SPMT : Chapter 94 Spirit Silk Cocoon

Zhao Jin’s gaze shifted to Xiao Fan, showing some appreciation. “Kid, did you pick this stone?”

Xiao Fan nodded. “Yes.”

“At such a young age, already at the second level of Qi Refining. Your future is limitless!” Zhao Jin remarked.

Xiao Fan smiled shyly.

Zhao Jin came and went quickly, leaving after obtaining the Spirit Silk Cocoon.

Ouyang Jing watched this scene, her heart pounding. Xiao Qingyan’s younger brother had actually befriended a Foundation Building cultivator and even gained more than ten spirit stones. What incredible luck! Thinking about those dozen or so spirit stones, Ouyang Jing felt a pang of jealousy.

“Father, what is a Spirit Silk Cocoon?” Xiao Fan asked.

“It’s just a cocoon?” Xiao Jingting replied. He didn’t know what a Spirit Silk Cocoon was either. However, judging from the senior’s reaction, it should be something good.

Ouyang Jinyue cast a disdainful glance at Xiao Fan and said, “You’re so ignorant you don’t even know what a Spirit Silk Cocoon is.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

“Who says I don’t know! A Spirit Silk Cocoon is just a cocoon! I already knew that.” Xiao Fan raised his head proudly.

Xiao Jingting: “…”

“Ignorance is truly frightening.” Ouyang Jinyue shook her head with a look of disdain. “A Spirit Silk Cocoon isn’t just any cocoon. It’s a cocoon nourished by spiritual medicines. The color of a Spirit Silk Cocoon’s body changes with the changes in its spiritual energy. The one you just saw is already purple, equivalent to a ninth-grade spiritual plant.”

Looking at Ouyang Jinyue, Xiao Fan admired, “You know so much!”

“Of course. My knowledge far surpasses your imagination,” Ouyang Jinyue said arrogantly.

With an awkward expression, Xiao Jingting admitted, “Well, I didn’t know either. I’m ignorant.”

“Who says I don’t know! I just didn’t see it clearly,” Xiao Fan retorted. Although he knew about Spirit Silk Cocoons, he had never seen one, so naturally, he couldn’t recognize it.

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

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

Xiao Fan nodded. “Yes! I’ve always been lucky.”

…

Xiao Fan’s gambling with a Spirit Silk Cocoon, selling it for over ten spirit stones, quickly reached Xu Mu’an’s ears.

“Back already?” Xu Mu’an asked.

Xiao Fan nodded. “Yes! Mother, I gambled with a Spirit Silk Cocoon today. I was going to roast it to eat, but someone wanted to buy it, so Father sold it.”

Xiao Dong looked at Xiao Fan with displeasure. “Eating, eating, eating. All you know is eating. Aren’t you afraid of choking?”

Feeling disheartened, Xiao Fan said, “I just wanted to think about it. It’s just one cocoon. Roasting one wouldn’t hurt, but if it’s sold, then it’s sold.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

“Jingting, the auction is in two days. We’ve received the admission tickets,” Xu Mu’an said.

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Okay, after attending the auction, let’s go to the Azure Peak Academy and rent a Fire Room. We’ll stay there for a while.”

After reaching Foundation Building, a cultivator’s heart will produce Foundation Fire, which can be used for alchemy. Qi Refining cultivators who want to refine pills can only rely on Fire Rooms.

Azure Peak Academy is built on a vein of fire. Many Qi Refining alchemists rent Fire Rooms at Azure Peak Academy. The rent is not cheap. For Azure Peak Academy, the rent for Fire Rooms is a considerable income. Xiao Fan’s gambling with spirit stones had attracted too much attention.

Although the Foundation Building cultivator left a message, there were always those desperate individuals who would be tempted by money. If their family arrived in Azure Peak Academy’s territory, it would invite more trouble. It was a good idea to lay low.

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Okay.”

“Haven’t eaten yet. Let’s go out for a meal,” Xiao Jingting said.

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Okay!”

“Xiao Xiong(Mister), congratulations! I heard you gambled with a Spirit Silk Cocoon. What good luck!” Ji Mu walked over.

Xiao Jingting smiled. “It wasn’t me who gambled; it was my son.”

Ji Mu envied him. “It’s different when your son gambles. You have good fortune!”

Xiao Jingting smiled. “Yes, indeed!”

Zhang Lingyu followed behind Ji Mu without saying a word.

Xu Mu’an looked at Zhang Lingyu’s somewhat tired face, her expression calm.

Zhang Lingyu looked at Xu Mu’an’s calm face and thought to herself, Xu Mu’an really knows how to play it cool. Although his son has won some good stuff in gambling, Xu Mu’an remains so composed. She must be secretly laughing inside.

Zhang Lingyu didn’t know that Xu Mu’an had long become numb to it. Many precious items gambled by Xiao Fan were simply thrown into the Spirit Spring to avoid attracting attention.

…

The auction came in a flash.

Xiao Fan bounced excitedly towards the direction of the auction.

“Little brother, are you also attending the auction?”

Seeing Ouyang Jinyue, Xiao Fan couldn’t help but furrow his brows. “I’m not a little brother; I’m a big brother.”

Ouyang Jinyue approached and compared their heights. “You… are far from it.”

Xiao Fan rolled up his sleeves. “That doesn’t count. Let’s compare who has thicker arms.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue disdainfully looked at Xiao Fan’s chubby arms. “You need to lose weight.”

Xiao Fan rolled down his sleeves. “Otherwise, let’s compare who is stronger.”

Ouyang Jinyue snorted. “I’m not going to compare with a little brute like you.”

Ouyang Jinyue turned around arrogantly and walked into the auction house.

Xiao Fan turned around and lowered his voice to Xiao Jingting. “Father, she can’t beat me; she ran away.”

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue had a special status and had a private room upstairs.

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

Xu Mu’an said to Xiao Jingting, “It seems several Foundation Building cultivators are here.”

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Yes!”

“Welcome, everyone, to this auction. Now, we present the first item of the auction: a Foundation Building flying spirit tiger.”

A seven to eight-meter-long flying spirit tiger was brought up. Although it had no breath left, the residual pressure within its flesh and blood made people extremely uncomfortable.

“This flying spirit tiger only accepts spirit stone bids, starting at twenty spirit stones.”

As soon as the auctioneer’s voice fell, customers from the private rooms began to bid one after another, and the price quickly rose.

“I heard that the flesh and blood of a Foundation Building monster is equivalent to an extraordinary spiritual medicine,” Xu Mu’an said.

“Tiger skin, tiger bones, and monster cores are all valuable,” Xiao Jingting said. The auction house is really capable! They can even get their hands on a Foundation Building flying spirit tiger.

A cultivator in one of the private rooms bid one hundred and twenty spirit stones and took the monster’s body down.

Listening to the frantic bids, Xiao Jingting suddenly felt that his fifteen spirit stones were too few.

The items at the auction varied greatly. There was even a spiritual medicine for treating impotence. Xiao Jingting thought that such an item would not sell, but its price soared to fifty-eight thousand two hundred taels. Xiao Jingting could only sigh. Such drugs were in demand everywhere.

As the auction continued, bundles of ten sets of spiritual medicines were sold.

Sometimes, in order to deal with severely damaged spiritual medicines, the auction house would bundle and discount several types of spiritual herbs for sale. Sometimes, someone could find extremely precious spiritual medicines among the bundled herbs, but the probability was extremely low.

When the auction reached the sixth bundle of spiritual medicines, the voice of the Spirit Jade sounded in Xiao Jingting’s sea of consciousness.

“Blue Sky Star Seedlings can be refined into Cloud Sky Pills, which enhance spiritual power.” The recipe for a Cloud Sky Pill appeared in Xiao Jingting’s sea of consciousness. Xiao Jingting didn’t know how the Spirit Jade collected these recipes, but he had no doubt about their authenticity.

Without changing his expression, Xiao Jingting spent ten thousand two hundred silver to bid for this bundle of spiritual herbs.

After bidding for this bundle of spiritual herbs, Xiao Jingting spent fifty thousand taels and seventy thousand taels to bid for two pill furnaces respectively.

When the pill furnaces were brought over, Xiao Jingting heard a voice in the Spirit Jade’s space repeatedly shouting “second-grade pill furnace.”

Xiao Jingting silently put away the pill furnaces. Second-grade pill furnaces were also quite expensive!

The auction quickly reached its conclusion. The third to last and second to last items were both Foundation Building level magical artifacts, which were sold at sky-high prices by Foundation Building cultivators.

“Alright, I know everyone came here for this. Let us present the last item of today’s auction: Foundation Building Pill, starting at thirty spirit stones.”

Xiao Jingting frowned. In this world, cultivators need Foundation Building Pills to advance.

After reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining, a cultivator can live for at most one hundred and twenty years, and if they go out and fight, their lifespan will be greatly shortened. Foundation Building cultivators, on the other hand, can live for about two hundred years. Once they reach Foundation Building, their strength is far beyond that of a ninth level Qi Refining cultivator.

If a family produces a Foundation Building cultivator, the entire family’s strength will undergo earth-shaking changes. From this, one can see the preciousness of Foundation Building Pills.

The price of Foundation Building Pills rose to eleven hundred spirit stones before finally stopping.

The few people who bid last seemed to be struggling, and Xiao Jingting couldn’t help feeling a headache.

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

Xiao Jingting nodded. “Yes! But we don’t need to consider this for now.”

“You’re right!” To reach the ninth level of Qi Refining, who knows how long it will take? Xiao’s father is almost fifty and only at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Xiao Jingting squinted. Foundation Building Pills aren’t something you can buy just because you have money. Even if you do buy them, you’re not guaranteed to keep them. The person who bought the Foundation Building Pill just now probably attracted attention as soon as they walked out.

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

Xu Mu’an nodded. “Okay.”

…

“Little rascal, where are you going!” Xiao Fan encountered Ouyang Jinyue again when he went out.

“I’m going to refine pills!” Xiao Fan replied.

Ouyang Jinyue looked at Xiao Fan with suspicion. “You want to refine pills? Be careful not to burn your hair off.”

Xiao Fan’s face turned red. “I’m not that stupid.”

“Many people have lost everything from alchemy and ended up begging on the streets,” Ouyang Jinyue sighed lightly.

Xiao Jingting: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue was right. Alchemy’s success rate is very low. Those alchemists rely on countless spiritual herbs to barely manage it. If Xiao Jingting didn’t have the Spirit Jade space, he wouldn’t want to engage in such a money-burning activity.

With so many precious spiritual medicines in the Spirit Jade space and not enough backstage support, selling them all would attract too much attention, so he had to digest them himself.

“You’re begging!” Xiao Fan retorted.

Ouyang Jinyue threw a token to Xiao Fan. “Little rascal, if you can’t make it, you can come to the Hou Mansion and find me. I can protect you!”

Xiao Fan looked at Ouyang Jinyue with suspicion. “Can you really protect me?”

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

Xiao Fan: “…”

Ouyang Jinyue walked away with her entourage.

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

Xiao Fan blushed. “It’s okay.”