Immediately after Feng Ling's voice, waves of people started bidding.
"50,000 middle-grade spirit stones"
Someone from the outer hall instantly said in a bold voice and someone beside him snorted and said,
"What's the bold voice, you think you can get these scrolls for just 50,000 stones! Keep dreaming" the man said and shouted,
"55,000"
After the man, countless people also started bidding,
"60,000"
"65,000"
"70,000 middle-grade spirit stones"
"75,000 middle gra..."
The bid started to rise tremendously and Ryu has already stood up from his seat and almost jumped in excitement when he see how the prices are rising,
The fatty is also excited hearing the price too and instantly stand up to cross his hand over Ryu's shoulder and said,
"Hey brother, you must take me to the restaurant to drink and celebrate after the auction, I know after this you will be the rich one here, so you will take care of your little brother right?" The fatty said while showing his puppy eyes to entice Ryu,
However, the person in question is not concentrating on him as his eyes are fixed on the auction stage so he won't be able to see fatty dog eyes.
Nodding while shifting his eyes and looking back to Bryt, Ryu said,
"Don't worry bro, I will make sure we drink till we are drunk, but...not tonight, it will be the day I will be leaving this continent, so get your mouth ready to be watered"
After saying that he turned back on the auction stage while clasping his hand in anticipation.
While Ryu turned back, he didn't notice the flash of sadness in Bryt's eyes which is a little sad from Ryu's sentence.
Bryt has accepted Ryu as his only true friend and hearing his word doesn't make him feel good.
Fatty Bryt leaves Ryu's side to sit back to his sit and goes into thought.
...Back to the auction...
The price keeps rising and from a room beside Ryu's own a deep voice said,
"From the Mad Chariot Empire, we bid 130,000 middle-grade spirit stones, guest in the auction, we really need these scrolls," the man said calmly but if listening carefully there is a hint of threat in his voice when talking.
People instantly cower when they heard the man's voice laced with threat and the bidding stopped when...
"Boooom"
An overpowering aura burst out from Feng Ling as she was furious,
"I SAID NOBODY SHOULD THREATEN ANYBODY WHEN I WANT TO START THE AUCTION RIGHT?"
She shouted while looking straight in the direction of the voice rooms with her piercing gaze as if she can see through the layer of glass covering the room.
In the room, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache is trembling from the aura directed at him,
Surprisingly, though the man is a peak 3rd-grade spirit realm expert he was still trembling under Feng Ling's aura.
Eyes widen, the man stuttered with his lips trembling,
"7th..7th.. middle 7th-grade spirit rea..realm!"
Instantly regretting, the man said pleadingly,
"I'm...I'm sorry Miss Feng, I just said that unknowingly, I have forgotten the rules you stated from the start"
Still directing her gaze toward the room, Feng Ling retracted her aura and apologize smilingly,
"Ahh... Feng Ling is sorry sir, you won't blame me, right? But I really stated the rules, I don't know you weren't listening, sorry!"
"Blame! Impossible seeing that you don't know, I have already forgiven you, and I know I'm at fault, so I'm sorry again Miss Feng " the man hurriedly said while waving and smiling in the room, he is even waving his hand and smiling not registering that nobody is seeing him.
Inside Ryu's room, when he heard the man threatening the people with his status, he narrowed his eyes but when he sees Feng Ling's cultivation stages his eyes widen in surprise as he doesn't even think an auctioneer should have such a high cultivation grade.
When Ryu also heard the man's shamelessly saying that he have forgotten the rules stated earlier, he snorted while turning up his nose in disdain, how can a cultivator forget something that easily and with such a high cultivation stage?
Beside Ryu fatty Bryt's face is also scrunched up in displeasure when he heard the man's voice but when he sees how Feng Ling handled the situation, he raised his thumb and instantly bids,
"140,000 middle-grade spirit stones"
Gritting his teeth Inside the room, the man also shouted,
"145,000"
"155,000"
Fatty Bryt continue and their bidding war started.
Nobody else bid, though Feng Ling has already solved the situation, nobody wants to offend a behemoth like a whole powerful empire for the scrolls.
And they understand that the man needs cultivation scrolls for their younger generation to learn as they grow as the Mad Chariot Empire is a new powerful empire.
Both the man and fatty continue to bid, when the bid reaches 200,000, the man said while gritting his teeth,
"If you have more than 200,000 middle-grade spirit stones, I will stop bidding"
"Hmmm.... okay let me just give you these scrolls, they are useless to me anyway, hehe..." The fatty said and laughed mockingly inside the room while looking at Ryu with the gaze ' Won't you praise and thank me already '.
Ryu seeing the fatty gaze said,
"Okay, okay!!, You are great, thank you"
"No worries..no worries, we are brothers after all, hehe"
The fatty said while laughing wretchedly.
Inside the man's room, he collected the scrolls from the servant girl and pay the spirit stones, going back to his seat with the scrolls he swore venomously while looking at the scrolls in his hand,
"I swear if I don't give you a life worse than death, I'm not Zhan Che Ma"
Not bothered by the Man, Ryu looked at the stage where Feng Ling carry on with the auction.
"Now to the second batch, the starting price for it will also be 50,000 and every increment must be 5,000 upward.
"The bidding starts now"
Countless people at once jump into action as they start to bid.
The cultivation techniques are more practical than the skills so people are more after them than the cultivation skills.
"50,000 middle-grade spirit stones"
"60,000 middle-grade spirit stones"
65,000"
The price began to rise and as it rises, Ryu's elation also rises to no end as he fixed his eyes on the stage.
The fatty behind him has also gotten over his dejection and stands beside Ryu also with his dog's eyes shining in exhilaration, already drooling thinking about the wine they can get with this sudden wealth.
The bid goes on normally this time as Feng Ling's aura has scarred anybody having similar thoughts to the man earlier, no problem arises this time.
"210,000"
Ryu instantly shifts his focus on a man in the outer hall who unexpectedly raise the price from 190,000 to 210,000 at once, it's as if to scare the other bidders away and it works as silence reigns in the hall, and nobody bids anymore.
Noticing that nobody want to add any spirit stones, Feng Ling said,
"210,000 once!"
"210,000 twice"
"210,000 thr..."
"Stop, 215,000, I bid 215,000"
A voice from one of the rooms sounded when Feng Ling want to announce the winner.
When the man that bid 210,000 heard the voice, he slumped back on his chair with a disappointed expression, it was as if that was his last spirit stone so he won't be able to bid anymore.
Feng Ling stop a little and continue,
"215,000 once"
"215,000 twice "
"215,000 thrice"
" If nobody is no longer bidding, then the items go to the guest bidding 215,000, congratulations guest.
Now to the last items for this year's auction, this item is rather peculiar as even we don't know its uses or what it constitutes but we can tell it's a treasure as even our firm's chairman full blow who is a spirit awakening realm can't scratch the item and we found it in a ruin one of our elders excavated in the continent forest, so you can buy it to discover it uses"
Feng Ling said and gestured towards the backstage, two maids carry a metal table and on the metal table there is a lump covered with a red cloth.
When they reached the middle of the stage, they put the table down and retreated backstage.
"Now let me introduce to you what we named the Grey Indestructible Stone," Feng Ling said and uncovered the table to show a round natural grey-colored stone with some blue stripe on it that further accentuates the stone figure and make it more impressive looking though it still looks like a piece of a decorated round stone.
Immediately after the cloth was removed and Ryu was scrutinizing the stone he heard a loud shriek from the Spacetime Void.
"Wha..what th... The spacetime stone! How can the Spacetime stone be here, it's really the Spacetime stone, I can feel it" fatty void shrieks in exhilaration.
Hearing the shriek, Ryu instantly sent his consciousness inside the Spacetime Void to meet the fatty and asked,
"Why the hell did you shriek, don't you know it will affect me, I'm connected to the Abode you know, so stop yo..." Ryu want to continue when he was cut off by the fatty urgently and said,
"Master it's the Spacetime Void"
"What Spacetime stone are you hallucinating...."
"Master, it's really the Spacetime stone, the stone outside on the stage with the blue stripe is the Spacetime stone, though it has changed to grey which It wasn't supposed to..."
"What! The Spacetime stone, the blue-striped stone is the Spacetime stone!" Ryu exclaimed and register what Void was saying.