Bidding?
Becoming a sucker?
Luo Chen sneered inwardly.
"No. I won't wade into this muddy water."
"But don't you want to stay in Mount Tai Market?"
Luo Chen hesitated for a moment before deciding to speak frankly.
"I really don't."
"Hm?"
In the Li Family's private room, surprise appeared on Li Yixian's face.
"Why?"
"Do you want to stay here? Stay in a marketplace run by the Kang Family for centuries, in a place where power has changed hands and the new masters possess both immense strength and powerful backing? I'm afraid that, after enough years, they'll swallow you whole, bones and all!"
Li Yixian frowned. "But..."
"There are no buts. Perhaps, for the sake of your families, you seek a safe place to develop without too much conflict. But my heart is set on the Great Dao, and this place has only one Second-Order Spirit Vein, divided between two families."
At last, Luo Chen softly added one sentence.
"If you want to fight for it, Luo doesn't mind lending you ten thousand."
After those words, silence lingered for a long time.
Only the increasingly strained bids echoed through the palace hall.
Huo Hu sat among them, smiling as he listened to the bids from both sides.
Even when there were long pauses between bids, he never called out a first or second time.
Still, as he looked toward the private rooms of the Luo Tian Association and the Li Family, his expression turned somewhat displeased.
They weren't giving him any face!
With two families missing from the bidding, the atmosphere simply wasn't lively enough!
Inside the Li Family's private room.
Li Yixian's cherry lips had opened several times, ready to join the bidding.
Yet Luo Chen's words kept resurfacing in her mind.
For the family's sake, Mount Tai Market