The next items on the list sold at a similar rate. People started bidding as soon as it was allowed, and mostly the ones who bid were from the lower hall.
The prices of the items were slowly getting higher and higher as the bid price for the latest sold sword started with 18 spirit stones.
Once again, after the sword was taken away, another box arrived with a cloth on top of it. Cai Ping acted exaggeratedly and pulled down the cloth.
The item was an armor artifact. It was in a shiny blue color and looked very thin. "This is an armor made by using the incredibly defensive Blue rhino's hide as the main ingredient. It's a Common Earth-grade armor artifact that is both tough and flexible. Let us show you how strong it is."
Cai Ping gestured as 2 people walked onto the stage. One was a middle-aged man in the Mind Tempering 8th realm, while the other was at the True Lord realm.
The True lord realm wore the armor and retracted his Qi so as to have it not protect the armor. The Mind Tempering 8th realm man lunged and hit the armor without using any techniques. The armor suffered no damage at all.
"Woah," the crowd was surprised.
"As you can see, the armor is able to defend against even someone at the Mind Tempering 8th realm. From our measurements, It can defend against a fully charged earth grade technique of a Mind Tempering 6th realm cultivator."
"So, the starting bid is going to be 20 spirit stones, with at least 1 spirit stone minimum bid"
As soon as Cai Ping finished saying that, the audience exploded with bids. Before Alex could even comprehend how good the armor was, the bid had already reached over 40 spirit stones.
Even the people in the VVIP rooms were starting to bid. Everyone whose voice came out of the rooms on the upper floors was heavily distorted and no longer sounded like their original voices.
Alex could easily hear the fat merchant head's voice through his spiritual sense, yet when he heard it through his own ears, he was shocked at how different the voices were.
'I assume they do that for privacy reasons. I wonder if they are using formations for this as well,' he thought.
"50 spirit stones," his master voiced in her bid as well.
"Master, do you required that artifact? It should be useless to you, right?" he asked.
"Of course it's not for me you stupid disciple, it's for you." She said.
"For me?" he was shocked. "I don't need that master. You don't have to spend so many spirit stones for me." He said.
"So many? It's just 50 spirit stones. That's not much at all," she said.
"Huh?? 50 spirit stones is not a lot? But that's like 50 months' worth of spirit stones for the outer sect disciples master." He said, shocked at how little she thought of so many spirit stones.
"What are you talking about? That's only because they are outer sect disciples and we give it to them. If they were to make pills and sell them, they could make it in well under 3 months. Inner sect disciples get 10 spirit stones every month, so even if they do nothing, they can get 50 spirit stones in 5 months. If they went ahead and made pills, I'm pretty sure they can collect that much amount in less than a month."
"Let's not forget about the core disciples who get 50 spirit stones monthly. If they were to try, they could actually make a dozen of really rare or useful pills with decent harmony and sell them for 50 spirit stones. It wouldn't even take them a week if they tried."
Alex was shocked at what he had just heard. He didn't know about the different monthly spirit stones allowances of the different tiered disciples. But what shocked him more was how little the others valued what he assumed was a rare commodity.
'50 spirit stones are 500 dollars though. So the core disciples get 500 dollars every month.' He thought for a bit and realized where he was wrong.
'This is not the real world. I shouldn't bring my countryside common sense to this place. It's a land of cultivators, it should be no surprise if they are rich. I should stop comparing everything to the real world.'
"55 spirit stones," Ma Rong bid once more. The bidding war slowly shifted from the people at the lower hall to ones at the upper rooms.
There were 3 people left. His master, the fat merchant head, and someone in a faraway room whose identity he couldn't tell because of the voice changes.
All 3 of them kept bidding for a while until the fat merchant took away the armor at 85 spirit stones.
"The gentleman at room B3 has won the Common Earth Grade armor, congratulations." Cai Ping said as a bunch of staff came along and replaced the armor with another item hidden under a cloth.
"Hmm…" everyone suddenly got more attentive as they saw the item that had just been brought to the table was actually really small. The cloth was almost flat on the plate the object was brought on.
If not for the small bump at the middle of the cloth, the people would surely assume that the next item had been accidentally left behind by the staff members.
Cai Ping saw the people's confusion and smiled. She walked to the front and lifted the cloth to reveal a round small green pellet-like object.
'A Pill? But it's not in a pill bottle?' Alex got surprised to see the small round object. A small feeling spawned inside him, one that spawned whenever he saw an alchemy ingredient. But this feeling was very unnoticeable, so he doubted the item was an alchemy ingredient on its own.
Cai Ping started speaking, "Dear ladies and gentlemen, the next item on the list is this seed."