Chapter 278: Mutated Void Stone
Soon after, the dual polarity flower was delivered to box two hundred and seventy-seven and Yu Nianzhen handed over the spirit stones.
After that, he brought the herb to his group and they spent time looking at it.
"It feels different from other herbs." He observed but couldn’t really pinpoint the difference.
"The dual polarity flower is a heaven and earth treasure. It would be troublesome if it felt like ordinary herbs."
"Put away the flower. You can study it properly when we leave the auction house." Yang Xu said and Yu Nianzhen agreed.
However, he didn’t do exactly as Yang Xu advised.
Instead, he separated two leaves from the dual polarity flower and then threw everything into the jade box.
As expected, the two leaves sprouted and soon became seedlings while the mature herb began to regrow the torn leaves.
’I should add more spirit stones to accelerate the growth rate in the jade box.’ He thought and acted without hesitation.
In one go, Yu Nianzhen damped five billion spirit stones into the box and the result was better than expected.
’At this rate, the two dual polarity flowers will be ready before the opening of the Nine Treasures secret ream.’ He thought and couldn’t help feeling a little happy.
With a little luck, he and Jiang Yue could refine the dual polarity flowers before entering the secret realm.
In that way, they wouldn’t have to waste time and could begin to refine treasures as soon as they entered the secret realm.
’Our luck is not bad.’ He thought and focused on the auction.
Other than the dual polarity flower, Yu Nianzhen was interested in quite a few things.
The first thing was the sanxian that Jiang Yue wanted to use before he refined his natal weapon.
Fortunately, the sanxian wasn’t as popular as the guqin and most other musical instruments.
When the time came, Yu Nianzhen took it down easily without provoking more enemies.
However, the rest of the things weren’t easy to grab.
Among the things he planned to buy were the two herbs required for the nine-turn rebirth pill.
Both herbs were extinct in the Cangxing world and could only be encountered in secret realms and other secret ruins.
Knowing that, Yu Nianzhen couldn’t afford to give up the two herbs and he spent more than five billion spirit stones to grab both herbs.
Along the way, he provoked more enemies but could do nothing but sigh.
’It said that those without enemies haven’t truly lived.’ Jiang Yue thought and looked at the two herbs.
In the end, he gave them to Yu Nianzhen for planting but he was internally scolding Li Futian.
’Who needs enemies when they have brothers like this.’ He grumbled and frowned.
Not only did Li Futian set them a difficult task, he even made them use their hard-earned spirit stones.
"He better have a way to repay us when he wakes up." He grumbled to himself.
"Did you say something?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"It’s nothing." He dismissed and the two continued to watch the auction.
A while later, a piece of stone was placed on the auction table.
The stone was one metre long and half a metre wide. It was grey on the outside and looked like an ordinary rock.
However, Jiang Yue knew the rock was extraordinary even before the auctioneer opened his mouth.
This was because the treasure compass reacted, followed by XiaoLan’s excited voice.
[Master, XiaoLan needs something in that rock.] She said excitedly.
[Does XiaoLan know what that rock is?]
[XiaoLan doesn’t know but something in the rock is strongly attracting XiaoLan.]
’Whatever it is must be very powerful.’ Jiang Yue thought and looked at the stone.
From what he could tell, the stone was a void stone.
This kind of stone was used to make storage rings and other storage artefacts.
However, Jiang Yue knew that couldn’t be it.
If that was all the stone was, it would have appeared earlier in the auction.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yue couldn’t tell its abnormality until old man Jun introduced the item.
"This stone is a mutated void stone." Old man Jun said and then continued after the crowd settled down.
"Not only can it be used to forge storage artefacts, but it can also be used to forge weapons. This void stone is suitable for cultivators pursuing the space tao."
[What is it?] Yu Nianzhen asked when he noticed his husband’s frown.
[I think there is something more to this void stone.] Jiang Yue answered without hesitation.
After that, he explained XiaoLan’s reaction and Yu Nianzhen went silent.
[Let’s buy it and figure it out later.]
[Okay.]
Soon after, Jiang Yue began to bid and Yang Xu almost despaired.
’These brats! It wasn’t enough to provoke all the alchemists in the Cangxing world, they now wanted to provoke the refiners!’ With a groan, he turned to his wife for comfort but Bing Lan was also distressed.
Seeing this, Yang Xu immediately recovered and he took his wife’s hand.
[Don’t worry. A few more enemies are nothing to worry about.] He transmitted and Bing Lan almost rolled her eyes.
However, her heart calmed down.
Although the refiners could not be taken lightly, their group had already made a lot of enemies and it was not a big deal to add a few more.
’I thought my physique was more troublesome but are more capable of attracting trouble.’ She thought and felt a little headache.
’It seems I need to improve my strength as fast as possible.’
After thinking that, Bing Lan resolved herself and turned back her attention to the auction.
"This piece of void stone is enough to refine more than a thousand spirit rings." The old man said and the crowd exclaimed.
Although storage rings were not rare among higher realm cultivators, the rest of the cultivators used storage bags.
When the crowd heard about the void stone, they fantasised about getting one of the one thousand storage rings.
However, they forgot about many things.
The first was that weapon refiners did not have a one hundred per cent success rate.
Although the void stone could produce a thousand spirit rings, the likelihood of refining so many was close to zero.
At most, the refiner would successfully refine one hundred storage rings from the stone.
More importantly, there was no guarantee that the eventual buyer would use the stone to refine storage rings.
"Two hundred million spirit stones." A voice came from the third floor.
"Two hundred and fifty million." Another came from the fourth floor.
"Three hundred million." Jiang Yue countered.
"Four hundred million." A counter was heard from another box on the second floor.
"Six hundred million."
"Seven hundred million."
As the auction continued, those on the first floor felt numb.
Most of them were in the origin forging realm, qi transformation ream, and the origin tempering realm.
At those levels, having one billion spirit stones was already considered rich.
However, the auction overturned their beliefs.
In just one auction, some people on the higher floors had spent billions which was a little crazy.
"Those people in box two hundred and seventy-seven are very daring." Someone commented and sighed.
"They are also very rich." Another added.
The auction wasn’t secret so it wasn’t difficult to estimate the number of spirit stones used by certain individuals.
Since those in box two hundred and seventy-seven were a little high profile, everyone had kept their eyes on them.
So far, they had spent close to ten billion spirit stones and their momentum had not eased even a little.
"I don’t think these people are ordinary casual cultivators." Someone said.
"I also think so. It is difficult for casual cultivators to have so many spirit stones."
"Anyway, it has nothing to do with us. We are only responsible for watching a good show."
"You are right about that."
After that, the gossipers focused on the auction and realised that the price of the void stone had already crossed one billion.
"One and a half billion spirit stones." Jiang Yue bid without feeling any pressure.
In the end, spirit stones were only a means to acquire strength and there was no use hoarding them.
Since XiaoLan felt there was something about the stone that attracted her, Jiang Yue was determined to buy it.
As his contract beast, anything that benefited XiaoLan would also benefit him.
If they were lucky and the thing could improve XiaoLan’s bloodline, even using ten billion spirit stones to buy the stone would be worth it.
"One billion and nine hundred million spirit stones."
"Two billion."
"Two billion and one hundred million."
"Two and a half billion."
"Three billion."
In this way, the bidding continued and the pace did not slow down until the price reached five billion spirit stones.
"I am the fire hammer refining master. Give me face and let go of the void stone."
"Fire hammer refining master, your face is too thick. Why should I give you face? This void stone will belong to me."
"Myriad weapon master, do you have to go against me at every turn?"
