Cultivation Begins From The Desert
Chapter 198 - 196: Buy, Buy, Buy! [Request Subscription]

Chapter 198: Chapter 196: Buy, Buy, Buy! [Request Subscription]

"Jade Liquid Golden Pill" is evidently not the most precious treasure of this auction.

The most precious treasure of the auction, reserved for the finale, was brought out by Liu Yunyan after half an hour following the auction of the "Jade Liquid Golden Pill."

When Liu Yunyan took out that treasure, Zhouyang’s eyes were transfixed.

It was a magical artifact!

Not a Tier Six Spiritual Artifact, but a Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifact!

However, while Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifacts are certainly precious and cannot be bought without thirty to fifty thousand Spirit Stones, they are clearly not enough to justify Zhouyang’s stunned reaction after witnessing twice the million-level transaction prices, nor could they be the finale treasure of this auction.

Thus, this is not an ordinary Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifact, but one possessing an Artifact Soul!

"The Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifact, [Primordial Profound Gang Shield], is crafted by a Tier Six Refiner using the turtle shell of the Tier Five High-Grade Demon Beast [Earth Dragon Turtle] along with various rare spiritual objects. After successful refinement, the beast soul of the Tier Five High-Grade Demon Beast [Earth Dragon Turtle] was integrated into it, successfully forming a Beast Soul!"

"My strength is insufficient to display the divine might of the Artifact Soul to all of you, seniors and friends. However, the Profound Sun Immortal Sect is willing to give a guarantee for this item, ensuring that when used by Ninth-Layer Golden Core cultivators following Earth Element Techniques, it can withstand normal attacks from Early-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators for at least half an hour!"

In the Projection Crystal Mirror, Liu Yunyan controlled a yellow-gray shield about half a yard high and two feet wide to slowly rotate in front of her, allowing everyone in the rooms to clearly see the fierce dragon turtle emblem on the shield.

The "Earth Dragon Turtle" itself is a dragon-type creature, with a bloodline not inferior to the Flood Dragon. The Tier Five High-Grade "Earth Dragon Turtle" has defense capabilities so strong that they could be described as monstrous. Golden Core Stage cultivators of the same tier can basically never break its defense.

Moreover, although this demon beast is turtle-like, it is a genuine Earth Element demon beast that enjoys living in mountain highlands. It loves to bury itself within the spirit veins of celestial mountains to slumber, thereby rapidly growing stronger—truly gaining power just by lying down.

If the "Primordial Profound Gang Shield" held by Liu Yunyan is indeed refined using the turtle shell of the Earth Dragon Turtle and incorporates the Beast Soul of the Earth Dragon Turtle to form an Artifact Soul, then it’s truly unsurprising that it can defend against normal attacks from Early-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Thus, even though the starting price of this treasure is fifty thousand Spirit Stones, it still cannot dampen the enthusiasm of Golden Core Stage cultivators to bid.

Zhouyang even suspected that Nascent Soul Stage cultivators had also joined in the bidding because this treasure is a rare defensive gem for some Nascent Soul Stage cultivators who are still in the early stages.

It’s known that Tier Six Spiritual Artifacts are extremely rare, only refined by Tier Six Artifact Refiners who understand the refining techniques in "Golden Seal Jade Record - Artifact Refining Chapter," and the materials to refine Tier Six Spiritual Artifacts are without exception rare—either materials from Tier Six Demon Kings or Celestial and Earthly Spiritual Objects that require ten thousand to a hundred thousand years to nurture.

These conditions cause many Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, aside from using their Lifebound Spiritual Artifacts that ascend with their cultivation to Tier Six after successful Nascent Soul Formation, to commonly use Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifacts instead, which are merely a bit better than typical Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

Even Nascent Soul Stage cultivators like Master Cyan Yang from the top major sects such as the Profound Sun Immortal Sect, after successful Nascent Soul Formation, only received one Tier Six Spiritual Artifact left by predecessors from the sect’s Ancestor Hall. Obtaining another one can be exceptionally difficult.

Though the defensive capabilities of Liu Yunyan’s "Primordial Profound Gang Shield" may not compare to the qualitative transformation of Tier Six Defensive Spiritual Artifacts, for those Nascent Soul Stage cultivators who lack Tier Six Defensive Spiritual Artifacts, possessing such a remarkable defensive artifact is indeed a sensible choice.

Moreover, in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, Nascent Soul Stage cultivators are the highest powers in the Cultivation Realm, truly the real rulers of major sects. The resources they can mobilize, the resources they command, can hardly be compared to by Golden Core Stage cultivators.

Thus, although the "Primordial Profound Gang Shield" is merely a Tier Five High-Grade Spiritual Artifact, its price soared faster than all previous treasures, reaching an astronomical price of one hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones just during the time Liu Yunyan announced the starting price.

One hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones!

This is an amount that would require Ninth-Layer Golden Core cultivators to deplete their family wealth and sell off assets to obtain. While not impossible, it is likely that in a thousand Golden Core Stage cultivators, there might be scarce few with such wealth!

But for Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, Spirit Stones are merely a number; treasures useful to them generally cannot be bought with Spirit Stones anymore.

Thus, this price was soon surpassed.

Until a truly astronomical figure was announced by Liu Yunyan, only then did all bidding voices finally fall silent.

"Two million Spirit Stones, sold! Congratulations to the senior in the Thirty-sixth Layer, Room C, for winning the finale treasure of this auction, [Primordial Profound Gang Shield]!"

Two million Spirit Stones!

This price, for a Tier Five Spiritual Artifact, is absolutely astronomical!

Having observed the entire auction, Zhouyang knew that other Nascent Soul Stage cultivators were not unable to come up with so many Spirit Stones, but rather considered that a Tier Five Spiritual Artifact was not worth so many Spirit Stones, leading them to wisely choose to let it go.

"This auction conference has successfully concluded, with none of the treasures remaining unsold. On behalf of the auction house, I would like to thank all the seniors and fellow cultivators for participating in this auction. Next, those who did not win any treasures, please leave the room first. Those who did, kindly wait in the room for our auction house personnel to deliver the treasures to you."

"A special reminder to fellow cultivators: anyone who spends more than 500,000 Spirit Stones at the auction may choose to use the short-distance teleportation array within the auction hall to reach a hidden exit in the city for free, and the auction house will strictly keep your identity confidential."

Just as Zhouyang was pondering how to leave, Liu Yunyan in the projection crystal mirror had already announced the exit process with a smile.

Hearing this, he couldn’t help but look at Cao Wenjin.

"No worries, you guys go on ahead. This old man might take some time before I can reunite with you at the Immortal Inn," Cao Wenjin waved casually, evidently having anticipated this.

"Take care, senior. We juniors will take our leave first," Zhouyang cupped his hands and immediately pulled Xiao Ying’s jade-like hand, exiting the compartment.

They hadn’t bought anything, so after leaving, there was no worry of anyone with ill intentions following them. They confidently walked into the Profound Sun Pavilion.

Entering the Profound Sun Pavilion, Zhouyang did not go directly to find Shopkeeper Shen Tong of the "Treasure Pavilion" to collect the Spirit Stones from his consigned treasures. Instead, he first headed straight to the branch of the Array Pavilion.

The Array Pavilion, like the Pill Pavilion, was divided into four floors. After entering the Array Pavilion door while holding Xiao Ying’s jade hand, Zhouyang went straight to the third floor.

The third floor was where Tier Four Arrays were sold. The attendants were all Foundation Establishment Cultivators. When Zhouyang and Xiao Ying, both Foundation Establishment Cultivators, came up, the two attendants assumed they were just there to have a look and didn’t attend to them, allowing them to browse the array equipment on display for sale.

Tier Four Arrays are not cheap; even a Tier Four Lower Grade Array costs over 100,000.

Zhouyang wandered the third floor of the Array Pavilion for nearly half an hour before finally taking a fancy to a set of "Heaven Wind Cloud Thunder Array," a Tier Four Lower Grade Array.

This "Heaven Wind Cloud Thunder Array" is not a traditional Mountain Protection Grand Array but a killing array focused on harming enemies. Once deployed, it has the power to annihilate Early-Stage Purple Mansion Cultivators and Tier Four Lower Grade Demon Beasts. Additionally, this array can be combined with illusion arrays to form a Chain Array.

With such outstanding power, the price naturally wouldn’t be cheap, priced at a full 158,000 Spirit Stones. Zhouyang, using the "Profound Sun Order," got an 80% discount, still costing 126,400 Spirit Stones!

It can be imagined how shocked and regretful those two attendants, who had previously not given him a second thought, were when Zhouyang confirmed he wanted this array and took out his "Profound Sun Order" to request a discount.

Even though the commission was low, they still had commissions being attendants here. Even a very low commission on something worth tens of thousands of Spirit Stones still resulted in a considerable income!

Not mentioning how shocked and regretful those two shop attendants were, after selecting a Tier Four Array, Zhouyang also chose a set of "Mirage Sea Cloud Wave Array," a Tier Three Top Grade illusion array, and a "Earth Spirit Profound Gang Array," a Tier Three Middle Grade Defense Array.

The combined price of these two arrays, after the "Profound Sun Order" discounts, was just 45,000 Spirit Stones.

Meanwhile, the Spirit Stones Zhouyang received from auctioning "Kan Yuan Spiritual Water" and Earth Dragon Worm Relics, after settling the auction house commission, amounted to 243,800 Spirit Stones!

So, he could still buy more!

Next, Zhouyang visited the Pill Pavilion. This time, he didn’t purchase any other Spirit Pills, just seven "Profound Pure Pills," which help Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators break through to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.

The value of seven "Profound Pure Pills" was 7,000 Spirit Stones; with the "Profound Sun Order" discount, it cost 5,600 Spirit Stones, totaling 39,200 Spirit Stones for the seven pills, leaving Zhouyang not much Spirit Stone left.

Therefore, he didn’t continue to shop at the Profound Sun Pavilion but instead took out two consignment receipts and settled the account with the Profound Sun Pavilion, leaving with the treasures he purchased and 43,200 Spirit Stones.

Of course, Zhouyang did not intend to take these over 40,000 Spirit Stones back to the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm.

There was simply nothing else he wished to buy within the Profound Sun Pavilion, so he had to seek elsewhere for purchases.

Therefore, while Cao Wenjin was busy settling with the auction house, Zhouyang visited several renowned Spirit Medicine Shops in Immortal Sun City to purchase some auxiliary spiritual herbs for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

These weren’t for his own use. He calculated that after returning, it wouldn’t be long before the Chen Family Ancestor convened the "Foundation Establishment Conference" to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, so he wanted to buy all the auxiliary spiritual herbs here to resell them to the Chen Family at a profit.