Chapter 132: God Craftsman Lou Gao

Once this kind of crystal forms, it can instinctively inhale and exhale fire-attribute Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, improving the surrounding environment and making the earth veins more suitable for the survival of fire-attribute Spirit Beasts.

Furthermore, it will give birth to a subsidiary ore known as Flame Iron Ore.

In other words, this thing is equivalent to the foundation for the survival of fire-attribute Spirit Beasts.

Once a piece is dug away, the survival environment for fire-attribute Spirit Beasts in a large area will be affected.

Not only will the quality of newly born fire-attribute Spirit Beasts slightly decline in the future, but their future growth rate will also decrease.

This piece of Earth Vein Flame Crystal before his eyes, half the size of a person, is at the very least the result of a fire-attribute Spirit Beast habitat sinking for tens of thousands or even over a hundred thousand years.

This thing is essentially equivalent to the heart of an earth vein; once dug out, the entire earth vein will die.

Digging this thing out is equivalent to digging up the roots of fire-attribute Spirit Beasts.

Although the Spirit Hall has not explicitly forbidden it, for ten thousand years, the Spirit Hall has always advised Spirit Masters not to easily touch things that are crucial to the growth of Spirit Beasts.

Otherwise, at the very least, it will lead to problems in the growth of Spirit Beasts, resulting in a future scarcity of Spirit Beast resources, causing a Spirit Beast gathering place to disappear just like that.

At worst, it could potentially trigger a riot among Spirit Beasts, causing a highly threatening beast tide that harms a large number of innocent civilians and Spirit Masters.

Historically, there have been quite a few small-scale beast tides triggered by similar reasons.

With such a large piece of Earth Vein Flame Product, Zhou Heng could figure out with his toes just how much of an impact the fire-attribute Spirit Beasts in that place could suffer.

Heaven knows if a small-scale beast tide has already appeared in that place.

Zhou Heng had always thought that he would only be able to see such taboo items in auctions like those in the black market.

He did not expect that the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House would actually openly auction such a thing. Zhou Heng used his spiritual power to perceive it slightly; that piece of Earth Vein Flame Crystal, half a person tall, contained a massive amount of Spirit and soul power, making it a rare top-tier material.

Although the means of excavation were too crude, causing the Spirit to gradually show a state of dissipation, it was still of immense value.

If placed in the Peerless Tang Sect era ten thousand years later, such a large piece of Earth Vein Flame Product would be worth roughly tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins, capable of making three or four level-nine and level-eight Soul Guidance Devices, and the scraps could also be used in the manufacture of Soul Guidance Cannonballs.

Yet in this era, such a piece of Earth Vein Flame Crystal with such extraordinary significance and value is only worth a mere few hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Zhou Heng is currently pondering his use of spiritual power, which requires many materials that contain or can carry spiritual power and laws to serve as test subjects.

Such a large piece of Earth Vein Flame Crystal can also happen to allow him to conduct quite a few experiments.

The price of the Earth Vein Flame Crystal had just been bid up to around 150,000 Gold Soul Coins by a group of people when Zhou Heng turned on the amplification Soul Guidance Device in his room and called out his price.

"200,000 Gold Soul Coins."

This was the first bid from the top-floor room, increasing the price by a full 50,000 Gold Soul Coins in one go.

The Spirit Masters below, who were busy calculating and preparing to bid, all paused and gave up on bidding.

Just when Zhou Heng thought he could win the Earth Vein Flame Product just like that, an aged voice came from a middle-tier private room.

"300,000 Gold Soul Coins!"

In an auction house, it is perfectly normal for someone to raise the price, and Chen Ming is not some brainless villain, so he naturally would not be angry.

He casually turned on the Soul Guidance Device and continued to report his price.

"400,000 Gold Soul Coins."

In any case, he can now use the vast wealth accumulated by the Dugu family at will, and Dugu Bo himself has also given him quite a lot of Gold Soul Coins.

The cash he can currently mobilize is roughly around 20 million Gold Soul Coins; he wouldn't even blink at a mere increase of 100,000 at a time.

Even if he didn't have enough Gold Soul Coins, he could go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect right now and withdraw the Gold Soul Coins the Dugu family had stored there.

"450,000 Gold Soul Coins!"

It was just as if they were competing with Zhou Heng; as soon as Zhou Heng finished reporting his price, the aged voice in the middle-tier room immediately added to the price, though there was still some fluctuation in the voice.

Clearly, this price was already somewhat painful for him.

"500,000 Gold Soul Coins." Zhou Heng ignored that and continued to add.

For a minor noble, 500,000 Gold Soul Coins would be all the wealth a family had accumulated over a hundred years. After hearing this bid, the old man in the middle-tier room remained silent for a long while, and it was not until A Zhen had already called out the second time that he tremblingly continued to raise the price.

"510,000 Gold Soul Coins."

Inside the middle-tier room, Lou Gao tremblingly spoke his final bid. At this very moment, this world-renowned God Craftsman of the Douluo Continent hated himself immensely for not bringing more money with him this time.

A blacksmith is not a noble profession to begin with.

Even though Lou Gao is the president of the Blacksmith Association and one of the three great God Craftsmen of the current age, his word is law in the Tiejiang Zhi Du of Gengxin City.

However, what he is more noted for on the continent is his status as a Soul Saint.

In this era, the works of blacksmiths are mostly aimed at low-level Spirit Masters.

A precious weapon or piece of armor that takes years of painstaking effort to forge can be considered good if it sells for a few thousand Gold Soul Coins.

The income is almost a dimensional gap compared to the Soul Guidance masters of the second installment.

As a God Craftsman, Lou Gao himself also buys many rare materials for the consumables needed for his research, and the consumption is naturally not small.

Although he came here this time after hearing that top-tier materials would appear at the auction, he only brought a total of 500,000 Gold Soul Coins on his person.

It was just that he never expected to run into someone competing with him over this kind of material.

Every price increase was 50,000 or 100,000, as if they had assets of tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins as a backer, completely indifferent to this bit of price.

Although this thing is indeed rare, for the vast majority of people, it should not be worth this price.

This 510,000 Gold Soul Coins was a price Lou Gao had called out while gritting his teeth, prepared to pawn some of the materials and works he had on him to the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House.

He really didn't bring anything good with him when he left home this time; if it were any higher, even by a thousand or two thousand Gold Soul Coins, Lou Gao would not be able to afford the price.

"550,000 Gold Soul Coins." Zhou Heng did not know who the Spirit Master sitting in the middle-tier room was; he just casually raised the price again.

But after the price of 550,000 Gold Soul Coins was called out, the entire venue fell into complete silence.

Lou Gao in the middle-tier room opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

But looking at that piece of Earth Vein Flame Crystal half a person tall, this God Craftsman who had devoted himself to the blacksmith industry could not help but turn on the amplification Soul Guidance Device, though this time it was not to raise the price.