Choked until he could not speak, he could only grit his teeth under all those watching eyes and squeeze out a smile uglier than crying.
"Then according to Brother Fu, how should this auction proceed?"
"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Ding, there's no need to be anxious. Even if you didn't ask me about this matter, I would have said it."
What kind of cunning figure was Fu Tianheng? How could he not understand the other party's fury? Yet he turned a blind eye to it, still looking perfectly composed and at leisure.
"In truth, I said it long ago. If materials are used as the auction item, the rules are also very simple. I will list out the inventory. After the base-price materials are provided, whoever can offer more additional materials will, in the end, be able to win the talisman they want. So, fellow daoists, there is no need to be impatient, and no need to keep fighting over it here. The list Fu just provided was merely the base-price materials."
"What?"
"Are you joking?"
"This is way too much of a trap."
The moment Fu Tianheng finished speaking, the crowd below exploded into uproar. This was no wonder. One had to know that the list he had just set out contained nearly a hundred kinds of heavenly treasures and earthly gems. Though they were not treasures that could only be met by chance and not sought, every single one was still rather rare. Added together, their value could well be imagined—it would be an extremely enormous figure. And this was only the base price. It was truly a little...
How to put it?
A little too bullying. One had to know that at auctions, the difference between the base price and the final transaction price was often extremely