Lin Tian had Qin Yuan carry him on their back, wrapping his arms around Qin Yuan's neck as he demanded his flag back.
"Dao Venerable, would I really pocket your treasure?"
"Who knows? This is a top-grade spirit treasure, something I rely on to save my life. You're rich, sure, but you haven't managed to buy a top-grade spirit treasure either, have you?"
"Ah, yes, that's true. A top-grade spirit treasure isn't something money can buy!"
There were only so many innate spiritual treasures in the Three Realms to begin with, and only a few dozen top-grade spirit treasures. No matter how poor someone was, they would never sell a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.
If anyone did sell a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, people would probably scramble for it no matter how high the price, without a single condition.
Spirit stones could be mined again or earned again, but once you missed a top-grade spirit treasure, you had missed it for good. That was why, these days, anything could be bought except a top-grade spirit treasure.
At that moment, everyone in the Three Realms was preparing for the auction, and Spirit Vine City's wealthy tycoons were all making preparations.
Once immortals had a stake in profits, their greed was no less than that of mortals.
A Nine-Turn Golden Elixir had originally cost ten million spirit stones. As more and more spirit stones entered circulation, the Taishang Alchemy Pavilion and the Langfeng Immortal Garden brazenly raised the prices of both Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs and Yellow Zhongli to thirty million spirit stones apiece.
Every other industry had raised its prices as well.
But for minor demons and insignificant folk, mining spirit stones was still slow work.
Moreover, the spirit stones near the surface had now been mined out, forcing them to dig