Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus

"Is that true?" A clear, ethereal voice rang through the hall, impossible to tell whether it belonged to a man or a woman.

The golden-haired youth gave a faint nod. At his signal, Ghost Douluo spoke. "Of course."

"The item is yours." After that, there was no further sound.

Manager He stood dazed on the auction stage for several seconds. His helpless gaze drifted toward a certain spot on the second floor. Only after receiving Drell's nod did he bring down the gavel.

"Let us congratulate the honored guests on the third floor on winning this rare medicinal treasure!"

For a moment, thunderous applause filled the hall.

Qingxi slowly opened her eyes and gathered up the coins on the sofa. She raised her head and peered through the gap in the window toward that private room.

"Master." Qingxi turned her gaze back and saw Dugu Yan looking at her with knitted brows and pursed lips. "You were the one who sold that pill, weren't you?"

Dugu Yan simply didn't believe anyone besides her could refine such a miraculous pill.

"I'm just short on money, that's all." Qingxi shrugged, looking quite helpless.

"What else did you sell?" Dugu Yan leaned forward, moving closer to Qingxi. She'd heard that there were two items.

"A Soul Bone."

"Pfft..." Dugu Bo spat out the tea he had just taken into his mouth, staring in shock at the person who was acting as if it were nothing.

Did she not know how precious a Soul Bone was?

"You... spendthrift..." Dugu Yan pointed at her, so furious that it took her a long while to choke out those words. Then she slumped onto the sofa, looking utterly hopeless.

Qingxi thought for a moment, then took two little medicine bottles out of her Storage Bag. She tossed one to Dugu Bo and the other into Dugu Yan's arms.

"How can I accept this, young lady... This is far too precious." Dugu Bo looked at the little porcelain bottle, identical to the one at the auction below, and understood at once. He hurriedly refused and was about to return it to Qingxi.

"It's fine. We're practically family, aren't we? These two are the best quality, so you each get one. But remember to keep it secret. It's best to find somewhere with no one around before taking them." She spoke casually. After all, they were only little tricks she'd made to pass the time.

If the Origin Spirit Liquid's effect was to strengthen the upper limit of one's cultivation talent, then the Evolution Pill's effect was to break through the limits of one's Martial Soul bloodline.

She couldn't even calculate how far someone who took both of these medicines might go in the future.

"Can this really evolve a Martial Soul?" Dugu Yan looked at the little bottle in her hand, her eyes sparkling. This was worth two hundred million Gold Soul Coins!

"Either way, it won't kill you."

"This... Thank you, young lady." Dugu Bo offered his thanks.

"Next up for auction is a special Immortal Herb." On the auction stage, the man continued introducing the next item. A lotus appeared before everyone's eyes.

It had a section of lotus root as white as jade, exuding wisps of cold air. Three lotus flowers grew from the root. One had already bloomed into a pale green blossom, while the other two had yet to open. They swayed gently in the breeze, releasing a faint lotus fragrance that refreshed the mind.

"This is a Twin-Flower Three-Life Lotus over ten thousand years old. It was brought back from the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest by a Soul Master close to the Titled Douluo level. But that Soul Master was pursued by Soul Beasts and had no choice but to sacrifice an arm to escape. He was struck by a deadly poison and, on the brink of death, ate one of its petals. Not only did his severed arm grow back and bring him back from the dead, but even his hidden injuries were healed..."

"This Twin-Flower Three-Life Lotus has been preserved perfectly, and its medicinal effects are excellent. The starting bid is five million Gold Soul Coins, with each increase no less than one hundred thousand."

"What a rich aura of life..."

"Brought back from the dead?"

"Five million five hundred thousand."

"Five million six hundred thousand."

This time, no one on the first floor of the hall even made a bid. Almost all the bids came from people on the second and third floors.

"Six million." Qingxi joined in with a bid, but someone immediately outbid her.

"Ten million." Ning Fengzhi made his bid with lavish confidence, nearly doubling the price in an instant.

"A ten-thousand-year-old Immortal Herb? It's not even as good as the ones in my herb garden. If you like it, young lady, pick one whenever you want." Dugu Bo clasped his hands behind his back. Watching everyone scramble for the Immortal Herb, he found it utterly ordinary.

After all, his granddaughter had told him how precious their family's herb garden was. It already had more than a dozen ten-thousand-year-old Immortal Herbs, to say nothing of a peerless Immortal Herb comparable to one a hundred thousand years old.

So he didn't think much of this Twin-Flower Three-Life Lotus.

"This is the Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus. It mostly grows in Yaochi in the Celestial Realm. It takes ten thousand years to sprout, ten thousand years to grow, and ten thousand years to bloom. Its flowering period can last a hundred thousand years. Look at those two buds: they'll need another ten thousand years. Their aura is restrained, yet they brim with life. This is a divine spirit flower between thirty and fifty thousand years old. I never expected this world to have one." Qingxi watched the auction below with interest, her brows brimming with determination to win it.

"The first volume of the Shennong Herb Classic records that the Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus can completely transform the body, condense the soul, bring the dead back to life, and purge evil. It's a rare divine lotus that grows in Yaochi, and an important ingredient for refining the ninth-grade Flying Immortal Pill. But our world has no Yaochi. Master, is the Flying Immortal Pill useful for Soul Masters trying to break through?" Dugu Yan asked.

The first volume of the Shennong Herb Classic recorded a thousand Immortal Spirit herbs. The second volume covered the theory of alchemy, including three thousand pill recipes of every kind. The last recipe was the Flying Immortal Pill, an important advancement pill for cultivators reaching another level.

Perhaps this herb was common in her master's world, but here, this was the first time Dugu Yan had seen a Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus. Without her master's explanation, she might never have connected it to the description in the book.

"I don't know either, but the ingredients for the Flying Immortal Pill are extremely hard to find. It requires over ten thousand ordinary herbs and five Immortal Herbs. At the Ice and Fire Spirit Pool, I only saw one Lovesick Heartbreak Red. Add this Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus, and there are still three others... They're all extremely rare herbs." Even she couldn't refine the Flying Immortal Pill.

"But the Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus isn't only used to refine the Flying Immortal Pill. It's also an important ingredient for the Soul-Splitting Pill and the Spirit-Fusion Pill." Qingxi counted them off on her fingers.

For mortals to become immortals was already difficult; fewer than one in a hundred thousand cultivators could manage it.

Talent came first, opportunity second. So ten thousand years ago, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and created a special pill to improve cultivators' chances of surviving their tribulation.

The most special of all was the Flying Immortal Pill. At present, only Three Stars Cave still preserved its recipe.

"Grandpa, why don't we buy it and plant it in our herb garden?" Dugu Yan tugged at Dugu Bo's sleeve, pleading.

"Our family doesn't have that kind of money." Dugu Bo rubbed his nose, looking at the spirit flower below, whose price had already soared to fifty million. Even he was a little tempted.

The Dugu Family had only risen to prominence in Dugu Bo's generation. Yet he wasn't someone who coveted riches, so in a sense, the Dugu Family wasn't wealthy to begin with.

"Don't worry, I've got it." Qingxi patted her shoulder, then called out the window, "One hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins!"

The pills had sold for two hundred million earlier, and there was still one Soul Bone that hadn't been auctioned yet. It must have been saved for last. That duke had said it should fetch around two hundred million.

In other words, she had four hundred million for now. But the many herbs and the silver she'd asked the duke to buy for her might cost over a hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

So Qingxi tripled the price outright. A bid that brazen would make some people give up, leaving only those who truly wanted the item.

"Master, you..." Dugu Yan stared at the girl beside her, dumbfounded. Who the hell tripled the price right off the bat?

"The Three Pure Green Spirit Lotus is the centerpiece of tonight's auction. Most of the powers here came for it!" Dugu Bo spoke up from beside them.

No Titled Douluo would pass up a treasure that could bring the dead back to life.