The first thing that caught his attention was the open space in front of the box, which represented some sort of window and view for the auction.
Lee sat on the wooden seat prepared and stared at the stool beside him that had a wine on it. Lee shook his head, he wasn't quite interested, he had his mind focused on the materials that would showcase in the auction.
In few minutes the auction room was already filled to the brim, the most conspicuous sight was the wooden boxes that stood in the auction room, a lot of gazes were directed towards them. Although those in the boxes didn't signify the strongest, it was some sort of means of flaunting your wealth, though not everyone had this intention, some people are so particular of their identities, like Lee is.
The air suddenly became relaxed and perverted as the attention of most of the males in the auction was directed towards the platform at their front.
A pretty young lady suddenly appeared on the platform. She had fiery red hair with a smooth skin that looked like as though it had been smeared with oil, this made her long legs jaunty and quite erotic to behold.
"This Raging Storm Palace, are very tricky using ladies to boost their business, and funnily in enough it works" Lee sighed has he muttered under his breath.
"Welcome prestigious cultivators of Vine city, Raging Storm Palace presents another auction. And as we are well known for we care about your satisfaction" The auctioneer was not only beautiful she had a very splendid voice that echoed round the auction room. She suddenly smiled as she signalled behind her.
This smile made several hot gazes unwittingly smile sheepishly.
Raging Storm Palace were very good at this business, first was the attendant with huge breasts and now was the sexy auctioneer, several men were bound to lose their hard earned money.
"The first material to be auctioned is a high class tier two martial art" The auctioneer said has she received a brown scroll from a sturdy man that had suddenly appeared behind her.
"It is a movement art, and it is called Wind Escape movement art, it majors on the flexibility of the body to reflect that of the wind, it's starting price is ten silvers" The beautiful auctioneer said has she waved the scroll in the air.
Silence at first descended before voices began to ring out.
"Fifteen silver coins!"
"Eighteen silver coins!"
"Twenty eight silver coins!" A deep voice suddenly sounded from a box inscribed with the number '20'.
Several gaze were thrown towards the man in the box, but much of him couldn't be seen.
"Thirty silver coins" A plum man gritted his teeth as he yelled out loud.
"Forty silver coins!" The man from box 20 uttered, which made several people take in sharp breaths.
"Why spend so much on a tier two martial art" Lee couldn't help but ponder as he gently shook his head, even though it was a high classed one, it was still a rank two martial all the same.
Silence descended and nobody seemed interested to raise the price.
"Forty silver coins, anyone raising the price?" The sexy auctioneer smiled as she questioned. Few breaths passed and nobody replied, she smiled as she stared at the crowd, one thing about auctions was that some materials were sold at rates were they normally shouldn't have been sold, such as the tier two martial art, which at most should have been sold for twenty silver coins.
"Sold!" The auctioneer said and immediately a young man came to receive the scroll and moved over to the box of the man who had bought it.
"Next is a ten year Fire Limg seed, it is beneficial to Swordsmen with fire sword totem and mystical blood injectors that injected blood with fire attribute"
"It is only useful for those below and those also targeting fifth spiritual stage" The auctioneer said has she brought out a small box, she opened it slightly which was quite enough for the cultivators in the auction room to view.
The Limg seed was hot red like a metal that was heated in a furnace, it looked like an apple, but was more smaller in size.
"The starting price is thirty silver coins!"
Lee wasn't surprised at this outrageous price, something that could help increase cultivation stage up to the fifth stage wouldn't be cheap, though it was only useful for those with fire attribute, it was still costly, if someone like Lee dared ingest it, he would only cause trouble for himself because what he comprehended defied the attribute of fire.
"Forty silver coins!" The plump man who had given up to the man in the box inscribed with '20' yelled with glints of competition flashing across his eyes.
"Song Chu" Lee suddenly raised his eyebrows as he stared at the plump man, the latter's identity abruptly flashed across his head. He was the clan head of Four Horns clan, a mystical blood injector clan, they were a rank lower than his clan, Blood Wolf and the other two clans in addition to the new clan; who had gathered a force that was even close to that of clans like Wateredge.
"Fifty silver coins!" The deep voice once again rang out of box 20.
"This cultivator seems to have come to the auction with a lorry load of coins" Lee couldn't help but chuckle as he awaited the struggle that was soon to occur.
" Sixty silver coins!" Song Chu glanced at box 20 and frowned before he uttered.
"Sixty two silver coins"
"Sixty five coins!"
" Seventy silver coins!" Several voices rang out as the price began to rise.
"Eighty five silver coins!" The man in the box inscribed with '20' seemed to know how to provoke people has he raised the price once again.
Weren't they raising the price of the seed to one gold coin, they haven't even seen the main material for the auction and cultivators were already spending this much!
"Fellow cultivator, I hope you would give this Limg seed up, it is one of the main reasons why I'm here" Song Chu said as he directed his gaze towards the box.
"haha, I also need it as much as you think you want it, if you don't have enough money to purchase it, then you can only blame your inability!" A stern voice sounded, followed by deep ridiculing chuckles.
Wow! Gasps of shock filled the air, talking back in such manner at Song Chu, people began to wonder who it was.
"What could make this Fire Limg seed so important to Song Chu?" Lee couldn't help but ponder, because the latter had long passed the fifth stage and it was of no obvious use to him. "Ohh!" It was then Lee then remembered that the latter has a daughter who is talented in the path of spears, but from what he knew she wasn't in Vine city, she had gone to study in a sect where they practiced such art, as there was nowhere good enough to study spears in Vine city. That was the reasonable assumption Lee could make, even though he didn't know what type of Spear totem she comprehended.
"One gold coin!" Shock spread through the hall as the trembling voice of Song Chu rang out.