Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 122 Auction
Ever since the Qi family announced the first auction half a year ago, the number of people in the Immortal City has been increasing day by day.

Until it reached its peak this month.

Everyone knows that this auction will incur heavy losses in order to establish its reputation and highlight the advantages it has after taking over.

In terms of security, he would definitely not be able to compare with the Immortal City that was once under the control of the Biyun Sect. Therefore, he must highlight his advantages in trade, product quality and price, so that he can develop the Immortal City more prosperously and earn spirit stones with the buyout funds after the Biyun Sect calculated the profits over a hundred years.

Although the Biyun Sect will certainly impose many conditions on it for the sake of long-term stability in the ruling area, such as a ban on the sale of high-end materials or trading rights between certain forces, there are definitely loopholes that can be exploited.

Moreover, for an auction that is launching its first event, it is likely that some products that are slightly above the standard will be allowed to be put on the shelves.

As for the subsequent development, after all, the Biyun Sect no longer directly manages the Immortal City, so there is a lot of room for secret operations among the various chambers of commerce.

For example, last time Yan Kongyi secretly purchased a second-level Vajra Puppet that could influence the battle situation in the wilderness, as well as a batch of talismans with late-stage area damage from the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, the Jinhuang Immortal City has now become almost a holy place for cultivators in the entire Cangyun Province.

Powerful forces, such as the five great families and some other foundation-building families with deep roots, will most likely come for the top-grade foundation-building pill.

Forces in war will come for some strategic materials.

Even the independent cultivators in the state would come here to take advantage of the opportunity.

For a moment, the fairy city was crowded with people, and all kinds of cultivators came in droves.

All the inns in the fairy city were full a month ago, and there were already three circles of people outside the city.

On this day, Li Ji'an added three more spirit stones to the courtyard protection magic circle, and three more prohibition talismans, and carried the seven trump card talismans close to his body. Then he reminded Gua Gua and Xiao Qiao not to be careless, and no matter who came, they could not open the magic circle.

Ever since the Qi family took over the Immortal City, the yard of Grandma You next door was taken back and is now rented to another cultivator.

Xiao Qiao lived here permanently.

Finally, he put all his wealth of more than 8,000 spirit stones into the storage bag, changed into a set of gray and white long gown which was the most common in the fairy city, and then walked towards the open-air auction venue in the center of the fairy city.

There were crowds of people along the way. Li Ji'an mixed in with the crowd and slowly changed his muscles and bones through the method of refining qi and blood. He changed his muscles and bones step by step. After ten steps, his height was shortened by three inches.

He then followed the same method and used the magic of disguise. After a hundred steps, he had transformed into a middle-aged monk with a yellow face who had an extremely ordinary appearance and very little presence.

After the Biyun Sect withdrew, especially in the past two months, a large number of cultivators poured into the Immortal City, and many of the previous rules changed.

It is not known whether these chambers of commerce are doing this to satisfy the needs of customers who do not want to disclose their privacy or because they are unable to control it, but the rules of city gate registration, mana branding, and not hiding one's head and tail have been cancelled.

Li Ji'an scanned the area with his spiritual sense and found that 80% of the people around him had disguised themselves.

However, the spiritual souls of these Qi training cultivators were far inferior to his, and he could see through their true appearance at a glance.

"Fellow Daoist, please don't push. I have a great treasure here. If you break it, you will have to pay compensation." A tall Tibetan man who was almost unable to stand due to the crowd shouted anxiously.

Li Ji'an's eyelids twitched slightly. It was clearly a young female cultivator who had disguised herself as a middle-aged man.

However, ordinary disguise techniques are just a trick. When you really touch the object, you will see its true appearance.

Li Ji'an saw clearly that the female cultivator was almost deformed due to being squeezed.

He estimated that the male cultivators around him were stronger than the female cultivator in spirit and had already seen through her disguise, which was intentional.

As the crowd slowly moved forward, it took me almost half an hour to reach the square, which usually took me a quarter of an hour.

When we arrived at the square, it was bustling with people.

Fortunately, the square was expanded again, and it was expanded upwards, with many more ladders added around the circle.

In addition to the core auction area where an entrance fee is required, temporary flying viewing is also allowed in the periphery.

Li Ji'an showed the admission ticket that he had asked Manager Wu to help him get three months in advance and strode into the auction venue.

In the auction hall that can accommodate thousands of people, except for a few seats at the front that symbolize identity and status, which are temporarily vacant, all other seats have already been filled.

Li Ji'an's position is on the edge and not very eye-catching.

As a result, as soon as he sat down, he keenly sensed several spiritual consciousnesses sweeping over him, and there were even more spiritual consciousnesses sensing him.

He immediately guarded his sea of consciousness and used the breath-concealing technique, trying to minimize his presence.

Soon, the organizer appeared on time and, after an impassioned speech, invited the finale celebrity to appear.

The moment the Qi family's Jindan Zhenren appeared, the deliberately released Zhenren's pressure enveloped the entire venue, and the whole audience fell silent.

Nearly two hours later, the Qi family finally finished expressing their ambitions for how glorious the future of the Immortal City would be, how they vowed to build it into a trading immortal city connecting Tianyuan Province and Cangyun Province, and the benefits it would bring to the cultivators in this world.

The auction officially begins.

The first lot excited the whole audience.

"This is a top-grade robe woven from the finest hundred-year-old golden silk, carefully selected by a renowned weaving master, mixed with ice soul cold slurry, and supplemented with red blood tree leaves. It has the effects of collecting and storing spiritual energy, purifying mana, warding off fire and heat, and clearing the mind and focusing the spirit. The starting price is one spirit stone."

"Wow! As expected of the great immortal clan of Tianyuanzhou."

"Great, great! Such a rare and top-grade robe is actually being bid on with a single spirit stone. The Qi family is showing great sincerity."

"Golden Brilliant Immortal City is about to take off!"

...Because Cangyun Prefecture lacks materials for Dharma robes and has almost no weavers, there are very few Dharma robes locally. In addition, because the Biyun Sect previously imposed heavy taxes on businesses, it would be very costly to transport Dharma robes from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Therefore, the number and styles of Dharma robes in the Immortal City are very small, and the quality is mostly medium and low-grade.

This top-grade robe has indeed attracted many people.

The most important thing is that the Qi family really kept their promise and started the bidding at one spirit stone.

Of course, everyone also knows that no matter how low the starting price is, the final transaction price will definitely not be cheap.

"One hundred spirit stones!" As expected, the first person raised the price directly to the psychological price.

"Three hundred spirit stones!" However, the first item at an auction is usually quite particular, and many people want to take the lead.

"Three hundred and fifty spirit stones!"

……

"Five hundred and five!"

In the end, the first robe was bought by one of the five major families sitting in the first row.

The price of five hundred and fifty spirit stones has a considerable premium.

The second lot raised the atmosphere again.

"These are ten mid-grade anti-aging pills. Each pill can keep you young for thirty years. You can bid separately. The starting price is one spirit stone."

The female cultivators present were instantly excited.

Although the Rejuvenating Pill is a first-grade pill, it contains the power of time and cannot be refined by anyone other than a second-grade alchemist. Due to its high demand, the local second-grade alchemists in Cangyun Prefecture are unable to supply it. In the past, there were often situations where female cultivators who loved beauty would find that the effects of the pill were about to disappear but they could not buy it.

At this moment, the Qi family directly took out ten coins and bid at once, which could be called a big deal.

Moreover, they were of mid-grade quality. Almost all the female cultivators in the foundation-building stage bought all ten of them, which was enough to keep them young forever.

"I want all ten, two thousand spirit stones!" A female cultivator couldn't wait for the auctioneer to start and hurriedly made an offer.

"I want them all, 2,200 spirit stones."

"Two thousand three hundred spirit stones."

……

It is women's nature to love beauty, and female cultivators do it even more so, and they soon livened up the atmosphere again.

At the same time, because of the quality of the first two items, all the monks present were even more looking forward to this auction.

In the end, the crazy female cultivator bid up the price of ten anti-aging pills to a high price of three thousand five hundred spirit stones.

This further strengthened Li Ji'an's determination to study medical beauty pills in the future.

No matter where you are, it is easiest to make money from women who love beauty.

The items that appeared later did not disappoint the monks present.

From the elixir that helps one break through to the later stages of Qi training, to the elixir that prolongs life that is urgently needed by elderly cultivators.

From mid-level cultivation techniques to inheritance by senior alchemists.

There are even second-level refining materials, second-level talisman materials, and second-level medicinal materials...

Of course, the finished products include strategic talismans, magic tools, puppets, etc., only some materials.

During this period, there was an item that attracted Li Ji'an's attention.

A young spirit beast suspected to have earth-grade bloodline.

However, it was eventually bought by the Beast Taming Liu family at a high price.

The bidder Li Ji'an was no stranger to him. He was Liu Jiuchan, who owed him a promise in the desperate situation in Huoyan Mountain a few years ago.

The fairy city is now in chaos, and demons are rampant outside the city. Now that he happened to meet him, he wanted to let him fulfill his promise to save him from having to go out of the city again.

The only thing that made him hesitate was that the other party had already successfully established his foundation.

Due to the disparity between his status and strength, he felt a little insecure.

While he was thinking about this, another item at auction made Li Ji'an sit up straight in his seat.

"This is a second-grade, top-grade alchemy furnace crafted by our Qi family's master weapon refiner, who dedicated his entire life to crafting it. It's made of the core molten copper marrow, supplemented with earth from the six directions. It was then immersed in a flame sculpture and nurtured for 49 days, finally forged through the spiritual flames of heaven and earth...

This furnace has greatly enhanced the control of spiritual pressure, regulation of elixir fire, and sensing of elixir conditions.

It was also once loved by Daoyuanzhou's second-level senior alchemist, who helped him create no less than ten foundation-building pills...

Starting price: one spirit stone. Alchemists, please!"

"Second-level alchemy furnace!"

(End of this chapter)