Gu Zhi and Gu Xiao found a hotel to stay at while they waited for the time of the auction to come.
"I made a recent breakthrough in one of my techniques so I'll be going into secluded meditation once we review the catalogue. Can you take care of Gu Bo in the meantime".
"Yeah I can do that, let's go over the catalogue then".
Gu Xiao then pulled out a big book and read the contents out loud for Gu Zhi.
"Diamond tempering dust: A dust used for spiritual weapons to reinforce their sturdiness, it can also be used for potions, elixirs, and in some cases body cultivators. Qi refining pills: pills used to condense and refine one's qi. You actually have already taken those pills, for this auction it seems like they are selling a lot of them in bulk. Qi fire pill: A pill used for fire elemental cultivators to increase their potency of Qi and the power of their fire. Ink water tapestry: A storage device best used by water elemental cultivators, THAT CAN STORE AN ENTIRE PAGODIA IN IT! Wow that would be very convenient... that seems to be their first big item. A spirit condenser: an item used to extract qi from the environment and turn it into spirit gathering powder. Sounds like a money making machine why would they be selling that? Fire Qilin plumes: has a wide variety of uses from pills to treasures to upgrades. Depending on the quality and quantity this could be worth more than the storage device. The sword of savage wrath: a mid level earthly artifact."
Spirit treasures, weapons and artifacts fell under 5 major tiers and 3 minors tiers. From mortal, spirit, earthly, heavenly, to divine in the major tiers and low, mid, and high level in the minor tiers. A mid level earthly artifact was actually really good in this case.
"It's a berserker sword that grows stronger the more blood its covered in. The silent pythons dagger: A dagger permanently coated in a strong venom, that can go temporally invisible. It's a earthly high level weapon. Fire beads: A one time use throwing weapon that causes an explosion of fire at the targeted area. A direct hit has the power of core formation attack. Ice root grass: A natural medicine that can cause breakthroughs for ice elemental cultivators and increase their resistance and tolerance to the ice element. Frost wolf mount: A tamed high foundational level frost wolf that can be used as a mount. That's interesting but we need something better. Ice wind sleigh, a sleigh that can fly in the air with the help of frost wolfs as mounts. Oh wow that could be what were looking for. DIVINE BUILDING BEADS, No doubt there second biggest item. Beads that can be used to make things blessed by the HEAVENS including yourself. Holy shit I don't think our ambrosia is their best item. The Divine Building Beads are known around the whole world as a priceless treasure, who would sell them. WARNING: the beads are broken and not in their full and complete state, they are still usable but will have a much lesser effect then complete ones. That makes much more sense, I bet there would have been much more attention drawn to this auction if they were in their complete state". Gu Xiao laughed to herself "Actually I bet they would have been robbed, killed, and silenced if it was the real deal. Being blessed by the heavens was a big deal. It could mean many different things from absurd luck, to amazing talent, to skills that would send most people into cardiac arrest due to envy. Even if they were broken, if they could still be used people would still shill out a fortune for the item. Raven black threads: A weapon made from sturdy black threads, earthly low level treasure. Qi shining pearl: A pearl that when ingested stores an amount of qi inside of it, acting like a second internal storage device of qi. That one is really useful. Green wind technique: A very rare dual elemental technique that uses wind and wood elements. Wow that could be very useful to the sect. nine heavens ambrosia: a divine wine used for body cultivators. legends say it can make even immortals drunk. They added ours to the list as well. Finally they have a snow fox familiar, best for water or ice elementalists".
"Speaking of familiars I remember you got one at the palace. What is a familiar?" Gu Zhi asked.
"Familiars are companions that help you out when you form a pact with them. They come in many different forms but they are very hard to find, communicate with, and form a pact with. Familiars are very special in that they grow along with you and you can only form a contract with one familiar. The only way a familiar can be bound like this and sold on auction willingly is if there were some special clauses in its pact. Some familiars are better than others but most of the time people are extremely lucky if they have one at all. They are another source of strength for that person and they can be trusted more than any friend."
"How can you tell the difference between a familiar and a beast." Gu Zhi asked.
"You can't most of the time, but there are signs, high levels of intelligence, and communication are the most telling. But the bond with familiars is so strong that some abilities from them can transfer to you and vise versa. If a cultivator is in the same realm as another and one has a familiar and one doesn't, the one with the familiar will beat the other person 99 times out of 100. Familiars can be so enticing to others that many hunt for them to try their luck. These people are called familiar catchers, yet most won't ever even encounter one".