Chapter 1276: Chapter 1272: Who Are They Trying to Scam?
Under normal circumstances, there would’ve been nothing wrong with those words, but right now, the one who obtained this Little Tripod was Yun Ran.
Dragon Spirit shot Chi Yao a sidelong glance. "Tch, what a clueless bumpkin!"
Don’t even mention that this tripod itself is extraordinary— even if it were just an ordinary Little Tripod, as long as Yun Ran was willing, she could easily awaken its spiritual wisdom.
After stomping on Chi Yao’s foot, Dragon Spirit instantly felt refreshed; even when he looked at those noisy people downstairs, they seemed much more pleasing to the eye.
Just then, people from Divine Sword Manor had already come up carrying a new tray, with a piece of dark red cloth covering it.
"Huh, this cloth can actually block my Divine Sense!"
Dragon Spirit’s interest was immediately piqued. His Dragon Soul could see things clearly even from a thousand miles away.
Yet now he couldn’t see through what exactly was placed under that dark red cloth.
Dragon Spirit immediately tilted his body, leaning toward Yun Ran, his tone sounding a bit sleazy. "Can you see clearly what’s on that tray?"
The Little Tower Spirit, who had been quiet this whole time, wasn’t very clear on how Yun Ran and Dragon Spirit usually interacted.
So at first hearing that tone, he thought Dragon Spirit was provoking Yun Ran, and was so startled that he immediately scooted his body a bit closer toward the wall.
At the same time, he was also a little curious about what good stuff they’d brought up downstairs this time, that even this dangerous man couldn’t see through it.
The Little Tower Spirit’s gaze slipped through the gap in the window and accurately landed on the tray placed on the main platform below.
The cloth on the tray looked pretty much the same as the ones covering the earlier auction items.
But for those previous items, even without lifting the cloth, he could see what was underneath.
The Little Tower Spirit hadn’t even had time to be surprised when Yun Ran’s somewhat indifferent voice drifted into his ears.
"I can’t see it either, but it’s no big deal. Since it’s on the auction stage, we’ll find out sooner or later."
Dragon Spirit: ...
He finally understood why sometimes Xuan Chu would be rolling his eyes when he was putting on airs.
Even though he and Yun Ran were life-and-death comrades, looking at Yun Ran’s lofty ’expert’ act right now, he genuinely got goosebumps all over.
Apart from those few people downstairs who had been hit so hard they still hadn’t recovered, everyone else’s attention had already been drawn away by this newly presented item.
"The items brought out earlier were all Little Tripods imbued with the Power of Purification. This thing they’ve brought out now must be even more extraordinary."
"Man, Divine Sword Manor is really something. Not a whisper beforehand— if they’d said earlier there’d be something this good, I’d have brought my entire family fortune!"
"Yeah right, even if you hauled out your entire family fortune, there’s no way you’d win this one."
"With the stuff coming out now, we’re probably just here to make up the numbers. We can only look."
...
Quite a few people’s tones carried heavy regret.
But no one knew if they were truly regretful; after all, nobody knew exactly how deep their family coffers ran.
However, if one listened carefully, one could still hear that besides regret, there was a faint hint of secret excitement in their voices.
Clearly, in their view, even if they couldn’t obtain these later auction items, at least they could broaden their horizons.
At the same time, in several special private rooms in another corner of the auction hall, there was finally movement.
They might not have received the special Supreme Invitation Letter, but that didn’t mean their identities were any less impressive.
Even Yun Ran had already made a move once, yet the people in these private rooms hadn’t reacted at all before this.
If not for the knife-wielding attendants standing at the doors, people might not have believed that anyone was actually inside.
In the Heavenly Character Private Room, an aged voice suddenly sounded. "The thing we’ve been waiting for has finally appeared!"
As the old man’s voice rang out, the figures of the others in the Heavenly Character Private Room instantly tensed up.
Originally, they were determined to obtain this item and were confident they could crush everyone.
But they never expected a few Cheng Yaojin types to jump out halfway— and not just one of them.
"Elder, our chances of winning..."
The middle-aged man sitting beside the old man sounded somewhat worried. Although they’d made their preparations, what if someone cut in at the last moment?
The old man didn’t spare even a single extra glance for the middle-aged man; his eyes were fixed firmly on the tray on the main platform.
His tone suddenly turned cold and ruthless. "This Heavenly Book Fragment can only belong to us. Even if the King of Heaven himself came, he can forget about snatching it away."
The meaning was obvious: they would seize it at any cost. If they could win it at auction, they’d do so; if not, they’d rob whoever won it.
The middle-aged man’s expression shifted, and his heart turned bitter.
The stakes they’d brought this time already exceeded eighty percent of the treasury; as for the people they’d brought, they had practically emptied out all of the family’s elites.
If the worst really happened, the losses would be unimaginable— he didn’t even dare think about it.
All this, just to bet everything on a vague rumor, staking the family’s entire fighting force— was it really worth it?
The old man seemed to sense the middle-aged man’s thoughts, or perhaps he was reinforcing his own resolve.
He spoke immediately. "As long as we can obtain the Heavenly Book Fragment and discover the Enlightenment Secret Technique, any sacrifice will be worth it!"
The middle-aged man knew he couldn’t argue, and could only pull a bitter face as he went to make arrangements.
Similar conversations were taking place in the other private rooms as well.
Clearly, all these people who hadn’t bid on anything from the very beginning, whose identities were kept strictly secret, and who had entered the auction hall via special passages, were all here for the Heavenly Book Fragment.
On the main auction platform, the man swept his gaze around, seeing that almost everyone had recovered from the excitement of the previous intense bidding.
Only then did he smile and begin introducing the tray displayed on the central platform.
"Everyone, this item is a bit special. Divine Sword Manor obtained it by accident, and it has been appraised by seven senior elders.
One of them firmly believes it is genuine; another four elders are certain it’s a forgery; the remaining two elders have chosen not to comment..."
He hadn’t even finished speaking when the crowd below exploded, even though most of them weren’t prospective buyers for this item.
"You’ve got to be kidding. Divine Sword Manor actually brought something this questionable up here— who are you trying to scam?"
"Exactly, exactly. For a bit of profit, you really don’t care about Divine Sword Manor’s reputation anymore."
"Whoever bids on this is a sucker. Forget four appraising elders saying it’s fake— even if just one elder withheld their opinion, you still shouldn’t be putting it up!"
...
All those doubts and accusations didn’t make the man on stage show the slightest change in expression.
