Star-picking pavilion.
Along with Jing Yuan's bid of 280,000 spirit stones for the fifth Foundation Establishment pill, the first batch of spirit gathering pills and the Foundation Establishment pills provided by Sikong Xuan had all been auctioned off.
Tonight's auction had also come to the finale item.
The marrow cleansing pill!
The gazes of everyone in the star-picking pavilion were all focused on Situ Muxue, who had a voluptuous and graceful figure.
This woman, who exuded an endless amount of charm while walking, placed the last bottle of pills between her slender fingers.
"This is the last item up for auction tonight -- the marrow-cleansing pill!"
"The most important thing in cultivation is talent. Just like how the city lord of Green Mountain City has only cultivated for over thirty years, why was he able to break through to the Golden Core Stage as easy as drinking wine? He has never experienced a bottleneck before."
"It's because the city lord has superior aptitude and talent!"
"He is the dragon among men!"
Situ Muxue's voice became even more alluring as she held the marrow cleansing pill in her palm.
The breathing sounds of countless people in the room became heavier.
In a corner of the star-picking pavilion, Batu and Yelulan were also looking on with intense gazes.
Because they felt that this was an opportunity to cooperate with the barbarians!
The two of them belonged to the demon heretics' faction.
Their bloodlines originated from the union between demons and humans over a thousand years ago. Due to the power of the demons back then, they considered themselves to be of a high-class bloodline. Back then, they even automatically abandoned their human identity and joined the demons.
Then, a thousand years ago, the demons were exterminated by the great cultivators of the human race.
To survive, these mixed bloodlines hid in the human lands of the Central Plains, accumulating their strength and passing down the sorcery of the demons at the same time.
After accumulating their strength for a thousand years, these mixed bloodlines began to wantonly use the art of seduction to drive the human race to bring disaster to the Central Plains.
However, because they knew how powerful the human race was, they did not have the intention to officially attack.
They wanted to ally with the spirit demons of the barbarian race, who did not have a good relationship with the human race of the Central Plains. The spiritual energy of the world where the spirit demons of the barbarian race lived was thin, and the environment was harsh.
They coveted the spiritual region of the Central Plains, but first of all, there was a huge gap between the two sides. If they wanted to enter, they would have to pay a huge price.
On top of that, the king of the barbarians, who valued bloodlines the most, realized that his only son's aptitude for cultivation was extremely poor.
He thought that even if he had to pay a huge price to come to the Central Plains, his only son would not be able to cultivate and take over the race.
On the contrary, it might make the other spirit demons in the barbarian race, who had an excellent aptitude for cultivation, become stronger. It would affect their status, so they had been hesitating and did not agree to cooperate.
The heretics had sent countless pills like the marrow cleansing pill over, but in the end, they still could not change the aptitude of the young master of the barbarians.
But now, it was different.
As long as the two of them could snatch the marrow cleansing pill, they would have a chance to cooperate with the spirit demons of the barbarian race.
The Central Plains' spiritual realm would be conquered by them sooner or later!
Greed appeared in their eyes. At the same time, they used the bloodline resonance technique to spread the news.
At the same time.
Situ Muxue also started the auction of the marrow cleansing pill.
"The marrow cleansing pill with 100% completion rate will definitely increase one's aptitude by a small stage after consuming it!"
"The auction of the marrow cleansing pill is divided into two auctions. The first batch will have two pills, and the second batch will have three pills!"
"The first two marrow cleansing pills will be officially auctioned. The starting price will be 100,000 spirit stones, and each increment must not be lower than 10,000 spirit stones!"
As Situ Muxue's voice fell, everyone present started bidding crazily.
"120,000 spirit stones!"
"130,000 spirit stones!"
"150,000 spirit stones!"
"..."
"200,000 spirit stones!"
Jing Yuan was sitting in the back row, but he didn't say anything immediately.
What he valued were the last three marrow cleansing pills.
Although he wanted to bid for all five marrow cleansing pills, he knew that his aptitude wasn't that bad, but he had the aptitude of an excellent mid-grade spiritual root.
It was only because his innate spirit root had some flaws, but one marrow cleansing pill could solve the flaws of his spiritual root while raising his spiritual root's aptitude to excellent top-grade.
After all, the essence of the marrow cleansing pill was to remove the impurities in his spiritual root and nurture his spiritual root.
He would use the remaining two [ marrow cleansing pills ] as a bargaining chip to compete for the throne.
At the same time, just two Foundation Establishment pills had already cost him 400,000 spirit stones.
Thinking of the astronomical amount of spirit stones he would have to bid for three marrow cleansing pills later, even though he was a prince with real power, there was a limit to how many spirit stones he could use.
After all, the Emperor of Great Xia had more than ten sons.
"330,000 spirit stones!"
The bidding for the marrow cleansing pill continued.
"350,000 spirit stones!"
"410,000 spirit stones!"
"450,000 spirit stones!"
"... 500,000 spirit stones!"
The second family of Green Mountain City, the Gongsun family head, also revealed his background.
Just now, he didn't open his mouth to compete for the Foundation Establishment Pill because his children had already reached the Foundation Establishment Stage. However, it was obvious that he wouldn't miss out on the marrow cleansing pill.
He also knew that there were still people in the star-picking pavilion whose wealth wasn't inferior to his.
For example, the figure in the black robe who had spent 400,000 spirit stones to bid for the Foundation Establishment Pill, accompanied by a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
Or another example was the cold-looking young man who was in the fourth storey loft.
These 500,000 spirit stones were already half of his family's savings. He had to take the pills.
As expected.
Under the dual pressure of the 500,000 spirit stones and his identity, the star-picking pavilion finally became quiet.
"Congratulations, Master Gongsun, for obtaining two marrow cleansing pills."
The smile on Situ Muxue's face grew wider. She had been in the star picking-pavilion of Green Mountain City for many years and she had never seen such a grand occasion.
Below the auction stage, Jing Yuan, who was acting as the guard, could look around without any scruples.
In contrast, Fu Cheng had been sitting quietly with his hood on while the seventh prince was doing all the bidding.
What he needed to do was to protect the seventh prince and also make a judgement.
He was constantly using his spirituality to observe the star-picking pavilion auction today.
He was wondering if there was any hidden danger.
When he thought of the noble youth sitting on the fourth storey, he suddenly realized that after the pills were being auctioned off, there was no movement from him at all.
This was very illogical.
Even though that young cultivator's cultivation had already reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, it was very clear that this type of Foundation Establishment pill or marrow cleansing pill, which had a completion rate of 100%, would be able to display its value as long as it was auctioned off.
Even with Prince Jing Yuan's identity, he had also bid for an additional Foundation Establishment pill and two marrow cleansing pills.
However, the powerful young man who was able to get Sikong Xuan to accompany him didn't do anything.
Fu Cheng tried to recall the portrait of this person, but he and Jing Yuan had never seen him before.
He hadn't heard of any other important figures coming to the star-picking pavilion in Green Mountain City.
In addition, the news that the star-picking pavilion had sent out was that the original Nascent Soul Stage talisman had become three Rank 1 pills.
A thought formed in his mind.
Could it be?
This young man was sitting on the fourth storey of the pavilion.
If he was not the heir of any influential families and could let Sikong Xuan sit beside him, could it be that he was the seller who had brought the pills!
He would wait a little longer.
If the other party still did not bid for the last batch of marrow cleansing pills, then he was able to confirm the identity of the seller.
Regardless of whether the other party's identity was an obscure alchemy genius or the apprentice of an Alchemy Master, these were not important.
What was important was, if the seventh prince could establish a friendship with such a person, that would be of absolute help to the prince in his struggle for the throne!
With such a big figure, he and the seventh prince absolutely could not miss the opportunity to make friends with him!