The price for the All Dispelling Elixir was higher than the Spirit Intensifying Elixir and for someone who was so used to not having a single copper on him, he was rather terrified of what Jun Wu Xie would say in reply, like producing tens of the elixirs in a day.
Jun Wu Xie gave up and decided to save her breath.
If Qiao Chu only knew, those Heaven defying elixirs that Jun Wu Xie had sold before the gates of the Zephyr Academy before, that she had made one hundred thousand of them in a month…..
Qiao Chu might very well have died on the spot from shock.
Jun Wu Xie’s elixirs were brought out for auction batch after batch, and the prices grew higher and higher. As long as anyone who was present had money to splurge, all of them took part in the fierce bidding war. The fiery atmosphere within the auction house reached a new crescendo with every passing moment and the words from the auctioneer on stage roared, a endless torrential river, constantly stirring up the emotions, drawing the crowd to raise their bids, mindlessly throwing their money for the items on auction, faces contorted in excitement, as if possessed.
Backstage, He Chang Le’s facial muscles were almost cramping up from smiling and he was already struggling to stand upright. But he could not make himself leave the scene, and hollered for the servants to bring him a chair, so he could watch the show, in a slightly more comfortable position.
Following the auction closely, the third and fourth batches of elixirs were soon completely cleaned out.
The last type of elixir was soon brought up onto the stage slowly, under the watchful eyes of the capacity crowd on the floor.
The auctioneer on stage was already bathed in sweat and his clothes were soaked. His face was flushed red with excitement and he did not feel the least bit tired or exhausted. When the fifth type of elixir was brought up on stage, he gathered himself together once again, to give it his best introduction.
“What we have here next, is also the last batch of elixirs we have today. The effects these elixirs give….. I guarantee it here, cross my heart, way exceeds anything we have ever procured! These elixirs are called….. Hibernation Elixirs! No matter how severely wounded one became, as long as they still breathe, swallow this elixir and it would enable the person to fall into a state of suspended animation for three days! The three days the elixir buys you, would be most invaluable and the most critical period to the severely wounded!”
The huge hall within the auction house fell deadly silent.
Every single pair of eyes were staring unwaveringly at the ultimate life saver on the tiny tray, the Hibernation Elixir!
Entering a state of suspended animation, would inadvertently gain one more time to seek treatment or rescue. Although they would not be healed by swallowing the elixir, but the elixir would allow them to cling on persistently and allow them another chance to live just before Death’s door.
The world was filled with mishaps and unexpected circumstances. Confrontations were endless, and anyone could suddenly find themselves staring death in their face.
And the Hibernation Elixir, would pull them back and buy them three whole days to fight for their lives!
For those afflicted with long term chronic illnesses, and those severely wounded, these people would find themselves in graver need for the Hibernation Elixir than the average man!
“To be honest, I myself would very much like to bid for this Hibernation Elixir. It would be my last chip to protect the one and only life I possess. The starting bid for every single Hibernation Elixir is two hundred thousand taels. I will make just one exception this time. I will make a first bid of two hundred and ten thousand taels, and if everyone would allow me the honour, this very elixir, would be retained for myself.” For the first time, the auctioneer had taken an unprecedented move, and his expression was almost seen to be in glee.
If only those very words had not been spoken out loud, once spoken, the crowd roared once again!
Usually, people from the auction house itself were not allowed to partake in the bidding for the items put up for auction. And as the leading auctioneer, he must have been already numbed with the countless rare and precious treasures he had seen. And now that the auctioneer himself had been tempted and placed a bid for the item, how could the crowd still sit back and not do anything?
The next moment, the crowd exploded and the auction reached a new climax!
Volume 6
Chapter 569: “A Killer Youth (1)”
The next moment, the crowd exploded and the auction reached a new climax!
Two hundred thousand was the starting bid and the price climbed up at a crazy speed!
The speed that the price was raised rocketed at a pace never seen before!
It was only when the price for the first Hibernation Elixir broke the five hundred thousand taels mark, that the pace began to slow.
Five hundred thousand taels for a single elixir had already reached the price reserved for the most premium of elixirs, and previously, only the Qing Yun Clan’s elixirs had ever commanded that price range.
If it increased anymore, the price would be beyond the reach of many of the people here.
The auctioneer saw that the bids had stopped coming in and knew it had reached its peak. He shouted out the last bid three times in succession and was about to slam his hammer down to seal the deal when a clear voice suddenly rang out!
“One million taels!”
That voice, had come from one of the private rooms on the second level. At the same moment that that voice had sounded, everyone’s head had raised up and looked at the source where the voice had come from!
Within that private room, four attractive and good looking men were seated, and they were well dressed in expensive clothes. The one that spoke was the youngest one among them and looked to be only about fifteen or sixteen years of age. He was a handsome looking youth with stunning features. However, his regal demeanor made people feel afraid to ever desecrate the ground he stood.
The attractive looking youth swept his disdainful gaze over the crowd on the first level. The utter contempt in his gaze for the mass of people below made everyone shiver as a urge to seek escape grew in their hearts.
The auctioneer on the stage stood speechless, completely shocked.
In his close to a decade of being an auctioneer with the Chan Lin Auction House, he had never sold an item for such an incredulous price!
One single elixir, for an astounding one million taels!?
The hand holding the auctioneer’s hammer trembled visibly.
“Will there be any other bids?” The attractive looking youth asked as he cast his indifferent gaze at the massive crowd of people, his mouth turned up in a lazy and smug smirk.
The whole auction house fell deathly silent. After a while, the auctioneer suddenly hurried to call out three times for bids when he saw the impatient gaze of the attractive looking youth staring at him. When he was certain that no other bids were forthcoming, he raised his hammer and sealed the price for the first Hibernation Elixir.
After the hammer landed, the atmosphere in the auction house suddenly became a little queer.
Those within the crowd who saw the first Hibernation Elixir slip out of their grasp silently gritted their teeth and cast their eyes upwards, staring into the private room on the second level, feeling rather disgruntled about the whole situation.
[Was that little lad that dumb? That he would blow such a huge sum of money on a single elixir?]
[It must be true that the foolish were blessed with money. No matter, there are four more of those elixirs coming right up and they need not rush.]
However, all those people soon found their highly anticipated heart’s desire was beyond their reach.
The auctioneer had just announced the starting bid for the second elixir when the youth in the same private room quickly made an unbelievable bid for one million taels once more!
For all four of the subsequent elixirs, he made a astounding bid of one million taels for
each of them, forcing the people in the crowd to visibly gasp to catch their breaths.
All five Hibernation Elixirs had fallen into the hands of that single young youth!
Qiao Chu secretly admired the youth who had been so generously carefree with such an astounding amount of money and said to his companions, “I had thought that I had seen the most ludicrous and insane when Little Xie spent money before, and I never would have thought that I would meet someone more insane than her! Five million taels! Does money just flow down the river into his house!?”
Jun Wu Xie glared at Qiao Chu and said simply: “I am not in the least bit insane.”
That chill from that glare reached Qiao Chu and he immediately sobered up. He hurriedly poured out a cup of water and solicitously offered it to Jun Wu Xie to say: “I wasn’t really talking about you there, I was referring to that guy over there.”
Jun Wu Xie accepted the proffered water and took a sip out of it.
Qiao Chu finally gave a big sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, on the floor in the auction house, the atmosphere was becoming rather weird.
The people from the various powers present had set their sights on acquiring one of the Hibernation Elixirs from the five available and they had not expected someone to dump such astronomical sums of money so carelessly to deprive them completely.
At that moment, their anger could distinctly be felt!
Volume 6
Chapter 570: “A Killer Youth (2)”
A few groups of people marched up to the second level aggressively and kicked open the doors leading into the private room the attractive looking youth was in. They said in an angry tone: “You brat! You’re being too arrogant here! Five Hibernation Elixirs, can you finish them all!?”
The youth glanced casually at the group of people who had just rushed in and his lips curled up into a sneering smile. The other three men who were with the youth sat back quietly, sipping at their tea, not even bothering to look at the group of people who had just barged in.
“I can afford it, and was happy to bid for them, what can you do to me? If you really wanted them so much, you could have used your money and outbid me. You have my word, as long as any of you bid anything above one million taels, even if it is only by one tael, I will not raise my bid.” The youth said, with his arms crossed, as he challenged the group of intruders.
“You think you’re all that great just because you have money?” The men were driven speechless and were feeling their rage rise within their chests. Their fists were tightly clenched as they fumed. One million taels. How would they have so much money? Most of the people from the various powers present had only a few hundred thousand taels each with them, where were they going to get the money to outbid the youth?
“Not too shabby, at least compared to people who can’t afford to pay and then resorts to anger and intimidation, I’m a little better.” The youth said all these with a smirk, his tone highly arrogant.
In a moment, the eyes of the burly men in the group suddenly turned red at the youth’s scorn and disdain!
All these happenings were plainly visible from another private room where Jun Wu Xie and her companions were in.
Seeing that the young youth had stirred up the wrath of the group of men, Qiao Chu asked a little eagerly: “Little Xie, people are trying to bully your best customer. Should I go help him out?” He rubbed at his fists as he asked, eager for a little bit of action.
Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes, and she turned her cold gaze to look at the four people in the other private room before she said: “That is the Chan Lin Auction House’s customer.”
They had nothing to do with her.
“I would advise you to stay out of other people’s business.” Fei Yan chided softly, placing a hand on Qiao Chu’s shoulder as he pointed with his chin at the other private room.
Qiao Chu turned to look and saw a figure sail out over the railing from that private room, falling heavily onto the auctioneer’s stage, his head broken open upon the steps from the impact and blood flowed down the steps like a river!
Qiao Chu’s eyes widened in surprise and he raised his head to look into the other private room again. He had not seen when the youth had made his move, every single one of the men in the group who had barged into the room were thrown out over the railing one after another!
The private rooms were only on the second level and rightfully, people would not die from falling from that height. But all of it seemed to have been done on purpose by the youth when all the men’s’ limbs were first broken before being thrown over the railing and it seemed frighteningly too coincidental that all them men had fallen with the backs of their heads hitting the edges on the steps first which killed them all instantly!
In a blink of an eye, lives were being taken so carelessly and mercilessly!
In that series of happenings, the smile had not left the youth’s face once and the smile had grown as he carried out the senseless massacre, becoming more and more intense, without showing a single morsel of remorse or sympathy. All of it was like nothing more than a game to the youth.
What he killed, were mere insects.
Qiao Chu suddenly sobered up. That youth’s methods were really extraordinarily malicious!
In a quick flash, all the men who had barged into the private room had all been thrown downstairs, killed in an instant.
The bloody and gory scene immediately drove the crowd on the ground level into sudden horror and everyone screamed and tried to escape under the blood filled stench in the air. For those who had been sitting at the front row, they had found themselves suddenly covered in a gory mess from the bloody splatter when the men’s heads had exploded. They were feeling very weak in their legs and they could not stop screaming as they crawled and scrambled out of the auction hall.
The atmosphere in the auction house which had just moments before been at the height of fervour was suddenly rudely interrupted by such senseless murder. The crowd were endlessly trying to escape and the auction house was soon empty. In a very short period of time, the fiery fervour was suddenly replaced by cold emptiness and the resounding laughter coming from the youth sounded unusually piercing.
Volume 6
Chapter 571: “A Killer Youth (3)”
“Such weaklings! Just too weak!” The youth stepped a foot on the low railing on one side of his private room said as he shook his head, looking down at the bodies lying around the steps. The scene of all those bodies with their heads all split open made for a truly grisly sight. The auctioneer who had been standing tall and straight on the stage had suddenly lost all the strength in his legs and crashed sitting onto the ground, his whole body trembling as he stared at the unusually vicious and cruel youth above.
The youth was extremely good looking, but he was no different from a devil!
He saw the crowd disperse and the place grew quiet. The attractive looking youth sneered with contempt and suddenly, his eyes fell onto the private room opposite his and his gaze caught onto Jun Wu Xie’s.
Blood was still streaked on the youth’s attractive face. When his eyes met those of Jun Wu Xie’s, he froze a moment.
In the clear and cold eyes, he did not see a trace of fear, nor was there any panic, but just a calm and placid chill.
The lips on the attractive youth curled up slightly, and mouthed his words silently saying:
‘Stare at me more and I will kill you.’
Jun Wu Xie raised an eyebrow.
The attractive youth seemed to find it interesting and he leaned his body forward, seemingly as though he was about to leap over to them.
Qiao Chu and the others immediately moved to stand before Jun Wu Xie. The murderous aura the attractive youth gave out made all the companions raise their guard.
The interest in the attractive youth’s eyes suddenly grew more intense, and he was just about to lunge when the other three men who had been sitting silently in their private room without saying a single word, suddenly stood up. One o
f the men reached his hand out and held back the attractive youth by his shoulder, which was almost trembling with eagerness.
“Gu Ying, enough.” The man said coldly.
The smile on the attractive youth’s face turned into an expression of impatience and he was silent a moment before he took a step back. But his eyes did not leave Jun Wu Xie a moment and he mouthed out words silently once more to say:
‘You have beautiful eyes. I wish to dig them out.’
Qiao Chu and his companions who were standing between them could read the attractive youth’s lips and their faces contorted with murderous rage.
Nevertheless, the youth was completely not interested in Qiao Chu and the others. He turned at looked at the helplessly terrified auctioneer still sitting on the stage and said: “Hey! Send the items over. Now.”
Upon finishing his sentence, he flicked his hand and threw out a bunch of banknotes. The notes scattered down from the second floor and fluttered to the ground, getting stained red by the fresh red blood pooled across the floor.
The terrified auctioneer did not dare to hesitate another moment and hurriedly instructed the servants to send the Hibernation Elixirs up to the youth.
After receiving the Hibernation Elixirs, the youth strode slowly with the other three men as they proceeded to leave the auction house. Before he stepped out, he turned and gave Jun Wu Xie another malicious gaze, his mouth twisted in an evil smile.
“Damn him! Just who was that kid!?” Qiao Chu asked furiously after the youth had left.
If Jun Wu Xie had not secretly signalled for all of them to refrain from making any rash moves, all of the others would have charged over and destroyed that insufferable and condescending scumbag earlier.
“He’s from the Middle Realm.” Fan Zhuo said with a frown.
“What!?” Qiao Chu exclaimed in disbelief, his eyes wide.
Fan Zhuo’s eyes were narrowed, as he delved deep in thought.
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