197 Auction (2/2)
The items kept coming, and soon a stone of some sort was presented on the stage.
”This is called the Moon Stone,” the auctioneer started. ”It looks like it could have been the fossil of an egg, but there is no life left in the egg itself.”
”It is mainly used as an ornament or a souvenir. But because it is as old as it is, we set the lowest price at one essence stone.”
Xue Wei had originally not had any interest in the egg, but suddenly the Azure Dragon Spirit in his dantian started to feel restless.
Xue Wei could not understand the spirit, but he could sense that something had agitated it greatly.
It even left his body and started to coil around his arm and looked fixedly at the egg.
”Do you want it?” Xue Wei asked. The Azure Dragon Spirit nodded its head.
”Five essence stones,” Xue Wei called out, raising the price so much that many started grumbling again.
But no one tried bidding over him. It was a useless stone. There was no reason to try and enrage some esteemed expert for the sake of a dead egg.
Xue Wei was content and so was the Azure Dragon Spirit. It quickly returned to his dantian.
Many interesting things had been up for sale on the auction, but a spiritual cultivation technique had not been one of them, and it seemed that it would not appear at the auction. It was time for the formations to be announced.
”Dear guests. I am sure you have all heard the rumors that have been circulating the last two weeks,” the auctioneer began her introduction.
”We had originally planned to auction off a Rebirth Pill, but things changed. Instead, we were given the chance to sell formations! And not just one formation – we have multiple formations up for sale today!”
”We will start with the one called the Spiritual Bomb.”
”The Spiritual Bomb is a beginner's formation, but do not look down on the power it has! The formation requires someone to pour energy into it to trigger the explosion. The explosion is terrifyingly strong and can injure Heavenly Warriors and will most likely kill anyone below that.”
”The Spiritual Bomb is a formation that can open the path to becoming a formation master! If you manage to understand the runes and reinscribe them, you might become a formation master yourself!”
”We will start with the first of the fifteen Spiritual Bombs we have up for sale with a beginning bid at ten low grade essence stones.”
Xue Wei was ecstatic. Spiritual Bombs were not extremely useful for him anymore, so to gain ten low grade essence stones for each would already give him a massive fortune, but this was only the beginning bid.
”Twelve low grade essence stones!”
”Thirteen!”
”Twenty low grade essence stones! This daddy is going to get the formation and become a formation master!”
”Twenty-one!”
The bidding was ferocious. Every person in the hall wanted to win. The three great sects did not show any respect for each other. The two princes were also participating in the frenzied bidding. and only when the first formation had been sold at thirty-seven low grade essence stones did people realize the silence from the Sky Room.
”They ran out of money?” someone said in a gloating manner, but then an unknown person asked a question that made the entire auction house quieten down: ”You don't think it's the formation master that's in the Sky Room?”
The Cerulean Starlight Sect had long since reached this conclusion, but the others were stunned silly.
The two princes felt that only a formation master was capable of taking the Sky Room from them. However, if it was a formation master, and it was that independent cultivator from before, then had they not already insulted him and made a bad impression?
”Elder Qin, I have an idea.” A fierce light flashed in the eyes of the prince from the Chengzi Kingdom.
The elder looked at the prince and saw the crafty gleam in his eyes. ”It will be beneficial for our kingdom to have a formation master so I agree that we should invite him.”
”If he says no, we will just have to use a bit of force,” Elder Qin nodded his head.
”Seems like our cover is blown,” Hei Gou said casually after seeing how the people in the audience looked at them with reverence.
”It doesn't matter,” Bai Tianyi answered casually. ”They won't know what we look like and they won't be able to do anything to us. I know the Cerulean Starlight Sect will keep quiet, because that's most beneficial for them.”
”Maybe the princes will notice it,” Xue Wei said while shrugging his shoulders. ”But they should not want to make an enemy of a formation master.”
The bidding became more and more intense. The three great sects had each bought one of the formations, and the princes had also acquired their own.
After they secured one each, the price dropped from late thirty essence stones to the beginning of thirty.
Every participant in the auction wanted to get one for their sect and faction. There were quite a few spiritual bombs, but when they were no longer in supply, attention turned to another type of formations. The golems were up this time, and there were only two of them.
The people from the three great sects and the two princes could not help but curse when they realized that it would be impossible for all of them to get one. It was time for the real bidding war to begin.