By making use of the merchant association to muddy the waters, they also made quite a few Rogue Cultivators and small factions with ill intentions somewhat more wary.
As a result, selling top-grade Spirit Stones became not only much faster, but much safer as well.
With her keen head for business, Ning Caiyun used the merchant association not only to sell top-grade Spirit Stones, but also to deal in other cultivation resources.
For a time, she even built up a modest operation and raked in profits by the bowlful.
Across all of Sunset City, the premium for exchanging top-grade Spirit Stones for low-grade Spirit Stones dropped considerably because of her efforts.
For the highest-quality top-grade Spirit Stones, the premium was forcibly driven down from the initial thirty percent to less than twenty percent.
In the blink of an eye, three years passed.
On this day, Sunset City's once-in-a-century auction finally reached its opening date.
A month before the auction began, cultivators had already been arriving in Sunset City in an endless stream, and virtually all of them came in without leaving.
Sunset City's auction was held once every hundred years. During this period, a great many Golden Core stage powerhouses who normally remained in seclusion, as well as Nascent Soul Stage giants traveling abroad for experience, would hurry over in search of Tribulation Crossing Treasures and key resources and materials needed for cultivation.
Besides attending the crucial auction, these cultivators who had come from afar would naturally also trade in Sunset City's marketplace.
Many Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, as well as some Golden Core stage cultivators with ordinary cultivation and straitened means, would see Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and cultivation resources they could not normally obtain pour into Sunset City's market in large quantities through the dealings