Just as Long Feng was thinking about this, a familiar notification suddenly sounded in his mind.
[Ding! A new task has been issued.]
[Task: Find Soul Enchanting Violet.]
[Reward: Random Soul Cultivation Technique.]
Long Feng’s expression immediately changed.
’What? Another task?’
He couldn’t help but feel surprised. The previous task had only been issued yesterday that still not completed, yet the system had already given him another one.
Moreover, this time it’s found Soul Enchanting Violet.
Thinking about them, Long Feng’s expression became serious. He had heard about them before. It was an extremely rare spiritual flower.
However, its reputation wasn’t particularly good.
The Soul Enchanting Violet was a strange and dangerous plant. It possessed the ability to affect the souls of living creatures.
If someone remained near it for too long, their soul would gradually become enchanted by its unique fragrance and spiritual fluctuations.
Once affected, the flower could slowly drain the soul’s origin.
Because of their terrifying ability, Soul Enchanting Violets were extremely dangerous.
Some evil cultivators had even deliberately cultivated them and used them to weaken the souls of their enemies.
Most righteous sects strictly prohibited their disciples from cultivating such plants.
Long Feng’s eyebrows slowly furrowed.
’This thing is actually in Yunhai City?’
He had only just arrived in the city. It was also at that time that the system had issued the task.
This couldn’t be a coincidence.
The system clearly knew that the Soul Enchanting Violet was somewhere nearby. However, Long Feng wasn’t particularly interested in the flower itself.
What truly attracted his attention was the reward.
A Soul Cultivation Technique.
Long Feng’s eyes couldn’t help but become slightly heated.
As the name suggested, a Soul Cultivation Technique was a method used to cultivate and strengthen one’s soul.
And for an alchemist, the importance of a powerful soul was self-evident. The stronger an alchemist’s soul, the stronger their spiritual sense would be.
This would allow them to control their flame more precisely, sense changes during the pill-refining process, and manipulate multiple ingredients with greater ease.
A powerful soul was one of the most important foundations for becoming a high-level alchemist.
Long Feng had even heard that the Azura Heaven Sect provide powerful Soul Cultivation Techniques to some of its high-rank alchemists.
If he could obtain one now, it would undoubtedly be extremely useful.
’A Soul Cultivation Technique...’
Long Feng’s heart moved slightly.
The reward from the system was random, but no matter what kind of technique he received, it would still be incredibly valuable.
He couldn’t help but feel tempted.
However, after thinking for a moment, Long Feng quickly calmed himself.
’Forget it.’
He shook his head inwardly. He hadn’t even fulfill the conditions of his first task, yet thinking about second one.
’I’ll focus on the first task for now.’
His gaze once again fell upon the auction stage.
The auction continued, and one after another item was brought onto the stage.
Some of them were weapons, some were rare spiritual materials, and others were various cultivation resources.
Long Feng wasn’t particularly interested in most of them.
He had come here mainly to find a suitable beast corpse for the Myriad Beast Fusion Art.
As the auction continued, the auctioneer suddenly revealed a serious expression.
"Everyone, the next item is somewhat special."
His words immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding cultivators.
The auctioneer waved his hand and several servants immediately carried a massive object onto the stage.
It was covered with a thick black cloth. Even through the cloth, the object underneath was clearly seem enormous.
The auctioneer slowly removed the covering.
The moment the beast corpse was revealed, the entire auction hall became silent.
A massive spider-like creature appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Its body was nearly three meters big in diameter, covered in dark purple scales and thick black hair. Eight enormous legs extended from its body, each one ending in sharp claws.
Its head was particularly terrifying.
Several rows of sharp teeth filled its mouth, while a pair of dark green fangs protruded from either side.
Even though it was already dead, an extremely dangerous aura seemed to linger around its corpse.
Long Feng’s eyes immediately widened.
’What is this?’
The auctioneer looked around at everyone’s reaction before slowly speaking.
"This is the corpse of a Fifth-Rank Nether Poison Spider."
The moment those words came out, the entire auction hall erupted.
"What?"
"A Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast?"
Hearing this, Long Feng was surprised greatly.
A Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast was comparable to a human cultivator in the Nascent Soul Realm.
Such a powerful beast was extremely rare. Even inside the Azura Heaven Sect, a complete corpse of a Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast was an extremely valuable treasure.
Where had they even found something like this?
Although most of people surprised with the appearance of a Fifth Rank beast, many local people sneered coldly.
It wasn’t hard to see that it’s not their first time to see this.
Long Feng also heard many people whispering with his high cultivation, and understood whole story.
It was like that half a year ago, Auction House’s people found a powerful beast corpse in a river of wilderness. After bringing back to the city, they carefully examine that and found out that it’s a Nether Poison Spider.
According to their examination, this beast had already reached the end of its natural lifespan. Its corpse was still in relatively good condition, and most of its body remains intact.
Unfortunately, its body contains extremely venomous poison. Even after its death, the poison within its body hasn’t completely dissipated.
Because of this, the corpse continuously releases a faint poisonous aura.
That’s why most of people wouldn’t want it. And those who wants to buy it, they were not willingly upon such high price.
However, Auction House didn’t want lower its price and this Fifth Rank beast corpse remain here.
Its blood had almost completely dried up. What remained was mostly its body and its terrifying poison.
For most cultivators, this wasn’t particularly useful.
Who would want to keep a poisonous corpse inside their storage ring?
Even if the storage ring could isolate the poison to some extent, the continuous release of poisonous aura was still troublesome.
Long Feng’s eyes immediately became brighter.
That was exactly what he wanted.
The auctioneer looked around the hall, he didn’t even show embarrassed expression because showing his shortcomings.
"Despite these shortcomings, this is still the corpse of a Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast. The starting price is fifty thousand spirit stones."
The auction hall immediately became quiet. No one raised their bidding token.
A Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast corpse was extremely rare, and could easily fetch this price.
But in a small city like this, there weren’t many cultivators capable of casually taking out tens of thousands of spirit stones.
And those who could afford it didn’t necessarily want a corpse filled with deadly poison.
Because of this, no one start bidding immediately.
"Fifty thousand spirit stones."
Just when everyone thought that no one should also bought this time, a voice suddenly rang out in the silent hall of Auction House.
Many people turned toward the source of the voice.
It was none other than Long Feng, who calmly lowered his bidding token.
The auctioneer was stunned for a moment, before his expression immediately brightened.
"Fifty thousand! We have a bid of fifty thousand spirit stones!"
He looked around him, "Does anyone wish to raise the price?"
Silence.
Nobody responded to him.
The auctioneer waited for a while before finally confirming the result.
"Sold!"
"The Nether Poison Spider corpse goes to our esteemed guest for fifty thousand spirit stones!"
The entire auction hall immediately became lively.
"Who is that person?"
"Who would actually buy that thing?"
"Could he be some kind of poison cultivator?"
Long Feng ignored the discussions around him.
He couldn’t help but feel fortunate. This time, he had brought almost all of his savings with him.
Over the past nine years, he had accumulated slightly more than sixty thousand spirit stones.
He had originally been reluctant to spend so much money. But after seeing the Nether Poison Spider’s corpse, he immediately realized that this was exactly what he needed.
A Fifth-Rank Fierce Beast.
Although most of its blood essence had already dried up, that didn’t matter much to him.
The Myriad Beast Fusion Art didn’t necessarily require a large amount of fresh blood.
The most important thing was the quality and condition of the beast’s body. As for its poison, As if he himself was a good one.
After the Nether Poison Spider corpse was sold, the auction continued. But Long Feng didn’t make any more major purchases, except two spiritual herbs that caught his attention.
Both were useful for alchemy, and the prices weren’t particularly high. After that, he didn’t bid on anything else.
Finally, the auction came to an end.
Long Feng left his VIP room and walked toward the back of the auction house. There, he met the middle-aged manager who had received him earlier.
"Alchemist Long."
The manager immediately smiled when he saw him.
"How was the auction?"
"Not bad."
Long Feng nodded with satisfaction.
The manager immediately led him toward a private room. Then, he took out a storage ring and placed it on the table.
"These are the three items you purchased."
Long Feng nodded and picked up the storage ring, checking its contents with his spiritual sense.
The body was indeed in good condition. Although most of its blood essence had disappeared, the body itself remained remarkably well preserved.
The poison inside its body was also still extremely potent.
"Everything is fine."
Long Feng put away the storage ring, took out fifty thousand and so spirit stones.
The manager smiled upon hearing this. This body was long in their possession, and he was quite glad to exchange it with such price.
"I’m glad you’re satisfied."
Long Feng nodded, but he didn’t immediately leave. Instead, he seemed to suddenly remember something.
"By the way, Manager, I have something I want to ask you."
The manager immediately became attentive.
"Alchemist Long, please ask."
Long Feng hesitated for a moment before speaking. "I wonder if you’ve heard anything about the Soul Enchanting Violet?"