Chapter 951: Commotion

Apparently, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, not many cultivators were interested in refining puppets and strange magic treasures. After only one round of competition with three or four people, Han Li easily took it for a price of one hundred and seventy thousand spirit stones. This made him secretly happy.

Several other items auctioned by the white-light figure were also taken by Han Li, for which he spent nineteen thousand and thirty-one thousand spirit stones respectively. The latter was a very famous magic treasure raw material, forcing Han Li to compete wildly with many cultivators and bite the bullet to bid for it.

These few items cost Han Li seven or eight out of ten of the spirit stones in his bag. Fortunately, no other puppet materials he needed appeared afterward, which made Han Li secretly relieved.

When the last item was also auctioned off and the storage bags on the jade table were completely empty, the figure in the white light seemed quite satisfied with the previous auctions and paused for a moment before saying lightly:

"Our items have all been auctioned off. Fellow daoists who have treasures you want to exchange can now display and exchange them here one by one. I'll say the ugly words first: because it is a voluntary exchange, if the exchanged items are fake or you have misjudged them, this has nothing to do with us. We only provide the venue, and all results must be borne by yourselves. Additionally, according to past conventions, no matter what kind of things you want to exchange, as long as the exchange is successful, we will charge ten thousand spirit stones per person as a handling fee afterward. Fellow daoists, please feel free to do as you please. As long as there are no violations of the rules, I will just be a bystander."

This person was quite straightforward. After saying these few words, he flickered his figure and appeared at the edge of the open space, then sat cross-legged, looking as if he had entered meditation.

This scene did not surprise most of the cultivators in the hall; instead, figures flickered, and several streaks of light flew out simultaneously. As a result, one of them was clearly a step faster than the others. After the light converged, a figure shrouded in red light appeared behind the jade table, then clasped his hands and said with a smile:

"I yield, I arrived a step earlier. Fellow daoists, please wait a moment."

Those streaks of light saw this, and could only circle helplessly before flying back to their original seats.

Seeing this, Han Li smiled slightly.

Generally speaking, taking the initiative to stand out to exchange materials occupies some advantage, which can avoid the things you need being exchanged away by others first. However, such things won't happen too often, and the rarer the materials exchanged, the less likely they are to overlap with what others have. Therefore, most cultivators could keep their composure and didn't fight over anything with the few people just now.

The few materials Han Li was still missing were all relatively obscure, so he didn't worry much.

The few people who rushed to stand out were probably because the things they wanted to exchange had too many uses, so they fought for it.

Sure enough, after the cultivator in red light took out several rare materials and named the things he wanted to exchange, they were all tool-refining materials that could be used in many types of pills.

As a result, a moment later, several people really came up and exchanged for most of the materials. This made the person in red light leave satisfied.

The few people who came up one after another also exchanged relatively smoothly and gained something more or less.

However, when a yellow figure holding a blue-glittering metal named a water-attribute material that Han Li hadn't even heard of, he asked three times, but no one came up to trade. This person could only leave in frustration.

From this person onward, cultivators who returned empty-handed began to appear gradually. After thirty or forty people had gone up, those who returned empty-handed were in the majority, and those who could exchange for things were in the minority.

Of course, this did not mean that the things these cultivators wanted to exchange were truly not in the hands of others in the hall, but that the cultivators who might have the exchange items felt that the other party's things were not worth exchanging, or that the items the other party offered were not what they wanted at all, so they remained indifferent and didn't go up to trade.

Therefore, in this barter, the things brought out were not necessarily the more precious, the easier it was to exchange successfully.

Of course, there were also cultivators who took a fancy to other cultivators' materials but didn't have what the other party wanted, so they went up to negotiate secretly to exchange with other treasures. But very few of them succeeded, and most were coldly rejected. But among the few who succeeded, Han Li was one of them.

Han Li's action was very simple; he directly used several rare thousand-year spiritual herbs and some high-tier demon beast cores to exchange for the materials he needed. Both of these things were of great use to any cultivator. Although one or two could occasionally be auctioned in some marketplaces, collecting so many at once was naturally very difficult.

Therefore, the cultivator only hesitated for a moment before no longer insisting on his original plan and nodded in agreement.

Besides this, two other puppet materials were exchanged into Han Li's hands using items he had stored. Now, only the last two rarest things were missing to gather all the puppet materials.

However, these two things were too rare, and he estimated that ordinary cultivators would generally not take them out for trade voluntarily.

"Han kid, what do you intend to use to exchange for the materials? If they are slightly inferior treasures, I'm afraid that even if others have the materials, they won't take them out easily," the Elder Dayan Spirit Lord suddenly transmitted his voice into Han Li's spiritual sense.

"I've already thought of what to use. There are mostly demonic path cultivators here; don't I happen to have something that the demonic path regards as a treasure?" Han Li said indifferently.

"Don't tell me you're talking about that material? Are you willing to part with it?" the Elder Dayan Spirit Lord was somewhat surprised.

"I'm not willing, but there's no other way. But the puppet materials have been gathered to this point, so the last two must be obtained. Otherwise, all the previous hard work would have been in vain. As long as the puppet is truly as powerful as you said, Senior, it is worth doing so," Han Li smiled and transmitted his voice.

Then he looked around, feeling that it was about time.

When a cultivator returned in frustration, he finally stood up from his seat, walked up unhurriedly, and came behind the jade table.

All the cultivators in the hall looked at Han Li, wanting to see what rare things he could bring out.

Han Li flipped his hands, and two small jade boxes appeared in each, but he didn't rush to open them. Instead, he swept his gaze around and said in a slightly changed, hoarse voice:

"Material for refining the demonic path's treasure, two pieces of Demon Marrow Diamond, exchanging for Five-Element Jade and Dazzling Light Crystal. If any fellow daoists have them, you can exchange them away." After Han Li finished speaking concisely, he shook his hands, and two pitch-black, crystal-clear objects several inches in size floated out from the boxes, emitting faint black Qi. They were the two pieces of Demon Marrow Diamond Han Li had obtained in the Ten Thousand Zhang Demon Abyss.

"Demon Marrow Diamond! The material for refining the Demon Dragon Blade, did I hear that right!"

"Impossible, how can such a thing truly exist in the world."

"True or false?"

……

As soon as Han Li finished speaking, the entire hall was in a commotion, and many people were so shocked that they couldn't help but cry out.

The figure in the white light, who had been sitting cross-legged at the edge of the open space, also opened his eyes in surprise, staring at the two Demon Marrow Diamonds in front of Han Li without blinking.

"To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that I don't cultivate demonic path techniques, I wouldn't have taken this thing out for exchange. As for whether it's true or false? As long as someone can take out the things I need, I will naturally let the other party examine them carefully," Han Li said with a calm expression.

Hearing Han Li say this so confidently, the originally restless cultivators immediately fell silent. Everyone stared at the Demon Marrow Diamonds with different expressions.

Five-Element Jade and Dazzling Light Crystal were indeed hard to find in the world, but compared to this demonic path treasure material that only appeared in legends, they were naturally a notch lower, making everyone feel moved.

"I remember there is one Dazzling Light Crystal in the warehouse, but because this item is too precious, it wasn't taken out for auction. I can send someone to fetch it immediately. Let me examine the Demon Marrow Diamond first, how about it?" To everyone's surprise, the figure in the white light, who was the host of the exchange, looked at the Demon Marrow Diamond for a while from afar and suddenly said this.

"Since it's you who spoke, Fellow Daoist, naturally it can't be a lie. You can examine it," Han Li's face flashed with surprise, but he said without hesitation.

The figure in the white light seemed to nod, flicked his sleeves, and a fire light shot out, shooting to the top of the hall, vanishing in a flash.

Then he slowly stood up and walked toward Han Li.

Other cultivators heard the conversation between Han Li and him, and there was another commotion, but this time no one said anything. The cultivator in the white light could be sent to host this exchange, so he was naturally a person of wide knowledge and extraordinary experience. Therefore, everyone opened their eyes wide, watching the result of this examination.

The figure in the white light seemed to know quite a bit about the Demon Marrow Diamond. He reached out and skillfully took one piece into his hand, then opened his mouth and sprayed a white infant fire onto it. As a result, these white flames touched the black Qi on the surface of the crystal diamond, but they parted from both sides like encountering a nemesis, completely unable to get close to the Demon Marrow Diamond to burn it.

The figure in the white light revealed a hint of excitement on his face, then pinched a spell with both hands, withdrew the infant fire from his mouth, and sprayed a mass of blue, misty cold Qi. This cold Qi shrouded the crystal diamond, but it couldn't freeze it at all.

His eyes flickered, and he raised one hand, pointing a finger at the crystal diamond. Immediately, a mass of pitch-black demonic Qi was poured into it, but it was like a clay ox entering the sea; the Demon Marrow Diamond had no reaction at all.

"That's right, it is indeed the Demon Marrow Diamond. I want this item." Just as he finished saying these words, a gray-robed, veiled cultivator appeared strangely three or four zhang away from him.

He bowed to the figure in the white light, handed over a jade box, and vanished again.

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