"Five hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones." Lu Xiaotian had figured out the nature of this gathering. Though it looked small, the goods on offer were even more valuable than those at previous auctions. Someone had already made a bid—and it was Long Qing of the Great Qi Kingdom, the very man who had incurred Lu Xiaotian's enmity.
"Six hundred thousand." The first item up for auction was exactly what Lu Xiaotian wanted: Ice Marrow Moon-Que Sand. Naturally, he wasn't about to let it go.
"Seven hundred thousand!" Long Qing shot Lu Xiaotian a taunting glance and raised the bid again.
"Eight hundred thousand!"
Body cultivators were no longer the mainstream of the cultivation world. The reason was simple: the spiritual materials they needed had become scarce, and they required far fewer than ordinary cultivators. Of course, body cultivators had unparalleled advantages in short-range bursts of power, resilience, and recovery. And with people's fortunes differing, there would always be those like Lu Xiaotian who achieved something remarkable in body cultivation.
Long Qing wasn't a body cultivator. However, the Long family had a cultivation prodigy among its younger generation, and Long Qing had come here specifically to bring this pot of Ice Marrow Moon-Que Sand back for him.
"Nine hundred thousand!"
"One million!" Lu Xiaotian raised the bid casually. The two men had barely started bidding, and already the contest had turned bloody. Even the other great cultivators in the Elder Council felt their hearts pound at the pace of the bidding.
"One million, one hundred thousand!" A grave look crossed Long Qing's face. He gritted his teeth as he spoke. The price had already exceeded the value of the Ice Marrow Moon-Que Sand before them. He'd originally meant to crush Lu Xiaotian, that detestable fellow, with a series of direct, brutal