The cultivator presiding over the exchange was clearly quite satisfied. He put away the jade bottle, then took out another one and said, "This is my second item, a Nascent Soul Pill! Who would like to inspect its quality?"
"What? A Nascent Soul Pill?" Xiao Hua was greatly shocked. He knew that the Nascent Soul Pill was used by Golden Core cultivators before they attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Taking one could raise a cultivator's chance of entering the Nascent Soul stage by thirty percent. Such a pill was even more precious than the Infant Nurturing Pill used when breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Moreover, Xiao Hua now knew that Thunder Control Sect disciples could receive ordinary pills up through late Golden Core stage as part of the sect's regular provisions. Other special pills, such as the Yilian Pill and Minghua Pill used during Foundation Establishment, as well as the Soul Condensing Pill, Nascent Soul Pill, and Infant Nurturing Pill used during the Golden Core stage, all had to be acquired through one's own fortuitous opportunities. For a Nascent Soul Pill to appear at this secret bidding gathering—this was a pill even cultivation sects could not provide. How could he not be astonished?
Yet when he looked at the other cultivators, every one of them sat steadily in place, without the slightest trace of surprise.
Damn it, I've really broadened my horizons today! Xiao Hua secretly curled his lip. The Cultivation World of Xiaoyu Continent really runs deeper than the sea. I'm just a frog at the bottom of a well, staring at the sky!
The cultivators all seemed to be making calculations, and no one rushed to bid first. The great hall remained silent for the time it took to drink a cup