Chapter 4129 — Golden Core Pill
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
The Golden Core Pill, as its name suggests, is like the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill: once taken, it advances one by a full grade. The difference between the two, however, is that this one works upon Golden Core cultivators.
The rarity of the Golden Core Pill lies not only in how difficult a fifth-rank pill it is to refine, but even more in how hard its ingredients are to find. Chief and most essential among them is the Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruit.
Wei Zhao had three Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruits in his possession, but this thing was, after all, a fruit, ill-suited to long keeping; over time its medicinal potency was apt to leach away. So he had taken them and refined them into Golden Core Pills.
From three Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruits, five Golden Core Pills had finally been successfully produced—the greatest harvest Wei Zhao had reaped from his recent spell of pill refining.
"Young Hero Lin, a top-grade Golden Core Pill—this is a munificence without precedent!" Cai Zhongxuan at his side was only now learning for the first time that Wei Zhao had actually put such a thing up for auction, and could not help exclaiming in astonishment, clicking his tongue.
After all, even within their Five Elements Chamber of Commerce, such Golden Core Pills were good things fit to be kept as a treasure at the bottom of the chest—to say nothing of top-grade ones, which were a stroke of fortune one could not seek even if one wished for it!
"I was loath to part with it myself, but to make the Heavenly Pill Pavilion's name resound, I had no choice but to stake everything and risk it all. One cannot catch the wolf without risking the child," Wei Zhao replied with a bitter smile.
This was the honest truth. Seeing himself draw ever closer to his own attempt at the Golden Core, who would want to put a Golden Core Pill up for auction? To any normal person, that was simply folly.
Still, if a single top-grade Golden Core Pill could buy the Heavenly Pill Pavilion's meteoric rise, then it was no great loss. This time Wei Zhao had truly staked his lifeblood.
"Forty thousand spirit jade!" This contest over a top-grade Golden Core Pill was doomed from the outset to fall into the hands of some great personage in the Section A area. Everyone else could only look on with greedy eyes, for they simply did not command such capital.
"Fifty thousand spirit jade!"
"Seventy thousand spirit jade!"
"Ninety thousand spirit jade!"
For the earlier lots, even the technological products the Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce had put up, bids had climbed only by a few thousand at a time. Now that a top-grade Golden Core Pill had come up, the raises leapt straight to twenty thousand at a bound, setting the blood racing just to hear it.
In the blink of an eye the bidding, with irresistible momentum, broke through the hundred-thousand spirit jade mark—and was still climbing madly, desperately upward!
No one found it strange; it was only to be expected. Even a Golden Core Pill of the very worst quality would cost at least thirty thousand spirit jade at the Five Elements Chamber of Commerce—fifty thousand for a slightly better one, or even more.
And this top-grade Golden Core Pill, in the hands of a Golden Core cultivator of decent talent, might well, with a bit of luck, spur a breakthrough of a grade and a half outright, its success rate far surpassing that of ordinary quality. To snap it up for a hundred thousand spirit jade would already be a stroke of rare fortune.
Alas, this was the Central Island grand auction, and every person in the Section A area was deep of purse. If they truly set their eyes on something and got serious, a hundred thousand spirit jade was for them no more than an opening bid.