By the time Ye Jingcheng returned to the auction room, the auction was drawing to a close. The intervals between bids grew longer and longer, until the final price settled at thirteen hundred high-grade spirit stones.
The auction gradually dispersed, and the decorative spiritual lights faded. The once-silent hall became a clamorous din.
Cultivators headed out of the auction hall one after another.
Since this was a fifth-stage auction, even the Demon Prefecture only held one every few decades, or even a century. Thus, even those who had bought nothing were still discussing it with relish, reluctant to let it end.
"Jingcheng, we bought the ancient treasure and the blood essence!" Ye Jingyu stepped forward and spoke as soon as the door opened.
There had been five finale treasures: Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, the ancient treasure Great Luo Umbrella, the fifth-stage magical treasure Origin Flood Dragon Shears, the fifth-stage Golden Glass Jade Purity Pill bearing pill patterns, and a mid-fifth-stage spirit puppet.
The Jiang Family and the Xuan Puppet Sect would spare no effort to purchase the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng. Thus, although the Ye Family coveted it, they had not bid on it, bidding only on the ancient treasure and blood essence instead.
Ye Jingyu was among the few who knew that a demon saint had secretly made a move against Ye Jingcheng. Even now, lingering fear gripped him. If anything had happened to Ye Jingcheng, it would have meant his cultivation of the Heaven-Divining Nine Stars Spirit Canon was inadequate, and he would have let the entire Ye Family down.
But once Ye Jingcheng emerged and he successfully purchased the fifth-stage demon fox blood at a fairly modest price, he knew everything should be all right.
"Thank you for your efforts, Fourth Brother." Ye Jingcheng paid little attention to the