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"Li Shaoxia bids 6... Young Sect Master Qiao bids 7..."
"..."
At the East Pearl Tower auction, the scene was very quiet at this moment. Everyone looked at the two people not far away with blank expressions, their heads buzzing.
Qiao Ziyu occasionally shot a resentful glance at Li Mo, then raised his paddle, clearly completely swept up in the moment.
Li Mo remained silent, only raising his paddle, seemingly not even listening to how high the price had already reached.
Oh, it had already reached five hundred xuan crystal.
No matter how old the sea silk was, it was only used for making clothes, at most giving the clothes a color-changing function.
Three hundred xuan crystal?
Were they crazy, or was this world crazy?
Even Qian Bufan's Face twitched: "Xiao Mo, calm down. How about we give up? If you raise it again, I'll want to go dig for sea silk myself."
"I am young and full of vigor, how could I not raise it?"
Li Mo raised the jade paddle in his hand once more.
"What exactly do you want to buy this thing for?"
"To make clothes."
"Using other things would actually..."
"Other things can't change color, and they aren't as easy to tear."
"???"
Qian Bufan's head was smoking, unable to understand what kind of bizarre reasoning this was.
But then he thought, it didn't really matter if this money was spent.
After all, the East Pearl Tower now belonged to him. No matter how much he bid, it would eventually return to his own pocket... Li Mo had money to burn, but what was Qiao Ziyu risking his life for?
"Li Shaoxia bids again, three hundred and fifty xuan crystal!"
As soon as the words fell,
"I... boo hoo..."
Qiao Ziyu subconsciously wanted to raise his paddle again.
But before he could finish speaking, a pig's trotters was stuffed into his mouth.
The Elder Steward quickly said, "Young Sect Master, that's enough, it's about right. We've already made him pay a sufficient price. If we bid again and he gives up, what then?"
"Don't forget, we have important items that we must secure this time."
Qiao Ziyu looked at the price on the stage, and his expression improved slightly. freēwēbnovel.com
Indeed, he had just made Li Mo pay an extra three hundred and Forty-seven xuan crystal.
This loss was even greater than the two hundred xuan crystal he spent buying pig's trotters to eat.
At the same time, a hint of lingering fear arose in his heart.
What if Li Mo hadn't bid again just now? What would he have done?
"Fine, I won't raise!"
Qiao Ziyu personally admitted he wouldn't raise.
At this moment, Lan Tian also brought down the hammer, announcing that this three-thousand-year-old sea silk was acquired by Li Mo for the price of three hundred and fifty xuan crystal.
The auction continued.
Next, Qiao Ziyu seemed to take this sea silk as a beginning, and then pressed on relentlessly. Every time Li Mo made a bid,
Nine-petal Sea Lotus Chariot, Heavy Water Cloud Bed... No matter what was being bought, he would follow closely behind, raising the price before giving up.
Li Mo ended up spending at least a thousand xuan crystal more.
Yet, he maintained a calm and unruffled demeanor, making people feel like they were punching cotton.
"This is already equivalent to the entire fortune of a Zhen Prefecture Sect, isn't it?"
"Uh, even the Hengyun Sword City might not be able to produce this much."
"I heard Li Shaoxia spent a fortune in Dijin, but that was at most a few hundred xuan crystal. Can he really produce this much money now?"
Whispers arose among the crowd.
"If he can't produce that much money later, I'd like to see how he'll deal with it!"
Qiao Ziyu snorted coldly.
The Elder Steward, however, said, "Business first."
The auction gradually approached its end, but people's anticipation grew even stronger.
It was well known that the last item for auction was usually the highlight.
"Our auction is about to conclude. Finally, we present to everyone a tattered guixu catalogue."
"Legend has it that it is the place in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths where Immortal Ascension appeared and then vanished. Its value is self-evident, and it may contain the Dao to Immortal Ascension..."
"After authentication by Sect Master Tantai of Penglai, this is absolutely genuine!"
Whoosh—
The red cloth slipped away, revealing a bronze plate engraved with divine patterns, flowing with faint starlight, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura.
The moment one saw it, it was as if one had seen the passage of time and immortality.
Even breathing in the venue became lighter.
For most people, the place called Guixu had long existed only in legend.
Immortal... What an ethereal, yet yearning-inducing word?
Of course, this item had probably been studied by the Penglai Star Sect for a long time, possibly hundreds or thousands of years, and clearly no results had been found, which was why it appeared at the East Pearl Tower.
But... Immortal Ascension required Opportunity.
What if that Child of Destiny {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} was himself?
Many people had this thought, but at most, they would just glance at it... "Starting bid, five hundred xuan crystal!"
This was a price that most Sects shied away from.
"Six hundred xuan crystal!"
Right at the beginning, someone had already bid, their voice tinged with urgency.
But as soon as the words fell, they were instantly drowned out by another voice.
"Six hundred and fifty! Plus a section of Dragon Whale bone. I am the Sect Master of the Star Sand Sect, and I hope everyone will give me some Face."
"Star Sand Sect Master? Isn't he just a stinky fishmonger? Seven hundred! And two ports in Dongluo Bay."
"What kind of person are you? Where is your quality? Is anyone managing this?"
The scene became a bit chaotic for a moment.
It was no wonder the various Sects were anxious; the prices most people called out were their current net worth.
"Young Sect Master, we only brought eight hundred xuan crystal. If it's truly impossible, we can only use other valuables and rare treasures as collateral."
The Elder Steward frowned.
Exchanging valuable items on one's person for money during an auction would definitely be below market price, which was very uneconomical.
"..."
Qiao Ziyu was silent. It was supposed to be a thousand.
Unfortunately, he had spent two hundred xuan crystal on a pig's trotters, and now he couldn't exchange the trotters for xuan crystal... He also hadn't expected the scene to be so intense.
If he failed to bid on the guixu catalogue because of a mere two hundred xuan crystal, he could imagine what kind of punishment he would Face upon returning to the Sect.
"Eight hundred xuan crystal."
Since things had come to this, he glared at Li Mo again.
The venue fell silent for a moment.
Clearly, this had already exceeded the net worth of ninety percent of the competitors, and the remaining Sects didn't have much xuan crystal left. They were all wary of each other, wanting to wait for others to make a move first, trying to gauge how much wealth their opponents truly possessed.
Just then, a familiar voice, which had been silent for a long time, broke the quiet:
"One thousand xuan crystal, five gold mountains."
"?"
Qiao Ziyu glanced at the Gu worm; the worm had already turned purple.
Did Li Mo also desire this item very much?
