The Immortal Emperors present fell silent.
The Dao Improvement Wang Ningxi had produced was indeed a marvelous thing capable of defying the heavens and changing one's fate, but it was simply far too expensive!
How much was a tenth-grade divine vein worth?
Only twenty to thirty thousand Chaos Spirit Stones, at most!
Among the great top-tier powers, even the Taishang Divine Palace possessed merely a dozen or so tenth-grade divine veins. That was only possible because of the legacy left behind by the Tianyuan Divine Palace, coupled with the accumulation of millions of years.
Of course, the three Imperial Venerables had indeed reaped a bountiful harvest during this expedition into the Ancient God Battlefield, and they had even fortunately extracted a divine vein!
But all of those were treasures bought with their lives.
At the level of an Immortal Emperor, every one of them was a pillar holding up the entire Immortal Realm. The cost of taking risks was exceedingly high.
"Ahem, Ningxi lad." Haotian Sword Emperor's face twitched. "No matter how good your Dao Improvement is, its effect only falls somewhere between the thirteenth and fourteenth grades. If it were a fourteenth-grade Eternal Divine Pill being sold at this price, that would be one thing. But this Dao Improvement..."
The implication was naturally that the Dao Improvement was not worth so much. This was simply an absurd asking price.
"Senior Haotian, I beg to differ." Wang Ningxi smiled unconcernedly. "How many years has it been since an Eternal Divine Pill last appeared in the Immortal Realm? Several hundred thousand years? Or several million?"
"Taking ten thousand steps back, even if some Immortal Emperor could refine Eternal Divine Pills right now, calculating by the value of fourteenth-grade divine herbs, would a single batch not require at least a hundred thousand