"Please place your bids for this soul stone, fellow Daoists. The starting price is one mid-grade spirit stone!" Song Ke announced as he always had.
Outwardly, he showed no sign of anything unusual.
Most people present did not know what this soul stone truly meant. They mostly assumed this was simply another ordinary auction, just like before.
But when the first person began bidding, the difference immediately became apparent.
"Ten thousand top-grade spirit stones!"
Under normal circumstances, prices were generally raised step by step. At most, competition would occasionally cause the bidding process to accelerate.
But a leap from one mid-grade spirit stone directly to ten thousand top-grade spirit stones was still exceedingly rare.
Since this Myriad Treasures Convention had begun, excluding this instance, such a thing had only happened once before.
It was the auction just now that had reached three million two hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones.
It was precisely because of that enormous jump in price that many people had mistakenly believed that soul stone contained the Ancient Dragon Horn, and amid the increasingly fierce competition, they had become ever more convinced of it.
Thus, when the same thing suddenly happened again, people immediately thought of that earlier occasion. They all perked up, wondering whether another sky-high price would appear.
Amid everyone's shocked discussions, the shouted bids continued to soar madly.
In just a short while, the price had risen from ten thousand top-grade spirit stones to over five hundred thousand.
"Seven hundred thousand!"
"Nine hundred thousand!"
"One million!"
Bids rose and fell one after another. Just moments ago, people had still been marveling at the price exceeding five hundred thousand, but in the blink of an eye, it had already surpassed one million.
And this was only the beginning.
The price alternated upward at a rapid