Chapter 292: Mutually Beneficial
After the sale of the Time Blade, Benton really didn’t have to worry about having enough money, not that he’d been all that concerned previously. The sword had gone for over ten million greater spirit coins. Ten million! Crazy!
Even after the auction house took its generous twenty percent, he’d still clear over eight million on the deal.
That sum was quite ridiculous. His spirit coin creation technique, since it was supplied by the System, was likely head and shoulders better than anything other cultivators had access to, and it would take him over thirty-six days working nonstop to make that many greater spirit coins. And it wasn’t just one person who’d valued his creation that highly. It had taken multiple bidders to get the total that high.
It was quite gratifying to have one’s work appreciated at that level.
For the rest of the auction, he barely paid any attention to how much he either bid or won. Much more important was what he won.
There were a total of twelve more lots of qi-rich materials. Of those, five were duplicates of categories he already had, some that he’d purchased that night. Three more were elements that he wasn’t nearly as interested in, a piece of Metal ore, a rank fourteen Illusion beast core, and a rank ten Wind aspected beast core. He bought them anyway just because he had the money and couldn’t think of a reason not to.
Benton still hadn’t one hundred percent decided to pursue creating a Lightning qi source, but when a rank eleven core of that element came up, he bought it, giving him two out of the three materials he needed.
The highlight of the end of the auction, in his mind, were the three materials he purchased that were on his initial list—a very weird looking ivy that was steeped in Shadow qi, a petrified rock filled with the Nature element, and a sparkly piece of quartz loaded with Momentum qi of all things.
He was almost positive that the auction manager had found that last one and included it just for Benton. It was good to be a Big Deal.
The acquisitions left him in really good shape, much better than he had figured on. Once he received the delivery of the Fire kernel from the Poison Claw Sect elder, he’d have everything he needed for four of the six qi sources with Ice, Nature, and Shadow being the other completed elements. All he had left to find was a Momentum aspected beast core and a plant packed with a bunch of Time qi.
And if he so chose, a rock that contained Lightning.
He couldn’t wait to get back to the sect and start crafting. The only thing stopping him from instantly teleporting back as soon as the auction ended was that he hadn’t actually received any of the merchandise he’d purchased. Or the surplus coins, but those were a much smaller consideration.