One of the three was about to say something when more people approached. It reached a total of fifteen people until it stopped, everyone keeping distance from the flesh statue that only had blinking eyes.
Yong Lu looked at the statue and didn't know what to say. How stupid one must be to do this, even though this cultivator was in the early stage, they looked like an adult, and he knew in fact, even a child wouldn't take things from a stranger…
He ignored them and said to the crowd "We can auction, everyone can buy as much as they want. The starting price for the three are fifty, hundred and two hundred spirit stones per vial."
The price was very high and he didn't plan to start so high, but since someone was willing to contribute, he wouldn't reject it. Any kind of poison at the late-qi refining stage would range from thirty to a hundred spirit stones based on how well they work, and since the effect of the lowest vial was shown to be so strong even though it has the disadvantage of having a weaker effect and being very visible, it wasn't too bad a price.
The first person to bid was the late-stage qi refiner who arrived first "I want one of each, hundred for the first, two for the second and four for the third. Anyone willing to bid more?"
Yong Lu raised his eyebrow 'Hmm, no wonder he came first… maybe he is preparing for something and needs poison, or he is a poison master… no, this can't be. He has no smell on him, it's impossible for me not to detect it.'
The others looked at him but no one said anything, so he took out seven little bags from the bag on his belt and threw them to Lu. Lu took them, weighed them a bit, then put them into his own space bag and threw the vials over.
As soon as the transaction was over, everyone was happy. This is, after all, a black market. It wasn't rare that one party exchanged goods and the other refused, but now that there was an example of a successful transaction, they all bid.
"Sixty for the powder!"
"Sixty two!"
…
The vials were sold for an average of eighty, hundred sixty and three hundred eighty, when Lu counted his stones, including the few he had before, it was a little over two thousand. After all, the previous person had spent quite a few stones on the pills to cultivate this fast with only three spiritual roots.
If Yong Lu didn't mutate, he'd now have to think of resolving the issue of pill poison. No matter how large of an advantage fire alchemy has when removing impurities, most alchemist aren't able to completely remove them.
There are four grades four all spiritual treasures and items, which are low, middle, high and top. The first three refer to their respective grades, such as early, middle and late stage of qi refining, while the last reaches the next level. At the same time, the last is also a perfect product in that stage, so a top-grade pill has no impurities at all.
There is also an advanced grading system that adds the quality of the item in that grade, which uses the same terms, while the first refers to the grade and the second to the quality. A low middle grade item is an early-stage item with a middle level quality.
The previous Lu was only able to afford middle high-grade pills. If he spent a bit more, he'd be able to take middle top-grade pills, but these kinds of pills are more expensive than high low grade pills. Since he couldn't afford the latter, he naturally couldn't afford the former.
'Hmm, I wonder what grade my poison has? It's definitely of higher grade, maybe of higher quality too? It might be… I wonder what it takes to advance my poison to top quality? For poisons… it's probably that it can't be cured by antidotes of the same level, I don't think my poison is that far off.
A specialist can cure it probably, but as long as I consume other poisons and muddy the poison, a single antidote will be difficult to cure it, and several antidotes don't count, so it shouldn't be difficult for me…. Alas! If I was in the swamp now with many poisons, and even poison masters all around, it will be so much better.
It's indeed a good idea to go there, staying in a place like this will probably only enable me to cultivate until I'm in the peak of qi refining. Foundation building pills aren't as effective on beast as they are on humans. It might be enough, but I'd rather complete my own poison before I advance…
From the basic rules of cultivation, the better one ends a single stage, the stronger the foundation for the next stage. As for reaching top top, I don't think it's possible… anyways, high top has the same effect as top medium to top high, so it shouldn't be too bad…
Anyways, even if I can reach high top here with effort, as long as I go there and put in the effort there, it won't be too difficult to reach it, hopefully…'
Yong Lu couldn't help wanting to max out his poison. It had something to do with his ambition, it's fine if one doesn't know there is a peak, but as soon as one knows there's a peak, one wants to reach it. He was fine with mediocrity if his circumstances didn't allow, but if they did, he wouldn't be able to not follow his inner ambition.
'I wonder if two thousand spirit stones are enough to bring me to the proximity of the swamp?' He didn't know the route, or any basic information at all. The only thing he knew of the beasts were that there were nine holy regions that are large enough to have all ranges of periphery, outer, inner, core and depth.
These seven were seven different environments, the endless swamp among them is the holy land of the wetland environment, apart from this, there are Forests, Grasslands, Mountains, Deserts, Oceans, Rivers, Tundra and Volcanic places.
Lu was very interested in these environments and one of his goals was to one day visit them all one by one, unfortunately this will probably happen only if he advances to a high stage. The swamp is fortunately the closest, else he wouldn't force himself to go there even if it was more advantageous.
Every holy place is said to be extremely far apart and they are the nine natural cores of the world, with forest, wetland, grassland, mountains and river the inner cores and the rest being the outer core.