Zhou Xun mainly checked the attached auction list.

He skimmed through it hastily.

This time, the quality of the auction items had a significant gap compared to the previous one.

The main reason was that the last auction took place right after the end of Golden Cloud Valley.

With the treasures from Golden Cloud Valley as a foundation, the quality of the items naturally increased.

Though this time was slightly inferior,

items like top-grade spiritual artifacts, tier two talismans, Foundation Establishment Pill, Broken Mirror Pill.....

these treasures were still present in the auction list.

Zhou Xun continued reading, suddenly noticing a familiar name.

"Blue Spirit Lamp Flower!"

Wasn't this the tier two high-grade spirit medicine he once refined at Qingyue Square?

This was a top-grade spirit medicine capable of assisting spirit beasts in advancing to tier two, with a certain probability of enhancing their bloodline.

Although the likelihood of significant enhancement was not high, only a bit.

But exceptions existed.

The Sect Guardian Spirit Beast, Snow Moon Celestial Wolf, of the neighboring Yue Country's Purple Extreme Sect, was once just an ordinary middle-grade bloodline demon wolf.

When it was advancing to the second level, its master fed it a Blue Spirit Lamp Flower, remarkably leading to a bloodline mutation, reviving and manifesting a trace of True Spirit Celestial Wolf bloodline.

Subsequently, it successfully advanced to a tier three great demon, and now it has reached the tier three middle-grade level, a renowned existence in several nearby Cultivation Countries.

"I must get this spirit medicine!"

Zhou Xun thought of his Red Fire Simurgh spirit beast.

With an existence of high-grade extreme bloodline, if it could consume the Blue Spirit Lamp Flower, even a slight enhancement would elevate it to an earth-grade level.

This would be immensely beneficial for the future of the Red Fire Simurgh.

An earth-grade bloodline has a significant probability of advancing to tier three.

Among his three spirit beasts, the Profound Armor Armadillo with a mutated bloodline, was no less than an earth-grade, a promising great demon seed.

The Cyan Gold Dragon Carp, with a True Spirit Cyan Flood Dragon bloodline, an earth-grade extreme bloodline, reaching the great demon realm is a certainty in the future.

The Red Fire Simurgh, with a high-grade extreme bloodline, if it consumes the Blue Spirit Lamp Flower, its bloodline qualifications would advance to earth-grade, with a great likelihood of becoming a great demon in the future.

By then, with the presence of three great demon-level spirit beasts, few in the entire Eastern Wilderness Cultivation Realm would dare to provoke Zhou Xun.

Continuing to read, there were some fine treasures.

"Oh?"

"Golden Meteorite!"

"Profound Flame Sand!"

Zhou Xun was delighted upon seeing this.

He didn't expect to find these two treasures on the auction list.

These were precisely the auxiliary materials needed for cultivating the fifth layer of the Hundred Veins Body Refining Technique.

The "Muya Crystal" he had purchased in Fengyuan City was almost used up, with only a little bit left. If he couldn't buy new materials,

his body refining technique would once again fall into the extremely slow progress.

Transitioning from frugality to luxury is easy, but the reverse is hard.

He was accustomed to the original fast-paced advancement; slowly progressing again was intolerable to Zhou Xun.

However, both "Golden Meteorite" and "Profound Flame Sand" were extremely high-end materials, suitable for refining low-grade magical treasures.

Their value was naturally high.

He counted the spirit stones at hand, having just over fifty thousand spirit stones.

Nearly twenty thousand of these came from the years of revenue from Danhai Pavilion, and more than four thousand from Wei Qiuxin's contributions.

With fifty thousand spirit stones, purchasing the two treasures might still be challenging.

"It seems I'll need to ask the chief steward for a loan this time!"

Earlier, Feng Tingli brought news that Zhou Buqi wanted to see him.

Without thinking, Zhou Xun knew Zhou Buqi must inquire about his progress in advancing to a Tier Two High-Grade Alchemy Master.

They had previously settled the matter of breaking through to a Tier Two High-Grade Alchemist within twenty years.

The matter was of great importance; White Cloud Immortal City would satisfy some of Zhou Xun's reasonable requests.

Moreover, borrowing spirit stones was a trivial matter.

Over the years, Zhou Xun, although focused more on studying the Path of Array,

he had not neglected his alchemy technique.

According to his estimation, within three years at most, he would be able to advance smoothly to a Tier Two High-Grade Alchemist.

This was related to the support White Cloud Immortal City had provided over the years.

Tier two spirit medicines were extremely rare, requiring sufficient spirit medicine practice for fast improvement in alchemy technique.

With the continuous supply of spirit medicines from the Immortal City, Zhou Xun's alchemy level improved rapidly.

He had learned the refining methods of more than a dozen Tier Two Middle-Grade Spirit Pills.

Unfortunately, the Path of Talisman did not have such conditions, delaying its advancement significantly.

...

Time flew, and two months passed in the blink of an eye.

Wangchuan Lake, Lake Heart Island.

A streak of cyan spirit light soared into the sky, rushing toward the direction of White Cloud Immortal City.

In the spirit light were faintly two figures.

One was a young man in a cyan robe, handsome and graceful, warm like jade; the other was a young woman in a feather skirt, beautiful as a jade, with a graceful figure.

They were Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing, heading to White Cloud Immortal City for the once-a-decade auction.

This time, he specially brought Song Yiqing along.

Song Yiqing was eighteen years younger than Zhou Xun, now just thirty years old. Perhaps due to the effect of the Tier Two High-Grade Beauty Pill,

her appearance looked no different from a twenty-year-old woman,

regarding cultivation, she was now at the Peak of Fifth-Layer Qi Refining.

At this pace, she barely might reach the Peak Qi Refining before sixty, having one chance to attempt the Foundation Establishment Stage.

However, Zhou Xun had planned to gift her a Spirit Gathering Pill when she reached the Peak of Sixth-Layer Qi Refining.

Thereby breaking through to Late-Stage Qi Refining, and then leveraging his connections in White Cloud Immortal City to obtain a spot in the White Cloud Spirit Pool.

Approximately reaching the Eighth-Layer Qi Refining,

this way, she could save at least ten years of time.

Thus, she would have an additional chance for Foundation Establishment.

At that time, Zhou Xun would fully support her Foundation Establishment.

But if both chances failed, it would prove that she indeed had no fate with the Great Dao.

Their fate would end there.

Two Foundation Establishment opportunities were fair enough for her years of service!

...

Five days later, at the East City Gate of White Cloud Immortal City, a streak of cyan escape light landed.

"Back again,"

looking at the towering city walls in front.

After entering the city, Zhou Xun sent Song Yiqing back to the cave mansion at Golden Spring Lane.

While he headed to Danhai Pavilion.

"Disciple pays respect to Master!" Zhou Jingsong, along with his wife Shi Wanying, greeted Zhou Xun in the elegant room.

Having been married for two years, he became more composed, exuding a sense of steadiness.

He had started growing a beard, appearing to be in his thirties.

In contrast, Zhou Xun seemed untouched by the passage of time, appearing no more than in his early twenties.

Shi Wanying had her hair styled in an elegant updo, donned a palace skirt, assuming the role of the matron.

In her arms lay a seven to eight-month-old baby, with rosy lips and white teeth, whose features faintly resembled Shi Wanying's.

He was their eldest son with Zhou Jingsong.

"Is this your son? What's his name?" Zhou Xun carefully took him from Shi Wanying's arms.

Unexpectedly, he now belonged to the grandfather generation.

"He currently only has a nickname, Xiaobao; we ask Master to give him a proper name!"

Of course, this suggestion came from Zhou Jimin.

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