Chapter 418: Three Hundred Copies (1/2)
Chapter 418: Three Hundred Copies
Translator: SwammpedEditor: Hitesh_
”Undying body!” Murong Qingcheng's brows were raised.
For a martial artist below Life and Death realm, the lure of undying body was beyond imagination. Life and Death realm was difficult to attain- this was the common consensus of all Sea of Soul realm experts in the True Spirit Continent. The number of Life and Death experts born every century didn't exceed ten. Although this number was sometimes exceeded, it never increased by too much. It should be known that the continent's population was almost a hundred trillion. Geniuses were like stars in the sky, simply too many to account. Even so, only around ten geniuses managed to enter Life and Death realm in the past hundred years. This was the level of difficulty to enter Life and Death realm.
Therefore, for the absolute majority, Sea of Soul realm was the limit of their potential. They didn't have much possibility to advance further. In that case, the undying body was their final destination. With the undying body, they would at least be able to compete with Life and Death King in a certain aspect. This was enough to drive them crazy.
Ye Chen was also moved. On the surface, the undying body seemed to have two layers, but in reality, there were three. First was regrowing a limb, second was flesh derivative, and the third was rebirth from a drop of blood. The second layer was different from the other two, and not all would be able to attain it. Of course, the difficulty of the second layer wasn't higher than the third, but some would directly jump to the third from the first. Without experiencing the second layer, the time to jump from first layer to third layer would be too long. Moreover, those with outstanding perception and comprehension would advance layer by layer, because that would be the course of making one's foundation strong. Not to mention that directly jumping from the first to third layer was exceptionally hard. More than ninety nine percent of people would have no means to do so. These matters couldn't be clearly explained with words, as one would only understand if they went through the experience themselves.
However, be it first layer, second, or third, undying body was something that ordinary martial artists could only dream about. It could even be said that the undying body was like gaining more potential. Life and death battles, forbidden zones, dangerous territories… with the support of undying body, one would be able to live a long life. It could be regarded as a talent that couldn't be ignored.
Cough!
The old man lightly coughed, then unhurriedly continued, ”This item is actually a map, a map to seek the location that has the secrets of the undying body. The starting price is a thousand mid grade spirit stones. I'll repeat again- I personally offer no assurance of this item's authenticity. If it's fake, you won't regret it too much. Otherwise, the starting price would have been much higher.”
”A thousand mid grade spirit stones? Old Gao, this price is still too low! Be it true or false, if it contains information about the undying body, its price should be astronomical.”
Some people were suspicious. It was not that they had too many spirit stones and wished for the price to get a bit higher, but they didn't feel at ease. A map that contained the secrets of the undying body was definitely not worth a mere thousand mid grade spirit stones. One couldn't say for sure that the map had already been recognized by the auction.
”That's right! Old Guo, what's the meaning of this?”
”If we you don't explain in clear terms, we won't dare to buy this.”
The old man said, beaming with smiles, ”That's because the map has more than one copies, a total of three hundred copies that are exactly the same. Each copy's price is a thousand mid grade spirit stones.”
”What, three hundred copies!”
”What are you playing at?”
The entire auction was in uproar.
The old man was already prepared for such a situation. He cleared his throat and said, ”Alright, I will refrain from excessive explanations. Every map's starting price is a thousand mid grade spirit stones. For the majority of people here, it isn't too much of an amount. As for whether it's real or not, everybody will have to decide for themselves. The bid for the first map begins.”
The auction was completely silent. Nobody made the bid, as most of the people were observing and waiting.
The old man wasn't worried. In any case, whether the map was real or fake wasn't certain. He didn't believe that nobody would bid. Moreover, once the first bid was issued, there would be second, third, fourth...and so on. The quiet at this moment was one before a storm.
”One thousand!”
A price of one thousand mid grade spirit stones was indeed quite low. If it had been ten thousand spirit stones, it would have been uncertain. Therefore, after a short while of silence, the first bid resounded.
”One thousand one hundred!”
The second bid immediately followed.
In the VIP room three hundred and ninety eight, Ye Chen raised his hand, ”Two thousand.”
Hearing these words, many people looked towards Ye Chen's VIP room with strange gazes. Everybody knew that he had ample wealth. Not to mention there were three hundred copies, even if there had been only one, not many would have been willing to enter a bidding war with him.
In this manner, Ye Chen obtained the first copy.
Murong Qingcheng smiled faintly. She understood Ye Chen's method. Although three hundred copies seemed a lot, at the end of auction when their number would have been greatly reduced, the prices would instead be much higher. Claiming one at this moment would allow one to save a lot of spirit stones.
The auction of the second copy was the same as the first one. Not many people bid, and its price was stagnating around two thousand mid grade spirit stones.
”Three thousand!”
The bidder was Murong Qingcheng. Although she had given all her spirit stones to Ye Chen, she had an extra mid grade artifact. Even if she were to loan it to auction for a low price, she would be able to obtain twenty to thirty thousand mid grade spirit stones. Her thought process was the same as Ye Chen. Even if it turned out to be fake after purchase, she would lose three thousand mid grade spirit stones at worst.
”This map is quite strange. There are either images of animals or abstract images.” Ye Chen opened the beast skin scroll and discovered that this map was unusual. There were no itinerary lines, but a single line that linked everything together. The starting point was a rooster's image, then was a skull, then a toad, two circles, and a square. It was completely indiscernible.
Murong Qingcheng opened her beast skin scroll. Her brows creased before she said, ”Perhaps it's a hint, or it's just false and been made needlessly complicated.”
The authenticity of usual maps was quite easy to see. If they had some strange things that couldn't be made sense of, they could pull the wool over people's eyes for a while.
Ye Chen nodded, ”There will be a lot of people studying this map. We'll be better off observing from afar.”
Three hundred identical copies of one map… Three Yin City had never witnessed such a matter before. After this auction, it was bound to set off huge waves.