The bidding for high-level goods continued. The price of the Fiery Qilin Stick was now as high as two hundred and fifty thousand monster crystal coins. The Bright-Sky Medicine Sect was the one who gave that bid because they intended to get home with the Fiery Qilin Stick, which was one of the important ingredients in making great medicines…

"Does anyone want to give more than two hundred and fifty thousand monster crystal coins? If not, I'll start to count." Wang-Lin-Chan urged people to further bid for the Fiery Qilin Stick, but no one made any move. So, she started to count instantly…

"One… Two…"

"Two hundred and fifty-five thousand monster crystal coins!"

All of a sudden, everyone heard someone shout the higher bid. However, the voice did not come from the second floor, where the people from the significant clans, sects, and parties were, but from downstairs, in the middle section of the room. Everyone turned to look in the direction where the voice came from immediately…

"Who is that? How come he's not afraid to bid against the VIPs?"

The people in the auction house looked at the man who made the bid, but they did not know who he was. They had not even seen him before. It turned out that the man was Zheng-Fu. He thought that he wanted to try to bid on the goods for fun. But when he shouted the bidding price, he was startled because all eyes were on him…

"Darn it! Who is that kid? How come he dared to bid against us!?" a middle-aged man, who was sitting in a private room on the second floor, said while pounding his chair violently before staring at Zheng-Fu out of anger. He was one of the members of the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect…

"Come now! That kid probably tried to manipulate the price. Don't pay attention to him! Let's make a higher bid by a thousand more," another middle-aged man said with a big smile to the first middle-aged man, who was completely furious because Zheng-Fu had made a higher bid…

"Two hundred and sixty thousand monster crystal coins!"

The Bright-Sky Medicine Sect made another bid against Zheng-Fu. Now the other sects were looking at him because they wanted to know who the mysterious man was. They wondered why Zheng-Fu was not afraid of the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect…

Zheng-Fu prepared to make another bid and was about to lift his number tag. However, someone stopped him by pulling his hand that held the tag…

Grab!

When Zheng-Fu felt the grab, he turned to the person who grabbed him right away. Then he saw a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl next to him. She had an oval-shaped face. Her long, green dress had a logo of the Association of the Alchemists that said that she was an alchemist. And she was a mid-level alchemist because her dress was green…

"I don't know who you are, but I want to beg you… Our sect needs the Fiery Qilin Stick, so please don't make another bid." The girl begged Zheng-Fu with tears in her eyes…

The girl startled Zheng-Fu for a while out of confusion because he did not know where she was from. But when he made sense of what she said to him, he understood that she was from the sect…

"Lady… I need the Fiery Qilin Stick too. So, I can't do as per your request. Please accept my apology. I hope you understand." Zheng-Fu replied with a calm face. He was not faltered by the tears of the girl at all. He just felt that the girl was a stranger to him.

Besides, he really needed the Fiery Qilin Stick as well…

"What!?"

The girl was surprised to see how Zheng-Fu could be so indifferent to her appearance. That was because no man had ever refused her every time she played the begging game. She started to think that Zheng-Fu might not be interested in girls…

"Well, then please accept my apology too for asking you to do that. I…"

"It's alright. I don't mind. Besides, I think that you should go back to your seat. I feel like the people around me want to harm me or something." Zheng-Fu rushed to stop her instantly because he realized that the guys around him found him obnoxious for saying no to the cute girl…

"How could that kid say no to that cute girl!?"

"That's right! If they didn't forbid a fight here, I would have punched him for breaking the girl's heart!"

"Sigh! Would it be so wrong that I need the Fiery Qilin Stick too?" Zheng-Fu sighed before letting go of the annoying feeling. Then he made another higher bid…

"Two hundred and sixty-five thousand monster crystal coins!"

"What!?"

"The kid just made another bid! It's unbelievable," said a middle-aged woman who was in one of the VIP rooms. Most of the people in the room actually thought the same way…

"Wow! The kid is very brave! He should be scared that the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect would use him in medicine making, bidding against them like that. Hahaha!"

"You're being too dramatic. The Bright-Sky Medicine Sect is well-known for its virtues. They wouldn't do that. This is an auction house. The people who have more money will get what they want. That's why we can't bid against them because we don't have that much money to spend on something we don't need."

It was a middle-aged man who was about thirty-five to forty-five years old who said that. He came with another middle-aged man, and both of them were in horrifying armor. The other people behind them also wore armor. They were the royal guardians. The two middle-aged men were the Elders of one of the sects that participated in the auction…

After Zheng-Fu made the bid, the middle-aged man, who was furious at him, started to burst out in anger again. This time, he also developed bulging veins…

"He still dared to bid against us? I believe he wants to die today!"

"Calm down, Elder Zhong-Xi-Dang. We are here to bid for valuable goods, not to fight with anyone. Do you want others to condemn us for threatening and hurting others?" A woman next to Zhong-Xi-Dang warned him…

"I know that!"

When Zhong-Xi-Dang heard the warning, he had to calm down because the woman was in a higher position. Although she looked so young, her age was not any less than Zhong-Xi-Dang's…

The whole room started to wonder who Zheng-Fu was for daring to bid against the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect. They wondered if he did not know the sect. No one made any bids for the Fiery Qilin Stick because the sect asked them not to before the auction started. If they did not agree, they would not be able to buy the medicines at their store. So, everyone had to let the sect win the stick…

"Three hundred thousand monster crystal coins!"

"What!"

"Three hundred thousand monster crystal coins!? I can't believe that the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect would be willing to pay that much."

"Yeah! But I think the cost of the Fiery Qilin Stick is probably around that. Judging from its small size, the stick should be about three hundred thousand to three hundred and thirty thousand monster crystal coins."

Not a lot of people knew the actual price of the Fiery Qilin Stick. The one that was being auctioned was just a fraction of the whole stick. The complete one came in the size of a baby's arm. The one at the auction house did not send out that much aura, but its price should be quite expensive anyway…

Zheng-Fu knew well about that information. He wanted it because he planned to boil it with water and use the water to bathe Jin-Tian. It would help increase Jin-Tian's physical energy well because Jin-Tian's half-hidden power was the Spirit of Fire. However, Zheng-Fu thought that the auction for the Fiery Qilin Stick was complicated because he was not supposed to bid on it…

Sigh!

"I guess I should just forget about it. How come it has to be this complicated? Why? Why do I have to face troubles everywhere I've been?" Zheng-Fu sighed with sadness. Ever since he got out of the Ancient Monsters Forest, he had been encountering unfortunate events everywhere he had been to. And he was not the one who asked for those problems…

Wang-Lin-Chan let out a joyful smile after she heard the bidding price from the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect. She knew that the sect had asked everyone to skip the bid for the Fiery Qilin Stick. So, she was sad because she did not expect that the auction house would not get a good price for it…

However, the appearance of the mysterious man who offered a higher price helped hike the price of the Fiery Qilin Stick. Wang-Lin-Chan was pleased with that level of price. So, she secretly felt grateful for Zheng-Fu's move. She even hoped that he would continue to bid further, but he did not seem to do so. That made her feel sad again…

"If no one else wants to offer the higher price, I'll have to start to count!" Wang-Lin-Chan intended to emphasize her sentence and made it very loud while looking at Zheng-Fu. She wanted to see if he was going to make another offer…

"O-One!"

"T-Two!"

"T-Three!"

When Wang-Lin-Chan counted to three, she intentionally dragged the sound longer than usual. The people in the room could notice that and wonder why she did that. Some people knew why, so they started to giggle at her gesture…

"Congratulations to the Bright-Sky Medicine Sect for winning the bid for the Fiery Qilin Stick!" Wang-Lin-Chan tried to hide her sorrow with a smile when she announced the result of this round's auction…

"Hahaha! See? I told you, Zhong-Xi-Dang, that the kid couldn't possibly fight our price. He had to stay quiet like that." The middle-aged man laughed while saying what he thought. He also looked at Zheng-Fu all the while…

"Tsk!"

"He's lucky that he couldn't. Because if he made a higher offer, I'd be the one who punished him for thinking of stealing the Fiery Qilin Stick from us!" Zhong-Xi-Dang said with a grudging face while staring at Zheng-Fu. Then he turned back to the group and made a calm face…

Whoosh!

"What!? How come, all of a sudden, I have goosebumps? Is this place full of spirits?" All of a sudden, Zheng-Fu felt goosebumps. He rubbed his arms while looking around him and thinking about the thing that made him feel goosebumps a minute ago…

"To avoid wasting any more time, let's continue the auction!"

Thud!

As usual, after Wang-Lin-Chan finished the sentence, a cute female staff member walked up with a long wooden box and put it on the table in front of Wang-Lin-Chan. The guests knew right away what could be in that box…

"And this one is sw…"

"Stop!"

Grab!

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