Chapter 215: Chapter 127: Auction for Blood Ignition Pill and Eight-Hundred Year Heavenly Root (Request for Monthly Tickets )_1
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Luo Chen had followed Mi Shuhua for quite a while now.
He had taken many things and learned a lot from him.
Among the things he learned was his valuable experience around auctions, which he willingly shared with Luo Chen and the others.
In dealing with an auction item, the first thing to consider was how important the item was to oneself, as well as whether it was a necessity.
Secondly, it was important to pay attention to the number of participants and assess the degree of difficulty of the auction.
Last but not least, one’s financial strength was also a key factor to consider.
Although Luo Chen had merely five-thousand spirit stones and was not considered wealthy, compared to the starting bid for the Restoring Yang Water, he was relatively well off.
And although there were a significant number of participants at the auction, making the competition seem stiff, their bids were gradually increasing, with some even making laughably low additional offers of just one spirit stone.
This indicated that the auction wasn’t as difficult as expected.
The reason might be that there were two more containers of Restoring Yang Water available, causing the participants to be hopeful and hesitant to go all out.
However, Luo Chen was determined to win the Restoring Yang Water!
Hence, he adopted the most appropriate bidding strategy.
One firm bid to claim the item!
When the bid of a thousand spirit stones was called, there was a momentary silence across the hall.
Then, the room was filled with frantic whispers and murmurs.
“Is that necessary, Friend? This stuff is priced at only five hundred spirit stones at Spirit Medicine Hall. You’re greatly overpaying!”
“Crazy. I’d rather wait a couple more years at the Spirit Medicine Hall than spend this much.”
“I will not engage in such a senseless contest with you. There are still two more bottles.”
“He must be new. He appears to have some wealth but does not know that there are better items yet to come.”
In response to these comments, Luo Chen remained calm and focused, unaffected by their words.
His attention was solely on Tian Xingzi’s movements.
Under his gaze, Tian Xingzi gently coughed.
“One thousand spirit stones, once!”
“One thousand spirit stones, twice! Anybody else wants this bottle of the Foundation Establishment aiding Restoring Yang Water?”
“Hehe, it seems like no one else. One thousand spirit stones, thrice!”
“Sold!”
Upon paying the spirit stones, Luo Chen finally acquired the Restoring Yang Water.
He relaxed his tense body.
Looking at the small bottle, Luo Chen couldn’t help but reveal a smile beneath his mask.
The Restoring Yang Water was a special foundational spirit medicine produced by the Medicine King Sect.
However, its true effectiveness was not simply a supporting role in establishing a foundation, as casually mentioned by Tian Xingzi.
Of course, Tian Xingzi was not lying.
It did have some auxiliary function to aid in foundation establishment.
Its real function was to keep a cultivator alive when their Foundation Establishment attempt fails.
In that brief moment, the cultivator can consolidate the spirit qi running wild due to the failure and using their divine soul and physical body, calmly rectify their condition.
Even if foundation establishment fails, permanent damage will not be inflicted on the cultivator.
With a bit of time, one can return to the state of Qi Refinement Finalization, and attempt to break through the Foundation Establishment stage again.
This medicine was inexpensive, selling for only five hundred spirit stones at the Spirit Medicine Hall.
However, this type of medicine is always in demand and short in supply!
Each time the Spirit Medicine Hall gets a hold of it, rogue cultivators would immediately snatch them all away.
Unfortunately, the Medicine King Sect strictly controlled the production of the medicine, resulting in its scarcity despite being said to be available every year. In reality, many rogue cultivators couldn’t even buy it each year.
Luo Chen was always concerned that his Five Spirit Roots physique would hinder him during his Foundation Establishment process.
Even with one or two Foundation Establishment Pills, success was not guaranteed.
And he could hardly estimate, let alone bear, the consequences of a failure.
Now that he had a bottle of Restoring Yang Water, he could at least withstand one failure.
Trading a thousand spirit stones for a chance to preserve his life was definitely worthwhile!
He didn’t know how others saw this approach of preparing for defeat while hoping for victory.
Regardless, he was someone who liked to consider all possibilities.
Moreover, did he really overpay with a thousand spirit stones?
The final price for the remaining two bottles of Restoring Yang Water brought a small smile to his lips.
“One thousand two hundred spirit stones, once!”
“One thousand two hundred spirit stones, twice!”
“One thousand two hundred spirit stones, thrice, sold!”
The cultivator who bought the last bottle of Restoring Yang Water was surprisingly the same one who had initially bid eight hundred, and boasted that whoever competed with him would not leave the venue. He was a rogue cultivator at the ninth level of qi refinement.
His expression was somewhat dark, and he looked quite annoyed as he glanced at Luo Chen and another person who had won the Restoring Yang Water for one thousand and one hundred spirit stones.
At this moment, Luo Chen smirked.
If you want to claim the item with one bid like others, why not place a higher bid then!
Or else, offer something more substantial!
Who would be scared of you simply by the harsh words you say!
In the end, you’re still gritting your teeth and forcefully buying a bottle.
It’s merely because no one else was interested. Otherwise, just a couple more spirit stones would be enough to infuriate you into coughing up blood.
After that, Tian Xingzi brought out item after item on behalf of the Zhenlong Black Market.
Ascendant Grade Magic Tools, Ascendant Grade Talismans, Medium Grade Dusting Pills, Technique Secret Manuals, and even puppets!
When the puppet, which was claimed to have a combat power on par with Qi Refinement Finalization, was presented, everyone was stirred.
The price was driven up to nearly ten thousand spirit stones!
At that moment, Luo Chen felt slightly dazed. He wondered whether he was at a black market or an auction organized by the Sword Pavilion.
Were rogue cultivators really this wealthy now?
Compared to these individuals, he even began to question whether he was indeed known to be a wealthy Pill Refiner.
However, when he saw that the final price was given by an aged individual who had reached Foundation Establishment, it seemed reasonable.
Luo Chen did not contend for the puppet, even though it was claimed to have been personally crafted by an elder from Luo Yun Sect.
He had only placed another bid, spending nine hundred spirit stones on the Technique Secret Manual.
In the Immortal Cultivation World, cultivation techniques were stringently controlled by the Great Sects, and most techniques that circulated around were simplified versions.
However, techniques were more widely disseminated.
It was because techniques were easy to learn but difficult to master and had various shortcomings like slow activation speed and high qi consumption..