The auction continued.
As the items offered grew increasingly precious, more and more people competed to bid.
Even those in the private rooms.
By now, they had stopped watching from the sidelines and begun placing bids one after another.
At last, on pages thirty-eight and thirty-nine of the booklet, Qin Shujian found what he was looking for.
The Forging Ancestral Canon!
The Azure Alchemy Talisman!
They were classified as auxiliary martial arts, but their grades startled him.
The former was spirit tier, low grade!
The latter was Spirit Tier, Mid Grade!
Any martial art bearing the words "spirit tier" was exceptionally precious within a True Domain.
Yet the starting bids for these two martial arts left Qin Shujian somewhat taken aback.
Not because they were too high.
But because they were too low.
Starting bid: fifty thousand taels!
Even the worst true rank, high grade martial art cost around fifty thousand taels. Better ones could fetch seventy thousand, or even a hundred thousand.
By comparison.
A starting bid of fifty thousand taels for each of these spirit-tier martial arts was absurdly low.
Qin Shujian flipped through the remaining pages.
The items listed afterward were all relatively precious as well.
There were true rank, high grade cultivation manuals, Low-Grade Spirit Weapons, and even rare flowers and fruits that could enhance one's cultivation, among other things.
But without exception.
Their starting bids were higher than those of the two spirit-tier martial arts.
"Our next item is a longsword named Long Abyss, Mourning Swan. It is currently a Half-Step Spirit Weapon, but a Forging Grandmaster has appraised it and determined that, if nurtured with true essence day and night, it has a slight chance of advancing into a Low-Grade Spirit Weapon.
"The starting bid is two hundred thousand taels, with each increase no