Chapter 4833 — Shocking the Entire Hall
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Inside Box Twelve, Steward Hao and Steward Jin now wore faces as black as the bottom of a cauldron. Recalling all their sneering and mockery of Old Chai, they wished the ground would swallow them whole. They had imagined the man was being unreasonable and shameless—when in truth he had simply been looking at the two of them as idiots all along!
"Next, the second lot from the Hong Clan Merchant Guild: a seventh-rank Great Return Pill, upper-grade quality, starting price one million eight hundred thousand spirit jade," the white-bearded elder announced.
The hall erupted once more. The Hong Clan Merchant Guild had to be doing this on purpose—no sooner had it used a set of top-grade Gestation Qi Golden Pills to slap the Grand Gates Guild in the face than it turned right around and began slapping the Wantong Grand Gathering!
Everyone knew that the Wantong Grand Gathering's seventh-rank Great Return Pill had carried no mention of quality whatsoever. By the unwritten rules of the auction, that meant ordinary quality—not even equal to middling, to say nothing of this upper-grade seventh-rank Great Return Pill of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild's.
Wei Zhao shook his head slightly. He had meant to aim for top-grade quality, but alas, at the level of seventh-rank pills, even the Divine Farmer Cauldron could not guarantee top-grade as it once had. After several attempts at refining, precious few top-grade pills had emerged—proof of just how rare such things were. It took not only peerless pill-refining materials but also no small measure of good fortune.
The set of top-grade Gestation Qi Golden Pills had already been astonishing enough; now an upper-grade seventh-rank Great Return Pill was put up, and not only the crowd on the floor but even the private boxes broke into various stirs and murmurs.
Both could restore the wounds and true essence of a cultivator in the Profound Ascension stage, yet between ordinary quality and upper-grade quality the difference in recovery speed was immense—a full day for ordinary quality, but only an hour for upper-grade!
Under ordinary circumstances the difference hardly showed, but once a life-or-death moment truly arrived, the gap between one hour and one day might well be the gap between life and death. This was a genuine second life!
In the end, after a fierce contest, this upper-grade seventh-rank Great Return Pill sold for the astronomical sum of six million eight hundred thousand spirit jade, once again falling into Box Two's hands.
With only two lots, the Hong Clan Merchant Guild's total had already reached a heaven-defying twelve million three hundred thousand spirit jade, leaving every other guild far behind. Even the Wantong Grand Gathering could not come close. The question of who would be the Morning Star Academy's sole supplier from this day forth was no longer in doubt.
After those first two lots, there was no need for the host to say a word—the appetite of everyone in the hall had already been whetted. After all, the first two had been top-grade Gestation Qi Golden Pills and an upper-grade seventh-rank Great Return Pill. Even if the third lot could hardly be better, it surely would not be much worse?
"Ladies and gentlemen, the third lot from the Hong Clan Merchant Guild: seventh-rank Beauty Pill!" Before the white-bearded elder had even finished speaking, the hall erupted in a heaven-piercing chorus of shrieks from the women. At the words "Beauty Pill," whether the ordinary female cultivators below or the lofty female figures in the VIP boxes—every woman there went utterly wild!