Chapter 784: Beast Egg
The auction hall was stunned when the last bidding price was suddenly doubled. From 9 million high grade spirit stones to 18 million high grade spirit stones. Even the old pill refiner was stunned, that kind of money even as one of the elders of his sect he couldn’t bear to use it all at once. He felt dejected as he looked at the innocent little ginseng boy who seemed about to cry. This little ginseng was only caught because he was looking for someone and came out of his hiding place. Among the guests, he saw the old man who had watered he was about to die before and replanted him. Before he completely gained sentience, he was dug out by a wild beast for food but was saved by an old cultivator.
Seeing how powerless the old man was towards the others who wanted to buy him, he was about to kill himself and let his newly born soul fade when suddenly he heard a cold yet gentle female voice lingering in his mind.
{Don’t take your life. I will let you meet the person you want to see.}
The little ginseng looked dumbfounded as he looked around the auction hall only to look up at the highest floor and saw a female in veil looking at her with black eyes that gradually turned into emerald gold. This is someone with the blessing of the Nature Goddess and like the Elven race they are closer to plants and nature than other races.
The little ginseng realizes that even though this female looks like a human, she might be an elf and a high leveled one seeing an Elf King by her side. It was for this reason alone that the little ginseng boy decided not to kill himself and believe the words of an elf.
At the same time, the dejected old man was saddened by the result when a waiter within the auction who was offering some drinks and food for all the guests approached his table.
"Old Sir, this is the tea for you," the waiter said.
The Old Pill Refiner was not in a mood for tea until he noticed something was wrong with the cup placed on his table. He noticed a small letter was hidden under the cup saucer after he gently lifted his cup. After reading the letter he crushed it to ashes and pretended as if he was trying hard to calm down.
Another cultivator from another sect spoke to the old refiner. The man said, "Old Deng, you are a bit unlucky. Your opponent for the ginseng is the royal from above."
"Hmp! If it’s not meant for me there is no need to force, moreover, there are lots of other stores in the trading star. I can only try to find something else instead. Staying for a few days hoping to find another treasure is not a problem," the old pill refiner said.
The cultivator said, "Are you staying?"
"Of course! I’ve used my vacation to attend this auction. If I don’t bring back anything useful, my vacation will be wasted!" The old refiner said, pretending to be frustrated. "Who told me to not have enough spirit stones. Whatever, I will just find some other immortal herbs for my pill concoction mission from the sect."
"Then... I might not be able to accompany you anymore. You must go home on your own," the other cultivator said.
Old Deng pouted, "I am not going to ask you to wait.
Sigh~ will there be another treasure in this place. I can only try my luck." Back on the stage, the hostess noticed that no one dares to bid against the 18 million high grade spirit stones from the VIP room. Actually, this 18 million high grade spirit stone was enough to buy half of their trading all. Who would have thought that with just one sentient ginseng their clan accidentally caught would give them this much surprise.
"18 million going once!"
"18 million going twice!"
"18 million going thrice!"
Thud. Thud. Thud.
"Congratulations to our guest bidder #1 for winning the bid for the Millennium Snow Ginseng. The item shall be sent to your place."
"Next let’s go for the third item in the list of our auctioned items!"
The hostess gestured to the other two ladies to remove the cloth on the third table revealing a black egg with red pulsing veins as if it was a beating heart. Everyone was amazed when they saw it, but only the Elf King and the Moon Goddess felt that something was wrong with this thing.
"This is an unknown egg. None of the senior appraisers can find anything about this egg. However, it was full of divine energy. It can also absorb normal qi growing to this state until now."
"This is one of the mystery items on today’s auction. The starting bidding price is 2 million high grade spirit stones!"
[Host, you must get this beast egg. This is a beast egg with the power of Shura and Blood Element! A black crimson eyed chaos phoenix egg! If it falls into the wrong hands, they can use this beast to destroy this world.]
This time before anyone could make a bid, Yue Xuexia took the bidding number from Yue Zhiya and raised it, quoting a price that left everyone dumbfounded.
"20 million!"
Someone in black robe among those in bronze invitation possessors raised his bidding pole and fought against the bidding price the Moon Goddess had just called out.
"25 million!"
Yue Xuexia narrowed her eyes dangerously at the being covered in black cloth.
She once again raised her bidding number and said, "50 million."
Gasp!
"The Goddess is truly wealthy! 50 million for an unknown egg!?"
"Maybe that egg is indeed a treasure, or else why would these two go fight for it?"
"Then you bid. It’s already 50 million high grade spirit stones!"
Everyone continues to watch the confrontation between the goddess in the Private VIP room and the mysterious individual covered in black cloak. But the person under the black cloak didn’t seem to be giving up and once again raised its bidding number.
"55 million!"
Yue Xuexia was nonchalant and raised her bidding number for the third time and said, "100 million."
This time everyone was dumbfounded, 100 million. Only large empires who owned a spirit stone vein can pull out such a huge amount of wealth. Moreover, the goddess seems nonchalant about money.
"Do you even have that many high grade spirit stones?"
A hoarse voice came from the mysterious individual under the black cloak and spoke as if taunting the Moon Goddess. Yue Xuexia didn’t even glance towards her and told the system to get a quarter of the spirit stones from their private mine.
’Qiuqiu, show it to them.’
[Alright! Leave it to me, Xue’er!]
Under the control of the System Yue Xuexia had named Qiuqiu, a small space rip appeared on the stage after Yue Xuexia snapped her fingers and the whole stage, even the half of the whole floor, was covered in high grade spirit stones. Seeing spirit stones of high grade flowing like a waterfall from the ripped space everyone was dumbfounded. Some even grab some to check if it was a real high grade spirit stone and were surprised that it was indeed a high grade spirit stone. Smooth surface with the shape of a double star and the violet hue as if there are stars in it.
The Moon Goddess looked down on the mysterious individual hidden within the black cloak. They’ve noticed that this person even checked the high grade spirit stone himself and clicked his tongue.
Tsk!
"You’ve won. I am no longer bidding," The mysterious individual hidden within the black cloak ripped some kind of talisman and disappeared on the spot.
Tan Shenyu and others who were watching were surprised.
"Was that a Teleportation Talisman?" Tan Shenyu asked.
Tan Bingyu frowned, "It seems this person is from the Core Haven." After all, the Teleportation Talisman can only be brought to that place.
The Moon Goddess didn’t seem to pay attention to the mysterious individual and moved her gaze to the hostess on the stage.
"My payment for the ginseng and the egg. You can start counting it yourself." Yue Xuexia said. "Deliver the goods. I’m going home."
Everyone watched as the Moon Goddess stood up followed by the rest of the members of her group. This time the three members of the Hidden Tang Sect had also followed them out. They were actually following their ancestor, Tang Yuyi.
On their way out of the Trading Hall, at the reception area. The two items the Moon Goddess and her team had bid for were presented by Young master Su Liyi and his father the Clan Master of the Su Clan, Su Yin.
Su Yin respectfully bowed his head toward the Moon Goddess, the Elf King and Yue Zhiya who is a prince from the Everlasting Moon Empire.
"Su Yin greets the Elf King, her majesty and his highness!"
"This servant is the Clan Master of Su Clan from the Inner Haven. This servant hopes that my son, Su Liyi, has served the lords well."
Tan Bingyu steps up and returns the greeting for the mistress.
"Young Master Su has done very well. Since the payment had been made we would like to take away the two items," she said.
Clan Master Su Yin smiled and said, "Of course! The two items were prepared."
"Here are your items," Young Master Su Liyi gave the two items himself. The restrained ginseng to the little prince and the egg to Xue Renxue.
Xue Renxue was about to touch the black egg when suddenly he ended up kneeling against his will.
"Eh? What is... happening?" He looked confused. But the more he looked at the egg the more servile he felt.
Everyone else except for the Moon Goddess and Elf King Andromeda were shocked by such a scene.