The King of Auctions drew its inspiration from the blind-box auction gameplay of Shipping Containers and the treasure-hunting gameplay of Loot-and-Extract.
The design was that simple. Yet paired with cheap AI art and a basic UI, it had somehow pulled in a whopping 20,000 concurrent players during testing.
That alone showed the potential of this kind of gameplay.
Lu Ze had put the King of Auctions into the Immortal Abyss Continent Operation not only to ride its popularity, but for another reason.
He wanted to drain the Spirit Stones from players' warehouses.
In Lu Ze's previous life, the damned developers had raised prices again and again to burn through the currency players held, leaving ordinary players miserable.
Now that the King of Auctions offered another way to have fun, players' Spirit Stones had somewhere new to go.
The transfer between the two modes went only one way.
Cultivators could exchange Spirit Stones from Grave Robbing Mode for auction-mode Spirit Stones when they went broke;
they could not exchange them back.
Otherwise, it would affect his Demonic Value income.
In theory, a cultivator who played cautiously enough could always turn a profit on the beginner auction maps.
Zhong Yi was doing just that.
After half an hour battling through the two beginner maps, [Blind Box Pile] and [Air-Shipped Cargo Crates], Zhong Yi's assets had climbed steadily and were about to pass one million.
His strategy was simple: use Mai Xiaowen's Skill to gather information, estimate each item's value, and never get reckless.
Whenever he won a container, he almost never ended up in the red.
Even when he occasionally overvalued one, he did not lose much.
This Shipping Container was packed with valuables. In a rare stroke of luck, it even held a red item.
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