Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

"The ownership of the spirit stone cave is sold to the guest at B10 for a price of 89 True Spirit stone," Yu Min announced to the crowd. 

The rest of the people sighed in disappointment that they did not get to acquire such an amazing item, but looked forward to the next item as it was the best in the auction.

Alex was also curious as to what the best item in the auction was going to be. If the second last item was a spirit stone cave, then what was the final one going to be?

Even though he was constantly being monitored by the man at D4 for some reason, he had given up on trying to worry about it. As long as the man with a possible cultivation base in the saint realm was looking at him, he doubted he was going to get free so easily. 

After the auction, he decided to confront the guy. 'There is a high chance I might end up dying, so I should send out my money as soon as I can,' he thought and started cautiously making gestures in the air. 

He made sure to not making it obvious that he was doing something as the man above was watching him. He quickly sent 40 True Spirit stones back to his bank account and kept the 26 True spirit stones for himself as he would need them to buy the armor. 

The final item of the auction appeared on the stage and Yu Min walked up to it. She stayed there for a few seconds letting the audience's expectations reach sky high and finally revealed the item. 

On the tray in front of Yu Min were a bunch of metal poles with cloth attached to the top.

'Formation flags?' Alex was a little surprised. He did not expect the item being auctioned off at the final was actually going to be a formation flag.

"These are the formation flags for the formation called Spirit Disorienting Formation. It's a True Rank formation that can be used to trap anyone inside of it."

"As long as the one being trapped is not in the Saint realm, you can trap anyone in it for a very long time."

"With a Mortal grade formation placement, you can trap someone for up to 2 days."

"With an Earth Grade formation placement, you can trap someone for up to 20 days." 

"With a Heaven grade formation placement, you can trap someone for up to 50 days." 

"The formation traps the enemies by disorienting them, and not letting them know where the exit is. It also spins the space inside from time to time to keep the enemies trapped for a long time."

"The instruction to the usage and setup is all written on this paper that you can acquire along with the formation flags."

"The price to start the formation is 2 True Spirit stone every time. So, the starting bid for the formation flags is 60 True Spirit stones and will only allow an increment of 1 True spirit stone at a minimum. Begin," Yu Min said. 

The people lost their cool as soon as the bids were allowed and before anyone could even comprehend what the other person was speaking, the bid jumped up to 80 True spirit stones. 

"81 True Spirit stones," someone bid. 

"82 True Spirit stones," another person bid. 

The bid continued and soon it had grown to 100 True spirit stones. There were still 10 or more people who kept on bidding on the formation flags. 

As things started to die down and the competition wasn't as intense anymore, someone else finally joined in on the fun.

"112 True Spirit stones," the Saint realm man from room D4 bid. 

"113 True Spirit stones," another man tried to bid, but he knew he was simply throwing a stone at the ocean, barely making a splash. 

"115 True spirit stones," the man bid. People couldn't help but wonder what the person did as a job to earn so much money. He had nearly spent over 1000 True spirit stones today alone. 

Even if he was rich, he was incredibly frivolous. Other people tried their hand at bidding once more, but that didn't work. 

They would be easily outbid by the man in a single second. In the end, a few tried to screw with him by giving him a higher price for the item, but he didn't back down. 

At some point, he simply stayed quiet. People started getting scared that they would have to pay the amount they had bid, but thankfully the man continued. 

Once people learned how easy it was to destroy their own lives by overbidding in exchange for a moment of happiness, they stopped. 

"140 True spirit stones," the man bid, still confident to take on anyone joining, but no one would bid anymore. They couldn't even bid even if they wanted to. 

Yu Min checked the atmosphere and asked, "Does anyone have a bid higher than 140?", but nobody answered. 

"140 True Spirit stones  going once."

"140 True Spirit stones going twice."

"140 True spirit stone going thrice. Sold." She hit the gavel. 

"The formation flags and instructions have been bought by the guest at room D4 for 140 True spirit stones," Yu Min declared. The staff arrived and took the trolley away. 

"This marks the end of the auction. Thank you all for coming and making this auction as successful as it was. For those that have bought or sold something today, please follow the staff to where they take you."

"As for everyone else, you may leave as you like. Thank you." Yu Min bowed to the crowd and the curtains closed in on her, hiding her away. 

"Please follow me dear guest," the staff member that was standing with Alex the entire time spoke and brought him along to a room down the hall on the outside of the auction hall. 

Even as he left, however, the spiritual sense of the man loomed over him, making him fear every single second of being here.