The seat Chen Yan occupied was one of Purple Mansion Pavilion's premium seats.
To sit in a premium seat at this auction house, one first had to pay a fee of fifty Superior Spirit Stones.
For Immortal Cultivators with enough wealth to bid on the auction house's headline items, this sum was negligible.
But for ordinary Immortal Cultivators, it was undoubtedly an enormous fortune.
Chen Yan served as the young city lord's instructor in Forgotten River City, and Wei Zhao paid him a monthly salary of two Superior Spirit Stones.
To an ordinary Immortal Cultivator, that income was already quite substantial.
But Chen Yan did not care about such a trifling amount of spirit stones.
Fifty Superior Spirit Stones, five hundred Superior Spirit Stones—
Even five thousand, fifty thousand, or five hundred thousand...
None of it meant anything.
Chen Yan could simply activate the Great Evolution Art and transform heaven and earth spiritual energy into spirit stones.
And there was only one item he had come to Purple Mansion Pavilion to bid on.
An Immortal Artifact Embryo.
At present, an Immortal Artifact Embryo was spinning within the qi sea of Chen Yan's true body.
He could transform it into an immortal artifact at any time.
Yet Chen Yan had never done so.
Because transforming an immortal artifact required an immense amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy—enough to produce billions upon billions of Superior Spirit Stones.
Such fluctuations in heaven and earth spiritual energy could easily draw unnecessary attention.
That was only one reason.
The other was that Chen Yan still did not know what kind of immortal artifact he wanted to create, nor what kind of cultivation technique he wished to incorporate into it.
It was not yet time for him to use an immortal artifact.
Besides, if any