All the divine senses released by the surrounding cultivators were devoured and digested by the Profound Water Northern Pole Banner.
Wu Tao gasped, his eyes filled with shock. He had never seen any treasure absorb his divine sense so effortlessly and so quickly.
What surprised Wu Tao even more was that the auction host also possessed a Core Formation stage cultivation.
It was an ironclad rule in the cultivation world that only Core Formation cultivators could use magical treasures.
The starting price for the Profound Water Northern Pole Banner was ten thousand spirit stones.
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Facing the Profound Water Northern Pole Banner, the number of people who could compete was even smaller, with only a handful of people bidding.
These were all Core Formation cultivators, each with deep pockets and considerable wealth.
In the end, the Profound Water Northern Pole Banner was sold at an exorbitant price of nineteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-five spirit stones.
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Thus, this underground transaction auction came to an end.
After purchasing several urgently needed magical artifacts and treasures from the underground black market, Wu Tao dutifully stayed in his cave dwelling for nearly a month.
On the other side.
After several years of discussion and bickering among the higher-ups of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the sect's specific rewards for disciples like Xu Sheng and Long Ao Potian, who had made significant contributions and survived the five-year war in the East Sea and Qingzhou, had been finalized.
Long Ao Potian received three thousand spirit stones, two bottles of Foundation Establishment stage elixirs to enhance spiritual power, and a top-grade gold-attribute shield. In addition, he could choose five items from the Foundation Establishment stage treasury on Qionghua Giant Peak, and he also had an opportunity to participate in an underwater secret realm.
Xu Sheng, who had also made considerable contributions, was rumored to receive even more generous rewards than Long Ao Potian.
Initially, Xu Sheng did not know what the Foundation Establishment stage treasury was. It was only later, upon hearing from some acquaintances, that he learned that each sect had its own treasuries as reserves for cultivation resources.
The Foundation Establishment stage treasury was one of the many reserve treasuries of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, but the items within were generally only useful for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Therefore, it was privately called the Foundation Establishment Treasury.
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The other rewards were personally delivered to Long Ao Potian by a fellow disciple.
The Foundation Establishment stage treasury was built halfway up Qionghua Giant Peak, demonstrating the sect's importance placed upon reserve treasuries.
Long Ao Potian presented the sect-issued token to the seven late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the treasury.
After a brief casual chat among them, they slowly led Long Ao Potian to the treasury's entrance.
The treasury was completely sealed and covered by layers of complex and terrifying restrictive formations. Long Ao Potian curiously probed with his divine sense, only to find it unpredictable and fraught with danger, nearly suffering a great loss.
After finally escaping the influence of the formations and shaking his somewhat dizzy head, Long Ao Potian noticed the seven late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators who had escorted him chanting different mysterious incantations.
Together, they unleashed powerful spiritual energy to jointly open the treasury's door.
Only Long Ao Potian was allowed to enter the treasury. As he stepped through the treasury entrance, an astonishing divine sense suddenly enveloped him.
Having experienced this situation several times before, Long Ao Potian sighed softly, thinking to himself, "As expected."
Long Ao Potian then bowed to the person hidden in the dark, correctly guessing that it was impossible for such an important treasury to be guarded by only a few Foundation Establishment cultivators; a Core Formation elder must surely be present.
As Long Ao Potian walked through the treasury, he was utterly stunned by the vast and numerous cultivation resources within!
You could never imagine how many good things a ruling power that had remained prosperous for over ten thousand years, dominating an entire region, could have in its treasury...
There were areas for ores, spirit herbs, elixirs, magical artifacts, talismans, formation plates, secret techniques, treasures, spirit beast eggs, manuals, spirit materials, and so on, all artificially demarcated.
Everything in the treasury opened Long Ao Potian's eyes and made him understand the profound heritage of a great sect like the Taiyi Immortal Sect, with its ten-thousand-year legacy.
Long Ao Potian walked around the treasury, unsure where to begin his selection.
Finally, after a while, Long Ao Potian calmed down, took a deep breath, and began to ponder in his heart what he needed most at the moment.
First, Long Ao Potian went to the area containing records of various rare and precious secret techniques and found a secret technique called "Spirit Burning Art" that could temporarily increase his divine sense by one-third.
Then, Long Ao Potian selected a three-thousand-year-old Soul Nurturing Wood from the spirit material area and picked up an auxiliary cultivation method in the manual area that could help improve the purity of his spiritual power.
Next, Long Ao Potian went to the magical artifact area and chose a very good instant-casting formation plate for trapping enemies, and in the elixir area, he found a bottle of "Eight-Pattern Spirit Treasure Pill," which could accelerate the growth and evolution of demon beasts.
Reluctantly leaving the treasury, Long Ao Potian registered the five selected rewards and underwent a thorough full-body inspection by the cultivators stationed outside the treasury before being allowed to leave.
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Xu Sheng's rewards included five thousand spirit stones, a bottle of elixir that offered a chance to break through to the Core Formation stage, and a broken ancient artifact.
In addition, he could spend one year cultivating in seclusion in the Taiyi Immortal Palace, a spiritual land within the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
Within the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the Taiyi Immortal Palace was a place only elders of the Core Formation stage and above could enter for cultivation. Da Feng Novel Network.
Night!
The main gate of the Taiyi Immortal Palace was wide open, appearing terrifyingly like a divine beast roaring towards the heavens with its gaping maw.
Since the establishment of the Taiyi Immortal Palace, its main gate had never been closed, always open day and night.
Like a whale absorbing water, the Taiyi Immortal Palace instantly absorbed more than half of the spiritual energy emanating from the giant spiritual脉 on the giant peak.
Every brick, every tree, every flower, and every blade of grass in the Taiyi Immortal Palace harbored hidden mysteries.
These elements were arranged in specific, profound orientations, enabling the spirit-gathering formation within the Taiyi Immortal Palace to achieve such strong absorption and circulation power.
It could gather the formless spiritual energy scattered in the air.
Looking at the entire Qingzhou region, the Taiyi Immortal Sect was situated to the north, while the Heavenly Demon Sect was to the south. The Taiyi Immortal Sect's location occupied a crucial strategic position, enjoying both celestial and terrestrial advantages.
Furthermore, through the expansion efforts of countless generations of predecessors of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, this advantage was maximized to its fullest, representing the human element.
With the advantage of celestial timing, terrestrial advantage, and human harmony, the spiritual energy concentration within the Taiyi Immortal Palace could be imagined.
Innumerable spiritual energies gathered, becoming dense and vast, and under the effect of the spirit-gathering formation, they converged into the Taiyi Immortal Palace.
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Every brick in the Taiyi Immortal Palace was made of thousand-year-old warm jade.
Warm jade was also divided into several grades, with its quality depending entirely on its color and spiritual energy content.
Low-grade hundred-year-old warm jade had a dark white luster, was as hard as a brick, contained many impurities, and had little spiritual energy, but it was only of the lowest grade.
Mid-grade thousand-year-old warm jade was much better, with a light white luster, soft as fine grease, few impurities, and a considerable amount of spiritual energy.
High-grade ten-thousand-year-old warm jade was soft and delicate, feeling as if it would flow away when held lightly in the hand, with a pure white luster, almost no impurities, and a very high concentration of spiritual energy.
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In addition, over a thousand pieces of high-grade spirit stones were buried beneath the Taiyi Immortal Palace.
In the cultivation world, one high-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, and one mid-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for one hundred low-grade spirit stones.
This was equivalent to over ten million low-grade spirit stones buried beneath the Taiyi Immortal Palace.
The excessive abundance of spiritual energy made any cultivator who entered feel clear-headed, refreshed, and invigorated with just one breath, which was highly beneficial.
This was truly an ideal cultivation place that all cultivators dreamed of and would go mad for.
Once cultivators reach a certain level, it becomes very difficult to improve their internal spiritual power through arduous self-cultivation alone. To break through bottlenecks or advance further, it would take an unknown amount of time.
Therefore, every cultivator would seek faster ways to increase their cultivation, such as consuming precious elixirs.
However, precious elixirs were priceless and not easily obtainable, not to mention prohibitively expensive, which was beyond the means of ordinary cultivators.
Cultivating in the Taiyi Immortal Palace was another method for rapid cultivation advancement.
Countless cultivators were seated in front of the Taiyi Immortal Palace plaza. Among these cultivators was a female cultivator wearing a white dress; this person was Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng was frantically absorbing the abundant spiritual energy within the Taiyi Immortal Palace.
With every breath, her chest rhythmically expanded and contracted. The dense spiritual energy, clearly visible in the plaza, was continuously inhaled by her and converted into pure spiritual power.
As time passed, faint wisps of spiritual energy, like clouds and mist, began to swirl and rise around Xu Sheng.
Entwined and attached to Xu Sheng's perfect body, making her entire person appear like an immortal.
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Although the number of cultivators in the cultivation world numbered in the billions, let alone the supreme cultivators of the Nascent Soul stage, even cultivators of the Purple Mansion stage were extremely rare.
After all, the path of cultivation and seeking the Dao was exceptionally arduous, coupled with factors such as personal aptitude, external resources, and many other issues.
The vast majority of ordinary cultivators were forced to withdraw in disappointment at the very beginning, unable to advance further in their lifetime and remaining stuck in the Qi Refining stage.
As for those with better aptitude, without resources, background, perseverance, wisdom, luck, and other advantages that other cultivators lacked, they could at most reach the Foundation Establishment stage and would never be able to break through to the Core Formation stage.
In the cultivation world, your power and status were closely related to your cultivation. If your cultivation was stronger than everyone else's, then you were the boss, you were an exalted being.
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