Green Hill Journey (Continuation I)

There were twenty or thirty pieces of Ancient Sealed Jade laid out on the stall, each covered in a faint layer of Spiritual Light.

Due to the nature of Sealed Jade, it was said that not even a Spirit Transformation True Venerable could directly peer through and see what was hidden inside. Whether one could obtain something valuable therefore depended largely on luck.

Opening Sealed Jade was the best way to distinguish the luckiest from the unluckiest!

The stall owner had rather unusual rules. Any cultivator wishing to buy Ancient Sealed Jade had to write down their bid on Talisman Paper and hand it to him. After comparing the bids, he would sell it to the highest bidder.

In other words, it was a sealed bid.

There were twenty-eight pieces of Ancient Sealed Jade in total, and anyone could bid freely!

Wang Chen found this auction method quite interesting, so he bought five sheets of Talisman Paper from the stall owner.

He examined every piece of Ancient Sealed Jade on the stall, then placed his bids by feel.

As for the amount, Wang Chen wrote down one thousand Spirit Stones on every slip.

Wang Chen estimated that, at his price, he probably would not win even a single piece of Sealed Jade.

But neither did he want to be a sucker.

He was only playing around.

"Sealed Jade Number One, highest bid: three thousand seven hundred Spirits!"

"Congratulations, fellow Daoist!"

As the first bid was announced, the surrounding crowd erupted in an uproar—the price was far too high.

Opening Sealed Jade was a gamble where nine out of ten lost, and the risk was extremely high.

If it had been an open auction, some people might have gotten carried away in the heat of the moment and shouted out exorbitant