Third update today: Chapter 2187! 3/3!
This time, Xu Kun personally paid them a visit. After a round of sweet talk and promises, he left the various beast-race islands in high spirits.
Clearly, he had finalized some cooperative arrangements with the various races.
"That bastard is up to something again. Why is he everywhere?" Zhu Jiu cursed inwardly.
At the same time, he was making moves as well. Not only did he continue squeezing the subordinate races for all kinds of resources that could be exchanged for spirit stones, but he also began raising contributions within the Dragon Race.
"Xu Kun, let's see who comes out on top this time!"
Pooling money to bid on the fruit—the auction finally seemed to be entering a normal phase.
Seeing that the atmosphere had reached the right point, Blood Luo spoke at the right moment. "In that case, the auction for this artificial Dao Thunder Fruit shall now begin. The starting bid remains one S-Tier Spirit Stone!"
As usual, the first to call out bids were members of the smaller races who knew full well they had no chance of winning the fruit and were merely there to warm up the crowd.
After making the rounds among the various beast races, Xu Kun returned to the human island.
Yang Yao asked curiously, "Little Kun, how many spirit stones did you gather?"
Xu Kun held up two fingers. Aside from the Titan Race's promise of ten thousand SSS-Rank Spirit Stones, he had also borrowed another ten thousand SSS-Rank Spirit Stones from the various beast races.
In total, he had gathered enough capital for twenty thousand SSS-Rank Spirit Stones to compete for this fruit.
The others had also pooled together the spirit stones they carried.
After everything was tallied, Xu Kun's available pool of