Auction Upheaval, Forced Apprenticeship

A few breaths later, when the auctioneer announced the starting bid of "four thousand spirit crystals," the quasi-Spirit Transformations present, along with several Spirit Transformation Venerables, began placing bids one after another.

As the essence of demon beasts, demon cores had a wide range of uses. Aside from pill refinement and artifact forging, they could also be used in cultivation. Cultivators with matching attributes in particular could use them to refine their mana and cultivate certain special divine abilities.

The quasi-Spirit Transformations present were bidding on this fifth-tier demon core because, after demon cores reached the fifth tier, they could also serve as "rare treasures" for breaking through to the Spirit Transformation realm and shattering the limits of one's cultivation.

Their effect was roughly equivalent to a Spirit Transformation Venerable temporarily imparting their cultivation through empowerment, though under normal circumstances, it was not particularly safe...

Thus, after seeing the price of the fifth-tier demon core gradually rise, the quasi-Spirit Transformation cultivators bidding on it fell silent and patiently waited for this treasure to return to the hands of a Spirit Transformation Venerable.

However, this cold-attributed fifth-tier demon core was far less useful to Spirit Transformation Venerables.

The Spirit Transformation Venerables present were bidding only because they possessed abundant wealth and did not care much about gaining or losing a few thousand spirit crystals. They merely wished to collect rare treasures from across the world.

Therefore, the bidding for this item was sparse and far from enthusiastic.

"Nine thousand three hundred spirit crystals." At that moment, Wei Tu raised his bidding plaque and quietly named a high price.

This immediately astonished the cultivators seated around Wei Tu. Their gazes toward him gained a trace of reverence, and they assumed he was one of the few Spirit Transformations attending this black market