Everyone raised their gazes and listened quietly.
"Everyone, the Heavenly Mandate Auction will officially begin in three days. According to past rules, all prodigies ranked on the Heavenly Mandate Ranking may enter the tower to participate in the auction, and of course, they may bring a few attendants!"
"Additionally, all transactions at this auction must be settled in immortal stones. You may not use the resources on your person as collateral. If, after winning a bid, you cannot produce the immortal stones to purchase the item, you will be expelled from the Heavenly Mandate Ranking!"
"So, you still have three days. If you have resources on hand, you may head to the Myriad Willow Merchant Guild and exchange them for Immortal Stone Tickets!"
At those words, everyone was startled.
These merchant guilds truly knew how to do business. Once the auction ended, resources could not be used as collateral, which meant that if they wanted to bid for the resources they desired at the auction, they would certainly have to prepare even more immortal stones.
And now, when selling resources, the Myriad Willow Merchant Guild could not possibly produce that many immortal stones even if it wanted to buy them all up. Thus, it had developed Immortal Stone Tickets, similar to banknotes in the mortal world.
These Immortal Stone Tickets had been jointly created by eighteen merchant guilds, including Tianxing, Dao Luo, and Dragon Manor. They carried considerable authority. With an Immortal Stone Ticket, one could exchange it for immortal stones at any of those merchant guilds, or use it directly to purchase resources.
"These merchant guilds really know how to do business. The resources they're selling now must all be going for rock-bottom prices!"
"Yeah, but there's no helping it. They have to prepare enough immortal stones. No matter