"11,000,000!"
"13,000,000!"
"15,000,000!"
Due to the cauldron's low price being too high, there were not many people who had the ability to buy it in the auction hall. There were only three people who placed bids, and one of them was the second young master from the third room.
The other person was the elegant Tian Lan Meng. It was as if the 10,000,000 stone coins were just a number to her.
As for the last bidder, it was an old man wearing a conical bamboo hat. Only his white hair could be seen, and his appearance could not be seen clearly. His voice was hoarse, and he was inconspicuous as he sat in the crowd. Even from the beginning until the end, he had rarely bid. At this moment, when he suddenly shouted out a high price of fifteen million, it immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding people.
Su Ming frowned. He was deeply moved by the fact that the people who came to the auction hall from the land of Freezing Sky had so many stone coins. Compared to these people, Su Ming shook his head. If he did not count the money he had just obtained from the auction hall, then he simply did not have the strength to compete with these people.
'500 golden stone coins. It's more than the white stone coins, which are numbered in the hundreds, and it's more than the purple stone coins, which are numbered in the thousands. By the looks of it, these 5,000,000 stone coins aren't even enough for the low price …' Su Ming knew that he had miscalculated. In truth, right from the start of the auction, he had already realized that 5,000,000 stone coins was a huge sum of money … but in this auction hall, it was nothing.
That was why he managed to obtain 40,000,000 stone coins.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He stared at the 1,000 feet cauldron floating in midair above the auction hall, and a zealous look appeared in his eyes. No matter how he looked at it, this was the Barren Cauldron used to create medicinal pills.
It was especially so for Su Ming. He could feel a wave of heat around the cauldron that did not fuse with the illusionary ocean. It was clear that it had been enveloped in heat for a long period of time, and it fulfilled the requirements to create medicinal pills.
"17,000,000," Tian Lan Meng said softly. Tian Lan Meng spoke softly. Her voice was gentle and pleasant to the ears, and the unique temperament she exuded caused all those who looked at her to be unable to help themselves but have their hearts beat faster.
This was a woman who did not seem to belong to this world. She was elegant, indifferent, and her breath smelled like orchids. She sat there, and she could make the area around her quiet. It was as if wherever she was, no matter which area it belonged to, it would naturally become her world.
Others could only look at her from afar and could not get close to her. It was not that she was aloof, but that there was a barrier between the two worlds.
"Twenty million!" Second Young Master's voice came from the third room. There was a nonchalant tone to his voice, and compared to Tian Lan Meng's gentle voice, it sounded different, but there was a similar feeling in the hearts of those who heard it.
It was as if the two bidders were from the same world.
The old man with the bamboo hat fell silent, as if he was hesitating as to whether he should continue bidding. In the midst of his silence, Su Ming lifted his head swiftly. He had to get his hands on the Barren Cauldron. He had come to this auction precisely for it.
"23 million!" Su Ming stood on the balcony and spoke languidly. As his voice traveled outwards, due to the incredible presence he had created previously, he instantly attracted a lot of people's gazes.
Tian Lan Meng lifted her head and looked at Su Ming calmly on the balcony of the ninth room. After a moment of pensive silence, she no longer placed any bids.
A glint appeared in Second Young Master's eyes in the third room. He looked at the cauldron floating in midair in the auction hall, then at Su Ming in the ninth room, and a smile suddenly appeared on his lips.
'He has his eyes on this item …'
"Second Young Master, treasures in the shape of a cauldron rarely appear in the world. If you can get your hands on it and offer it to the Elder, he might have some other use for it," the old man named Chen from Heaven Gate said in a low voice.
"Offer it to the Elder?" A contemplative look appeared in Second Young Master's eyes.
At that moment, due to Tian Lan Meng's silence and Second Young Master's contemplation, the auction hall fell into a state of silence once Su Ming placed his bid.
Su Ming's heart pounded against his chest. He still could not remain indifferent and not be bothered by it. He became nervous instead.
"30 million!" A hoarse voice spoke abruptly, and as it did, the atmosphere in the auction hall instantly became so intense that it was suffocating.
Su Ming swept his gaze over and saw the person who placed the bid. That person was the old man with the bamboo hat.
"40 million!" Su Ming gritted his teeth, and without much hesitation, he placed his bid.
The moment he placed the bid of 40 million, the auction hall burst into an uproar. 40 million was definitely not a small sum. It was not as if it had never appeared before, but in truth, it did not matter whether it was 100 million or the person from Western Sea Clan who spent several tens of millions to buy the cauldron, in many people's eyes, it was just a show.
Yet it was different now. This was a real auction, and in this sort of environment, a bid of 40 million was enough to make countless people's breathing quicken.
The old man with the bamboo hat did not lift his head. Once Su Ming placed his bid, he opened his mouth and said, "41 million."
"45 million!" Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he placed his bid once again. This was all the stone coins he had, and it was his limit. If the old man continued bidding, then Su Ming would have to use another method.
The old man with the bamboo hat fell into a moment of thought before he spoke once again.
"50 million!"
Su Ming closed his eyes, and when he opened them once again, there was calmness in his eyes. He did not look at the old man with the bamboo hat, but at the floating Barren Cauldron. The cauldron was shining with the light of time, as if it was bearing the weight of the ages of time.
Once the old man with the bamboo hat placed his bid of 50 million, besides the sounds of heavy breathing, no other sound could be heard in the auction hall. This price was definitely not something an ordinary person could possess. Even the Clan Elder from Western Sea Clan in the eighth room had to spend countless years to accumulate wealth that was slightly more than this price with his level of cultivation and status.
As Su Ming remained silent and the people in the auction hall were waiting for him to perhaps place another bid, someone knocked on the door to the ninth room where Su Ming was.
Su Ming did not turn his head back. Zi Che walked over calmly. A man in black robes stood outside the door. That man had a white mask on his face. He wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming, who was in the room, then placed a white storage bag on the table before he turned around and left.
Right up till the end, that person did not say a single word.
Zi Che frowned. Once he picked up the storage bag, he returned to Su Ming's side. However, when he saw the word Dream sewn on the storage bag, he seemed to have understood something and handed the item to Su Ming.
Once Su Ming took it, he looked at the word Dream sewn on the storage bag. After a moment of silence, he scanned the bag with his divine sense.
"60 million!" The moment Su Ming retrieved his divine sense, he placed his bid in the auction hall!
The moment he placed his bid, it immediately stirred up an uproar. A price of 60 million was something many people would never be able to obtain in their entire lives.
The old man with the bamboo hat shuddered and lifted his head slowly. He cast a glance at Su Ming on the balcony of the ninth room, then lowered his head and no longer placed another bid.
After waiting for some time, the blue-haired old man's voice echoed in the auction hall.
"This cauldron will be sold to the person in the ninth room for 60 million! Today's auction will end here. The auction will continue tomorrow morning. I can tell you beforehand that there will be even rarer treasures appearing in tomorrow's auction! "
As the blue-haired old man spoke, he lifted his right hand and swung his arm. Immediately, the sea dragon beside him roared and ripples spread outwards. Wherever the ripples went, the illusory deep sea gradually disappeared, revealing the dark night and the moon in the sky, along with the snowflakes falling from the sky.
As the illusory deep sea disappeared from the auction hall, a fresh wave of cold air blew into the air. The people gradually got up and left, returning to their lodgings to wait for daylight.
Su Ming also left. Zi Che followed behind him. The two of them walked out of the ninth room and returned to their lodgings at the edge of the tribe.
Not long after they returned, a Western Sea Clan disciple came to deliver the gigantic Barren Cauldron to Su Ming and also took away enough stone coins.
The cauldron was 1,000 feet big and was placed outside Su Ming's tent. Su Ming stood beside the cauldron while Zi Che stood guard in the distance. However, there were still quite a number of people watching from outside their tents, and some of their gazes were filled with hostility.
The cauldron was too big. Su Ming tried to put it away into his storage bag, but he could not do so.
Western Sea Clan would naturally not care about how Su Ming took the cauldron away. In fact, the dozen something people who brought the cauldron over were also watching from a distance. If Su Ming could not take the cauldron away and allowed it to be left outside for a night, then this matter would turn into a huge joke.
Su Ming stood beside the gigantic cauldron. At such a close distance, he could even feel the thick, ancient air coming from the cauldron. This item was like an old man who had gone through the changes of time, or perhaps it had gone through many owners.
Su Ming lifted his hand and pressed it against the gigantic cauldron. He closed his eyes and his divine sense spread out through his hand and fused into the cauldron. The moment his divine sense entered the cauldron, Su Ming's body shuddered.
A great force bounced back from the cauldron and charged towards Su Ming's divine sense. It was as if it wanted to destroy his divine sense, and like a raging wave, it wanted to drown Su Ming's divine sense. All of this happened too quickly. The bouncing force arrived in an instant, but the moment it touched Su Ming's invisible divine sense …
"Hum … Hum … Hum …" Su Ming uttered a few words that were difficult to pronounce softly. No one could hear those words. Su Ming only opened his lips slightly. This was the method to control the Barren Cauldron that he had obtained when he first stepped into the strange dimension where he obtained the method to create medicinal pills and saw the picture of the cauldron.
Ever since he obtained it, this was the first time he used it. It was just three simple syllables, but the power contained within them was something Su Ming could not understand. The moment he uttered the first syllable, he could clearly feel his flesh and blood trembling, as if the power contained within those syllables was sucked out and surging into the gigantic cauldron through his right hand.
When he uttered the second syllable, the bones in Su Ming's body seemed to have started rubbing against each other. Perhaps more accurately speaking, it was not rubbing against each other. It was as if all the bones in his body were trembling against each other. As they trembled, a faint sound traveled out of his body, and that was the sound of Hum. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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