Xue Jinwen stopped talking. The two of them focused their eyes on the middle-aged cultivator on the stage. With a wave of his hand, a pale blue porcelain bottle appeared in the middle of the air. The bottle was very simple. Not the slightest bit looked special or expensive.

Meng Qi recognized that was the porcelain bottle for storing medicine that she bought at Cloud Immortal Pavilion. The cheapest one, ten first-grade spirit stones per bottle. Meng Qi’s spirit rose up. She had participated in auctions in Three Thousand Worlds before, and was wondering if the process would be different here.

The middle-aged cultivator said loudly: “The first lot from Profound Auction House today, twelve second realm Beiming pills.”

“Pfft…” As soon as his voice fell, someone laughed. There was not much irony in the laughter, as if it was just an instinctive reaction.

Xue Jinwen glanced in the direction of the voice, but could only hear the laughter of a young woman. Meng Qi sat indifferently, as if she had heard nothing.

The laugh seemed to have opened the jar, and soon other people followed. Many kinds of laughter spread endlessly. Although they didn’t contain much malice, the majority of the people who came to participate in today’s auction weren’t amateur on their first trip. Obviously, they felt that the style this time was a little different.

After a while, someone finally stopped laughing long enough to say, “This porcelain bottle with the Beiming pills…is it the one Cloud Immortal Pavilion sell for ten first realm spirit stones?”

The voice of the young male cultivator had just fell, and an even bigger wave of laughter instantly exploded. The auction sites of Beyond The Heaven, even the lowest-level Profound Auction House, never auctioning ordinary goods. These people actually knew it. But twelve second realm Beiming pills, inside the cheapest porcelain bottle… these cultivators who were so knowledgeable couldn’t imagine what kind of value did this thing have.

Another kind of medicine might still be okay, but it was Beiming pill! That was the pill that any medical cultivator of second rank and above could refine. Everyone here used the Beiming pill frequently, and they were all very familiar with it.

Especially the people from medical sects, even if they didn’t laugh out loudly, still couldn’t help to smile and shook their heads slightly.

The history of the Beiming pill was almost as old as the medical cultivation itself. Not long after its invention, its formula became widespread, and countless medical cultivators poured their effort to improve the formula for thousands of years.

The current Beiming pill was the improved version by a certain great predecessor from several thousands of years ago. Compared with the original formula, the speed of spiritual aura restoration was doubled.

If there was a possible improvement for the Beiming pill, it could only be the speed and amount of aura restoration. In the past thousands of years, new versions of Beiming pills occasionally appeared. The medicinal effects might be improved a little, but it was often because of the usage of more precious medicinal ingredients. However, that would also increase the price, but the efficacy improvement was limited, which ultimately wasn’t cost-effective.

Most of the medical cultivators did not laugh like the others. Almost all of them spent their entire life intensively researching medicine and medical art, and vaguely guessed that this Beiming pill that could appear in the Profound Auction House might be different.

However, most of them guessed that the pill used some kind of expensive medicinal herbs, just like the new versions Beiming pill that occasionally appeared. Using more precious, higher-grade ingredients would increase the efficacy of a medicine. But no matter what, it was still only a second realm.

Those elderly medical cultivators couldn’t help but shook their heads in a smile. People who did such cost-ineffective and heavy consuming methods were generally young medical cultivators.

There was a lot of laughter in the auction hall. Since the beginning of the Profound Auction House, there had never been such a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. After all, no one thought that Beyond The Heaven’s first auction lot today would be something like a second realm Beiming pill, which was more similar to a joke. Some even thought that this was a deliberate performance staged by the auction house.

Surrounded by laughter, the middle-aged cultivator, who was in charge of the auction, was standing unmoved. A faint smile was still bright on his face, and even his voice didn’t lose the initial calmness. “Twelve second realm Beiming pills. The starting price is fifty sixth-grade spirit stones.”

“Pfft…” Someone laughed again, “Fifty sixth-grade spirit stones? Pretty cheap. They seem to still have some self-awareness.”

Meng Qi glanced towards the place where the voice came. Did she set the price too low? Xue Jinwen had asked her before and suggested that she set the starting price to be at thirty to sixty sixth-grade spirit stones for twelve Beiming pills. Meng Qi chose the price to be fifty.

Still cheap? Indeed, there are so many rich cultivators in the world!

“If fellow Daoist purchase second realm Beiming pills from the Cloud Immortal Pavilion for fifty sixth-grade spirit stones, you can eat them as much as you can, and still cannot finish it for more than half a year.” Someone commented. His words incited another burst of laughter.

“The third realm Beiming pill only costs twenty third grade spirit stones.” Another person chimed in.

“It makes me a little curious. What is the difference between these Beiming pills with the usual one?” Someone quickly said: “Anyway, it’s cheap. I’ll take it back to try. Maybe they are as delicious as the legendary dragon liver and phoenix marrow. Fifty one sixth-grade spirit stones.”

Meng Qi: “…”

Even like this, some people really made a bid.

Meng Qi didn’t know that fifty sixth-grade spirit stones were nothing to the cultivators who could come here. Although the Profound Auction House was the lowest-level auction venue in Beyond The Heaven, after each auction, the money flowed in and out of the venue would amount to trillions if converted into the sixth-grade spirit stones. Fifty sixth-grade spirit stones, for the people here, might be worth less than a glass of spiritual wine they casually drank.

“Then…… I began with a fifty two sixth-grade spirit stones.”

“If you said that…… I also want to try. Fifty three!”

“Ah…… then fifty four!”

Everyone was laughing and joking. They added one sixth-grade spirit stone per bid and did not really take this auction seriously.

Meng Qi rested her chin with one hand. Her other hand’s slender and long fingers gently tapped the table.

Xue Jinwen glanced at her and reassured: “Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Wu will introduce your pill later.” She paused and explained: “This is the characteristic of Profound Auction House. The item in the lot will be showed up first, and everyone can make a pre-bid. If no more than three people are making the pre-bid, then the item will go to the highest bidder. After that, the auctioneer will give a full introduction about the lot.” She chuckled slightly: “There is a little bit of gambling in it, and sometimes this method is also used for the items that the price we temporarily hard to judge.”

Meng Qi silently nodded. In other words, if there was a treasure that the appraisers of Beyond The Heaven couldn’t recognize, and no one who participated in the auction also knew its worth, then the pre-bidder might get a great bargain.

Meng Qi held her cheek with one hand, quietly listening to people who were playfully raising the bid one by one and pushed the price to seventy sixth-grade spirit stones. The number of bidders has exceeded three people. Finally, the middle-aged cultivator who was in charge of the auction began to introduce the Beiming pill.

The scene was quiet for a moment. The middle-aged man named Wu cleared his throat and was about to speak when a clear and pleasant voice of a young man came from above: “Two hundred sixth-grade spirit stones.”

Everyone was in an uproar. The voice came from the high area, obviously a special guest invited by Beyond The Heaven. Was this Beiming pill really special?

But for a while, no one spoke again. Before, the price was increased by a single spirit stone. It wasn’t high. But the person just now directly raised the price to two hundred sixth-grade spirit stones, so the next price increase must be at least 300 sixth-grade spirit stones. In this way, the price would soon rise very high.

Meng Qi lifted her eyes in surprise. Others may not notice, and even Xue Jinwen did not show any response. But she heard it clearly, this voice…he was Su Junmo!

She was very familiar with his voice. In her previous life, Su Junmo was seriously wounded by the realm boundary and also being chased by killers from the Demon Realm. His injuries were very severe. Meng Qi spent nearly a month with him day and night. In order to save him, she pushed the limit of her ability at the third-rank peak medical cultivation at the time, fighting against death and forcibly took back his life.

During that one month, Su Junmo was mostly in a coma and only woke up some times. When he was awake, he didn’t like to talk, but became very noisy when half-unconscious. In particular, when he unable to maintain his human form and showed his original appearance as a five-tailed fox, Su Junmo became even more talkative. Many times, Meng Qi couldn’t bear the fox’s noisy chatter and wanted to gag his mouth.

So later, after Su Jun’s wounds were cured and he turned back into the proud and indifferent handsome young man, whenever Meng Qi saw him, she would only be reminded of that chattery white fox. The contrast was not cute, but…bringing her indescribable goosebumps.

—Every time she saw the proud face of the human Su Junmo, Meng Qi couldn’t help but think of the noisy appearance of the white fox Su Junmo. So she had no choice but to avoid him. Otherwise, she really couldn’t hold her laughter.

However, from Su Junmo’s mouth, Meng Qi learned a lot about the demon race. She knew that Su Junmo was part of nobility among the celestial demon. She also knew about the powerful boundary that separated the human and the Demon Realm. Su Junmo also spilled out some random bits and pieces about the Demon Realm. Before that, Meng Qi’s knowledge of the Demon Realm was simply recognition about a different race separated by a boundary enchantment from the place she lived in.

In short, Meng Qi was too familiar with Su Junmo’s voice. Even after she died once and reborn, she still recognized it at once.

The Profound Auction House was quiet once again. The middle-aged cultivator coughed a bit before opening his mouth: “The first lot is twelve Beiming pill, each one is imbued by a Beiming spell……”

Before he finished his words, the audience broke in an uproar!

“Beiming spell? Inside the Beiming pill?”

“Is he joking?!”

“This is Beyond the Heaven’s formal auction. There is no way they are joking.”

“How did the spell imbued?”

“How is the effect?”

“The Beiming spell that was put into the second realm Beiming pill, is it also a second realm?”

“The effect? What is the effect of imbuing Beiming spell into the Beiming pill?”

“Is it doubling the restored aura or shorten the time?”

“Are you sure you only have second realm pills?”

……

As soon as the words came out, the joking atmosphere was swept away. Those who were laughing just now, at this moment seriously wanted to buy this Beiming pill and brought it back for their own research. All the cultivators in the auction hall immediately turned serious, barraging dozens of questions at once.

The middle-aged cultivator was an expert who had presided so many auctions. He was standing on the stage with a smile on his face, calmly listening to the clamoring audiences. When the atmosphere had been hot enough, he slowly began to spoke again.

The auction hall used a special method. When people on the stage spoke, their voice would be transmitted to all rooms and reached the audiences’ ears clearly and unimpeded. “This second-rank Beiming pill imbued with Beiming spell can instantly restore a quarter of the spiritual energy of a Foundation Establishment cultivator…”

The audience clamored again. This time, no one bothered to ask further questions. The words ‘instant recovery’ alone were attractive enough.

“Three hundred and thirty sixth-grade spirit stones.” Someone immediately shouted a price.

“Five hundred sixth-grade spirit stones!” Another person quickly followed.

“Seven hundred sixth-grade spirit stones!”

“One seventh-grade spirit stone!”

The middle-aged cultivator smiled slightly and continued his sentence: “…after that, it will recover another quarter of aura for the next incense stick worth of time. Of course, these pills are just second realm Beiming pill, which is effective only until the Foundation Establishment stage. I’m afraid it won’t have much effect on the Golden Core cultivators.”

No one needed this reminder. All the cultivators here obviously understood this part. Even though the pill could restore half the spiritual aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it would probably only restore one-tenth of a Golden Core cultivator’s aura.

But so what!

Although pills that could instantly restore spiritual aura did exist in the Three Thousand Worlds, most of them were of high grade, which was difficult to refine and also needed more precious ingredients. The cost of such pills was so high that even the high-ranking members of the biggest sects in all Three Thousand Worlds weren’t willing to use them for daily use. Generally, those kinds of pills would only be used during sect war, or in times of great danger.

However, this was the Beiming pill. To put it simply, this was a pill that available widely and cheaply. The large sects absolutely would be willing to prepare hundreds or thousands of these pills for their direct disciples and elders.

“Two seventh-grade spirit stones.” Someone immediately raised the price.

“Three seventh-grade spirit stones.”

“Five seventh-grade spirit stones.”

……

Everyone had the same thoughts. Although this pill was only a second-realm, they still had to buy and carefully research it. Any sect who could produce a third or even higher realm of such Beiming pill would basically guarantee themselves an advantage in the war between sects for the next several decades.

Meng Qi had just sipped her tea a bit. In the blink of an eye, the price of her twelve Beiming pills was raised to twenty seventh-grade spirit stones!