Chapter 33: Water-Repellent Bead, Golden Armor Shield
As soon as the female cultivator finished speaking, bidding sounds rang out in the Huixuan Pavilion.
"Fifty-one thousand!"
"Fifty-two thousand!"
"Fifty-five thousand!"
After more than ten bids, the price soared to seventy thousand.
At this time, a slightly abrupt voice sounded, "After wearing this Thousand Illusion Mask, will no one be able to see the wearer's true appearance? Or is there a limit to the level of cultivation?"
On the first floor of the attic, the red-clothed female cultivator was not surprised by this question, and kept a decent smile on her face, "No cultivator below the Jindan level can see through it."
After this, the bidding sounds suddenly decreased a lot.
Someone murmured in dissatisfaction: "What? It can only be hidden from Qi Refining and Foundation Building cultivators. Isn't it equivalent to a useless thing!"
"It's not that bad." The red-clothed female cultivator retorted: "At least for cultivators who have their own cultivation in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building realms, the Thousand Illusion Mask is a rare treasure!"
The person who spoke earlier asked: "Oh? What do you mean?"
"It's very simple. There are eight realms of cultivators, and the strength between each realm is very different. If you have your own cultivation in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building realms, then the probability of being noticed by cultivators above the Golden Core realm is extremely low. Even if they meet one, they will not be too busy to meddle in your affairs when they find that you have used a treasure to disguise yourself."
At the end, the red-clothed female cultivator added, "Unless you have offended someone you shouldn't have, in which case you can only wish for the best. Besides, the starting price of the Thousand Illusion Mask is here, and you have some idea of it. If you can really hide it from the perception of seniors above the Golden Core realm, it is impossible for the price to be this high."
"Hmph, even so, Fellow Daoist Liu should also point out the shortcomings when introducing the auction items, otherwise it will be bad if it causes any misunderstandings!"
This statement was agreed by many cultivators in the pavilion. Listening to the continuous echoes, the red-clothed female cultivator put away the smile on her face.
"All the auction items in the Huixuan Pavilion auction have sellers behind them. We are just auctioning according to the seller's requirements. The Taoists and seniors who often come here must be very clear about this rule."
"Of course." Someone spoke up to help, "The seller's request, Huixuan Pavilion cannot change it. Don't get entangled in this matter, just continue bidding!"
The owner of Huixuan Pavilion is a Yuanying cultivator. This auction is a small auction, and most of the people who come are Qi Refining and Foundation Building, so no one really dares to be presumptuous.
The pavilion was quiet for a while, and the bidding price stopped at 71,000 low-grade spirit stones.
Seeing that no one continued to bid, the red-clothed female cultivator looked a little unhappy.
"Are there any other Daoist friends bidding?"
No one spoke up. Just when she was about to give up and prepare to bid three times to close the deal, Shen Qingluo, who had remained silent, suddenly offered, "Seventy-two thousand."
The female cultivator's expression eased a little and continued to wait. Unfortunately, no one bid this time.
Perhaps it was because she had too high expectations before, which brought a huge psychological gap. The thing that was originally very precious in her eyes has become less pleasing to the eye.
After a while, the female cultivator had to speak up: "Seventy-two thousand once. Seventy-two thousand twice. Seventy-two thousand three times. Deal! Congratulations to this Daoist for winning the Thousand Illusion Face. An attendant will go there later to exchange the auction item."
On the second floor of the attic, Shen Qingluo took out the corresponding number of spirit stones. After the attendant came over, she successfully got the Thousand Illusion Face.
After the first auction item was auctioned, the second attendant walked out of the secret door soon, holding a silver long sword in his hand.
The red-clothed female cultivator began to introduce: "This is the second auction item, a low-grade spiritual weapon without attributes, the Huanyue Sword, with a starting price of 9,000 low-grade spiritual stones, and each bid must not be less than 500 low-grade spiritual stones."
The so-called attributeless weapons refer to those cultivators of any spiritual root that can be used for sacrifice and refinement. Shen Qingluo's Liufeng pipe is also attributeless.
Soon someone started bidding, and Shen Qingluo chose to watch the fun. About half a cup of tea later, the Huanyue Sword was sold for 80,000 low-grade spirit stones.
Shen Qingluo was shocked. She didn't think she got a bargain by using 72,000 low-grade spirit stones to buy the Thousand Illusion Face, but now with this comparison, she felt that she had found a bargain.
One started at 50,000 and was finally sold for 72,000; the other started at 9,000 and was finally sold for 80,000.
Fortunately, someone asked the question in time, otherwise, who knows how high the price of the Thousand Illusion Face would have been!
At the first floor of the attic, as another attendant holding a golden tray came forward, the red-dressed female cultivator introduced the third auction item.
"This is a top-grade water-repellent bead. It has no restrictions on the level of cultivation. With this item, cultivators with non-water spiritual roots can also stay underwater for a long time. The starting price of the water-repellent bead is 60,000 low-grade spiritual stones, and each bid must not be less than 1,000 low-grade spiritual stones."
"61,000!"
"63,000!"
"67,000!"
The refining of the water-repellent bead is inseparable from the mermaid bead, which is quite rare. Soon the price soared to 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
Xia Jinxi wanted to participate in the auction, she still has a total 37,527 middle grade spirit stone.
After having a rough idea in mind, Xia Jinxi began to bid.
"One hundred and thirty thousand!"
Soon another voice sounded, "One hundred and thirty-one thousand!"
The bid continued: "One hundred and thirty-five thousand!"
In the end, Xia Jinxi won the top-grade water-repellent beads at the price of two hundred thousand lower-grade spirit stones.
As long as this treasure is not damaged, it can be used all the time. With it, it will be much easier to go into the water to search for treasures in the future.
On the second floor of the attic, Xia Jinxi took out the 2000 middle-grade spirit stones of spirit stones. After the attendant came over, and successfully got the water-repellent beads.
The transaction was successfully completed. On the first floor of the pavilion, the red-clothed female cultivator began to introduce the fourth auction item.
"This is the Golden Armor Shield, a top-grade defensive spiritual weapon. It is made of the golden armor tortoise shell of a second-level peak monster beast as the main material, with more than ten kinds of auxiliary materials. The starting price of this treasure is 150,000 low-grade spiritual stones, and each bid must not be less than 5,000 low-grade spiritual stones."
The defensive measure Xia Jinxi have just top-grade magic weapon Emerald Boots, it's certainly not enough for sect competition.
Soon the price soared to 250,000. At this time, Xia Jinxi spoke.
"300,000!"
Shen Qingluo was slightly surprised. Others bid by thousands and thousands, but her friend directly raised the price by 50,000 at a time!
The pavilion was silent for a moment, but the top-grade spiritual weapon was also a great thing for foundation-building cultivators, so soon someone followed up with the price.
"Three hundred and one thousand!"
"Three hundred and two thousand!"
"Three hundred and five thousand!"
Xia Jinxi continued to bid, "350,000!"
The pavilion was silent again, and soon someone followed up with a bid, "352,000!"
"700,000!" Xia Jinxi spoke again, and this time the pavilion was silent for a long time, and no one bid again.
This price has slightly exceeded the value of the golden armor shield.
But Xia Jinxi didn't care about this. She liked this spiritual weapon very much. After getting it, her hope of entering the top 100 in the sect competition would be greater.
Xia Jinxi had no shortage of attack methods with her sword intent, but after all, she was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining. Many of the people who signed up for the sect competition were disciples who entered the sect in previous sessions and were already at the ninth level of Qi Refining. It was obvious that she couldn't face them without powerful defensive means.
After bidding for this spiritual weapon, a servant came over soon. Xia Jinxi took out a storage bag and handed it over. There were 7,000 medium-grade spiritual stones in it.
Her spiritual stones came from the production of array plates and array flags. Just like the alchemy apprentice task that Shen Qingluo accepted, the array apprentice task was to make array plates and array flags. After successfully completing multiple tasks, she also had to hand over part of them to the array peak.
Array plates and flags are very valuable. Xia Jinxi is very talented in array formations.
Except for the part that must be handed in, she only kept one set of array flags, and sold the rest to Zhenfeng in exchange for spirit stones.
After getting the golden armor shield, Xia Jinxi looked at it carefully for a moment, confirmed that there was no problem, and put it into the space with a wave of her sleeve. As soon as the auction was over, she would immediately return to the sect to offer sacrifices.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh auction items were all spiritual weapons, some of which were mainly for attack and some for defense, but none of them were top-quality. Neither Shen Qingluo nor Yao Molian participated in the auction.