Chapter 781 - 781 Golden Light Flower
It wasn't just Shun Long who was startled upon seeing the seven-petaled flower in Jia Guiying's hands, as the people in the audience seats and even some of the experts inside the private rooms seemed to have suddenly turned serious, as they turned their gazes towards Jia Guiying soon after.
With a smile on her face, Jia Guiying nodded her head and continued a moment later, as her warm voice reverberated throughout the fifth floor
''As many of you, dear guests have already guessed, our next item is indeed a rank 7 'Golden light flower'. I am sure that the esteemed star-rank alchemists present here today all recognize the value of this priceless flower better than me, so I will avoid embarrassing myself.
It is said that as long as a 'Golden light flower' is refined into a pill, it can heal almost any kind of injury, including injuries in a person's soul. High-grade and top-grade rank 7 pills refined by a 'Golden light flower' can even be consumed by Sovereign realm experts, making their value comparable to some extremely rare rank 8 pills.
The starting price for this 'Golden light flower' is set by our 'White tiger chamber of commerce' at 80.000 high-grade spirit stones, while each subsequent increase must be at least 1000 high-grade spirit stones higher than the last bid.''
Silence filled the auction venue for a brief moment after everyone heard Jia Guiying's voice, before people began shouting out their bids soon after.
''85.000 high-grade spirit stones.''
''86.000!''
''87.000.''
''90.000!''
Less than a minute had passed since the auctioning of the 'Golden light flower' had begun, and the price had already exceeded the 100.000 high-grade spirit stones mark, and it was only then that it started to actually slow down.
Even Shun Long was inwardly surprised when he saw that the price of a rank 7 medicinal herb had already exceeded that of a peak 1-star weapon.
Shun Long's surprise was only natural, since the value of raw medicinal herbs would always be far lower than the actual pill concocted in the end, and this was even more so for a medicinal herb like the 'Golden light flower' that even star-rank alchemists found it had to fully extract its essence.
And yet, once he remembered the prices of the rank 7 medicinal pills that he had seen back in the 'Myriad Pills pavilion' within the Northern Sovereign's city, Shun Long realized that the price of the 'Golden light flower' was still within reason.
After all, some extremely rare rank 7 pills were sold for hundreds of thousands of high-grade spirit stones while the more expensive ones reached close to a million high-grade spirit stones instead!
With a serious look in his eyes, Shun Long continued to watch as the price of the 'Golden light flower' kept climbing upwards without any signs of stopping anytime soon.
However, Shun Long was still prepared to go all-out to obtain the flower, regardless of the final price.
Even if it was just for Jiang Tianfang's sake, Shun Long wouldn't let anyone else get their hands on this 'Golden light flower', otherwise who knew how many years Jiang Tianfang would have to wait until he healed himself.
A few minutes later, the price had already reached the 130.000 high-grade spirit stones mark, before Little Black's voice sounded inside Shun Long's mind a few moments later
''Master, if things keep going like this, the final price will certainly go past 200.000 high-grade spirit stones.''
Nodding his head, Shun Long agreed with Little Black and said after a moment of thinking
''I guess it's time.''
Shun Long then took a deep breath, before he called out from his private room in a hoarse voice
''150.000 high-grade spirit stones.''
''..''
The auction venue of the 'White tiger chamber of commerce' descended into silence in the next moment, as the people sitting in the normal seats below, and even some people from the private rooms turned their attention towards Shun Long's room.
The sudden increase of 20.000 high-grade spirit stones for a single rank 7 medicinal herb naturally surprised quite a lot of people who only realized at that moment how high the price had risen by now.
At the same time, in the private room that was right next to Shun Long's, the silver-haired middle-aged woman in white robes who was emitting an aura that was clearly at the Sovereign realm mumbled to herself with a frown on her face
''I was planning to bid for the flower as well, but it seems that both this person and the people from the 'Black mist valley' want to fight for it... Fine then, I will let you have it. What I am interested in the most isn't this flower, but the earth flame itself.''
The 3 white-robed women next to the beautiful silver-haired woman were startled when they heard this, before one of them asked curiously
''Is master really going to give up? Even if it's the 'Black mist valley', in front of our 'White ice city' they won't dare to be too arrogant. As long as master declares that she is interested in this flower, perhaps they won't even dare to fight you for it!''
The silver-haired middle-aged woman looked at the white-robed young woman next to her and shook her head, before she answered in a calm manner
''They won't dare to fight? You underestimate the 'Black mist valley' quite a bit. Although it's true that our 'White ice city' is stronger than them, the valley lord of the 'Black mist valley' is a late-stage Sovereign realm expert just like our city lord. Why would they be afraid to compete with us? Besides, the person who has come to Murong city this time is that demon from the 'Black mist valley', Zhuan Jie. Forget about me, even if he had to fight a middle-stage Sovereign realm cultivator, he still wouldn't be afraid.''
As she finished speaking, the silver-haired middle-aged woman turned to look at Shun Long's private room for a brief moment, before she smiled and fell silent.
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Author's note: 1/4