Chen Lin was deeply puzzled.
Weren't the people of the Tianyun Sect afraid that, after taking the Qi Luck Pill they were selling, buyers would go gamble on treasures at their stall?
Wouldn't that be lifting a rock only to smash their own feet?
He pondered for a while and seemed to reach an understanding.
Then he began bidding.
He wasn't so lucky this time. Even though the Qi Luck Pill had considerable drawbacks, the benefits of enhanced luck were common knowledge, and it could be purchased with spirit stones. It sparked quite a bidding war.
In the end, Chen Lin secured the pill for three hundred top-grade spirit stones.
He reckoned he had certainly overpaid, but he needed to test exactly how much luck the pill could grant before deciding his next move and how much he should spend to obtain its pill formula.
Others couldn't quantify luck, but he could.
The auction proceeded swiftly, and the blue-robed old man controlled the pace well. Whenever he sensed a lull, he immediately brought out a precious treasure, setting everyone scrambling to bid.
He even brought out a Spirit Treasure midway through, causing a sensation.
Treasures of that caliber were exceedingly scarce even in the Upper Realm. Only a small fraction of Spirit Transformation cultivators possessed one. Any Nascent Soul cultivator who owned one either had immense wealth or an exalted status.
Thus, even though this dagger-type Spirit Treasure was quite ordinary, it sold for the steep price of seventy spirit crystals.
Chen Lin didn't bid.
The Purple Spirit Ring was already an offensive Spirit Treasure, so there was no need to spend so many spirit crystals on another. Besides, however tightly his identity was protected, some information was bound to leak. For a Nascent Soul early stage cultivator like him