"650,000 Pure Yang Great Pills!?"
Seeing this number, Alkaid was sowhat surprised, "That high? I rember, generally a Sunburst Golden Core yields only about a dozen Pure Yang Great Pills in a year, unless one has established their own power, dominated a region, or joined a top-tier Immortal Sect. Otherwise, gathering 650,000 Pure Yang Immortal Pills would take 40,000 years without eating, drinking, or cultivating."
"The reward amount for Deep Blue Golden Cores is almost always above 200,000."
Li Hanqiu said, "Because a Deep Blue Golden Core possesses the qualifications to challenge the Hollow Void Realm. These individuals could step into the Hollow Void Realm at any mont, so the organizations offering the bounties are willing to spend generously to kill them before their promotion; otherwise, once they achieve the Hollow Void, it would be their own undoing, you see." He pointed further down the list, "The bounty for a Blazing White Golden Core is just a little over 10,000, and for a Sunburst Golden Core, it's even lower, around 1,000..."
Saying this, he couldn't help but express his feeling, "1,000 Pure Yang Great Pills can be enough to buy the life of a Sunburst Golden Core, which also ans they could be driven to desperation."
Cheap.
So very cheap.
"I was researching data and ca across an auction held forty years ago in the Eastern Sea Immortal Market. If I rember correctly, it sold for 180 million Pure Yang Great Pills?"
Alkaid conveyed through Divine Sense.
"You rembered incorrectly."
Li Hanqiu glanced at Alkaid, "The item that sold for 180 million Pure Yang Great Pills wasn't a true Dao Artifact but a Quasi-Dao Artifact. It possessed only the semblance of Dao, not the true power of a Dao Artifact. A true Dao Artifact's price is as high as 1 billion."
Finally, he added with his Divine Sense, "Just like the Domain Stabilizing Ring and Void Disk you gave ."
"How much!? 1 billion!"
This number, even Alkaid felt a tremor in his spirit.
He knew how vital Dao Artifacts were for cultivators, especially for those refining the Void. Without a Dao Artifact, there was virtually no hope of breaking through the Shattered Void.
It was like an ordinary person with no house; it would be very difficult to get married, have children, and carry on the lineage.
But this price...
It was truly beyond his expectations.
"Yes, 1 billion."
Li Hanqiu said and then lanted, "This amount is more than enough to buy the life of a Hollow Void Realm powerhouse."
After saying this, he added, "Not a Hollow Void War Immortal, but a true Hollow Void."
At that mont, Alkaid truly felt a surge of temptation to risk selling a Dao Artifact and rake in 10 billion.
With those 10 billion, his cultivation could potentially skyrocket to the Hollow Void Realm at an unbelievable speed.
And not just a neophyte at Hollow Void, perhaps even nearing the peak of Hollow Void.
But he still suppressed this thought for the ti being.
A Dao Artifact, forget about Hollow Void, even Refining Void powerhouses would desperately vie for it.
It could even bring out a Supre Elder level of the Ten Great Immortal Paths to personally intervene.
The Great Dao is boundless!
While there are only forty-nine complete Great Dao heritages on Northern Sea Star, other Daos also cascade through the realm in the form of Divine Skills and Great Divine Powers, including those that directly affect causality. Selling a Dao Artifact without the strength to match a Refining Void..."
That would be akin to courting death.
Even unleashing this Supre Divine Power for sale already carried trendous risk for him.
If not for the 'Hollow Void' Li Hanqiu shielding him, he might not have had the courage to take this risk.
While contemplating, Alkaid cald down, "Let's successfully sell this Supre Divine Power first."
Li Hanqiu nodded, "I've already got the invitation from the Immortal Market auction. Let's head there now. The auction will last ten days. Although the items in the first few days are of average value, you might still find sothing useful."
"Good."
Alkaid nodded.
The two wasted no ti and headed straight for a building in the center of the Immortal Market.
The building was a towering structure, thousands of ters high, with formations that glead subtly. If one were to look at it during the night, it would appear as a striking landmark on the surface.
At the very top of the tower, there was a lotus platform about three hundred ters in diater, with eight petals unfolded flatly. Attending cultivators could enter the central formation from any petal.
Upon arriving at the lotus platform, the first thing Alkaid and Li Hanqiu "saw" was a faint distortion of the void enveloping the area of the lotus platform.
This was a sign of a Hollow Void Realm power presiding over the area.
This Hollow Void seed to deliberately manifest their presence as a warning.
Moreover, most likely belonging to the Dashang Immortal Dynasty and holding the ho advantage, this presence alone was enough to deter any reckless moves from other Hollow Voids.
As soon as Li Hanqiu arrived, this Hollow Void seed to sense sothing, and through Divine Sense, greeted with a laugh, "May I know which Sect's fellow Daoist has co? Mariti State Defense Envoy Wang Que offers his respectful greetings."
"Guard Envoy Wang."
Li Hanqiu responded with Divine Sense, while also adding, "Just a nobody bringing a junior to widen his perspective."
Seeing that Li Hanqiu used Divine Sense to reply and deliberately wore a mask, obviously not wanting to reveal his identity, the Hollow Void rely said, "Good, once every ten years, the Eastern Sea Immortal Market Auction. Though the items are generally ordinary for us, good things still appear from ti to ti, especially for Golden Core Cultivators."
He did not persist in asking further questions, "I won't disrupt Fellow Daoist's enjoynt any longer. If there is anything you need, just contact directly."
"Thank you for your consideration."
Li Hanqiu courteously replied.
After the brief interaction, the Guard Envoy Wang seed to have ssaged the receptionist.
Shortly, a Sunburst Golden Core receptionist quickly arrived, bowing thoroughly with respect, "Our honored guests bring glory to our doors. Let take you to the auction hall now."
Li Hanqiu nodded slightly.
They followed the Golden Core Cultivator into the formation.
As they entered the formation, the surroundings instantly changed.
When the change stabilized, Alkaid found himself standing at the summit of a majestic mountain.
The mountain peaks were so high that they seed to pierce the heavens, and all that t the eye was an endless sea of clouds.
In front of them lay a lotus platform spanning several thousand kiloters in diater, surrounded by nurous cultivators.
Currently, a cultivator was standing above the lotus platform, holding a bottle of elixir and describing its virtues. As he spoke, countless lights and patterns were projected into the void, making everything clearly visible to all.
Around the lotus platform, besides those seated on the lotus petals, there were also about a dozen mountains standing tall in the surroundings, shrouded in mists and hard to discern.
The mountain where Alkaid and Li Hanqiu were situated was among the tallest of these.
As soon as they arrived, two female cultivators with tranquil beauty and floating robes, radiating an aura as refreshing as spring, stepped forward and bowed gracefully, "Zhi Yun and Zhi Xue welco the Supre Immortal's noble visit. Whatever you may need, you can ask us, and we will do our utmost to satisfy it."
"Give a copy of the auction list,"
Li Hanqiu said.
The woman nad Zhi Xue quickly produced a Jade Talisman.
This list was much more detailed than the ones circulated outside.
It included not only the ordinary items for sale but also showcased the premier items of each day.
Li Hanqiu glanced at it and handed it over to Alkaid, but he marked the premier items for the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and tenth days.
Alkaid looked, and the starting prices for these five premier items were all above 100,000 Pure Yang Great Pills.
Each one justified him using the Supre Divine Power he possessed, the "Seven Emotions Demon Slayer," which targeted the path of the spirit.
The key was that these Pure Yang Great Pills could not be wasted.
However, after looking over the list, Alkaid was simultaneously interested in three of the premier items.
"These three are excellent. The Dragon Suppressing Stake is vital for strengthening the Sect Protection Array. With this artifact, as soon as the Nine Heavens Sect produces three to five Sunburst Golden Cores, the Mountain Protection Array can withstand any attack from below the Hollow Void Realm. The remaining Flowing Void Crystal can be used as material for forging a Dao Artifact, and I can refine the Fla Demon Heart into a one-ti use artifact, the Red Refining Divine Fire Thunder, whose destructive power even a Deep Blue Golden Core might not withstand,"
Alkaid explained.
Li Hanqiu looked at the starting price of 150,000 Pure Yang Great Pills for the Dragon Suppressing Stake and said with a bit of discomfort, "I am basically not leaving the Sect after this, so let's save on the elixir material. Besides, laying out formations is always complicated and ti-consuming. Without help from others, even if you upgrade the Mountain Protection Array quickly, it still could take three to five years; if slow, perhaps eight to ten years—an outright waste of ti. Let's skip this one."
He glanced at the Flowing Void Crystal and the Fla Demon Heart: "Since the Flowing Void Crystal is a material for forging Dao Artifacts, we naturally need to buy it, and if the Fla Demon Heart can really be refined into the Red Refining Divine Fire Thunder powerful enough to kill a Deep Blue Golden Core, then it's a must-have. Having such an artifact would put more at ease when you venture out for your cultivation trials."
Alkaid pondered for a mont and nodded.
Currently, for the Nine Heavens Sect, acquiring Pure Yang Great Pills for rapid improvent of everyone's cultivation was indeed more crucial than upgrading the so-called Mountain Protection Array.
"Then let's buy these two artifacts... However, the rules of the auction in the Noble Immortal Market require imdiate paynt upon winning an item…"
"Heh, although the Pure Yang Great Pills we can produce are barely countable on one hand, relying on my status as one from the Hollow Void Realm, deferring the paynt later should face no objections from Guard Envoy Wang."
Li Hanqiu said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Alkaid, considering the weight of the Hollow Void realm, nodded in agreent.
Consequently, the auction proceeded thodically.
On the sixth day, Li Hanqiu bought the Fla Demon Heart for 140,000 Pure Yang Great Pills.
And just as he had said, when he did not imdiately pay upon acquiring the item, the auction house did not even question them, showing full trust.
After all, it was hard to believe that a being from the Hollow Void Realm couldn't produce a few hundred thousand Pure Yang Great Pills.
By the ninth day, when the Flowing Void Crystal was auctioned, its price soared to 180,000.
Feeling the price was about right, Li Hanqiu and Alkaid exchanged a look, and he promptly contacted Wang Que: "Guard Envoy Wang."
"Is there anything I can assist you with?"
"I really want this Flowing Void Crystal, but to cultivate a certain Dao Technique, I've recently invested almost all my resources into it. Hence, I am planning to sell a Supre Divine Power through the channels of Noble Immortal Market to acquire enough Pure Yang Great Pills to bid for the Flowing Void Crystal. How about it?"
"A Supre Divine Power!?"
Wang Que was slightly surprised but also cautious, "May I know which sect's Supre Divine Power it is?"
"It's the 'Seven Emotions Demon Slayer,' a Supre Divine Power of the Refining Demon Sect, which was destroyed thirty thousand years ago,"
Li Hanqiu said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Wang Que let out a sigh of relief, "Is there a corresponding Dao Technique?"
"I haven't found it yet. If you want to cultivate the Dao Technique, you'll have to figure it out from the forces that have acquired the inheritance of the Refining Demon Sect."
Li Hanqiu explained.
"Without the Dao Technique... the price might be much lower, and with the auction ending in just a couple of days, it's too short a ti to advertise. The final sale price might not be very good. Do you want to wait?"
Wang Que sounded a bit regretful.
"The proceeds from my two items will be more than enough. Whatever commission needs to be taken out, just follow your rules,"
"You're too kind,"
Wang Que said, pausing to think, "Well, if you trust us, we are willing to offer 600,000 to buy the Supre Divine Power directly, and we'll sell it in the next auction. If the price goes above 600,000 Pure Yang Great Pills, we'll make up the difference; if it goes under, consider the Supre Divine Power bought by us for 600,000 Pure Yang Great Pills. What do you think?"
"600,000..."
While this number was sowhat low compared to a Supre Divine Power,
As it was a Supre Divine Power without a corresponding Dao Technique, 600,000 seed reasonable.
Alkaid looked at Li Hanqiu, but didn't interfere with his decision.
After pondering, Li Hanqiu responded directly, "600,000 is not enough, 800,000; if not, we might as well give up the auction for the Flowing Void Crystal. Although this material is precious, it is not irreplaceable."
"800,000..."
Wang Que didn't respond for a dozen breaths.
At that mont, it was likely not just Alkaid sweating, but Li Hanqiu as well.
Fortunately...
A dozen breaths later, Wang Que's Divine Sense ca back, lightly laughing as he delivered the answer that relieved both n, "Then as you say, 800,000 Pure Yang Great Pills."
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