Eunuch Fu's analysis of the number of High-grade Spirit Stones Ye Zhen possessed had also reached Ye Zhen's ears through Big Ear's ears. The analysis was extremely precise.
The number he estimated had an error of no more than two hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
Ye Zhen had indeed spent 3.2 million High-grade Spirit Stones in the earlier bidding, leaving him with a total of 9.13 million High-grade Spirit Stones.
By that calculation, Yuan Hongying had been right—Ye Zhen really had made a fraudulent bid.
But the problem was that Ye Zhen had borrowed three million High-grade Spirit Stones from Ling Wangke using a bucket of Five-Clawed True Dragon blood essence.
That was where Ye Zhen's confidence lay.
Yet Yuan Hongying's final bid had crazily driven the price up to 12.4 million High-grade Spirit Stones.
Even counting the three million High-grade Spirit Stones borrowed from Ling Wangke, there was still a shortfall of three hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
However, three hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones was no longer a great sum. Without Ye Zhen even needing to ask, Ling Qianbi handed him all forty-odd thousand High-grade Spirit Stones she had on her.
Although Ye Zhen had other ways to gather three hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, after thinking it over, he accepted them anyway.
"Don't worry. I'll return these Spirit Stones to your granddaughter. I'm not as unbearable as you think." Ye Zhen said this to Ling Wangke, whose face was full of displeasure.
"Ah..."
Ling Wangke let out a long sigh. He now thoroughly understood the meaning of the words, "a daughter's heart turns outward."
Very soon, Five Immortals Hall sent two stewards over with considerable solemnity to settle the transaction with Ye Zhen. After confirming the number of Spirit Stones, they handed the Brilliant Extreme Flowing Gold,