Chapter 699: The Shocking Price of Buddha Blood

"The base price for this drop of Buddha blood is ten San Shan True Talismans, or spiritual objects of equivalent value!"

Layman Master Jiuchuan stated an astronomical price.

Although everyone on the scene expected that the price of that drop of Buddha blood would not be too low, this price still scared many people!

Although that drop of Buddha blood contained Buddha light and Dao rhyme, it was ultimately just a drop of blood! And the origin of that Buddha was unknown, but it was forced back by two spirit treasures, so it was clearly not one of those Buddhas with great achievements in the Buddhist scriptures.

One Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu was the magic power of a Core Formation cultivator.

According to the official price of the San Shan of the Zhengyi Sect, it was 10,000 San Shan Talismans. Of course, no one would calculate the value of a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu at the official price; when truly exchanging, some were two or three times higher.

And if that Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu was fully unleashed, it could almost strike a blow of a Transformation True Person. Even disciples of many immortal sects walking outside might not have such a trump card on them.

Ten Core Formation True Persons who could be blessed at will!

The foundation of sects and aristocratic families was often reflected in these places.

Ordinary loose cultivators might be able to obtain relatively profound Daoist scriptures and cultivation methods through opportunities.

Perhaps they could go through hardships, hunt demons, take risks, explore ruins, and buy and sell cultivation materials to gather a rich amount of resources;

They could even kill people and seize goods to make a fortune.

But in one aspect, they could never compare to immortal sects and aristocratic families...

That is the details and human resources accumulated in cultivation!

Not to mention cultivation details, every sect has accumulated unknown experience in a Daoist scripture or a divine ability, and there are many elixirs, tricks, and even spiritual architecture feng shui that assist cultivation.

Even the small sect Jin Sha Sect that Qian Chen broke into in the past had a great hall that suppressed the Taiyin True Malevolence, a river flowing with Geng Metal God Killing, assisting disciples in breaking through barriers and cultivating Geng Metal spells.

And those great immortal sects that have been passed down for tens of thousands of years are even less lacking in these details.

Don't underestimate these details. Accumulated, cultivators of immortal sects and aristocratic families can always spend nearly half the time cultivating divine abilities and Daoist methods compared to loose cultivators, have a thirty percent higher success rate, and have three points more power.

This step-by-step accumulation eventually turns into a natural chasm, lying between loose cultivators and the true disciples of aristocratic families and immortal sects.

And human resources are another kind of chasm... No matter how lucky a loose cultivator is, how many seniors' cave heavens they have dug, and how many heavenly treasures they have obtained by chance.

Most of those cultivation resources are dead; to truly utilize them, cultivators still need to spend hard work.

Spiritual medicine needs to be refined into pills.

Demon beast materials may need to be decomposed and refined into magic tools.

Raising demon beasts and refining Gu insects also requires preparing various resources for them!

For loose cultivators, these are dead resources that can only be transformed by spending effort. How many loose cultivators carry excellent materials but fail to refine them into magic tools in their lifetime.

The more such resources, the more involved, and even a little distraction can delay their own cultivation.

Because they are just rich...

And disciples of immortal sects and aristocratic families have many servants, Dao soldiers, and elders to help. Spiritual medicine can be immediately refined into spirit pills, magic tools can be sent to others to refine, talismans can be drawn by others, and all the dead objects obtained can be brought to life.

Why is the Dragon Palace wealthy throughout the four seas? It is because the Dragon Clan controls the water tribes of the four seas, with billions of subordinates. Any Dragon Prince has more than ten thousand Core Formation demon generals under his command.

With one order, magic tools, elixirs, spiritual herbs... the cultivation resources of the four seas are transformed; what is there that they don't have?

The biggest chasm between loose cultivators and immortal sects and aristocratic families is the lack of human resources.

In this cultivation world where the financial industry has not yet developed, money (resources) plus practitioners is capital.

The true function of a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu is precisely to provide this precious capital.

Having ten servants with Core Formation magic power under one's command, whether guarding one side or refining magic tools and spirit pills for oneself, can provide very abundant cultivation materials.

Anyone who has these ten True Talismans can instantly open a small sect, let resources flow, and create more resources.

Therefore, the reason why loose cultivators are loose cultivators, until they cultivate to Nascent Soul, until they surpass the foundation of some small aristocratic families and sects, they are still just loose cultivators.

It is because they can only rely on their own hard work, rely on exploiting themselves, to squeeze out that little bit of cultivation resources.

Only when they create sects and aristocratic families, support the younger generation, and establish a system for the good operation of cultivation resources, no longer needing to spend a lot of time doing hard work for cultivation resources, and the sect and family can feed them back well, can they be considered to have founded a sect and no longer be loose cultivators!

Therefore, why is the value of a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu far higher than that of a San Shan Talisman.

It is because the San Shan Talisman is just dead money, while the Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu is capital that can be brought to life.

In this way, whether this drop of Buddha blood is important, or those ten Core Formation True Persons who require no resource investment, no maintenance, and can be squeezed to the fullest are more precious, is hard to say!

Only now did the difference between small sects, loose cultivators, and great immortal sects appear...

For great immortal sects, if that drop of Buddha blood can allow a Nascent Soul cultivator to break through to Transformation, or allow a Transformation ancestor to gain something, it is better than eighty or ninety Core Formation True Persons. For a Transformation ancestor, capital at the Core Formation level can no longer help their Dao path!

Can cultivating another hundred Core Formation cultivators allow a Transformation cultivator to achieve Nascent Soul?

Only spiritual objects from superior existences like the Buddha can be of help to them.

Therefore, the hall was silent for a moment, and someone said: "Eleven True Talismans!"

"Twelve!"

This was the bid of a Nascent Soul True Person of the Qitian Sect. His eyes were bloodshot, clearly having exhausted his family wealth, just to gamble that this Buddha blood could help him break through to Transformation.

But another Supreme Elder of a great immortal sect, a Transformation True Person, spoke!

Once he spoke, it was understated: "Fifteen San Shan True Talismans!"

"Hehe... The San Shan of Central Lands Talismans might not be able to take out so many True Talismans in ten years. The old man doesn't have so many either, so I will offset it with 12,000 jin of five-colored agar of equivalent value!"

The spiritual objects taken out by the Transformation ancestor were naturally of the type with relatively transparent prices. Layman Master Jiuchuan nodded slightly, and it was accepted!

"The ancestor of the Qiong family of the Cloud Sky Palace..."

Someone whispered below.

"Five-colored agar is a spiritual medicine refined by the Qiong family with the secret method of five-colored spirit jade. It is an important auxiliary medicine for many spirit pills. It is rumored that one square of spirit jade can only refine one liang. 12,000 jin is likely the accumulation of the Qiong family for ten thousand years!"

Some cultivators were also very worried!

The amount of five-colored agar entering the hands of a behemoth like the Seven Immortal Alliances was no longer of ordinary significance!

This meant that the price of some spirit pills might fluctuate violently, and many pill workshops would suffer huge impacts. It is unknown how many people would have their families broken and die.

Under normal circumstances, the Qiong family of the Cloud Sky Palace was maintaining the stability of the five-colored agar market, and even deliberately sold it to many small pill workshops to avoid one chamber of commerce from obtaining a large amount of agar and then using it as a weapon to impact the price of spirit pills for which five-colored agar was an important auxiliary medicine, causing other pill workshops to go bankrupt, and then secretly acquiring them to form a monopoly.

This would cause the Qiong family to lose the pricing power of some pills. In the long run, the lost wealth would be at least equivalent to dozens of small immortal sects...

But the Transformation ancestor didn't care, and the Qiong family didn't care.

Practitioners serve one person with the masses, not one person serving the masses. To satisfy their own Transformation ancestor, what does it matter to sacrifice temporary interests?

If the ancestor goes further, these will all be taken back ten or a hundred times in the future.

"Twenty!"

Someone else said a number that made people's hearts jump, but it was a Transformation Spirit from the overseas Buddhist small sect, Bitter Spring Temple. The old monk raised his eyebrows slightly, and the disciples behind him all had bitter expressions.

"Offset with that Bitter Spring of our sect..."

Bitter Spring Temple got its name from Bitter Spring, because there was a medicinal spring in the temple that was extremely bitter.

But it could be used to refine a strange pill—Bitter Heart Pill, which was very useful for cultivators to resist the heart demon tribulation when forming a core.

Most of the income of Bitter Spring Temple and the livelihood of all the old and young monks in the sect relied on this. If the effect of the Buddha blood used by that Transformation Spirit was not good, it would be the end of all the old and young in the sect going out to sell their skills.

The consequences could make the monks of Bitter Spring Temple bitter, wishing they could sell their butts!

If the monks' butts could be sold for money, the monks of Bitter Spring Temple would rather sell them thousands of times than give up the foundation of their sect!

Fortunately, others didn't let the monks of Bitter Spring Temple worry for long.

The Konghai Temple in the third pavilion suddenly said leisurely: "Thirty True Talismans! Our sect will offset it with a magic treasure—Bitter Sea Ten Thousand Demon Banner!"

Layman Master Jiuchuan hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and saying: "Although the Bitter Sea Ten Thousand Demon Banner is the supreme treasure of the Bitter Sea Demonic Sect in the past, it is not worth so much?"

The withered old monk in the pavilion threw out a black banner. When the black banner landed, it stirred up a piece of turbid, dim yellow seawater, with countless withered bones inside.

Each complete withered bone had the power of a demonic demon equivalent to a Core Formation True Person, totaling 47 withered bones...

The price of a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu was of course higher than that of a Core Formation-level demon, but with that black banner, it was already comparable!

"The price estimated by the Layman is when our temple broke the Bitter Sea Demonic Sect, and only nine Bitter Sea Bone Yin Demons were left in the banner!"

"Now our temple has been subduing demons and devils for years, and all the subdued demons have been refined into this banner, and most of the power of this banner has been restored. It is naturally worth thirty True Talismans!"

A group of cultivators below discussed heatedly. As a Buddhist sect, they didn't hide the fact that they kept the demonic banner, and they kept refining people...

What kind of Buddhist sect is this!

Many monks from Northern Wei frowned secretly...

But Konghai Temple was a temple built by strange flood dragons. There was no such thing as too much compassion. Those flood dragons surrendered to the Buddhist sect not because they admired the Buddha's Dharma, but because the Buddhist sect's divine abilities were strong enough and their fists were big enough.

Konghai Temple never relied on believers' offerings and never relied on wish power for cultivation.

Therefore, what others said, these fierce monks didn't take to heart...

"Crazy! Are they all crazy?" Hearing this price, the cultivators below became restless.

"A drop of Buddha's blood can sell for this much..."

Someone even had the thought of going to heaven to slaughter the Buddha, and said in a low voice: "Even slaughtering a true dragon wouldn't sell for this price!"

This was hearing about the recent slaughter of dozens of true dragons in Dragon Pearl, and even the Dragon Prince Ao Jia being slaughtered.

"If it were a true dragon that had cultivated a dragon pearl, I'm afraid it could still sell for higher than this..." The person who heard it also replied in a low voice.

"Don't say it..."

Another person pointed to the top of his head, indicating that the Dragon Clan was still watching from above. ===== CHAPTER 700 =====