The Qin Family Makes a Name, a Bumper Harvest!

Soon-

This news spread across the entire Yingchuan County like a plague!

Such terms as the Qin Family, the Rank-1 Alchemist, the Hundred Arts Office Attendant, and the Auction quickly passed from one town and village to another.

In Yingchuan County, besides the county seat.

There were dozens, nearly a hundred, big and small towns and villages, and thousands of hamlets.

Among them, the True Martial Realm lineages, big and small, numbered at least a hundred if not one or two thousand, and the warriors in the entire county still totaled nearly a thousand...

Moreover, the absolute majority of them were below the True Martial Third Realm.

Above the True Martial Four Realms, though there weren't many, there were still some dozen-odd such families.

Whether it was the Blood-Strengthening Pill or the Muxuan Pill.

Both possessed a huge market, and anyone who heard this news would surely come to take a look; this was also the reason why seven days later had been chosen...

First, to leave time for the news to spread, and second, to reserve time for the journey.

This trip for Wang Jian-Wait, Qin Lu-

His greatest objective was to completely establish his Qin Family's renown, using pills as bait to drive low-tier warriors to be used by his Qin Family!

Using the lifelong savings of others to cast the glory of his Qin Family!

Seven days later-

The auction was held as scheduled. Because it was the first time it was held, the venue was set in an open space near the port, blocked off all around with boards a zhang long.

As for the entrance and exit, Wang Jian sat with armored soldiers to keep order.

It was both to maintain order and to deter, and even more to collect admission fees...

There was no help for it, the Qin Family was poor!

There were no restrictions on entry, with each person only needing to pay five taels of silver; they would earn a bit wherever they could, and who was to say that a single session.

The silver earned could match the profits of Bayi Town for a year.

Do not look at how glorious the Qin Family had been these past two years, but they were building sand ships and arming soldiers left and right, and those things used gleaming white silver-it was all money!

Outsiders did not know, but Qin Lu, the person involved, could he not know the financial situation?

The silver entering the treasury every year seemed like quite a bit, but before it even grew warm, after a short while, it was more or less all spent...

However-

Even so, many people still rushed to pour in. Precious pills that could flow into the market were how exceedingly scarce, and mere five taels of loose silver was not worth mentioning!

In less than the time it takes for a cup of tea, the crude venue was filled with people...

There were roughly seven or eight hundred people, many of whom were mortal merchants, praying for a Blood-Strengthening Pill so that they could become a True Martial lineage!

Do not look at the True Martial Realm as being contemptuously called "immortal slaves" by cultivators.

Yet even more mortals, who lacked even the qualifications to be immortal slaves, needed to contend and fight with one another.

Right at this moment-

Qin Xiao walked up onto the high platform. Although he was only eight or nine years old, he showed not the slightest bit of stage fright, looked toward the crowd below, and slightly cupped his fists in salute:

"Senior elders, this junior Qin Xiao pays his respects to you all!"

The boy's crisp voice rang out, and an aura of the True Martial Second Realm drifted out vaguely, yet appeared incomparably clear...

Passerby A: "Tru-True Martial Second Realm! This little tot can't even be ten years old!"

Passerby B: "A True Martial Second Realm not even ten years old! My god, did this fucking kid eat an immortal pill, or could this kid have spirit light beyond one cun?"

Passerby C: "What is there to make such a fuss about! Some of those immortal clan descendants in the commandery government can cultivate to the True Martial Four Realms by age ten!"

"A bunch of country bumpkins with no insight!"

"This child is named Qin Xiao, and he is the legitimate eldest son of Master Qin Lu. What other people eat every day are proper spirit pills!"

"Those are immortal things; can they be the same as the worldly precious pills we eat?!"

Down below, an uproar instantly broke out.

Some with shallow knowledge, upon hearing mention of spirit pills, had their eyes glowing even brighter. At this auction, it was heard that the grand finale item...

Was precisely that spirit pill!

"Young Master Qin! Hurry up and begin!"

"Just look, everyone can't wait anymore! If spirit pills can be bought and sold privately, I, Old Mumble, am willing to offer three hundred liang of white silver to purchase one!"

"Fuck!"

"Where did this idiot come from, I'll offer five hundred liang! Young Master Qin, sell it to me!"

"Scram, scram, scram!"

"Don't any of you fight me for it! I bid one thousand liang, one thousand liang!"

Several secret shills arranged by Qin Lu took this opportunity to stir up trouble, maliciously driving up the price, and instantly whipped the atmosphere in the arena into a frenzy!

Seeing that the effect had been achieved and the crowd was gradually growing fanatical.

Qin Xiao made a gesture for silence, and instantly everyone grew quiet in an instant, focusing upon him!

"Since that is so, without further ado!"

"This auction will be hosted by me. Those interested in bidding may raise the number plates issued to you all upon entry."

"Senior elders, bear this in mind: do not maliciously inflate bids, or those who are unable to purchase after bidding will suffer the liquidation of my Qin Family!"

"Then the first lot..."

"The Bone-Strengthening Powder, refined from the remains of a First-Tier Wolf Demon!"

"It helps to strengthen the physique and invigorate Qi and Blood, and is suitable for breaking through the True Martial Four Realms. This is a spirit item, and therefore it must be purchased with spirit stones!"

"Or other things possessing spirit nature may also be used for exchange!"

This first lot instantly attracted the gazes of countless people!

Dozens of Third Realm warriors all revealed a trace of yearning at this moment, and quite a few people even had white hair and beards, having been trapped in the Third Realm for many years...

Yet...

How precious spirit stones were, and while things with spirit nature might be hard to seek, there were always some to be found.

Ultimately-

It was traded away by a Fourth Realm warrior using a seventy-year-old spirit ganoderma. Its spirit essence was abundant, and it was worth at least half a spirit stone.

According to the classification of spirit medicines.

Medicinal ingredients that had given birth to spirit essence, such as ten-year ginseng, polygonatum, and the like, belonged to First-Tier Inferior-Grade spirit medicine, and this seventy-year-old spirit ganoderma.

More or less belonged to a First-Tier Superior-Grade spirit plant.

Exchanging it for a portion of Bone-Strengthening Powder could not be considered a loss, and was even a slight profit.

"Then, we invite the second lot..."

"A poison pill personally refined by my father, a Rank-1 Alchemist!"

"Its name: Magu Pill! Colorless and odorless, it can cause the entire body to become numb and block the circulation of True Essence. It has miraculous effects on both humans and beasts!"

"Only exchangeable for things with spirit nature!"

Hearing this-

The crowd below once again stirred up a frantic wave!

Wasn't this Magu Pill the best match for killing people and seizing treasures... Oh no, for seeking treasures and exploring mountains? Buy it! It had to be bought fiercely!

In the shadows, Qin Lu saw this scene, and his expression was somewhat thought-provoking...

He hadn't expected this poison pill to have rather good popularity.

However, the raw materials for this Magu Pill were not so easy to gather, after all, it was condensed by Qin Lu using his own toxic bodily miasma.

For the numbing poison, Qin Lu gave it the name: Magu; for the poison that erodes the five viscera and six bowels, he named it: Viscera Decay.

Magu-its core raw material...

Was simply the liquid discharged from Qin Lu's body...

Of course, the effect was not as strong as Qin Lu's own, and it could only paralyze those below the True Martial Seventh Realm.

Ultimately-

This bottle of Magu Poison Pill was traded away by an old man in exchange for a Qing Centipede. This Qing Centipede happened to be a First-Tier Inferior-Grade Demon Beast.

Qin Lu intended to domesticate it into a spirit beast, and perhaps in the future, he could use it to refine new poisons...

Afterwards-

Lot after lot was successively traded away.

Most of their value was not considered very high, and they could even only be regarded as relatively rare mortal goods.

Yet even so, it still traded for several hundred liang of white silver, as well as several First-Tier Inferior-Grade spirit medicines of twenty or thirty years of age...