However, before auctioneer Feng Tongyi could ask if anyone wanted to continue bidding,
a smaller-sized rat demon suddenly stood up and stomped on the table.
Using all his strength, he shouted, “I bid sixty thousand demon stones! No one is allowed to compete with me!”
“I’ve lived a lowly life all my days and refuse to live in cowardice any longer!”
“I might as well gamble—if this is the life-blood of an ancient rat demon, I will surely soar to the heavens!”
“Even if not, I’ll die with no regrets!”
As he spoke the last sentence, tears flickered in the rat demon’s eyes.
Seeing this scene from inside the booth, Feng Zhenxin’s lips curved into a perfect smile.
“Tsk, tsk, truly worthy as my Conscience Workshop’s new top shill!”
“That acting is impeccable!”
“After tonight ends, I must consider giving him a raise in demon stones!”
Indeed, whether horse demon or rat demon, both were shills Feng Zhenxin hired to warm up the crowd.
Having run auctions for so long, he understood very well:
good items don’t need trickery to sell, but bad items must be sold by any means.
Most demons have simple minds—the less popular an item, the less likely they are to buy it.
The more others fight for something, even if useless, they insist on buying it.
That is demon nature!
Sure enough, with these two shills leading, other demons also found their logic persuasive and began bidding.
But even so, reason remained; their bids were not too high.
Bidding rose steadily by increments of two thousand or five thousand demon stones, not too heated, just steady.
Feng Zhenxin believed this life-blood’s limit price would be around 150,000 demon stones—not likely much higher!
But just then, a deep voice rang out:
“Three hundred thousand demon stones!”
At this, everyone looked up to find which great demon in a private booth had bid such an astronomical price.
Keep in mind the price had only just reached eighty thousand demon stones—what was the meaning of jumping straight to three hundred thousand?
However, no matter how they tried to look, they could not find the bidder!
This was because all Conscience Workshop booths had special array structures—anyone speaking would have their voice and location altered.
Making it impossible to know who the true buyer was!
This is the importance of a private booth!
And the person who shouted three hundred thousand demon stones was none other than Ye Yu!
He was determined to obtain this ancient great demon’s life-blood!
Because he trusted his own body’s instinct!
So he directly offered a huge price to crush the other demons, forcing them to back down!
Originally, he thought this would guarantee him the life-blood.
But unexpectedly, another voice echoed through Conscience Workshop:
“Five hundred thousand demon stones!”
After this amount appeared, not only did the demons gasp, even Feng Zhenxin felt uneasy.
Another increase of two hundred thousand?
What on earth were they trying to do?
Or maybe these two bidders had already figured out the origin of this life-blood?
At that thought, Feng Zhenxin’s expression grew extremely serious!
Inside the booth, Ye Yu instinctively clenched his fists.
Competition? This was no good sign.
He checked his storage ring and shouted another price:
“Seven hundred eighty thousand demon stones!”
This was the limit of his available demon stones—there really was no more.
At that point, he would have to consider taking the risk of forcibly seizing the item.
Fortunately, after this bid, the opponent seemed to concede and did not raise further.
After waiting three breaths, Ye Yu successfully won the auction for the life-blood.
Soon, two Golden Demon-level great demons came to Ye Yu’s room.
After receiving seven hundred eighty thousand demon stones, they voluntarily handed over the ancient great demon life-blood.
One of them said, “Greetings, fellow demon. My master is very interested in you and wishes to speak. Is that convenient?”
Ye Yu decisively refused and immediately cast an array, disappearing on the spot.
The two Golden Demon great demons were surprised by this.
As is well known, Conscience Workshop holds an extraordinary status in Jianyao City.
Countless demons seek to form connections with the workshop’s master.
Yet this kid left so abruptly—truly an outlier.
The Golden Demon great demons shook their heads slightly, then took out communication stones to contact Feng Zhenxin, saying in a low voice:
“Master, this ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) buyer refused to meet you and has left. He seems only at Ascension Realm. Shall we find a chance to deal with him? Retrieve the life-blood?”
Feng Zhenxin: “What nonsense are you talking? Do you think I’m some fool? Business is about integrity!”
“But since he refuses to come, go find the one who bid five hundred thousand demon stones and see if he wants to come chat.”
“Honestly, I’m very curious why they dared bid such a high price—have they already discovered the origin of this life-blood?”
A moment later, a tall monkey demon with four ears entered Feng Zhenxin’s booth, holding the recently auctioned Azure Sea Tide Summoning Technique.
Seeing him arrive, usually composed Feng Zhenxin slightly stood, eyes filled with shock.
The monkey demon raised his head slightly and said softly, “Tell me who bought that drop of life-blood. In exchange, I will do something for you.”
“Anything, but preferably demon slaying—I’m best at that!”
Meanwhile, on the other side, after obtaining the ancient great demon life-blood, Ye Yu did not rest but headed straight north.
He stopped only after reaching a remote mountain range rarely touched by humans.
Holding the life-blood in his hand, Ye Yu’s desire grew even stronger.
A voice constantly surged in his mind, urging him to swallow it.
But Ye Yu did not do so.
Instead, after gazing at the life-blood for a moment, he finally decided to use the dream talent from this dream to auto-train and take over his body!
From the events at Mount Juliang, it was known:
After taking over the body, auto-training would automatically remove harmful elements, like tampered pills.
Similarly, if this life-blood had problems, the system should make the correct choice.
So Ye Yu trusted this dream talent.
Then he purposely found a hidden cave, made all preparations, placed the life-blood in front of him, and activated auto-training!
