Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman-Chapter 737 - 396 Consignment Shop, News!

In Golden Crow City,

humans and demons lived together.

Buddhism, Taoism, and demons coexisted harmoniously.

Even some alien races from beyond the realm made their appearance here, offering special items in exchange for resources.

On this day,

the consignment auction house operated by the local powers of Golden Crow City suddenly buzzed with activity.

The consignment auction house accepted consignments of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from the Ten Thousand Clans, conducting an initial appraisal before listing them at the consignment shop.

Then, typically, an item would be listed for three days, and at the end of this period, the highest bidder would acquire it.

Due to the rules of consignment, the items typically consigned were standard goods, primarily exchanged for Spirit Stones and other common equivalents.

The real treasures were usually exchanged for goods at large trade fairs.

But today,

the local merchants who had been squatting at the consignment shop to look for bargains quickly noticed new items on the list—

twelve strains of five-hundred-year-old Nine Yin Mysterious Grass.

Five-hundred-year-old Nine Yin Mysterious Grass was a main ingredient in refining pills that smoothed the transition from Nascent Soul to Divinity Transformation.

Extravagantly, it could also be used to make Body Tempering Liquid, one of the favorite tempering liquids of Body Cultivators.

Such useful Spiritual Medicine was notoriously difficult to cultivate, and its production had never increased significantly.

Even in Golden Crow City, the annual output of the hundred-year Nine Yin Mysterious Grass wasn’t large.

Not to mention the even more precious five-hundred-year variety.

Some wondered if this was the work of a lucky individual or team who had found an Ancient Relic in relatively good condition and taken these Medicines from its periphery.

They must be eager to liquidate their find.

Before long, a five-hundred-year-old Buddha Country Golden Lotus and a thousand-year-old Mind Concentration Fruit appeared at the consignment shop.

This confirmed the merchants’ speculations

and made their scheme to suppress the news and collaborate on price suppression come to an abrupt end before it had even begun.

The Buddha Country Golden Lotus, which could reinforce the strength of secret realm spaces, along with the Mind Concentration Fruit, which was also helpful for those in the Divinity Transformation Stage,

either kind was not something these merchants could suppress the news about or persuade their competitors to compromise on!

Thus, the shop instantly became one of the busiest places in Golden Crow City.

Representatives of various powers, including Cultivators, also arrived, each bidding high prices to compete.

However, this also made some of the old-timers among the local Golden Crow City merchants

subtly aware of a certain dissonance or unease.

"How strange,"

"The Buddha Country Golden Lotus’s price has shot up to three thousand top-grade Spirit Stones, even costlier than that Mind Concentration Fruit!"

"Yes, I remember a few years back Buddha Country Golden Lotus was also up for sale, offered by a branch from the Buddha Realm. Back then, a five-hundred-year variety sold for a high price of one thousand top-grade Spirit Stones."

"It’s only been a few years, and it has already increased by so much?"

Quite a few merchants marveled at the latest consignment prices.

In this Time Domain of North King,

top-grade Spirit Stones still firmly served as a common equivalent.

After all, this was not something that could be replaced just by increasing the density of Spiritual Energy.

Large-scale Arrays, Immortal Boats, or War Puppet’s driving core energy sources, all basically relied on top-grade Spirit Stones for support.

Yet, as a consumable, the output of such stones had always shown a slight downward trend.

It was no wonder their value was recognized by the Ten Thousand Clans.

Two to three thousand top-grade Spirit Stones were utterly comparable to the annual, or even two to three years of total output from those well-known small worlds that produced Spirit Stones.

In their view, a single Buddha Country Golden Lotus selling for such a high price... was simply insanity.

An elderly Tree Soul standing in the loft nearby displayed a look of worry on its face.

"They can no longer restrain themselves, eh? All Spiritual Objects related to space are being contested by the Three Alliances."

"Old Ancestor, should we also buy some?"

Behind the Tree Soul elder, another similarly aged man in a red long robe, upon hearing this, made another inquiry.

"What would we buy them for? It would only serve to unnecessarily increase others’ resentment toward us."

"We have already grown together with the Golden Crow Divine Tree."

"So long as the Golden Crow is indestructible, we have nothing to worry about."

"And if there truly comes a great calamity, even the Golden Crow would not be able to protect us."

"Thanks to many years of friendly relations and gifts, perhaps we could still persuade the Three Alliances to shelter one or two of our clansmen and preserve a sliver of our bloodline and heritage."

"As for anything else, don’t even think about it, too much thought will only backfire."

"Unless... our clan could also produce a Heavenly Immortal."

Speaking this, the Tree Soul elder laughed at himself.

The room suddenly fell quiet.

A Heavenly Immortal... these people had taken refuge under the Golden Crow Ancient Tree for over a hundred thousand years.

To date, the highest level of Cultivation they held was that of an Earth Immortal in the Mahayana Realm.

And even that individual had long since resigned himself to having no further path.

The number of Human Immortals in the Harmonization stage below the Mahayana Realm could only be counted on one hand.

With such a foundation, the hope of consecutively breaking through to produce a Heavenly Immortal seemed improbable!

Elsewhere,

Tian Jizi, a Divinity Transformation True Man from the Heavenly Mending Sect of the Tao Alliance, was glaring at a Snake Demon who was also at the Divinity Transformation Stage from the Demon Alliance, angrily berating:

"What is the meaning of this, such bidding? Are you deliberately provoking the Tao Alliance?"

"Believe it or not, I could apply for a platform fight this instant, and even without using any Magic Divine Power, I could beat you to death with my fists!"

"This sovereign will not accept the challenge, so save your efforts."

The green Snake Demon, perched atop a giant elephant, lazily looked at her old rival who had come to stir up trouble and scoffed:

"Those Buddha Country Golden Lotuses are a must-have for the Demon Alliance."

"As for provoking your Tao Alliance? This sovereign doesn’t have the spare time for that."

With that, the Snake Demon narrowed her eyes and added:

"Rather than raging impotently, you might want to contact your sect quickly and see if you can transfer some Spirit Stones to buy some other valuable items."

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