Hearing Lin Mu's words, Ye Qingchen and the pink-dressed female disciple beside him felt somewhat reassured.
Ye Qingchen also comforted the pink-dressed female disciple beside him:
"Feiyun, Senior Brother is right. Even if the bidder wasn't Jia Character Number Eleven, it doesn't matter. Since Jia Character No. 21 placed a bid, the price naturally won't be lower than six thousand spirit marrow crystals."
"Otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have continued bidding."
Ye Feiyun drew a deep breath and nodded.
"That should... that should be the case."
Just as the three waited in trepidation, First Pavilion Master Xuanzhu waved her sleeve again.
With a swish, the enormous phantom image of the jade slip flipped over.
The bid on the jade slip appeared before everyone's eyes-
"Fifty spirit marrow crystals."
Seeing those words on the jade slip, all three in the side room froze where they stood as though turned to stone.
Only after a long while did Ye Feiyun speak, her face filled with disbelief:
"Fifty spirit marrow crystals? How could they have bid only fifty spirit marrow crystals?"
Ye Qingchen's face turned deathly pale, and his voice trembled:
"If we sell the right to have Su Spirit Pills refined for just fifty spirit marrow crystals, we... we'll certainly be punished by the sect!"
Then the two turned toward Lin Mu together and asked in unison:
"Senior Brother, what do we do now?"
"Well, this, this..." Lin Mu's expression shifted back and forth as he stammered, unable to utter a complete sentence.
Lin Feiyun spoke with a trace of anger in her voice:
"Senior Brother, you guaranteed us that we couldn't possibly fail this assignment from the sect!"
After his mind raced through a flurry of thoughts, Lin Mu suddenly rose to his feet and glared furiously at First Pavilion Master Xuanzhu