Ninth In the World

Another Heavenly Purple Lattice was placed inside the cauldron. This time, Di Jiu treated directly the pure medicinal liquid produced from the Heavenly Purple Lattice as well as the impurities. Instead, he chose to directly use his Alchemy Art, which contained that extraordinary law.

However, just as he was about to separate the Heavenly Purple Lattice medicinal liquid from its impurities, what he was intending to filter out disintegrated once again and disappeared.

The third herb, the fourth herb…

After his tenth failed attempt, Di Jiu threw all six remaining Heavenly Purple Lattices into the cauldron.

The different law aura within the Heavenly Purple Lattice had to be impossible to filter out if ordinary filtration methods were used. This time, his Spiritual Force took the form of a Jumbo Footprint the instant he separated the thing he wanted from the Heavenly Purple Lattice.

The Jumbo Footprint could be considered a technique close to becoming a spatial supernormal ability. Although it was formed by Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force, it was still successful in separating the impurities and the pure medicinal liquid within the Heavenly Purple Lattice. The medicinal liquid containing the extraordinary law aura, which was what Di Jiu wanted, was eventually slightly separated from the impurities and a light-gray medicinal liquid was produced.

When Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force landed on this light gray liquid, he had the misguided feeling that his Spiritual Force was coming alive. However, he sensed that something was amiss a moment later. This drop of liquid seemed to be disintegrating.

There was absolutely no way Di Jiu would allow such a thing to happen. Without hesitation, he consumed that drop of liquid before it could disintegrate.

Boom! The moment this drop of medicinal liquid entered his mouth, it felt like a bomb had landed in his Spiritual Sea, instantly expanding it.

He felt excruciating pain and was frightened out of his wits, as he almost thought that his Spiritual Sea was about to explode. At the moment, he did not dare let this medicinal liquid continue exploding in his Spiritual Sea. He hastily circulated the Spiritual Force Training Art, realizing immediately in shock that the durability of his Spiritual Sea was slowly increasing. Even his Spiritual Force was improving…

Di Jiu was elated that he had actually discovered a medicinal liquid that could help the cultivation of the Spiritual Sea by chance. He was aware that this medicinal liquid still had a lot of room for improvement and other ingredients would have to be used for its production. Once he was able to find these remaining ingredients, he would definitely be able to refine a new elixir that could help expand and strengthen one’s Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Force.

He could not accomplish such a feat now, as the auction was about to start. Once he left the Gigantic Tripod this time, he would have to create such an elixir.

Moreover, what he had done could not truly be considered a successful filtration. He needed to use a technique so that the light-gray liquid would not disintegrate after it was filtered out. Only if he could preserve it would he be able to research how to add it to the elixir.

He would just call it the ‘Grayish-Purple Lattice’ since it was filtered from the Heavenly Purple Lattice, could be used to expand and strengthen the Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Force, and was gray in color. The elixir produced in the future, if his experiment was successful, would be called the Lattice Spiritual Elixir.

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The biggest auction of the century in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City was about to start. The auction venue was at the Immortal Tripod Chamber of Commerce.

There were numerous Immortal Tripod Chamber of Commerce branches located in this plane. It was said that branches were present in all Four Major Immortal Continents, but the biggest branch was located in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City.

The square outside the Immortal Tripod Chamber of Commerce’s auction venue was currently filled with people.

The auction this time was extremely large in scale, and the price of the tickets was not cheap. Many tickets were available for purchase, but there were still some people who did not manage to secure one. Of course, some people did not wish to spend money to purchase one.

Many people were gathered on the square of the Immortal Tripod Chamber of Commerce, which was why this square was naturally transformed into a temporary market. Such markets in the Cultivation World were known as an Immortal Temple Coalition.

Cultivators who could not or did not want to enter the auction house could attain the items they needed at the Immortal Temple Coalition.

After leaving the Azure Immortal Inn, Di Jiu visited most of the shops selling immortal spiritual herbs in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City and single-handedly purchased almost all Heavenly Purple Lattices available in the entire Immortal City.

After doing so, he leisurely walked into the auction house with the crowd and arrived at his room, Unit E-307, which was located on the second floor.

The auction had yet to begin. Di Jiu used his Spiritual Force to scan the multi-story hall, for he suspected that there were at least several hundred thousand cultivators participating in this auction. The auction house most likely had made several hundred million Liberal Points simply by selling the auction tickets.

Di Jiu lamented this capital-less transaction.

The auction had yet to start. Hence, Di Jiu started to set up the restrictions of a Defense Array in his room.

Naturally, he would not allow anyone’s Spiritual Force to be able to scan his room. Di Jiu did not reveal his Array Dao’s skills excessively, as he set up a mere level-six Immortal Array.

To beat a level-six Immortal Array, a true Immortal Emperor would have to forcibly use their Spiritual Force to break open the restrictions if they wished to peek into the room.

Di Jiu believed that, during such a large-scale auction, even Xie Huang’s father would not have the guts to use his Spiritual Force to break open the restrictions.

After all, should such an act be committed, it would not be just an insult to Di Jiu but to the auction house itself.

It was unfortunate that the Defense Array of the auction house was so powerful. Otherwise, he would have set up a Teleportation Array and teleported out the instant the auction ended.

After setting up the restriction, Di Jiu closed his eyes and meditated while he started pondering how he could filter the pure Grayish-Purple Lattice.

He extracted a drop of Grayish-Purple Lattice using the Jumbo Footprint Spiritual Force technique, which proved that filtration of the Heavenly Purple Lattice could be accomplished using spatial law techniques. However, his Jumbo Footprint only touched superficially on the workings of the spatial laws. Besides, it was also an offensive supernormal ability that was, in fact, unsuitable for this sort of filtration…

Di Jiu suddenly thought that the Grayish-Purple Lattice was considered a type of law aura, as proven by that drop of Grayish-Purple Lattice he had filtered out. The Grayish-Purple Lattice was a medicinal liquid that was beneficial to one’s Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Force. Could this type of Grayish-Purple Lattice need to be filtered out using laws?

He did understand numerous basic Foundation Orders, yet those were the foundation for everything in the universe. These Foundation Orders were completely different from spatial laws.

It seemed that he had to first gain insight into spatial laws before he could obtain the purest form of, or even large amounts of, Grayish-Purple Lattice.

A clear voice interrupted Di Jiu’s thoughts. “I’m Xing Sui. The Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City and the auction house welcomes everyone and we promise that no one will be disappointed by the auction this time. In a while, you will see the rarest treasures and purchase the items most suitable for you…”

The auction had started, so Di Jiu stopped letting his thoughts wander. Instead, he looked at the circular platform located in the middle of the auction house.

Standing on the circular platform was a beautiful lady wearing a green dress. She seemed to be a late-stage Zenith Heaven Immortal.

“The auction items this time can be bought with high-grade immortal crystals, Liberal Points, and immortal spirit meridians. If you do not possess enough of these items, you could also request to pawn off an item. Once such a request is made, the auction house will determine the price of the item. Should anyone who bid at will be incapable of paying with items of equal value, they will be killed without any exceptions.” Xing Sui, who was wearing a green dress, spoke softly while delivering this threat.

There was no need for Xing Sui to remind the cultivators here, for they all knew the consequences. Only a fool would bid at will under normal circumstances.

“Now that all that is said and done, we are going to proceed with the first treasure, the Planetary Core Rock. The starting bid is 5,000 Liberal Points, and each bid must be higher than 100 Liberal Points. The bidding starts now.” With a wave of a hand, a dark red stone the size of a fist appeared and started floating above Xing Sui.

Di Jiu was astounded. Usually, the first item to be put up for auction would not be exceptionally valuable. However, the first item in this case was the Planetary Core Rock, evidently because there were simply too many quality items being auctioned this time. The list he had seen at the Azure Immortal Inn had been most likely only the tip of the iceberg.

The Planetary Core Rock was a treasure able to upgrade a low-level heavenly fire. In the past, Di Jiu would definitely have bid for it. Now, however, he did not, for it was useless to him. His Dao fire had consumed a Planetary Core Rock before, and the two flames he possessed had been upgraded to a very high level.

The bidding price on the gigantic bidding panel jumped exceedingly fast. In a few moments, the price had reached 11,000 Liberal Points.

At last, the Planetary Core Rock was sold for 13,000 Liberal Points. It was only when Di Jiu saw this selling price that he was able to fully comprehend just how ridiculous the selling price of his Starry Sky Tea had been.

Ten tea leaves had been sold at the price of one Planetary Core Rock. Furthermore, in the current market of the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City for Starry Sky Tea Leaves, one leaf cost 10,000 Liberal Points.

Of course, if one took into consideration that the Starry Sky Tea was refined by the Creation Cauldron, 10,000 Liberal Points was not such a high price.

He still owned several tens of thousands of Starry Sky Tea Leaves, yet he did not intend to sell them. In the future, if he refined the Starry Sky Tea again, it would not be the same. After all, he had promised the Creation Wood Branch that he would never again practice alchemy using the Creation Cauldron.

“Congratulations on obtaining the Planetary Core Rock. The next treasure up for auction is a supreme-grade immortal weapon called the Ultimate Cloud Auger. I do not need to elaborate further on how valuable a supreme-grade immortal weapon is, for I believe that you know better than I do. This also means that you will have more chances of survival than everyone else… The starting bid for the Ultimate Cloud Auger is 100,000 Liberal Points, and each bid must be higher than 5,000 Liberal Points…”