SPMT : Chapter 94 Spirit Silk Cocoon

Zhao Jin’s gaze turned to Xiao Xiaofan, seeming somewhat appreciative. “Little fellow, you picked this stone?”

Xiao Xiaofan nodded. “Yes!”

“At such a young age, already at the second layer of Qi Refining. Your future prospects are boundless!” Zhao Jin said.

Xiao Xiaofan smiled shyly.

Zhao Jin came quickly and left quickly. After obtaining the spirit medicine silkworm, he departed.

Ouyang Jing watched this scene, her heart pounding. Xiao Qingyan’s younger brother had actually connected with a Foundation Establishment cultivator and obtained over ten Spirit Stones – what incredible luck! Thinking about those dozen or so Spirit Stones, Ouyang Jing felt suffocated with jealousy.

Though the Marquis Manor was wealthy and powerful, it also had many people. Ouyang Jing’s father had low cultivation and no status in the manor. She was also a concubine’s daughter. Though they were both from the Marquis Manor, her treatment compared to Ouyang Jinyue’s was like heaven and earth.

“Daddy, what is a spirit medicine silkworm?” Xiao Xiaofan asked.

“It’s just a silkworm, right?” Xiao Jingting said. He didn’t know what a spirit medicine silkworm was either! But judging from that senior’s reaction, it should be something good.

Ouyang Jinyue glanced at Xiao Xiaofan with disdain. “You don’t even know what a spirit medicine silkworm is. You’re really stupid.”

Xiao Jingting: “…” Well, he didn’t know either. He was stupid too.

“Who says I don’t know! A spirit medicine silkworm is a silkworm! I already know!” Xiao Xiaofan said with his chest puffed out.

Xiao Jingting: “…”

“No culture, how scary.” Ouyang Jinyue shook her head with disgust. “Spirit medicine silkworms aren’t ordinary silkworms. Spirit medicine silkworms are silkworms that grow up eating spirit medicines. The color of a spirit medicine silkworm’s body changes according to the spiritual energy within it. That spirit silkworm just now was already purple, equivalent to a ninth-grade spirit plant.”

Xiao Xiaofan looked at Ouyang Jinyue with some admiration. “You know so much!”

“Of course! My knowledge far exceeds your imagination.” Ouyang Jinyue said proudly.

The Marquis Manor had countless books and records. Ouyang Jinyue had read extensively since childhood, and her knowledge was far beyond what ordinary children could compare to.

“But you just said the spirit silkworm wasn’t worth money. You lied to me!” Xiao Xiaofan complained.

Ouyang Jinyue stamped her foot. “That’s because I didn’t see clearly.” Though Ouyang Jinyue knew about spirit medicine silkworms, she had never seen one, so naturally couldn’t recognize it.

“Oh, you didn’t see clearly! You couldn’t recognize it, could you!”

“Who couldn’t recognize it! I just didn’t see clearly. Little ghost, you’re really lucky!” Ouyang Jinyue changed the subject.

Xiao Xiaofan nodded. “Yes! My luck has always been very good.”

…

News of Xiao Xiaofan gambling out a spirit silkworm and selling it for over ten Spirit Stones immediately reached Xu Mu’an’s ears.

“You’re back?” Xu Mu’an said.

Xiao Xiaofan nodded. “Yes! Mother-father, I gambled out a spirit silkworm today. I originally wanted to roast it to eat, but someone wanted to buy it, so Father sold it.”

Xiao Xiaodong looked at Xiao Xiaofan with annoyance. “Eat, eat, eat – all you think about is eating. Aren’t you afraid of choking?”

Xiao Xiaofan said somewhat dejectedly, “I was just thinking about it. It’s only one silkworm – roasting it wouldn’t be too much. But selling it is fine too.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

“Jingting, the auction is in two days. I’ve already obtained the admission certificate.” Xu Mu’an said.

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Good. After attending the auction, we’ll go to Bifeng Academy and rent an earth fire chamber to stay there for a while.”

After cultivators reached Foundation Establishment, their heart field would produce Foundation Fire, which could be used for pill refining. Qi Refining stage cultivators who wanted to refine pills could only rely on earth fire.

Bifeng Academy was built on a fire vein. Many Qi Refining stage alchemists would rent earth fire chambers at Bifeng Academy. The rental fees weren’t cheap, and the earth fire chamber rentals were quite a significant income for Bifeng Academy. Xiao Xiaofan gambling out Spirit Stones was too eye-catching.

Though that Foundation Establishment cultivator had left his word, there were always those desperate criminals who became greedy at the sight of money. If their family went to Bifeng Academy’s territory, it would make people more wary and they could avoid the limelight.

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Good.”

“Haven’t eaten yet, right? Let’s go out to eat.” Xiao Jingting said.

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Alright!”

“Brother Xiao, congratulations! I heard you gambled out a spirit medicine silkworm – what great luck!” Ji Mu came over.

Xiao Jingting smiled. “I didn’t gamble it out – my son did.”

Ji Mu said enviously, “Your son gambling it out is the same as you gambling it out, isn’t it? What good fortune!”

Xiao Jingting smiled. “Indeed, indeed!”

Zhang Lingyu followed behind Ji Mu without speaking.

Xu Mu’an looked at Zhang Lingyu’s somewhat haggard complexion with an indifferent expression.

Zhang Lingyu looked at Xu Mu’an’s calm face and thought: Xu Mu’an really knows how to put on an act. His son gambled out a rare stone, yet Xu Mu’an acts so composed – he must be laughing to death inside.

Zhang Lingyu didn’t know that Xu Mu’an had long become numb to it. Xiao Xiaofan had gambled out quite a few good things, but fearing they would attract attention, most had been thrown into the spirit spring without seeing light.

…

The auction arrived in a flash.

Xiao Xiaofan bounced and jumped toward the auction venue.

“Little brother, you’re also attending the auction!”

Seeing Ouyang Jinyue, Xiao Xiaofan couldn’t help but frown. “I’m not little brother – I’m big brother.”

Ouyang Jinyue stepped closer and compared heights with Xiao Xiaofan. “You… are far from it.”

Xiao Xiaofan rolled up his sleeves. “That doesn’t count. Let’s compare whose arms are thicker.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue looked at Xiao Xiaofan’s chubby arms with disgust. “You need to lose weight.”

Xiao Xiaofan rolled down his sleeves. “How about we compare who’s stronger?”

Ouyang Jinyue snorted lightly. “I won’t compete with a little bull like you.”

Ouyang Jinyue turned around and walked into the auction house with her head held high.

Xiao Xiaofan turned around and lowered his voice to say to Xiao Jingting, “Daddy, she couldn’t beat me, so she ran away.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Due to Ouyang Jinyue’s special status, she had a private box upstairs.

Xiao Jingting and Xu Mu’an sat down in the ordinary seats downstairs.

Xu Mu’an said to Xiao Jingting, “It seems several Foundation Establishment cultivators have come.”

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Yes!”

“Welcome everyone to this auction. Now we present the first auction item – a Foundation Establishment stage Flying Spirit Tiger.”

A Flying Spirit Tiger seven to eight meters long was brought up. The Flying Spirit Tiger had lost its vitality, but the residual spiritual pressure in its flesh and blood still made people very uncomfortable.

“This Flying Spirit Tiger only accepts Spirit Stone bids, starting price twenty Spirit Stones.”

As soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, customers in various private boxes began bidding, and the price rapidly soared.

“I heard that Foundation Establishment stage demon beast flesh and blood is equivalent to supreme spirit medicine.” Xu Mu’an said.

“Tiger skin, tiger bones, and demon beast inner cores are also good things!” Xiao Jingting said. The auction house really was capable – they could even get their hands on a Foundation Establishment stage Flying Spirit Tiger.

A cultivator in one private box bid one hundred twenty Spirit Stones and took down the demon beast corpse.

Hearing the crazy bidding, Xiao Jingting suddenly felt his fifteen Spirit Stones were really too few.

The auction items were varied – there was even spirit medicine specifically for treating impotence. Xiao Jingting originally thought that item wouldn’t sell, but who knew the spirit medicine’s price soared to fifty-eight thousand taels. Xiao Jingting could only sigh that aphrodisiacs were popular everywhere.

Next they auctioned bundled sales of ten groups of spirit medicines. A bundle of spirit medicines was placed on the stage.

Sometimes auctions would bundle several spirit herbs together at discount to dispose of spirit medicines with severely diminished medicinal effects. Occasionally, people could discover extremely precious spirit medicines in bundled sales, but the probability was extremely, extremely small.

When auctioning the sixth group of spirit medicines, Xiao Jingting’s consciousness heard the spirit jade’s voice again.

“Jade Sky Star, seedling. Can be refined into Cloud Sky Pills, which enhance soul power.” A Cloud Sky Pill formula appeared in Xiao Jingting’s consciousness. Xiao Jingting didn’t know how the jade pendant collected these formulas, but he didn’t doubt their authenticity at all.

Xiao Jingting calmly spent ten thousand taels of silver to bid on this bundle of spirit herbs.

After winning this bundle of spirit herbs, Xiao Jingting spent fifty thousand taels and seventy thousand taels respectively to bid on two pill furnaces.

When the pill furnaces were delivered, Xiao Jingting heard a voice in the jade pendant space constantly calling them inferior furnaces, inferior furnaces.

Xiao Jingting silently put the pill furnaces into his storage ring. Even inferior furnaces were expensive!

The auction quickly entered its final phase. The third-to-last and second-to-last items were both Foundation Establishment stage magical instruments, which were bought by Foundation Establishment cultivators at astronomical prices.

“Alright, I know everyone came for this today. We present today’s final item – a Foundation Establishment Pill, starting price thirty Spirit Stones.”

Xiao Jingting frowned. In this world, Foundation Establishment Pills were indispensable for cultivators wanting to reach Foundation Establishment.

No matter how well Qi Refining ninth layer cultivators took care of themselves, they could live at most one hundred twenty years. If they went out fighting and got injured, their lifespan would be greatly shortened. Foundation Establishment cultivators could generally live two hundred years, and once they reached Foundation Establishment, their strength was far beyond what Qi Refining ninth layer cultivators could compare to.

If a family produced one Foundation Establishment cultivator, the entire family’s strength would undergo earth-shaking changes. From this, the preciousness of Foundation Establishment Pills was evident.

The Foundation Establishment Pill’s price rose to one thousand one hundred Spirit Stones before finally stopping.

The final few bidders seemed somewhat exhausted, and Xiao Jingting couldn’t help feeling his head ache.

“Foundation Establishment Pills are really expensive!” Xu Mu’an couldn’t help but sigh.

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Yes! But we don’t need them yet, so we don’t need to consider this.”

“That’s true!” Who knew when they’d cultivate to Qi Refining ninth layer? Xiao Father was almost fifty and only at Qi Refining eighth layer.

Xiao Jingting squinted. Foundation Establishment Pills weren’t something you could buy just by having money, and even if you bought one, you might not be able to keep it. The person who just bought the Foundation Establishment Pill would probably be targeted as soon as he walked out.

Xiao Jingting stood up and said to Xu Mu’an, “Let’s go too.”

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Good.”

…

“Little ghost, where are you going!” When Xiao Xiaofan went out, he encountered Ouyang Jinyue again.

“I’m going to refine pills!” Xiao Xiaofan said.

Ouyang Jinyue looked at Xiao Xiaofan somewhat suspiciously. “You want to refine pills? Be careful not to burn off your hair.”

Xiao Xiaofan’s face reddened. “I’m not that stupid!”

“Many people have been ruined by pill refining and can only beg on the streets.” Ouyang Jinyue sighed lightly.

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue wasn’t wrong. It was said that pill refining success rates were very low, and alchemists all relied on piling up countless spirit herbs. If Xiao Jingting didn’t have the jade pendant space, he wouldn’t think of engaging in such an expensive activity.

With so many precious spirit medicines in the jade pendant space, and insufficient backing, selling them all would likely cause trouble, so he could only consume them himself.

“You’re the one who’ll be begging!” Xiao Xiaofan said angrily.

Ouyang Jinyue threw a token to Xiao Xiaofan. “Little ghost, if you can’t make it, you can come find me at the Marquis Manor. I can protect you!”

Xiao Xiaofan looked at Ouyang Jinyue suspiciously. “Can you really protect me?”

Ouyang Jinyue snorted lightly. “You really have no vision, asking such a stupid question.”

Xiao Xiaofan: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue left with her people in a grand manner.

Xu Mu’an looked at Xiao Xiaofan with surprise. “Xiaofan, you’re quite popular.”

Xiao Xiaofan blushed slightly. “It’s alright.”