After Qin Xin successfully won the bid.
The maids inside the Danyuan Hall of Chiling City also brought the Miasma-Breaking Pill directly to Qin Xin.
Seeing this, Qin Xin naturally knew the rules of the auction house.
In this auction, if you don't have enough items to pay for them and then maliciously bid on some items, you'll get into a lot of trouble.
So when the maid arrived, Qin Xin had a thought and placed twenty-one high-grade spirit stones onto the plate she was carrying.
The maid handed the miasma-dispelling pill directly to Qin Xin.
After opening the medicine bottle, Qin Xin looked at the gray pill inside, took a light sniff, and after confirming that it was a miasma-breaking pill, he put it away.
Beside Qin Xin were some martial artists, their eyes gleaming with various schemes.
However, Qin Xin was not too worried about this. There were many powerful people guarding the Pill Academy in Chiling City, which was naturally to ensure the reputation of the Pill Academy's auction house.
If the items that a martial artist just bid on at the auction are snatched away, then probably no one will dare to buy anything here again.
However, after obtaining the Dispelling Miasma Pill, Qin Xin slowly got up and prepared to leave the auction house of the Pill Academy.
Qin Xin was aware that he was now able to easily take out twenty-one high-grade spirit stones, which meant that some people were eyeing him, since he was only a second-level Yuanfu Realm expert.
Just as Qin Xin's bottom left his seat, Mu Qing's captivating voice echoed throughout the auction hall once again.
"The next items to be auctioned are probably the ultimate goal for many people who have come here."
"I imagine that many people have come to Chiling City for the tombs of Earth Profound Realm experts."
After hearing Mu Qing's words, Qin Xin also felt that this item was likely related to the tomb of that Earth Profound Realm expert, so he couldn't help but sit down again and listen to Mu Qing's explanation.
"I imagine many people know that the owner of that Earth Profound Realm expert's tomb is the Old Man of the Fire of the Snake."
"The Old Man of the Fire of the Snake once traveled to various regions of the Tianxuan Continent, and finally chose to retire to this Red Ridge Peak, where he eventually passed away."
Mu Qing recounted some of the deeds of the Old Man of Si Huo, which made some of the people who had already heard about them a little impatient. In fact, many martial artists below were already jeering, urging her to hurry up and bring out the items to be auctioned.
Mu Qing was naturally able to notice the commotion among the crowd below. After clearing her throat, she said, "The tomb of the Old Man of Si Huo has been opened many times, but no one has ever truly obtained the inheritance he left behind."
"This is because there is an inner chamber inside that tomb."
These words clearly surprised many martial artists.
They were obviously unaware of what this inner room was all about; they were clearly just there to watch the spectacle. As for the people in the private rooms, they were all silent, as if they already knew what Mu Qing had said.
"To enter the inner room, you'll need a key!"
As she spoke, Mu Qing waved her hand lightly, and a very simple jade pendant fragment appeared in the auction room.
Qin Xin also looked over curiously. There were many array patterns flowing on this jade pendant fragment. Although he didn't know much about arrays, he could roughly tell that if this thing were complete, it should be able to activate the array.
"Of course, this key is just one of seven keys, but once all seven are collected, we can enter the inner room."
"Enough with the nonsense!"
"The starting bid for the key to the inner chamber of this tomb is three hundred high-grade spirit stones!"
Mu Qing's announcement of the starting price surprised Qin Xin.
Although it's possible that the jade pendant could open the inner chamber of the tomb, that's just speculation. Moreover, it's still unknown whether the old man's inner chamber contains any inheritance or other valuable items.
Spending three hundred high-grade spirit stones to buy an unknown is very unstable for Qin Xin.
The current price has made Qin Xin lose the idea of buying it. He now only has a little over seventy high-grade spirit stones left in his entire possession, and these high-grade spirit stones were all obtained by Qin Xin from the Grand Elder of Tianxuan Sect by exchanging top-grade spirit stones.
"Three hundred and fifty high-grade spirit stones!"
The bidding began, and the voice came from the private room. Qin Xin recognized it immediately, because the first person to bid was none other than Murong Fu, who had been vying with him for the miasma pill.
"Three hundred and sixty high-grade spirit stones!"
Just as Murong Fu finished speaking, voices slowly rose from the other private rooms.
"Three hundred and seventy!"
"Three hundred and eighty!"
The sounds of bidding echoed continuously.
Qin Xin sat calmly in place, not in a hurry to leave. He wanted to see which force would ultimately seize the key fragments of the tomb.
"Murong Fu! Your Murong family already has this key fragment, and you even invited people from the Xuantian Sword Sect to help you on this trip. Rather than letting outsiders take away the treasures in this tomb, why don't we, the other forces in Chiling City, also get a share!"
Amid the bidding, a woman's voice slowly drifted from the private room, her tone carrying a hint of confrontation.
Although Qin Xin could not see the woman's appearance, he could tell from the aura emanating from her voice that she had already reached the Void Core Realm.
"Li Yuan! You're not young anymore, it's time to find someone to marry. Family matters are not something you should get involved in," Murong Fu retorted without any mercy.
And they quickly raised the price to four hundred high-grade spirit stones.
“Li Yuan, the Murong clan is wealthy and powerful. If our two clans act independently, I'm afraid that Murong Fu will eventually take away this key fragment as well. Why don't we join forces?”
Just after Murong Fu's voice fell, a powerful male voice came from the private room again.
Upon hearing this, Li Yuan responded without hesitation, "Since Zhou Lu has spoken, I have the same idea. Once we enter the inner chamber of the tomb of the old man of the Si Fire, our two clans will join forces and split the spoils fifty-fifty."
“Of course!” Zhou Lu replied.
The two immediately reached an agreement.
"Damn it!" Murong Fu said with some dissatisfaction.
As one of the three major families in Chiling City, the Zhou, Li, and Murong families are all powerful. Although the Zhou and Li families are far less powerful than the Murong family individually, the Zhou and Li families have joined forces many times over the years, causing the Murong family to suffer a lot of losses in Chiling City.
"I'll offer five hundred high-grade spirit stones!"
Murong Fu suddenly became quite ruthless and directly quoted an extremely high price of five hundred high-grade spirit stones.
"Five hundred and fifty!"
Li Yuan and Zhou Lu naturally didn't dare to fall behind and followed suit with their bids.
"Six hundred!"
"Six hundred and fifty!"
"Seven hundred!"
"Seven hundred and fifty!"
Nine hundred!
As the numbers continued to rise, the martial artists in the auction house were clearly dumbfounded.
Nine hundred high-grade spirit stones could easily buy a high-level Xuan-rank martial arts manual, so using them to buy a key fragment is somewhat unwise.
Of course, many martial artists could also see that the current dispute over the key fragments among the three clans of Red Ridge City was just a pretext, a power struggle between different factions.
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