Chapter 125: Falling Short
Xu exhaled a cloudy breath, and he tried to calm himself down.
He had been so desperate for the bowl that he thought he would be able to bid on.
However, he never expected that the duck that finally arrived in his mouth would fly away.
"Who the hell is in that room now?"
Xu Jingtian wanted to know which member of the royal family was snatching the big bowl with him now.
He hurriedly called one of his companions and asked him to ask who was in that room now.
After a while, the companion came back and told him, "Brother Xu, I have already inquired, and now in that room is the eldest princess Wan Qingqing, and there is a young man, and that young man's name is Zao Wou-ki!"
"What?"
After hearing the news, Xu exclaimed.
"What a couple, enough for men and women!"
Xu was shocked and his lungs exploded, and his teeth itched with hatred for Zao Wou-Ki and Wan Qingqing in his heart.
His mood became very depressed, and he wanted to break Zao Wou-Ki and Wan Qingqing into pieces.
After a while, Xu Jingtian couldn't sit still, he walked out of the hall and returned to his residence.
As he was leaving, he looked at the room where Zao Wou-Ki and Wan Qingqing were now, and a thick killing intent flashed.
Next, the host of the Zijin auction continued to auction other lots, but Zao Wou-Ki didn't make a move, and he had no interest in those lots.
What was now placed in front of him was the big bowl he had snatched before, and when his divine sense entered the inside of the big bowl, he sensed that there was a strong fire attribute power inside.
"Zao Wou-ki, is there anything wonderful about this big bowl? I know that you paid 50 million gold coins to grab it?"
Wan Qingqing on the side asked curiously.
Zhao Wuji said: "Princess, there is a strong fire attribute power in this big bowl, as long as I extract the fire attribute power in it, then I can refine the pill or forge the spirit weapon anytime and anywhere!"
"I see!"
Wan Qingqing felt that she understood the role of the big bowl, so she didn't check the big bowl.
She didn't like refining pills, nor did she like forging spiritual weapons.
She felt that refining the elixir was too much work, and forging a spirit weapon would make her skin dark and not slippery.
Zao Wou-Ki's divine sense entered the big bowl and he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was really a sun essence fire inside the magic circle inside.
"It's a pity that this bowl can't fit in a storage ring!
Yi Zhen had told him that some treasures with spatial circles inside could not be placed in storage rings, but they could be placed in treasures with multiple spaces.
Of course, under normal circumstances, a treasure with multiple dimensions is at least an artifact grade.
Soon, it was finally time for the sunflower seed auction.
The host standing on the high platform said loudly: "Everyone, we are going to auction off an elixir now, this elixir is called Xiangyang Sunflower Seed, which is an elixir that can expel the power of the Yin and Cold attributes in the body. The number of sunflower seeds we are auctioning here is 10 catties, and the total auction price is 5 million gold coins!
After Zao Wou-Ki heard this, he immediately made a bid.
"I'll give you six million gold coins!"
The people in the audience quickly noticed that the person who was bidding now was the local tyrant who had made the bold bid before, and they immediately became interested, and they were eager to see if there was anyone who wanted to bid and Zhao Wou-Ki now.
But there was silence for a while, and no one made a bid.
"Everyone, is there anyone else bidding? I'll count one, two, three, and make a deal! Congratulations to this friend, these ten catties of sunflower seeds are yours!"
The host said excitedly.
He originally thought that this sunflower seed might be auctioned, but he didn't expect that the ten catties of sunflower seeds would still be sold.
Wan Qingqing was a little puzzled and asked, "Zao Wou-ki, what do you want ten catties of sunflower seeds for?"
Zhao Wou-Ki smiled faintly and said: "Princess, I want to fry these ten catties of sunflower seeds as melon seeds, and after they are fried, I will eat them all into my stomach! You don't know that this sunflower seeds have a benefit, in addition to being very delicious, it can also help me expel the cold breath in my body!"
"Oh!"
As soon as Wan Qingqing thought about it, he felt that Zhao Wuji was most likely using this sunflower seed to get rid of the cold aura in his body.
After finally getting the sunflower seeds, Zao Wou-Ki said goodbye to the princess, and then hurried back to his residence.
"Great, I can finally absorb, refine, and devour the power of the light attribute now!"
Zao Wou-Ki's heart was extremely excited, and he soon entered a state of retreat.
Time flies by like flowing water.
At the beginning, Zao Wou-Ki didn't sense the changes that the light attribute power brought to him when it entered the Yuanhai Cave Heaven.
But as he devoured, absorbed, and refined more light attribute power, the more he could sense the changes in his physical body.
He could even perceive bursts of white streamers flashing from time to time on the surface of his body, and those white streamers moved around his body.
"The master said that the power of light attribute can quickly restore people's life essence, it seems to be true!"
He felt that after devouring, absorbing, and refining the power of the light attribute, his Yuan Sea had condensed a large number of life essences, and these life essences had increased his longevity a lot.
There are many ways to increase longevity, but no matter which method of increasing longevity, in the end, the essence of life will be condensed in the sea of living beings.
The more life essences in a living soul element sea, the more longevity it has.
Zhao Wou-Ki found that he now had an increase in the life essence of Yuan Hai, and he knew that this meant that his life essence had increased.
"That's a good thing!"
Zao Wou-Ki was overjoyed in his heart, and he hurriedly entered the cave with his divine sense, carefully inspecting every move inside the cave.
After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay, everything is normal in Dongtian!"
He was relieved to see that the various attribute forces in the cave were mixed together and there was no violent conflict.
He sat still, constantly running the method of moving the cave heaven taught by Yi Zhen.
Time passed little by little, until he could no longer devour, absorb, and refine any light attribute power, he knew that the light attribute power in the cave was enough.
He opened his eyes and let out a cloudy breath.
"Very good, I am now short of water attribute power, wind attribute power, dark attribute power, and thunder attribute power! It seems that I am going to get my hands on the Holy Snow Mist Lotus, Ten Thousand Year Blood Mushroom, Hyacinth, and Thunder Duckweed as soon as possible! Or, I can buy it at a high price!"
Zao Wou-Ki pondered for a while, then thought of a solution.
"Yes, I should have bought it at a high price! I'm the one who doesn't lack gold!"
At noon on the third day, Zao Wou-Ki came to the Zijin auction.
He didn't perform the Bone Change, and he didn't want to attract the attention of the masters of the Zijin Auction.
Seeing the middle-aged fat man again, Zao Wou-Ki said what he meant.
"I don't know what kind of purchase price you offered, Childe?"
"For each one, I need at least ten catties, and each catty is worth 500,000 gold coins!"
Zao Wou-Ki said.
"Childe, each of the four elixirs you want to buy has a minimum of five million gold coins! You want to buy four elixirs, and the total price is 20 million gold coins! And the intermediary fee for our auction is 20 percent, that is to say, you have to pay us the intermediary fee of 4 million gold coins, and you need to pay us a total of 24 million gold coins now!"
The middle-aged man thought about it in his heart, and then said to Zao Wou-ki.
"Okay, I'll pay 25 million gold coins for the Zijin auction now, and 1 million gold coins will be asked for you to send me a high-price purchase notice right away, I hope you can get all the elixirs as soon as possible!"
Zao Wou-Ki immediately took out twenty-five million gold coins from a storage ring and handed them to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man gasped when he heard this.
He had seen many rich people before, but none of those rich people were as generous as Zao Wou-Ki.
"What do you call Your Excellency?"
The middle-aged man asked.
"In Xia Zao Wou-ki, you gold members of the Zijin Auction! This is my gold membership card!"
Zao Wou-Ki took out the gold membership card he had obtained earlier and said to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man's eyes flashed, and he said: "Zhao Gongzi, it turns out that you are a gold member of our Zijin Auction, according to the regulations, we can only charge fifteen percent of the intermediary fee, so I can only charge you three million gold coins."
"I don't need you to give me a discount, the discount you give is a tip I give you, you do things according to your rules, the rest of the money is considered a tip for you, my request to you is to buy the four elixirs I said as soon as possible!"
The middle-aged man's face changed slightly, and he could only sigh that it was the first time he had seen a local tyrant like Zao Wou-ki.
"It's good to have money!"
He couldn't help but say with emotion in his heart.
After Zao Wou-Ki left, he hurriedly sent the news to all the auctions of the Eternal Kingdom that someone wanted to buy the four elixirs at a high price.
Three days later, all the auctions in the Eternal Kingdom knew that there was a local tyrant who wanted to buy the four elixirs at a high price.
Many people from other countries happen to have some elixirs on hand, so they sell their elixirs to local auctions.
The local auction carefully inspected and found no problems, so they sent the purchased elixir to the Zijin auction in the capital.
At the same time, the merchants of the auctions in various parts of the Ancient Kingdom did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to other countries to find the four elixirs.
Ten days later, Zao Wou-Ki learned from the middle-aged man that a businessman had asked Zao Wou-Ki for 10 million to buy the hyacinths in his hand.
Zao Wou-Ki learned from the middle-aged man that Hyacinth was about to become extinct, and he decisively agreed.
He returned to his residence with ten catties of hyacinths, and after two days and two nights of devouring, absorbing, and refining, he finally succeeded in making the wind attribute power in the cave reach a saturated state.
Although the price was much higher than what he had previously ordered, for Zao Wou-ki, he really did not lack gold coins.
Zhao Wuji originally thought that it would take him a long time to be able to saturate the various attribute powers in the cave.
But now that he was buying a large number of elixirs containing various attributes of power at a high price, he quickly obtained the elixir he wanted in a very short period of time.
Yi Zhen originally thought that Zao Wou-Ki would not be able to quickly obtain so many elixirs of different attribute powers in a short period of time, but since he let him get the Kalachakra Treasure Ding, he could easily earn a lot of gold coins.
With the money, he asked others to run errands for him, and he could also buy those elixirs at a high price.
As a result, he could now gather those elixirs with different attribute powers in a very short period of time.
"This Zao Wou-Ki is really rich, these forging masters are really rich!"
As the temporary controller of the Ziyi Guard, Wan Qingqing knew immediately that Zao Wou-Ki was going to buy those four elixirs at a high price.
"It seems that he should really lack those four elixirs!"
Wan Qingqing really wanted to give her master's thunderbolt duckweed to Zao Wou-Ki, but her master was unconscious now, and she didn't want to stimulate her master.
What's more, what if her master suddenly urgently needs thunderbolt duckweed to save his life?
She had no choice but to touch her nose and ask the middle-aged man to get the four elixirs for Zao Wou-Ki as soon as possible at all costs.
After a month passed, although Zhao Wuji had spent more than 50 million gold coins, he had successfully gathered all the other three elixirs except for the thunder and lightning duckweed, and had also successfully devoured, absorbed, and refined the attribute power of the other three elixirs, and now he lacked the thunder and lightning duckweed.
"Now only the princess's master's house has thunder and lightning duckweed!"
Zao Wou-Ki rubbed his temples, only feeling one head and two big.
The reason why Thunderbolt Duckweed can be purchased at a high price is because of the way it grows in the most special of all elixirs.
As long as the other elixirs are gathered in the right time and place, they can grow smoothly.
But in addition to the right time and place, the thunderbolt duckweed also needs to have a master who is good at using thunder and lightning to constantly 'irrigate' the thunder and lightning for it.
If it doesn't have a master of using lightning to 'irrigate' it every day, it will soon wither.
Even if there are masters who use thunder and lightning to 'irrigate' it in the future, it can only contain a very small amount of electric attribute power.
"Among the nine attribute powers, the electric attribute power is the most difficult to handle!"
Now, Zao Wou-Ki has no other choice, so he can only let Zijin Auction continue to buy lightning duckweed for him at a high price.
On the other hand, he is also trying to find other elixirs that contain a lot of electric attribute power.
But after he flipped through the classics, he found that here in the Xuanhuang Continent, only the special elixir of thunder and lightning duckweed could store the power of the electric attribute.
"I really didn't expect that there was a treasure mountain in front of me, but I had no way to enter the treasure mountain and take out the treasure inside!
Zao Wou-Ki's heart was depressed.
Although he really wanted to get the thunderbolt duckweed right away, he didn't have the courage to break into Wan Yiwen's residence.
He once used a glimpse of the world and his divine sense to explore Wan Yiwen's residence.
After he found out the situation of Wan Yiwen's residence, he gave up the idea of sneaking in.
It turned out that his divine sense had detected that there were at least eight cultivators in Wan Yiwen's residence, all of whom were masters of the Ning Dan realm protecting her, and those thunderbolt duckweed were in the protection range of those masters.
He knew very well that his current strength was not at all the opponent of those eight Ning Dan realm cultivation masters, and if he broke in, he would undoubtedly be sent to death.