Chapter 355: The Myriad Koi Pearl

Xiao Shou stared intently at the auction taking place outside. He knew that most of the early auction items were intended for Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators.

They were mostly ordinary goods and the truly valuable treasures would appear later. Therefore, he did not participate in the early auctions at all and only began paying close attention around the middle of the auction.

He considered himself quite wealthy.

Moreover, the items appearing after the middle of the auction were generally treasures that could only be used by cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above. So whenever Xiao Shou saw something that interested him, he would place a bid and participate in the auction. If the price became too high, he would simply give up.

For items he had already collected, such as Spirit Infant Fruits and Nullspace Gems, he did not participate in the bidding. He only bid on things he did not already possess, as well as items that had appeared in the original story and would prove useful in the future.

As a result, he managed to acquire several things during the middle portion of the auction.

With the auction host’s increasingly excited announcements, one item after another was successfully sold without a single item going unsold.

At this stage, everyone was still relatively restrained, so the atmosphere remained quite calm.

That changed when the higher grade auction items began appearing. These were treasures valued by Spirit Transformation cultivators, as well as various items that treasure appraisers had determined contained tremendous spiritual energy, power, or other extraordinary properties, despite being unable to determine their actual functions.

The Crimson Earth that had caught Xiao Shou and Fu Young’s attention was one of these mysterious items. Therefore, once the higher grade auction items appeared, both of them immediately focused their attention on the auction.

They listened as the auction host excitedly and passionately introduced one treasure after another.

The first item was already a spiritual treasure, instantly making the atmosphere throughout the auction hall much more intense.

Everyone began competing fiercely.

In the end, the spiritual treasure was purchased by a guest in one of the private rooms.

However, Xiao Shou and Fu Young both possessed top grade spiritual treasures, as well as sealed low grade Immortal Artifacts, so ordinary spiritual treasures did not particularly interest them.

They therefore did not participate in the auctions for the first three spiritual treasures.

It was not until the fourth item appeared that Xiao Shou immediately raised an eyebrow and listened carefully to the auctioneer’s introduction.

"Myriad Koi Pearl. A strange pearl said to have originated from the Endless Sea. When viewed using microscopic techniques, ten thousand koi can be seen swimming across its surface. It is rumored that the blood essence of a True Dragon is hidden within the Myriad Koi Pearl. Starting bid: three hundred thousand top grade spirit stones!"

"Come, everyone! Place your bids! Perhaps the chance to obtain True Dragon blood essence is right before your eyes!"

"Private Room One bids four hundred thousand top grade spirit stones. Does anyone wish to raise the bid?"

"Private Room Four bids four hundred and fifty thousand top grade spirit stones!"

"Guest in Seat One Hundred Twenty One bids eight hundred thousand top grade spirit stones!"

"Private Room Nine bids one million two hundred thousand top grade spirit stones!"

"Does anyone wish to raise the bid? The chance to obtain True Dragon blood essence is right before your eyes!"

"Guest in Seat One Hundred Twenty One bids one million six hundred thousand top grade spirit stones!"

Isn’t the Heaven Origin Realm supposed to be merely a small thousand world realm with scarce resources?

Aren’t top grade spirit stones and supreme grade spirit stones supposed to be extremely precious here? Then why is everyone casually bidding hundreds of thousands of spirit stones at a time?

Still, Xiao Shou never expected that the Myriad Koi Pearl would actually appear at the Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall’s auction. But the original story had already established that there was no True Dragon blood essence inside this pearl. Instead, there was a golden koi capable of opening a passage into a small thousand world realm.

And that small thousand world realm had caused Xiao Ran no end of trouble.

It was a world without cultivators where spiritual power was prohibited.

The world’s laws rejected all foreign forms of energy.

If someone wanted to obtain power there, the only option was to exchange their own lifespan for divine power with the gods of that world.

Xiao Shou’s mouth twitched slightly as he watched the auction for the Myriad Koi Pearl unfold before him.

Thinking about how badly Xiao Ran had suffered during that part of the story, Xiao Shou could not help feeling sympathetic.

Not only had she lost a huge amount of her lifespan, but she had also been forced to give up the opportunity to contract a powerful spirit pet. Instead, she had contracted a spirit pet with an extremely long lifespan.

Come to think of it, how had Xiao Ran obtained the Myriad Koi Pearl again?

Xiao Shou tapped his forehead and carefully recalled the events from the original story.

After thinking for quite a while, he finally remembered what had happened.

The corner of Xiao Shou’s mouth twitched. He had never expected that this part of the story would actually have something to do with him.

In the original story, a pair of brothers had accidentally discovered a spiritual vein in Snowy Cave Mountain. After settling there, they quickly advanced to the Golden Core stage.

They then became obsessed with the profession of robbery and made a living by robbing others.

That continued until they encountered Xiao Ran. This time, they had truly run into someone they could not afford to provoke and their robbery attempt failed, and they lost their lives instead.

All of their accumulated possessions also became Xiao Ran’s spoils.

Xiao Ran had obtained the Myriad Koi Pearl from the storage bracelet of the elder brother.