“It only has a teleportation function, but how far can it teleport? What is the cooldown for repeated use? Although one hundred top-grade spirit stones isn't much, we aren't suckers either!”
“Exactly. A Second-Grade talisman only costs ten top-grade spirit stones. If using this once requires a one-year cooldown, wouldn't that be a massive loss?”
“Is this piece of trash the grand finale treasure? Has your Fusheng Auction House run out of things to sell?”
The auctioneer listened to their complaints, her expression turning slightly awkward.
Their auction house had also brought in many people to study this token. They had spent a full three years researching it but failed to find any secrets about it.
Yet, they instinctively felt that this token was not simple...
And yet, they couldn't figure it out...
In short, in their eyes, this token was a classic case of something useless to keep, yet too good to throw away.
If Wen Jingshu knew what they were thinking, she would definitely sneer and say, “That's only because your level is too low!”
There were indeed many supreme powerhouses in the Eastern Azure Continent, such as her own family.
But in terms of overall development, the Eastern Azure Continent could not compare to the Northern Dark Continent.
One could say that the Eastern Azure Continent lagged behind the Northern Dark Continent by at least five thousand years!
Any cultivator in the Northern Dark Continent would know the function of this token, whereas the cultivators of the Eastern Azure Continent did not.
It wasn't that they lacked capability, but rather that they didn't understand the principles and materials used to make it. Furthermore, they had simply never seen such a thing before!
No matter what others thought, Wen Jingshu was quite interested in this item.
Even if this token was completely useless on the Eastern Azure Continent, she still wanted to buy it as a keepsake.
Back when she was still the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu, she had no idea that other continents existed in this world. Since she had ended up on the Eastern Azure Continent by a stroke of luck, could she perhaps use this token to find a clue to return to the Northern Dark Continent?
Although there was no one or nothing on the Northern Dark Continent that the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu would risk her life to return to, it was still a lingering sentiment.
Now that a clue was right before her eyes, and it wasn't considered expensive to her, Wen Jingshu spoke up to place a bid:
“The pattern is quite nice. I bid one hundred and one top-grade spirit stones.”
Hearing someone bid, the auctioneer immediately perked up. She had already prepared herself for this item to go unsold, but as it turned out, there really was a second-generation cultivator willing to spend money on this little trinket.
“Our guest in the Heaven-grade room has bid one hundred and one top-grade spirit stones! Are there any higher bids?”
In the end, Wen Jingshu was the only one who bid. No one followed suit even after half an incense stick's worth of time.
Someone even said impatiently:
“Hurry it up. I'm still waiting to see what kind of great treasure the final item is.”
“Yeah, I heard the final item is an Azure Dragon egg. Although I can't afford to bid on it, I can at least watch!”
“An Azure Dragon egg? Didn't they say it was a Heaven-grade cultivation technique? But then I heard Wang Ergou say it was an immortal artifact!”
“Since Second Young Lady Wen wants this useless token, your auction house might as well just give it to her. I've really never seen anyone so bad at doing business.”
In the end, Wen Jingshu won the item by adding just a single top-grade spirit stone.
Wen Jingshu was somewhat speechless.
If she had known they had absolutely no interest in this token, she would have just added a single low-grade spirit stone.
Forget it. If she had really added a single low-grade spirit stone, it would have been somewhat embarrassing for her.
After all, she was no longer just the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu, but the younger sister of an alchemical powerhouse, the genius Wen Jingshu!
Ying Zhen was clearly not interested in the token in Wen Jingshu's hand either. He said to her:
“Junior Sister, what do you think this final item actually is?”
The Fusheng Auction House had indeed kept the identity of this final item a closely guarded secret. Even their group of upper-class privileged elites had no idea what it was.
They had only advertised it to the public as a peerless treasure rarely seen in ten thousand years—the kind of treasure one would regret missing out on for the rest of their life.
If any other auction house had said so, they would have only thought it was a joke. But since the Fusheng Auction House said it, they were still inclined to believe that this final item was indeed a genuine treasure.
Wen Jingshu considered a few possibilities and answered honestly:
“Who knows? But... if it really is an Azure Dragon egg, I might consider it.”
A cultivation technique or mental method? She didn't think she would be lucky enough for it to match her attribute. Even if it did, it might not be better than what she was currently practicing.
As for natural treasures... although she had accidentally destroyed many of them, her family background was still there, so not just any grade of treasure could catch her eye.
Needless to say for weapons; her wood spiritual root's natal magic treasure had already refined the Shengsheng Bead. She was just waiting to find the remaining seven beads to assemble the complete Yinian'an.
As for the natal sword of her lightning spiritual root...
She planned to try her luck at the Sword Tomb.
“The first day of the auction feast has officially concluded! We will now reveal the mystery of the final item for everyone!”
After the auctioneer finished speaking, a circular teleportation platform suddenly lit up in the middle of the stage, glowing with complex patterns.
At the peak of its radiance, a pedestal holding an object gradually appeared in everyone's line of sight.
The pedestal was about 1.2 meters high, carved entirely from dark wood and engraved with complex runes, which were clearly meant for security.
Sitting prominently at the very top was an egg.
The egg was about the size of an ostrich egg from the mortal realm, and even its color was no different from a common egg.
There wasn't even a trace of spiritual energy on it.
Yet, such a completely ordinary-looking egg was actually the grand finale item of this Fusheng Auction!
“Holy shit, the rumors were actually true! The final item is really an Azure Dragon egg!”
“Dragons don't even exist anymore, do they? This egg looks completely lifeless. Could it be a dead egg?”
“At the last auction, an egg with just a trace of divine beast bloodline went for one hundred million top-grade spirit stones. Now that an actual Azure Dragon has appeared, could the starting bid be in supreme-grade spirit stones?”
One had to know that although top-grade spirit stones and supreme-grade spirit stones were both standard circulating currencies, they were completely different things!
Supreme-grade spirit stones were also known as the spiritual marrow of a mineral vein. A small mineral vein would produce at most a thousand pieces.
Its value lay not only in its extreme rarity, but also in the fact that it could be used for cultivation without any side effects!
While any spirit stone could be used directly for cultivation, supreme-grade spirit stones had absolutely no impurities! Furthermore, the energy they contained was much richer, and they could even temper the physical body painlessly!
That was painless body tempering! What cultivator could resist such a temptation?
Thus, even though supreme-grade spirit stones were a form of currency, under normal circumstances, no one would choose to use them to buy things.
But the current situation was clearly anything but normal!
That was a divine beast egg! An Azure Dragon, which in legends could swat a Mahayana Stage cultivator to death with a single swipe of its tail!
Forming a contract with an Azure Dragon was equivalent to permanently having a top-tier expert as a personal bodyguard!
Not to mention, it could also be used as a mount!
This was simply the dream beast of every cultivator!
Just thinking about it made the blood of the cultivators boil with excitement. The auctioneer allowed the crowd below to remain in a frenzy for a full fifteen minutes before she finally spoke to explain:
“I'm sure some well-informed Daoist friends have already figured it out. That's right, the grand finale item of this auction is indeed this Azure Dragon egg!”
Having said that, the auctioneer took a special stone and placed it on top of the egg.
She then circulated her spiritual energy, and the Azure Dragon egg burst with brilliant light. The projection of a massive azure dragon appeared above the stage.
The Azure Dragon's appearance was incredibly domineering and majestic. Even as a mere projection, it exuded a pressure that everyone could feel.
Vaguely, the cultivators could even hear the faint sound of a dragon's roar.
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