Entering the hall where the auction was being held, the originally bright environment darkened while thunderous yells poured everywhere. It made Luo Cheng furrow his brows.The auction hall was huge and the hall could definitely fit at least hundreds to even thousands of people.
At this time, at the center of the hall, under a bright light, a red robed beauty was using her charming voice to describe the item in her hand. Under the numbing and clear sound of the voice, the item that really wasn't worth much had it's price increase at an exponential rate.
Finding a remote seat, Luo Cheng quietly sat down and glanced at the beauty in the middle of the hall. With his acute observations, he realized that most of the people were here for her and not the items that were being auctioned.
Misty Cloud Pavilions top auctioneer, Lan Yan. She was an extremely famous beauty within Leng Prefecture and her mature charm made many attracted to her.
Suddenly, the silent Luo Cheng turned around and stared at a man not too far away from him but hidden in a corner. His arms were swaying with words of Lan Yan's small red mouth and his hands disappeared beneath his waist...
"Damn!" Lightly cursing, Luo Cheng, who was under the cloak, rolled his eyes. This guy is so shameless!
While cursing in his mind, Luo quickly moved away and bitterly smiled. His gaze once again went to the center of the hall and watched the charming curves of the auctioneer while muttering, "Beautiful."
After looking at the item in Lan Yan's hand, Luo Cheng lost his interest. He didn't have that much money to buy a piece of junk, even if the seller of that item was a beautiful woman. After tearing his gaze away from Lan Yan, Luo Cheng started slowly looking around the hall.
"Hehe, everyone, the auction house has just received a new auction item. I believe, that everyone would be interested in it." After auctioning the latest item, Lan Yan suddenly paused and said aloud towards the audience. With a wave of her hand, a waitress quickly brought up a jade plate and in the middle of the plate was a while jade bottle.
"This is are grade 3 pills. "With her delicate hand picking up the jade bottle, Lan Yan's charming voice calmed the auctioneers for an instant. But soon, the yells became even louder, in Heaven Desolate Region, the pills refined by Alchemists were the most sought after items.
"This pill is named Blood Qi Pill. Consuming this pill purifies the bloodline and it also has a certain chance of upgrading the level of ones bloodline. It is only effective to those with the Mortal Qi Bloodline and Silver Bloodline!
Hehe, if you like you son or grandson to be called a genius, this is perfect for you!" Her attractive mouth lightly breathed the words. Hearing her words, the audience became shocked looking at themselves in disbelief.
"Grade three Blood Qi Pill, there must also be a dire side effect upon taking this pills right?" Even though Lan Yan was extremely charming, there were also many people that stayed calm and after a brief silence, someone raised an essential question.
"Hehe, this pills were personally inspected by our Alchemist, Master Tang Shu and was found to be a grade 3 pill. There will not be a problem, everyone can be assured of that." Lan Yan lightly laughed while responding.
Hearing that Master Tang Shu had personally inspected the pill, those with doubt didn't question the validity of the pill anymore. Everyone knew that Master Tang Shu was a rank 3 Alchemist. In the entire Leng Prefecture, even the leaders of some top clans were courteous towards him.
Luo Cheng lazily leaned on his chair and watched the excited atmosphere within the crowd. Letting out a light breath, he thought, 'Looks like this Blood Qi Pills will bring quite a bit of income!'
"The owner of these pills requested we sell it as a single batch and there are a total of twenty seven pills in this jade bottle. The base price for these pills are set at 20,000 mid grade Spirit Stones with increments a thousand spirit stones higher than the last." Yan Lan said with a slight smile on her face as she declared start of the bidding contest.
"22,000!" Right when Yan Lan's voice stopped, a person yelled out a price.
"24,000!" Another price came right after the first price had been called.
The price quickly went up and within a couple of seconds, it got to 33,000!
Even though those from top clans were somewhat excited, they didn't call out a price immediately and instead closed their eyes, waiting for the small fry calls to stop.
The price went up again but soon, the voices died out. At that time, an elder also sitting in the first row lightly said, "50,000!"
After calling out that price, the final voices in the auction died out. Some of the hopeful looked towards that emotionless elder but could only sit back down, disappointed. They didn't have the wealth to be in a price war with the Jia Clan.
"Hehe, Jia Lie, doesn't your son already possess a top tier Silver Bloodline? Why are you still thinking about this Blood Qi Pills?" A middle aged man who was also sitting in the first row turned around to fakely smile at Jia Lie.
"Ao Bai, can't I buy it for my future grandchild?" Jia Lie obviously didn't like the middle aged man and coldly sneered at the latter.
"Let's see if your luck lets you have a grandchild, maybe some day your son finds himself without.... After silently cursing at Jia Lie, Ao Bai also called out, "60,000!"
"70,000."
"80,000."
Within 10 minutes and under the surprised stares of everyone within the auction, the two were like dogs fighting over a meal and raised the price to 85,000!
"100,000!" The closed eyed Zhang Hu suddenly spoke up.
Everyone within the auction hall went silent and switched their stares to Zhang Hu. Even Ao Ba and Jia Lie were stunned by the sudden raise in the price.
"Hehe, Elder Zhang, looks like you really want this Blood Qi Pill." Jia Lie smiled.
Zhang Hu glanced at him and said, "If you want it, then just raise the price. I promise | won't raise the price again."
Jia Lie paused and thought about the truth within Zhang Hu's words. Soon, he shook his head since his purpose here today wasn't for the Blood Qi Pills and to waste money that could have gone to that item was not a smart idea.
Ao Bai on the other side, seeing that Jia Lie stopped raising the price, also shrugged his shoulders. Even though the Blood Qi Pills were extremely tempting, his goal wasn't that. Therefore, he also stopped raising the price.
"Elder Zhang Hu has bid 100,000 mid grade spirit stones, is there anyone that wishes to raise the price?" Seeing the calm hall, Yan Lan smiled while reminding the crowd.
"Since no one has raised the price, this Blood Qi Pills will go to Elder Zhang Hu!" Seeing that no one responded, Yan Lan was smart and lightly tapped her small hammer on the table, signaling that the Blood Qi Pills had found its new owner.
In a remote area, Luo Cheng was beaming happily, satisfied with the outcome of the bidding contest.
"Hehe, next, we'll be auctioning the final auction item!" Placing the jade bottle back within the plate, Yan Lan waved her hand and the light in the hall dimmed.
Bending down, she took out a silver plate and in the middle of the plate was a green, unadorned scroll. The scroll was slightly glowing green and with the reflections off of the silver plate, it was cast in a mysterious light.
"Peak Sky Grade Cultivation Technique : Nine Phantom Art!"
The moment Yan Lan said Peak Sky Grade Cultivation Technique, the entire auction went silent. Compared to the Alchemy pills, Cultivation Techniques were infinitely more valuable.
Even though pills were expensive, they were a one-time use item. But Cultivation Techniques would last for one's entire life and can even be inherited by one's sons and grandsons .
So from a long term stand point, a high level Cultivation Technique was much more sought after compared to pills.
After all, once a person has a high level Cultivation Technique, even without the support of pills, that person can become a force to be reckoned with after a period of time.
On the other hand, if one doesn't have a Cultivation Technique and only has pills, then even if that person is eating pills like they are candy, he still would not become too strong.