A Pricey Puppet

"Is it serious business?" the three asked, puzzled.

Just then, Liu Wu's slightly arrogant voice rang out from below the stage. "Alright, let's now move on to the final stage of the auction!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes narrowed. Finally, was the mysterious Battle Puppet about to appear before them?

With a flick of his sleeve, Liu Wu conjured a life-sized, jet-black humanoid puppet before everyone's eyes. However, many powerful figures showed disappointment upon seeing it.

It's just a mere Dou Zong Realm Puppet. Although it's not bad, it doesn't deserve any attention.

Liu Wu ignored the crowd's reactions, simply smiled slightly, and explained:

"This is the first puppet in this auction. It's not very strong, only at the Dou Zong Peak. But with its powerful physical body, it can fight Dou Zun expert for a hundred rounds without showing any signs of weakness!"

The preceding content was fine, but the last sentence, "able to fight Dou Zun expert for a hundred rounds without showing any signs of weakness," quickly piqued everyone's curiosity.

The gap between Dou Zong and Dou Zun is like a chasm. Normally, a newly-entered Dou Zun expert can easily defeat several Dou Zong Peak experts working together.

It's quite interesting that this seemingly ordinary puppet could achieve such a level!

Especially those forces that lacked Dou Zun expert or Dou Zun were nearing their end and lacked high-end combat power, looked at the black puppet with much more fervent eyes.

"Alright, the starting bid for this puppet..." Liu Wu drawled out.

"Five million gold coins!"

"Each bid increase must be at least 500,000!"

That's right, even in Central Plains, the main currency for transactions is still gold coins.

Events like the Space Trading Fair, where all participants are powerful individuals and the number of participants is extremely small, are ultimately rare.

The Langya Auction House has several thousand people seated today. If they all come to barter, will they still be able to keep operating?

Moreover, bartering is mostly used for extremely valuable items, and obviously, a Dou Zong puppet is not qualified for it.

The moment Liu Wu announced the starting price, the price of the puppet began to rise at an alarming rate.

"Six million!" "Six million five hundred thousand!"

"Ten million!"

"Eighteen million!"

Finally, the price surged to nearly 20 million before slowing down. Even so, the price continues to grow slowly and steadily.

Seeing the way so many people were acting, Xiao Yan, inside the private room, wiped away a cold sweat. This price...

Even a typical high- Earth Rank Advanced Dou Techniques wouldn't be this valuable, yet this puppet is worth so much!

Some forces don't lack money, they just lack the power to protect it. Clearly, Langya Pavilion's Battle Puppet have given them just such an opportunity, and they're still relentlessly adding more money to the scheme.

Then Xiao Yan looked at the composed Venerable Feng and asked, "Uncle-Master, shouldn't we make a move?"

"What's the rush!" Venerable Feng glanced at Xiao Yan with amusement. "We don't need to bother with this puppet!"

"What do you mean?" Xiao Yan asked, puzzled. Weren't they here for the puppet?

Moreover, a puppet that is almost comparable to Dou Zun is now the third strongest in the Starfall Pavilion. Isn't that tempting enough?

"Check if anyone else has made a move," Venerable Feng reminded him.

Xiao Yan glanced at the other private rooms. Although he didn't know what was going on in them, no bids were being made from those rooms, indicating that they were planning the same thing.

At this moment, Venerable Feng explained, "Although this puppet is not bad, it is merely a stepping stone thrown out by the Langya Pavilion and cannot be considered anything of value."

"Even more powerful puppets are yet to come."

"Those shrewd individuals are all waiting!" Venerable Feng sneered.

"Oh." Xiao Yan understood, but he became even more curious about the puppet.

While the others had their own thoughts, Xiao Wu and his companions were equally surprised by the auction of the Battle Puppet.

"Teacher, if I remember correctly, we seem to have quite a lot of Battle Puppet, right?" Xiao Wu didn't put it too directly, only saying that there were quite a lot.

In fact, some Elder and disciples of the Langya Pavilion are already able to create Battle Puppet at the Dou Emperor level. It won't be long before Dou Zong Dou Zun puppets, but they can definitely mass-produce them.

Xiao Wu couldn't even imagine the scene of those gold coins burying him alive. Goodness, everyone says that the Pill Tower's pills are a highly profitable industry, practically robbery.

Their Langya Pavilion also has a monopoly on wholesale puppets!

Xiao Han shook his head, denying it, saying, "Things aren't that simple."

"We can't sell the puppets in large quantities, otherwise, the entire Central Plains will be thrown into chaos."

Xiao Wu nodded in understanding. Puppets can easily cause a collapse in combat power levels. Just imagine how great it would be if, in the future, when the strong in the Central Plains were fighting, one of them pulled out two puppets!

At that time, Langya Pavilion, which had disrupted market order, would probably be attacked by the masses.

Moreover, Xiao Han was well aware that the materials for this thing were extremely limited. It seemed that the materials that could be used to create a Dou Holy Grade puppet had already disappeared. His Two-Star Dou Sheng- level puppet was only achieved by taking a shortcut.

The materials for Dou Zun Puppet are scarce, while the materials for Dou Zong and other common puppets are more widely available. Basically, that's the range of materials available.

We auction off some high-level puppets from time to time, sell Dou Zong puppets regularly and in limited quantities, and then there are all the other puppets that are just for fun. You bid, I'll bid!

Finally...

This puppet was purchased by the head of a relatively powerful and wealthy Second-rate Force in Central Plains for a huge sum of 23 million gold coins.

This price is actually almost the same as the value of a powerful high- High-grade Earth-tier Cultivation Method.

However, high-level Cultivation Techniques and Combat Skills have always been in short supply. For many people, it's like having money but nowhere to spend it; the best thing is to be able to convert it into strength.

Just when everyone thought there would be even more powerful puppets up for auction, Liu Wu laughed heartily and said, "The next item up for auction is not a puppet, but a special Dou Techniques."

Then, amidst the disapproving gazes of the crowd, Liu Wu began to demonstrate the Five Round Separating Fire Method.

Xiao Yan had been listening casually, but when he heard Liu Wu say that "the combination of four Exotic Fire can unleash power comparable to Heaven Tier Dou Technique," he suddenly stood up.

And then they turned their gaze to Venerable Feng, whose eyes were also slightly narrowed. Had the heavens been on their Starfall Pavilion's side lately?

Yao Chen not only returned to the Starfall Pavilion, but also broke through to the Dou Sheng. This time, he encountered such a bizarre Dou Techniques.

If it were just bizarre, that would be one thing, but after hearing the introduction, it's clear that this Dou Techniques was practically tailor-made for him, Xiao Yan's junior disciple!

With three of Xiao Yan's own Exotic Fire plus the Bone Chilling Cold Fire stored in Xiao Yan's body by Elder Yao, he possesses four Exotic Fire in one body. Venerable Feng wants to ask, who else can compare?!

"Don't worry, junior disciple, this Dou Techniques is guaranteed!" Venerable Feng said confidently.

As Venerable Feng had predicted, for some people other than Xiao Yan, the Five Round Separating Fire Method was just a slightly stronger Earth Rank Advanced Dou Techniques. Although it was precious, they didn't care about having that one. They wanted to save their strength to bid for high-level puppets!

Those with the resources don't want it, and those who do want it don't have the money to bid!

Therefore, Venerable Feng easily won the bid for a mere 30 million, which is a huge bargain!

"So that little guy actually managed to buy it!" Xiao Han's lips curled up.

These Five Round Separating Fire Method were a gift that Xiao Han specially gave to Xiao Yan. It was a reasonable free gift, and he was very happy with it!

Xiao Han then continued to focus on the auction of the next three puppets. The three puppets, with strengths of two-star, five-star, and Eight-Star Dou Zun respectively, were directly auctioned off by the Starfall Pavilion, Burning Flame Valley, and Pill Tower for 80 million, 200 million, and 90 million respectively.

As for what happened after that, Xiao Han didn't care anymore; once the puppet was sold, that was the end of it.

Then, he looked at Xiao Wu, who was about to slip away quietly, with a playful expression, "My dear disciple, where are you going?"

Xiao Wu turned around with a bitter expression. "Teacher, how about we go somewhere else?"

"At least give me, your senior, some face, okay?"

"Go out!" Xiao Han said with a smile.

"Yes~" Xiao Wu said weakly.

Then, Xian'er and the other person vaguely heard Xiao Han's scolding voice. "You brat, you think you're all grown up now, huh? You even dare to sneak out like this..."

"He's such a grown man and still single. Look at Sheng Han, he's about to become a father..."

"I've been busy cultivating, haven't I?" Xiao Wu retorted.

"Cultivation?" Xiao Han's tone became even angrier. "Sheng Han is already Two-Star Dou Sheng, and you... you're just a piece of trash who just broke through to One-Star Dou Sheng!"

"Teacher, that's a double standard! You were only at the Dou Zun Peak back then!"

"Traitor, die!"

A scream rang out, and the whole world fell silent.

Xian'er and Ye Xinlan were left looking at each other in bewilderment.