The next day, at the seventy-ninth auction house of the Suixin Dharma Assembly, the special incense session had already reached its final ten lots. Only then did Ji Yuan and Zi Qu enter the venue and take their seats in the very last row.
Yesterday, Zhan Shuicheng wanted to acquire some top-tier incense, so Zi Qu naturally did not dare to be negligent. To this end, she even lowered her pride and sought out Ji Yuan again, asking him for an invitation to the special incense session so she could come to the venue in person to bid. She slipped out while Zhan Shuicheng was sleeping, and Ji Yuan had people keep an eye on the earlier lots, timing their arrival for the most crucial moment.
Although certain incenses could fetch astronomical prices and make numerous cultivators fight tooth and nail for them, overall, this sort of item was not particularly popular. Even though they had reached the most critical juncture, there were not all that many people in the hall, yet the atmosphere felt somewhat tense.
"There was an incense formula earlier that drew over seventy rounds of bidding, and the atmosphere was really whipped up. But as for the next one, people will probably need to catch their breath first."
Ji Yuan introduced the situation to Zi Qu, his spirits quite high. Ever since Zhan Shuicheng, that top-tier talisman grandmaster, took up residence in Yuangguang Pavilion, no end of people wanted to cozy up to her and forge a connection, yet they were all given the cold shoulder without exception. Only he, despite not meeting Zhan Shuicheng in person, had managed to ask out her personal maid—the saying about being close to the water to catch the moonlight first truly applied here.
The earlier bidding had indeed been