After the Heavenly Demon Pavilion's auction ended, Lu Chen went to collect his proceeds.
The Human Origin Fruit had sold for four hundred thousand jin of Source, and the ancient insect divine source for one million two hundred and fifty thousand jin, making a total of one million six hundred and fifty thousand jin.
After deducting the Heavenly Demon Pavilion's ten-percent commission of one hundred and sixty-five thousand jin, along with the three hundred thousand jin Lu Chen had received in advance at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, he actually collected one million one hundred and eighty-five thousand jin of Source-a mountain's worth!
To anyone else, this would certainly have been an earth-shaking fortune, but for him, ordinary pure source had already become far less useful.
Once cultivators entered the four extremes realm, the divine power within their bodies already exceeded the concentration of vital essence contained in pure source, leaving it of negligible use for cultivation.
Cultivators at this level generally used the purer variant source to replenish their reserves. However, exchanging pure source for it meant losing two-thirds of its value, so this Source had become nothing more than "currency"!
As soon as the auction ended, numerous factions invited Lu Chen and Ye Fan to join them. The value of Source Arts geniuses like them had been displayed to the fullest at this auction. Who would not want to befriend them?
And so Yao Yuekong, the Great Xia Imperial Prince and his sister, Jiang Yifei of the Jiang Family, the Yaoguang Saintess, the Yaochi Saintess, An Miaoyi of the Miaoyu Nunnery, Ye Fan and the descendants of the great bandits, Lu Chen, and the others gathered for another banquet.
"Brother Lu, a toast to you!" At the banquet, the Yaochi Saintess gently raised her delicate hand, lifting her cup