"Thirty billion!" Just as Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong were brooding over why these two mighty figures had come to join the commotion, someone else bid, raising the price by ten billion in one breath. Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong immediately recognized the voice: it belonged to Heavenly Venerable Daoling.
"Bidder A-55 offers thirty billion!" Alchemy Spirit Child hastily announced.
"Uh! Forget it! I was thinking of getting it for my young disciple!" Great Gong Diamond abruptly changed his tune, apparently abandoning the bidding. The cultivators inwardly broke into a sweat. He really did spoil his disciple. Not long ago, he had spent five billion on a High-Grade Spirit Treasure, and now he had been ready to spend tens of billions on this Wooden Dragon Blossom Dew? But once they recalled who his so-called young disciple was, they felt rather less surprised. After a pause, he said to Ghost Sword Deity, "Hmph! Don't tell me an old fellow like you still needs this stuff!"
"Heh heh!" Ghost Sword Deity merely chuckled without answering.
Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong exchanged glances. Since Heavenly Venerable Daoling had bid, they naturally refrained from bidding themselves. Hearing him deliberately call out in his real voice, Li Xiaoya understood: he was clearly reminding them not to compete. Most participating cultivators went to every possible length to conceal their identities, and naturally would not use their real voices.
Sure enough, once Heavenly Venerable Daoling offered thirty billion, no one else contested it, and he secured the Wooden Dragon Blossom Dew. In truth, refining the Demon-Expelling Pill did not require that much dew, but this was not oil, salt, soy sauce, or vinegar that could be bought by weight. Some of it would go to waste.
Although Wooden Dragon Blossom Dew had excellent effects, few individual cultivators