As Li Moxun pondered, his expression gradually turned solemn.
He only had four months. Four months from now, he would be joining Tang Wulin and the others in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.
Then, he would use that opportunity to find a way to directly enter Shrek Academy.
Of course, after going to Shrek Academy, he did not intend to become an ordinary student.
After all, whether it was regular students, the Youth Class, or even Shrek's Inner Court students, none of them had particularly good prospects.
One had to know that across the entire Douluo Continent, Shrek controlled more than eighty percent of the Soul Master resources.
Yet under such circumstances, less than one percent of the total resources were actually supplied for those students to use.
Aside from the majority being stored in Shrek's treasury, even more resources had to be exchanged for with points.
At Shrek Academy, it was very difficult for students to earn points.
Whether through forging or various other methods, the number of points students could earn was truly too small.
Therefore, Li Moxun's goal was to join Shrek Academy as a teacher, then use Shrek's resources to help himself improve rapidly.
Compared to students, becoming a teacher at Shrek Academy would grant him resources and benefits far beyond those available to ordinary Shrek students.
Moreover, through his forging skills and the sale of pills, he could quickly accumulate a large number of points to exchange for the resources he needed.
But the problem was that four months later, he would be eleven at most.
With the body of an eleven-year-old boy, becoming a teacher at Shrek Academy would still be extremely difficult.
Thus, aside from the alchemy skills and techniques he would certainly need to display, Li Moxun also needed a sufficiently powerful second craft, as well as personal strength.
As he pondered, Li Moxun slowly closed his eyes, took a pill, and continued cultivating.
Meanwhile, somewhere an unknown distance away, the auction had already begun in Skysea City.
This auction was not particularly large. Most of those gathered were powerful figures and families from Skysea City, as well as personnel from the Spirit Pagoda and Tang Sect.
The most numerous among them were the various Spirit Pagoda branches and Tang Sect branches, especially the Tang Sect branches.
After all, the Spirit Pagoda only had eighteen branches in total, while the Tang Sect had a presence in nearly every moderately sized city.
As a result, in this small auction, Tang Sect personnel were the most numerous.
As the auction began, a masked young man onstage spoke fluently, explaining the uses of each item.
Once he finished speaking, bidding began, and the powerful figures from the Tang Sect or Spirit Pagoda around him spent money to make purchases.
Naturally, there were also local Skysea City families and families from several nearby major cities.
As the auction proceeded, Li Moxun's avatar stood quietly in an unnoticed corner.
The girl leaned lightly against the wall, a lollipop in her mouth as she calmly and indifferently watched the proceedings.
She was interested in some of the items and uninterested in others, but those were not the reason she had come.
As the items were sold one after another, only when the final few lots arrived did the young man onstage cough softly and slowly lift the curtain.
However, what lay beneath it this time were not spirit herbs or medicinal herbs, but three neatly arranged bottles of pills.
"Everyone should know how rare alchemy is. Even within our major organizations, there are practically no alchemists."
"Yet this auction has produced three bottles of pills known as Marrow Cleansing Pills. These three bottles were refined from Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs."
"The greatest effect of these pills is to cleanse the tendons and marrow. They can improve one's physical aptitude, widen the meridians, and increase the rate at which Soul Power is absorbed."
As the young man spoke, his eyes held a trace of amazement, as well as greed.
Upon hearing his words, the already noisy venue became even more uproarious.
"Is that true? Wasn't alchemy lost long ago? Other than a few people in the four great organizations who possess alchemy techniques, only some families with thousand-year inheritances know how to refine pills."
"It must be true. Auction items are inspected beforehand, so these pills definitely have such effects."
"Don't some spirit herbs have similar effects? Why are you all so shocked just because they've been made into pills?"
"I can tell you're young. You should know that the effects of pills are several times stronger than ordinary spirit herbs."
"Moreover, aside from the first spirit herb consumed, the effects of the second will be greatly reduced. But pills are different."
"No matter how many pills one takes, aside from needing to separately purge the medicinal properties, there are no lingering concerns."
Listening to the discussions around him, several major organizations immediately began bidding.
These three bottles of pills could improve a person's aptitude, cleanse their tendons and marrow, and raise their aptitude by roughly forty to fifty percent.
Although they had no effect on Martial Soul, having a good Martial Soul did not necessarily mean one's aptitude would be high.
In this world, a good Martial Soul represented a powerful bloodline. The meridians would likewise be strong, and the rate of absorbing Soul Power would be very fast.
Yet there were always exceptional cases. Some people had decent Martial Souls, but their cultivation speed was simply slow. At such times, these pills would be tremendously useful.
Listening to the arguments and discussions around him, Li Moxun remained leaning there.
Naturally, he had provided these three bottles of pills. He had used one Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Herb and three Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs to refine roughly fifteen bottles in total.
These things were useless to him, but selling them here would absolutely fetch an astronomical price.
Sure enough, once the bidding began, arguments broke out inside within just a few minutes.
"I bid eighteen million Federal Coins."
"I bid thirty million, plus a Thousand-Year Spirit Herb."
"I bid forty-five million! If the creator is present, my Skysea City Tang Sect is willing to hire you as our exclusive alchemist!"
"We will purchase every bottle of pills at fifteen million each, and offer an annual base salary of ten million Federal Coins."
The speaker this time was a middle-aged man. His voice had become somewhat hoarse through a voice changer, but his tone was filled with excitement.
Even Li Moxun was somewhat surprised to hear the price of forty-five million.
These pills were rare, but those three bottles were only enough to cleanse one person's tendons and marrow.
Under such circumstances, spending forty-five million on one person was completely not worth it.
But if they could truly recruit him and have someone provide such pills for them long-term, then even if the price generally exceeded fifteen million, it would still be very worthwhile.
However, Li Moxun could only shake his head helplessly at that. He had no intention of joining the Tang Sect or Spirit Pagoda.
He merely wanted to obtain a batch of resources, then cultivate peacefully.
His goal was nothing else but immortality and godhood.
Aside from resolving the problem with his body, he wanted to live eternally in this world, free from anyone's threats or restraints.
Other than that, he had absolutely no interest in matters such as conflicts of interest between those organizations.
Thus, compared to this world filled with cruel laws, he seemed more like an anomaly utterly incompatible with it.
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