Chapter 143: Fragrant Gill Tea
Hun Tong pouted; the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ cowardice disappointed him, but he understood it.
After all, it would cost so many gold coins to buy a single potion, this price was too immense.
A few seconds later, room 2 transmitted, “I offer 2,050 gold.”
Zi Di’s and Fei She’s expression shifted at the same time.
Zi Di’s brows furrowed, and she didn’t say anything.
Hun Tong couldn’t help but gaze at his neighbor in room 2 and think, “As it turns out, this was a probe…I’m afraid your intentions have already been felt out.”
Fei She at this time said, “Cap, captain, bid, this, that person won’t bid against us.”
Thus, the dragonman youngster yelled as if he was burning his own ships, “2,100 gold!”
Zi Di didn’t say a word, and room 2 was quiet too. Contrariwise, Qi You sneered and soliloquized, “It seems the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps has money too.”
Like Fei She presumed, no other competitors appeared, and the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps became the ultimate victor and obtained the gold level potion.
Many people sighed, “It seems this was another one of room 21’s schemes.”
“Alas, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps fell into the trap, they were forced to purchase the gold healing potion at such a high price.”
“I heard their second in command Shi Qi is injured and needs to use a gold level potion to cure it.”
“Oh? It seems the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ internal treatment is really good!”
The gold healing potion was the opening curtain to the medicine auction.
Next, all sorts of medicine wheeled out onto the stage.
There were oceanic magic beast transformation potions, blood weakness improvement medicine, sets of strength medicine, intelligence potions, and spirit stabilization inhalers.
Zi Di didn’t bid.
The survivors had the Magic Medicine Bathtub and could cheaply refine magic potions by themselves.
Contrary to this, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps acted and bought a batch of crystal glue.
Strictly speaking, crystal glue was classified as magic medicine.
But it wasn’t for human consumption.
They covered ship hulls and could help a ship resist water pressure.
Once it was very popular, but in recent years, the empire’s metal coating alchemy technology had surmounted it.
This alchemy product was being phased out.
But the metal coating market share wasn’t high and hadn’t gone into wide scale production yet.
Because metal coating belonged to alchemy processing technology, it needed a skilled alchemy master to make it.
Unlike crystal glue, it could be made through the magic medicine refinement process. Indeed, covering a ship hull did not need complex industrial arts.
Therefore, there was still lots of crystal glue circulating in the marketplace.
This commodity’s price had already tumbled quite a bit and was continuing to do so.
As a result, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps won the batch of crystal glue at a low price.
The auction master then said, “The next several auctions will be for a particular type of magic medicine.”
“Please let me solemnly introduce Two Eyes Island’s latest specialty – the Fragrant Gill Tea!”
The auction master’s tone became different from before, and the magic light beams on stage switched over to being multicolored, constantly changing to build the atmosphere.
Offstage, an alchemist unconsciously sat up straight.
He was Hun Tong’s subordinate and under Hun Tong’s directive, had developed the Fragrant Gill Tea.
He had made progress for years until finally, this year, he had improved the magic medicine’s prescription to the point where he could mass produce it.
“Perhaps some guests have heard of the Fragrant Gill Tea, the cup of Fragrant Gill Tea in my hands is a bronze level magic potion. After taking it, it can allow people to breathe underwater. How long it lasts depends mainly on the user’s life level. It will last 30 minutes for bronze cultivators, about 8 minutes for iron levels, and under a minute for silver levels.”
The magic medicine was all focused on cultivators, ordinary people would find it difficult to use them. That’s not to say the magic medicine won’t affect them, rather ordinary bodies couldn’t stop the magic power from ravaging them.
Continuing on, the auction stage broadcasted a magic image.
A bronze level fighter first took out some Fragrant Gill Tea Leaves.
The tea leaves were as long as a finger, the dark green tea leaves appeared slightly spiraled and were very soft. The user held three tea leaves like he was holding three noodles.
He put the tea leaves into a cup, then soaked them with seawater.
The auction master aptly explained, “Esteemed guests, the Fragrant Gill Tea needs to use seawater. If seawater isn’t available, brine can be used too, but it will affect the medicinal effects a bit. As for the tea preparation temperature, that’s different for every individual, regardless of whether it is boiling or ice cold, it won’t affect the medicinal effects.”
After the bronze fighter drank the Fragrant Gill Tea, three horizontal lines appeared on both his cheeks.
There were six lines altogether, they were all dark green and emitted a faint fluorescence.
The bronze fighter sank into the water, still breathing normally.
The six lines on his cheeks moved in tandem with each breath.
When the auction guests saw this, they grew somewhat interested.
As the auction master declared the starting price, this interest grew stronger.
Under normal circumstances, people couldn’t breathe underwater.
With the help of magic potions, magic, and so on, a person could break the limits of their physiology and be able to breathe underwater.
The Fragrant Gill Tea’s emergence was not at all sensational.
But the auction price for this was rather cheap, and compared to the most ordinary underwater breathing scrolls, it had the advantage of a lower price.
Especially because this was an ocean island, and citizens that made their way on the seas never lacked situations where they needed to breathe underwater.
The auction price rose amongst constant bids.
Every increase wasn’t that big.
Everyone wasn’t that passionate about bidding for the Fragrant Gill Tea.
They were all reasonable, because they were comparing it internally.
There were many things that could allow one to breathe underwater, and from a practical point of view, the Fragrant Gill Tea wasn’t something in short supply.
The auction finished.
Altogether, 3 bronze level Fragrant Gill Tea Plants were auctioned off in succession. One went to the Lightning Pirates, another to the Applause Pirates, and the last to the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
The magic beams twinkled again, and the auction master yelled, “Next is another Fragrant Gill Tea Plant, an iron level one with a stronger potency!”
When the workmanship rose by a level, the Fragrant Gill Tea Plant not only gave underwater breathing but also dusky sight.
The so called dusky sight could allow someone to distinguish objects in low light environments, it was a type of vision strengthening magic.
This improved its allure by a lot.
If drinking bronze level Fragrant Gill Tea allowed a cultivator to survive underwater, then the iron level one allowed a cultivator to have the fundamental ability to fight underwater.
Dusky sight suited underwater battles.
The deeper into the water one went, the dimmer the light, until it was pitch-black in the deep sea, where light was rarely seen.
Because of water pressure, even if human cultivators went into the water, they mostly limited themselves to fighting in the shallow layers, where the iron level Fragrant Gill Tea Plant was very practical to use.
Even Hong Zhu was interested. She was a treasure hunter and sometimes plundered seafloor shipwrecks.
Although it was in the deep sea, she had her own light source and could give herself a dusky field of view. If she drank the Fragrant Gill Tea, it would be better.
Although the Fragrant Gill Tea was iron level while Hong Zhu was a silver level fighter, the tea would still affect her for a few minutes.
What also made Hong Zhu quite interested was that making the tea was easy.
The Fragrant Gill Tea didn’t need boiling water, only seawater. Such a thing made things convenient when she went adventuring for treasure.
As long as she had a few tea leaves in her mouth, at a critical time, she could open her mouth and suck in some seawater, allowing her to drink the tea.
Of course, this tea making conduct was very boorish and treated her own mouth as a cup. During the tea making process, magic power would mix into it and harm the oral cavity.
But Hong Zhu understood that at many dangerous junctures, who cared about a minor throat injury? You might lose your life! Under these circumstances, abrasing one’s throat to give them some survival advantages was worthwhile.
There were 3 batches of iron level Fragrant Gill Tea too.
The auctions of these was much better than the bronze level ones.
Many silver levels, including Hong Zhu, joined the bidding.
The dragonman youngster joined in but wasn’t successful.
Zi Di didn’t say anything.
In a previous auction, she had received an iron level Fragrant Gill Tea plant. Magic potions didn’t appeal to the survivors since they had the Magic Medicine Bathtub.
“I’ve heard of the Fragrant Gill Tea before. Feudal Lord Hun Tong had always been trying to popularize it, but this is the first time he’s used something as powerful as the auction to do so.”
“To the market, this is a relatively unfamiliar medicine. But Hun Tong used his own reputation to endorse it and got the people to acknowledge it.”
This was one of his gains after years of painstaking enterprise construction. Then again, the iron level Fragrant Gill Tea already had two magic effects. If this was its market price, it’d be pretty good. It all depends on how the feedback from practical usage is.”
Everyone whispered to each other as the auction master took out another Fragrant Gill Tea plant and began to present it.
“Ladies and gentlemen, next is this Fragrant Gill Tea plant, it has attained the silver level!”
“It can give the user three effects and is stronger than the iron level.”
“The fundamental effect of underwater breathing has been substantially improved, dusky sigh has been elevated into dark sight, and it also bestows the user with the ability to sense the flow of water.”
“Everyone, you didn’t mishear, its water flow perception!”
“This ability can allow you to sense every change in the water and augments your swimming ability greatly. Even if you are a non-swimmer, you can self-teach yourself and master the ability to swim.”
Next, a magic image appeared, showing a silver level fighter taking the Fragrant Gill Tea and diving into the water.
He swam like a fish, and in pitch darkness, he accurately found something concealed in the river. Finally, he freely tossed and turned in a rapidly changing whirlpool.
Everyone had all different expressions.
The bronze level Fragrant Gill Tea plant had similar competing products and only had the price advantage. The iron level Fragrant Gill Tea plant had two magic effects and in an ocean environment, had high practical qualities.
While the silver level Fragrant Gill Tea plant was actually a hundred percent quality good.
In particular, it had three magic effects, fundamentally changing the value of the entire magic medicine!