"At first, they drove up the price of the Earth Immortal Fruits. By the time we realized it, we couldn't get any more stock, but the price had already climbed to twenty Heavenly Crystals. We gritted our teeth and bought some anyway, yet the price kept rising. When it reached around thirty, we knew we'd fallen into their trap. Most of the fruit had actually been dumped on the market by them because it was about to expire. We obviously couldn't use that much ourselves, so we had no choice but to put it up for auction. But no one would even buy it with an opening bid of twenty. In the end, we had no choice but to consume it all internally. The losses were devastating..." Ruan Yu'er said gloomily.
"It wasn't just the Earth Immortal Fruits. Once we realized that most of the Heavenly Crystals were being spent on Earth Immortal Fruit transactions, as well as on some goods that were generally difficult to sell, the price of Heavenly Crystals began shooting up. Many things that could originally be exchanged for Heavenly Crystals became worthless. The Heavenly Market openly gathered up all the Heavenly Crystals. Not only that, the Earth Pavilion's suppression of us was even more excessive. Whatever our auction house sold that day, they would put out something identical or similar, then display it at a lower price in their public shops. We had no choice but to impose price limits on the auctions. Those goods had clearly been bought by us at high prices..." Fu Yu said with a bitter smile.
"Little Seven, do you have any way to deal with them this time? This business is truly difficult. If things really don't work out, we might as well return to Mount Fucang." Fu Yang