Chapter 224: Of A Hundred Female Infants On Pure Yin Ground, Only One Is A Pure Yin Maiden 【 Foreshadowing 】
Ming Zhaoshuang immediately bid eagerly.
Seeing it was her, Tan Zhu was slightly stunned, then said: “Thirty-six thousand demon stones, thank you!”
Immediately afterward, people continued to bid one after another.
“Thirty-seven thousand demon stones, thank you! Thirty-eight thousand demon stones… Sixty-nine thousand demon stones, seventy thousand demon stones, next is seventy-one thousand demon stones…”
The price kept increasing.
Most of the bidders were from noble families and powerful figures; the remote rogue cultivators no longer spoke.
After all, for noble families, although the function of the Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk was niche and there were few people in this world with damaged divine souls, it was precisely this that made it even more precious. They were mostly buying it not because their divine souls were currently damaged, but as a contingency for future damage to their divine souls. Also, at their cultivation realm, they more or less all had inner demons.
The Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk could stabilize inner demons.
Therefore, these noble families began to fight fiercely for this segment of Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk, and their voices only gradually diminished when the price reached one hundred and twenty thousand demon stones.
After all, this had already far exceeded the market price.
Their divine souls were not truly damaged, and there were many medicines to stabilize inner demons, so they didn’t lack the Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk.
Ming Zhaoshuang was still bidding.
“One hundred and twenty-eight thousand.”
Seeing no response for a long time, Tan Zhu also smiled faintly: “We’ve broken through one hundred thousand, so we’ll reduce the bidding increment. From now on, each bid only needs to increase by one hundred demon stones. Does anyone else want to bid?”
Someone else bid.
Ming Zhaoshuang bid again.
After a few back-and-forths, that person resentfully glared at Ming Zhaoshuang, but upon seeing that Yan Ao was sitting beside her, he silently shifted his gaze and did not bid again.
“One hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred demon stones, first call, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred demon stones, second call, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred demon stones, third call!”
“Sold!”
Tan Zhu raised her jade arm, her ten fingers as lovely as peeled white shallot roots, completing this transaction once more.
Seeing that she had won the bid, Ming Zhaoshuang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was indeed as Wen Ye had said, bidding over one hundred thousand demon stones for the Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk was not a problem at all. If Wen Ye hadn’t bought her talismans, she probably wouldn’t have been able to bid for it.
Next, she just had to wait for the auction to end, and then she could go collect her auction item.
Xie Yanning said: “If that’s the case, your Dao Companion can also wake up.”
Qin Feilong immediately became unhappy upon hearing this: “Ming Zhaoxue should have stayed asleep forever. Why wake up and be annoying?”
Ming Zhaoshuang glanced at Qin Feilong: “The enlightenment has ended. Did you realize anything?”
Qin Feilong said: “No… In this place, how would I dare to realize anything.”
Realizing something would be courting death.
However, he felt that Ming Zhaoshuang’s words made a lot of sense and he was deeply touched, planning to further ponder this sentence later, so he noted it down.
After the auction for the Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk ended, and only a few auction items later, Tan Zhu suddenly lowered her head and rested for a moment.
Meanwhile, the venue once again became noisy.
The high-ranking members of the noble families, who had previously appeared relaxed and were only focused on observing Tan Zhu’s figure, all instantly sat up straight, shifting their gaze from Tan Zhu to the large black cloth-covered iron cage beneath the auction stage.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s heart jolted, and her gaze followed to that spot.
Above the iron cage, there was extremely strong demonic power, and layers of formations were carved on it. The black curtain swayed slightly as several demons lifted it.
It was obvious that this was the final auction item, and the absolute focus of this auction.
Pure Yin Maiden.
She was placed behind Tan Zhu.
Tan Zhu’s breathing seemed to quicken slightly. She slowly exhaled, and then reached out, intending to lift the curtain.
However, she hesitated again.
Meanwhile, the minds of the demons began to stir, urging her to quickly pull it open so they could see what the Pure Yin Maiden, rumored to be the most beautiful in the entire race and a natural Cauldron, looked like.
Since Feng He Du Xian, over ten thousand years ago, had single-handedly ventured into the Underworld and, together with the Five Sages, slain Emperor Fengdu, the Pure Yin Ground was destroyed. Naturally, there could be no birth of Pure Yin Maidens.
Ming Zhaoshuang could almost feel the System’s breathing quicken: The existence of Pure Yin Maidens was even more prevalent over ten thousand years ago, so much so that it had completely become an industry. Emperor Fengdu forced human women to come to the Pure Yin Ground in the Ghost Realm to conceive with Ghost Race men, giving birth to Pure Yin Maidens. This was solely to sell the Pure Yin Maidens, causing cultivators from all other Five Realms to desperately compete for them, from the Dragon Domain above to the Lower Realm below.
After all, they could improve bloodlines and spirit roots. Pure Yin Maidens had long surpassed the category of ordinary cauldrons.
No cultivator would let such an opportunity pass.
But Pure Yin Maidens were not that easy to cultivate, were they? In the Pure Yin Ground, often hundreds of female infants were needed to produce one Pure Yin Maiden. Female infants who were not Pure Yin Maidens would be mercilessly killed. After all, they were just so-called ‘lowly offspring’ born from humans and ghosts. These female infants were born in the Pure Yin Ground and died in the Pure Yin Ground, not surviving for three days, thus generating immense, hard-to-suppress vengeful energy.
Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but clench her hands upon hearing this: Then, what about the male infants?
The System let out a scoff: Didn’t Xie Yanning tell you earlier? The children born to Pure Yin Maidens were all exceptionally talented with pure bloodlines. The male infants born in the Pure Yin Ground were similarly so. These male infants were naturally taken back by Emperor Fengdu to be carefully nurtured by the Ten Yama Kings.
The System’s voice, by this point, was already somewhat unable to contain its hatred: Besides the female infants, the human women in the Pure Yin Ground did not have it easy either. The Pure Yin Ground, a place of extreme cold and perpetual darkness, was unsuitable for any race to survive. These women often died in difficult childbirth. Such women, enduring the pain of spiritual Yin stripping their life force and the resentment of their imprisoned lives, generated even greater vengeful energy than the female infants.
The most significant factor was that most of these human women had already embarked on the path of cultivation, and their fertility was not strong.
It often took decades, or even centuries, of cold and dark times to give birth to a single infant. If the infant was male, it would be kept. If it was a Pure Yin Maiden, it would be given away as an item. If it was an ordinary female infant, it could only die, and die without a burial place.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s breathing stopped, just as she heard the System’s voice, filled with extreme hatred: Pure Yin Maidens from ten thousand years ago could produce hundreds almost every year, all generously given by Emperor Fengdu to the high-ranking figures of various realms, becoming their cauldrons!!
The human women who had to perish within, and the newborn Pure Yin female infants, I can hardly imagine!
That’s why, back then, even though Feng He Du Xian’s cultivation had only barely reached Mid-stage Mahayana, he still ventured into the Underworld for this cause.
Ming Zhaoshuang bit her lip and said: Hundreds of Pure Yin Maidens, at least thousands of female infants born in the Pure Yin Ground each year serving as sacrifices, and over twenty thousand human women dying in childbirth. Such immense vengeful energy, even Emperor Fengdu, with his Late-stage Tribulation Transcension cultivation, might not have been able to withstand it.
The System was silent: When Emperor Fengdu dared to conduct such a business, he naturally had a way to suppress these women and female infants. The Underworld possessed the Three Lives Stone, which was forged by the Creator God Nuwa and was an ancient Divine Tool.
Emperor Fengdu would throw those human women and female infants into the River of Forgetfulness, using the Three Lives Stone to suppress these vengeful spirits.
