Chapter 192 – Special Demon Core, Small Forbidden Array!

Chapter 192 – Special Demon Core, Small Forbidden Break Formation!

Day two.

Lu Changsheng went out and walked towards the Jiu Xiao Mountain Auction venue.

Today was the day of the semi-annual auction of the Nine Heavenly Immortal City.

However, for the Nine Heavenly Immortal City, this kind of small auction was just a small hustle and bustle.

Selling some of the finest items that are usually rare.

As far as Lu Changsheng knew, the real buzz in Immortal City was the triennial and decennial auctions.

Like the Foundation Establishment Pill, many usually rare elixirs and medicines, gongfu inheritance, heavenly materials and treasures were all able to be seen in this kind of big auction.

After arriving at the Nine Heavenly Mountains Auction Venue, Lu Changsheng took out the invitation he had bought earlier.

“This fellow Daoist, you are holding the invitation to the box, please follow me!”

A maid with a pretty face and a coquettish smile invited Lu Changsheng to the second floor of the venue.

“In the box, the guest privacy is absolutely confidential, and guests you shoot the treasure, someone will be sent directly to the box transaction ……”

The maid led the way while introducing the facilities and rules of the auction venue.

“Uh-huh.”

Lu Changsheng nodded slightly.

These are aspects that he understood before.

Not only are the boxes much more comfortable, but privacy is also guaranteed.

“Worthy of being an Immortal City, even if it’s just a small auction, it’s still more lively than the auction that took so long to warm up in the Red Leaf Valley Place.”

Lu Changsheng came to the box and sat down, overlooking the entire auction and looking at the filled seats on the first floor.

Most of them were late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

There were also quite a few foundation-building cultivators.

“Dang…”

Almost half an hour later, a loud gong sounded, and a tall, mature and charming female cultivator in a red dress walked up to the venue.

“Thank you all for coming. This auction will now begin, I wish all of you Dao friends and seniors will be able to buy your favorite things.”

“The first lot – a lower grade spirit weapon, the ‘River One Breath Crossbow’, has the effect of attacking the enemy, breaking spells, and breaking prohibitions, and can be catalyzed by a spirit stone without consuming mana . …The starting price is two thousand hundred spirit stones.”

The red-skirted female cultivator’s voice was a bit pasty and delicate as she held a small crossbow and voiced an introduction.

The voice clearly reached the ears of everyone in the arena.

“Two thousand one hundred spirit stones!”

“Two thousand five hundred spirit stones!”

This was a lower grade spirit weapon though.

But it does count as a fine product when it can appear in an auction.

It could be activated without consuming one’s own mana, allowing cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining to use it.

“Two thousand nine hundred spirit stones.”

Lu Changsheng opened his mouth and offered a price.

He naturally couldn’t use this spiritual weapon.

However, Lu Miaogao’s cultivation at the peak of Qi Refining happened to be practicing water attribute techniques, which was quite suitable with this crossbow spirit weapon, and could be used for self-defense.

Besides, he had come out for a trip and naturally had to give some small gifts to his wife and children when he returned home.

After several offers, Lu Changsheng took it at a price of three thousand eight hundred spirit stones.

Not expensive to talk about, but not cheap either.

“Guest, this is the spirit weapon you auctioned off.”

Not long after, there was a maid carrying a tray that came to the box through a dark passage.

“Uh-huh.”

Lu Changsheng picked up this crossbow and played with it briefly.

Knowing that this spirit weapon was warmed up through medium grade spirit stones and weekdays, allowing Qi refining cultivators to easily activate it.

If the energy stored inside was depleted, it would be much more difficult to catalyze it.

He put the crossbow away after paying the spirit stone.

“Ice Heart Pill, can assist ice attribute technique cultivation to break through bottlenecks, and has the effect of suppressing heart demons and treating fire attribute injuries, a total of ten, starting at 500 spirit stones each.”

The red-skirted female cultivator’s delicate voice continued to spread throughout the auction venue, ringing in everyone’s ears.

Lu Changsheng lazily leaned back on the soft chair and casually looked around.

Unless it was a third-order elixir, or some rare elixir, he basically had little interest.

“Ah this.”

Lu Changsheng, who was looking around in boredom, suddenly saw that at the corner of the first floor.

A cultivator’s eyes were hot as he looked at the red-skirted female cultivator on the stage, performing lewd behaviors

“Holy shit.”

Lu Changsheng cursed, his face showing the look of a subway old man looking at his cell phone.

I didn’t expect to actually see such an anticlimactic scene in an auction.

But this guy is really bold and not afraid to die.

One must know that this red-skirted female cultivator on the stage was no vase.

It was a foundation-building cultivator!

And this person was only in the late Qi Refining stage.

“Maybe that’s what makes it exciting.”

Lu Changsheng didn’t understand this kind of people’s thoughts and shook his head, hurriedly averting his gaze and looking at the curvaceous and plump red-skirted female cultivator on the high platform.

The auction goes on and on.

I have to say, the quality of the auction is really OK.

Basically, they were all pills, magic weapons, heavenly materials and treasures, and spirit beast cubs that were usually rare to see.

During the process, there were also some secret techniques of gongfu and the inheritance of the hundred arts of immortal cultivation.

However, the feats only go up to advanced feats, and the skill inheritance only goes up to the top of the second rank.

“It seems that the inheritance of feats and advanced techniques are heavily blocked everywhere and rarely flow out.”

Lu Changsheng pondered in his heart.

With one item being auctioned off.

Finally, an auction item lifted the lazy Lu Changsheng’s spirits.

“Purple Thunder Spirit Wood, this spirit wood is in the middle grade of the third order, it can be used in medicine, formations, refining spiritual weapons, treasures, or making talismanic skins. Starting price, four thousand spirit stones.”

The red-skirted female cultivator’s voice was delicate, introducing the auction items in detail, making the boring auction a little more colorful and not so boring.

“Third-order middle-grade spirit wood, this auction, it wasn’t in vain.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the spirit wood and sat up slightly.

The main purpose of his trip to Nine Heavenly Immortal City was to purchase more third-order talisman-making materials.

However, third-order materials were very rare.

He had almost run through the entire inner city before, and had only managed to buy about ten third-order lower-grade talisman-making materials and a third-order lower-grade spirit wood.

Now this cut-off of third-order mid-grade spirit wood, made into a talisman skin, used to contain the treasure talisman, can raise a third-order mid-grade spirit talisman, he can be said to be a must-have.

“Four thousand five hundred spirit stones!”

In the hall on the first floor, there was immediately a Foundation Establishment cultivator who made a bid.

“Five thousand spirit stones!”

“Five thousand one hundred spirit stones!”

“Five thousand three hundred spirit stones!”

“Six thousand spirit stones!”

Seeing that there were fewer bidders, Lu Changsheng also made an offer.

“Six thousand one hundred spirit stones.”

Inside one of the boxes, a price was shouted.

“Six thousand five hundred spirit stones.”

Lu Changsheng continued to shout the price.

“Six thousand six hundred spirit stones!”

There was some gnashing of teeth in this voice.

This was because the price of a third-order mid-grade spirit wood was right at five or six thousand spirit stones.

It was just that this cut-off spirit wood was of the thunder attribute, which was relatively rare and just suitable for him to refine a treasure.

“Seven thousand spirit stones!”

Lu Changsheng shouted out without haste.

Although the premium is quite a bit.

But for him, as long as he could make the talisman, everything was worth it.

Once this price was offered, there was no more offers from the other few boxes.

After all, in the Foundation Establishment Stage, there really weren’t many cultivators as rich as Lu Changsheng.

Not long after, a maid delivered a several feet long piece of Purple Striped Spirit Wood.

The spirit wood was covered with purple lightning patterns, and the light spiritual light flowed, very extraordinary.

“Nice.”

Lu Changsheng looked at this Purple Thunder Spirit Wood with a faint smile on his face.

If the spirit wood was made into a third-order talisman skin, it could be used to draw some of the third-order thunder aspect talismans.

After he paid the spirit stones, he continued to look at the items introduced on the high platform.

“Second-order medium-grade array ‘wind and fire array’, array plate, 108 array flags are complete, simple to manipulate, can be transformed into wind and fire, even if the foundation cultivators encountered also very difficult to use to guard the cave, trapped to kill the demonic beasts, the starting price of 5,000 spirit stones.”

This array weapon made Lu Changsheng feel good.

However, the area covered by this formation was too small, only a hundred feet.

It is only suitable for guarding caves and spiritual fields.

Cannot be used as a family grand formation.

So he didn’t participate in the auction.

This array weapon, however, was auctioned off for a huge sum of nine thousand spirit stones.

“Next, is our grand finale for this auction.”

After the auction lasted for another half a quarter of an hour, on the high platform, the red-skirted female cultivator took out an azure-colored crystal nucleus, and voiced an introduction, “Second-order special demon nucleus, can replace the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, and become the auxiliary material of Foundation Establishment Dan Starting price, 8,000 spirit stones.”

“Second-ranked special demon core!?”

When Lu Changsheng saw the demon core, he raised his eyebrows and revealed a few moments of interest.

The reason why Foundation Establishment Pills were rare was because the main ingredient ‘Heavenly Spirit Fruit’ was too rare.

Apart from the ‘Violet Specter Secret Realm’ which opens once every thirty years, there is no regular output.

The Foundation Building Pills that occasionally flowed out of the three great immortal cities, aside from someone obtaining the Heavenly Spirit Fruit by chance, was to use the ‘Second Stage Special Demon Core’ to replace the Heavenly Spirit Fruit as the main ingredient of the Foundation Building Pill.

However, this second-order special demon core was also incredibly rare.

First of all, only some very rare and powerful second-order demonic beasts had demonic cores.

Like the second-stage green wolf that Lu Changsheng had killed back then, there was no such thing as a demon core.

Secondly, the demon core for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill must not be too heterogeneous and violent in its energy content, and must be mild and pure in its attributes.

Otherwise, it would clash with the other ingredients of the Foundation Building Pill.

For example, metallic, fire-attribute, lightning-attribute, ice-attribute, and multi-attribute demon cores were all ineligible.

That’s why it was very difficult to obtain this ‘special demon core’ by hunting down a demonic beast.

One must enter the depths of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

But deep within the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, countless demonic beasts were entrenched.

There were even Third Order Great Demons and Fourth Order Demon Kings.

A JieDan real person going deeper would have to have a headache and an inadvertent fall in it.

That’s why unusual Foundation Establishment Cultivators and JieDan Real People wouldn’t purposely go to the depths of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to look for special demon cores.

Basically, it’s all about the outer areas and taking your chances.

Or in other mountain ranges, one might encounter such demonic beasts and obtain special demonic cores.

“Use a second-order demon core instead of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, the formula and refining techniques only need to be adjusted by a small margin.”

“If I had this second-order special demon core, I could completely gather the auxiliary materials myself and refine three Foundation Establishment Pills.”

Lu Changsheng pondered in his heart and prepared to auction off this Second Order Special Demon Core.

Even though he couldn’t use the Foundation Building Pill.

But no one can have too much of a scarce commodity like Foundation Building Dan.

Not only can you give it to your concubines and children.

It can also be used to exchange rare heavenly treasures.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, Foundation Building Pills could be said to be the upper class hard currency.

“Eight thousand five hundred spirit stones!” A voice immediately quoted.

“Eight thousand six hundred spirit stones!”

“Eight thousand eight hundred spirit stones!”

Many of the cultivators present were interested in this ‘Second Order Special Demon Core’.

The Qi Refining Cultivator wanted this particular demon core and asked someone to refine the Foundation Building Pill.

Foundation-building cultivators have family descendants.

In a short while, it made the price of this demon core break ten thousand.

“Twelve thousand spirit stones!”

At this moment, an old and majestic voice rang out, directly raising the price by one thousand spirit stones.

At the same time, a window opened in this compartment.

It allowed one to be able to see through the window that inside was an old man with gray hair, a country face, and a majestic countenance.

“So it’s Master He!”

“I’ve heard that Master He is very good at refining Foundation Building Dan with demon cores, and is able to ensure that at least one of them will become a Dan, and normal play has two Foundation Building Dan.”

“If Master He auctions this demon core, there will be another Foundation Building Pill flowing out of the auction in two and a half years.”

“Greetings, Master He!”

Many people in the arena looked towards the box and recognized the majestic old man.

Knowing that the other party was a famous alchemy master in the Nine Heavens Market.

This Grandmaster He did have a big face, and many Foundation Establishment cultivators gave up fighting for it.

Many people even voiced their greetings, intending to visit this Master He afterward, sending auxiliary materials and begging for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

“Thirteen thousand spirit stones!”

However, Lu Changsheng didn’t care at all and didn’t give this Master He face as he voiced his offer.

The sound of this voice immediately caused the others in the arena to look towards the box where Lu Changsheng was.

“Thirteen thousand five hundred spirit stones!”

Master He also looked towards Lu Changsheng’s box, coldly snorted, and raised the price by five hundred spirit stones.

The price of a Foundation Building Pill was around twenty thousand spirit stones.

The price of this crystal core plus the supplementary materials would be almost twenty thousand spirit stones.

If it was only refined into a Foundation Establishment Pill, there would be no profit at all.

But for alchemists, many times it’s nice to get your money back.

After all, every time he made an alchemy, he was also accumulating experience and proficiency.

“Fifteen thousand spirit stones.”

Lu Changsheng directly increased the price by a large amount.

With his second-order alchemy skill at hand, he was confident that he would be able to refine three Foundation Establishment Pills.

Even one of the three Foundation Building Pills was an Extreme Grade Foundation Building Pill.

Therefore, this special demon core, he was bound to get it.

“This fellow Daoist, old man He Mao.”

This Master He said in a cold voice when he saw Lu Changsheng making such an offer.

“What, can the auction house still use its power to oppress people?”

Lu Changsheng said indifferently.

These words caused He Mao’s face to turn green and white.

He belonged to a dignified figure in this Nine Heavenly Immortal City, at least.

Even if you reveal your identity, it’s the price of this crystal core, almost to the limit.

Unexpectedly, Lu Changsheng did not give him the slightest bit of face.

He gritted his teeth and quoted, “Sixteen thousand spirit stones!”

“Seventeen thousand spirit stones.”

Lu Changsheng said in a dignified manner.

“Eighteen thousand spirit stones.”

Master He continued the offer.

“Twenty thousand spirit stones!”

Lu Changsheng flatly voiced out.

Faced with this situation, this Master He also stopped making offers.

Although he had 50% certainty of refining two Foundation Establishment Pills.

However, the time and effort spent on collecting the auxiliary materials and refining the elixir is not worth the price increase.

Besides.

Lu Changsheng’s offer like this did not give him face, making him wary of offending him as well.

“Hiss, who is this person who actually spent twenty thousand spirit stones to auction off this special demon core.”

“The price of the Foundation Establishment Pill is also at this price, could it be that this person is also an alchemy master or knows a certain alchemy master.”

“How is it possible, where did so many alchemy masters come from!”

“Yes, there are only so many famous alchemy masters in Immortal City.”

“It might be that it just happens to need this special demon core, such as to help spirit beasts advance.”

In the venue, because of the high price that this Demon Core was auctioned for, it caused a lot of discussion.

After all, on weekdays, the price of a special demon core was at most fifteen thousand spirit stones.

Not long after, this second-order special demon core was delivered.

After Lu Changsheng inspected it, he put it away in a jade box.

Many heavenly treasures in the Immortal Cultivation World had to be stored in special treasure boxes, otherwise they would leak their aura.

After the auction of the second-order demon cores ended, the next few things Lu Changsheng had little interest in and didn’t participate.

The other thing was also that he had spent over thirty thousand spirit stones on this auction of three items, and with his wealthy appearance, he might also be targeted by someone with a heart of gold.

“Fellow Daoists, now that the auction has ended, the next step is the trade fair, the free trade session.”

“Interested Daoists can move to the side hall.”

The woman in the red dress said, announcing the end of the auction.

Hearing this, Lu Changsheng spoke with the auction maid to attend the trade fair.

That was one of the purposes of his participation in the auction.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, many cultivators obtain rare heavenly materials and treasures and don’t like to sell them as spirit stones.

Rather, they seek what they need by bartering for what they need.

The maid sniffed and asked Lu Changsheng if he needed to conceal his identity.

Capes and masks are available at the venue.

“Worthy of being an immortal city, it’s just circumspect.”

Lu Changsheng heard this and claimed a cloak and mask.

This mask cloak, however, required three hundred spirit stones.

Lu Changsheng came to the side hall through a dark passage.

Just after entering the great hall, he sensed that there was some sort of formation that could affect other people’s divine sense.

Combined with the mask and cloak, the identity is largely unnoticeable.

However, only half of the people in the side hall hid their identities.

Many are straightforward and generous in revealing their true colors.

It was thought that all of these people should have been living in the Nine Heavenly Immortal City for a long time, or not be afraid of being targeted.

A quarter of an hour later, after the side hall had gathered forty to fifty people, the trade fair officially began.

The transaction is simple: each person speaks in turn, showing the resources sold, or indicating what is being sought.

“Foundation Building Spirit Item ‘Earthly Deity Qi’ for a metallic Foundation Building Spirit Item, ‘Brilliant Yuan Gold Qi’ is prioritized to replenish the Spirit Stones .”

“One subtle level Qi Refining Technique for one Divine Sense Technique, or for a technique of the same level, of course, if someone offers enough spirit stones, I’ll sell it as well.”

“Dragon Transformation Ginseng, a rare second-order elixir that can be used as an auxiliary ingredient for the Foundation Building Pill, exchange it for a Myriad Age Pill”

One by one, individuals spoke up.

“This trade fair, it’s true that there are some good things in all the hands.”

Lu Changsheng looked at these people and wondered in his heart.

For example, that ‘dragon ginseng’ in his opinion is not bad, is one of the main auxiliary ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Dan, wait to ask the other party is willing to sell the spirit stone.

Just then, a blue-skirted woman spoke out.

“Quasi-third-order array inheritance, a set of inverted five-element array forbidding apparatus, or you can set up a second-order array for someone, in exchange for yin and cold attribute elixirs, heavenly materials and treasures, as many as you want.”