259: Fragments of celestial artifacts, all bidders are privy to secret characters!

The entire venue erupted in an uproar.

"Ten million? For a broken stone?"

"Is this Ancestor Qingyun insane? Too much money burning a hole in his pocket?"

"I think he's being taken for a fool! Something no one wanted for even a million, and he spends ten million?"

The gazes directed at the second-floor private room were filled with mockery and scorn.

In their eyes, Lu Yuan's behavior was typical of a nouveau riche—foolish and flush with cash.

Only Zhang Yuan felt his heart bleeding.

He knew that inside that stone was a genuine qilin immortal medicine seedling! Priceless! Although ten million was no small sum, compared to an immortality herb, it was practically dirt cheap!

[Ding, successfully intercepted Son of Destiny Zhang Yuan's 'Loss Rebate' Opportunity, triggering a thousandfold critical strike return, obtained one 'Mature qilin immortal medicine.']

A pleasant System notification sounded in Lu Yuan's mind.

Mature form!

Lu Yuan's lips curled into a slight smile. Combined with the original seedling, he now effectively had two qilin immortal medicines! If this got out, even those reclusive Void Immortal old monsters would likely turn green with envy.

The auction continued.

Zhang Yuan, suppressing his heartache, had someone bring up the next auction item.

It was a palm-sized piece of black iron, rusted and stained, looking like junk dug up from some abandoned mine.

"This item... is an unidentified metal fragment."

Zhang Yuan's voice sounded somewhat listless: "Although the material is hard, impervious to water and fire, it cannot be refined and shows no Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Perhaps it's a fragment of some ancient weapon.

Starting bid, five hundred thousand Saint Grade Spirit Stones."

Another fragment?

The audience below was already growing weary of the same old thing.

Why was the Origin Auction House peddling nothing but junk today?

But this time, the gazes of several Void Immortal Ancestors grew slightly more serious.

With their Realm, they could faintly sense an extremely weak yet supremely majestic aura lingering on that iron piece.

That was... Immortal Dao Laws!

"This thing is a bit strange," Jin Wugou murmured to himself.

"Five million," Chiyang Void Immortal tentatively called out a bid.

"Six million," Yellow Springs Saint Ancestor also followed suit.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan felt somewhat reassured.

These bids weren't particularly high, still within the range of the loss rebate.

"Fifty million Saint Grade Spirit Stones."

Lu Yuan's voice rang out again, directly raising the price by an order of magnitude.

The entire venue fell silent once more.

The several Void Immortal Ancestors frowned deeply, giving a profound look toward Lu Yuan's private room, but ultimately did not raise their bids further.

Fifty million for a possibly useless fragment was too risky.

"Fifty million once, twice, thrice! Sold!"

With the hammer fall, Lu Yuan gained another harvest.

[Ding, successfully intercepted Son of Destiny Zhang Yuan's 'Loss Rebate' Opportunity (targeting the Immortal Artifact fragment), triggering a thousandfold critical strike return, obtained one thousand 'same-source Immortal Artifact fragments.']

One thousand pieces!

Lu Yuan was overjoyed. Although these fragments couldn't be pieced together into a complete Immortal Artifact, each one contained genuine Immortal Dao Laws.

If he refined them all into the myriad things mother qi cauldron... his Lifebound Treasure might seize this Opportunity to transform into a half-immortal artifact, or even... the embryonic form of a true Immortal Artifact!

This auction was practically a shopping spree!

"Next up, one of the finale items of this auction!"

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, adjusting his mindset.

Although he had been intercepted by Lu Yuan several times before, this finale item was genuinely good, priceless, and absolutely impossible to sell at a loss!

A maid walked onto the stage holding a brocade box made of ten-thousand-year-old agarwood.

The box opened, revealing a scroll of yellowed ancient scripture fragments.

On that fragment was only a single ancient character, 'Jie,' written with vigorous strokes, as if containing some ultimate dao charm of heaven and earth.

"One of the Nine Secrets—the Jie Character Secret fragment!"

Zhang Yuan's voice suddenly rose, filled with passion: "This secret art is one of the ancient Nine Secrets. Although it's only a fragment, its power remains Heaven-Defying! Cultivators below the True Immortal Realm, once activated, have a certain chance to trigger triple combat power! If it can be completed... that would be a true supreme immortal technique, capable of triggering tenfold combat power!"

"Boom!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire venue erupted.

Triple combat power!

What did that mean?

Invincible within the same Realm! Killing across Realms as easily as taking something from a bag!

For Cultivators, this was simply the most fatal temptation!

"Ten million Saint Grade Spirit Stones!"

"Twenty million!"

"Fifty million!"

The price skyrocketed instantly, breaking through the hundred million mark in the blink of an eye.

The several Void Immortal Ancestors could no longer sit still, all joining the bidding.

"One hundred fifty million!" Jin Wugou's voice thundered.

"One hundred eighty million! This thing, I want it!" Chiyang Void Immortal's body surged with flames, clearly genuinely angered.

"Two hundred million! Whoever dares compete with me is an enemy of the Yellow Springs Dao Domain!" Yellow Springs Saint Ancestor directly threatened, his icy Killing Intent permeating the entire venue.

Faced with the threat of Void Immortals, ordinary Mahayana Stage Cultivators could only helplessly retreat.

But among the Void Immortals, none would yield to another.

"Two hundred ten million."

At that moment, Lu Yuan's voice rang out again, calm yet firm.

Yellow Springs Saint Ancestor abruptly turned, his death-gray eyes fixed on Lu Yuan's private room, his voice icy: "Ancestor Qingyun, do you truly intend to oppose me? Be careful—you might buy it, but not live to use it!"

This was a blatant threat!

Lu Yuan merely chuckled lightly: "In an auction, the highest bidder wins. If you're broke, shut up and stop embarrassing yourself here."

"You!" Yellow Springs Saint Ancestor was so angry he nearly fumed from all seven orifices, yet there was nothing he could do.

This was the Origin Auction House; he dared not take action.

"Two hundred fifty million!" he gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Three hundred million."

Lu Yuan directly added fifty million, his tone as casual as if buying cabbage.

The entire venue fell deathly silent.

Three hundred million Saint Grade Spirit Stones! This was already an astronomical figure! Enough to buy all the assets of a top-tier Sect!

Yellow Springs Saint Ancestor's face turned ashen; in the end, he didn't dare follow.

Although he was wealthy, that was the entire fortune of the Yellow Springs Dao Domain; he couldn't gamble it all on a fragmentary secret art.

"Three hundred million once, twice, thrice! Sold!"

Zhang Yuan's expression was somewhat calm; although this deal earned him quite a few Spirit Stones, for him, what he lacked least was Spirit Stones!

However, this auction obviously couldn't trigger a critical strike return, since even without Lu Yuan's participation, the Jie Character Secret couldn't possibly be auctioned at a loss.

Lu Yuan obtained the Jie Character Secret fragment; although it didn't trigger a return, he didn't mind.

The value of this secret art itself was already enough to recoup the cost.

Triple combat power stacked with his Chaos Body and Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength—the power... the image was too beautiful to imagine.

"Next up, the second-to-last finale item of this auction!"

Zhang Yuan's voice rang out again, carrying a mysterious and solemn tone.

Two maids carefully carried up an ancient sheepskin scroll.