Chapter 1096 (1/2)

Chapter 1096: The Competition

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

A calm voice resonated from within the loft. “Six million drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.” Shocked gazes scanned the crowd for the source and finally fixed themselves on a black-eyed youth three floors above them.

“Who is this person? Could he be a failed Spiritual Array Master auctioning his Spiritual Array Map?”

“I don’t know. Currently, many supreme talents of the Tianluo Continent have gathered in the far west. I can’t recognize them all, but he looks very unfamiliar, so he shouldn’t be among the cream of the crop of Tianluo Continent’s younger generation.”

“But the spiritual energy fluctuations around him are a half step to Grade Nine Sovereign, which is considered extraordinary among the younger generation.”

“…”

The sound of many curious voices filled the pavilion. They clearly did not know who Mu Chen was.

Similarly, above the loft, several gazes were fixed on Mu Chen, one of them belonging to Xia Hong, the Fourth Prince. He narrowed his fox-like gaze slightly, and scanned Mu Chen coldly with a glint in his eyes.

At the balcony, after a glance at Mu Chen, Han Fei turned his gaze to the crowd with a smile and asked, “Haha, this friend is offering 6,000,000 drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. Will anyone else bid?”

The crowd was silent, but there were other Spiritual Array Masters present who were also very interested in the Nine Dragon Devouring Fairy Array, so after a brief silence, one of them spoke up. “Six million and five hundred thousand.” A long-haired man stood. He was wearing a broad, remarkable-looking robe decorated with many glowing spiritual symbols.

“That is Mubai, a disciple of the Celestial Array Sect. Rumor has it that he is a Spiritual Array Grandmaster who can perform the Heavenly Grade Middle Rank Spiritual Array. He is indeed extraordinary.” The loft was filled with discerning people who could immediately identify the man, and cries of surprise rose thereafter.

The long-haired man called Mubai was extremely amiable. He greeted Mu Chen with a smile and clasped hands. Mu Chen returned his friendly smile. While the man’s modesty left him with a good impression, he nonetheless didn’t plan to give up on this highly interesting ancient scroll, and he immediately raised his price. “Seven million.”

Mubai was taken aback, but he immediately recovered his smile. “Eight million.”

Both of them were obviously very interested in the ancient array scroll. This object was useless to ordinary men, but to spiritual array masters like them, the object was a treasure. Even if they failed to master the array, they could still learn a lot from it, thereby enriching their own spiritual array attainments.

The competition between the two gradually heated up, attracting everyone’s attention. However, they could tell that the atmosphere between the two was very amiable, and there were no hostile sparks between them, despite the continuously increasing bids.

Both were unwilling to give up, and their competition attracted other spiritual array masters to bid as well. After a while, the price of the ancient scroll had already increased to 11,000,000 drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. Such a figure was almost equivalent to the price of the previous quasi-divine artifact. Fewer and fewer people were bidding, so it returned to a competition between Mu Chen and Mubai.

Mu Chen calmly placed his bid. “Twelve million.” This figure was not a small sum. Although times had changed for Nine Nether Palace, 12,000,000 drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid was still a painful sum. If Mandela had not contributed most of the Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, he would have had no choice but to admit defeat by now.

The loft was in an uproar over the price of 12,000,000. They clearly did not expect that the competition for the ancient scroll would go to such an extent. Mubai’s gaze turned serious. He hesitated. After all, 12,000,000 drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid was pretty much his income for the whole year.

Mubai mulled over the matter, and finally, with an internal sigh and an impatient shake of his head, was about to sit down and give up on his contest with Mu Chen. Sensing that Mubai was about to surrender, Mu Chen quietly heaved a sigh of relief. Had the opposing party persisted, he would have had no choice but to capitulate within the next few rounds.

However, just as Mu Chen was heaving a sigh of relief over Mubai’s surrender, an impassive voice rang out abruptly, causing a commotion within the loft. “Fourteen million!”

Countless gazes jerked upwards, locking onto the direction of the voice, and they immediately began to look excited. On the third floor of the pavilion, the Fourth Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty, Xia Hong, was toying with a black stone pearl with an expressionless look on his face. The black stone pearl was clearly the Broken Sea Pearl he had won the bid for previously, and once he had gotten the stone pearl at such a high price, he had stared at it without looking at anything else, oblivious to the strange looks being thrown his way.