Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1856: Chapter 780: Harvests and Prey?

After the Candou Platform was upgraded to the Sixth Tier, Xu Jin was extremely eager to push it up to the Seventh Tier.

First, once the Candou Platform reached the Seventh Tier, new functions might appear; second, after it reached the Seventh Tier, all its existing functions would also be enhanced.

The pity was that, among the requirements for promoting the Candou Platform to the Seventh Tier, for the first few items—Starlight, the required Seventh Tier Star Jade, Fire Spirit, Water Spirit, etc.—Xu Jin had already gathered them, but he had never been able to gather the last three items.

Five pieces of Heavenly Glaze, five portions of Earth Abyss Spirit Sand, and one Star Dome Xuan Crystal.

Among these last three, the first two were actually not hard to find. Xu Jin already had part of them on hand, just not enough in quantity; the key issue was the Star Dome Xuan Crystal, of which there was simply no news at all.

Xu Jin had inquired in many directions; many people had never even heard of the Star Dome Xuan Crystal, so there was absolutely no way to start looking.

Today he suddenly saw it at the auction, and Xu Jin immediately made up his mind: later, no matter what, he had to win it.

"Looks like in the future, I also need to have people regularly keep an eye on information from the auctions. But this matter can be handed over to the Yutang Royal Mansion to handle."

This was the benefit of having a major force at his back. Many small tasks, trivial matters, could be handled by others running errands, and would not waste Xu Jin’s precious time.

"Everyone, this auction formally begins. First to come on stage is a Wood Element Innate Treasure Material. This Wood Element Innate Treasure Material has the following properties....

The consignor demands that among the bidding items, there must be at least three out of the following five: Water Series Innate Spiritual Material, Earth Series Innate Spiritual Material, All Heaven Star Dew, Star Monarch–rank Yan Dao Pearl, Nine-rank Divine Soul Class Spiritual Medicine.

The reserve price is...

The final winner will be the one whose bid is appraised by this auction house’s identification master as having the highest value."

The Treasure Light Auction House’s auction rules were still quite complicated.

Innate Treasure Materials used for barter were basically all listed in the Weiyi Hall. The ones brought out here for auction were those looking to be exchanged for Cultivation Materials, and came with all sorts of requirements.

Especially for things like Innate Treasure Materials, it was unrealistic to trade purely with All Heaven Star Dew.

Because the consumption of All Heaven Star Dew was too great; if you used All Heaven Star Dew to measure an Innate Treasure Material, several hundred drops would be the bare minimum.

So they used this kind of complex composite bidding method.

This Wood Element Innate Treasure Material was not Xu Jin’s; Xu Jin had long since listed it in the Weiyi Hall to exchange for an Innate Treasure Material of the same rank.

At this moment, Xu Jin only wanted to see what price an Innate Treasure Material could fetch here.

The popularity of Innate Treasure Materials at the auction completely exceeded Xu Jin’s expectations. Within ten breaths, the bidding had already reached twice the reserve price.

After forty breaths, it closed at a little more than three times the reserve price.

One Innate Treasure Material ultimately exchanged for sixty-one drops of All Heaven Star Dew, one Star Monarch Yan Dao Pearl, and four pieces of Innate Spiritual Material.

This made Xu Jin’s heart thump.

After this round of "snowballing," Xu Jin should be able to produce three to five Innate Treasure Materials in his hands. When the time came, taking out one or two pieces to auction here could greatly speed up his snowballing progress.

As for why it was so heated, the reason was very simple.

Because the essence of bidding for Innate Treasure Materials here was to use low-tier supplies to exchange for high-rank supplies, with a very large premium.

In fact, the largest buyer group of Innate Treasure Materials was precisely the Emperors and the many True Monarch Experts.

Even if these Experts had been scions of noble clans or had sect heritage in the Ninth Tier, most of what they used as main materials to refine their Lifebound Spiritual Treasure were Innate Spiritual Materials. After achieving the Dao as True Monarchs or even becoming Emperors, they had to continuously refine Innate Treasure Materials into them to strengthen the power of their Lifebound Killing Artifact or Emperor Weapon!

After 15 minutes, the three Innate Spiritual Materials Xu Jin had consigned here were auctioned off in succession.

By comparison, the auction premium for Innate Spiritual Materials was not as high as for Treasure Materials, because the main buyer group for Innate Spiritual Materials consisted of powerful Tenth Rank Star Monarchs, a small number of True Monarch Experts, and aristocratic clans.

They were also not as rare as Innate Treasure Materials.

At a Treasure Light Auction House event like this, which was held only once a month, there were only two Innate Treasure Materials, but more than thirty Innate Spiritual Materials!

Even so, the proceeds from the auctions still exceeded Xu Jin’s expectations.

If measured in All Heaven Star Dew, the value of a single Innate Spiritual Material was roughly between fifty and two hundred drops, depending on its properties and demand.

But when Xu Jin consigned them, he added a reserve condition: forty drops of All Heaven Star Dew and at least three Enlightenment Stones, with no restriction on attributes, and the Enlightenment Stones could be counted with a premium.

The value of Enlightenment Stones was not too high; the market price of one was about four drops of All Heaven Star Dew, but they were in very high demand.

Originally, adding this condition would have made Xu Jin’s Innate Spiritual Materials uncompetitive among the many lots.

After all, there were more than thirty Innate Spiritual Materials consigned here.

But because the Innate Spiritual Materials Xu Jin consigned had an extra characteristic, and the identification master added one more line of commentary, they became incomparably sought after.

This comment was: Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Material, only slightly inferior to Innate Treasure Material. Given a suitable environment and enough time, it may have the possibility of growing and advancing into Innate Treasure Material.

The feature of being Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Material was something Xu Jin deliberately pointed out; the latter line was commentary added after appraisal by the Treasure Light Auction House’s master.

But Xu Jin was very clear that while Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Material was true, its chance of advancing into Innate Treasure Material was virtually zero.

This did not prevent it from being auctioned at a high price.

In the end, the first Innate Spiritual Material consigned by Xu Jin sold for one hundred and twenty drops of All Heaven Star Dew and five Enlightenment Stones.

The second Innate Spiritual Material sold for one hundred and thirty-four drops of All Heaven Star Dew and two Enlightenment Stones.