Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 1865: 1401: Pending Revision_2
Previously on Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan...
“One bottle of Healing Pills from the Realm of Human Immortality, priced today at one million ten thousand! Is there a higher bid from anyone?”
“One million five hundred thousand!” a frustrated Confucian cultivator called out.
Truthfully, this amount went a bit beyond the item's true worth.
“Two bottles!” Li Zhirui stayed composed. To him, Pills of the Human Immortal Rank meant little; had he not worried about attracting undue notice, he could have produced scores of superior elixirs from the Earth Immortal or Heavenly Immortal Ranks with ease.
Suddenly, the entire hall went deathly still, silent enough to hear a needle fall!
Shelling out more than two million for a Great Confucian’s handwritten work was wildly inflated, so no one dared challenge his bid.
“Any other bids for a higher amount?”
A brief pause followed, then only the sound of the gavel striking as the deal concluded.
Plenty of attendees shot Li Zhirui odd looks—filled with envy, shock, or deeming him an idiot.
Yet he paid none of it any mind!
Perhaps to the crowd, he seemed like a complete spendthrift with that exorbitant offer.
From Li Zhirui’s perspective, though, trading just two bottles of straightforward Human Immortality Realm Pills for an item that aided his cultivation was an absolute steal!
Thus, he sat there unruffled, shrugging off the stares around him, utterly at peace inside!
None of the later auction pieces caught his interest, so Li Zhirui refrained from bidding and simply observed quietly.
“Now, introducing the final three treasures up for bid today!”
The auctioneer’s voice brimmed with thrill, hinting at the remarkable items to come.
“First up, the military treatise ‘Martial Arts Book’ authored by Wei Wu, personal student of the Military Saint… but merely a fragment!”
He had built up tremendous anticipation; after all, the Saints from the Human Dao Hundred Schools wield strength rivaling that of Heavenly Immortal Cultivators!
True, they lack eternal life, yet they endure eternally within the Human Dao Intent, their awareness intact—isn’t that immortality in its own right?
Still, the chief limitation lies in their difficulty escaping the Human Dao Intent, which serves as both shield and cage.
However, the moment his words landed, the buzzing excitement collapsed flat.
Even coming from a Military Saint’s prized apprentice, being only a fragment slashed its worth sharply.
That said, honestly, without that flaw, the auction house wouldn’t have offered it up. Why not study it in-house instead?
All the same, this lot’s importance remained immense, particularly for the Military Family—a rare shot to recover a piece from their Saint’s heir, too precious to ignore.
Early on, rivals vied against them, but with bids soaring wildly and the Military Family’s fierce resolve on display, others backed off.
These rough warriors, these fierce combatants, ignored all pleas; they’d resort to force without hesitation.
In the end, they claimed it for a sum just edging past its fair market!
“For the second item, a heritage from an extinct philosophical lineage! Called the Heavenly Phenomena School! At its heart, it teaches…”
Heavenly Phenomena School?
Confusion spread across many faces at the unfamiliar name, leaving them puzzled.
Yet once the explanation of its central tenets unfolded, clarity dawned: it mirrored the Feng Shui School and Terrain School within the Hundred Schools, both adept at altering fortunes.
Unlike those enduring lineages, though, the Heavenly Phenomena School had faded into oblivion long ago, only recently rediscovered by the merchants through this legacy.
Eagerness gripped the crowd, for reviving such a school would etch their names indelibly into the annals of history!
To the bulk of followers unable to reach Saint-level mastery, this stood as the ultimate achievement.
After all, numerous Hundred Schools practitioners opt for deification in the afterlife,
“And the final treasure: the technique to found a Human Dao Empire!… though just a fragment.”
Back in the day, ways to build a Human Dao Empire weren’t scarce or secret, given the rise of countless such dynasties from Daqian.
Yet after Human Dao shifted to the Southern Domain, free from territorial clashes with Immortal Tao, the ruling powers—Daqian, Great Zhou, and Great Xia—deliberately suppressed and eradicated all external copies.
The version the merchants labored to obtain turned out to be nothing more than a partial remnant.