Ning Cheng’s gaze fell on Shi Qionghua and found that Shi Qionghua’s eyes revealed an eager look. Seeing that, he put his hand on the display with the intent to bid. Although he wanted to quote, he felt slightly afraid that he would not have enough celestial coins. However, he quickly decided to buy this pair of starry sky bracelets for Shi Qionghua.
Chapter 0592 – Sky Treasure Silk
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“11 million.”
“12 million.”
……
“17 million purple coins.”
One had to say that the people bidding on this item looked a bit too enthusiastic. When Ning Cheng had decided to place a bid, the price of this item had already increased to 20 million purple coins.
Ning Cheng entered 30 million purple coins on the quotation screen; however, before he could even submit it, a bid of 50 million suddenly appeared on the huge quotation screen above everyone’s head.
Dai Jia did not even speak of the previous offer, let alone use it to fuel the auction. However, now that a bid of 50 million came out, it finally roused a bit of her interest as she spoke to the audience, “Someone bid 50 million. These pair of starry sky bracelets can be considered as the best kind of item even if purchased by male cultivators and given to the woman of their hearts. 50 million going once, is there no higher price?”
The bid of 50 million did cause a moment of silence; however, this moment of silence was quickly interrupted by a new submission, and the bidding amount on the quotation display changed to 60 million.
At this price, many female cultivators choose to give up on the item. There were not many female cultivators like Junior Apprentice Sister Yan anyway. What’s more, this price had already reached the upper limit for this starry sky bracelet.
Shi Qionghua also gave up on bidding for it; rather, she did not announce a bid before giving up. According to reason, she could afford this treasure; however, for lack of purpose, she chose against coming up with Perpetual Moon Pills.
However, the bid for 60 million only stayed for a moment before it reached 70 million and then suddenly jumped to 80 million.
Ning Cheng did not continue waiting and directly quoted 100 million purple coins. By this time, he felt convinced that he had been ripped off when he first bought that defective middle-grade mask-type Dao Artefact.
“There is a friend who placed a bid of a hundred million. The VIP from booth 391…..” Dai Jia finally felt some excitement.
Her voice had not yet faded when the price rose to 120 million. Ning Cheng also did not hesitate to up his bid to 150 million purple coins. Within the Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City, this price had already exceeded the price range of a high-grade Dao Artefact. Moreover, Ning Cheng himself would not have bought this item under normal circumstances. Not to mention that he was currently an Artefact-crafting Master. Even if he could not craft something like the starry sky bracelet right now, he could certainly make it in the future.
However, circumstances were different currently, especially since Qionghua looked interested in it. Towards Shi Qionghua, Ning Cheng felt more than just guilt. He really loved Qionghua, combined with the guilt that he felt towards Qionghua, he would gladly pay any price. As long as Shi Qionghua liked it, he would gladly pay for it.
If the other party wanted to increase the price, Ning Cheng would still purchase the starry sky bracelet even if he had to take out Perpetual Moon Pills.
However, there were also no fools in this hall. Even if they had the money, no one would willingly come up with more than 150 million purple coins to purchase a high-grade Defensive Dao Artefact.
“150 million going once, are there no other bids? 150 million going twice……. Congratulations to this friend from booth 391 for obtaining this beautiful starry sky bracelet.” With Dai Jia calling out for the third time, the dust finally settled for this first auction, and the starry sky bracelet finally found an owner in Ning Cheng for the price of 150 million.
Ning Cheng poured in 150 million purple coins into the instrument in front of him and in just a few moments, a pair of starry sky bracelets appeared in front of him.
Ning Cheng carefully put this pair of starry sky rings within a jade box and tried to figure out a way to send this pair to Shi Qionghua.
The first item had already caused quite a spectacle, which also increased the interest of everyone sitting in the auction hall. All the cultivators looked forward to the appearance of the Time Stone. At the same time, everyone also knew and could feel the upcoming battle that the rich cultivators would wage against each other.
Dai Jia smiled and raised a jade box again, “This auction is just gearing up for more excitement. The next item is a Starry Sky Directional Sphere. This Directional Sphere not only contains the coordinates of most of the starry sky locations within the domain of our Grand Culmination Starry Skies but also includes most of the starry sky locations within the Grand Demon Domain Starry Skies, the Grand Devil Domain Starry Skies, and the Grand Spirit Heaven Starry Skies…….”
As Dai Jia’s voice trailed on, she opened the jade box and lifted a sphere from inside.
As Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness swept over, he found the sphere covered with a variety of starlights, which looked like a Planet-protecting Grand Array in general. However, his Spiritual Consciousness could not penetrate inside. This also showed that one had to refine this Starry Sky Directional Sphere first to use it.
When Ning Cheng recalled its uses, he felt eager to own it. This kind of treasure was no different from quasi-spirit artefacts. With this, he would not get lost, at least on this part of the starry skies. Getting lost within the starry skies was no different from deciding to forfeit one’s life.
“The reserve price of this Starry Sky Directional Sphere is 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, and the price increase must not be less than one thousand Perpetual Moon Pills. No purple coins. The bidding starts now.”
Dai Jia’s words had just finished when a grating voice spoke out a bid, “One hundred thousand Perpetual Moon Pills.”
Ning Cheng felt some doubts in his heart. What he doubted was not the person’s quotation, but if this fellow wanted to quote a price, then all that was required was to enter it into the quotation screen in front of the fellow. Why did this fellow decide to quote a price verbally?
What made Ning Cheng even more puzzled was that after the quote was announced by the owner of this voice, the entire auction hall remained silent. Not only did no one list a new price, but the auction house also did not issue a follow-up commentary.
Ning Cheng, who originally was about to quote a price of 110,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, took his hand back and guessed that this was not something simple.
Sure enough, Dai Jia on the auction stage spoke with a bitter smile, “The VIP from booth 4 offered a bid of 100,000 Perpetual Moon Pills. Is there any higher bid? If not, then this Starry Sky Directional Sphere belongs to this friend.”
Ning Cheng also noticed the anger and reluctance in Dai Jia’s smile and immediately understood that she also did not like the way this fellow made the offer. However, she also did not have the power to stop it. Seeing that, Ning Cheng felt glad that he did not make an offer; otherwise, he most likely would have offended an old ghost. These bastards had gotten themselves accustomed to getting things done their way based on their cultivation, not even showing the slightest care about the others.
“120,000 Perpetual Moon Pills……” A new price appeared on the huge quotation display.
At this point, Ning Chen really wanted to know who the fellow was who ate the tiger’s guts.
“120,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, is there no higher bid. A friend quoted 120,000 Perpetual Moon Pills……” When the new price came out, Dai Jia eagerly shouted; apparently, she felt hopeful that someone would defini
tely offer a quote.
A cold humph resounded that caused Ning Cheng’s heart to tremble. Following which, the grating-like sound once again appeared, “200,000 Perpetual Moon Pills.”
Even a fool would understand that this voice carried a lot of dissatisfaction. Fortunately, the fellow who had placed the quote of 120,000 Perpetual Moon Pills finally realised that he most likely had offended someone he should not have crossed and did not follow up with an offer.
“The VIP in booth 4 offered 200,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, is there no higher quote….. 200,000 Perpetual Moon Pills going once……”
No matter how dazzling Dai Jia portrayed herself, no one dared to put forth a quote after this price came out. Finally, this Starry Sky Directional Sphere ended up in the hands of the powerhouse in booth 4.
“The third treasure is a top-grade raw material called Fire Cloud Buddhist Silk, with a base price of 50 million purple coins……”
Ever treasure that appearing in this auction truly was top-grade stuff. Even a true Starry Sky-grade Battleship had also appeared. Although Ning Cheng wanted to bid for this starry sky-grade battleship, he held himself back. He did not have many Perpetual Moon Pills on him; at the same time, he also needed to put some of it away for his cultivation in addition to purchasing the jade card.
“The following treasure is called the Sky Treasure Silk, an artefact-crafting raw material that could also help cultivators to evolve their flying weapons….”
Dai Jia had just said the words Sky Treasure Silk when Ning Cheng instantly sobered up. Sky Treasure Silk was something that he had always wanted. There was no trap in this place, was there?
“The reserve price of the Sky Treasure Silk is 20 million purple coins. Offers made using Perpetual Moon Pills would be given priority. The bids for this item are now open.”
As soon as Dai Jia finished her words, Ning Cheng immediately entered 30 million purple coins. He had to obtain this thing. For Ning Cheng, this object almost held the same importance as the entry jade card for the Immortal Jade Star. After all, this was right in front of his eyes. As for the Immortal Jade Star, whether he could obtain any treasures inside or not was still up for debate.
“50 million…..”
……
“80 million purple coins……”
When Ning Cheng quoted 80 million, he knew that there was only a single person who competed with him for this Sky Treasure Silk. From this, Ning Cheng also understood that this fellow had an urgent need for the Sky Treasure Silk.
“100 million purple coins.” Looks like the other party felt anxious and directly quoted 100 million.
Dai Jia once again showed eagerness as she spoke with a warm tone, “One hundred million purple coins, is there anyone who wants to place a higher bid? Sky Treasure Silk is not something that one can obtain casually. If you miss this opportunity, you might not know when you could obtain…….”
Even if the other party truly wanted to obtain it, Ning Cheng had also set his mind to fight for it. He knew that if he continued with purple coins, he would end up reaching a dead end, letting the auction house win in the end. Moreover, even if the Sky Treasure Silk were precious, it would not be expensive to such a degree.
“Ten thousand Perpetual Moon Pills.” Ning Cheng decided to put a quote with Perpetual Moon Pills. He chose to use a trick, 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills were theoretically equivalent to the 100 million purple coin quote. However, no one would ever want to trade 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills for purple coins, it would have been an idiotic act. Fortunately, Dai Jia had also not mentioned a minimum mark-up, which also meant that he did not break any rules.
Chapter 0593 – To Requite Evil With Good
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Once someone quoted 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, the auction hall immediately turned silent before bursting into a discussion. Although 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills looked like a low number, no one thought that someone would actually try to purchase a Sky Treasure Silk using Perpetual Moon Pills.
Cultivators generally reserved Perpetual Moon Pills for purchasing top-grade treasures. Moreover, if an ordinary cultivator managed to get their hands on some Perpetual Moon Pills, he or she would rarely take them out to purchase something and would instead use it for cultivation. More importantly, Sky Treasure Silk simply was not worth such a price.
Unlike other disposable medicinal pills, Perpetual Moon Pills were more than just cultivation resources. These were not something refined using a Pill Furnaces, rather these ‘pills’ were actually starry skies’ Essence Qi in its purest form, condensed into crystalline pills; as such, this resource was a hundred times better than cultivating using starry skies’ Essence Qi.
Moreover, it could even be used as fuel for the starry sky-grade battleships, apart from powering a variety of other technological weapons. At the same time, it provided a much better effect compared to ordinary starry sky crystals. To put it bluntly, Perpetual Moon Pills were a type of starry sky crystal that had little or no impurities at all.
These kinds of ‘pills’ had only two sources, one of which involves generation through a natural environment. It was not rare for cultivators to encounter such natural environments in the form of Perpetual Moon Pill Ponds, Pill Rivers, and even Pill Oceans. Moreover, Perpetual Moon Pill had a fixed size, once the quantity of purified starry skies’ Essence Qi it contained exceeded the limit, it would automatically split into two, and if it were less, it would continue to coalesce.
The other source was through artificial extractions. Some starry sky powerhouses could use their powerful abilities to extract Perpetual Moon Pills from the areas that had vibrant starry skies’ Essence Qi. They would either use their own Celestial Essence or take the help of top-grade weapons to accomplish such a task. However, a weapon with the ability to extract Perpetual Moon Pills would have already surpassed the level of Dao Artefacts.
However, there was one drawback using artificial extraction. If the cultivator did not have pure Celestial Essence, the extracted Perpetual Moon Pills would be much worse than the naturally condensed Perpetual Moon Pills.
The starry skies also contained a more precious kind of pill compared to the Perpetual Moon Pills, called Permanent Essence Pills. However, the conditions needed to form these Permanent Essence Pills were even more demanding.
Therefore, hearing someone finally put up a quote with Perpetual Moon Pills, Dai Jia’s tone turned even more excited and even contained hints of flattery. She did not care about the fact that 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills were equivalent to 100 million purple coins in value, which also meant that she implicitly agreed with price not increasing theoretically. Instead, she directly spoke up, “A friend has offered 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills. Are there no higher offers. If no higher offers, the Sky Treasure Silk will end up in this friend’s hand. One could often find Perpetual Moon Pills, but not the Sky Treasure Silk…….”
“11,000 Perpetual Moon Pills……” With Dai Jia’s encouragement, someone immediately raised the price.
Ning Cheng gave a snort. He had set his mind to obtain this Sky Treasure Silk. Although he could possibly get Sky Treasure Silk at other places, he still felt that the sooner he could upgrade his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds, the better it would be for him. After all, it was a matter of preserving his life.
Ning Cheng did not hesitate to enter 20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills as an offer. He decided to scare this fellow off with such a mark-up.
“20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills……” The moment 20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills appeared on the big screen, not to mention Dai Jia turning even more excited, even the cultivators within the auction hall felt stunned.
Who was this fellow? How could this fellow be so stupid?
With 20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, one could easily buy a few Sky Treasure Silks. They
had already felt it ridiculous when someone quoted 10,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, but someone had now directly increased the price to 20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills.
“20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, the friend from booth 391 quoted 20,000…..” Dai Jia’s tone grew even crisper.
“21,000 Perpetual Moon Pills.” To Ning Cheng’s anger, even after he raised the price to 20,000 Perpetual Moon Pills, this fellow once again raised the price.
“30,000 Perpetual Moon Pills.” Ning Cheng added another nine thousand. He did not believe that someone wanted this thing as much as he did. He planned to prepare beforehand for the upcoming trip to Immortal Jade Star.
Did this fellow also feel the same way?
“31,000 Perpetual Moon Pills.” Over the huge quotation screen, someone added another one thousand over Ning Cheng’s already quoted price.
The cultivators on the auction floor immediately sucked in a breath of cold air as they thought, ‘it’s good to be rich’. If such a person wanted to increase the price of something at will, one simply did not need to think about anything else before doing it. Using 31,000 Perpetual Moon Pills to buy a Sky Treasure Silk, if this was not someone crazy rich, then who was.
Dai Jia excitedly shouted, “A friend just quoted 31,000 Perpetual Moon Pills; 31,000, is there any higher bid. If someone does not offer a higher quote, then this Sky Treasure Silk, a precious raw material to upgrade flight-type weapons, would go to this friend……”
The cultivators in the hall did not even think about it. A small Sky Treasure Silk could actually reach such a price was not worth it. Most of the people here anyway came to see the Time Stone. None of them thought that they would end up seeing such an amuse-bouche[1] before the main event.
Ning Cheng did not place another quote. He could feel that something was out of place. Each price increase was only of a thousand Perpetual Moon Pills. Any fellow, who could quote a price of 31,000 Perpetual Moon Pills definitely had the money to splurge. Moreover, was it not a similar price increase to when they bid using purple coins, was it not identical to what was happening right now?
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