Chapter 632: Auction Ends
The stone was pitch-black, smooth to the touch, and only the size of a fist. Faint spiritual energy surged within it.
"You've surely all heard of the Heaven-Piercing Stone, haven't you?"
The red-robed elder said with a smile, "Legend has it that the Heaven-Piercing Sage was not human, but a kind of stone spirit.
He was a stone spirit born of heaven and earth who took human form, eventually cultivating into a Sage.
Among the legacy he left behind, he also created thirty-six Heaven-Piercing Stones. One of them was said to contain his lifelong inheritance.
We have not examined this Heaven-Piercing Stone, so we cannot determine whether it is that genuine one.
This is a gamble. Win, and you may obtain a Sage's inheritance; lose, and it will be like scooping water with a bamboo basket—nothing but emptiness.
The Heaven-Piercing Stone starts at one thousand Divine Crystals. Each bid increase may not exceed one hundred Divine Crystals or Demon Crystals."
"Two thousand Demon Crystals. Our World Emperor Sacred Sect wants this Heaven-Piercing Stone," King Chi, Huangfu Xuan, called out loudly.
"Three thousand Demon Crystals," someone softly called from another room upstairs.
Everyone turned toward the voice. After all, anyone who could name such a price was without exception a true heavyweight.
Yet the room's windows were tightly shut. The voice sounded like that of an old man, but nothing else could be discerned.
"Four thousand Demon Crystals," Huangfu Xuan continued bidding.
"Five thousand Demon Crystals."
"Six thousand Demon Crystals."
When the price reached ten thousand Demon Crystals, the person in that room seemed to grow impatient and said directly, "Twenty thousand Demon Crystals."
"Twenty thousand one hundred." The people from the World Emperor Sacred Sect frowned slightly, yet still refused to give up.
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