Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 177

Darren familiarized himself with the strength he acquired from the bracers for a while, then he put them away with his armor into his Space Ring. As for the secret of the armor, it was still a mystery to him and he had to explore it more later.

Then, Darren watched the next few rounds of the auction and spent 30, 000 ink stones to buy two pills that he thought might be useful.

According to the auctioneer's introduction, the pill was called the Appearance-changing Pill, which meant that if a person consumed the pill, he would be able to completely alter his appearance. However, it had a tiny flaw—once the person swallowed the pill, he would never be able to revert back to his previous appearance.

Darren brought a lot of ink stones with him so he felt the urge to buy them. After all, they seemed very useful and he intended to give one to Bruce if he wanted to change his appearance and start a new life.

Several rounds passed. In the final round, the Primitive Stone was finally unveiled.

A girl walked on the central platform with a tray made of jade; on it was a stone about the size of a thumb. It was shining in purple and gold.

As soon as the Primitive Stone was presented on the platform, the auction hall grew noisy. It was seen that the buyers were very excited about it and some of them were absolutely determined to get their hands on it.

What exactly was the Primitive Stone? What power did it have? As for these questions, only a few buyers in the hall knew the right answers. The only thing most of them knew was that the Primitive Stone was a rare and precious treasure found in the Raksa Sea.

"Next, the precious and one of a kind Primitive Stone. Bidding starts at three million ink stones. Before the bidding, I'll tell you more about where the Primitive Stone came from and its known functions," the auctioneer introduced.

Upon hearing that, Darren also paid more attention to the auctioneer because getting the Primitive Stone was very important to him and it was a hard-won opportunity to know more about it.

"The Primitive Stone was retrieved by a superior talent with the surname Lin after he passed numerous perils. Due to some special requests, he had someone send it to us and entrusted us to sell it for him. As for its functions, Mr. Lin confided that it was significantly useful to high-level pill refiners as well as the cultivators of the Grand Realm, those who used to only exist in the legends we are taught. There is a possibility that there are pieces of powerful rules hidden inside it. Believe me, any of you would not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity."

After the beautiful girl finished her words, Darren still couldn't figure out why the Primitive Stone was so vital for him to integrate his blade intent and sword intent into one. What caught his attention was that it could have pieces of rules within it. Maybe, it was the solely function that could help him in the integrating.

After the brief introduction, the auction began. The potential buyers started bidding. Although they didn't know its exact functions, they could use it to ingratiate themselves with high-level pill refiners or cultivators who were in positions of power. After all, in the big bugs' eyes, ink stones weren't very valuable.

"Five million ink stones!"

The first bid started at such a high price which surprised Darren a little.

Darren just had about ten million ink stones with him in total. He was not sure if he would be able to buy it given their current pace, so he didn't bid to try and slow things down a bit. Instead, he waited quietly for the other bidders.

Only an hour later, the price of the Primitive Stone had already reached ten million ink stones! And it seemed that most of the bidders had no intention of stopping anytime soon.

Apparently, they had supporters behind them who were people in power, or ones who had either authority or great wealth. If they had no supporters, they wouldn't be brave enough to bid such a great amount of ink stones by themselves.

"Eleven million ink stones." Finally, Darren couldn't help but bid for the first time.

"Twelve million ink stones." Below him, the old man who just competed against him for the bronze bracers also started bidding.

"Twelve million and five hundred thousand ink stones."

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The price was rising so fast that Darren was certain he wouldn't be able to outbid them.

'It's widely expensive. The price has reached fourteen million ink stones in no time.' Darren shook his head as he thought of his other options in obtaining the Primitive Stone.

'Should I steal it?'

The idea flashed quickly through his mind. However, there were at least three cultivators of the Wonder Realm safeguarding the auction hall and the other buyers also seemed very powerful. It was impossible to steal it without causing any trouble.

After thinking for a while, Darren came up with a better plan.

"Someone come here please," Darren shouted, then a servant entered the room with her head low.

"Sir, how can I help you?" the servant asked respectfully.

"Go and invite Mr. Gu to come here," Darren responded.

"May I ask which Mr. Gu do you wish to invite?"

Both the Sky Pavilion and the Prison Battle Arena belonged to the Gu Family, but they were overseen by different high status members of the family.

"The Mr. Gu that is in charge of the Prison Battle Arena."