As the auction continued, Zhou Qingshu kept glancing at the girl who had won the Five-Flavor Pill. She was not beautiful, but she was fairly pretty. Those especially lovely peach-blossom eyes, in particular, always seemed at odds with her current face, as though they did not quite belong.
Yet what concerned him most was still the Five-Flavor Pill that had landed in the girl's pocket. Thinking of his lineage's current circumstances, he could not help feeling a surge of bitterness.
Having achieved his aim, Zhou Haotian left without even waiting for the auction to end. He looked to be in quite a good mood as he departed.
All manner of rare treasures appeared next, bringing the auction to its climax.
Among them was even a Spirit Artifact. But all four of them already had Spirit Artifacts of their own, so naturally, the auction house's offerings held little appeal.
At that moment, several people behind the scenes at the auction house were observing the proceedings.
Upon seeing Su Jiu and her companions, a Man in Black involuntarily sat up straighter and asked the attendant beside him, "Was this young fellow daoist the one who just bought the Five-Flavor Pill for six hundred thousand?"
The attendant beside him answered respectfully, "Yes. She was also the one who deliberately tricked that man into letting the Dragon Whisker Fruit go unsold."
The Man in Black shook his head. "That man was too greedy. The three sitting beside this girl are all her friends, and her friend probably genuinely wanted to buy the Dragon Whisker Fruit. At least, when the bidding reached five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, I saw that the girl beside him never even raised her head. After five hundred thousand, however, the boy began looking at the seated girl repeatedly. Clearly, he