Ye Zhen had originally thought that the Town Artifact and artifact-refining auctions at Five Immortal Island's Annual Auction Conference would feature exquisitely refined High-grade Town Artifacts, or even top-grade Town Artifacts.
But the moment the auction began, Ye Zhen realized he had been wrong.
The grade of the first item up for auction did not even qualify as a mid-grade soul artifact. At best, it was a low-grade soul artifact.
Under normal circumstances, a low-grade soul artifact would never appear at Five Immortal Island's Annual Auction Conference. It would not even appear at a monthly auction conference.
Yet it had truly appeared before Ye Zhen and sold for the astronomical price of 1.29 million High-grade Spirit Stones.
This low-grade soul artifact was called the Soul Returning Bead. As long as it was continually activated, it could continuously nurture one's soul, slowly raising one's soul cultivation through subtle, imperceptible influence.
Wearing the Soul Returning Bead for a year produced an increase in soul cultivation equivalent to one month of focused soul cultivation.
At first glance, the effect seemed weak.
But for martial artists, what they lacked most was time—and what they had most of was time.
Not to mention anything else, wearing it continuously for a hundred years was equivalent to gaining eight years of hard-earned soul cultivation out of thin air. It meant having eight more years of cultivation time than others for no reason at all.
Two hundred years meant sixteen years, three hundred years meant twenty-four years, and a thousand years meant eighty years.
What was more, the Soul Returning Bead could also hasten the recovery of Soul Power and speed up the healing of soul injuries.
In Ling Wangke's words, the effects of this Soul Returning Bead were practically comparable to those of an auxiliary Acquired Spirit