The so-called twin grand finales needed no guessing. Everyone knew what treasures they were.
They had to be the Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill and the Great Treasury Palace Opening Pill, two peerless pills rarely seen in the world.
What many wanted to know, however, was who these two peerless pills would ultimately go to, and what price they would fetch.
After all, among the thousand martial artists present, more than half knew perfectly well that they lacked the means to bid for these twin grand finales.
What surprised Ye Zhen somewhat was that Pill King Shuilian personally presided over the bidding for the twin grand finales.
Dressed in azure robes with a plain hairpin, Pill King Shuilian personally carried the pill bottles layered with seal after seal onto the auction platform on the first floor. Against his ethereal, otherworldly bearing, even the pill bottles in his hands seemed all the more precious.
"First, this old man must apologize to all my fellow martial artists who have held me in such high regard. I know that many of you came here for the Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill!
"But this old man is ashamed.
"The Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill requires an enormous number of spirit herbs to refine, and quite a few of them are nearly extinct. Thus, this old man spent nearly twenty years, with the aid of countless fellow cultivators, before gathering the spirit herbs needed for the refinement.
"Under normal circumstances, this batch of Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pills should have yielded more than ten pills. Unfortunately, due to an accident, there was some interference during the refinement, and only nine pills were ultimately formed.
"When this old man announced to the martial world that I was purchasing spirit herbs, I once promised that anyone who found those few precious