Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 105: Treasures that fascinate the eyes, foundation-building pills [Subscription required]

To the east of the Hongyan Mountains, there is a mountain with a unique shape. It looks like a gold ingot and is also known as Yuanbao Peak.

The organizer of this underground auction used this peak as the gathering place for visitors.

On this morning, a Foundation Establishment cultivator wearing a mask and a Qi Refining cultivator wearing a face-covering hat came to Yuanbao Peak together and handed over invitations to the welcoming cultivator arranged by the organizer.

Then the two of them were taken to a stone temple created by magic on the mountain to wait.

The two men were Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui, uncle and nephew, who had come all the way from Jiufengling.

When the two entered the stone hall, they saw that there were already as many as twenty or thirty people waiting in the spacious interior.

Most of them are cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the number of Qi Refining Stage cultivators like Zhou Chun can be counted on one hand.

And he should have been brought here by his elders to see the world, just like him.

No matter who they were, they all covered their faces like their uncle and nephew, using various things to hide their faces to prevent being recognized.

Seeing the uncle and nephew come in, the monks who were sitting cross-legged in the hall just glanced at them and then looked away and closed their eyes to rest.

Seeing this, the uncle and nephew had no intention of greeting anyone. They just found an empty space, sat down, and waited.

After waiting for most of the day, the number of monks gathered in the hall exceeded one hundred.

At this time, a cold voice came from outside the hall.

"The time has come, fellow Taoists, you can come out and board the boat to set off!"

Hearing this, everyone in the hall quickly stood up and walked out of the stone hall.

I saw a black ship nearly ten meters long in the air outside the stone palace, which had docked here at some point.

"A third-tier flying ship magic weapon, its value is comparable to several third-tier attack magic weapons!"

Beside Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiarui whispered something in a deliberately changed tone, as if he was explaining something to him, or expressing his own surprise.

Fortunately, there were many people who made similar remarks at this time, so he did not attract anyone's attention.

So, at the call of a masked monk with a black scarf on the deck of the ship, everyone boarded the ship and entered the sealed cabin.

Unlike ordinary building ships, the cabin of this flying building ship is not actually divided into compartments. It is more like the inland passenger ship that Zhou Chun had taken in his previous life. The space inside is wide enough to accommodate three or four hundred people without feeling crowded.

At this time, the doors and windows of the ship were all closed. Zhou Chun and others inside had completely lost any sense of contact with the outside world and had no idea where the ship was flying to.

After they had been in the ship for nearly two quarters of an hour, the hatch of the ship was opened again.

After walking out of the ship, everyone found themselves in a spacious cave hall.

The masked monk who had invited them to board the ship earlier now gave instructions in a deep voice: "Fellow Daoists, walk along this passage until you reach the auction hall at the end."

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a stone door in the corner of the cave hall. The light emitted by the "sunstone" inside illuminated the underground passage.

No one knew who took the lead, but soon Zhou Chun and his group passed through the stone gate and entered the passage one after another.

After all of them entered the passage, the stone door closed with a loud bang.

In response, everyone just looked back and walked down the passage without thinking any more.

The hundreds of people gathered here now come from various forces in Lanzhou and several surrounding states.

Unless the organizer of the underground auction is crazy, it is impossible for him to use the name of holding an underground auction to murder these people.

In that case, even if he is from a big sect like Qinglian Temple, he will suffer a strong backlash.

Therefore, everyone was not too worried about their safety at the underground auction.

After walking along the passage for about a quarter of an hour, another spacious underground cave hall appeared in front of us.

The entire underground cave hall was roughly square in shape. One side was where the auction platform was located. The terrain was slightly higher than other places by half a zhang. Below it were cushions placed for the monks who came to participate in the underground auction to sit cross-legged.

After Zhou Chun and more than a hundred people rushed into the underground cave hall, they first looked at the five auctioneers who were ready at the auction table, and then each found an empty seat and sat down.

After waiting for about three quarters of an hour, another forty or fifty monks came into the underground cave hall where Zhou Chun and his companions came from. It was unknown where they came from.

Including this group of people, the number of monks in the cave hall is now close to two hundred.

After this group of people sat down, one of the five masked monks in black scarves who had been silent at the auction table finally stood up and walked to the auction table.

Then he bowed to the people sitting cross-legged below and said in a deep voice: "I am Jia Ming, the auctioneer of today's auction. Next, I will show you the thirty treasures prepared by all parties for this auction one by one."

"If there are any treasures that you Taoist friends like, you can participate in the auction according to the bidding rules."

"Here, Jia needs to remind all fellow Taoists that once you make a bid during the auction, it will be considered a valid bid and you cannot regret it."

"During the auction, only money is considered, regardless of cultivation background. You are not allowed to use cultivation to pressure others or threaten competitors in any way."

“At the same time, I would like to warn all of you fellow Taoists that before you bid, you’d better think clearly whether you have enough spirit coins. Otherwise, if you make a false bid, not only will you not get the treasure, but you will also lose your life and property here!”

After explaining the rules of the auction, the auctioneer named "Jia Ming" did not say much.

He immediately reached out and patted the storage bag on his waist, and took out a jade box.

He placed the jade box on the table in front of him, opened the lid, took out the contents and showed them to the audience.

"This is a Blue Moon Spirit Pearl produced by the second-level demon beast Blue Moon Clam. It contains extremely rich and gentle water spirit power. Whether it is used for refining pills or removing certain special fire poisons, it has excellent effects."

Jia Ming held up a fist-sized light blue pearl in one hand and displayed it to the cultivators below the stage.

Without him having to use any magical power to activate it, a soft blue light emanated from the pearl.

When everyone sent their spiritual senses over it, they could clearly sense the rich water spirit power contained in it.

After showing it like this for a while, Jia Ming put the spirit pearl back into the jade box and closed the lid.

Then he stretched out his right hand, made a gesture and said, "The starting price of this item is 500 spirit coins, and each bid cannot be less than 50 spirit coins."

"I'll give you 500 spirit coins."

Almost as soon as Jia Ming finished speaking, a cultivator couldn't wait to speak up.

I don’t know whether he really needed the spiritual pearl or it was a trap arranged by the auctioneer.

Anyway, after he spoke, no one raised the price for a while. After all, no matter how nice Jia Ming said, it was just a spiritual object produced from the body of a second-level monster, just a raw material.

Generally, no one would buy this kind of thing unless it met someone who just needed it, or someone who could use it to achieve a purpose far beyond that of five hundred spirit coins.

But this is normal.

If the Blue Moon Spirit Pearl is a raw material that is easy to handle, why doesn't the auctioneer process it into pills or magical tools for sale?
Wouldn't the price be higher then?
After waiting for a while and seeing no one raising the price, the Blue Moon Pearl was actually bought by the first person who made a bid at the reserve price.

Although this does not count as a failure to sell, it still sets a bad precedent for the auction.

So even though Zhou Chun couldn't see the auctioneer's expression clearly, he could still understand his current mood.

Sure enough, when the auctioneer took out the second treasure, his voice became a little deeper when introducing it.

"A set of first-grade superior formations that can be carried around and deployed [Phantom Spirit Trace Formation]. Once deployed, it can protect an area of ​​100 meters in radius. Its transformation technique can make it difficult for even the spiritual sense of a cultivator in the early stages of foundation building to detect abnormalities. It can also distort and confuse the spiritual sense and five senses of those who enter the formation. It is a must-have item for a temporary rest when traveling outside."

After this introduction, the auctioneer immediately placed the formation plate in his hand on the ground, then waved his hands to place seven white formation flags into several specific locations around the formation plate, and directly activated the formation by pinching the formation formula.

Suddenly, a white light surged out from the formation plate and formation flag, quickly engulfing the auctioneer and several auctioneer monks on the stage.

Then, in the sight of Zhou Chun and others, the auction table in front became empty, with only dead objects such as the illusory stone table.

For Qi Refining cultivators like Zhou Chun, no matter whether they used their spiritual sense or spells like "Qi-Seeing Technique", they could not see anything abnormal there.

Even a cultivator like Zhou Jiarui, who is in the early stage of foundation building, needs to concentrate his consciousness highly to discover the slightest abnormality.

This kind of mysterious formation has indeed aroused the interest of many cultivators.

Therefore, when the auctioneer dispersed the formation and announced the starting price, it immediately attracted many cultivators to bid.

As a result, the starting price of 800 spirit coins was finally settled at 1,450 spirit coins after fierce bidding among several monks.

Seeing that this formation was so popular, Zhou Chun couldn't help but think of the formation tools he got from the black-clothed old man from the Hualong Sect three years ago.

Ever since those formation tools were taken away by Zhou Chongshan, the second elder of the Zhou family, for research, no news has been sent to him until now, and he doesn't know how the research is going.

Compared to magical instruments that can be used after obtaining and refining, formations are very troublesome in this regard.

If you don't know the matching formulas for arranging and controlling the formation, you won't be able to arrange the formation even if you get complete formation equipment.

It can only be left to the array master to slowly figure out the decipher and deduce the correct usage.

The successful sale of the second treasure gave the auctioneer a lot of confidence, and he soon took out the third treasure.

It was a monster egg, and it was the egg of the flying monster Flame Eagle.

Although the Flame Eagle is only a low-level monster, its strength when an adult is even stronger than that of the Iron-feathered Eagle, and it can also carry people and fly, making it an excellent means of transportation and combat pet.

To be honest, when Zhou Chun saw this flaming eagle egg, he wanted to buy it.

But when he thought that his own Silver Electric Thunder Python would be able to fly after reaching the second level, he endured it.

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the item was bought by a foundation-building cultivator for 1,200 spirit coins.

The fourth and fifth treasures that followed were both second-tier magical instruments, and each was sold for more than two thousand spirit coins.

The sixth treasure was an alchemy furnace, which was also auctioned for 2,700 spirit coins.

The seventh treasure was a seven-hundred-year-old wind bamboo grass. This thing could not be used to make elixirs or medicine, and its uses were rare. In the end, it was bought for thirteen hundred spirit coins.

The eighth treasure is a bottle of elixir that can improve the magic power of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. It only has five elixirs, but it was sold for 2,100 spirit coins. Each one is worth a first-grade top-quality magic weapon like the [Xiao Qianshan Seal].

When it comes to the ninth treasure, things become much more interesting.

The auctioneer reached out and patted the storage bag, then took out a square wooden box and placed it on the table. Then he opened the box and took out a pair of exquisite folded wings.

The pair of exquisite wings looked like some kind of bat's wings. They were dark blue in color, and were artificially engraved with some silver-white spiritual patterns and blue runes, making the wings, which should have been hideous and ferocious, become mysterious and elegant.

This time, the auctioneer did not activate this item to demonstrate its effect like he did with the previous magical instruments.

Instead, he unfolded the folded wings and held them up in both hands for the audience to admire.

At the same time, he introduced: "The art of talisman weapons, I believe some knowledgeable Taoist friends should have heard of it. This ninth treasure is a second-level low-grade talisman weapon, the Green Bat Wing."

"When a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage uses this item, he can obtain a flying speed comparable to that of the Wind Talisman, and the duration is much longer than that of the Wind Talisman."

"A cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage can use this item to control his flying speed much faster and for a very long time."

"And this is a brand new talisman. It can be used more than three times."

After introducing the purpose of the wings in his hand, the auctioneer folded them up and put them back into the wooden box.

Then he said in a deep voice: "Because of the special nature of this item, I will not show you its effect, but please rest assured, this auction will never use fakes to fool you, so you can rest assured to bid for this item!"

After that, he made a loud offer: "The starting price for this item is 1,200 spirit coins, and each bid cannot be less than 100 spirit coins."

“So expensive!”

Zhou Chun let out a low cry, and his eager heart was suppressed by the price.

Originally, when he heard the auctioneer say that the wings could also be used by cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, he became interested and wanted to add a treasure that could help him escape at a critical moment.

But now after hearing the bottom price, he had no choice but to give up.

It’s not that he doesn’t have that many spirit coins in his pocket, but it’s not worth it to him.

So he could only watch the price of this item go up all the way, and finally it was bought by someone for 1,800 spirit coins.

After the ninth treasure was sold, the auctioneer quickly took out the tenth treasure.

It was a jade bottle, containing only a dark purple pill.

When he saw the pill, Zhou Chun clearly heard his uncle Zhou Jiarui beside him whisper the three words "Foundation Building Pill".

Zhou Jiarui succeeded in building his foundation by taking the Foundation Building Pill, so he would naturally not make a mistake with this kind of pill.

As expected, the auctioneer on the stage quickly spoke up to confirm this.

"There is no need to introduce this treasure in detail. The starting price for one Foundation Establishment Pill is 4,000 Spirit Coins. Each bid increase must not be less than 200 Spirit Coins."

I finished writing this chapter at 1am today. I am so tired!!
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