Chapter 356: Fu Young’s Bid

At the time, however, Xiao Ran’s divine sense was not strong enough to discover the pearl’s secrets.

She could only sense countless red koi swimming inside the pearl.

Among them, one golden koi was particularly conspicuous, yet she could never catch it.

She immediately suspected that the pearl contained some kind of secret.

Later, when she infiltrated a clan in Azure Origin City, she happened to investigate the Myriad Koi Pearl as well.

She learned that the Myriad Koi Pearl was a specialty of the Endless Sea, although no one knew exactly how it was formed.

The only known fact was that when deep sea monsters were occasionally hunted, strange pearls sometimes appeared inside their bodies alongside their demonic cores.

A Lesser Koi Pearl contained the shadows of a hundred koi, and there was a high chance that it contained a drop of demon flood dragon blood essence.

A Medium Koi Pearl had roughly a fifty percent chance of containing flood dragon blood essence.

Only a Myriad Koi Pearl had a very small chance of producing True Dragon blood essence.

As long as someone managed to catch the golden koi inside the Myriad Koi Pearl and cut open its belly, they might obtain True Dragon blood essence.

Even if there was no True Dragon blood essence, there would still be around a dozen drops of flood dragon blood essence inside.

In a world like the Heaven Origin Realm, where True Dragons had long since vanished and even flood dragons were nowhere to be found, such blood essence was incredibly precious.

Perhaps that was why the sea beasts containing these three kinds of strange pearls were all ridiculously powerful.

After learning all this, Xiao Ran naturally hid the pearl carefully and from time to time, she would use her divine sense to try to capture the golden koi inside it.

Later, after ascending to the Immortal Realm and obtaining a fragmentary Soul Refinement cultivation technique, her divine sense gradually became stronger.

Once her cultivation and divine sense were finally powerful enough to capture the golden koi inside the Myriad Koi Pearl, she was immediately transported by the pearl into the small world known as the Myriad Gods Realm.

She then endured quite a miserable period of time there.

The reason Xiao Shou had recognized this particular Myriad Koi Pearl at a glance was because the one obtained by Xiao Ran was different from ordinary Myriad Koi Pearls.

It had a very obvious identifying mark.

A finger sized crack ran across the surface of the entire red pearl.

The author had never explained how that crack had formed. But considering that this pearl had exactly the same crack and was also called a Myriad Koi Pearl, there probably could not be another one like it.

What a peculiar pearl... Thinking about that part of the story, Xiao Shou could not help laughing.

If the Heaven Origin Grand Competition had not been moved forward, the Myriad Koi Pearl would probably have been placed in a branch auction held by the Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall and the two robbers brothers would then have bought it.

After all, the price at a branch auction definitely would not have been driven as high as the price at the main auction.

What an incredible coincidence.

Beside him, Fu Young saw his master laughing at a pearl outside and assumed that Xiao Shou liked it.

He was so happy that he did not even have time to place a bid.

The bidding outside had already reached two million top grade spirit stones and was about to end.

Fu Young immediately raised his hand and entered a bid.

The auctioneer saw the price displayed on the screen and widened his eyes.

His delighted voice even became slightly distorted.

"Guest in Private Room Ninety Nine bids twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones!"

"Twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones!"

"Does anyone wish to bid higher?"

"Twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones, once!"

"Twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones, twice!"

The Heaven Origin Realm was only a small thousand world realm and was relatively poor in resources.

Although spirit stones from different realms had a fixed exchange rate of one to one thousand, meaning that one supreme grade spirit stone could be exchanged for one thousand top grade spirit stones, supreme grade spirit stones were extremely scarce in the Heaven Origin Realm.

Most sects deliberately restricted the mining of supreme grade spirit stones to protect the spiritual veins within their territories.

As a result, supreme grade spirit stones were practically impossible to buy despite their high value.

At ordinary market prices, twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones were equivalent to the resources of roughly twenty large spiritual veins.

They could normally be exchanged for around four to five million top grade spirit stones.

This strange exchange rate, combined with the fact that supreme grade spirit stones were extremely difficult to obtain, was precisely why Xiao Shou liked using supreme grade spirit stones to buy things. Then, after receiving a huge amount of lower grade spirit stones as change, he could secretly combine them back into supreme grade spirit stones.

Wait! Wasn’t Private Room Ninety Nine the room they were in?

Xiao Shou froze when he heard the auctioneer. He then turned around and happened to see Fu Young lowering his hand. Seeing this, he curiously asked, "Young’er, do you want True Dragon blood?"

"No. Didn’t Master like it? I saw you staring at it and laughing the whole time." Fu Young looked at him in confusion.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Xiao Shou’s face. "Uh... I don’t like it either. I was laughing because I know this thing is a strange trap. Thinking about someone buying it and getting horribly scammed later just made me laugh."

"Twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones, three times... Sold!"

Just as Xiao Shou finished speaking, the auctioneer’s decisive voice rang out from outside.

At the same time, twenty thousand supreme grade spirit stones disappeared from Fu Young’s token.

A moment later, a red pearl resting on a tray was teleported directly into their private room.