Sure enough, after this cultivator reported his item, it immediately caused some surprised gasps around the hall. From this, one could tell that the Phantom Wind Trace was something rare.
“Phantom Wind Trace can only condense in wind-attributed Law Space; moreover, the chance of condensing even in those areas is almost minuscule. Maybe this thing has no use for most people, but it’s the most needed treasure for wing-type flying treasures. Phantom Wind Trace can help upgrade wing-type flying weapons who have achieved nirvana by a full level. You won’t find this thing whenever you want, and even if you don’t have a wing-type flying weapon today, what about the future?”
Even without the cultivator’s encouragement, Ning Cheng decided to get this item immediately when he heard that it could upgrade wing-type flight weapons that had already undergone nirvana, by a full level.
After he used the Wind Thunder Apricot Tree’s branches to let the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds experience nirvana, it had already reached the limit in its speed. He had no idea if he could still upgrade its speed or not, which made Ning Cheng a little disappointed. As his cultivation continued to improve, the wings would eventually become a liability instead of an asset. Now that a treasure that could potentially upgrade it once again appeared in front of him, how could he let it go?
Phantom Wind Trace wasn’t as useless to most people as the cultivator from seat 27 mentioned. As soon as this thing came out, the price quickly rushed to 60,000 points, and it continued to rise rapidly. Ning Cheng even saw Shan Yaocen bidding and understood that this woman also had a winged-type weapon.
Ning Cheng didn’t rush to bid. After the price of Phantom Wind Trace reached 90,000 points, the price finally stabilised. At this point, Ning Cheng immediately quoted a price of 100,000 points.
Except for a few people here, most cultivators didn’t know anything about Ning Cheng. Therefore, when Ning Cheng bid 100,000 points, not many people cared about him. However, Shan Yaocen knew about Ning Cheng’s background. Ning Cheng was a rogue cultivator, also a rogue cultivator in the Eternal Realm.
How could he come up with so many points? Were points so easy to obtain?
Seeing Shan Yaocen frowning, Ying Yongxuan gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, “Junior Apprentice Sister Yaocen, if you continue to increase the price, I won’t have enough points for later.”
Shan Yaocen shook her head and said, “Senior Apprentice Brother Yin, let’s wait and see.”
To get Shan Yaocen’s favour, plus without the need to borrow her points, Ying Yongxuan naturally wouldn’t object to it.
Ning Cheng also felt satisfied when he saw no one increase the price after his bid of 100,000 points. He didn’t care much about the points, as long as he could get the Phantom Wind Trace. Once his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds got upgraded to another level, it would immediately increase his survivability chances.
“Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, do you truly want the Phantom Wind Trace?” When Ning Cheng was about to conduct the exchange and announced his intention to start the transaction, he immediately heard a woman’s voice. However, he also understood that this voice didn’t belong to Kong Ning.
Ning Cheng quickly understood that it was Shan Yaocen who sent him a voice transmission. He received another message from her, “Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, I’m Shan Yaocen, and I’m also the Senior Apprentice Sister of Kong Ning.”
Why would Shan Yaocen send him a voice transmission? What was up with this development?
He anyway had nothing to do with this woman. Besides, this woman wasn’t willing to even bring him into the hall, so why would she send him a message? No matter what went on in this woman’s mind, Ning Cheng had no intention to form a connection with this woman. He didn’t even bother to reply to the transmission.
Whether I want the Phantom Wind Trace or not, how was it any of your business?
“With Senior Apprentice Brother Ning’s talent, not joining one of the three sacred sects would be an insult to your talents. My River Luo Sacred Sect likes to absorb talents from all over the world….. Let’s talk about it later. Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, just carry on with your exchange. You don’t have to answer me right now. Let’s meet at the Grand Essence Ruin Restaurant after the exchange meeting…..”
Ning Cheng had already started with the exchange, and no one bid more than 100,000 points. Seeing Ning Cheng beginning the transaction, Shan Yaocen also quickly ended her voice transmission.
Ning Cheng also shook her head in speechlessness.
Was River Luo Sacred Sect so amazing?
He never planned to enter a sacred sect anyway. And even if he wanted to go, he had already talked to Kong Ning about it before. How could this woman feel so good about herself? Regardless of whether the exchange started or not, Ning Cheng didn’t intend to answer Shan Yaocen’s words.
Ning Cheng borrowed points to Kong Ning and spent a hundred thousand points to buy things, even Peng Ruimei, who sat next to Ning Cheng, couldn’t help speak up. “Ning Cheng, which inner sect disciple of a big sect are you? How come I feel you’re richer than me?”
Ning Cheng smiled, “I’m just a rogue cultivator.”
Peng Ruimei curled her lips.
I’d be an idiot to believe that you’re just a rogue cultivator.
As the exchanges continued, Ning Cheng didn’t make any further moves. He thought that Shan Yaocen would continue to send voice transmissions and wanted his Phantom Wind Trace. However, he never expected that Shan Yaocen wouldn’t send him any more voice transmission.
At this time, the exchange had already reached seat number 76. Seat number 76 was an elderly black-robed man with a mask on his face, making it difficult to see his appearance.
“What I want to trade is a cultivation method….”
The black-robed old man’s voice was intense and slightly hoarse as if his throat had a few cuts. After Ning Cheng heard that the other party wanted to trade a cultivation method, he suddenly lost interest. He had the Mysterious Yellow Formless; as such, he had no interest in cultivation methods.
“Although the cultivation method is a bit incomplete, it’s still a top-grade spiritual consciousness spiritual technique and cultivation method…..”
When the black-robed old man said the words ‘spiritual consciousness and spirit technique cultivation method’, the scene immediately exploded in whispering. Even Ning Cheng sat up straight on hearing those words. What he currently wanted the most was to create a spiritual consciousness spirit technique. His starry sky Sea of Consciousness was very powerful, and his spiritual consciousness also couldn’t compare to others of the same level. It would be a pity if he missed this opportunity.
Unfortunately, even if he had the Mysterious Yellow Formless, he still didn’t make much progress in developing a spiritual consciousness spirit technique, let alone a cultivation method. At most, he could only release his spiritual consciousness, break some restrictions that shielded spiritual consciousness, and form some spiritual consciousness thorns or spiritual consciousness blades. These things could only help him against an enemy or two when his cultivation had still not grown by much. But as his cultivation improved and his opponents also grew stronger and stronger, these low-level spiritual consciousness attacks would no longer be of much use.
Building spiritual consciousness spirit technique involved more than just having a strong Sea of Consciousness. It not only required countless years of experience but also needed a devilish genius-like mind. Ning Cheng believed that his mind far surpassed ordinary people and wasn’t too inferior to those so-called devilish geniuses. It’s just a pity that what he lacked the most was those ‘countless’ years of experience. Plus, he never even had a proper ‘teacher’ to learn the basics.
Experiences weren’t something that one could replace, and one can only obtain it through personal efforts. One could only accumulate it through time and wasn’t something that one could explain in words.
Now that a spiritual con
sciousness cultivation method appeared here, even if it wasn’t a complete spiritual consciousness cultivation method, Ning Cheng didn’t want to give up on it.
Looking at the hall’s enthusiasm, Ning Cheng readied himself for making a big offer if required. He knew that he wasn’t alone in desiring the spiritual consciousness cultivation method, but Ning Cheng didn’t want to give up on it.
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However, the old man’s next words suddenly poured ice-cold water on the cultivators who wanted the spiritual consciousness cultivation method. “I won’t say the name of this cultivation method, but I won’t sell it for less than 600,000 points.”
Six hundred thousand points for an incomplete and unknown grade cultivation method,
it was just too risky
.
How many years would it take to earn 600,000 points?
To buy a Dao Fruit, Kong Ning had saved points over many years, and even then she had to borrow points from Ning Cheng. From this, one could understand that 600,000 points almost equated to everyone’s lifelong savings in this place.
“Such a price for a nameless cultivation method, who would even ask for it?”
“At least tell everyone the name of the cultivation method?”
……
All kinds of discussions erupted in private, and the old man also felt that such a price wasn’t a justified one for a nameless cultivation method. However, he didn’t report the name due to his fear that no one would dare to buy it after hearing the name. Moreover, once the name got out, it would immediately cause a huge commotion. He just wanted to get rid of it in exchange for some points to buy the things he needed. But at the same time, he also didn’t want to cause any commotion over it.
But from the looks of it, no one would even consider buying it without knowing the name. If he couldn’t sell off this spiritual consciousness cultivation method, he would have no chance of getting what he needed.
Thinking of this, the old black-robed man once again spoke up, “Well, in that case, I will state the name of this cultivation method…..”
But before he could even speak the name of the spiritual consciousness cultivation method, someone immediately put up a quote on the bidding screen.
The 600,000-point bid looked quite conspicuous on the bidding screen.
The old black-robed man gave out a sigh of relief and stopped talking. Someone had finally stepped up and put up a bid, which prevented him from speaking the cultivation method’s name. Many people understood that he didn’t want everyone here to know about the cultivation method’s name.
As for the cultivators who wanted to know the name of the mysterious spiritual consciousness cultivation method, they all felt disappointed. It was just an incomplete spiritual consciousness cultivation method with an unknown origin, yet someone still bid 600,000 points for it.
Ning Cheng also felt a bit confused. In truth, he was already preparing to place a bid, and never expected that someone would put a bid before him under such a condition.
The quote was from seat 129, from a man with thin, almost none, blue hair sitting on it. Moreover, this man had a pale, almost white, face.
But when Ning Cheng looked at this person, he understood that this person’s cultivation far exceeded that of the Ninth Prince. He even had various dao charms circulating his body, and every strand of it felt powerful. But even if the person eyeing this spiritual consciousness cultivation method was even more robust, Ning Cheng had no intention of letting it go. He only had one opportunity. If Ning Cheng missed it, Ning Cheng wouldn’t get another one, at least not for a short while. Therefore, he quoted a price of 610,000 without any hesitation.
Everyone in the hall knew about the cultivator with sparse blue hair and pale face, as this person was a real Dao Sculpting powerhouse. Therefore, when such an expert bid 600,000 points to purchase an incomplete spiritual consciousness cultivation method, it did not cause much surprise.
But Ning Cheng was different, Ning Cheng even looked very young, with cultivation around the middle-stage Eternal Realm. Yet, such a cultivator bid 610,000 points. It immediately created quite a stir around the hall.
When did it get so easy to earn points? How could an Eternal ant obtain more than 600,000 points?
People who didn’t know Ning Cheng simply felt that Ning Cheng’s approach was just too abrupt. As for Kong Ning, the only person who knew about Ning Cheng’s roots, she felt even more shocked.
Ning Cheng had borrowed her 70,000 points and had even spent 100,000 points to purchase the Phantom Wind Trace. Now he bid 610,000 points. Didn’t it mean that Ning Cheng had at least 800,000 points? But she knew, as clear as day, that Ning Cheng was just a newcomer to the Grand Essence Ruins. At most, it would have been not more than three years since Ning Cheng came to the Grand Essence Ruins.
So how did such a newcomer obtain so many points?
Shan Yaocen’s eyes lit up even more. She first glanced at Kong Ning and scoffed at her in secret,
Kong Ning you sure know how to finesse
. No wonder Kong Ning showed such politeness to a rogue cultivator. It turns out that this rogue cultivator was quite wealthy. From the looks of it, Kong Ning’s scheming and skills had already surpassed her. Just look at how that rogue cultivator didn’t hesitate to lend points to Kong Ning. Anyone would come to realise that this rogue cultivator was just a puppet dancing in Kong Ning’s hands.
Now that she ‘understood’ that this rogue cultivator was nothing more than a sheep, he better not blame her, Shan Yaocen, to also take advantage of it.
Ying Yongxuan frowned. No matter how he looked at it, Ning Cheng didn’t look anything like a wealthy cultivator.
How could he earn so many points?
Moreover, if Ning Cheng truly was so rich, how could he not even have the qualifications to enter this place by himself?
“Yishuang looks like the ant who wanted to get close to us is quite rich.” A little farther away from Ning Cheng, sat two very beautiful female cultivators. They were none other than 9-revolving Sacred Dao Pond’s Shi Yishuang and Na Yuanxiang. It was Na Yuanxiang, the shorter of the two, who glanced at Ning Cheng and whispered.
The tall Shi Yishuang showed a slight frown, and then said after a while, “From the looks of it, this person most likely is an inner sect disciple of a big sect, and wants to swagger around shamelessly relying on a few points.”
After speaking, her gaze disdainfully swept across Kong Ning seated not far away from Ning Cheng and then at Shan Yaocen sitting a little farther away. As for Peng Ruimei, who sat next to Ning Cheng, she completely ignored her because of her ‘unsightly’ appearance.
“Ning Cheng, how many points do you have?” Peng Ruimei didn’t know that others had blatantly ignored her, and couldn’t help but ask in a low voice.
“I don’t have a lot of points, but I’m about to use up half of them.” Ning Cheng told the truth.
Peng Ruimei gave a cold humph,
about to use up half of the points.
Didn’t it mean that this fellow had at least a million points? How the hell did this bastard get so many points?
The sparse blue-haired cultivator didn’t expect that someone would compete with him, let alone an Eternal ant. His spiritual consciousness blithely swept towards Ning Cheng to use the powerful momentum to warn Ning Cheng to quit competing with him. At the same time, he once again quoted 640,000 points.
Even if the blue-faced cultivator felt dissatisfied with Ning Cheng, he could only give a quick warning in such an exchange meeting. If he dared to oppress Ning Cheng openly, it wouldn’t be a small matter.
The blue-faced male cultivator added 30,000 points bringing the price up to 640,000 points. After seeing this price, the people in the e
xchange hall ignored the male cultivator’s actions but instead focussed their gazes at Ning Cheng. Everyone wanted to know whether this nouveau rich idiot would continue to increase the price. And if he raised the price, by how much?
Even if it spotlights him, Ning Cheng will increase the price regardless of the circumstances. The spiritual consciousness cultivation method directly correlated to his strength in the future, how could he shrink back from it? But Ning Cheng also knew his limits. He only had 1.5 million points. Compared to those old monsters who lived in the Grand Essence Ruins for countless years, he still had a high chance of losing.
It also meant that there was a limit on how much he could fight others on points. Therefore, if he obtained this cultivation method in exchange for all his points, it wouldn’t be worth it. What’s more, he still hasn’t fulfilled his primary purpose of coming here to find a way to transform his celestial essence into spirit essence. Although Ning Cheng knew that he could use the spirit crystals for the conversion, he wanted to check if there was something better. Plus, he also wanted to purchase a suitable long spear for himself.
It also meant that he had to take out something that could tempt this old black-robed cultivator. Thinking over everything, Ning Cheng once again quoted a new price, 650,000 points plus five egg-sized Time Stones.
Ning Cheng chose Time Stones over Space Crystals not because he had a wrong perception of Space Crystals’ value. He believed that Time Stones were far less valuable than Space Crystals for cultivators who have not yet touched the Laws of Space. But for cultivators who have already come into contact with the Laws of Space, Space Crystals were practically worthless.
On the other hand, only a handful of cultivators could come into contact with the Laws of Time. Therefore, at this moment, a Time Stone, which could potentially help someone touch the Laws of Time, would have a significantly higher value.
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