An outburst of surprise and excitement ran through the awestrucked crowd before all of them almost immediately fell silent the moment Old Ma cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Please esteemed guests, this is just a prelude of the best that is yet to come! But of course despite saying that, this old man understands where all of you are coming from so let us get back to this exquisite weapon that I have in my hands. The Thousand Treasures Pavillion has decided not to give this weapon a name and even our esteemed weaponsmaster has agreed that this weapon shall only be named by it's new owner. Now, let's get to the auction and the bidding for this one-of-a-kind long sword with a blade made entirely out of Emeranite starts at thirty thousand purple crystals!"
As soon as they heard the starting price, the crowd collectively let out a hiss in reaction to it. Just as everyone expected, a weapon that can amplify the wielder's power up to five more levels and can even help them advance their cultivation at five times the normal speed, of course thos sort of treasure will also have a correspondingly high price!
Seemingly unaffected, Fan Zhu Xia smiled delightedly as she wondered out loud and admiringly said, "Truly the Thousand Treasures Pavillion is quite generous and even setting the starting bid at such a low price. What a steal!"
Ignoring the dumbfounded looks that Chun Hua and Min Sheng shot her, Fan Zhu Xia patiently waited with twinkling eyes and before long, several voices simultaneously called out jaw-dropping prices effectively stunning the rest of the crowd.
"Thirty thousand purple crystals!"
"Fourty thousand crystals!"
"This master bids fifty five thousand purple crystals!"
And so a bidding war began.
From the original sky-high price of three thousand purple crystals, the price climbed up at an increasingly scary pace, from the original three thousand purple crystals to a whopping price of sixty thousand purple crystals with no sign that the bids will stop anytime soon.
This shook the general population in the crowd, after all, the only ones that were still calling out bids were the people from the private rooms and the amount of purple crystals they were constantly raising was even more than half of the fortune for some of them!
Just as things were slowly calming down and the bidders dwindled down to two then one, Old Ma finally stepped in and calmly asked in a loud voice, "Anyone who would like to top the current bid of one hundred fifteen thousand purple crystals?"
A short silence swept through the auction hall and just as everyone thought that the bidding was done and Old Ma was about to announce the item as sold, a soft and alluring voice called out amidst the pin-drop silence.
"One hundred thirty thousand purple crystals."
Annoyed, the young man who was expecting to have the let out an annoyed huff before calling out another bid.
"Hundred and fifty thousand crystals!"
Raising an elegant brow, Fan Zhu Xia eyed the private room directly across from hers where the man's voice came from before lowly chuckling and saying in a voice filled with amusement, "Three hundred thousand."
"What?! You can't just double the bid like that! It's unfair to other bidders!" The man suddenly exclaimed in an irritated voice which only drew a string of melodious laughter from Fan Zhu Xia
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Drunken Lotus: Fated With The Rogue Hidden Dragon.
FantasyIn a blink of an eye she lost everything. Her home. Her family. Her identity. Having her whole clan wiped out and their ancestral homes leveled to the ground was something no one had ever expected. Unable to do anything about it and finding the newS...
