Rooted spirit medicines, coffers overflowing; mortgaging the Sword Manual, the Song Region's upper echelon

Inside a private room on the second floor.

Hearing Lin Changheng's words, Ye Wugui turned to look down at the auction stage.

True Person Shi's red lips moved ceaselessly as she introduced the newly presented lot, her smile radiant. Combined with her false core cultivation, she possessed a charm that tempted people to profane her, yet left them afraid to do so. "I imagine quite a few fellow Daoists in the foundation establishment realm have been waiting for this item?"

She raised her delicate hand and lifted the red silk covering the jade plate held by the maid beside her.

In an instant, an extraordinary fragrance that made the soul tremble spread throughout the hall. A strangely shaped spirit herb lay quietly upon the jade plate.

The herb had a glazed translucence throughout and bore five leaves, each shaped like a tiny, exquisite ruyi scepter. Seven-colored radiance seemed to circulate on its own through the veins.

Most wondrous of all, three inches above the herb, a misty mass of rosy light had formed of its own accord, constantly changing shape. At first glance it resembled a dragon, then a phoenix, then a qilin, occasionally transforming into a qiongqi and other creatures. It was extraordinarily mysterious.

"Wish-fulfilling glazed ganoderma!" a knowledgeable foundation establishment cultivator below the stage cried out involuntarily.

True Person Shi smiled, her clear voice carrying throughout the hall. "Indeed. It is one of the three principal ingredients for refining that sacred elixir for core formation-

"the [Return-to-Truth Pill]: [Wish-fulfilling glazed ganoderma]! This ganoderma grows in glazed mineral veins above snow lines ten thousand zhang high, taking thirty years to produce a single leaf. The specimen before you has all five leaves and is over a hundred and fifty years old. It is a supreme specimen one can only