"I bid three million and one dollar!"
As soon as Tang Yi's words left his mouth, they immediately caused an uproar in the venue. Du Yiming bid three million, and Tang Yi just added one more dollar, this was no longer regular competitive bidding, it was an outright challenge and confrontation.
"Very well! I didn't expect someone in Shanghai would dare to oppose me, Du Yiming!" Du Yiming's voice was ice-cold as he searched the crowd for the bidder who had just spoken.
Seeing the murderous look in Du Yiming's eyes, the spectators quickly scattered and hid. What a joke, although they were all wealthy, if they provoked the Du Family, they feared they would not end up well.
"Haha! I thought it was someone with guts to oppose me!" Du Yiming finally locked his gaze onto Tang Yi and snorted coldly, "Turns out it's just this bastard! Don't you hurry over here!"
"As long as you bow and admit your mistakes just like when you were a kid, your cousin here naturally won't hold a grudge against the lesser people, I'll let you go!"
Hearing Du Yiming telling him to bow and admit his mistakes, Tang Yi laughed rather than getting angry: "Haha! Du Yiming, you are still as arrogant as when you were a kid, so arrogant that you make others feel sick!"
"What did you say?" Du Yiming's face changed, seething with anger. If it weren't for the rule against fighting in the Treasure Tower, he would have wished to give Tang Yi a thorough beating right there.
"I said you're disgusting!"
Tang Yi completely ignored Du Yiming's furious gaze and said calmly, "Since this is an auction, then it goes to the highest bidder. If you can't afford the price, then it's better for you to shut your stinky mouth!"
"I can't afford it? I have so much money I could crush you to death!" Seeing Tang Yi, the good-for-nothing who had been bullied by him since childhood, daring to tell him to shut up, Du Yiming lost his temper completely, losing all reason.
"I bid three hundred and fifty million!"
"Three hundred and fifty million and one dollar!"
"You... I bid four hundred million!" Du Yiming gritted his teeth as he glared at Tang Yi.
However, Tang Yi remained as composed as ever, maintaining his usual bidding pattern: "Four hundred million and one dollar!"
"Good! Good! Good! ..." Du Yiming's face turned from red to white, clearly infuriated by Tang Yi.
"Young Master Du!" The mixed-race woman beside Du Yiming suddenly spoke up, "Since your cousin likes it, why not just let him have it?"
"Wei'er!" Seeing the mixed-race woman beside him, Du Yiming immediately changed his tone, speaking ingratiatingly, "Since you like this piece of blue and white jade, I will buy it for you no matter what!"
"I bid... six million!"
This bid immediately caused a sensation among the crowd. Although they were all wealthy, they were not to the extent of spending recklessly.
Keep in mind that the actual value of this piece of blue and white jade was only about one million. Du Yiming's initial bid of three million was already extravagant. Little could one expect that a few words from Tang Yi would make him double the price, reaching a staggering six million.
Though Du Yiming seemed willing to spend a fortune to win the favor of the beauty beside him, he was actually feeling the pinch. After all, that was a real six million Xuan Country dollars.
Yet, in the next moment, as Tang Yi's lips moved slightly, Du Yiming immediately tensed up, threatening, "Waste, don't blame your cousin here for not reminding you. This is the Treasure Tower. If you buy something but can't pay for it, the consequences are not something a bastard of the Du Family can bear!"
"Oh?" Tang Yi pondered for a moment, then with apparent reluctance said, "Since cousin, you're willing to pay six times the price, it's clear that you're determined to have it. In that case, I can only painfully let it go. This piece of blue and white jade is yours!"
This piece of bluish-white jade had originally belonged to Tang Yi, and selling it for three million was already a satisfying price for him. If it had been someone else, the deal would likely have been made much earlier.
However, the one who wanted to buy this piece of bluish-white jade happened to be Du Yiming. To Tang Yi, who had a deep impression of this cousin who had bullied him for years, how could he not make him pay more when he saw Du Yiming's determined stance?
But when Du Yiming directly raised his bid from four million to six million, it was clear that this was the limit he could afford. Naturally, Tang Yi couldn't raise the price any further; otherwise, he would probably be left holding the jade stone.
What a pity that Du Yiming didn't know what Tang Yi was thinking. Seeing that Tang Yi wasn't bidding any longer, Du Yiming actually felt a trace of gratitude. But that gratitude merely lasted a moment before it turned into a surge of rage.
As soon as Du Yiming handed over a six-million check to Lin Shaocong, the chubby man immediately passed it to Tang Yi.
"You..." Du Yiming seemed to have realized something and trembled with anger.
Lin Shaocong chuckled heartily, "Fat master here is just helping out. This jade actually belongs to my buddy!"
Tang Yi sighed and said, "Ah! This piece of bluish-white jade is so pretty that I forgot it was originally mine. I kept raising the price, causing you, cousin, to spend an extra three million. I really feel terrible about it!"
Seeing the back-and-forth between Tang Yi and Lin Shaocong, the onlookers looked at Du Yiming with an expression reserved for someone who had been taken for a fool.
"Actually, there's something else I forgot to mention!" Tang Yi took out a coin from his pocket and said with a smirk, "All I have to my name is this single coin, so every time I bid, it was just one coin more!"
"Because I knew that to win a beauty's smile, cousin, you definitely wouldn't mind spending a few million more. It would also make this lovely lady by your side even more touched!"
"Cousin, with all this help I gave you, shouldn't you thank me for my cooperation!"
Seeing Tang Yi manage to make such a swindle sound so righteous and bold, even the thick-skinned Lin Shaocong next to him couldn't help but admire him immensely.
"I... I'm going to kill you!" Du Yiming, struck as though by thunder, had a fit of anger that left him suffocating, and he fainted on the spot.
"Truly, a killer without the need for blood!"
Seeing Tang Yi manage to swindle Du Yiming into fainting right there on the ground, the same thought suddenly arose in the minds of the onlookers.
While sending Lin Shaocong to cash the check, Tang Yi picked up that piece of bluish-white jade and approached the mixed-race girl named Wei'er.
"This jade should go back to you!"
"Hehe! You're such a character, even tricking your own cousin. You're quite interesting!" As she took the jade stone from Tang Yi's hand, Wei'er gave a slight smile, "My name is Xia Wei'er, and I hope we can meet again in the future!"
After saying this, Xia Wei'er didn't give a second glance to Du Yiming, who had fainted at her feet, and turned to leave directly.
"We'll definitely meet again!" Tang Yi said as he watched Xia Wei'er's departing figure.
Because during their brief encounter, Tang Yi had sensed fluctuations of Spiritual Energy coming from Xia Wei'er.
"Could it be that there are other cultivators on Earth?" Tang Yi wondered to himself.