Chapter 366 (1/2)
”I'm glad that you have stayed with us for so long, we will present tonight's last item!”
A well-dressed man with a soothing voice pointed to the stage. Onto it a jade beauty dressed in lavish clothing was walking. In her hands, she was holding a pillow and on it was an orb. The beauty placed this orb on center stage where everyone could see it and the small crowd of people erupted.
”Isn't that the fabled beast core of a divine spirit beast?”
”It's certainly the real deal, I can feel the divine power!”
Where the people were sitting was a large auction house. They were wearing various robes as they belonged to various sects from around the land.
”Yes, Seniors have a keen eye. This item belonged to a late Divine Beast! But not just any beast, it was one on the level of a Saint Emperor!”
”It couldn't be…”
”Saint Emperor? If that's true then it could be used to fashion a deadly weapon indeed…”
The murmurs continued until the auction started. It took a while for the cultivators here to quiet down and finally, it began.
”We will start at ten high grade spirit stones.”
Some of the people in the room swallowed hard after they heard the price point. One high grade spirit stone was worth ten thousand middle grade stones. Then one middle grade spirit stone was worth a thousand lower grade spirit stones.
This brought the starting price up to a staggering amount. If someone tried paying it in low grade spirit stones they would have to dump a whole truck of them here on the stage. Even with this steep price a paddle with a name of a sect on it was raised.
”It's the Saint Dragon sect, they even have a Saint Emperor as a Patriarch…”
They weren't the only ones bidding though as another sect raised the price even further.
”It's the Blade Demon Sect… aren't they in competition with the Saint Dragon sect?”
Even though this beast core was of the divine element it didn't mean that only righteous sects could use it. There were ways to corrupt such cores as well as cleanse evil ones of their energies to produce a similar ranked product.
There were other large sects and powerful seniors that bid at first but soon everything devolved into a competition between these two powerhouses.
”What is your intention here Blade Demon's, you can't fully utilize this beast core are you just trying to hike the price up for us!”
A man with a long beard that reached all the way up to his waist spit out in anger at a decrepit-looking man in a black robe.
”Ha, if you don't have the spirit stones then why even come here? Is the Saint Dragon Sect so poor that it can't afford a little divine beast core?”
The people from the Blade Demon Sect started laughing while the cultivators from the righteous one fumed with anger. This was nothing new as the two parties were in a dispute with each other for generations and there was no end in sight.
”One hundred high grade spirit stones…”
”Hundred spirit stones, is anyone willing to match the price?”
”Going once… going twice… going, Ah I see a palm raised there!”
The two sects looked at each other and could not see anyone raising a hand from their camps. This prompted them to look down to the main stage and down from the VIP booths that they were in. There a hooded person was raising his hand as if he wanted to bid more than a hundred spirit stones.
”Who is that man? He doesn't look like he even has a hundred low grade spirit stones… is this some kind of joke?”
As this was something unprecedented the people got loud. The seats that were down below the VIP booths were intended for the poorer demographic from the cultivator world. All the powerful elders would be inclined to pay a bonus to keep face and not look like a country bumpkin with the other poor sobs there.
”Sir, I must implore you to not raise your hand if you can't afford the item…”
The person responsible for the action let out a sigh as he looked at the man that raised his hand.
”Afford it? I think I can but would you be up for a trade instead?”
”A trade?”
”Yes, I'm low on spirit stones right now but would you be willing to trade that beast core for something of equal or higher value?”
”Equal or higher value to a Saint Emperor beast core?”
”Someone remove that man, he has clearly lost his mind!”
One of the people from the Blade Demon Sect called out from up in the VIP booth. The others were of similar mind as the man looked like some scammer that was trying to steal the divine beast core from their sect.
”Hah, why don't we hear the man out?”
On the other hand, the people from the righteous sect called out in favor of this turn of events. They didn't have enough funds to get the item that they dėsɨrėd so if this man could snatch it away from the enemies instead it would be a win in their eyes.