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Chapter 936: Chapter 937: Procurement
Several times there had been no bidders at all!
This was not surprising, because the spiritual objects put up by various forces were mostly of high grade but had little practical use.
Under such circumstances, naturally, no one wanted to be the sucker.
And the reason they did this was simple, to damage the reputation of the Li family’s auction!
An auction that frequently saw lots passed in would inevitably make outsiders lose confidence and no longer think about consigning their spiritual objects.
Given that they believed the Li family had some sort of trump card, the various forces did not dare to push too hard, for fear they would upset the table in anger, and could only use these petty tricks to strike at the Li family.
However, what they did not expect was that the Li family had already arranged for staff to take in these spiritual objects.
Although these spiritual objects were replaceable by better ones or those of a lower grade for use in alchemy, artifact refining, or other crafts, they held two very important uses for the Li family!
First, to open a spirit realm!
The Spirit-Nurturing Cave Heaven Array created by Jiang Fengwu was now lacking these high-rank spiritual objects as array eyes.
In the Primal Spirit Realm, the method to open a spirit realm was not common! Or rather, there was not much demand for a spirit realm.
Firstly because the space of the Primal Spirit Realm was quite solid, and even Lianxu Cultivators could only barely break through the space with all their might, a fact that stymied many cultivators.
Secondly, the Primal Spirit Realm was rich in resources, vast in territory, rich in spiritual energy, and its laws were straightforward, unlike the Profound Origin Realm, where it was necessary to forge new paths to hasten cultivation speed, otherwise, the difficulty of ascension was too great.
As far as the Li family knew, among the hundreds of forces in the Thousandfold Mountains, there seemed to be few that possessed a spirit realm.
Secondly, the Li family could use these high-rank spiritual objects to nurture spirit beasts, promote the ascension of their bloodlines, and thereby enhance the grade of the family’s spirit beasts.
The Li family almost bought out all of their spiritual objects at prices close to the starting bid.
And this scene, in the eyes of those forces, was nothing but the Li family trying to maintain the auction’s reputation; they had no idea they had delivered a great gift to the Li family, still thinking about recovering some of the spirit stones.
But they didn’t realize that the Li family was the biggest winner.
Amid the bidding of the crowd, one spiritual object after another ascended the auction stage, and soon it was time for the final highlight—a Red Origin Pill Recipe that could enhance the mana of Nascent Soul Cultivators.
There were only five copies of the recipe, but they sold for tens of millions of spirit stones!
The reason they could sell for such a high price was that the pill recipe included the spirit seeds needed for the spiritual medicines.
To know, these spirit seeds were brought from the Profound Origin Realm by the Li family; similar effects might exist in this realm, but there were definitely no identical spiritual objects.
And as the last recipe was taken down, the first auction held by the Li family had come to a satisfactorily perfect close.
Eventually, they cleared the auction hall, giving everyone the freedom to exchange and sell their spiritual objects, and only closed the large doors after the sun had set.
However, this enormous amount of spirit stones did not stay too long in the Li family’s treasury; just a few days later, they were taken by a small team of about thirty people to Xiao Yuan Immortal City in the south.
The Li family lacked various foundational methods and low-rank spirit seeds!
It seemed that when Zhirui ascended, Da Qing and others had virtually emptied Wanxian Island, so it shouldn’t be that these things were lacking, but those things were not from the Primal Spirit Realm.
Occasionally bringing out spiritual objects not found in the surrounding territories, others would only think that the Li family had come to avoid disaster, traveling ten million miles, and would not think much of it, especially because the Primal Spirit Realm was so vast that even immortals would need to fly for years to make one round around the world. 𝓃ℴ𝓋𝓹𝓊𝓫.𝒸𝓸𝓂
Moreover, the rich spiritual energy and manifested laws made it easy to birth new spiritual objects or mutations.
But if all the Li family’s spiritual objects were unheard-of, that would be too strange!
So, to make up for this huge and fatal flaw, the Li family had to spend a large amount of spirit stones to purchase all kinds of low-rank spirit objects and methods that were available.
Actually, for several years, the Li family had been arranging for family members to hide their identities and purchase various spirit seeds and methods in the small marketplaces around.
But because the marketplaces were too small and were backed only by Transforming Spirit forces, many items were unavailable.
Just right through this auction, the Li family had made a large sum of spirit stones and thought to buy the needed spirit seeds and methods all at once in Xiao Yuan Immortal City.
Because of the huge amount involved, it was very likely to attract the attention of interested parties, so Zhirui was also among them, and he planned to lie in wait, hoping to obtain some good items from those robbing or bandit cultivators.
"Let’s go."
The Cloud Whale Spirit Ship quickly ascended and headed south.
Flying halfway, they split into two small teams, each piloting another spirit ship.
Three seemingly unrelated spirit ships, under human control, arrived at Xiao Yuan Immortal City one after another, with half an hour intervals.
Zhirui did not go in with the crowd. There were many strong figures in the immortal city, and his tricks could hardly conceal his true cultivation.
It wasn’t just about startling the prey; he was afraid that if they discovered a Lianxu Cultivator, they would send even stronger cultivators to plunder the Li family’s team, raising suspicions.
A force possessing a Lianxu Cultivator coming to buy various basic methods and low-rank spirit objects? Such a strange situation could hardly fail to arouse suspicion.
Rather than that, it was better to do as now, sending a group of Golden Core and Nascent Soul family members to buy separately in the city. They would only think it was some loose cultivator preparing to found a sect or establish a family.
