FVN Chapter 622 Gu Cultivation Notes! Fragments!
Chapter 622 Gu Cultivation Notes! Fragments!
A burst of good-natured laughter erupted from the audience.
Liu San Niang covered her mouth and chuckled, clapping her hands. Two maids then carried a jade tray onto the stage. On the tray lay a fourth-tier flying sword, its entire body a vibrant green, with faint arcs of electricity crackling across its blade, radiating a considerable lightning-attribute spiritual pressure. After a bidding war, it was won by a rogue cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage for 80,000 mid-grade spirit stones.
The next few items are a 500-year-old Crimson Lingzhi mushroom, a set of fourth-tier defensive array flags, and a life-extending pill that can extend one's life by fifty years—all rare treasures.
Bidders were enthusiastic, and prices rose steadily. The Life-Extending Pill, in particular, sparked fierce competition among several Nascent Soul stage monsters, eventually fetching a high price of 300,000 mid-grade spirit stones.
Chen Fan didn't raise the paddle; he simply leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest. These things weren't anything special to him; any one of the magical artifacts he brought back from the Boundless Sea was just as good.
Chen Fan didn't open his eyes until the tenth item was brought out.
Liu San Niang lifted the red silk on the jade plate, revealing an ancient, dark green jade slip. The edges of the jade slip were slightly worn, and the cover was engraved with several curved, insect-like foreign characters in the shape of gu (a type of insect).
She picked up the jade slip, her voice becoming more solemn: "The Great Desert Grassland Gu Cultivation Notes, written by a Gu cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage, records the cultivation methods of more than ten rare Gu worms and the secret techniques for refining three natal Gu. Starting bid is 50,000 mid-grade spirit stones, with each bid increment no less than 3,000."
Chen Fan's gaze fell on the jade slip.
He had raised a Gu worm during the time of Yu the Great, and later, on his way to the State of Zhao, he heard Qin Zhan talk about the methods of Gu cultivators, and he has been quite interested in this mysterious cultivation system ever since.
He now cultivates both immortal and demonic arts; if he could integrate Gu techniques into his cultivation system, his combat power would undoubtedly reach a new level. This notebook is just what he needs to know.
"Fifty-five thousand." Chen Fan held up the number plate, his voice clearly transmitted through the sound transmission array in the private room.
After several rounds of bidding, the price was pushed up to over 80,000.
Chen Fan followed at a steady pace, raising the price by exactly three thousand each time, neither rushing nor backing down, and finally won the jade slip for 120,000 mid-grade spirit stones.
When the maid brought the jade slip into the private room, Chen Fan took it and scanned it with his divine sense. After confirming that the contents were correct, he put it into his sleeve. His face remained expressionless, but he was quite satisfied in his heart.
The next few items were a fragmented ancient treasure from the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, a bottle of Breakthrough Pills that could help Nascent Soul cultivators break through bottlenecks, and a set of array flags and array plates for a fifth-order trapping and killing array. All of them were rare treasures, and the bidding was unprecedentedly fierce.
Chen Fan did not make a move; he simply watched quietly.
None of these were what he wanted; he was waiting for that so-called great treasure.
Finally, as the auction drew to a close, Liu San Niang's voice suddenly rose a few decibels, filled with undisguised excitement and mystery: "Fellow Daoists, what follows is tonight's grand finale treasure. Before introducing this item, please allow me to say a few more words."
She turned around and personally carried out a semi-transparent jade box from backstage, carefully placing it on a long sandalwood table.
The jade box was about two feet square, and its surface was covered with fifth-order sealing runes. Each rune was slowly flowing and emitting a pale golden spiritual light.
Through the walls of the jade box, one could vaguely see a palm-sized, irregularly shaped, dark blue fragment lying inside. The fragment was crystal clear, like solidified seawater, emitting a faint blue light within the box.
The blue light wasn't dazzling, but it made all the cultivators present feel a peculiar spatial fluctuation!
That was neither spiritual power nor demonic energy, but a spatial power that none of the people present had ever felt before.
"This item comes from the chaotic waters of the Boundless Sea." Liu San Niang's voice rang out slowly, her tone less alluring than usual and more unusually solemn.
"Fellow Daoists present here must have all heard of the infamous Chaotic Sea. It is the deepest and most dangerous part of the Boundless Sea, where chaotic demonic energy perpetually shrouds the surface. Ordinary Nascent Soul demonic cultivators who step into it never return. Spatial rifts mixed within the demonic energy appear without warning, tearing intruders to shreds, body and soul. Only Nascent Soul demonic cultivators can approach it, but only to the outer edge, not freely traverse it. This fragment was brought out from the depths of the Chaotic Sea by a mid-Nascent Soul demonic cultivator at the risk of his life."
A low murmur arose from the audience.
Everyone present knew the name of the Chaotic Sea. It was the true forbidden area of the Boundless Sea. Being able to come out of that place alive was proof of strength, and bringing something out of that place was even more difficult.
Liu San Niang paused, her gaze sweeping across the room, then raised her voice a notch: "After joint appraisal by our appraisers and the array master of the Hall of Offerings, this item is highly likely a fragment of a Void Refinement level magic weapon. The spatial power contained within is incomparably pure, far surpassing any spatial magic weapon circulating in the world. If one can refine it, one might be able to comprehend a trace of the laws of space; if one can integrate it into one's natal magic weapon, the weapon's grade and power will undergo a qualitative leap. The starting bid is 150,000 mid-grade spirit stones, with each bid increment no less than 10,000."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire room erupted in uproar.
Fragments of a Void Refinement level magic weapon!
Treasures of this caliber are a once-in-a-century find even at auctions in the capital of Zhao.
A commotion broke out in the hall. Several Nascent Soul stage cultivators in the front row had their eyes gleaming, while the rogue cultivators in the back row were both envious and powerless, and could only watch helplessly.
In several VIP rooms on the second and third floors, the lights of bidding illuminated simultaneously, and prices climbed at an astonishing rate.
"160,000!"
"180,000!"
"Two hundred thousand!"
"Two hundred and thirty thousand!"
Chen Fan sat in the private room, his expression still calm, but the fingers on the armrest tightened unconsciously.
It wasn't because of fierce bidding, but because the golden bowl in his arms suddenly trembled the moment the deep blue fragment appeared on the stage.
The tremor was extremely subtle, yet as deep and powerful as a heartbeat, as if some force slumbering deep within the golden bowl had suddenly awakened the moment it sensed the fragment.
He hadn't felt such a strong reaction from the golden bowl in a long time.
The last time was in the Imperial City of Yu the Great. A wisp of innate wood source was hidden in that inconspicuous wooden staff. After the golden bowl absorbed it, the wood attribute runes were perfected, and the entire world inside the bowl was full of vitality.
The last time was in the sealed land, where the Breath of Earth and the Earth Core Fire Essence filled the earth and fire runes respectively, each time causing earth-shattering changes to the Golden Bowl space.
This time, the golden bowl trembled more violently than ever before, its tremor like that of a person who had been starving for a long time smelling the aroma of food, wishing they could pounce on it immediately and swallow the fragment whole.
He must get his hands on this fragment.