Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 45 Venue

To prevent some cultivators from price gouging, Treasure Attic required each cultivator to pay fifty spiritual stones as a deposit when entering the auction venue. The deposit would be returned after the auction was over.

After Lu Ping who got here in advance paid the deposit, he handed over the flying cart magic weapon to the auctioneer. After thinking about it, he took out 100 highest-grade Blood Magic Figures he made and gave them to the auctioneer with two sets of Sub-Root Early Warning Magic Figures.

In the end, Lu Ping paid another fifty spiritual stones. As he had taken out many things to auction, he was regarded as a big customer and was accommodated in a private room.

Lu Ping chose private rooms because he wanted to make the whole thing a secret.

Before coming here, Lu Ping had received the exact information from Shi Lingling on Xuanqi Island. Blood dissolving elixirs would be sold at this auction.

Blood dissolving elixirs, Lu Ping was certainly going to bid for them.

Speaking of blood dissolving elixirs, Lu Ping was slightly happy. After he came to the private room, he took a delicate jade bottle out of his storage bag.

When he removed the cork, a sweet and fresh smell came out of the bottle. There was a longan-sized purple elixir in it, and its surface was faintly shiny.

This was the blood dissolving elixir Lu Ping got from the Elixirs Selling Pavilion on Dikun Island.

Lu Ping originally planned to attend the auction with the seventh team, but when he came to Xuanqi Island, he knew that Yao Yong had succeeded in entering the Blood Dissolving stage and that he had become an inner disciple of the True Spirit Sect and had returned to True Spirit Island to accept further training.

It happened that Du Feng had also reached the peak of the ninth level. Because he had to prepare for entering the Blood Dissolving stage, he couldn't attend the auction, either, which really disappointed Shi Lingling.

To make matters worse, Li Cheng and Zhang Zicheng of the seventh team had also reached the eighth level of Blood Refining and came to Xuanqi Island to perform the mission assigned by their sect.

Li Cheng was at odds with Lu Ping. This time, after knowing that Lu Ping actually had reached the ninth level of Blood Refining and surpassed him again, he was jealous and resentful.

Li Cheng was also from a cultivators' family. When he came to Xuanqi Island, he drew other cultivators of the seventh team to his side and deliberately isolated Lu Ping.

Lu Ping didn't care about this. He didn't want too many people to know about his affairs for a long time and was planning to act alone. Li Cheng's arrival just gave him a reason to do that.

Lu Ping was a maverick in the seventh team. He had strong strength. In addition to being familiar with Yao Yong, Du Feng, and Shi Lingling, he was on friendly terms with Zhang Zicheng. Therefore, Lu Ping's departure did not embarrass everyone much. Only Shi Lingling was a little upset about it.

After putting away the blood dissolving elixir, Lu Ping took out two medium-grade inner armor magic weapons. The outer layer of the inner armors was golden, which was mainly made of the scales of the sea snake. Their inner layer was soft and tensile, which was made of the skin of the sea snake.

After putting away the inner armors, an iron seal of 10 square centimeters appeared in Lu Ping's hand. Looking at this magic weapon, Lu Ping smiled brightly.

This was "Landslide" that had been successfully upgraded to the high grade. After "Landslide" was upgraded with dark iron, it looked darker and heavier. The seven Prohibitions of Xuan Rank with the same attributes naturally made it more powerful, but it also required a larger amount of magic power.

Thinking of this, Lu Ping sighed helplessly. Only when he reached the Blood Dissolving stage could he skillfully use it.

Putting "Landslide" away, Lu Ping took out a jade slip with a grave look.

Yao Yong requested Immortal Senior Liu to give Lu Ping this and the Spirit-Gathering Futon when he returned to the True Spirit Sect to thank Lu Ping for lending the Spirit-Gathering Futon to him.

This jade slip recorded the process of Yao Yong reaching the Blood Dissolving stage in detail, including many of Yao Yong's understandings. Lu Ping felt as if he had discovered some precious relic.

When Lu Ping was reading the record of reaching the Blood Dissolving stage in the private room, more and more people entered the venue.

He looked at the venue that was bustling with cultivators at the Blood Refining stage but didn't find the cultivators of the seventh team. It seemed that Shi Lingling and Li Cheng had also entered a private room.

Only one-third of the cultivators in the venue were from the True Spirit Sect, and the rest were individual cultivators and disciples of other sects or families around.

Disciples of different sects were allowed to appear in the spheres of influence of each other's sect, as long as there was no hostility between their sects. After all, the exchanges between cultivators could prosper the market, complement and circulate cultivation resources.

Due to the entrance fee, 50 spiritual stones, and the limited seats at the venue, only nearly a thousand cultivators entered the venue.

Amid the noise, a fat cultivator with a smiling face came to the auction stage.

Although the cultivator looked kind and gentle, the fluctuation of surging magic power around him clearly told everyone that he was an expert at the Blood Dissolving stage.

The fat cultivator stopped the participants present from talking and said with a smile, "Dear Sirs, my surname is Pang. I am one of the directors of the auction house of Treasure Attic. I will preside over today's auction."

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Director Pang continued, "Let's get down to the business. Now, our auction officially starts."

"In order to thank you for your support to our auction house, the first item we prepared is a very precious thing!"

Seeing that many cultivators' interest had been aroused by him, Director Pang shouted, "Take the auction item to the stage!"

A girl in full dress came up holding a tray of an auction item covered with a piece of red silk.

As Director Pang lifted the red silk, the cultivators in the venue couldn't help exclaiming in a low voice.

"Alchemy furnace!"

"It's actually an alchemy furnace!"

Alchemy furnaces were much more difficult to refine than magic weapons of the same grade. Therefore, a low-grade alchemy furnace was often more valuable than a high-grade magic weapon.

However, cultivators used alchemy furnaces like ordinary magic weapons. Basically, cultivators at the late stage of Blood Refining could all use medium-grade alchemy furnaces.

It was like Lu Ping was learning alchemy with a medium-grade alchemy furnace at the time.

On the auction stage, the fat cultivator loudly introduced, "It's a low-grade alchemy furnace which is mainly made of spiritual material, refined Win Milled Copper. It contains three Prohibitions and is a high-quality product among low-grade alchemy furnaces. Its starting price is 500 spiritual stones, and the offer price shall go up by no less than 10 spiritual stones each time."

Sure enough, it was the starting price of a high-grade magic weapon. The high starting price deterred most cultivators. Most of them knew that the threshold of the alchemy industry was too high, and even if they got it, it was useless.

However, many people still participated in the bidding.

"520 spiritual stones."

"550 spiritual stones."

"..."

In a twinkling of an eye, the price of the alchemy furnace reached 600 spiritual stones and approached 700 spiritual stones.

It seemed that there were many rich cultivators at the Blood Refining stage. Lu Ping couldn't help frowning.

Lu Ping had a medium-grade alchemy furnace. Naturally, he didn't need low-grade ones.

Feeling the lively atmosphere in the auction venue, Lu Ping teased Bao with great interest.

Bao was getting fatter and fatter. It had entered the second level of Blood Refining and had become the subject of the low-grade elixirs at the Blood Refining stage that were refined by Lu Ping.

Bao ate one of the more than thirty elixirs of different kinds each day and had almost finished half of them.

In addition, it ate the sea snake meat brought back by Lu Ping. As a result, Bao gradually gained weight while its cultivation increased.

Lu Ping also ate a lot of sea snake meat. As a result, his constitution became stronger and stronger. Cultivators at Lu Ping's level couldn't even compare with him in this aspect. His strong constitution was equivalent to that of cultivators at his level who specialized in Body Refining.