Just as Xu Yi had expected, the Black Origin Bead was indeed in high demand.
What took him by surprise was that he couldn't even make sense of the starting bid.
Ten million spirit stones!
That was right—the starting bid was ten million spirit stones.
Xu Yi clearly remembered that the Heaven Soul Talisman he'd bought at auction back then had cost only ten million spirit stones.
In his eyes, the Black Origin Bead was nothing more than a pass that allowed one to enter the Eight Great Immortal Sects.
The Heaven Soul Talisman, meanwhile, was also a wondrous talisman crucial to cultivators crossing the chasm in their cultivation.
If the Black Origin Bead didn't serve as a pass to the Eight Great Immortal Sects, Xu Yi believed that even though it could replenish Life Source Power, and even though that Life Source Power was pure, it could hardly compare to the Heaven Soul Talisman.
Before long, Xu Yi changed his mind.
The bidding for the Black Origin Bead climbed to nineteen million, leaving him dumbfounded, and in the blink of an eye it was about to break the twenty-million mark.
If it were simply a place among the Eight Great Immortal Sects, Xu Yi could believe it was worth twenty million.
The key was, if the Black Origin Bead was valuable only because it replenished pure Life Source Power, why had he clearly seen people dressed in the robes of the Purple Extreme Pavilion and the Gui Xu Sect bidding for it? One of them was even Wang Yao.
Yes, the dark, heavy cloaks not only concealed the cultivators' forms but could also block probing by a Yang Venerate's spiritual sense.
But Xu Yi's spiritual sense was far stronger than that of a Yang Venerate. He had easily seen