Don't Rush

Wei Suo was completely tempted.

After all, even a 10% increase in talisman crafting success rate would amount to a considerable sum of money over time. Currently, Wei Suo had over two hundred low-grade spirit stones, including the mid-grade ones converted. However, he couldn't spend all of them, needing to keep over a hundred for cultivation and purchasing fire scorpions.

Although the starting bid for this Golden Silk Talisman Brush was only three hundred low-grade spirit stones, based on past experience, the final price would likely be at least six hundred.

This meant he would need to borrow at least five hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"A few hundred spirit stones... I only have a hundred low-grade spirit stones on me. How many low-grade spirit stones do you actually have?" Wei Suo asked Nangong Yuqing, his palms sweating.

"Honestly," Nangong Yuqing replied with a hint of amusement, "I have about seven hundred low-grade spirit stones."

"Seven hundred low-grade spirit stones, what a little rich girl you are." Wei Suo was so excited he felt tears welling up, but he still wasn't at ease. He continued, "What if I can't pay you back right away? Do you have any hidden conditions?"

Nangong Yuqing rolled her eyes at Wei Suo. "You're so annoying. Are you borrowing it or not? If not, just pretend I never said anything. Besides, seeing you like this, I doubt you'll dare to sell many Fireball Talismans anymore. If you can't pay me back, you can just use Fireball Talismans as payment, since I always find them useful anyway."

"Borrow it! Only a fool wouldn't!" At that moment, someone in the main hall had already bid up to three hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones. Wei Suo immediately shouted with newfound confidence, "Four hundred!"

"Four hundred and fifty!" A voice from the hall below immediately competed with Wei Suo.

"Five hundred!" Wei Suo had never bought anything this expensive in his life, and he gritted his teeth as he shouted.

"Five hundred and fifty!" A cultivator in a leather robe below hesitated before adding another fifty spirit stones.

"It's just a talisman brush, why are they fighting over it so much?" Wei Suo grumbled internally, but he still shouted, "Six hundred!"

As soon as Wei Suo's bid of six hundred was heard, the few cultivators who were previously competing shook their heads and gave up. After all, they didn't know Wei Suo's identity and assumed he was someone important in the VIP box above. Furthermore, six hundred low-grade spirit stones was already not a low price even for an ordinary talisman craftsman, especially considering no other talisman craftsman could make Fireball Talismans as profitably as Wei Suo.

"Hoo..." Wei Suo breathed a huge sigh of relief. Fortunately, talisman craftsmen were quite rare in Lingyue City; otherwise, there would surely be more people raising the price.

"Seven hundred low-grade spirit stones!"

Just as no one else was bidding and the elegantly dressed young man with the tray was preparing to send the Golden Silk Talisman Brush to Wei Suo's VIP box, a somewhat lazy voice came from a VIP box on the left.

"Damn it, this mentally challenged child!" Wei Suo almost fainted from anger.

The one bidding was none other than the seemingly dashing, handsome, and elegant Li Honglin.

"Eight hundred low-grade spirit stones!" Wei Suo didn't want to give up when the price had already reached seven hundred, so he gritted his teeth and added another hundred.

"Nine hundred low-grade spirit stones!" Li Honglin calmly raised the bid again.

"Damn it!" Wei Suo was completely speechless. He was almost certain that Li Honglin didn't particularly need this talisman brush. Judging by the way he had deliberately moved to a larger VIP box, it was clear he was intentionally trying to suppress him. Wei Suo now regretted not having a fortune in spirit stones; otherwise, he would have smashed this guy with spirit stones. But the crucial point was that nine hundred low-grade spirit stones was Wei Suo's limit. Even if he bid up to a thousand spirit stones and Li Honglin stopped bidding, Wei Suo still couldn't afford that price.

"This guy, I'm going to go scold him." Nangong Yuqing was also getting angry and was about to stand up.

"No need to rush. Let's wait until something else good comes up," but to her surprise, Wei Suo held her back and said this calmly. She turned to look at Wei Suo curiously, his face showing anger and a look similar to that of a nouveau riche heartbroken over money. However, Wei Suo's secret pull and words in her ear made her realize that he seemed to be faking it.

Nangong Yuqing couldn't guess what Wei Suo was planning and could only wait with suspicion.

"Divine Wood Furnace!"

"Corrupt Poison Bat cub!"

... The next few items were also very unique treasures. For example, the Divine Wood Furnace was a furnace used for refining spirit pills, which could greatly enhance the quality of wood-element pills. The Corrupt Poison Bat was a level four early-stage demonic beast. Adult Corrupt Poison Bats had a wingspan of several dozen feet. Not only could cultivators tame them as flying mounts, but the venom sprayed by the Corrupt Poison Bats themselves was also very potent.

However, when these items were auctioned, Wei Suo only calculated in his mind and did not bid.

"Treasure Pouch, internal space approximately thirty feet square, starting bid nine hundred low-grade spirit stones!"

But when Shopkeeper Tian announced this item on stage, the entire hall erupted in excitement again.

The Treasure Pouch was a unique magic treasure that looked only a few feet in size from the outside, but had a vast internal space, and one wouldn't feel the weight of its contents when carrying it. Such magic treasures were extremely precious to every cultivator, especially rogue cultivators who habitually carried their valuables with them.

Moreover, if one killed a large demonic beast or discovered a large mineral deposit that couldn't be carried away immediately, one could only collect the most valuable parts in terms of spirit stones and had to reluctantly abandon the rest. But with such a magic treasure, everything could be collected, not wasting a single spirit stone.

Some high-tier Treasure Pouches and Treasure Rings could even hold tens of thousands of pounds of items, but this Treasure Pouch, which looked like yellow leather on the outside, could at most hold items within a thirty-foot square. Compared to some of the lowest-tier Treasure Pouches that could only hold items within one or two feet square, this was already quite good.

The most crucial point was that there were not many artifact refiners on the entire Tianxuan Continent who could refine Treasure Pouches, and Treasure Pouches were considered very scarce, highly sought-after treasures.

"One thousand two hundred low-grade spirit stones!" Wei Suo, who had been quiet, directly shouted a price three hundred low-grade spirit stones higher than the starting bid.

"Wei Suo! You!" Nangong Yuqing's pretty face instantly turned pale, because she knew that the spirit stones she and Wei Suo had combined did not even reach twelve hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"This Treasure Pouch is very rare, and I'm also quite tempted," Wei Suo said. As soon as Wei Suo finished speaking, Li Honglin from the VIP box next door spoke to himself and then calmly said, "One thousand three hundred low-grade spirit stones."

"Don't bid anymore. If you win the bid but can't pay, you'll be forcibly stripped of all your valuable possessions and will never be able to trade in any market in Lingyue City. If the difference is too large, you might even be directly expelled from Lingyue City!" Nangong Yuqing, who knew Wei Suo's situation, said quickly in his ear with a pale face, fearing that Wei Suo would continue bidding.

"Little sister Nangong Yuqing, I'm truly sorry." But to Nangong Yuqing's astonishment, Wei Suo said loudly and effusively at this moment, "My spirit stones are a bit tight. I couldn't even buy the Golden Silk Talisman Brush you liked earlier, and now you want this Treasure Pouch, and I don't have enough spirit stones either... How about we wait for something else and see if there's anything else you like later?"

While calling Nangong Yuqing "little sister" so affectionately and saying this, Wei Suo still had a look of extreme shame on his face.

Li Honglin's eyes in the VIP box on the left lit up. As someone shouted the price of one thousand three hundred low-grade spirit stones, Li Honglin, even more arrogantly and loudly, shouted, "One thousand five hundred low-grade spirit stones!"

"..." Nangong Yuqing was a bit dumbfounded.

"Heh heh, this guy will probably have to sell his underwear to buy this Treasure Pouch and give it to me later, right?" Wei Suo said this to Nangong Yuqing secretly, with his head lowered, looking dejected.