The numbers on the soul-powered screen kept creeping upward, a million Gold Soul Coins at a time.
At that moment, Jing Hongchen, who was sitting on the sofa in Room Four, slapped his hand down and called out the staggering bid of 1.3 billion Gold Soul Coins.
The numbers on the screen instantly jumped to 1.3 billion Gold Soul Coins.
Only then did the numbers on the soul-powered screen finally stop moving.
He had raised the bid by two hundred million in one stroke. Jing Hongchen's face had turned somewhat green. He had originally hoped to secure this supreme treasure with a single bid of one billion, but it turned out that quite a few factions on the continent had the means to compete.
1.3 billion was already the limit of what he had available. If he wanted to go any higher, he would have to sell some precious soul tools on the spot.
Clearly, however, the figure of 1.3 billion carried considerable weight. It had indeed cowed some of the bidders.
The Dou Ling Empire had already chosen to stop bidding. Spending 1.3 billion on a soul bone, even one that was six hundred and ninety thousand years old, was far less cost-effective than using that money to buy several Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
Du Busi had been cowed as well. Previously, the bids had risen by a million at a time, with the largest increase only a little over ten million. Yet now someone had suddenly added another two hundred million.
If he kept bidding and nobody followed him, wouldn't he be screwed?
In the end, Du Busi also chose to withdraw from the bidding. He had only come to drive up the price in the first place. Now that it had reached such heights, there was