The staff members had taken away all but 2 pill bottles. Cai Ping picked up a bottle and said, "This pill bottle contains the Hundred Poisons Antidote. While we did auction off a few Hundred Poisons Antidote just now, this one gets to have its own time in the spotlight, because, it has a harmony of 40%."
A bunch of incoherent noises started appearing from the crowd as they whispered amongst themselves. Cai Ping waited for the noise to die down a bit before she started speaking once more.
"This pill is able to cure any poison below the True grade. So, the starting bid for this pill will start at 30 spirit stones, with 1 spirit stone minimum increase in bid."
The crowd started bidding for the pill. Even after this many pills, their enthusiasm for the pills had barely died a little.
Ma Rong looked at Alex and asked, "Did you make the 43% harmony Tiger strength pill after this pill? " she asked.
Alex was surprised. "You know about that pill, master? Oh wait, you must've seen what I registered. That was a pill I made 2 days ago. While this one, I made it on Sunday, so 6 days ago."
"Good. You are improving a lot. Make sure you don't get overconfident from just this and change your personality. While you are naive, people like naive fellows more than snobby ones."
Alex was relieved she didn't get angry.
The bidding ended with a person buying the pill for 63 spirit stones. Alex was quite happy about this. Managing to get 63 spirit stones just for a single pill was beyond his dream right now.
Then Cai Ping revealed his next pill. "This is the second-best pill we have today. However, the other one is a True grade pill, so I don't know if it even makes sense to compare them."
"This pill is a Healing Lotus pill. Anyone who knows about pills knows that this is one of the best healing pills of all the common pills, maybe even the best. This pill can even bring you back from death as long as you have a little life left in you. Diseases heal just like that if you take this peal."
"And senior White Wolf has not only provided us with such an impressive pill, but They have also managed to make this pill with an incredible 45% harmony."
Cai Ping made sure everyone heard that.
"45%? Did she just say 45%?"
"Oh lord. That is 5% away from becoming a Heaven grade pill."
"Can it be that this Senior White Wolf is a True Earth Grade alchemist, and he simply decided to grace us with some common grade pills?"
The shock the crowd showed towards the pill was way more than Alex had expected. They were acting as if 45% was a hundred times better than the 40% pill they just saw beforehand.
He looked back at his master, who was also slightly surprised.
"You keep on surprising me these days. You even managed to make a 45% pill?"
"Is it really that impressive when you already know I made 43% pill?" he asked.
"Of course. It gets harder and harder to increase the pill's harmony. A difference between 43% and 45% is about the same increase in difficulty as 10% to 18%. The higher the pill's harmony, the higher the difficulty. This just goes to show how talented you are."
Ma Rong cleared his confusion. 'No wonder the people are so shocked about it.'
The heated bidding war slowly came to an end as Alex's eyes widened by the final bid.
"139 spirit stones, going once."
"139 spirit stones, going twice."
"139 spirit stones, going thrice. Sold." Cai Ping slammed the gavel on the table. A staff member came out and took away the pill. Another staff came out with a small plate, hiding something rectangular, going by the shape of the silhouette.
"The next item on the auction is this book." Cai Ping unfurled the cloth to reveal an old, dusty, almost rotting book. The outer cover looked a little torn but overall the book seemed to be without damage.
Cai Ping held the book and showed it to the audience. The outside of the book had something written on it, that was visible even though the book itself was very dirty.
The letters seemed black in color but shined like they were made of gold. Cai Ping started by saying, "This book has the potential to be the best item we have ever sold in our auction house. However, it might also be the worst item we have sold as of yet."
Cai Ping stopped talking to create some suspense.
"Best item, yet worst item? What are you talking about, Madam Cai?"
"Yes, please explain, Madam Cai."
Cai Ping started talking once more. "This book was given to us by somebody who wished to remain unknown. This book is the family heirloom that they have guarded for thousands of years. According to their ancestors, one day, people flew down from the heavens and stayed in their tavern."
"Those heavenly folks didn't have money with them at the time, so they gave the tavern owner this book instead, and left back to the heavens."
"Within those thousands of years, many cultivators came and went in their family, yet not a single one could comprehend this book."
"Given to them, by what could only be immortals of the legends, yet unable to even read the book. This book is truly both Worthless and Priceless. If your customers can't read it either, It's the worst item we have sold yet. However, if you can read it, it's the best item we have sold yet."
"As such, we will first let you people check the book for yourself." A staff lady came out and took the book.
"We will pass it along to you all, so you can check. The people in the hall will have only 10 seconds to see if you can read the book. The people in the VIP will have 30 seconds to see if they can read the book. As for the ones in the VVIP, they will have a whole minute to check the book."
Cai Ping nodded to the female staff, and the lady walked down the hall passing along the book to the various people.