Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 778: Chapter 566: Celestial Wood Puppet and Blood King Pill (Part 2)

“Welcome fellow cultivators and seniors, to the auction jointly held by the Taiyi Sect and the Medicine King Valley. I am Jin An, responsible for hosting this auction. Like any typical auction, the highest bidder wins. If you lack spirit stones, you can use treasures as collateral, valued at ninety percent of the market price!”

“Additionally, after this auction concludes, an Immortal Ascension Conference will be held in the Taichang Mountain Range to thank all of you for your support!” Jin An Ascendant is a cultivator from Dharma Peak and a renowned Tier Three Top-grade Alchemist, with cultivation at the peak of the Purple Mansion.

Just like Tianzhen Ascendant, he is one of the most promising cultivators in the Taiyi Sect for advancement to the Golden Core stage.

After his brief introduction, he clapped his hands, and several female cultivators gracefully approached, carrying two Redwood Spirit Discs!

“This first treasure, I believe many of you have seen it in the Chixia Curtain. This treasure is a Tier Three Celestial Wood Puppet, a wood puppet puppet left by the Eight Desolates Sect’s Kuihuang. Its strength is comparable to a Purple Mansion cultivator, and it will never betray. It requires merely an Upper-grade Spirit Stone to protect the fortune of a Purple Mansion Clan. Placed on a Spirit Vein, it can even be nurtured, increasing its power over time!” Jin An Ascendant spoke with great enthusiasm, unveiling the red cloth from the disc.

A Spirit Technique was cast, and a section of wide wood transformed into a warrior wood puppet, launching a fist wind.

Accompanied by a rumbling sound, spiritual energy ripples spread in all directions.

Ye Jingcheng was somewhat astonished upon seeing this Celestial Wood Puppet, and felt a bit tempted.

Of course, it wasn’t because of the Celestial Wood Pupppet’s power, but because he wanted to study the spirit puppets.

After all, the Ye family already possesses the Five Elements Celestial Armor Puppet.

Perhaps researching them together could yield more insights.

Especially since it was a treasure from Kuihuang, one of the Eight Desolates of the Eight Desolates Sect.

Ye Jingcheng’s interest grew even further.

It’s said that Kuihuang once had six types of spirit puppets, including the nurturable wood puppet, the eerie and terrifying blood puppet, the fierce beast puppet, the substitution technique flying puppet, the alluring gu puppet, and the magic puppet akin to the Celestial Armor Corpse!

This Celestial Wood Puppet belongs to the first type, and as long as it doesn’t engage in magical combat, it doesn’t consume spirit stones, making it economically more viable than the Ye family’s Celestial Armor Puppet in some aspects.

“The starting bid for this Celestial Wood Puppet is one hundred thousand spirit stones! Each bid increment must be no less than one thousand!” Jin An Ascendant announced.

And with this announcement, most cultivators were practically blocked.

After all, there were only a little over three hundred Purple Mansion cultivators present.

There weren’t many top-tier Foundation Establishment clans.

Few could come up with one hundred thousand spirit stones.

But clearly, Ye Jingcheng underestimated these first-layer Foundation Establishment and Qi Cultivation cultivators.

The bids kept coming, though the increments were small, the voices were plenty.

Firstly, some high-tier cultivators were hidden among them, and secondly, it was evident that not all Foundation Establishment and Qi Cultivation cultivators were poor.

After all, some cultivators stumble upon unexpected wealth.

Although it’s risky to carry a valuable item, in the Taichang Market, purchasing this Celestial Wood Puppet, which can be activated with an Upper-grade Spirit Stone, is not buying a useless hot potato.

“One hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones!” Ye Jingcheng also placed a bid.

Previously, he didn’t understand why so many Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment cultivators were allowed inside.

Now it seems this auction clearly aims to use these cultivators to drive up the price and enhance the atmosphere of the grand auction.

While at the same time earning a considerable amount of spirit stones, truly killing two birds with one stone.

However, his bid was soon drowned out.

“One hundred twenty-one thousand spirit stones!”

“One hundred twenty-two thousand spirit stones!”

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Ye Jingcheng finally bid one hundred fifty thousand spirit stones!

Yet he had still underestimated the frenzy of other Purple Mansion cultivators and those Foundation Establishment clans.

After all, the Purple Mansion Jade Liquid may not necessarily produce Purple Mansion cultivators, but a Purple Mansion Puppet certainly has Purple Mansion combat power.

Even if not publicly displayed, kept within the clan’s mountain, it would be a significant trump card.

And after eighteen thousand spirit stones, Ye Jingcheng no longer bid.

The price was too high—it wasn’t worthwhile, and the Ye family couldn’t be so ostentatious.

What’s more important is purchasing Purple Mansion Jade Liquid and Foundation Establishment Pills to enhance the family’s apparent heritage.

This is more crucial for the Ye family.

The Celestial Wood Puppet eventually sold for eighteen thousand eight hundred spirit stones.

And Jin An Ascendant was greatly satisfied, as this price exceeded that of many Tier Three Middle-Grade Defensive Treasures.

“The next treasure is Taiyuan Earth Fiend, co-auctioned by the Taiyi Sect and Medicine King Valley. This Earth Fiend can similarly enhance the chance of Foundation Establishment and may even improve combat power during Foundation Establishment, and it’s possible to refine it into a Tier Two Secret Technique. The Earth Fiend is auctioned in sets, each set includes two portions, totaling five sets!”

After the first opening treasure, it was evident the Taiyi Sect had brought out multiple treasures to attract those Foundation Establishment and Qi Cultivation cultivators.

After all, having paid the entrance fee, it wouldn’t be fitting without treasures for auction.

“The starting bid for the first set of Earth Fiend is ten thousand spirit stones, with each increment no less than one hundred!”

As Jin An Ascendant spoke, many cultivators began bidding.

Ye Jingcheng did not bid, as Foundation Establishment Pills would be available later, and compared to Foundation Establishment Pills, the Earth Fiend only had the advantage of being cheaper.

In reality, the vital effect of protecting the meridians from Foundation Establishment Pills was absent in the Earth Fiend.

If there were no Foundation Establishment Pills, the Ye family would naturally be interested in the Earth Fiend, since clansmen still need to make breakthroughs.

But not only could the Ye family refine it themselves, they wouldn’t hesitate to buy it either, not lacking those spirit stones.

Yet to Ye Jingcheng’s surprise, a set of Earth Fiend fetched a price of twenty-five thousand spirit stones.

This price wasn’t much less than a Foundation Establishment Pill.

And the prices for the following four sets were similar, all just over twenty thousand each.

After the Earth Fiend auction, as expected, came the Foundation Establishment Pills.

Also sold as two pills per set, a total of ten sets.

This stirred a lot of discussion, as for the vast number of cultivators present, ten sets seemed not enough.

Ye Jingcheng speculated that the Taiyi Sect had deliberately divided the auction of Foundation Establishment Pills.

Only twenty Foundation Establishment Pills for one auction, naturally not enough.

After all, most of these Foundation Establishment Pills would end up with the Purple Mansion clans and Foundation Establishment clans, leaving Qi Cultivation cultivators and Qi Cultivation clans far less competitive.

It’s known that within the Taiyi Sect’s territory, many affiliated clans were destroyed due to the upheaval caused by the Qinghe Sect.

Numerous Spirit Mountains were left vacant, and in the future, the spiritual herbs and stone resources collected by the Taiyi Sect would be significantly reduced.

Thus, actively supporting Foundation Establishment clans was the Taiyi Sect’s best development strategy.

This is also why the Ye family could develop smoothly.

And although Ye Jingcheng had these thoughts, he still spent eighty-eight thousand spirit stones, buying two sets of Foundation Establishment Pills.

After securing these four Foundation Establishment Pills, he exhaled a sigh of relief.

This meant the new generation of the Ye family no longer needed to worry about Foundation Establishment Pills.

Clansmen like Ye Qingyan, Ye Qingting, Ye Qingfeng, and others of the Qing Generation are all nearing the Ninth Layer of Qi Cultivation, not to mention the countless Jing Generation clansmen nearing breakthroughs.

Previously, without securing Foundation Establishment Pills, breakthroughs could still be arranged but lacked official legitimacy.

The Ye family couldn’t publicly claim all cultivators achieved breakthroughs without Foundation Establishment Pills.

“Next for auction is a Spirit Pill from the Medicine King Valley, the Blood King Pill, a Tier Three Middle-Grade Spiritual Pill. This pill is effective for body cultivators and spirit beasts, greatly increasing the chance of early-stage Purple Mansion cultivators breaking through, and even has a chance for middle-stage body cultivators or mid-stage third-tier spirit beasts to break through bottlenecks!”

“This pill is aromatic, starting bid at sixty thousand spirit stones!” Jin An Ascendant announced.

At this moment, even Ye Jingcheng appeared somewhat excited.

Ye Jingcheng possessed the pill formula for the Blood King Pill, but the herbs for this pill were incredibly rare, and therefore Ye Jingcheng never had the opportunity to refine it.

For this reason, he knew the pill’s effects very well.

This pill could even allow his Jade Qilin Flood Dragon to break through to the late stage of the third tier.

Incidentally, it would also augment Ye Jingcheng’s overall growth.

“Eighty thousand spirit stones!” This time, Ye Jingcheng bid again.

And this price was incomparable to the Purple Spirit Pill, as it held the potential to break through bottlenecks.

Additionally, its aroma indicated it was of extremely high quality.

If it weren’t primarily for body cultivator breakthroughs, the price could have been even higher.