Chapter 304 Jinshan Hundred Flowers Auction 3
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan were unaware that their "competitor" had already made up his mind to befriend them and had a "far-reaching plan."
Because at this point, all the level 8 resources have been auctioned off, and the first level 9 resource has already been retrieved.
In an instant, a terrifying force swept through.
From the start of the auction in the inner hall, the auctioneer had changed; the previous one was Tsukimiya, but now it was Nirvana.
A powerful individual who was forcibly elevated to the Nirvana realm, a top auctioneer specializing in protecting high-level resources and conducting auctions of such resources.
The aura emanating from the level nine resources is very strong, but it is only unconsciously emitted. The Nirvana Auctioneer can easily disperse this aura with a flick of his sleeve.
At the same time, he began to introduce the item for auction.
And then it will be displayed.
What appeared before the many bidders was a pure black beast core.
Although the color was very pure, when the top auctioneer used his profound energy to push it to rotate, a layer of dark green light flowed around it, and its strange trajectory made it seem like a very strange living thing.
...It looks a bit eerie.
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Zhong Cai stared at him for a while.
Wu Shaogan joked, "Did A-Cai run into someone she doesn't know?"
Zhong Cai glanced at him sideways: "Do you know him?"
Wu Shaogan smiled slightly: "I don't know him either."
Zhong Cai: "..."
Wu Shaogan couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Zhong Cai threw a punch in a huff, hitting Wu Shaogan in the chest with a loud "thud".
Wu Shaogan immediately clutched his chest.
Zhong Cai saw that he was trying hard to look like he had internal injuries and was keeping a straight face... but he still couldn't hold it in.
He laughed and said, "Alright, stop pretending! My punch wasn't even as hard as the one you threw at me last night."
Wu Shao had a meal.
Then, he silently turned his head, his ear tips suspiciously turning a little red.
After blurting it out, Zhong Cai cleared her throat, blushing slightly.
He silently turned his head away.
The two of them listened silently to the top auctioneer's introduction.
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The auctioneer said, "This is the beast core of the Wuze Ghost Fish."
Upon hearing this, Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan still felt somewhat unfamiliar with the matter, but several cultivators in the private rooms let out low gasps—clearly, they knew about this kind of thing.
Zhong Cai blinked and listened more carefully.
Wu Shaogan also focused on writing down everything the auctioneer said.
The auctioneer explained, "This kind of rare beast is extremely rare, but whenever it appears, it is always at the ninth rank. It is truly a unique creature born and raised by nature."
Next comes the very detailed information.
They were afraid that the guests present wouldn't understand, and they were also afraid that they wouldn't be able to sell it for a high price.
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The Wuze Ghost Fish lives in spatial rifts and has the ability to travel through them.
Of course, once a cultivator reaches a very high level, they can open spatial rifts by practicing the corresponding secret techniques, but if they really want to travel freely within them... that's basically impossible.
Many factors can cause spatial rifts to form, such as continental tremors, battles between top experts, advanced space-breaking talismans, and advanced spatial formations.
However, the spatial rifts formed by the Void-Breaking Talisman and the Spatial Array are stable in most cases—unless they are created by special talisman arrays that are designed to cause destructive spatial rifts. In other cases, they are actually temporary and stable spatial channels.
Cultivators using spatial arrays and talismans can instantly pass through this passage and quickly travel from one place to another far away.
However, if the cracks are caused by the instability of the continent itself or the fighting among top experts, then they are unstable.
In many cases, once a person, animal, or other creature accidentally enters the rift, there is a 99% chance that they will be directly killed by the chaotic spatial power within.
No matter what level of cultivation these humans and beasts possess, even if they are at the highest level, they would find it difficult to resist that spatial power.
Even if they cultivate powerful secret techniques, possess secret methods, or survive multiple tribulations, it can only be said that once they enter the rift, as long as they don't actively confront the spatial power head-on and are more careful, they still have a high chance of surviving.
They were lucky enough to avoid encountering any spatial storms; otherwise, if they had been caught in one, even Tongtian wouldn't have survived!
Other living beings who manage to survive and pass through the spatial rift are extremely lucky; they are one in ten thousand.
Even if a being fails to survive and falls out of the rift with only a complete corpse, it would require that there is very little spatial energy in the path it travels through the rift, and it would also require that it be extremely lucky.
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This shows just how special the Wuzhe Ghost Fish is.
It was born as a ninth-tier rare beast, but it will never be able to develop true intelligence.
These rare beasts can move freely within spatial rifts and possess the strange ability to withstand spatial storms for a period of time—not that they are immune to injury, but rather that they emit a light that envelops them.
The higher the quality of the light, the longer it can withstand a spatial storm.
However, once a certain limit is exceeded, which is at most the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the Wuze Ghost Fish will die in the spatial storm if it has not escaped it.
If they don't encounter a spatial storm, the Wuze Ghost Fish can freely roam within ordinary spatial forces; the light ensures they remain unharmed and are completely free.
So they either live on or die in the space storm.
It is because this spatial storm is too powerful that the Wuze Ghost Fish often dies after being unable to withstand it for long, and then falls out from one of the spatial rifts.
What's even more unusual is that after the Wuze Ghost Fish falls out, the external energy of heaven and earth is like a deadly poison to it. Even though it is already dead, the energy of heaven and earth will melt the layer of scales on its surface.
After the scales disappear, the Black Swamp Ghost Fish is left with only its relatively flexible but not difficult-to-deal-with interior.
A thin membrane—the soft skin beneath the scales—encloses its flesh and internal organs.
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The Wuze Ghost Fish has no bones or tendons. Its flesh, blood, internal organs, and so on are all very tender and chewy. It is a treasure that can help cultivators at the peak of Nirvana to comprehend the Tongtian realm. The effect is not significant, and it must be consumed in large quantities every day, but it is still somewhat useful.
The problem is that the taste isn't very pleasant, so often an eighth-level alchemist would refine the entire corpse into a bowl of ghost fish essence before consuming it. After that, one would have a much stronger sense of enlightenment than if they had just eaten the fish meat, for a period of one or two hours to one or two days.
The most precious thing about the Wuze Ghost Fish is its Ghost Fish Beast Core.
Holding the Ghost Fish Beast Core in your hand can increase your survival rate in the spatial rift, because the light emitted by the Black Swamp Ghost Fish comes from the beast core, so this beast core can be considered a good treasure.
This beast core cannot be eaten, but it can be refined with one's primordial soul to form a very simple level nine spatial defense treasure—it can only defend against spatial power, and when traveling through spatial rifts, it is like the Wuze Ghost Fish, only afraid of spatial storms—if one is brave and not afraid of death, one can also try to "take a bath" in ordinary spatial power, and most likely will not die, but if the spatial power suddenly intensifies, there may be a chance of death.
If certain special cultivators who practice spatial power are near this beast core, it can provide some assistance to their cultivation. If they cultivate spatial power to a very refined level, they can also resist a small amount of spatial power within spatial rifts. And if they also possess the Black Swamp Ghost Fish Beast Core, then after entering the rift, they might be able to experience spatial storms up close—but again, if they are not careful, even a slight change in the situation within the rift can be extremely dangerous, even causing them to be trapped there.
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On the other hand...
This Wuze Ghost Fish is indeed quite useful, and it is also very rare among level nine resources.
Its appearance at this auction is most likely because some merchant guild accidentally encountered the corpse of the Wuze Ghost Fish that fell from a spatial rift, and then happily snagged it at a bargain price.
The ghost fish's flesh and blood were probably for its own use, while the beast core was clearly more valuable. But... how many people in this world can cultivate spatial power and reach the Nirvana or Heaven-Reaching realms? Besides, which cultivator who doesn't cultivate spatial power would enjoy wandering through spatial rifts? Are they tired of living?
Of course, some extremely special resources may also be produced in the spatial rift. If any of the Heavenly Beings takes a Beast Core into it to search for them, they can basically enter and exit safely.
However, cracks and fissures also depend on luck.
The vast majority of spatial rifts contain no special resources at all, and countless others are simply desolate wastelands filled only with extremely terrifying spatial storms! Aside from broadening one's knowledge, they seem to serve no other purpose—and such knowledge doesn't necessarily require entering to gain. It's better to find a reliable elder to help open the rift, and then look inside from the rift's entrance; that will provide the same insight.
Besides, although the inner core of the Wuze Ghost Fish does have the ability to resist spatial storms, many high-level defensive treasures can also withstand spatial storms for a while.
It's just that other defensive treasures can only last for a far shorter time than the Wuze Ghost Fish.
However, on the other hand, many people are accidentally drawn into unstable spatial rifts. The interior of such spatial rifts changes very quickly, and the time it takes to be thrown out after entering is not long. Most high-level defensive treasures can withstand this short period of time, so there is no need to use this beast core.
Therefore, this beast core is considered quite useless among level nine resources.
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The auctioneer talked a lot of eloquently, but in reality, it wasn't very useful except for broadening one's horizons.
Only one type of cultivator might find this resource urgently needed—they desperately need a certain resource that can only grow in cracks, and unfortunately, there is no other place on the entire continent that has ever stored such a resource.
That's why they had to use the Wuze Ghost Fish Beast Core to search for it in the crevice.
Open the cracks one by one, search through them one by one...
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After hearing the full explanation, the cultivators in the other private rooms who were unfamiliar with this item also gained a better understanding.
Almost everyone can guess that this thing doesn't have many uses.
But similarly, many people are also somewhat interested.
No matter how useless it may seem, it's still a level nine special treasure. If a cultivator is wealthy enough, even if they buy it and don't use it, it can still become a rare collectible! They can even show it off to their friends…
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In the private room.
After listening to these introductions, Zhong Cai also became somewhat interested.
Wu Shao chuckled dryly and asked, "Ah Cai wants to take a picture?"
Zhong Cai nodded and readily said, "Although neither of us will go into any spatial rifts, it's always good to have a little extra security."
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Because her health was too poor in her previous life, Zhong Cai cherishes her life very much now that she has been given a new lease on life in this world.
Basically, apart from his own father, no one can get him to trade his life for another.
At the same time, he also cherished Wu Shaogan's life, especially when Wu Shaogan suffered hardships. The two even worried about the possibility of death for various reasons. Later, when Wu Shaogan recovered his abilities, the two cherished each other even more and had more reverence for life.
Therefore, given the opportunity, the two will arm each other to the teeth.
One can glean some insight from the terrifying defensive walls that formed the ancient city from their two companion treasures.
Moreover, although Zhong Cai appears to be carefree, she is actually a very cautious person.
Given the abundance of Xuan Stones in the present situation, the Wu Ze Ghost Fish may seem useless, but no one can guarantee against the possibility of something going wrong.
With this thing on him, if he and Lao Wu were caught in the rift, one of them would immediately enter the other's Dao Palace with Gu Cheng, while the other would use this beast core to escape the rift at top speed.
That's perfectly appropriate.
So Zhong Cai thought that as long as the price wasn't too outrageous, she could bid on it.
Of course, if the cost-effectiveness is really not high, then we won't bid—the amount of Xuan Stones we were prepared to use to bid will increase their defense by that amount.
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Wu Shaogan never stops Zhong Cai from doing what she wants.
Zhong Cai would always seek Wu Shaogan's opinion.
The two of them made their decision in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, after a lengthy, exaggerated, and even slightly over-the-top explanation, the auctioneer announced the reserve price.
The starting price is: one million high-grade Xuan stones.
Even the most common level nine beast core will usually cost at least this much.
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Zhong Cai did not rush to make a move, and wanted to wait for the other cultivators in the private rooms to come up with their thoughts.
The cultivators in the other private rooms probably had similar thoughts, so they didn't immediately offer a price.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
The top auctioneer had just given a stellar presentation, but when he finished speaking, nobody bought it.
But after a while, a private room finally made an offer.
One million.
It was as if a switch had been flipped; after this person made a price quote, many other private rooms followed suit.
One hundred and one hundred!
"One hundred and twenty!"
One hundred and thirty!
However, the price for each private room is very conservative, increasing by only 100,000 high-grade black stones at a time.
and……
Perhaps after the price increases further, the amount of each price increase will be even less.
And that is indeed the case.
When the price reached two million high-grade Xuan stones, there were very few bidders, only three or four left.
When these three or four people were bidding, each bid only raised the price by ten or twenty thousand Xuan Stones.
Zhong Cai remained silent.
The current price is well within his budget.
He not only has a lot of Xuan Stone "cash" on hand, but also even more resources that can be used for barter.
Now, he's just waiting for no one else to dare to make any more bids so he can finalize the deal.
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After a short while, only one voice remained.
The quoted price was 2.67 million.
With no one else bidding against him, the auctioneer seemed satisfied and was ready to finalize the deal.
Zhong Cai finally spoke, calmly offering a price: "Two million seven hundred thousand."
He wasn't a sucker either; he just scraped together a small amount.
Silence fell over the auction room.
Most of the cultivators remained silent.
The person who had previously reported 267 seemed somewhat hesitant, only managing to utter a single "two..." before falling silent again.
So, at this point, the price was set.
The top auctioneer said in a good mood, "So, the final transaction price is exactly two million seven hundred thousand."
Then, just like every previous bid, it happened again.
Using the teleportation array in the private room, Zhong Cai delivered the Xuan Stones to the auction stage in full, and the auctioneer also efficiently delivered the beast cores into the private room.
The glistening black bead floated in front of Zhong and his wife.
Zhong Cai stared at it with wide eyes, and said with a smile, "It's quite pretty."
Wu Shaogan nodded in agreement.
Then, the two of them took it into the ancient city.
They still have to wait for the next auction.
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In the private room of the Palace of Bliss.
The five male and female disciples were only listening to the introduction to broaden their horizons, and they had no intention of intervening when someone started bidding.
However, when the wealthy man next door opened up the competition and directly obtained the Wuze Ghost Fish Beast Core, they were all shocked.
"This thing is really useless, why would you want it?"
"It's useless to us, but our neighbor is so rich, maybe he just bought it on a whim?"
"Tsk tsk, we're all about the same strength, but those guys are quick, accurate, ruthless, and incredibly generous when they make their moves, while we poor folks can only haggle over every penny. It's so pathetic..."
"I was thinking, maybe that couple next to us were just being cautious?"
"Maybe it's just something to collect casually, after all, these things are quite rare."
They all felt that their guess made a lot of sense.
However, it was just a casual chat, and the only thing they confirmed was that there were more mysterious stones next door than they had imagined.
The charming woman suddenly spoke up: "Could it be that the couple next door have unearthed some kind of mystical stone mine?"
The handsome man laughed and said, "Wouldn't it be even better if we actually found a mine of mystic stones?"
Several disciples of the Bliss Palace laughed.
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In the auction room, the next item appeared.
This is another frequent item at auctions, a level nine medicinal herb.
It is a medicinal herb, not a rare medicine.
Ordinary medicinal herbs have little spiritual power, and they are much cheaper than rare medicinal herbs.
If a faction has alchemists, many of them will plant a large number of common medicinal herbs in their gardens.
Such plants are relatively hard to find among common medicinal herbs. In fact, you can ask around among the level nine forces you have good relations with, get a cut of the plant, and take it back to plant yourself.
Therefore, this thing was just there to make up the numbers at the auction.
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Zhong Cai wanted all kinds of medicinal herbs.
However, Zhong Cai happened to have the seeds of this medicinal herb on hand.
As long as you have seeds, you can easily plant them quickly in the ancient city using the fields that represent five hundred years in a single day.
The resources and rare stones consumed would certainly be far less than what would be spent at an auction.
Zhong Cai certainly doesn't lack money, but this kind of unnecessary waste is really unnecessary.
Therefore, Zhong Cai did not bid this time.
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In several private rooms, cultivators were quoting their prices one after another.
The price is really not high; the starting price is only 10,000 high-grade Xuan stones.
The final transaction price was only 40,000 high-grade Xuan stones.
Before long, this ordinary medicinal herb had fallen into the hands of one of the competitors.
There was no smoke of gunpowder, and the atmosphere wasn't particularly lively.
It ended just like the medicinal herbs, in an ordinary way.
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Next up is the third item.
When the auctioneer brought out the item, Zhong Cai didn't pay much attention at first, but soon, as if he suddenly noticed something, he stared at the item and began to examine it.
In order to collect enough materials with Yin-Yang and Five Elements attributes, the two of them searched through a lot of similar books and memorized them.
Therefore, they may not be very familiar with other resources at certain levels, but they are rarely unfamiliar with Yin-Yang and Five Elements.
For example, right now.
Zhong Cai didn't recognize it at first glance, but now it looks familiar, and a name suddenly pops into her mind: Nine-section wood core.
Wu Shaogan then read out the name.
The two quickly locked eyes.
Nine-section wood core is not only a wood-based refining material, but its quality is mostly in the upper-middle range.
Zhong Cai murmured, "The first two are quite ordinary, but this one is in the third position... Old Wu, I think it's very likely to be a mid-grade one."
Wu Shaogan nodded and said, "That's certainly very possible."
If that's the case, then all I can say is that they had an extremely satisfying haul at the auction!
The two of them almost held their breath, waiting for the auctioneer to reveal the answer.
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The auctioneer, of course, didn't keep them in suspense. He naturally began to gently peel off the outer skin of the nine sections of wood core.
The true quality of this thing can only be seen after peeling back a little bit of the outer skin.
Now, the outer skin was pulled down a little, and a very bright yet gentle emerald green light burst out from it, illuminating almost the entire auction house in an instant!
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Zhong Cai was overjoyed!
"Old Wu! It's a mid-grade ninth level!"
"It really is a mid-grade level nine!"
Wu Shaogan's eyes also brightened slightly, but he was indeed much more composed than Zhong Cai, and at this moment he simply held Zhong Cai's hand.
Both of them were certain that no matter the cost, they would not miss out on this item.
Zhong Cai said, "Let's count the mystic stones, and then we'll use a high price to pressure them!"
Wu Shaogan had no objection to this.
Not wanting to be taken advantage of is one thing, but expressing your determination when quoting a price is another.
Now, they need to use more momentum.
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When the auctioneer announced the reserve price, Zhong Cai immediately exclaimed, "One million five hundred thousand!"
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