After the apprenticeship ceremony, there is the much-anticipated grand auction.
The venue for this big auction is the big auction house in Liuyunfang City. This auction house was designed by Zhou Yang himself. It is shaped like a circular colosseum building in his previous life, with the auction platform in the center of the circle.
Outside the center of the circle are seats marked with seat numbers.
The entire auction house has more than 3,000 seats, which is enough to accommodate more than 3,000 people to participate in the bidding.
Because this is the first auction since the opening, the Zhou family does not charge an admission fee for those who enter the auction house, but they do have requirements for cultivation. They only accept monks with advanced Qi training and above.
At this time, the Chihu Mountain Oasis was holding a large auction, and at least seven to eight thousand monks gathered there. After the Zhou family distributed more than three thousand seat numbers, it was almost full.
Think about it, if a monk can cross the vast sea of sand and reach the Chihu Mountain Oasis, unless there is someone to carry him, it is impossible for him to do it without some cultivation.
In this way, it is not surprising that there are two to three thousand monks in the late stage of Qi training among the seven or eight thousand people.
For the sake of the safety of the auction site, and to show his importance, Zhou Yang personally rode the griffin beast that had been promoted to a fourth-level monster and landed on the auction stage to take charge. The auctioneer was a famous person from the Zhou Family Foreign Affairs Hall.
Serves Xie Lingying's relatives in the Zhou family.
This relative of the Zhou family, named Xie Lingying, was born with a pretty face, an excellent face, and a very clear and sweet voice. The only drawback is that her spiritual root qualifications are low, she is a low-grade spiritual root, and she only has the fifth level of Qi training so far.
After Zhou Yang saw this woman at a sermon and heard her voice asking questions, he had a very good impression, so he specifically named her as an auctioneer to learn auction skills.
Xie Lingying was fully prepared for today's auction and recited the information on all the items to be auctioned countless times in advance.
After the auction started, her clear and melodious voice, like an oriole, easily attracted attention.
Of course, what attracts more attention are the auction items.
From the first second-level magic weapons, spiritual talismans, elixirs, formations and other items to the later third-level treasures, every item is a fine product carefully selected by the Zhou family, and there is not a single defective item.
It is difficult to find a few of these rare products for sale in the store in a year. They are all kept in the family treasury for the clan members to exchange for their own use.
If you take out these high-quality treasures at this time, you are not afraid that no one will bid to buy them.
And as each treasure was bought at a high price, the atmosphere of the auction became more and more lively.
After the third-level spiritual elixirs, magic weapons, and spiritual talismans appeared, those foundation-building monks who were originally watching the show also joined the bidding.
The resources of the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea are poor, and third-level spiritual objects are rarely seen, let alone finished third-level treasures.
However, there are also many foundation-building monks who have maintained a calm attitude and watched all this quietly. These people's goals are very clear, and that is the foundation-building pill that the Zhou family released.
"What is being auctioned below is one of the three final treasures in this auction, the Foundation Establishment Pill!"
"Two Foundation Establishment Pills have been prepared as auction items for this auction. The bidding for the first Foundation Establishment Pill begins now. The starting price is 20,000 low-grade spiritual stones. Each increase in price shall not be less than 1,000 low-grade spiritual stones!"
boom!
As the clear and sweet voice of auctioneer Xie Lingying rang out, the atmosphere in the auction room suddenly exploded.
It has been an unknown amount of time since the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea has seen such a public auction of Foundation-Building Pills. In the past, Huang Shamen dominated the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea, monopolizing more than 80% of the output of Foundation-Building Pills.
If others want to get the Foundation Establishment Pill, their only chance is to exchange it for a treasure that far exceeds the value of the Foundation Establishment Pill.
For people like the ancestors of the Chen family who are able to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, the Foundation Establishment Pills they refine are mostly digested within some families and will not spread easily.
Now the Zhou family openly puts out the Foundation Building Pill for auction, which is actually a provocation to Huang Shamen's hegemony.
Many people secretly looked at Zhang Yunpeng, the head of Huangsha Sect, who was sitting in the front row. However, from the beginning of the auction to now, Zhang Yunpeng had been meditating with his eyes closed in the presence of the old god, and no one had ever seen his eyebrows.
Move halfway through.
In the eyes of those people, this attitude made them quite disappointed and surprised.
And as the quotes came in one after another, they no longer had time to pay attention to them.
Because sufficient publicity had been done in advance, both Foundation Establishment Pills were sold for a truly "sky-high price" at this auction.
The first Foundation Establishment Pill was bought by a cultivating family for 52,000 low-grade spiritual stones, but the second Foundation Establishment Pill was bought by a Foundation Establishment casual cultivator for 55,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
A foundation-building casual cultivator was able to produce 55,000 low-grade spiritual stones at once, which even Zhou Yang was surprised.
He glanced at the man. This man's seventh-level cultivation was indeed a rare master among casual cultivators.
However, if he was able to come up with fifty-five thousand low-grade spiritual stones, this person had either spent the spiritual stones he had accumulated all his life here, or he had robbed a certain family of cultivators of their centuries-old savings, or he was simply the leader of a group of bandits.
Of course, these are just Zhou Yang's guesses, and he will not investigate and arrest this person just because of this guess.
For him, even if this person is really a murderous bandit, as long as he did not commit murder on the Chihu Mountain Oasis and was not caught, he will not take action because of this.
And this person seemed to know that his act of photographing the Foundation Establishment Pill was too high-profile. After delivering the spirit stone on the spot, he actually left the auction site directly.
Because it is impossible to provide separate compartments for everyone like the Xianyang City Auction, the Zhou family's method to protect the safety of bidders at the auction is to control the venue.
During the duration of the auction, except for the monks who have auctioned items, no one else is allowed to leave the auction venue, nor are they allowed to communicate with the outside world.
This approach certainly cannot protect the safety of bidders in all aspects like the Xianyang City Auction, but it at least gives bidders a chance to escape.
Like the Foundation Establishment casual cultivator who was photographed leaving the Foundation Establishment Pill, as long as he leaves the Chihu Mountain Oasis in time and enters the vast sea of sand, unless someone leaves a tracking method on him in advance, it will be difficult to find his exact whereabouts.
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The auction continues.
In addition to the Foundation Establishment Pill, the other two final items prepared by the Zhou family at this auction are a "Purple Cloud Pill" that will help open up the Zi Mansion and a fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon.
Not to mention the fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon, this object was specially prepared for Chen Ping'an and Nie Qiufeng, two monks of the Purple Mansion Stage, and was finally collected by Nie Qiufeng with 110,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
The "Purple Cloud Pill" was an unexpected surprise. No one thought that such a treasure that would help open up the Zifu would appear at the auction, so that some Huangshamen monks who were watching the excitement couldn't bear it.
He took action and joined the bidding.
In the end, the transaction price of this "Purple Cloud Pill" exceeded that of the fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon, reaching a high price of 125,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
There is no way, there are too few treasures in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World that can help break through the Zi Mansion, and there are also few alchemists who can refine such third-level high-grade elixirs.
So here, it is common for the price of such treasures to increase several times.
Of course, this is only limited to treasures such as "Purple Cloud Pill". If it is replaced by a treasure of the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" level, doubled, in addition to the Zhou family, Chen family, Nie family, the three Zifu families and
Outside Huangshamen, even if the Zhuji family sells everything, they still can't afford so many spiritual stones.
In fact, if the Zhou family did not have a "Purple Cloud Fruit" vine, and the vine harvested more than a dozen spiritual fruits last time, Zhou Yang would not have been so generous as to bring out a "Purple Cloud Pill" for the finale.
And this unexpected surprise did have the effect he wanted, making the reputation of the auction resound throughout the boundless sea of sand cultivators because of this object.
"Thank you all comrades for coming to participate in this big auction. From now on, every thirty years, our Zhou family will hold a big auction. In the name of the Zhou family, I promise you that at every big auction, at least
We guarantee that there will be a Foundation Establishment Pill as the final item to be auctioned, and all fellow Taoists are welcome to come to Liuyun Auction again after thirty years!"
After the last auction item was sold, Zhou Yang, who had been silent throughout the whole time, finally stood up from the back of the griffin beast, scanned all the remaining monks in the auction room, and announced the end of the auction loudly.
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The assurance coming from his mouth also surprised all the monks present.
A major auction is held every thirty years, and each time at least one Foundation Establishment Pill is guaranteed to be the grand finale.
If the Zhou family can really do this, then the big auction held by the Zhou family this year is really a must!
To be honest, although the news of the Zhou family's big auction was released several years in advance, because there had never been a precedent for the auction of the Foundation Establishment Pill before, many people thought it was just the Zhou family's attraction after hearing the news.
When people go to participate in the auction, they don't particularly care about it, so they don't have the courage to sell it.
These people saw two Foundation Establishment Pills slipping away from their eyes today, and they were undoubtedly filled with regret.
But now, Zhou Yang's words gave them hope again.
They still have a chance!
Thirty years later, when the next big auction is held, they will come here after being fully prepared. They will definitely not just act as spectators like today.
"Reporting to the Supreme Elder, the proceeds from this grand auction have been calculated. We have auctioned a total of 156 treasures in this grand auction, and the total proceeds are 575,600 low-grade spiritual stones!"
"If you include the spiritual stones earned by the shops in Fang City during this period, plus the [head tax] and other income collected, the total income our Zhou family will get from this big auction is about sixty-five
There are about ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones!”
On Chihu Mountain, when the big auction ended and the monks from all parties started to disperse, Zhou Yang also received the income report compiled by Zhou Guangyun, the financial elder of the Zhou family, who led the financial hall monks to work overtime.
After hearing this revenue figure, a cheerful smile finally appeared on his face.
This is the first time he has smiled since his father Zhou Xuanhao passed away.
"Very good, with this spiritual stone, the new home plan can be officially implemented!"
He murmured to himself with a smile on his face, and there was excitement in his eyes that he hadn't seen in a long time.