The auction began quickly. Unlike the items auctioned at Looking River Pavilion outside Jianghai City back then, even the lowest-grade cultivation arts here were Extraordinary-tier; the starting point was already high.
Many martial artists stared eagerly, scrambling to compete for them.
Lu Wangchuan had no interest in cultivation arts below the Forbidden tier. However, when pills and spirit ganoderma and ginseng over a thousand years old appeared later on, he bought some as well.
Those Young Master-level figures from the various sects had scarcely made a move during the early stages. Their goals were clearly defined—they had not set their sights on these little things.
Just as Lu Wangchuan's haul was overflowing while the money in his pocket had nearly run dry, the auctioneer suddenly brought out a cultivation art.
"This is an internal cultivation art—and a Forbidden-tier internal cultivation art at that."
The words instantly piqued everyone's interest, but the auctioneer's next sentence was like a basin of cold water dumped over the enthusiasm that had just flared up.
"This is a life-nurturing internal cultivation art, called the Black Emperor Sunflower Water Art. The starting bid is fifty thousand taels of silver, and each increase must be no less than one thousand taels."
Quite a few people could not help but twitch at the corners of their mouths, their interest waning.
A life-nurturing internal cultivation art required more than ten hours of cultivation a day just to match two hours spent cultivating an ordinary internal art of the same tier. Aside from granting more qi and blood than ordinary internal arts and restoring bodily depletion, it was practically useless in every other respect.
And since it was a Forbidden-tier cultivation art, it would cost quite a bit besides. What was the point of buying something like this? Better to