"These holy lands and major sects are testing one another, while also rapidly driving the price beyond anything ordinary people could ever reach, crushing everyone else's hopes. At the same time... are they also laying the groundwork for that 'mysterious additional auction item' later on? Draining each other's financial resources?"
Miss Tantai nodded, her expression somewhat complicated.
"Negotiations between holy lands are often like this. What appears to be simple bidding may conceal countless calculations and compromises.
"This Heavenly Origin Token is valuable, but it is neither unique nor absolutely essential. To some who are determined to obtain it, it is the goal; to others, it may merely be a bargaining chip or... a tool to exhaust their opponents."
She looked at Gu Sheng and asked,
"Big Brother Gu Sheng, regarding this Heavenly Origin Token..."
Gu Sheng did not answer directly. Instead, he asked,
"In your opinion, what price will this item likely sell for in the end?"
Miss Tantai pondered briefly.
"Heavenly Origin Tokens have appeared at auction before. The highest price ever reached was a staggering thirty-seven million top-grade Spirit Stones. This time, because so many top holy lands have unexpectedly appeared, the competition may be even fiercer. But considering the diversion caused by that 'mysterious auction item'... it may fluctuate around forty million?"
Before she had even finished speaking—
"Fifty million."
A woman's cool, calm voice suddenly rang out from the Tianyi private room on the third floor, carrying an overwhelming aura that crushed the entire venue.
It was the Zi Xiao Saintess!
The entire auction hall instantly fell into dead silence!
F-Fifty million?! She had nearly doubled the price from the base of twenty to thirty million?! This was no longer bidding—it was... smashing the auction house?!
Even Hong Xiao, the auctioneer, froze on the stage