YM778.TV Chapter 145 - 68 Zhuming Chengye i
The man who shouted a figure of one thousand spirit stones, Xue Mingzhi, felt his heart trembling slightly. One thousand spirit stones were almost equivalent to the price of ten magical treasures; even selling the entire Xue family wouldn’t muster this many spirit stones.
If Shen Yuan hadn’t deliberately asked him to bid one thousand, he would never have raised the starting price by tenfold.
With this thought, Xue Mingzhi looked at the relaxed Shen Yuan on the sofa, speaking softly:
“Sir, isn’t the price of a thousand spirit stones too much?”
“I think they don’t seem to have the intention of bidding; perhaps it can be won with just a hundred spirit stones for this Hehuan Bell.”
Shen Yuan reached out to catch Bai Xue, who had jumped into his arms. He scratched the kitten’s chin, and casually said:
“You’re underestimating the power of these families and sects.”
“At this stage, spirit stone mining is scarce and difficult, so to you, spirit stones may be valuable.
But for major sects that truly possess blessed lands, a few hundred spirit stones are practically negligible. They can use a few hundred spirit stones to gamble for a chance to obtain a spirit treasure, which is absolutely worthwhile for them.”
“More importantly, once the Hehuan Bell becomes a spirit treasure in this world, it will not be limited by incomplete natural laws and can be used freely. This is definitely a huge weapon in the early stage of the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge.
If they start to compete against each other, especially if animosity arises between opposing powers, one thousand spirit stones may not be enough.”
Shen Yuan’s words were light and faint, but the one thousand spirit stones placed in the venue were like a mountain.
Feeling the stagnant atmosphere in the venue, Yen Xiao slowly opened his mouth.
“Box 110.5 named Tian bids one thousand spirit stones, does anyone else want to compete?”
There was no response; in the face of a bidding price that was ten times the base price, any bidder would have to seriously think twice.
“One thousand spirit stones, once!”
“One thousand spirit stones, twice!”
“One thousand spirit stones, three times!”
“Sold!”
After shouting “Sold!”, Yen Xiao couldn’t help but look at the box where Shen Yuan was located.
According to the analysts of the auction, the final price of this Hehuan Bell should be between one thousand three hundred to one thousand five hundred spirit stones.
The biggest variable is that two of the branches from the Yin Yang Hehuan Dao, the Maidens Temple and the Pure Minds Studio, are in more than a dozen boxes on the second floor.
These two sects disagreed with their sect philosophies from the very beginning, and they are incompatible.
Both sects possess the inheritance of Yin Yang Hehuan Dao, and they can repair the Hehuan Bell. If both parties get involved in the auction of the Hehuan Bell, they will inevitably compete with each other and drive up the price of the Hehuan Bell.
In the end, even if it breaks two thousand spirit stones, it’s not impossible.
However, Shen Yuan raised the bottom price by tenfold in one go. Neither branch of Yin Yang Hehuan Dao chose to get involved, naturally losing the possibility of confrontation.
Gesturing for the maid to send the Hehuan Bell to the third floor box, Yen Xiao suddenly recalled his previous comment to Shen Yuan, saying that he had “more than enough to bid for any item”, his heart suddenly tightened.
“This… shouldn’t happen, right?”
Hurriedly tossing those thoughts out of his mind, Yen Xiao spoke loudly:
“Please look at the second item, a magical treasure-level flying sword, the Ming Guang Sword, from the famous sword-making family, the Ou Ye family.
Flying swords are already rare, let alone a high-quality flying sword from a famous forging family…”
In the third-floor box, accompanied by the crisp knock on the door, a palace- dressed maid slowly walked into the room and put the box containing the Hehuan Bell on the table.
Shen Yuan examined the box and surprisingly found that this exquisitely carved wooden box was also carved from spirit wood. The quality of the spirit wood was not low and was close to the level of Class 2 spirit wood.
If sold, this box could be sold for at least the price of one spirit stone.
However, for Shen Yuan, by using the Pot’s Heaven Divine Power to open up space, the price of this box could increase manifold.
Under these circumstances, Shen Yuan naturally doesn’t need to care about spirit stones himself. Instead, valuable books and spirit objects are more valuable to him.
He opened the box and took out the Hehuan Bell. The exquisite bell hanging on the red string swings gently to make a charming bell sound.
Bai Xue was attracted by the exquisite Hehuan Bell as soon as Shen Yuan took it out. Her little paw kept fiddling with the Hehuan Bell to listen to the crisp sound.
Shen Yuan smiled slightly and directly hung the Hehuan Bell, worth a thousand spirit stones, on Bai Xue’s neck. The bell gave out a crisp “ding-ding-ding” sound.
“This is your gift.”
There was great happiness in Bai Xue’s surprised, beautiful, different-colored eyes.
She jumped excitedly out of Shen Yuan’s arms and ran around in the room, allowing the bell to constantly ring.
She even ran cockily in front of the window to look at her reflection in the glass halfway through the run, clearly very satisfied with this gift.
Shen Yuan smiled as he watched Bai Xue’s joyful look.
The kitten he brought back was still somewhat resistant to him at first, spending every day either stealing snacks or lying in the yard looking up at the sky.
But ever since he saved Bai Xue in Yunmeng Dragon Monarch’s heart lake, her attitude towards Shen Yuan has changed significantly, and she has helped Shen Yuan a great deal a few times.