”
That's true!
He Pingsheng remembered that when he was in the Qi Refinement Stage, Medicinal Pills cost two Spirit Stones per pill, but when he bought First Grade Talismans, most of them cost sixty or seventy Spirit Stones each.
Even those Talismans with special functions, such as the Disguise Talisman, cost over one hundred.
Thinking about it now, He Pingsheng suddenly felt a bit awkward.
Good gracious!
He casually asked Qiao Huizhu for a Three-Rank Baiyin Talisman.
Qiao Huizhu had prepared it for several years before it was handed over to him.
Wasn't that hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones?
Suddenly, He Pingsheng felt a little nostalgic for his fiancé, whom he didn't know too well.
…
After the Golden Thunder Talisman, the Chamber of Commerce auctioned off several other items.
Not long after, the Nascent Origin Pill that Wang Dun was looking forward to was brought out.
“Everyone!” Jinlan looked at the crowd and held up a jade bottle above her head: “This is a Three-Rank Gathering Yuan Pill, its quality is Low Grade!”
“I believe I don’t need to say much about the function of the Nascent Origin Pill, do I?”
“I believe that as long as you are a Cultivator, there is no one who doesn’t understand it!”
“This Nascent Origin Pill is an item consigned by a Cultivator. After a successful auction, our Chamber of Commerce will charge a five percent intermediary fee!”
“The starting bid is twenty thousand Spirit Stones!”
“Each bid increment must not be less than one thousand Spirit Stones!”
“The auction begins now!”
Wang Dun, who was standing nearby, breathed a sigh of relief.
The starting bid for this Nascent Origin Pill was much lower than those Talismans.
Actually, it's understandable when you think about it. For Medicinal Pills, a successful batch of Alchemy can yield twelve pills, while Talismans only yield one.
The key is that the Material cost of Talismans is actually not any lower than that of Medicinal Pills.
“Twenty-one thousand!”
“Twenty-two thousand!”
“Thirty thousand…”
“Thirty-five thousand!”
The price of the Nascent Origin Pill was slowly raised.
Wang Dun had not bid yet.
He was waiting.
After forty thousand, the number of bidders gradually decreased. When the price reached forty-five thousand, Wang Dun stood up directly and shouted, “I bid fifty thousand!”