However, before the first person to raise his hand had even had time to celebrate, a whole swath of hands shot up to raise the bid. I quietly watched as the price climbed to four pieces and then stopped. The entire field had shrunk from two-thirds of the crowd to one percent, and I calmly raised it to ten Heaven-Origin Jades.
"Eleven pieces." As expected, Jin Tao did not disappoint and immediately entered the bidding war.
"Twenty pieces." A cold smile curled at the corner of my lips as I directly put forward an enormous raise. This time, it was Jin Tao's turn to turn livid as he hesitated over whether to continue bidding.
"Hey, Jin Tao, you said you'd handle this round. What are you hesitating for?" Sure enough, when the female attendant called for the second time, Huang Ling could no longer sit still.
Jin Tao grew anxious as well. "He bid twenty pieces, not twenty-one! He raised it by nine pieces in one go. Are you stupid?"
"I'm stupid? Jin Tao, have you grown senile? How dare you speak to my Flying Phoenix Valley like that?" Huang Ling's face immediately stiffened. Seeing that they were no longer bidding, the female attendant could only prepare to call the third time.
"Twenty-one pieces!" Huang Ling naturally refused to let the attendant continue, so she could only grit her teeth and add one more piece. This left Jin Tao staring wide-eyed, while Huang Ling continued through clenched teeth, "You can't just make me raise the bid while doing nothing yourself, can you? Didn't we agree not to leave him anything at all? What if what he wants isn't the Innate Embryonic Breath, but this thing instead?!"
Jin Tao looked toward me and said with a frown, "He has cultivated for