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Chapter 1742 - Chapter 1742 Chapter 756 Wan Ming Arm Guards Life Seeds

Chapter 1742: Chapter 756: Wan Ming Arm Guards, Life Seeds Theft_2 Chapter 1742: Chapter 756: Wan Ming Arm Guards, Life Seeds Theft_2 “Next, we’re auctioning a batch of Origin Crystals. This batch will be auctioned in ten parts, and we’re now starting with the first one.”

“The starting bid is ten billion Tao Crystals, with each increase no less than one billion Tao Crystals.”

In the room, Han Yi’s heart surged as he stared at the screen. Through the screen, he saw three prism-shaped crystals emitting a faint yellow color and a tempting aura.

Han Yi glanced at the panel and noticed that there was no indication of discovering Life Seeds, which slightly disappointed him.

If he could absorb the Origin Crystals from afar, he would absorb them remotely after they were auctioned, achieving a true ‘free ride.’

Unfortunately, the Jade Box containing the Origin Crystals was strongly sealed, preventing even the panel from absorbing them remotely.

As the host Cultivator’s voice fell, bids began popping up on the screen, these were from other Cultivators in different rooms. Judging from the frequency of these popping bids, most Cultivators couldn’t restrain themselves and joined the frenzied bidding.

Han Yi was no exception; he successively placed several bids, but they were soon overwritten by new ones.

A full minute passed, and the competition for the three Origin Crystals finally began to slow down. Another ten breaths later, no new bids appeared, and the final bid was set at fifty-two billion.

In the room, Han Yi shook his head slightly, as the final price was clearly an overbid.

He was not in a rush. The host Cultivator had mentioned that the auction would be held in batches, and there were still nine more batches to go. The bids should gradually return to rational levels, and he still had a chance.

Sure enough.

The second batch of Origin Crystals, also three yellow prism-shaped crystals, saw a relative slowdown in bidding frequency. Its final price also settled at forty-two billion.

Next, the third batch, the fourth batch…

During the fifth batch, Han Yi decisively went all out and bid thirty-nine billion at a high price to win the three Origin Crystals, his heart only settled when he finally secured them.

He didn’t dare wait for later rounds, not wanting to gamble on whether prices would be more rational or crazier. Thus, securing the bid was the most reassuring for him.

The price of thirty-nine billion for three Origin Crystals was considered high, even for someone at the Unity Realm Stage, and was prohibitively expensive.

But for Han Yi, Tao Crystals weren’t of much use, whereas Origin Crystals could be transformed into Life Seeds, enhancing his Cultivation, Realm, and Tao Skills, which were what he urgently needed.

The price of the sixth batch fell by another three billion to thirty-six billion, the seventh batch rose again to thirty-eight billion, the ninth batch returned to forty billion, and the tenth batch remained at forty billion.

For Han Yi, if he had waited until the sixth batch, he could have saved three billion Tao Crystals, but he did not regret his decision.

In the subsequent batches, he merely observed, as the Tao Crystals he had left were far from sufficient to participate in the auction.

After all ten batches of Tao Crystals were auctioned, the ten stewards delivered the corresponding batch-numbered Tao Crystals to the respective winners’ rooms. Han Yi also received his second Jade Box.

After paying for the Origin Crystals, he didn’t immediately open the Jade Box but swiftly stored it in his Divine Aperture World. Then, turning his gaze forward with a calm face, his heart, however, was lifted.

Suddenly, the change he anticipated and expected occurred; his eyes blazed with intense light.

At that moment, a line of text popped up on the screen in his retinal display.

“Discovered Life Seeds, would you like to absorb?”

When the female cultivator had placed the Jade Box containing the Origin Crystals on the auction platform earlier, Han Yi had tried to check his panel to see if he could find and absorb the Life Seeds remotely. At that time, he couldn’t, and he guessed it must be the special effect of the Jade Box, which blocked the leakage of the Life Seeds.

At that moment, Han Yi had anticipated a different scenario, which was that if another cultivator bought the Origin Crystals, they would definitely open the Jade Box. Once the Jade Box was opened, the rooms’ isolation from exploration, though strong, would definitely not compare to the specially made Jade Box of Yutian. In such a case, with the help of his panel, he might be able to directly find the Life Seeds.

He had already decided that if he discovered the Life Seeds, he would absorb them quickly.

Now, the anticipated change finally happened. Almost without thinking, as soon as the line of text popped up, Han Yi quickly responded inwardly, “Absorb.”

In an instant, within his panel, the 134,681 units of Life Seeds slightly jumped and began to grow.

While his Life Seeds were increasing, in a room not too far from him, a Unity Realm Stage Cultivator was intently looking at three yellow prism crystals just taken out from the Jade Box. The faint yellow glow emitted by these three crystals was, in his eyes, the most dazzling color in the world.

But suddenly, his expression subtly changed because he acutely sensed that the internal Origin energy of these three Origin Crystals was beginning to gradually decrease.

As a great cultivator of the Unity Realm Stage, his mind was incredibly fast. He quickly used a Sealing Tao Skill to seal the Origin Crystals, but he still couldn’t stop the leakage. He then moved them into his Inner Dao Realm, yet it continued. Just when he thought there might be an issue with the batch of Origin Crystals auctioned by Yutian, he tried putting them back into the Jade Box and covering it. Several breaths later, after lifting the lid again, he found that the Origin energy of the crystals hadn’t weakened during the process.

“No, there must be no issue with the Origin Crystals. The problem lies in this environment. Something, using means unknown to me, is stealing the energy from the Origin Crystals.”

“This place is not suitable for a long stay.”

As a cultivator at the Unity Realm Stage, his judgment was extremely accurate, and he didn’t immediately seek justice from Yutian because doing so would only result in him being expelled. Inside Yutian, there were Heavenly Sovereigns presiding. If they deemed him disruptive, a single strike from a Heavenly Sovereign could completely erase him.

Having determined there was something amiss with the surrounding environment and without any clues, he quickly grabbed the Jade Box and fled from Yutian. After escaping a great distance, at a certain high altitude, he opened the Jade Box again and found that the previous condition did not reoccur, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

“Indeed, my judgment was correct.”

“However, that there are means to remotely steal the Origin Energy from within the Origin Crystals is truly unimaginable. I have never heard of such a thing.”

This Unity Realm Stage cultivator, holding the Jade Box, quickly left.

Meanwhile, back at the auction behind Yutian, several other cultivators who had opened their Jade Boxes experienced a similar fate. These cultivators, too, quickly discerned the problem and were equally decisive, whether by closing their Jade Boxes or leaving the auction.

Of course, there were cultivators who went directly to Yutian to demand an explanation.

In a certain room, as Han Yi absorbed the Life Seeds intermittently, when all connections finally ceased and he could no longer absorb any, the Life Seeds he ended up with totaled merely over two thousand units.

He shook his head slightly, feeling it was a pity, but also knew that within Yutian, this was already the limit of what he could “steal.” Other Unity Realm cultivators were not fools and wouldn’t let the Life Seeds leak indefinitely; they would certainly react swiftly. The simplest solution was to put them back into the Jade Box.

Therefore, he had anticipated that the amount of Life Seeds he could absorb would be extremely limited, but any amount he could get felt rather good; it was quite satisfying to “freeload” like this.

Although this minor commotion lasted only a short time, it had drawn the attention of several deputy masters of Yutian, all Unity Realm cultivators. They discreetly took action to investigate, even directly utilizing a Heavenly Reverence Ancient Artifact situated within the dwelling to trace the cause, but in the end, they found no clues, leaving these Unity Realm deputy masters beginning to wonder if there truly was an issue with the batch of Tao Crystals auctioned.

And the originator of all this, sensing a subtle fluctuation sweep over him, which did not linger but vanished instantly, couldn’t help but shiver inwardly.

“Indeed, acting rashly to absorb Life Seeds carries risks. Fortunately, the panel is extremely mysterious, far beyond the Heavenly Reverence Ancient Artifact, and impossible to be detected.”