"Alright, then buy them all."
Chen Nianzhi murmured inwardly. After discussing it further with Qu Caiyan, he ultimately purchased every one of them, paying one hundred strands of innate qi for each natal shell pearl and five strands of innate qi for each of the remaining shell pearls.
This price was already far higher than that of many innate ancient treasures, yet Chen Nianzhi knew that he was not getting the short end of the stick.
For anyone who ventured through the Chaos Sea understood one principle.
The power of an innate ancient treasure could be lacking, but one could not be the slightest bit careless when it came to essence-storing treasures that replenished mana.
The reasoning was very simple. If a Three Tribulations Ancient Immortal entered the Chaos Sea, they could at most hold out for a hundred thousand years before exhausting their mana.
And if an evenly matched great battle broke out, their mana might well be depleted after a single fight, reducing those hundred thousand years to a mere few thousand.
Taking into account the frequent pursuit of Chaos Beast Kings and the mana wasted along the journey, the vast majority of Third and Fourth Tribulations Ancient Immortals could not remain in the Chaos Sea for long.
For these Ancient Immortals, entering the Chaos Sea meant they possessed only the strength for a single battle. After one great battle, they would have to return to the Purple Sun Immortal Domain to replenish their mana.
It was precisely for this reason that Third and Fourth Tribulations Ancient Immortals found it difficult to hunt Chaos Beast Kings in the Chaos Sea. It was not merely because their strength was insufficient, but more because they did not dare excessively deplete their mana within the Chaos Sea.
Under such circumstances, essence-storing