Time passed, and the first day of the auction was drawing to a close.
Just as Zhang Ling was sitting in his room, listlessly closing his eyes to rest, he suddenly heard a clear bell ringing.
After the bell rang three times, Zhang Ling opened his eyes, perked up, and stared unblinkingly at the jade screen displaying the auction information.
He saw a hazy patch on the jade screen where all the text had disappeared. Then, light and shadows flickered, revealing an old man in a gray robe. This person also wore a ghost mask and, with a wave of his sleeve, a watermelon-sized blue ball of light floated in front of him.
The appearance of light and shadows on the jade screen indicated that today's auction was nearing its end and that it was time to auction off today's highlight items.
"Fellow Daoists, please pay attention. The items to be auctioned next are today's highlight treasures, a total of ten items. The first is the egg of the Azure Light Worm in my hand. The Azure Light Worm is a wild demonic insect that can reach the fifth or sixth rank in adulthood. Raising an Azure Light Worm is equivalent to pre-ordering a high-level spiritual insect. If any Daoist is interested, you can increase the price. The starting price is 80,000 spirit stones."
Insect egg. Zhang Ling stared at the ball of light in the jade screen, taking a few more glances.
The Azure Light Worm is also a special kind of spiritual insect, known for its extreme speed and skill in sneak attacks. It ranks higher than his Earth Spirit Bee but behind the Ice Spirit Silkworm. However, this insect takes a long time to mature. Still, spiritual insects with such potential are actually rare in the cultivation world, so its appearance at this auction is unexpected. Many cultivators will likely be interested.
At this moment, the old man on the jade screen flipped his hand, and a curtain of light floated in front of him, displaying the words '80,000 Spirit Stones'.
The numbers on the screen suddenly flashed rapidly, changing to 85,000, then flickering a few more times to 90,000. After frequent flashing, it finally broke through to 120,000 spirit stones before the floating frequency slowed down significantly.
"Fellow Daoists, please hurry and increase the price. Free bidding for this treasure is allowed for a quarter of an hour. After a quarter of an hour, the cultivator with the highest bid can come to Room 18 of Building D to exchange for this spiritual insect egg."
After the old man finished speaking, the image on the light screen gradually blurred. After a burst of fog, the light and shadows on it flickered again.
Zhang Ling looked at the auction token in his hand. The smooth back of the wooden token displayed a line of text: 'Azure Light Worm Egg: 148,000 Spirit Stones'. It seemed that someone else had increased the price.
If he hadn't already cultivated two kinds of spiritual insects himself, he might have been interested in this Azure Light Worm.
The image on the light screen stabilized after a few breaths, and then a beautiful woman in a blue palace dress appeared. At the same time, the woman's smiling voice was heard.
"The second highlight item today is the Thunder Attribute magic weapon, the Jade Thunder Ruler, crafted by a master refiner from Qiyuan Studio."
As she spoke, a two-foot-long black jade ruler appeared in her hand. Under the urging of her spiritual power, the jade ruler instantly turned blue, and streaks of lightning appeared. With a wave, countless dense arcs of electricity formed around it.
These electric arcs formed a thunderous net several feet in size. Finally, the woman made another hand seal, and the thunder net quickly contracted into a fist-sized thunderball. The thunderball rose sharply and exploded in mid-air with a loud bang. Countless arcs of electricity raged for a time.
Although this was only a display of light and shadows on the jade screen, Zhang Ling immediately judged that this was no ordinary magic weapon based on its power.
He also had some attainments in refining and had refined twenty or thirty magic weapons. Among them, magic weapons with exotic attributes were the most difficult to refine. Not only were the materials difficult to find, but engraving spiritual patterns on them was three times harder than on ordinary magic weapons.
As Zhang Ling pondered the power of this thunder attribute magic weapon, the woman in the palace dress on the light screen revealed the reserve price of this treasure.
"Jade Thunder Ruler, 400,000 spirit stones. Interested Daoists should hurry and make a move." As she spoke, a curtain of light appeared in her hand, displaying the words '400,000 Spirit Stones'. It also jumped a few times in an instant, changing to 450,000 spirit stones in the blink of an eye. Naturally, some cultivators were interested in this treasure and raised the price.
Then, the scene on the jade screen did not disappear. The woman waved her hand, and the Jade Thunder Ruler and the light screen displaying the price floated to the side. Then, spiritual light flickered in her palm again, and a blue feather fan appeared.
"The Azure Feather Fan, made from the natal feathers of a sixth-rank Great Wind Bird, is a wind attribute magic weapon with a starting price of 380,000 spirit stones."
The blue feather fan suddenly enlarged several times in the woman's hand, and bursts of whistling wind sounds came. With a gentle wave, several rotating wind clusters formed around it. These wind clusters quickly transformed into wind blades, which looked quite powerful.
Then, the woman tossed the Azure Feather Fan, suspending it above her head. White mist rolled in her hand, and a white jade ruyi appeared again.
The white jade ruyi shook a few times and released a large amount of icy mist. The sound of cracking ice was heard, and in an instant, a ring of thick ice walls formed around it.
Then, the woman gently tapped the ice wall with the white jade ruyi in her hand. Immediately, spiritual light flickered on the ice wall, and streaks of ten-foot-long ice thorns shot out. This treasure not only seemed to be able to defend but also to attack, and its power was quite good.
Then, the woman's smiling voice came from the light and shadow again.
"Ice Soul Ruyi, a magic weapon made of thousand-year-old cold jade, also has a starting price of 380,000 spirit stones."
With the appearance of three exotic attribute magic weapons—thunder, wind, and ice—the numbers displayed on the light screen jumped rapidly, and each of them broke through the high price of 400,000 to 500,000 spirit stones in a short period of time.
The fact that Qiyuan Studio took out three exotic attribute magic weapons at once showed that it was quite confident and probably had several master refiners sitting in town.
Then, the light and shadows on the light screen flickered, and a man in a black short shirt appeared. This man was half a head taller than ordinary people, with short, fiery red hair and a fierce appearance. At a glance, it could be seen that he was not a human cultivator but a half-demon.
The burly man opened a pair of emerald green eyes, coldly patted his storage bag, and released a cloud of several-foot-sized mist. When the black mist dissipated, three ten-foot-high iron cages appeared on the ground, and something seemed to be locked inside.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but be stunned and carefully looked at the three iron cages, which contained monsters that seemed human but were not.
