Chapter 183: Chapter 183: Pearl and Bracelets

"Fellow daoist, this demon cultivator must have maliciously raised the price without the intention to pay. How about we return the bid to 400.000 and further bidding can commence again?" the host suggested.

Fengyu agreed with a nod, looking around to see if anyone else would be bidding against him.

But as expected, while these people had an interest, their need for this formation wasn’t so high that they’d pay such a premium.

"400.000 spirit stones for once, twice, thrice, fellow daoist, congratulations on obtaining this seven-stars formation!" the host announced the final bid and had a servant of the tea house hand over the items and complete the exchange.

Fengyu naturally didn’t default on his payment. Jade coins fell onto a tray, exactly 4.000 - as an inner citizen, he could exchange as many spirit stones as he wanted, so naturally he would keep most of his spirit stones in coins.

The servant scanned them. After finding that all the coins were paid, he handed over another tray, on which was a formation plate. In addition to the plate, there were also seven flags and a small book.

"This book contains instructions on how to deploy the formation, while these seven flags are also part of the formation." the servant explained.

Fengyu nodded and put the items into his spatial bag, already having a general idea of how to deploy them later. Since an instruction book was included, there was really no need to ask a formation master just to deploy it.

The first five deals were completed, now it was the turn of the members to give up their items for auction.

Liling looked ahead, seeing no one approaching the platform, she took it upon herself.

After taking position, she took out a small item from her bag - a glowing blue-purple pearl.

"This is a water-thunder pearl, which can be used to enhance formations, weapons or even just your spells. It can also be used as a one-time consumable item, firing a water-lightning strike with the power of a second-stage low-grade cultivator’s attack." she explained shortly.

Seeing that people’s attention was on it, she smiled and continued, "I’ll exchange this pearl for spirit stones. 100.000 spirit stones is the starting bid, 10.000 spirit stones for every raise."

"200.000 spirit stones!" an eager voice quickly called out.

"250.000 spirit stones!" another called.

The bidding rose and quickly reached 400.000 spirit stones -

Fengyu was shocked at the high rise. But when he looked at the pearl, he slowly understood the temptation those cultivators felt when they looked at it.

The attacking function was secondary - the main function was that it enhanced all water and lightning elemental spiritual power! And, if just one of these elements was used, then the second element would be added.

Water is known for its softness and lacks the destruction of fire or the fierceness of wind. If one added the lightning element to it, then all spells would directly be enhanced by 30% - regardless of the other enhancements gained through this pearl.

In addition, the pearl seemed like one could use it even when using other accessories. Although Fengyu didn’t know much about it, he guessed that the other cultivators present all knew it very well, which was why the price rose so rapidly.

Once it crossed half a million spirit stones, it slowly became slower. It crossed six hundred thousand and finally reached a bit over seven hundred thousand. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Thank you fellow daoists for your patronage," Liling said jokingly, the servant taking away her pearl and returning with a tray full of jade coins.

The present cultivators only chuckled, not at all feeling like it was a surprise she sold this pearl. Everyone guessed that this was an item she had refined over a long time, hiding it at the bottom of her box for this special occasion where she might need a large amount of spirit stones in one go.

Liling returned to her seat, carefully observing the following items.

Fengyu, having completed his own goal, only casually looked over the items but didn’t plan to purchase anything.

One cultivator after another came up to the platform and presented their items - when the fourth after Liling took out the weapon he wanted to sell, Fengyu knew it would be a temptation for Ming.

"These are near second-stage twin bracelets - two cultivators with high compatibility can use them to share spiritual power and burdens. When used together, they can also fire a hidden spell of the second-stage early grade." the refiner announced.

As always, the bidding started at 100.000 spirit stones.

But this time, it was a lot more tame. After all, people who had such high compatibility were rather rare.

When it reached 150.000 spirit stones, the bidding slowed down. Finally after 170.000 spirit stones, seeing his own chance, Ming bid 200.000 spirit stones to obtain the item!

Cultivators looked over, but those that were bidding didn’t bid again. The pair of bracelets wouldn’t hold enough value for them to burn so many spirit stones at this moment.

The cultivator who sold them breathed a sigh of relief when it reached 200.000 spirit stones - this was already beyond what he had expected.

Ming quickly paid up and obtained the item he had wanted.

"This is a good find, you can use it together with Ling later." Fengyu commented.

"Thank you senior brother!" Ming nodded and thanked Fengyu, not for his comment, but for the opportunity to appear here. Just thinking of how difficult it would be to obtain such a perfect item elsewhere, he couldn’t help but express his thanks several times internally.

"No worries," Fengyu chuckled, his eyes again turning to the platform.

Not everyone present wanted to bid - people like Fengyu and Ming were new, the items they had available for sale weren’t many. Han’er and other battle masters who entered through their friends didn’t have anything to sell either.

They had sold all their hunts long ago - now the years before the Beast Tide would experience a huge drop in the beast material economy.

Only herded beasts still held their value. After all, wild beast meat isn’t particularly tasteful, and other herded beast materials can’t be replaced by beast materials from the Beast Tide.