Watching the woman's retreating back, the few other bidders beside him exchanged uncertain glances.
Their eyes turned to Li Ang, carrying a hint of wariness.
Li Ang, however, didn't chase after her or try to stop her.
He sat there in silence, waiting for the next item.
After that interruption, the previously gentle atmosphere in the room had clearly turned much more subdued.
The third auction item was a ten-thousand-year spirit herb, though it had only just barely reached ten thousand years.
Even so, it sold for more than a hundred million Federal Credits.
After all, ten-thousand-year spirit herbs were different from Dragon Scale Pills.
The materials needed for Dragon Scale Pills were only thousand-year spirit herbs. They were so precious simply because the recipe had been lost.
Of course, the recipe might not even be the most precious part. Some of those spirit herbs might no longer be found in this era, which was what made them especially valuable.
But a ten-thousand-year spirit herb was truly a strategic resource in this age. You simply couldn't buy one, even if you had money.
Going by market prices, a ten-thousand-year spirit herb would normally cost only a few tens of millions.
The problem was that you couldn't get one at all. Apart from a few other places in the Federation where they were cultivated, the largest supply was at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which belonged to the Tang Sect.
But that place was under the Tang Sect's control. Even if the Tang Sect released a batch every few years or decades, the quantity was still tiny.
Under these circumstances, the value of a single ten-thousand-year spirit herb was beyond imagination.
A ten-thousand-year spirit herb didn't mean it had to grow for ten thousand years. It meant that its