Super Divine Daoist Skill

"Profound Nether Ruyi Fan!

This is a top-grade Dharma Treasure, originally wielded by the early Profound Nether True Monarch who fell a thousand years ago. With a single wave, the Profound Nether Qi bursts forth with limitless power. Moreover, this Profound Nether Ruyi Fan is both an offensive and defensive Dharma Treasure. At critical moments, it can even drive the Profound Nether Qi for protection, with a defensive strength comparable to a protective divine technique.

The starting bid is one hundred top-grade Spirit Stones."

Master Fengqin took hold of the Dharma Treasure and demonstrated it slightly. Immediately, a burst of bone-chilling Netherworld Cold Qi swept out, easily freezing the stone chair in front, which then crumbled into dust with a gentle breeze.

"So powerful."

"And also, so expensive!"

"One hundred top-grade Spirit Stones, that's a million low-grade Spirit Stones. Each bid increase will be one top-grade Spirit Stone..."

Qiu Dashang and the others looked at the Profound Nether Ruyi Fan with awe and gasped at the auction price.

"This price, indeed, isn't very friendly for some cultivators."

Bai Ziyue nodded. He hadn't expected the Qingxu Auction to start with top-grade Spirit Stones as the bidding unit.

"Actually, it also relates to the value of the treasures up for auction.

The Profound Nether Ruyi Fan is a top-grade Dharma Treasure. Most of those tempted to bid are powerful practitioners at or above the Divine Realm, whose wealth is naturally substantial.

Using low-grade Spirit Stones might somewhat insult the status of these venerable practitioners.

A million, two million, sounds intimidating but could actually be bothersome for such powerful beings.

That's why pricing directly with top-grade Spirit Stones makes sense.

Presumably, when lower-valued treasures are up for auction, they'll use low-grade or middle-grade Spirit Stones as the units of measure again."

Xu Jia couldn't help but explain from the side.

This was his second time participating in the Qingxu Auction, so he was a bit more knowledgeable.

In fact, Qiu Dashang and the others weren't attending the Qingxu Summit for the first time, but most of them were reluctant to spend even one top-grade Spirit Stone, so they had never entered this auction. Naturally, they weren't very familiar with the situation here.

Most of it was just hearsay.

This time, had they not thought of staying close to Bai Ziyue and currying favor with him, they probably still would have been reluctant to spend this amount.

"It's quite normal.

It's about maintaining this kind of prestige."

Bai Ziyue nodded and said with a smile.

"Prestige?"

Xu Jia's face showed some confusion.

*In his heart, a faint sense of something formidable arose.*

The others, however, nodded as though they understood, also feeling that the senior's words were... quite powerful.

"However, although the Profound Nether Ruyi Fan's power was decent, in the eyes of true experts, its supposed offense-defense integration appeared rather mediocre.

What was surprising was that Master Fengqin could manifest the Dharma Treasure's power without formally refining it.

Such skill is not simple."

Bai Ziyue didn't explain the meaning of 'prestige,' but couldn't help but praise.

"It's said that Fengqin Fairy cultivates the Qingxu Sect's top technique, the Celestial Essence Ten Thousand Techniques, and herself masters a divine technique called Qiankun Borrowing Technique.

She can leverage the power of Dharma Treasures to launch attacks, so any Dharma Treasure in her hands can unleash significant power, which is quite astonishing."

Xu Jia, evidently familiar with Master Fengqin, hurriedly explained.

Bai Ziyue lightly nodded, finding this explanation reasonable.

He naturally understood the true function of the Qiankun Borrowing Technique, which was far from simply harnessing a Dharma Treasure's intrinsic power.

Yet he still thought having her host the auction was undeniably fitting.

"One hundred and ten top-grade Spirit Stones."

"One hundred and fifty top-grade Spirit Stones!"

"One hundred and eighty top-grade Spirit Stones!"

...

While Bai Ziyue and the others conversed, the auction price rapidly climbed, soaring to three hundred top-grade Spirit Stones in a short time.

In the end, the Dharma Treasure was won by someone within a chamber, just like Bai Ziyue and the others, for three hundred and seventy top-grade Spirit Stones.

"Such a large-scale auction attracts too many participants.

Under such hype, the value of the treasures naturally becomes much higher than usual."

*Bai Ziyue silently compared and couldn't help but sigh, suddenly worried about whether he had enough Spirit Stones to bid on the Taiyi Generating Water and Thousand-Year Ice Heart Fire.*

The fact that these two treasures were featured in the promotional catalog indicated that their value was quite high.

Especially the Fire of Heaven and Earth, the Thousand-Year Ice Heart Fire. It was estimated that even a Golden Core True Monarch would be tempted by it. Although the spirit stones he had were abundant, amounting to over a hundred million in assets... most of this value was calculated based on the worth of treasures, and the actual reserve of spirit stones was, in fact, not much.

After deducting the expenditure for purchasing stores, he only had over five million low-grade spirit stones and five hundred top-grade spirit stones left.

Nonetheless, he wasn't too worried, since all his assets consisted of treasures of heaven and earth that could be converted into spirit stones, unlike others whose wealth primarily came from properties, which were hard to find buyers for in a short period.

Therefore, during the subsequent auction, whenever he saw a treasure he liked, he didn't hesitate to bid.

Over the course of several hours, he spent over a million low-grade spirit stones and acquired a few pieces of spiritual materials that could enhance his Lifebound Dharma Treasure.

Another noteworthy item was a martial arts fist technique called the Great Dao Fist, which was said to be created by a strong martial artist in the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm, a technique above the Martial Arts Innate. Its power was not weak.

He was interested and placed a bid of three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

However, obviously, he wasn't the only one interested in this fist technique; certainly, there were some strong martial artists present, or some Immortal Cultivation Clans with many martial artists among their clan members, needing this fist technique to enhance their heritage and power.

Thus, when the bid for this fist technique exceeded five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, he decided to give up.

...

Through the first day's auction, Bai Ziyue noticed that the treasures in the promotional catalog had almost encompassed most of the relatively precious treasures of the Qingxu Auction.

Although the non-catalog items weren't necessarily inferior, in terms of preciousness, they generally weren't as valuable as those treasures.

So in the following days, Bai Ziyue didn't stay at the auction all day. He only headed to the lake's isolated island to participate in the auction in the afternoons when the treasures were relatively precious.

Occasionally, he went out for a stroll to see the various local specialties sold by Immortal Cultivation Clans and loose cultivators at the summit in Blood Peak City.

He did have some minor gains, especially on the third day, when he used the Great Cave Observation Technique to snag a dust-covered third-grade spiritual material at the value of a first-grade material, which made him very happy for a while.

Apart from that, Bai Ziyue also went around various forces, sects' affiliated shops, and even directly to the Qingxu Auction's consignment place, where he sold many of the treasures of heaven and earth, spiritual materials, and Demon Beast corpses he had acquired in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, which he didn't use himself.

Though, due to the large quantity and high value, he inevitably attracted some covetous glances.

But because Bai Ziyue was cautious and discreet, combined with his displayed strength being not weak, he didn't encounter any significant trouble.

Then, on the fifth day, he successfully won the bid for Taiyi Generating Water at the price of two hundred and seventy-five top-grade spirit stones.

With this, the materials needed for refining his Lifebound Dharma Treasure became complete. The only thing remaining was the Fire of Heaven and Earth, the Thousand-Year Ice Heart Fire.

Additionally, he also acquired two Divine Realm techniques and a bottle of Second-grade Middle-Tier Spirit Pill, the Bloodline Pill.

The two Divine Realm techniques were the "Cyan Profound Dao Technique" and the "Purple Qi Grand Song Technique."

These two techniques weren't particularly sophisticated, but they weren't bad either. However, he didn't intend to practice them.

Currently, he planned to enter the Qingxu Sect, hoping to use the many techniques it had in reserve as resources to create a follow-up technique for himself.

But in his heart, he actually didn't place all his hopes within the Qingxu Sect and naturally made other arrangements and preparations.

Storing as many Divine Realm techniques as possible was one of them.

The two techniques cost him a total of one hundred and twenty top-grade spirit stones. Although it was somewhat expensive, he was not reluctant.

As for that bottle of Second-grade Middle-Tier Spirit Pill, the Bloodline Pill, it was actually a special spirit pill used for helping spirit beasts break through the constraints of their realm and refine their bloodlines.

This period was precisely a critical moment for the Little Black Dog's advancement. Even though he saw it continuously accumulating, it always fell short of the final step, clearly due to insufficient foundation, trapped in a bottleneck.

Just when the Bloodline Pill appeared at the auction, he thought of purchasing it.

The price was not expensive, only fifty-eight thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Compared to his previous expenditures, it was indeed minimal.

...

"The so-called Heaven's way is good for recompense, and retribution never misses.

Who could have expected that Master Fushui would reject the master's proposal one moment, only to end up needing the master's help the next? It truly makes one feel, so unsatisfied."

Atop Blood Peak, within the rare Fourth-Grade Spirit Vein Cave Mansion, Master Dan Jun sat inside with a smile on his face, while, at his side, his two disciples carefully attended to him.

At this moment, it was his eldest disciple Wang Jingchen who spoke up, his tone filled with schadenfreude.

"The master has left Elder Jin waiting for an hour already. If this continues, I'm afraid..."

On the other side, Master Dan Jun's second disciple, Yang Xin'er, seemed somewhat worried.

"Afraid of what? Who doesn't know that Master Fushui has relied on Master Xuu's support all along to grow?

Now that Master Xuu has fallen, and his only son encountered the Red Blood Qilin Beast, not only suffering from fire poison but most severely having his divine sense damaged.

The two issues compounded and formed the formidable Rotting God Poison Fire Miasma.

Master Fushui might not care much for others, but in the case of Xuu Jin, both sentimentally and rationally, he can't ignore him.

In the entire Blood Peak City, perhaps there isn't only one third-grade Alchemist, but the only one with the confidence to refine the Nine Bends Divine Recovery Pill, which can effectively repair the damaged divine sense and remove the fire poison, is none other than the master."

Wang Jingchen stated with a smug look.

Master Dan Jun nodded slightly, his face full of a confident smile, but he also said, "Let him in, for I am magnanimous."