I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 813: Chapter 463: Auctioning the Foundation Building Pill Chapter 813: Chapter 463: Auctioning the Foundation Building Pill “Master, this is this year’s revenue.”

In Beiyuan Fang Market, Liu Wenbo who had rushed over handed a big bag of Spirit Stones to Chen Mobai.

This year, due to the addition of two more shops at the Snow-blowing Palace and owing to the war, Spirit Talismans were used on a large scale, thus totaling an income of 500 intermediate-grade Spirit Stones.

Plus the harvest of Fire Spirit Rice from Little Nan Mountain across two seasons, this year Chen Mobai had an income of 800 intermediate-grade Spirit Stones, almost catching up with his earnings from the battlefield this time.

Indeed, Rogue Cultivators can only get rich in the short term, while doing business is the way to a long-lasting wealth.

After praising his eldest disciple, Chen Mobai took stock of his own wealth.

24 top-grade Spirit Stones, 1,400 intermediate-grade Spirit Stones, and 36,000 low-grade Spirit Stones.

The top-grade Spirit Stones mainly came from the reward given by Elder Fu and the loot from killing two from the Xuan Xiao Dao Palace, along with his own savings.

Intermediate-grade Spirit Stones were the income from selling Spirit Rice and the revenue from the Little Nan Mountain Shop over the years, and after deducting the consumption for cultivating his Pure Yang Daoist Body, this much was still left.

The low-grade Spirit Stones were looted from the Storage Bags of a few enemies at the Shake Mountain Peak. As for those elixirs and ores that he didn’t need, he had Luo Yixuan sell them off at the Willow Mountain Fang Market, amounting to this number.

Unconsciously, Chen Mobai now found himself astonishingly wealthy, equaling nearly half a million if everything were converted into low-grade Spirit Stones.

Moreover, after taking down Shake Mountain Peak, he could also expand his Little Nan Mountain Shop into Rock Country and Sky Country, which means next year’s income could be even higher.

A rough estimate suggests that next year, from farming and the shops combined, he might make a profit of one hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

Having owned Turtle Treasure for many years, Chen Mobai finally had some achievements to show, firmly establishing himself as a capable trade merchant across two realms.

Now he had another dilemma.

How should he spend these Spirit Stones?

Although the Eastern Wilderness was considered resource-rich, many precious items could not be bought simply with Spirit Stones.

Among the Seven Great Factions of the East Desolate, at most, they would sell Rank-2 Spiritual Objects. Take the Divine Wood Sect as an example, Green Wood Evil or Rank-3 Spirit Talisman elixirs and the like would only be put on the shelves at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion after Chu Zuoshu or the two Elders had made a request.

In the Divine Wood Sect, aside from Green Wood Evil, only those Thousand-Year Medicine Herbs were of use to Chen Mobai.

And these Spiritual Medicines were such treasures that no matter how many Spirit Stones were offered, they would not be sold. They would only be used when Meng Hong achieved Core Formation or when the two Elders needed them for alchemy.

However, after offering the alchemy recipe for the Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill, the two Elders had already promised to use all resources at their disposal to help Chen Mobai with his Core Formation, so these Thousand-Year Herbs no longer held any appeal for him.

He’d ask when the Starry Sky Commerce Guild’s next sales event is scheduled!

Chen Mobai thought back to when he had wanted to buy that complete Fire in Stone but was short on funds. Now that he had the money, he wished to make up for that regret in his heart.

Although he later obtained the Fire in Stone seeds from Lou Xuelong through an exchange for Qingyang Fire Seeds, because his main effort was spent on raising his cultivation level, Divine Sense, and his Pure Yang Embodiment, he had sealed that seed in a Storage Bag and nearly forgotten about it.

He had some techniques that could elevate the Fire in Stone seeds to a complete Rank-2 Peak Spiritual Fire, but if he could just buy it with money, why waste the time?

Having money made Chen Mobai a bit inflated and less frugal.

He also remembered that there was to be an auction for Foundation Building Pills at Treasure Color Market. Since his father had recovered from his previous Foundation Establishment failure after years of recuperation, it would be an excellent opportunity to show his filial piety by obtaining a pill for him.

On this note, could he bid for all the Foundation Building Pills from the Nanxuan sect? Even if he didn’t need them, he could still thwart his competitors.

But if he really did that, it would essentially cut off the path for Loose Cultivators, and if his actions came to light, the Divine Wood Sect’s reputation among them would be tarnished.

Chen Mobai contemplated this for a moment and then suppressed the thought.

However, bidding for two pills wouldn’t be a problem.

He lacked confidence in Chen Xinglan’s chances for Foundation Establishment, and with two Foundation Building Pills as a guarantee, if it still failed, he wouldn’t let Chen Xinglan attempt it again.

Because each Foundation Establishment failure, although recoverable, also depleted one’s lifespan. This kind of failed transformation couldn’t be replenished with Lifespan Extension Elixirs.

Having decided, he acted.

Chen Mobai, disguised as Chen Xinglan, went to Treasure Color Market using his Formless Puppet.

The Nanxuan sect, eager to attract Cultivators, didn’t check one’s background at all. They merely required the reporting of one’s name and cultivation level and the payment of a certain amount of Spirit Stones to issue a residence permit.

After paying for a year, one would then be eligible to bid for Foundation Building Pills.

The timing of Chen Mobai’s Formless Puppet alternate identity was just right, allowing participation in next year’s auction at the end of the year.

This would be a perfect guise to observe the movements of the Nanxuan sect.

On this side, the Nanxuan sect had also established a few Spiritual Vein Cave Dwellings, but these were mostly kept for personal use.

The Cultivators in the Treasure Color Market lived outside of the market in hastily built wooden huts in areas where they found Spiritual Energy.

The Nanxuan sect didn’t intervene in these matters; due to the lack of planning, the area was disorganized and worse off than the poorest shanties of an Immortal Gate.

Moreover, this was a place of survival of the fittest, in line with the usual ways of the Eastern Wilderness. Qi Cultivators at the Ninth Layer monopolized locations with the strongest Spiritual Energy. The rest followed suit, each seizing homes from those weaker than themselves, according to the pecking order of cultivation levels.