Seeing Ling Chengyuan's expression return to normal, Ling Pengyun nodded in satisfaction. He then took him directly away, sent Ling Chengyuan back to the clan grounds, and returned to Ice Spirit Valley to cultivate in seclusion.
Half a year later, after calculating the time, Ling Pengyun left Ice Spirit Valley alone and made a trip to the clan repository. He took more than six hundred thousand spirit stones that the clan had saved over the past five years, then secretly left Yan Kingdom and headed to the familiar Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World, where he attended a medium-scale auction held once every fifty years by a Nascent Soul Force.
Quite a few spirit objects appeared at that auction, including one ordinary Golden Core spirit object and three inferior Golden Core spirit objects as the finale.
As a result, this auction drew a great number of Golden Core cultivators.
Ling Pengyun had come for those Golden Core spirit objects as well.
Relying on his abundant wealth, he successfully bid on one ordinary Golden Core spirit object, a Core Formation Fluid, along with two inferior Golden Core spirit objects: a Meridian Protecting Pill and a Pseudo-Core Formation Fluid.
While leaving the auction, he was secretly followed by quite a few Golden Core cultivators. However, his cultivation had already reached the Golden Core Late Stage, and none of those pursuing him were Golden Core Completion cultivators. The strongest among them were merely several Golden Core Late Stage cultivators.
Thus, after driving off one Golden Core Late Stage cultivator, no one else dared block his departure. He successfully returned to the clan with those three Golden Core spirit objects and placed them in the clan repository.
With that, the number of Golden Core spirit objects in the clan repository reached eight.
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