174: Get them all!

“Eighty million!”

Shi Yi also joined the bidding army, and with each bid, this ten-thousand-year Ice Soul Jade Marrow was finally purchased by Shi Yi for 1.35 billion Spirit Stones!

“Congratulations to this Fellow Daoist for winning the first item. Next is the second item!”

The next item was still a Heaven And Earth Treasure, and Shi Yi directly took it down.

She still had more than one Top-Grade Spirit Stone that Lu Hao had given her before, which she hadn't used up, so she was quite wealthy.

It was estimated that very few people present were as rich as her.

The Yunjian Collection auction was categorized by item type, so the first two hundred-plus items were all Heaven And Earth Treasure and rare medicinal materials.

Shi Yi was not at all soft-hearted; as long as she saw a Heaven And Earth Treasure she hadn't purchased before, she would directly make a move!

She showed no signs of being distressed about the Spirit Stones.

Gradually, the people around also noticed the woman who had been consistently bidding.

After Shi Yi alone purchased nearly a hundred medicinal plants, someone finally couldn't help but speak up:

“Hey! That female Cultivator, can you let others have some sense of participation?! All these rare medicinal materials have been bought by you alone! What about us?!”

“Exactly, exactly, at least leave some for us… Really, being rich is amazing, isn't it?”

In a corner of the auction house, a gloomy voice sounded low:

“A mere Core Formation Cultivator dares to be so high-profile, truly ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth!”

Shi Yi ignored their words and continued to bid on her own; she was not worried about her safety.

Lu Hao had equipped her with an Undergoing Tribulation Puppet!

What's more, she also had an inscrutable human-shaped Puppet accompanying her.

If you have the guts, come and rob this old lady; this old lady will show you how to write the word 'death'!

Shi Yi spent all the Spirit Stones on her and happily acquired 130 types of Alchemy medicinal materials.

The people around looked at Shi Yi with a mix of jealousy and ill intent.

If they weren't too cowardly to act at the auction, it was estimated that someone would have already been unable to resist making a move.

It was time for the second category of auction.

This category was Magic Treasure, and Shi Yi had no interest in it. She sat quietly, showing no intention of bidding.

The Cultivators who wanted to bid on Magic Treasure breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

Fortunately, this Young Miss is only interested in Heaven And Earth Treasure, otherwise, they would have come for nothing this time…

The third category was various rare treasures, and the fourth category was various martial Cultivation Techniques.

Shi Yi also did not make any more moves.

Finally, it reached the last category, Medicinal Pill!

This was what most Cultivators here looked forward to the most.

Medicinal Pills that could be auctioned were at least Sixth-Rank Medicinal Pills, or some extremely rare Fifth-Rank Medicinal Pills.

Most Cultivators simply couldn't get their hands on these Medicinal Pills on a normal day.

Therefore, Cultivators with urgent needs would come to the auction to try their luck. If they were lucky, they might be able to buy it in one or two tries.

If they were unlucky, they might not see the Medicinal Pill they needed for several years.

Moreover, if one could continuously observe high-grade Medicinal Pills, it would be of great help to some low-level Alchemists!

Coupled with the fact that Danling State was originally a place where the Dao of Alchemy was very popular.

For various reasons, the auction of Medicinal Pills at every auction would be placed at the very end as the finale!

The fifth host took the stage and said loudly:

“Next is the auction of Medicinal Pills. The first Medicinal Pill item is the Blood Soul Reversal Pill!”

“This Pill is a Sixth-Rank Advanced Medicinal Pill. After consumption, within twelve hours, it can forcibly raise one's Cultivation by a small Realm, transform the surrounding blood Qi into crimson flames, and increase the strength of the Physical Body threefold.”

After the host introduced the Medicinal Pill, two black-robed middle-aged men appeared backstage, holding a tube-shaped object, and slowly walked to the center of the auction stage.

This was a unique rule of the Three Great Sects' auction houses: any Medicinal Pill sold at the Three Great Sects' auction would have a very small amount of Medicinal Pill powder removed.

Then, it would be tested by the Three Great Sects' specially made testing instruments.

This allowed the bidders to clearly observe how much of the Medicinal Pill's efficacy was activated.

This special rule had been in place for an unknown number of years. The purpose of implementing this rule was, firstly, to ensure the quality of all Medicinal Pills sold by the Three Great Sects' auction houses.

Secondly, it was also through this method that the Three Great Sects' auction houses could more comprehensively consolidate their position.

Because this testing instrument was jointly developed by the Three Great Sects, other places did not have it.

Therefore, other auction houses simply could not emulate it.

For consumers, they would certainly be more willing to buy Medicinal Pills whose quality they had seen with their own eyes.

For the same Medicinal Pill, if the star rating was different, the effect could be said to be vastly different.

For example, the value of a two-star Medicinal Pill was more than double that of a one-star Medicinal Pill.

However, from the appearance and aura, this was very difficult to detect.

If one paid for a two-star Medicinal Pill but received a one-star Medicinal Pill, that would be a huge loss.

Therefore, consumers would rather pay the appropriate value to purchase Medicinal Pills of corresponding quality than to blindly buy some unclear Medicinal Pills.

Over time, other auction houses basically stopped auctioning Medicinal Pills because few people dared to bid, fearing they would fall into a trap.

The two middle-aged men circulated their Cultivation, scraping a trace of Medicinal Pill powder from the Blood Soul Reversal Pill.

Then, they put it into the testing instrument.

There were nine stars on the instrument; lighting up one star meant that one-tenth of the Medicinal Pill's efficacy was activated.

As the Medicinal Pill powder was placed into the instrument, the stars on the instrument began to light up.

One, two…

Finally, it lit up to five stars, which meant that the Blood Soul Reversal Pill's efficacy activation level was fifty percent!

This was a two-star Sixth-Rank Advanced Medicinal Pill.

The higher the grade of the Medicinal Pill, the more difficult it was to activate its efficacy. The overly complex combination of medicinal materials greatly increased the difficulty of this step.

For a Sixth-Rank Medicinal Pill, this was already extremely rare.

The people below saw the situation on the display board and immediately spoke up, saying:

“Fifty percent efficacy, it must be from the hands of a Sixth-Rank Alchemist with a profound background. I want this Medicinal Pill; I bid two billion Spirit Stones!”

The auction of Medicinal Pills had no reserve price, no minimum bidding increment; everything depended on the bidder's own call.

This was also a small trick of the Three Great Sects' auction houses.

Just this small change attracted a large number of Alchemists who wanted to find bargains.

These smart people thought that if they encountered a Medicinal Pill that no one really needed, wouldn't they be able to buy it at a lower price?

However, there were indeed quite a few smart people, so bargain situations rarely occurred, though they were not entirely absent.

“Hmph! You want to buy a Medicinal Pill of this level for two billion? I bid 2.3 billion!”

“I bid 2.5 billion!”

“2.6 billion!!”

…

Voices echoed throughout the auction house, and the final price settled at 3.2 billion.

“This Medicinal Pill is quite expensive… I wonder what price the master's Medicinal Pills can fetch? It should be more than this, right?”

Shi Yi muttered to herself, looking at the constantly bidding people.