"The following is a Tempering Technique for Artifact Forging, written by a Senior Artifact Forging Master. A thousand years ago, this person was extremely famous in the cultivation world of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Unfortunately, he did not manage to advance to Nascent Soul realm and his lifespan was exhausted – it could be considered a good ending. "
The shopkeeper kept everyone in suspense before saying slowly, "That person is Mr. Xu Zhan."
"It's him!"
"That person is incredible."
"I heard that when he was at his peak, he refined dozens of supreme-grade spirit weapons. It's even said that he once refined a perfect spirit weapon. He's extremely powerful and all Golden Cores want to obtain a spirit weapon from him."
Most of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators present had not heard of this person before. However, there was a commotion in Perfected Jin Dan's room.
The shopkeeper removed the gauze on the tray, revealing a thin ancient book. The paper was yellowed and looked old.
The shopkeeper said in a deep voice, "This is Mr. Xu's personal letter. The starting price is 100,000 spirit stones and each increment must be no less than 1,000!"
Looking at the ancient book, Su Zimo's eyes were burning. However, his heart was cold.
This ancient book was what he needed the most and was also the purpose of his trip.
However, he could not afford it given his capabilities.
Even if it was 100,000 middle-grade spirit stones, Su Zimo would not have enough spirit stones after a few bids, let alone the starting price of 100,000 superior-grade spirit stones.
Indeed, the price of the ancient book rose steadily in this short period of time and was already close to 200,000!
There weren't many people bidding, only a few.
For ordinary cultivators, this ancient book might not mean much. However, for Weapon Refinement Masters, this was a priceless treasure.
Even if the person who called out the price was not an Artifact Refiner, he would definitely be related to Artifact Refining in some way.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from room 77, "250,000!"
Su Zimo's eyes flickered and his heart skipped a beat.
That voice was familiar – it sounded like the disheveled old man!
After all, Su Zimo could not be certain based on his voice without meeting him personally.
However, it was indeed rare to see the disheveled old man in the sect these days.
A series of exclamations could be heard from the seats of the inner house.
Previously, it was still two hundred thousand, but now, it was suddenly raised to two hundred and fifty thousand, a total of fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones. This was not a small number!
The few rooms that had been bidding suddenly fell silent.
"Hehe."
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The guest in room 77 is really generous. Of course, this also proves the value of this ancient book. Two hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones. Are there any higher bids? "
As the shopkeeper of the Sky Treasure Auction House, he naturally did not want the price to stop here. As he spoke, he seemed to be casually reminding the other guests.
After a short period of silence, a voice came from the room where the price had been called out, "2501."
"Three hundred thousand!"
Following which, before the manager could say anything, Room 77 raised the price to 300,000!
This time, the crowd was completely stunned!
"Could the person in room 77 be one of the auction house's own people?"
"That's hard to say. He'll just keep raising the price."
There was a burst of discussion in the seats.
After waiting for a long time, no one increased the price. The controller could only ask with a smile, "Is no one going to increase the price?"
In fact, three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones was already enough. It was the limit of the ancient book's value and it would be inappropriate to increase the price any further.
The shopkeeper did not have much hope and said loudly, "Three hundred thousand going once."
"Three hundred thousand going twice."
"Three hundred thousand …"
"I'll bid three hundred and ten thousand!"
Right then, a gloomy voice sounded from Room 80.
When he heard that, the shopkeeper was overjoyed and said, "Room 80 has raised the price to three hundred and ten thousand. Is there anyone else who wants to increase the price?"
Although that was what he said, the shopkeeper's gaze landed on Room 77.
After a short period of silence, Room 77 raised the price again.
"Three hundred and twenty thousand."
This time, the cultivator in Room 77 was clearly much more cautious. It seemed that three hundred thousand was already the limit of his ability.
"Three hundred and thirty thousand."
Immediately after, the cultivator in Room 80 raised the price without hesitation.
The cultivator in Room 77 was even more hesitant. Each time, he would think for a long time before raising the price.
In just a short period of time, the price of the ancient book was constantly rising between the two rooms of the cultivation world and had already reached four hundred thousand!
In reality, the true price of the ancient book was only around three hundred thousand.
However, the reason why it was expensive was that there was no market for it. Most tempering techniques were not imparted to outsiders and were difficult to purchase.
This time round, it was the cultivator in Room 77's turn to speak again.
After a long time, there was still no sound.
"Hahahaha!"
Right then, a series of arrogant laughter sounded from Room 80. A Perfected Jin Dan in scarlet robes strode out. He looked at Room 77 with a dark gaze and sneered, "Old thing, don't hold on if you can't hold on. Even if you guys at Misty Peak have this ancient book, no one will be able to understand it!"
When he heard that, Su Zimo no longer had any doubts.
Sure enough, the door of room 77 was slammed open, and an old man with white hair and a beard walked out angrily. He looked at the red-robed man and asked loudly, "Sima Zhi, are you purposely trying to make things difficult for me? True Fire Sect doesn't lack such tempering techniques at all. Why are you snatching it from me? "
"I like it."
Sima Zhi smiled smugly.
"You …" The disheveled old man was speechless.
Sima Zhi said leisurely, "Old thing, that's 400,000 spirit stones. Can you afford that? Look at how poor you are. Fufu, you're probably going to have to sell everything you have, right? "
The disheveled old man's face was livid.
As Sima Zhi had said, he only had 300,000 superior-grade spirit stones in his storage bag and that was what he had pooled together with the other four peak masters before he arrived.
The reason why he dared to bid 400,000 spirit stones was because he had bet everything he had and everything valuable on it.
He was bent on obtaining that ancient book – not for himself, but for his disciple, Su Zimo!
Ever since the five peaks face-off last year, the disheveled old man had been wandering around the world, visiting various auction houses in an attempt to purchase a tempering technique.
Su Zimo had long been able to refine inferior-grade spirit weapons. However, he was stuck at the tempering stage and could not make a breakthrough.
Even though he did not say anything, the disheveled old man was anxious. He felt that he had let Su Zimo down by wasting the child's talent in weapon refinement.
It was not easy for the disheveled old man to come across this tempering technique today – there was naturally no way he was going to let it go.
However, he did not expect Sima Zhi of True Fire Sect to appear out of nowhere!
True Fire Sect was the strongest among the five major sects in terms of weapon refinement and elixir refinement – they did not lack tempering techniques as such.
The reason why Sima Zhi was bidding non-stop was because he did not want the disheveled old man to get his hands on that ancient book!
"Old man, I was right, wasn't I?"
Sima Zhi laughed. "Go back and don't come out to embarrass yourself!"
Many cultivators in the inner house were pointing and gossiping when they saw this.
The disheveled old man's expression was terrible and he was so angry that he was trembling. However, he could not refute.
In Room 1, Su Zimo suddenly stood up and looked at Gu Xi. "Chief steward, can you lend me some spirit stones?"
"Lend what? If you want to get that ancient book, just bid." Gu Xi seemed to have expected this. She merely smiled and crossed her hands in front of her as she casually spoke.
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