3rd Grade Mid-Rank Storage Ring

Chapter 138 Third-Tier Mid-Grade Storage Ring

Three years ago, at an auction held by the Yu Xuan Sect, Jiang Yun spent over two million spirit stones to bid on many third-tier refining materials.

After years of refinement, thirty of the thirty-six flying swords have been refined to the third-tier low-grade level.

Jiang Yun plans to spend the next six months refining the remaining six flying swords.

At that time, the quality of all flying swords will be upgraded by one level, and the power of the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Sword Formation will naturally be greatly enhanced.

With that thought in mind, Jiang Yun returned to his cave.

He closed the cave entrance, activated the restrictions, and began tempering the flying sword once more.

Before we knew it, half a year had passed in the blink of an eye.

After three years of refinement, all the flying swords were upgraded to the third-tier low-grade.

All the third-tier refining materials won at the auction were incorporated into the flying sword and consumed completely.

"rise!"

Inside the cave, Jiang Yun waved his sleeve, and thirty-six flying swords quickly formed the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Sword Array, hovering in the air.

The moment the sword formation was formed, one could feel an intense aura of killing intent.

Judging by its power, it is comparable to a mid-grade third-tier killing formation.

"With this sword formation, even a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator is nothing to fear, especially since I also have a mid-grade third-tier physical body."

After observing the power of the sword formation, Jiang Yun once again waved his sleeve, putting all the flying swords into his storage bag.

Afterwards, he sat cross-legged in the cultivation room and began to make plans in his mind.

"Without a third-tier alchemy inheritance, it's still a bit of a stretch to refine mid-grade third-tier pills."

"Let's put aside the matter of trying to become a mid-grade third-tier alchemist for now, and wait until we obtain the third-tier alchemy inheritance."

"Next, I will focus on cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique. If I can cultivate the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique to the third level, I will have completed all my cultivation goals in Canglan Immortal City."

"After that, we can begin preparations for the Core Formation. My cultivation has stagnated for so many years; it's time for some progress!"

Jiang Yun's gaze flickered uncertainly.

He has been in this Canglan Immortal City for twenty-one years.

Although his cultivation level didn't improve much during those two years, his overall strength increased significantly.

His physical body broke through to the middle grade of the third rank, and he was not afraid of facing a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator.

Furthermore, all thirty-six flying swords were tempered to the third-tier low-grade level, making the power of the Zhou Tian Star Sword Formation comparable to a third-tier mid-grade grand formation.

This allowed him, with his early-stage Core Formation cultivation, to be completely unafraid of mid-stage Core Formation cultivators.

With a little caution, one can even survive against a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.

"Now, the only thing I haven't mastered is the Thousand Machine Divine Control Technique, which I haven't reached the third level of."

"As for the matter of your natal magic weapon, it's not too late to make a decision after you've completed the three core-shattering processes."

Soon, Jiang Yun finalized his training plan.

"Now focus on cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique. Without the aid of the Mind Condensation Pill, you'll just have to spend more time on it."

"While cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique, one can also delve into the art of weapon crafting and formations."

"The Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique is closely related to formations; studying formations is also a way of cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique."

According to the original cultivation plan.

Jiang Yun planned to first attempt to become a quasi-third-level alchemist and refine the Concentration Pill.

After refining the Concentration Pill, one should then ingest the Concentration Pill to assist in cultivating one's divine sense, which is to assist in cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique.

In this way, the time required for the Thousand Machine Divine Control Technique to break through to the third level will definitely be greatly shortened.

Unfortunately, without a third-tier alchemy inheritance, refining third-tier mid-grade pills is too difficult.

Now I can only spend more time practicing the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique.

To this day, Jiang Yun is only 132 years old.

At 132 years old, he is considered very young among Core Formation cultivators.

Moreover, if Jiang Yun completes the three Pill Shattering processes, he can gain an additional three hundred years of lifespan.

Coupled with his innate strength and physique, he could live for 850 years during the Core Formation stage.

With a lifespan of 850 years, it's almost close to the 1,000-year lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Other Core Formation cultivators, without consuming longevity pills or spiritual treasures, only have a lifespan of five hundred years.

Sometimes, in the world of cultivation, it's not about cultivation level or strength that matters.

Longevity is an advantage, and spending more time cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique is of little consequence to Jiang Yun.

Having made up his mind, Jiang Yun headed to Zhou's Pill Shop.

"Disciple greets Master."

Upon arriving at Zhou's Pill Shop, Chi Kehuan and the others immediately bowed respectfully to Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun nodded.

Next, he needed to go into seclusion to cultivate the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique, and he explained some things to Chi Kehuan and the others.

"Ke Huan, pass on the Firewood Pill Technique to your four junior brothers and sisters." Before leaving, Jiang Yun suddenly remembered something and instructed, "Oh, and if any woman from the Xuan Shuang Sect comes, immediately send me a message."

Yu Siyan only said that she would visit Zhou's Dan Shop another day, without specifying a date.

Jiang Yun couldn't just sit there and wait for her.

"Yes, sir!"

Chi Kehuan quickly accepted the order and then passed on the second-tier low-grade alchemy skills to her four junior brothers and sisters.

"Fellow disciples, this is the second-tier low-grade alchemy technique created by our master, which I am passing on to you today."

"Go and study alchemy diligently. If you become second-tier low-grade alchemists in the future, perhaps our master will accept you as formal disciples."

Following Jiang Yun's instructions, Chi Kehuan handed the jade slip containing the elixir formula to the four newly arrived alchemy apprentices.

However, they are no longer considered new alchemy apprentices, as three years have already passed.

Upon seeing this, the four quickly thanked him and accepted the jade slip.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yun had already returned to his cave.

After several days of recuperation, he began to devote himself to practicing the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique.

The Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique is a secret technique for cultivating divine sense. During cultivation, divine sense will grow slowly and not very noticeably.

Jiang Yun began to cultivate patiently.

Before I knew it, three years had passed in this practice.

Three more years have passed, and this year marks Jiang Yun's twenty-fourth year in Canglan Immortal City.

On this day, Chi Kehuan used a communication device to contact Jiang Yun.

"Master, the large-scale auction held every three years is about to begin."

"This auction is hosted by Thousand Forged Mountain, and I heard that many high-level magic treasures will be auctioned."

Chi Kehuan didn't mince words and went straight to the important point.

"I understand." Jiang Yun nodded and asked, "Has that person from the Xuan Shuang Sect arrived?"

"No," Chi Kehuan shook her head.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yun cut off the communication with Chi Kehuan and couldn't help but lower his head in thought.

"Yu Siyan wanted the Youth-Preserving Pill, and went so far as to tell me about the ruins of the cave."

"But three years have passed and she hasn't come looking for me. She probably thought I would put up the Youth Preservation Pill at the auction held at Thousand Forged Mountain this time?"

"In that case, we will not be offering the Youth Preservation Pill at this auction."

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun opened his palm.

Instantly, a spirit wood box appeared in his palm, containing only five Youth Preservation Pills.

He refined a total of thirteen Youth Preservation Pills back then. Six were auctioned off in two auctions, two were traded to the Wen siblings, and now only five remain.

"If you're not auctioning the Youth-Preserving Pill, what treasures are you going to auction?"

Jiang Yun put away the Youth Preservation Pill and took out her storage bag to count the items.

All the third-tier refining materials that were previously auctioned were used to feed the thirty-six flying swords.

Now, Jiang Yun's storage bag contains various pills, 1.76 million spirit stones, 36 low-grade third-tier flying swords, and two lightning escape talismans.

There was also a mysterious iron piece obtained from the Broken Sword Sect, a third-grade low-level body-refining medicine, and a second-grade high-level substitute puppet.

"There's nothing worth auctioning off. We can just attend the auction held at Thousand Forged Mountain."

After thinking it over, Jiang Yun decided not to consign any treasures for this auction.

He took out the mysterious iron piece obtained from the Broken Sword Sect from his storage bag and then burned it with the Golden Core True Fire.

After burning for several days, the piece of iron showed no signs of melting.

"Even the Golden Core True Fire can't burn it, so it's very likely a fourth-grade refining material."

Over the years, Jiang Yun would take out this mysterious piece of iron and burn it whenever he had free time.

The result was the same each time: the mysterious iron piece remained completely unharmed under the burning of the Golden Elixir True Fire.

Therefore, Jiang Yun speculated that this mysterious iron piece was very likely a fourth-order refining material.

"I don't care what material you're made of. If we can't find high-grade materials in the future, I'll refine you into a natal magic weapon!"

Jiang Yun ignored the mysterious iron piece and began cultivating the Thousand Machines Divine Control Technique.

The Thousand-Forged Mountain Auction will begin in two weeks.

The Wen siblings came to visit and invited Jiang Yun to attend the auction at Thousand Forged Mountain.

Jiang Yun left the cave and followed the Wen siblings to the Thousand Hammers and Hundred Refinements Pavilion.

This wasn't Jiang Yun's first time here.

He and the Wen siblings quickly entered their respective private rooms at the auction venue to wait for the auction to begin.

Today's auction is being hosted by Qianduanshan.

Thousand Forging Mountain is renowned for its weapon forging and puppet making, so there must be many high-level magic treasures up for auction.

As expected, the first item auctioned after the auction began was a high-grade third-tier puppet.

"I am the Cold Furnace Master of Thousand Forging Mountain, and I will now begin the bidding for the first treasure, a third-tier superior-grade puppet."

"This puppet can be activated with a hundred mid-grade spirit stones or a single high-grade spirit stone, and immediately unleash the combat power of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator."

"A third-tier high-grade puppet, starting bid is 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones, and each bid must be at least 1,000 mid-grade spirit stones."

Master Hanlu brought out the first item for auction and announced the start of the bidding.

In the auction hall, the Foundation Establishment cultivators were completely silent, but their eyes were fixed on the third-tier puppet with great fervor.

In private room number ninety-four, Jiang Yun also turned his gaze to the third-tier high-grade puppet.

As Master Hanlu just mentioned, with a hundred mid-grade spirit stones or one high-grade spirit stone to activate it, this puppet can unleash the combat power of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.

Having this puppet is equivalent to having a bodyguard who is at the late stage of Core Formation.

However, activating it once consumes 100 mid-grade spirit stones, which translates to 10,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Moreover, if they were to face a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, they might even face the risk of being destroyed.

The item is good, but it's too expensive; the starting bid is 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones.

"The starting bid is 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones, which is one million low-grade spirit stones."

Jiang Yun couldn't help but shake his head.

He only had 1.76 million low-grade spirit stones.

That's equivalent to 17,600 mid-grade spirit stones.

Even half a third-tier high-grade puppet cannot be auctioned off.

"If we exchange 1.76 million low-grade spirit stones for mid-grade spirit stones, their value will decrease by 20%."

"Originally equivalent to 17,600 mid-grade spirit stones, after the exchange, I only received 14,100 spirit stones."

To facilitate transactions, all major powers in the cultivation world have set up places to exchange spirit stones.

When exchanging low-grade spirit stones for mid-grade spirit stones, the default value is reduced by 20%.

In other words, when one million low-grade spirit stones were exchanged, two hundred thousand spirit stones had already been lost.

Jiang Yun hadn't expected that the first item up for auction would be a high-grade third-tier puppet. He wondered what other good things would follow.

As Jiang Yun was pondering this, the bidding for this third-tier high-grade item had already reached 27,000 mid-grade spirit stones.

"Twenty-nine thousand mid-grade spirit stones!"

"Thirty-one thousand mid-grade spirit stones!"

"Thirty-four thousand mid-grade spirit stones!"

The bid had already reached 34,000 mid-grade spirit stones, yet the bidding for this puppet continued.

"Thirty-six thousand mid-grade spirit stones!"

Ultimately, this Tier 3 high-grade puppet was auctioned off to a Core Formation cultivator for 36,000 mid-grade spirit stones.

"Thirty-six thousand mid-grade spirit stones is equivalent to three million six hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones."

Jiang Yun glanced at the private room on the second floor and thought to himself, "As expected of Canglan Immortal City, where Core Formation cultivators are everywhere, there are plenty of rich people."

With that thought in mind, the second item for auction began to be brought to the stage.

"Fifty Foundation Establishment Pills, starting bid one million low-grade spirit stones."

The auction then proceeded to its normal phase.

Numerous second-tier treasures were displayed, allowing Foundation Establishment cultivators to bid and compete.

After auctioning off approximately fifty second-tier treasures, the auction for third-tier treasures commenced.

Seeing this, Jiang Yun began to pay attention, wondering if a third-tier alchemy inheritance would be auctioned off.

After dozens of low-grade third-tier treasures were auctioned off, the auction for mid-grade third-tier treasures began.

Third-tier spiritual materials, talismans, array flags, elixirs, and other items appeared in an endless stream.

They have all sorts of treasures, but unfortunately, they lack the third-tier alchemy inheritance.

When the seventeenth tier-three mid-grade treasure appeared, Jiang Yun immediately became interested.

"A mid-grade third-tier storage ring, starting bid at 5,000 mid-grade spirit stones, with each bid increment no less than 1,000."

The moment the storage ring was unveiled, it attracted a large number of Core Formation cultivators who vied for it.

Before long, the price of a mid-grade third-tier storage ring had exceeded ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones, which is one million low-grade spirit stones.

After the number of bidders exceeded 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones, the number of bidders decreased sharply.

After all, one million low-grade spirit stones is not a small amount, so there is not much need to auction off a storage ring.

Since storage bags can also replace storage rings, if one storage bag isn't enough, just get more storage bags.

One million spirit stones could buy countless storage bags.

Of course, having a mid-grade Tier 3 storage ring would definitely be much more convenient.

With such a storage ring, even hundreds of millions of spirit stones could be stored in it.

After a moment's consideration, Jiang Yun decided to bid.

"Twelve thousand mid-grade spirit stones!"

In the end, Jiang Yun won the bid for the storage ring with a price of 12,000 mid-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to 1.2 million low-grade spirit stones.

After the storage ring was auctioned off, Master Hanlu took out a jade pendant.

"A mid-grade, third-tier storage jade pendant, starting bid 5,000 mid-grade spirit stones!"

Jiang Yun was speechless upon seeing this.

As expected of Thousand Forging Mountain, which excels in crafting artifacts, they produce countless spatial magic treasures for storing items.

During the auction of the third-tier storage jade pendant, a servant from the Thousand Hammers and Refinements Pavilion delivered a storage ring to Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun took out 1.2 million spirit stones and handed them to the servant, then registered the storage ring as his own.