197 Auction (1/2)

The Shimmering Cardamom Pill was cheaper than the Seven Star Nightflower. Although it was useful and of high purity, it did not guarantee a rise of one layer when taken by a Sky Warrior.

As a result, Xue Wei purchased the pill at a price of five thousand and seven hundred gold coins.

Not many had dared bid when they heard that the bidder came from the Sky Room.

The only opponent he had had was the prince from Chengzi Kingdom. But when the price exceeded five thousand, he yielded and allowed Xue Wei to take it.

The next pill was a one-colored Rainbow Pill. Rainbow Pills were very special. They only existed in high purity and they had marvelous effects for the consumer, depending on who consumed it.

Rainbow Pills were not refined from herbs but instead from energies and elemental essences.

Rainbow Pills came in up to seven colors; the more colors, the more outstanding they were.But even a one-colored Rainbow Pill was enough to make Xue Wei widen his eyes and smile with glee.

One could never consume too many Rainbow Pills. Since they were refined from elemental essences and various natural energies, they contained no impurities. At the same time, the pills did not diminish in effect from repeated consumption.

A Rainbow Pill was a great treasure to Xue Wei and he did not hesitate when the bidding started.

”The opening bid is five low ranked essence stones. Remember that our Golden Chambers is willing to exchange one low grade essence stone for ten thousand gold coins.” The woman said. You could only buy normal items with gold. When it came to the more peculiar or the more outstanding ones, essence stones were the way to go.

Xue Wei decided he would later exchange his gold coins into essence stones after the auction.

”Ten essence stones,” Xue Wei called out. That was the equivalent of a hundred thousand gold coins, and it was the very first bid.

Instantly doubling the opening bid was enough to cause many to look at the Sky Room with curiosity. Who could be hiding within this room? Were they not the least bit interested in the formations later on, spending their gold on things so early?

”Eleven essence stones,” someone from the ground floor called out with a hesitating voice. Xue Wei did not hold back. ”Fifteen essence stones.”

The man from the ground floor shook his head in dismay and refrained from further bidding.

Xue Wei had expected a massive bidding war since this was a Rainbow Pill, but contrary to his expectations it cost him only fifteen essence stones.

”That is some good stuff!” Bai Tianyi said with a great smile on his face.

”Although it cannot compare to the Rainbow Pills of more colors, this is not a bad thing at all. You guys, let's draw lots to see who gets it!”

Seeing Bai Tianyi's enthusiasm and impatience, Xue Wei laughed out loud and shook his head. ”Later,” he replied dismissively.

The next item up for sale was a Fierce Beast that had been subdued by a Diviner. The Diviner was even present to hand over the reigns to the next owner.

Xue Wei had no interest in this item, but he noticed that the entire ground floor had gone insane, all bidding on top of one another.

Finally, it was sold for a hundred thousand gold coins, much more than the beast back in Tiankong City had sold for. It was no wonder that the Diviners preferred to sell beasts closer to the center of the continent.

After the beast, some more spiritual fruits were present, and Xue Wei won the bids on all of them. Afterwards, a lot of pills appeared and he did the same with those of high purity. He refused to buy middle or low purity pills.

The entire auction house soon realized that the ones in the Sky Room were very eager to get their hands on herbs, pills, spiritual fruits and other resources that benefitted cultivation.

Other than that, the items up for sale had no interest for them - or so they thought until the skills appeared.

Xue Wei bought every martial art and spiritual art technique that was high rank and above.

Among those were fist arts and sword arts. There was one movement technique that caused a large bidding war. Movement techniques were incredibly rare.

Xue Wei did not care and paid a full two low ranked essence stones for it.

By now, the entire auction house was swearing at the guests in the Sky Room.

He was taking everything. The people from the three great sects and the two princes were starting to get worried. What if they were as adamant on getting the formations?

The auction continued even though these prominent groups felt insulted and annoyed at the one-sided shopping spree by the Sky Room guests.

It was so bad that a manager from the auction house rushed to talk with the director. They needed to know what to do.

But to their greatest surprise, the director's tone of voice was quite harsh when he ordered them to not bother the guests in the Sky Room.

In the end, they were an auction house and the highest bidder was the winner. The personnel of the auction house feared if Xue Wei and company had enough money to pay up, but the director snorted when they voiced their complaints.

”They are rich,” he said to the manager that voiced the complaint and ended the topic like that.

Xue Wei was unaware of the ruckus he had caused. He did not know that the audience was tired of him, or that the personnel feared that he was a fraud, and he would have laughed it off if he did know.