The auction in the outer venue lasted an entire month, with bidding held for an hour or two each day. Plenty of trading went on around it as well, involving goods that did not qualify for the auction.
Many people were very pleased with this. Every large-scale event like this gave many factions' businesses a tremendous boost. Likewise, plenty of people lost money, and it was entirely possible to lose everything. Even so, they were not particularly worried, because even if they lost everything, their cultivation remained.
On the Heavenly Spirit Continent, strength reigned supreme. As long as their cultivation was powerful enough, they could always find a way to obtain whatever they needed. This was especially true for Spirit Venerables: with unlimited lifespans came unlimited possibilities and opportunities.
Over that month, Huo Hai saw nothing else that stirred his interest. It was not that everything was useless to him; some of the pills were quite good. But pills all had side effects, and apart from healing pills, he needed none of them.
During that month, Huo Hai bought only a few venerable-grade pill formulas and took no interest in anything else. Even the treasures with fairly good effects did not particularly interest him, because he knew they would be less effective for him than spirit marrow. At least until he broke through to Spirit Saint, spirit marrow would remain the most effective resource for him.
As long as he had enough spirit marrow, Huo Hai was confident he could keep advancing without encountering any bottlenecks. He also discovered that this auction was an excellent place to unload stolen goods, and he had quite a few of those on him.
The Spirit Venerable Realm experts he had killed in the past had carried plenty of good things. Now, Huo Hai