Chapter 275

"Twelve hundred taels for the third time. Congratulations to Xu Yang for winning this bottle of Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills," Tao Huaijin shouted helplessly.

Because of this commotion, the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills, which could have sold for over thirteen hundred taels, only sold for twelve hundred taels.

"Is anyone willing to help Xu Yang pay?" Wu Nanshan smiled.

The entire auction hall was silent. Shen Liang wanted to stand up but was held back by An Ping.

Xu Yang cupped his hands and smiled: "Thank you all for letting me have it. I happen to have twelve hundred taels on me."

Saying this, he got up and walked to the back hall to pay.

Wu Nanshan suddenly felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten excrement, his laughter stuck in his throat and he could no longer laugh.

Lu Ren looked frustrated, his cheeks burning; it turned out Xu Yang really had money.

"It was cheap for him," An Ping thought to himself.

The effect of the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill was slightly better than the Origin-Returning Pill. If they really continued to bid, it would have taken at least fourteen hundred to win it.

Shen Liang sighed, knowing that he and Xu Yang were now strangers. The friendship of living and dying together in the valley was over; it was impossible for Xu Yang not to have noticed his and An Ping's actions.

Although he had the heart to help, the moment An Ping pulled him, he hesitated; he was unwilling to offend An Ping for Xu Yang's sake.

"Congratulations, Master Xu."

In the back hall, Zhou Yong handed the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills to Xu Yang with a smile. Buying five Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills for twelve hundred taels was simply a huge bargain.

This auction was held specifically for the upcoming outer sect grand competition of the Profound Heaven Sect, so the competition would be more terrifying than ever. He didn't expect those outer sect disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect to want to watch Xu Yang make a fool of himself, only to end up benefiting him instead.

Xu Yang paid the money and said: "Are there any pill recipes for auction?"

If not, he planned to leave.

Five Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills—he didn't know how many people would be eyeing him later.

Many people hadn't bid from start to finish, likely harboring the intention of robbing him.

Zhou Yong nodded: "Yes, there is one for the Origin-Gathering Pill, which is a Gang Qi realm pill."

There really was one, and it was a Gang Qi realm pill at that.

Xu Yang was overjoyed and said: "About how much money will it take to win it?"

He had four thousand taels on him, and buying the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills used up twelve hundred taels, so now he only had twenty-eight hundred left, which might not be enough.

Zhou Yong shook his head: "I'm not sure either. Things like pill recipes are worth ten thousand gold to a pill master who doesn't have them, but to an ordinary person, they're too hard even to use as toilet paper."

Xu Yang nodded thoughtfully.

Unless it was some special pill recipe, ordinary pill recipes were not as precious as he had imagined.

For example, the Blood-Coagulating Pill last time—no one bid on it, but for him, it was worth spending more money.

The Origin-Gathering Pill was certainly a Gang Qi realm pill, but there were many Gang Qi realm pills.

Profound Origin Qi-Transforming Pill, Origin-Returning Pill, Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill...

Once you learn one of these pills, there is no need to waste a large amount of herbs to learn another. One type of Gang Qi pill is enough to support a force; one should learn pills that cannot be replaced, rather than another pill with similar effects.

So unless he was unlucky enough to encounter a pill master like him who didn't have a Gang Qi realm pill recipe, he still had a chance to win the recipe for the Origin-Gathering Pill.

Returning to the auction hall, seeing that Xu Yang had really won a bottle of Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills for twelve hundred taels, many people regretted it deeply.

You have to know that the price of the following bottles of Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills never went below fifteen hundred.

Among them, Wu Nanshan and Liu Xiao, who had been the most active and indirectly helped Xu Yang, had faces that were incredibly ugly.

They had bid a price that exhausted their fortunes, and originally, if someone had added ten taels, Xu Yang would have missed out. Who would have thought that with their help, Xu Yang would pick up such a bargain?

"Brother An, did you win the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills?"

Seeing An Ping's face livid, Xu Yang asked with a smile after sitting down.

An Ping didn't want to talk, knowing Xu Yang was showing off.

He really couldn't figure out how, when it was difficult for them, these wealthy young masters, to take out over a thousand taels at once and had to pool their money to bid, Xu Yang had so much money.

Shen Liang smiled bitterly: "We won it, spent fifteen hundred and fifty taels."

Hearing that he had spent three hundred and fifty taels more than himself, Xu Yang felt like a cool breeze in midsummer and nodded with satisfaction.

At this moment, Tao Huaijin lifted the red cloth from the tray, and everyone stretched their necks to look, only to see a piece of animal skin lying in the tray.

"The next item to be auctioned is the Origin-Gathering Pill recipe. I believe everyone here has heard of the great name of the Origin-Gathering Pill. Although the pill's effect is not as good as the Origin-Returning Pill or the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill, it is not much worse.

Everyone here has shouted until their throats were hoarse fighting for a bottle of Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills. As martial artists, it is better to rely on ourselves than on others. Refining pills yourself not only allows you to use them yourself but also allows you to sell them for money.

It costs twenty or thirty taels to refine, and you can sell it for a hundred taels upon turning it over; it can be said to be a ten-thousand-fold profit.

The auction starts now, with a base price of one thousand taels, and each bid must be no less than fifty taels."

After Tao Huaijin's emotional speech, no one bid at all.

Everyone here was not a fool; if they could refine pills just by having a recipe, they wouldn't need to come here.

Except for pill masters, no one would sell pill recipes. Generally, pill masters cultivated by large families were not short of Gang Qi realm pill recipes; what they lacked was the ability to refine them.

"One thousand taels!" Xu Yang said softly.

The Zhu family wouldn't leak the pill recipe no matter the cost because the recipe was truly useful to him; if he learned it, he might form competition with the Zhu family.

But at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction house, to everyone else, it was something too hard even to use as toilet paper, and they didn't even want this segment to exist.

Swish!

In an instant, everyone was shocked again as they looked at Xu Yang. He had actually bid again, and for a useless pill recipe at that.

Beside Xu Yang, Lu Ren and Gu Haoming looked incredulous.

They weren't shocked that Xu Yang was bidding for the Origin-Gathering Pill recipe, but that Xu Yang actually still had money.

If they didn't know Xu Yang's background inside and out, they would have thought the Xu Yang in front of them was a scion of some large family.

"Thinking he picked up a bargain? I'm afraid he hasn't seen a pill recipe and doesn't know how hard this pill is to refine," Liu Xiao sneered.

He had once naively thought that pill refining was simple and had gotten a pill recipe to study for several months, but after burning through several thousand taels of silver, he had to recognize reality and know that he was not the protagonist in a storybook.

"Has he still not given up?" Liu Qian shook her head inwardly.