Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Seeing that the noise in the hall was getting louder and louder, Liu Quji had no choice but to step up to the front stage, his face stern as he called out loudly, "Quiet!"

As soon as these words came out, the crowd below instantly fell silent.

Seeing this, Liu Quji nodded with satisfaction, thinking to himself, "The Outer Object Hall truly deserves to be one of the core chambers of the sect. Even serving as a third-class deacon here is much better than being a manager outside. It was not in vain that I beseeched my Third Uncle for half a month before finally being assigned here."

Turning to step down from the high stage, Liu Quji quietly found his Third Uncle, Liu Fadeng, and whispered, "Third Uncle, why hasn't the auction started yet?"

"Everyone else isn't in a hurry, so why are you? The Ancestor has been delayed by some matter. They told you to wait a while; do you have an objection?"

Liu Fadeng, who had been meditating with closed eyes in the back hall, opened his eyes and reprimanded him.

Liu Fadeng was a first-class manager of the Outer Object Hall, with a cultivation at the Third Level of Foundation Establishment. At the same time, he and Liu Quji were both from the Denver Liu Family.

Beyond that, both were descendants of relatives of Master Qiong Shen.

Mhm, Master Qiong Shen was also from the Liu Family, the youngest of the three Golden Core Masters of the Liu Family.

Liu Quji got a fright and hastened to say he dared not have any objections.

Just then, a sudden scraping of chairs could be heard in the front hall.

Straight away, the two of them heard the crowd shouting in unison:

"The Shen Family of Southern Mountain... Wanyi Mountain Wan Family... Greetings to Master Qiong Shen... Greetings to True Spirit Ginseng! May the True Immortal live for a thousand years!"

"The Ancestor has arrived, let's hurry out," Liu Fadeng called out, then quickly ran towards the front hall, with Liu Quji following close behind.

But at this moment, they did not know what the representatives of the nine Cultivation Families in the front hall were feeling. They were truly shocked.

What had they seen?

They had witnessed with their own eyes that two unassuming cultivators had been accompanied personally into this place by two of the Golden Core Masters of the Elixir Cauldron Sect.

And apparently, the Masters' attitude was very approachable.

Was this still the style of the Elixir Cauldron Sect's Golden Core bigwigs?

The cultivators from these families could hardly believe their own eyes, and they looked at those two individuals with a mix of envy, jealousy... and hatred, wishing that they could be in their place!

By the time Liu Fadeng and his nephew arrived at the front hall, they too saw this scene.

The two of them looked at each other, speechless with both shock and uncertainty about what to say.

However, Liu Fadeng only hesitated for a moment before quickly rushing forward to kowtow and pay his respects to the Ancestor.

He then very respectfully accorded the same honors to True Spirit Ginseng.

Liu Quji was a little slower, but he also arrived in time to follow his uncle in paying respects.

"Enough. The auction can begin now."

After saying this, Master Qiong Shen took out a Crystal Ball as big as a human head and seven bronze tokens from his Storage Bag and passed them to Liu Fadeng.

After doing these things, Master Qiong Shen turned to True Spirit Ginseng and smiled, "Senior Brother, why don't we go to the back hall and let the younger generation handle the affairs here? What do you think?"

"Hmm," True Spirit Ginseng nodded. Then he turned to look at Zhao Sheng and the other person, instructing, "You two go take a seat first. Bid on any Spirit Vein you're interested in. If you're not prepared enough, you can ask this old man for help."

"Also..."

At this point, True Spirit Ginseng pondered for a moment before he couldn't help but ask, "Tell this old man, how many spirit worms do you have in your possession?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than Master Qiong Shen said, "Senior Brother, that's against the rules!"

True Spirit Ginseng laughed heartily, "Don't blame me, Junior Sister. I'm merely curious. Besides, my Sun Family and your Liu Family have been intermarried for thousands of years, with both great families being closely connected. It shouldn't be a problem to accommodate each other a little, right?"

Master Qiong Shen, upon hearing this, remained silent.

The Elixir Cauldron Sect comprised of "One Cauldron, Two Medicines, Four Great Elixirs," the seven great Cultivation Families.

The True Spirit Ginseng, originally named Sun Situi, was the Golden Core Ancestor of the Medicine King Sun Family, one of the Seven Great Families.

After thousands of years of intermarriages, the Seven Great Families of Elixir Cauldron had become intimately interwoven, their relationships both distant and exceptionally close.

Among the Seven Great Families, it was true that the Denver Liu Family was the closest to the Medicine King Sun Family.

This was one point that True Spirit Ginseng hadn't gotten wrong.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Sheng honestly said, "Junior has a nest of spirit earthworms in his spirit worm bag, but the number—"

"What? A whole nest!" the True Spirit Ginseng exclaimed in surprise, suddenly interrupting Zhao Sheng.

The next second, True Spirit Ginseng eagerly asked, "Do you have any of those giant Golden Ring Spirit Earthworms?"

Zhao Sheng recalled for a moment and responded with uncertainty, "There seems to be two that are over ten feet long."

"Give them to me!"

With that, True Spirit Ginseng, disregarding his status, unleashed his mana to form a giant golden palm, which he reached directly for the spirit worm bag at Zhao Sheng's waist.

However, no sooner had the giant palm flown halfway than it was shattered by a streak of blue light.

"Brother, you're losing your composure," Master Qiong Shen said, his expression stern as he rebuked.

True Spirit Ginseng's loss of composure was because the Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm was quite different from ordinary spirit earthworms.

Spirit earthworms are a species of asexually reproducing spiritual insects of not particularly high grade and without any formidable divine skills or superpowers.

It's only because the spirit soil they excrete can improve and enhance the soil quality that spirit worms are highly sought after by all cultivation forces.

It could be said that spirit earthworms are not uncommon in the Cultivation World, and their presence can be seen in the medicine fields of most cultivation sects.

However, spirit earthworms have the drawback of generational degradation; after many divisions, they degrade into ordinary earthworms, losing the ability to produce spirit soil.

This fact has proved highly troublesome for all cultivation forces.

Golden Ring Spirit Earthworms, as the aristocrats among spirit earthworms, have bloodlines closest to the Mountain Dragon.

Compared to ordinary spirit earthworms, they are much rarer but often can split into more generations.

But what's most critical is not this; it is that only Golden Ring Spirit Earthworms might evolve into Mountain Dragons.

Mountain Dragons are the kings of spirit earthworms, possessing the trait of near-immortality with extraordinarily tenacious life force, earning them the moniker of the "Water Bear Bug" of the Cultivation World.

If a Golden Core Master were to sign a Spirit Contract with a Mountain Dragon, not only would they acquire a powerful spirit pet, but more importantly, their life span would surge to two thousand years, in no way inferior to that of a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Although the chances of a Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm evolving into a Mountain Dragon are minuscule, what if... it actually happened!

Furthermore, the likelihood of turning into a dragon is directly proportional to the length of the spirit earthworm.

A Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm over ten feet long has a much higher chance of becoming a dragon, over a hundred times greater than that of an ordinary Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm.

Now it becomes clear why True Spirit Ginseng lost his composure.

At this moment, the cultivation families in the hall who saw the two True Immortals actually make a move over a young man were all shockingly bewildered.

But no matter how shocked they were in their hearts, it could not compare to that of Liu Quji.

Liu Quji, or rather Manager Liu, was by now almost regretting himself blue in the face.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Because he had recognized the identity of the young man—it was his "good brother" Zhao Sheng.

The participants of the Hundred-year Token auction were only a few families, and the other families were all natives of the Southern Border.

Zhao Sheng's accent was very similar to the residents of Pocket World City, and they were of a similar age.

If Liu Quji could not figure out Zhao Sheng's identity now, it would be an insult to his decades of experiences in Pocket World City.

"If only I had known earlier... Ah, the regret is unbearable!"

At that time, Liu Quji very much wanted to give himself a few hard slaps.