Chapter 152 - Money!!!

Li Ming looked at the platform down below on the ground floor of the auction house where Miss Bao had just made a special appearance to reveal the next item that was going to be auctioned.

The chaotic auction hall had quieted down to listen to what Miss Bao was about to say.

"We are going to present the most unique item of the day to you all now. It is probably easy for almost all of you to buy two or three spiritual pills in the Herb halls, but today one of our special contacts has brought four jars of spiritual pills to auction off here. Let's bring the first jar."

Miss Bao signaled and two servants brought a big box covered in red cloth and settled it on the podium.

"This is the first jar containing first rank low-grade Healing Pills." Miss Bao told the crowd.

Listening to her words the crowd reacted in indifference. Though the presence of Miss Bao had caught their attention but nothing was interesting about a few pills that were not even of high grade.

They could always buy these pills from a herb hall. None of them could understand why the auction house was including something like this in the auction when it was nothing rate or unique.

Miss Bao immediately understood the thoughts of the crowd and a soft twitch appeared on her lips.

In the private room on the fourth floor, the two Immortals were sitting in complete silence.

The Heaven Emperor was interestingly listening to Miss Bao's words.

Unlike the rest of the crowd that was present there, the Heaven Emperor was not an idiot. He could tell that there was still more to come about the pills.

He turned slightly sideways and looked at the Demon Prince who was still looking like he was about to slaughter someone.

He had waited for almost an hour for Hei Long to return from wherever he had gone out all of sudden.

But he was surprised to see a fuming Demon Prince who appeared in the private room after fifty minutes and settled on his seat.

His face covered with dark lines and there was a light glow in his eyes that made them shine red. 

In that particular moment, the Second Demon Prince appeared exactly like the rumored Demon Prince.

A lethal beauty full of dark aura who could kill with both his charisma and his high demonic cultivation powers.

The Heaven Emperor was really interested to know exactly what happened to the young Demon Prince that made his dark aura surface like this, but he stayed completely silent.

In the last fifteen minutes as the auction progressed, though the dark aura around the Demon Prince subsided but he still looked ready to kill.

"What do you think about this one?" 

The Heaven Emperor asked as he finally tried to break the silence that had taken over the room.

For a few moments, the Demin Prince stayed completely silent but then said, "No idea. Let's just see what happens next."

Though he tried to sound uninterested but the Heaven Emperor could see the slightest glimmer in his eyes which told him that his interest was actually piqued by the pills.

The only reason behind his dey reply was the distraction that had kept him under its command for the last few minutes.

"Alright! Let's see!" The Heaven Emperor replied as he interestingly looked down at the platform.

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Miss Bao gave a last look to the audience as she settled her lean milky hands on the top of the red cloth that covered the box.

"Let me present to you a hundred first level low-grade Healing Pills. The starting price is 10,000 silver taels. Let the auction begin." With those last words, Miss Bao disappeared through the back door, leaving a chaotic crowd behind.

As the red cloth was taken off the box which was actually a big jar filled with a hundred pills.

No one was expecting to see so many pills. They all thought that box had all the four jars with three or four pills inside each of them, no one predicted that only one jar would be displayed. Not containing three, ten, or twenty pills but a hundred pills in it.

Before people could get a better grip on the situation, a loud voice was heard from the front row of the crowd which was sitting in the open area of the ground floor.

"11,000 silver taels!"

And with that, the war started. Where no one was going to buy the pills, now everyone wanted to get their hands on the huge jar which held a miracle in it.

The pills were actually the most important item that was being auctioned in the entire auction.

"11,500!" 

"13,000!"

"13,500!"

"20,000!"

Li Ming sipped her tea leisurely as she listened to the rising number of silver taels.

She was actually not aiming for the money when she first planned to auction her pills. Her main plan was something else, but looking at the rapidly rising number of taels, she felt her heart filled with excitement.

Well, there was nothing wrong with more money. 

"25,000!"

"30,000!"

"70,000!"

Li Ming almost choked as she heard the number. The entire auction house was filled with silence as everyone tried to look at the person who had unexpectedly shouted such a high price.

Li Ming also shifted in her seat to see the person who offered such a price for her pills. 

70,000 silver taels were almost her two months of income from the Black Jade Inn.

The old shopkeeper waited for someone else to place their price, but for the next thirty seconds, no one spoke.

"Since no one is going to..."

Before the shopkeeper could complete his sentence, another loud voice came from one of the rooms on the second floor.

"100,000!"

The high price made the audience erupt into whispers and Li Ming just stared at the drapes of the private room on the second floor which just offered 100,000 silver taels. 

Looked like she was surrounded by a sea of wealthy people.

If you looked at the rare and unique masterpieces in her magical mansion, she could be considered a billionaire.

However, since Li Ming was set on not using any of those things, she barely had five hundred silver taels in her deposit for the time being.

In short, she didn't have even a million taels in her treasury, being a billionaire looked like a farfetched dream.

"150,000!"

"300,000!"

Li Ming stared at the Crown Prince of the Han Empire who had just shouted the last price.

Li Ming felt her limited brain cells spinning inside her brain as she just admired the wealth of these people.

Of course, the so-called Crown Prince of the Han Empire would have hundreds of silver coins in his deposit.

After calming herself down, she just settled down in her seat, looking forward to see exactly how much she was going to earn from those four hundred pills.

After the Crown Prince's price, the others continued to increase their price but it was like they were planning to play a game as they all started increasing only one or two teams in the last price.

"300,005!"

"300,006!"

"300,010!"

"300,011!"

Li Ming stared at the crowd down below with a frown plastered on her face.

Were these people actually serious? How childish!

Her eyes wandered towards the Crown Prince who was whispering something to one of his royal guards.

It would make her look greedy but in honesty, she was praying for the Crown Prince to add another hundred thousand taels to the current price only so that they could move on to the second jar. Really!

But to her dismay, the Crown Prince stayed completely silent. He even looked uninterested in whatever was going on.

Li Ming was confused by his behavior but if course she stayed silent.

"300,100!"

Well, at least someone broke the stupid chain and added a few more taels than just one or two.

"300,101!"

"Seriously!" 

This time Li Ming actually lost her cool. These people had made her pills a fucking game.

Did she just call them wealthy? Let her correct her misunderstanding, these people were fucking misers!

"Something wrong?" 

Li Ming turned to look at the Crown Prince who was staring at her with confused eyes.

It took her a few seconds to realize that she actually had spoken out loud this time.

"Nothing! I'm just shocked to see these people making this auction a gameplay. They are increasing one, two, five, of ten silvers like they are so poor. Why not just keep quiet if they don't have the money to buy the pills?"

Li Ming replied with a shake of her head.

A chuckle left the lips of the Crown Prince which made Li Ming look at him in confusion.

"Is this your first time attending an auction?" The Crown Prince asked her.

Li Ming hesitated to answer and just kept staring at him.

"This is just a normal thing in auctions. It happens almost every time. Just wait and watch, this is just the start." The Crown Prince answered her.

Li Ming just folded her hands and huffed at the situation. These people were just wasting everyone's time.

The stupidity kept going on for the next five minutes and Li Ming was almost about to doze off when a deep loud voice came out of the private room on the fourth floor, leaving the entire hall in shock.

"500,000!"