In the following days, Alex bought many more things.
He bought some beautiful dresses for his mother and daughter, and seeds of some trees to plant in the house gardens for his various sect friends and elders.
He bought an impressive wind sword for his master and serene water armor for his senior sister.
He bought books with immortal stories from the Immortal worlds to read. Fiction they may be, they were quite important.
He bought books on talismans, formations, and artifacts, not just for himself but for his mother as well. She had nearly the same talent as him after all.
He bought an Impressive Wood treasure for his daughter, and more armor for his father to wear.
He bought impressive pill furnaces that were works of art for his subordinates as well as his friends from the Hong Wu sect.
He bought more weapons and more armor and many other things. But all of them were for his elders, family or friends, or subordinates. After the mirror, no item came forth that he wanted to buy for himself.
Until now.
On the 11th day of the auction, presented by a lady in a blue dress, came an item that Alex wanted to buy.
A brush.
The brush appeared to be a simple brush with a long handle and soft bristles at first.
The handle was of red and blue color, matching its name with an undulating pattern when one color tried to take over the other, but neither managed to ever truly mix.
The bristle was stark white, made from the fur of a thick yak, cured and tempered for years before it reached the softness it did.
It was no ordinary brush either. Named the Frostfire Inkbrush, the brush was a Saint-ranked artifact deemed as a multi-functional brush that could be used for more purposes than one.
As it was a brush, Alex's first thought had gone toward Painting, and had wanted to buy it just because of that. However, when the explanation for the brush came, he was more shocked than surprised.
It was made with 3 functions as intended for its use. The first was making paintings. As a brush, it was fabulous with colors, holding onto every single drop of paint, leaving only as much as intended by the users.
The brush was made using compounding, so it could change in size as one wished for it to as well. It could be large or small as per the user's wish, making for an amazing brush with amazing flexibility.
It could also retract its bristles into itself, as much as the user wanted. So one could draw thin or thick strokes as they wanted to.
Because of the ability to grow small as well as the ability to grow large, and the ability to retract bristles, the brush was also fantastic for making talismans.
When Alex heard the functionality of the brush, he nearly slapped his forehead. He was so distracted by the painting's possibility, that he managed to forget about its possibility in talismans.
So, he was more than a little surprised when he heard about it. However, that surprise could hold no candle to the surprise and awe he felt when he heard that the brush could also make Formations.
The bristles could retract into the brush entirely, leaving an opening for a nib to come out, that could not only be used to write, if need be, but also carve onto a metal plate or rod.
It was strong enough and sharp enough to carve through any metal alloys, even the stronger ones. That way, it could make perfect formations.
An all-in-one brush like that meant one didn't need to carry various things to make use of it.
Alex looked through the pen on the screen that appeared before him and wondered if anyone would want to buy it as much as he did.
There was a high chance that only a few of them did 2 or all 3 of the things that the brush was capable of. As such, Alex believed the brush was safely his item.
As expected, there weren't many bidders that bid for the pen. The bidding started at 6 thousand and it went up. Alex told the elders to continue bidding and they did until they won with a bid of 11 thousand and 330 Saint Spirit stones.
"Damn, that cost more than what some of my pills are going to be sold at," Alex said softly. The pen was a genuine find, so he didn't worry much about the money.
As a King, money was the last thing he had to worry about anyway.
The amount of Saint spirit stones that he had been given by the beasts throughout 7 different colonies had been enough for him to buy most of what he wanted with that money.
It was for the other few that he had to pull out from his own pockets.
Once the brush disappeared from the auction, other treasures took its place, each wanted to be sold with as high a bid as they could get.
Eternal Lotus Incense, an incense that helped users focus during meditation was sold for 8500 Saint Spirit stones.
Frostbloom Snowstone, a Yin aura natural treasure that could provide one with Yin aura whenever required, was sold for 9300 Saint Spirit stones.
Scroll of Alchemic Ingredients, a scroll that held the list of very rare ingredients, and what they did was sold for 12000 Saint Spirit stones.
One after another, piece by piece, treasures continued to be sold for another few days until Alex came across something else that he needed to buy.
A Fan of green color with drawings of clouds was presented to everyone.
"This is the Nine Clouds Wind fan," the auctioneer spoke. "It's not a fighting treasure, even though you may use it as one."
"A single movement of this fan causes winds to spring up out of it. But not ordinary wind," the woman said. "What comes out of it is in fact winds holding the truth of the Wind Dao. if you wish to learn the Dao of the Wind, you will definitely want to buy this."
