258: Chapter 258 Purple Mansion Spiritual Objects

"Hmm? The most talented? Who is Fellow Daoist talking about?" Chen Changqing asked in confusion.

"Congratulations to this Fellow Daoist for successfully bidding for the Jade Cold Pearl." Below, the dainty young girl said happily.

"The Qinglian Sword Sect has nine children, known as the Qinglian Nine Children. Among these nine, aside from three Foundation Establishment Cultivators, the rest are Purple Palace Cultivators. Among these six, there is one person who surpasses the entire Tang Country cultivation world. This person not only has extremely high talent, but his Comprehension Ability is also unmatched by anyone.

Cultivating for merely fifty years, he was able to become a Purple Palace Cultivator, and moreover, a Purple Mansion of the Peerless Grade level. Most importantly, what he Cultivates is the founding Cultivation Technique of the Qinglian Sword Sect, the Qinglian Sword Scripture." When Master Yanhuo mentioned this person, his gaze became much more solemn.

He could not figure out how such a monster-like Genius could appear in the cultivation world.

Chen Changqing nodded and said no more.

As time ticked away, the second round of the auction finally came to an end.

"The next treasure is..., a Purple Mansion spiritual object, the Azure Jade Marrow." The dainty young girl scanned the crowd with a slight smile on the corner of her lips.

Behind her, a maidservant brought up a porcelain bottle.

Azure Jade Marrow?

A trace of doubt flashed in Chen Changqing's eyes.

"The Azure Jade Marrow is a top-grade spiritual object that can possibly be nurtured from millennium-old azure jade at intervals of time. If this item is consumed directly, it can prolong life, but if it is used to open up a Purple Mansion, it can increase the chance by ten percent." Seeing the doubts of many Cultivators, the dainty young girl softly explained.

"The starting bid for this item is fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and each increment shall not be less than ten thousand Spirit Stones."

"Sixty thousand Spirit Stones."

Just as her voice fell, someone called out a bid, afraid of being beaten to it by others.

However, since it was an auction, others would definitely place bids. Moreover, how could a spiritual object that increased the chance of opening up a Purple Mansion by ten percent be bought for sixty thousand Spirit Stones?

"You want to buy it for sixty thousand? How could it be that simple? Seventy thousand." Someone said disdainfully, shouting loudly.

"Eighty thousand!"

"Ninety thousand."

...

The price of the Azure Jade Marrow soared continuously, and before long, it exceeded one hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones.

This price made almost all Foundation Establishment Cultivators flinch. Many of them had scraped together this bit of Spirit Stones by borrowing everywhere from their rear Foundation Establishment factions, which was simply not enough to buy this Azure Jade Marrow.

But without buying a Purple Mansion spiritual object like the Azure Jade Marrow, if they wanted to open up a Purple Mansion, they could only rely on themselves.

In Tang Country, it was not that there were none who successfully achieved a Breakthrough to the Purple Mansion by themselves, but how many had there been since ancient times?

Even for Li Qingling and him, they did not dare to rely on themselves to achieve a Breakthrough to the Purple Mansion, because once they failed, there would only be a dead end.

Seeing that it was almost time, Chen Changqing joined the bidding queue. At this time, most of those still bidding were Purple Palace Cultivators. Like him, these Purple Palace Cultivators were either buying for their juniors or leaving it for the factions behind them.

"One hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Stones!" Chen Changqing shouted. After he shouted out one hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Stones, no one raised the price anymore.

Because continuing to bid would exceed the value of this Azure Jade Marrow, which would outweigh the gains. Moreover, there were other Purple Mansion spiritual objects later on, so there was no need to fight for it right now.

Looking at the Azure Jade Marrow delivered to him, Chen Changqing felt somewhat shocked in his heart. He had not expected that a mere bottle of Azure Jade Marrow would require such a huge price to be paid, and he did not know to what extent the price of the subsequent ziyu pill would be expensive.

Fortunately, having refined a large amount of Magical Artifacts and Talismans over the past three years, his Storage Pouch could still hold out.

For the next few Purple Mansion spiritual objects, Chen Changqing no longer made a move. After all, making a move too many times easily caused everyone to turn green with envy.

The main target of this trip was that ziyu pill.

The ziyu pill could out of thin air increase a thirty percent chance, coupled with Qingling's own inherent twenty percent chance, if she opened up a Purple Mansion, she would probably succeed.

After a while, the eight Purple Mansion spiritual objects were completely auctioned off.

Next was the ziyu pill.

Sure enough, just a moment later, that ziyu pill was personally brought over by the dainty young girl.

"As for the effects of this ziyu pill, this concubine will not make too many introductions. The starting bid is one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and each increment shall not be less than ten thousand Spirit Stones."

Originally, everyone in the hall was exceptionally excited upon seeing the ziyu pill, but after the dainty young girl stated the price, the entire hall suddenly became much quieter.

Countless Cultivators looked at this ziyu pill with covetous eyes. If not for the dainty young girl being a Purple Palace Cultivator, someone would probably have directly taken action to rob it.

"One hundred and fifty thousand!"

A steady voice rang out.

Everyone looked over in surprise. Because the bidder was in a room, their appearance and figure were obscured by a Formation, so no one could distinguish who they were.

However, he raised the price by fifty thousand right off the bat, seemingly determined to win this ziyu pill.

"Two hundred thousand!"

In the second room to the left directly opposite Chen Changqing, another person shouted out, also directly increasing the price by fifty thousand Spirit Stones.

"Two hundred and twenty thousand. Seeing that everyone is so enthusiastic, this old man will round it off to a good number, hehe!"

A Purple Palace Cultivator in another room shouted.

"Old Ghost Yu, you only know how to blindly join in the fun. I will add thirty thousand to make it two hundred and fifty thousand. If you all still want to compete with this one, this one will definitely not be polite."

Next to that old man, a middle-aged man's voice came out.

"You want to buy it for two hundred and fifty thousand? Do you look down on us? Three hundred thousand." Someone sneered coldly.

"Hmph! Since you want to snatch it from me, then this one doesn't mind adding more, three hundred and twenty thousand." The middle-aged man's voice came out once again, this time carrying a hint of anger.

"Three hundred and thirty thousand." Chen Changqing shouted from behind him. He did not care much about these people tit-for-tat rivalry, his gaze locked solely on that ziyu pill.

Meanwhile, Master Yanhuo in the room next to him had not participated in the bidding ever since he successfully bought a Tier 3 Medium Grade Magical Artifact, the Blazing Fire Bow.

Perhaps that Blazing Fire Bow earlier had exhausted all of his savings.

"Hmph, this Fellow Daoist, who are you anyway? You actually dare to compete with me, Master Kuangdao." That middle-aged man glanced towards Chen Changqing's direction.

"Master Kuangdao? It's actually Master Kuangdao." Below, some Foundation Establishment Cultivators were somewhat shocked upon hearing this.

"I didn't expect Master Kuangdao to have come to participate as well. This Master Kuangdao is one of the Elders of the Tyrant Blade Sect, Cultivating the Tyrant Blade Art. Rumor has it that with this Cultivation Technique, he single-handedly fought against three Purple Mansion Masters, and in the end, at the cost of heavy injuries, he killed one of them and beat back the other two." The rest also chimed in.

Master Kuangdao? Interesting, no wonder he dared to be so arrogant.

The corners of Chen Changqing's mouth curled up, and he did not care about the other party's tone, but the other party actually originated from the Golden Core Sect, the Tyrant Blade Sect.

He had heard a thing or two about this Golden Core Sect. Occupying Overlord City, one of the Middle Nine Cities, it ranked at the forefront among the sixteen Golden Core factions because this Sect possessed five Golden Core Masters, which was far more powerful than the Peach Blossom Garden by quite a bit.

The Cultivators of this Sect each had personalities that were quite straightforward, quite arrogant and domineering. However, this arrogance and domineeringness was directed at Cultivators weaker than themselves; when facing Cultivators even stronger than themselves, they were instead respectful and obedient.

After all, their brains weren't truly defective.