The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The foundation-building pills that the Juxian Sect puts in Xinyue City are usually auctioned off by Sihai Trading Company.

Because the number of pills released each time is not fixed, the transaction price of the pills fluctuates and there is no definitive answer.

Upon hearing the news, Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong excitedly counted the spirit stones in their storage bags. In the end, they were still a little worried and even sold some of their less important supplies for spirit stones, just to give themselves more capital to bid.

Xiao Han was very calm.

When she arrived in Crescent City, she had about 100,000 spirit stones in her storage bag.

After a year of doing scrap business here, she had saved up another 70,000 to 80,000 spirit stones. If she hadn't just paid another six months' rent, she would have had over 200,000 spirit stones.

According to information obtained by Ye Qi and the others, the highest auction price of the Foundation Establishment Pill in history was over 150,000 spirit stones, and the cheapest was only sold for 90,000 spirit stones.

Therefore, Xiao Han felt that 180,000 should be enough.

Sihai Trading Company finally issued an announcement that the auction will be held at 3:00 PM three days later, and the Foundation Establishment Pill will be included in the auction.

Xiao Han, Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong met and talked about the upcoming auction.

Although all three of them were determined to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, if they started internal competition and raised the price too high for no reason, their own people would suffer.

But at the auction venue, everyone had to wear cloaks and robes that covered their entire bodies, provided by Sihai Trading Company, and bidding was directly activated by the number plates in their hands. At that time, you didn't know whether the people bidding with you were your own people or outsiders.

Xiao Han directly asked for the highest price they could offer, and both of them said they had already prepared spirit stones equivalent to the highest auction price for the Foundation Establishment Pill. In other words, they had prepared at least 150,000 spirit stones.

Come to think of it, these two have been hunting in Zixiao City for many years, so they have some assets.

After thinking about it, he proposed a method of having three people bid separately.

That was the first Foundation Establishment Pill, which was bid by Qiu Yinong and others. Xiao Han and Ye Qi did not participate in the auction.

Ye Qi participated in the bidding for the second Foundation Establishment Pill, and Xiao Han also did not participate.

However, if the bidding price for the first and second Foundation Establishment Pills exceeded 155,000 spirit stones, they would both stop bidding and Xiao Han would take over until he won the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Xiao Han's reserve price is 175,000 spirit stones. If the price exceeds this, she will also give up.

The person who failed to win the bid can only participate in the subsequent Foundation Establishment Pill auction.

After all, according to past records, the minimum number of Foundation Establishment Pills released at one time was five, and the maximum number was thirty.

The number of times the Foundation Establishment Pills are released is not fixed. Sometimes there may be several Foundation Establishment Pill auctions in a year, and sometimes there may not be any for a year or two.

In short, it is to prevent these independent cultivators from fighting over things and getting hurt, and also prevent them from buying things whenever they want.

The strategy formulated by Xiao Han at least avoided the situation where the three of them started fighting against each other and raised the price unreasonably.

As for who bids cheaper and who bids more expensively, it depends on their luck.

Xiao Han took the initiative to propose that if the price reached 155,000 spirit stones, she would continue bidding because she felt that as long as it was within her financial means, she was willing to spend a little more money to buy peace of mind.

After all, no one knew how many Foundation Establishment Pills had been released this time, nor when the next Foundation Establishment Pill would be released. She didn't like this uncertainty; she preferred to have a clear goal and work towards it.

After all, money can be earned again after it is spent, but if the foundation-building pill is not in your pocket, there will never be any hope of building the foundation.

Xiao Han's method avoided internal competition among the three and put herself last. Qiu Yinong and Ye Qi naturally agreed happily.

Although no one can guarantee that the first bid will be high and the subsequent bids will be low.

Soon, the day of the auction arrived.

That day, Xiao Han did not go to the Earth Fire Room or set up a stall. Instead, he practiced at home until noon, and then went out early to meet Ye Qi and the others.

The three of them arrived almost half an hour early and arrived in front of the tall stone hall where the Sihai Trading Company held the auction.

When they arrived, some monks were already buying tickets to enter.

That’s right, you have to buy a ticket to enter, and the ticket fee is one thousand spirit stones.

The ticket is actually a small piece of paper with the special seal of Sihai Trading Company.

The three of them paid for the tickets with spirit stones, then followed the crowd inside with the slip of paper. Once inside a small room, a waiter from the Sihai Trading Company took the slip of paper and handed them a cloak and a small disc with a number on it.

Then, at the entrance to the other side of the passage, the waiter standing there said loudly: "You must put on your clothes and take your number plate before you can enter. Once you enter, take your seat according to your number."

While Xiao Han and the other two were getting dressed, they looked at each other's number plates and found that the numbers on their numbers were actually far apart.

Obviously, the number plates for people who come in together will not be distributed one after another, but will be scattered all over.

At the urging of the store's waiter, the three put on black cloaks and robes and followed the crowd into the aisle.

After crossing the aisle and entering the auction site, you will see a stand consisting of two inclined suspended fan-shaped stone platforms.

The dome-shaped stone roof is inlaid with fine sunstones, making the lighting in the entire venue soft but not particularly bright.

The entire space, to be more specific, is a huge space shaped like an open folding fan, with two suspended fan-shaped stone platforms. The fan handle is a high platform for displaying auction items.

Whether it is the first floor on the ground or the second and third floors of the two-story stone platform, there is a single desk and a nanmu carved drum stool neatly placed there.

Along the third floor, along the edge of the wall, large, special transparent glazed windows were installed, allowing people from inside to see outside, but not from outside. These were the private rooms at the auction venue reserved for Foundation Establishment cultivators, Core Formation cultivators, and some major forces.

Xiao Han found the corresponding seat according to the number on the number plate in his hand and sat down.

Xiao Han felt a little strange when he saw the circular groove on the table. Then he looked at the number plate in his hand and suddenly his mind moved.

She placed the number disc into the groove, and it fit perfectly. If the auction was using number plates to indicate the price, then there should be a small formation hidden in the groove.

However, the formation should not be activated yet, and she could not feel any trace of formation fluctuations on the desk.

It was still early for the auction to start, and Xiao Han, feeling a little bored, began to look around.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but laugh.

Everyone in the room wore a black hooded cloak and a special mask that looked like gauze, which made it impossible to see the face of the person inside. This made everyone in the venue look particularly strange and weird.

Well, it feels a bit like a horror movie.

Her position was on the bottom floor. According to the numbers of Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong that she had just seen, the three of them were on one floor each, separated very thoroughly.