Chapter 193: I bid fifty thousand

The grade of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures corresponding to magic treasures can be labeled as third-tier.

Just like third-tier talismans and third-tier elixirs!

There is a reason for things being expensive.

First-tier elixirs can often be bought for just a few spirit stones each!

But once you reach second-tier elixirs, the price increases significantly.

Take Spirit-Gathering Pills and Spirit-Condensing Pills for example: a first-tier Spirit-Gathering Pill costs only two spirit stones each, but a bottle of twelve Spirit-Condensing Pills, even when bought at an elixir shop, costs two thousand spirit stones.

The unit price for each pellet averages out to over one hundred and sixty spirit stones.

Why?

Because the cost is too high.

First-tier elixirs only require first-tier spirit herbs to refine, and first-tier spirit herbs are extremely easy to cultivate; as long as there is a spirit field with spiritual energy, after sowing the seeds, one can harvest a great many in a year.

But when it comes to second-tier spirit herbs, they don't grow to maturity in a year.

Take the main ingredient for Foundation Establishment Pills, the 【Hundred-Year Purple Ginseng】, for example; it means exactly what it says: a hundred-year-old purple ginseng.

Not to mention that cultivating this thing is extremely cumbersome, just the age alone gives a glimpse into the difficulty of cultivation.

Talismans are the same.

The main cost of a third-tier talisman is the third-tier talisman paper.

Where does third-tier talisman paper come from?

It's very simple: refined from plants like third-tier spirit herbs 【Heavenly Spirit Hemp】 and 【Immortal Reed Grass】, or refined from the hide and fur of Golden Core Stage demonic beasts.

Among these things, which one is easy to obtain?

This is the fundamental reason why, even though a treasure only improves by one grade, the price increases by dozens or even hundreds of times.

"One hundred and thirty-five thousand spirit stones!"

"One hundred and forty thousand!"

"One hundred and forty-five thousand..."

"One hundred and fifty thousand..."

People kept bidding.

Especially the Golden Core cultivators in the VIP seats, who bid the most.

After all, not everyone can obtain satisfactory artifact-refining materials to refine their own magic treasures.

In this situation, one can take the shortcut of buying a magic treasure and nourishing it.

Erasing the previous owner's aura and imprint to nourish it oneself is the same.

There is no big difference.

In the end, this magic treasure was obtained by a female cultivator for the price of one hundred and seventy-five thousand.

He Pingsheng guessed roughly that the female cultivator should be at the Golden Core Stage.

"Damn, it's expensive..." Wang Dun curled his lips and said, "I don't even have a clue about my own Foundation Establishment yet, and if I'm lucky enough to break through to the Golden Core Stage, I'll have to prepare a massive amount of spirit stones to get a magic treasure..."

"Sigh... Wealth, Dharma, companions, and land; sure enough, wealth is ranked first!"

"The next item to be auctioned is a third-tier talisman, named 【Gold Lei Fu】, with a quality of low-tier!" The beautiful woman wearing blue Daoist robes spoke again, saying, "After this talisman is activated, it can summon a bolt of lightning, which can cause certain trauma to Golden Core Stage early-stage cultivators!"

"If used properly, it is not impossible to kill a Golden Core Stage early-stage cultivator!"

The so-called Golden Core Stage early-stage refers to the first, second, and third layers.

This kind of talisman is exactly what He Pingsheng needs.

Buy it, strengthen it, and then keep it for self-defense.

The higher the grade of the talisman, the greater the power, but the stronger the spiritual sense required to activate it.

Otherwise, if it cannot be activated within a dozen breaths, then this treasure is of no use.

Currently, He Pingsheng's spiritual sense is indeed a bit weak for activating a third-tier talisman.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as his spiritual sense becomes a bit stronger, and then he takes a 【Double Yun Yun Ling Dan】, he can instantly possess a spiritual sense strength comparable to the mid-Golden Core Stage.

At that time, activating it will naturally be effortless.

"The starting bid is one hundred and fifty thousand low-tier spirit stones, and each increment must not be less than five thousand spirit stones!"

After Jin Lan finished speaking, she reminded, "This is an item consigned by a senior, so after the auction is successful, we will also charge a five percent related fee!"

"Please bid cautiously, everyone!"

"Alright, let's begin!"

As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, someone immediately bid.

"One hundred and fifty-five thousand!"

"One hundred and sixty thousand!"

"One hundred and seventy thousand!"

"One hundred and eighty thousand!"

Very quickly, the price of this talisman was pushed above two hundred thousand.

He Pingsheng no longer had any thoughts about this thing.

Two hundred thousand!

He did have it.

But as a small Foundation Establishment cultivator, he wouldn't dare to take it out openly.

The key is that there is also Wang Dun beside him who knows his background; if he took out more than two hundred thousand spirit stones to bid for a third-tier talisman at this moment, the result would be imaginable.

Wang Dun could easily destroy him.

"Damn it..." Wang Dun cursed and said, "These damn Golden Core cultivators, they deserve to be old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years; they are truly rich!"

"But it's no wonder, if they save ten thousand spirit stones every year, they can save millions!"

Amidst Wang Dun's cursing, the price of this talisman was bid up to two hundred and forty thousand.

And this was just the transaction price.

Besides the transaction price, there was also a five percent intermediary fee, which is twelve thousand.

"Too expensive!" He Pingsheng said, "If a Foundation Establishment Pill appears later, won't it also be this expensive?"

He looked at Wang Dun with a worried expression.

Wang Dun waved his hand and said, "No... for heavenly materials and earthly treasures of the same rank, talismans are the most damn expensive."

That's true!

He Pingsheng remembered that when he was in the Qi Condensation Stage, buying elixirs cost two spirit stones per pellet, but when he went to buy first-tier talismans, most of them cost sixty or seventy spirit stones each.

Even those talismans with special functions, such as the 【Disguise Talisman】, cost over one hundred.

Thinking about it now, He Pingsheng suddenly felt a bit awkward.

Good heavens!

He had casually asked Seeing Qiao Huizhu for a third-tier 【Hundred-Concealment Talisman】.

Seeing Qiao Huizhu had prepared for several years before handing it over to him.

Wasn't that worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones?

Suddenly, He Pingsheng missed his fiancée, whom he didn't know very well.

After the Gold Lei Fu, the chamber of commerce auctioned off a few more items.

Not long after, the 【Foundation Establishment Pill】 that Wang Dun was looking forward to was brought out.

"Everyone!" Jin Lan looked at the crowd and held a jade bottle high above her head: "This is a third-tier elixir, one Foundation Establishment Pill, with a quality of low-tier!"

"I believe I don't need to say much about the function of the Foundation Establishment Pill, right?"

"I believe that as long as one is a cultivator, there is no one who doesn't know!"

"This Foundation Establishment Pill is an item consigned by a cultivator; after the auction is successful, this chamber of commerce will charge a five percent intermediary fee!"

"The starting bid is twenty thousand spirit stones!"

"Each increment must not be less than one thousand spirit stones!"

"The auction begins now!"

Wang Dun beside him breathed a sigh of relief.

The starting bid for this Foundation Establishment Pill was much lower than those talismans.

Actually, thinking about it, it's understandable; elixirs, you know, you can get twelve pellets from one successful batch, while there is only one talisman.

The key is that the material cost of talismans is actually not lower than that of elixirs at all.

"Twenty-one thousand!"

"Twenty-two thousand!"

"Thirty thousand..."

"Thirty-five thousand!"

The price of the Foundation Establishment Pill was raised bit by bit.

Wang Dun had not bid yet.

He was waiting.

After forty thousand, there were fewer and fewer people bidding, and when the price reached forty-five thousand, Wang Dun stood up directly and roared, "I bid fifty thousand!" ===== CHAPTER 194 =====