Chapter 38 (2/2)

Although Xu Yi practically spoiled the mood for the auction, the silver-robed elder was neither alarmed nor angry. He calmly replied, “A good question, distinguished guest! The reason why the owner was willing to put this up for sale is simple. He had possessed the metal spirit for many years, but alas, he is still unable to forge it. As for the specific reasons, I am not aware. I believe that it is either because the method to forge it is hard to obtain, or it is hard to successfully forge it. In summary, the original owner was unable to enjoy its benefits. Instead of holding onto it in resentment, he chose to put it up for sale. At this point, let me remind all of you, although a treasure is a good thing, it still needs a capable person fated to own it. Hence, when announcing your bids later, I advise you all to think before you leap and not be blinded by its temptation.”

With such a speech, Xu Yi really had to take his hat off to the silver-robed elder. The old fella was truly crafty to be able to turn such an unpleasant situation around.

As practitioners who were at least at the peak of Body Forging, none of them in the room would feel that they were ordinary individuals, and none of them would admit that they lacked the ability.

With those words from the silver-robed elder, each member of the audience was inadvertently hyped up. Who would still bother to think about the suffering and effort that the original owner had gone through for decades? They would only think that he was not wise or resourceful enough and that they themselves would definitely succeed in his place.

As expected, after the silver-robed elder addressed all matters and announced the starting bid of “2000 gold,” the crowd went out of control.

Just as Xu Yi was calculating how high the price could go, in the blink of an eye, the price had soared to an unbelievable figure thanks to the crowd of people with fire in their eyes.

Elder Shui bellowed, “5000 gold,” and before he could follow up with any threats, another figure was already called out. The price was soaring to above 6000 gold.

In the end, while Xu Yi’s eyes were still dazzled, the auction came to a close.

The metal spirit finally ended up in the hands of Elder Shui.

When Elder Shui raised up a golden pill in his hands and shouted, “I will exchange it for a Divine Origin Qi Pill. Who dares to compete,” Xu Yi’s mental faculties broke down. He was practically seeing stars.

All of the storm that was raging was put out at that moment, and everyone went silent.

All that was heard was a crisp sound of the pommel, and everything ended.

Even after returning to his private secret room, after forking out the money to obtain the Dragon Alligator hide and walking through the passageways that snaked everywhere, Xu Yi’s pounding heart still had not calmed down.

A Divine Origin Qi Pill! It was the divine pill that all those in the Body Forging stage could only dream of.

Entering the Qi Ocean stage from the Body Forging stage was like a step into immortality. One’s strength becomes Qi, and True Qi can be released from the body, making one immensely powerful.

But in order to achieve all of this, the condition was to open up the Qi center to store True Qi.

The Divine Origin Qi Pill was made specially to open up the Qi center of Body Forging practitioners, and it was exceedingly rare.

Earlier during the auction, when Elder Qi from the Pill Cauldron Hall was buying the Baby Ginseng, that was just to attempt at making a Divine Origin Qi Pill. That alone had garnered the awe of the entire crowd.

Elder Shui had brought out an actual Divine Origin Qi Pill. He had no idea how much one would actually cost.

Xu Yi had bit on his own tongue just so that he would not blurt out the words, “I’ll trade you for that”.

Xu Yi stepped through the passage way absentmindedly. The black robe was already returned, and the Dragon Alligator hide was in his pocket. By right, he had definitely gained a lot today at Linglong Hall, but in his mind, the notion that he had lost something great was to heavy to dismiss.

“Sir, you had me waiting. So how was it? Linglong Hall’s auctions are quite something, right? What did you manage to get, sir?”

As Xu Yi’s mind was wandering, Yuan Qinghua popped out of nowhere.