Fierce Auction

As she spoke, Zhuge Jing lightly raised her jade-like hand, and the lights on the stage immediately converged upon a single spot.

What appeared before everyone was a small white porcelain bottle. At the sight of it, the gazes of the crowd instantly grew much hotter.

"I trust everyone has already heard of what is inside this little porcelain bottle.

That's right, it is a fourth-grade medicinal pill—the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill!

The Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill shall begin at one million!"

With a smile on her face, Zhuge Jing opened with a lion's mouth bid. Her opening price made everyone below the stage shudder.

"Pfft...

Cough, cough. She's clearly trying to fleece people, and she's doing it ruthlessly..."

The actual value of a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill was only around seven hundred thousand gold coins, yet this woman had gone straight for the jugular.

Upon hearing that price, Xiao Xuan spat out the tea he had just taken into his mouth. He then could not help but twitch his lips and shake his head inwardly.

Women in business really did eat people without spitting out the bones.

Although Zhuge Jing's price quieted the atmosphere in the auction house for a moment, some people quickly began scrambling to bid.

After all, in front of a beauty, they would rather die than lose face!

"One million and fifty thousand!"

A young man whose brain had apparently been flooded held a jade fan. After striking what he thought was a graceful pose, he cleared his throat and shouted loudly.

After calling out his price, the man deliberately smiled elegantly at Zhuge Jing, then tossed his head in what he considered a dashing manner, intending to charm her with a hair flip.

His heart was bleeding, but his face remained calm. Only, his lecherous eyes were fixed tightly upon Zhuge Jing's full breasts, and drool unconsciously trickled from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing the man's unsightly behavior, Zhuge Jing wished she could go down and slap him several times.

Yet her pretty face maintained its perfect smile as she laughed softly at the crowd below. "This young master has bid one million and fifty thousand. Is there anyone offering more?"

With someone taking the lead, those who followed naturally surged forth one after another.

The increasingly higher bids made the smile on Zhuge Jing's pretty face grow ever more radiant.

After ten minutes of bidding, the first auction item, the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, finally settled at the staggering price of one million five hundred and ten thousand.

"One million five hundred and ten thousand..."

Throwing away fortunes just to win a beauty's smile—had these people gotten their heads caught in a door crack?

Women had their own advantages as well.

Xiao Xuan rubbed his chin and pondered inwardly. The price of just one auction item was already this high; he truly did not know how fierce the competition for the following items would become.

Zhuge Jing looked over the crowd below and smiled charmingly. With a wave of her jade-like hand, a young girl carrying a silver tray gracefully walked onto the auction stage.

"Everyone, this is the second item to be auctioned today: the Madman Armor.

This armor was personally forged by a renowned artifact-forging master from the Imperial Capital. It has been appraised by our auction house and can withstand a full-force strike from a Dou Wang expert!"

The moment these words were spoken, the audience below immediately erupted into commotion.

It could withstand the full-force attack of a Dou Wang expert. Such spirit armor could indeed save one's life at a critical moment.

Lifting the brocade cloth, she took out a jade-green inner armor from the tray.

"This item shall begin at three million gold coins!"

Although this price was rather high, defensive inner armor was quite rare, and inner armor capable of blocking a Dou Wang expert's attack was rarer still. Thus, after a brief lull, the atmosphere became heated once more.

Xiao Xuan leaned back lazily, watching the others in the auction house fight over it with the mindset of a spectator. In the eyes of a Dou Zong like him, these things were not worth mentioning. Unless something unexpected happened, he likely would not bid again.

As time passed, the auction gradually entered its final stages. The items being sold became increasingly rare and valuable, while the atmosphere in the hall was stirred to ever greater heights.

In a place like this, it was easy to understand what it meant to spend money like dirt.

"Ice Spirit Cold Saliva, a strange liquid formed beneath ancient mystic ice in the far northern lands. It has only one effect: increasing the chances of successfully subduing Heavenly Flames.

As everyone knows, Heavenly Flames possess the power to destroy heaven and earth. Even ghosts and gods fear such things. Just imagine—if you yourselves could possess Heavenly Flames, what a wondrous thing that would be."

The instant Xiao Xuan heard the words "Ice Spirit Cold Saliva," he suddenly snapped awake. A sharp gleam flashed through his eyes, and a smile surfaced on his face.

His gaze hurriedly shifted to the jade box containing the Ice Spirit Cold Saliva. Inside, the box was neatly covered by a thick layer of ice, and at the center of that ice sat a tiny carnelian jade bottle.

Cold mist curled around the jade bottle. Even from so far away, Xiao Xuan could still feel that bone-chilling cold...

The frigid air filled the entire auction house, and in an instant, the temperature within plummeted.

"Hehe, the Ice Spirit Cold Saliva shall begin at ten million gold coins."

Hearing that price, Xiao Xuan could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

When the people below heard Zhuge Jing's quote, their previously eager expressions immediately wilted like frostbitten eggplants.

A high-level Earth Rank cultivation method or Dou Technique would probably cost no more than this. If this thing were auctioned as well, wouldn't that mean the Ice Spirit Cold Saliva was worth enough to rival a Heavenly Rank Dou Technique or cultivation method?

What a damn rip-off. It was far too dark. Xiao Xuan could only sigh inwardly that he still lacked experience.

"Ten million one hundred thousand."

Following the voice, Xiao Xuan looked over and saw that the bidder was a white-haired old man. His face was somewhat gloomy, his eyes as sharp as an eagle's. A Dou Emperor.

"Ten million two hundred thousand!"

"Ten million three hundred thousand!"

Amid the rising and falling calls of bids, the price of the Ice Spirit Cold Saliva gradually climbed to around thirteen million gold coins. After that, no one spoke again.

The bidders all wore hesitant expressions. Clearly, the Ice Spirit Cold Saliva was not their target for this auction.

Before long, they all gave up bidding.

"Huh, everyone stopped bidding? I thought you had more resolve than that. Since no one else wants it, it's my turn.

Fifteen million gold coins."

"What?!"

What spoiled brat was this? He had actually forced the auction price up to the astronomical sum of fifteen million gold coins. Quite a few people cursed inwardly.

The voice immediately caused an uproar throughout the hall, and countless astonished gazes turned toward the auction room where Xiao Xuan was.

Even Zhuge Jing curiously looked toward Xiao Xuan's private room. She had heard of that extravagantly wealthy fellow as well.

He was the rich young master who had casually thrown out one hundred thousand gold coins just for a private room.

She had not expected him to be this lavish. The moment he opened his mouth to bid, he raised the price straight to fifteen million.