Chapter 136

After Song Qingming took down the Marrow-Cleansing Pill, soon a cat-faced maid invited him directly into a secret room on the side of the hall.

After a woman also wearing a cat-faced mask confirmed his identity again, she placed a Marrow-Cleansing Pill into Song Qingming’s hand, and then collected three hundred and twenty spirit stones from Song Qingming.

The entire process of the transaction was very fast. After Song Qingming confirmed the elixir he obtained, when he returned to the auction hall again, the next auction spiritual item was still in the process of price comparison, which did not make him miss other auctioned spiritual items.

It’s just that his purpose for coming here had already been completed. The things auctioned next had nothing to do with him, and he could only be a spectator to broaden his knowledge.

This auction was worthy of being held by the Heavenly Elixir Alliance. Song Qingming didn't expect that the next dozen or so things auctioned were all kinds of first-tier and second-tier elixirs.

Although quite a few cultivators who came here were indeed here for the elixirs they needed like Song Qingming, the uses of spiritual items like elixirs were very different, unlike magic tools that everyone needed, so the competition was naturally not as intense as before. The atmosphere in the auction hall also gradually became quiet, and there even appeared an embarrassing scene where two elixirs had no one bidding.

As the bell for the pricing of auction items rang continuously, the auction that had lasted for several hours finally entered its end.

"Sorry to keep everyone waiting. The next one to appear is the final finale spiritual item of this auction, the Foundation Establishment Pill. I am truly fortunate today. Our alliance has also not taken out this level of spiritual item for a long time." The tiger-head person carefully took out two white jade boxes and shouted loudly to the crowd below with a smile.

As the tiger-head person’s voice fell, boom! The cultivators in the auction hall instantly became restless!

"What! I didn't hear wrong, right? There is actually a Foundation Establishment Pill."

"I said why did the Heavenly Elixir Alliance send a Core Formation senior here to sit in on it this time? It turns out there is a Foundation Establishment Pill for auction!"

"Fellow Daoists, the rules for auctioning the Foundation Establishment Pill this time are the same as in the past. Our alliance does not accept spirit stones. If you want it, please write the spiritual items you can take out for exchange directly on your invitation card, and then place the invitation card on the table. After our alliance elders select the exchange spiritual items, someone will take you over to complete the transaction."

Song Qingming, who heard the crowd discussing, also changed his calm expression at this time, and one hand couldn't help but rest on his storage bag.

Before this auction was held, the Heavenly Elixir Alliance had already released some news about the Foundation Establishment Pill. Some cultivators who came here had indeed made preparations in advance. Soon, in the hall, people began to place their jade plaques on the table, and quite a few people in the VIP rooms on the second floor also took out their jade plaques.

Half an hour later, the Heavenly Elixir Alliance sent dozens of cat-faced maids to collect the jade plaques everyone placed on the table, totaling forty or fifty, and then took all these jade plaques to a secret room on the side of the hall.

After a while, a cultivator whose jade plaque was collected was suddenly invited into the secret room. I don't know what happened inside. The cultivator who was very excited before going in soon walked out calmly again. Because he was wearing a mask, the crowd couldn't see his expression and didn't know if this person was selected or not.

Following that, another cultivator was called in, and after a while, this person also walked out.

The crowd in the hall, looking at the cultivators going in and out, didn't know whose spiritual items were selected. The Heavenly Elixir Alliance using this method to auction the Foundation Establishment Pill really made people somewhat confused.

In a secret room at the back of the auction hall, the tiger-head person who had just hosted the auction was flipping through the jade plaques collected from outside one by one. After looking at most of the jade plaques, he quickly threw them aside.

"The rules have been explained so clearly, how come there are still so many people writing things like low-grade spirit stones, and there are also those writing installment payments? What kind of place do they think our Heavenly Elixir Alliance auction is? Turn around and cancel the qualification of these few cultivators who sent the jade plaques to enter the auction next time."

The two cat-faced maids serving on the side hurriedly picked up the jade plaques he threw aside, nodded, and took them out.

After selecting for a while, the tiger-head person ultimately selected three from these forty or fifty jade plaques, got up, and walked to another secret room on the side. In the secret room sat a middle-aged cultivator who was meditating. It was precisely that Elder Gu who had shown his face in the auction hall.

"Master, among the spiritual items sent up this time, there are three things that are relatively useful to you: a high-grade spirit stone, a Core Formation period technique, and a Water Spirit Fruit. I don't know which two things Master wants to choose." After saying this, the tiger-head person respectfully handed the three selected jade plaques up.

Elder Gu opened his eyes, looked at the three jade plaques, and said:

"The Core Formation period technique is somewhat useful for me to comprehend techniques, and the value of this item is not lower than a Foundation Establishment Pill, so it can barely be exchanged. The Water Spirit Fruit naturally goes without saying. There is no reason for our Heavenly Elixir Alliance to refuse this kind of spiritual item.

As for the high-grade spirit stone, although it is useful, I am temporarily not short of it on my person, so let’s forget it this time. Xuanzhen, you go and arrange it. After the exchange is completed, send it directly to me here."

"Yes! Disciple will go and handle it immediately."

Song Qingming didn't know which one he was among those called into the secret room. With so many people sending jade plaques, he also somewhat lost confidence in the things he had just written down. He didn't expect that the cultivators coming to participate in the auction were all such wealthy people, and they could take out spiritual items to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill at will.

After entering the secret room, just after Song Qingming sat down, the host of the auction wearing the tiger-head mask pushed the door and walked in.

"The Elder has already selected the Water Spirit Fruit in your hand, Fellow Daoist. But before that, I have to ask you to take it out first so we can verify the quality of the spiritual fruit, before we can decide whether you can exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill. You have no opinion on this, right, Fellow Daoist?"

Without too much nonsense, after the ox-head person walked in, he stated his purpose straight to the point.

"What is in my hand is indeed a mature Water Spirit Fruit. I ask you to verify it." After saying this, Song Qingming took out the jade box containing the Water Spirit Fruit from his storage bag.

After the tiger-head person opened the jade box and verified it, he handed a white jade box he had taken out at the auction to Song Qingming.

"For your safety, Fellow Daoist, after you go out, please don't mention this matter to others. Here, our Heavenly Elixir Alliance will naturally protect your safety. However, there are quite a few Foundation Establishment cultivators coming here, and there are all kinds of people. It is best if you don't leak the news of the Foundation Establishment Pill, so as not to bring unnecessary trouble to yourself."

After the transaction was reached, the tiger-head person did not forget to exhort Song Qingming, and then let the cat-faced maid outside the door invite Song Qingming out, just like the other cultivators who had come in.

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