The auction began not long after Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen arrived. After all, this was no large-scale auction. Even the most prestigious lot was worth only a million Gold Soul Coins. It fell somewhere between a low- and mid-tier auction, the sort held as a matter of routine.
Notices had to be sent out specifically, along with invitations.
Although there was nothing particularly good, Meng Hongchen still displayed a woman's natural instinct: buy, buy, buy.
There were twenty lots in total, and Meng Hongchen bought eight of the first ten. Almost all of them were useless.
Huo Yuhao did not mind, though. He had money anyway. Inside his Storage Soul Tool were soul guidance gold coin cards worth three hundred million.
He had set all that aside to buy the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo. Of course, he certainly would not appear in person.
When the time came, he would have his Six-Winged Angel Clone buy the lot for him. Money in one hand, goods in the other.
He did not believe anyone on Douluo Star had greater financial might than he did, apart from the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
But know yourself and know your enemy. Huo Yuhao had all of Jing Hongchen's resources firmly in his grasp, and he knew their bidding limit perfectly well.
This was what they called soliciting investment. Huo Yuhao already knew the bottom price, so naturally, he was determined to win.
The Hongchen Family had brought no more than two hundred and fifty million this time. In other words, even after selling all their Soul Tools, they could raise at most two hundred and fifty million.
Huo Yuhao had prepared another fifty million on top of that. It was foolproof. And even if someone could afford that price, he still had plenty of Soul