Chapter 122: Three Items
The final price for the robe was a total of 42.000 spirit stones!
Fengyu couldn’t believe it for a long time... his guesses in the past were true - low-level robes are sold en masse, but such robes cost many times more than that!
The most shocking was that it was actually already above the price of a Foundation Building pill!
Only after a moment’s thought did he know why people valued it so highly...
Those that could afford it would naturally have already bought the pill, or maybe they’re not in need of the pill, only wishing to survive and figure out the cost later.
After the pill came a formation, also near second stage.
"The bidding starts at 10.000 spirit stones, and each bid has to be at least 2.500 spirit stones higher!" the auctioneer said, raising the minimum bid.
No one even had the time to complain before the first bids came in -
"15.000!"
"20.000 spirit stones!"
"22.500 spirit stones!"
Bids came in one after another, rising rapidly.
This time Fengyu wasn’t surprised - after all, a formation was just like that. It probably had the effect of five or six robes, but this effect was spread across the whole field, so it was weaker in the end. Regardless, it didn’t diminish its worth but increased it!
What did confuse Fengyu though was that most bidders didn’t seem to be farmers, at least they didn’t look like that -
Just as he thought so, he saw Co Fei also bid!
"35.000 spirit stones!" she called out, determination on her face.
Fengyu was surprised and asked, "Fellow daoist, aren’t you living in the city? Why the need to purchase a formation?"
"Haha, fellow daoist, it seems you haven’t been told. Every time the Beast Tide invades, it mainly attacks the north and secondly the east. Those beasts that attack the fields are actually only a part of those that were able to sneak through.
Rather than saying the fields fight the beasts, it’s better to say that the fields filter out a part of them, while the rest... enters the city!
The Eastern Gate is the second filter, but it only blocks beasts of the third stage and above!
That way, those first and second stage beasts... all attack the courtyards and shops in the whole east!" Co Fei explained while looking at the platform, waiting for a moment to bid.
"Is that why you need the formation? But, doesn’t the courtyard have a formation already?"
"That’s the courtyard, but the shops don’t have any formation. The city has a policy that all shops have to take care of themselves!" Co Fei explained further about the rules of the city -
Those that lost their store would have a restriction on renting any store for ten years, while those that successfully defended would have rent exemptions for ten years!
Fengyu was surprised and only now did he understand the need for the shops and courtyards in the east to have a neighbourhood gathering like them - didn’t all those shops also need to protect themselves?
Thinking of the shops on this hill, he also understood that these fields had an advantage when placing a shop here even when the income was less.
The one who finally bought the formation was actually Co Fei, greatly surprising Fengyu, because the price was a full 120.000 spirit stones!
When he asked, she told him that this wasn’t an issue, because during the Beast Tide, many cultivators would leave their courtyards with weak formations and instead enter restaurants and tea houses for protection, paying spirit stones for their stay.
Her restaurant had space for fifty to a hundred cultivators, as long as she planned it well, she could easily protect all these cultivators without an issue!
Fengyu admired such a person, for she had taken a risk. Who says there would be so many cultivators entering her place? This was a gamble on profit, but the loss wouldn’t be too bad.
Tax exemption for ten years... that was probably more than 100.000 spirit stones, if the tax was anything similar to his own tax! The formation was basically just an upfront pay of rent.
The third item came up, a set of talismans ranging from attack to defense and even two auxiliary. It was a full set perfectly fit for the Beast Tide, targeting the weaker cultivators presiding in the fields.
The final price was at 27.000 spirit stones, since they were also all at the near second stage.
It can be seen from this that talismans are mass ware. Even if their grade was so high, they could only achieve this price because it was ten talismans in a perfect set.
Though it seems the talisman master behind this knew of this issue, so there were five of these sets - the average price at the end was 25.000 spirit stones, his income no less than the formation master!
The fourth item surprised Fengyu a bit, for it was... an Elixir!
"As everyone knows, elixirs are products made by Spiritual Doctors, they’re the best healing items! This is a Seven Bones Five Organs Recovery Elixir - as the name says, it can actually recover seven bones and five organs after taking it!
Whatever injury you gain, taking this elixir will directly pull you out of the doorstep of death!
In addition, the Spiritual Doctor also said that whoever bought it would be allowed to directly visit the Spiritual Doctor after the Beast Tide!" the middle-aged auctioneer said the last part slowly, causing all the cultivators present to be shocked!
They didn’t even hesitate and started bidding right away, before the auctioneer even announced the bidding price -
15.000...
20.000...
40.000...
The price rose rapidly in just a few moments.
Co Fei was also excited, but when she looked over to the table, she saw that none of them were excited, their reaction rather mild.
She asked, "Fellow daoists, this is a great opportunity! Don’t you want to bid for it? Even if the price might be high, its worth is definitely no less than that of the formation!"
"Oh, I’m a Spiritual Doctor too. What’s the use of this elixir? I can achieve the effect too..." he didn’t mention that he would need at least a week to achieve this effect... but so what? He couldn’t afford the elixir anyways, so there was no need to be excited about it.