Chapter 1293: Realgar of the Millennium
Qingyang's idea was good, but unfortunately the plan could not keep up with the changes. When he spoke, the other people's minds were also aroused. The previous cold situation was gone. The cultivators in the rooms on the second floor made their moves one after another, and the auction price was immediately pushed up.
Those who could come to the second floor were either highly skilled or had a deep background. Tens of thousands of Nether Stones might be a lot for others, but for them, they could afford it with a little grit. The key was that there were too few things that could help break through the bottleneck, so it was particularly precious at this time. Even those who had not encountered a bottleneck in their cultivation for the time being were very tempted. Some people even thought that this Immaculate Ghost Body had a fast cultivation speed. If this woman was cultivated to the Golden Core Realm and then used, wouldn't the effect be better?
With the participation of these people, the auction price was rising steadily, and soon exceeded twice the starting price, as if the Nether Stones were suddenly worthless. Even so, there were still many people who did not give up, gritting their teeth and raising the price again, hoping that the opponent would give up.
At first, Qingyang participated in the bidding, but later, when the auction price of the woman was pushed to more than 60,000 or 70,000 Nether Stones, he gave up. It was not that he did not try his best, but that he did not have so many Nether Stones. Of course, Qingyang still had a lot of valuable things on him, but he could not sell them all to save a woman who he could not even remember who she was. If he wanted to save the person closest to him, he would not hesitate to sell everything. But this woman, he could not even remember who she was, was not worth his efforts. Maybe he just thought too much.
Everything has its value, and it is impossible to deviate too much. Those present are all elites who have practiced for countless years. When the auction price of the woman exceeded 90,000 Nether Stones, the price basically could not rise. There were only two or three competitors left, and each time they only increased by 100 or 200 Nether Stones, and the atmosphere was not as warm as before.
After a competition, it was still Chiye Zhenjun who was rich and powerful, and he won the bid for the woman at the price of 92,400 Nether Stones. Chiye Zhenjun could get more than 10,000 Nether Stones for a weapon refining quota, not to mention the reward for asking him to make a move. More than 90,000 Spirit Stones were nothing to him.
Then Yinshan Zhenjun sent someone to send the jade coffin and the woman to Chiye Zhenjun's room, and the auction continued. As for Qingyang, since he was going to give up, he didn't continue to dwell on this matter, but leaned back and returned to his previous state of resting his eyes.
At this time, the entire auction was on the last day, and the value of the items taken out by Yinshan Zhenjun was getting higher and higher. Many of them were things that Qingyang had never seen before. The guests on the second floor were competing fiercely. Except for the city lord Chujiang Zhenjun in the middle, almost all the cultivators in the room participated.
However, most of them were commonly used by ghost cultivators, and Qingyang was used to being an immortal cultivator, so he was not very interested in these things, so he did not participate. Seeing that the third day was about to end and the auction was getting closer and closer, Qingyang was ready to leave.
At this time, on the auction table below, another maid in the foundation-building stage brought a small tray, and Yinshan Zhenjun said: "The auction has come to this point, and this event is approaching its end. This is the last item, and it is also the finale of this auction. Please look, the item on the tray is this time's item, a piece of realgar that has been formed for more than 50,000 years. The starting price of this item is 50,000 dark stones. Everyone can make an offer. If you don’t buy something you like, you must hurry up and make a move. If you miss the opportunity, the next auction will be half a year later."
While introducing, Yinshan Zhenjun took off the silk cloth on the small tray that was used to cover the divine thoughts, revealing a fist-sized piece of orange-yellow realgar stone underneath.
Generally, the items placed at the end are the most valuable items in the entire auction, but this time it surprised everyone. Realgar is not particularly precious. Even if it is formed more than 50,000 years ago, it is not very useful. It is not even as important as the woman in the previous auction. It seems a bit inappropriate to use this as the finale of this auction.
For all kinds of natural treasures, it is not necessarily that the ones with a higher age must be more valuable than those with a lower age. Some things cannot be compared together. For example, spiritual herbs have extremely high requirements for the environment to grow. They are exposed outside and can be discovered by monks or monsters if they are not careful. Therefore, spiritual herbs over a thousand years old are extremely rare. As for spiritual ore, because it is buried underground for a long time, monks or monsters cannot easily find it, so the general age is relatively high and the quantity is relatively small. Often, the value of a piece of spiritual ore that is ten thousand years old may not be comparable to a spiritual herb that is more than a thousand years old.
Although this realgar is also a common item used by cultivators, and is sometimes added when refining pills or tools, it is generally not worth much because it is relatively common. Even if it is more than ten thousand years old, it is worth at most a few thousand Nether Stones. Some that are more than fifty thousand years old are even rarer, but they are only worth forty or fifty thousand Nether Stones. Not only is it not worthy of the status of the finale of the auction, but the starting price seems a bit high. This item is likely to be unsold in the end.
Not only the cultivators below, but even Qingyang did not open his eyes when he heard that the last item was just a piece of ten thousand year old realgar. It seems that the auction is about to end.
Just when everyone thought that no one would bid, a voice suddenly came from a room on the front of the second floor: "The starting price of fifty thousand Nether Stones is too low. I will bid sixty thousand."
No one thought that someone would bid for such an inconspicuous piece of ten thousand year old realgar, and suddenly added 10,000 dark stones to the starting price. Is this thing really so valuable? Looking at the location of the bidding room, it is slightly to the left of the front of the second floor, and is only separated from the room where the city lord Chu Jiang Zhenjun is. His status is probably not much lower than that of the city lord. Such a person should not be misjudged and spend a lot of money to buy a piece of chicken ribs.
Sure enough, soon the well-informed person guessed the identity of the speaker. It turned out to be the ancestor of the Zhou family in Chujiang City. The Zhou family is one of the top families in Chujiang City. The ancestor is also a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Although his status is not as high as that of the city lord Chu Jiang Zhenjun, he is also an existence that the vast majority of cultivators in Chujiang City need to look up to. No wonder he speaks so arrogantly.
As soon as the Zhou family ancestor finished speaking, an old voice came from the next room: "Old Zhou, you are too unkind. You raised the starting price of this ten thousand year old realgar by ten thousand dark stones. My Wu family is not as wealthy as your Zhou family. I will offer 61,000 dark stones."