Six days after the second proposition was announced.
Lu Ze's Auction Secret Realm finally opened.
Early in the morning, the usually reclusive 【Blood Crow】 unexpectedly appeared at Idle Cloud Manor.
After repeatedly stumbling, losing money, and suffering misfortune at Lu Ze’s hands…
This time, he finally had the upper hand.
He couldn't wait to see Lu Ze fail and slink away like a beaten dog, so he arrived early and stood guard at the entrance to Lu Ze's secret realm.
When Lu Ze appeared, 【Blood Crow】 instinctively straightened his back and looked at him with pride.
“Oh, if it isn’t Elder Blood Crow? Long time no see. Made any fortune lately?”
Lu Ze said with a grin, twisting the knife in 【Blood Crow】’s wounds.
“You…!”
【Blood Crow】 seethed with rage.
Fortune?
He had spent his entire life accumulating wealth, only to have Lu Ze swindle him down to nothing—he was even drowning in debt!
But thankfully, this time, he had seized the advantage.
【Heart Demon】 had already discussed with several elders that whoever could defeat Lu Ze would claim the Void Soul Crystal.
Now, the Void Soul Crystal was as good as his!
“Go ahead, enjoy your smugness while it lasts. Soon, you’ll lose so badly…”
【Blood Crow】 was about to hurl a threat when a sudden wave of pressure made the hairs on his body stand on end.
“Young Friend Lu is about to lose again? Funny, that’s what people always say whenever I see you.”
A tall, scruffy figure had somehow appeared right between 【Blood Crow】 and Lu Ze.
“Senior Qin, long time no see.”
Lu Ze gave a slight bow and responded with a smile.
He wasn’t surprised by Qin Ming’s appearance.
After all, Qin Ming was a longtime resident of the Great Qian Dynasty and its most powerful cultivator. The system had been feeding him information about 《Auction King》 for a while now, and he’d long been lured into the game.
Lu Ze had checked the background a few times—this old guy was constantly going bankrupt, spending every day squatting at the courier station unboxing packages…
Heh, I heard you integrated "Auction King" into this secret realm, so I came specially to take a look.
Qin Ming straightened his back and put on an air of a wise master, grinning contentedly.
“I’ve got a bit of experience in auctions myself, hahaha…”
“Senior, this auction only allows participants from the Great Qian Dynasty…”
【Blood Crow】 gritted his teeth and spoke up.
Only now did he realize that Qin Ming was the mysterious expert that 【Heart Demon】 had been wary of!
But for the sake of the Void Soul Crystal, he had to try to stop him.
“The previous emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty hadn’t even ascended the throne yet when I was already living in Sunset Immortal Valley right here in the Great Qian Dynasty… You want to check my credentials?”
Qin Ming’s face darkened as he glared at 【Blood Crow】.
“No, no… Senior, please, feel free.”
【Blood Crow】 waved his hands frantically and instantly folded, a wave of worry washing over him.
With someone of Qin Ming’s caliber, his wealth was unimaginable.
If Qin Ming decided to buy out the entire warehouse, Lu Ze might actually turn things around!
“Young Friend Lu, do you have any money? Lend me some… Why are you looking at me like that? I haven’t walked among the mortal world in centuries…”
Hearing this sudden request for a loan, 【Blood Crow】, who had been distressed moments ago, immediately relaxed.
‘Hah, the biggest threat is gone. Let’s see how you can turn this around now!’
【Blood Crow】 gloated inwardly as he glanced at Lu Ze.
Although the auction didn’t use spirit stones—meaning currency was worthless to cultivators—cultivators rarely carried much ordinary money on them.
【Blood Crow】 had already colluded with several major merchant guilds before the proposition was announced, monopolizing the exchange of spirit stones for currency.
That meant even if the Spirit Firmament Sect wanted to buy up all the goods themselves, they wouldn’t have enough cash!
Lu Ze’s 《Auction King》 was something he had heard of. He also suspected that Lu Ze might try to rally cultivators from the Great Qian Dynasty to join the auction and swing the odds.
But how many cultivators could the Great Qian Dynasty actually muster?
And how interested would cultivators be in a commoner’s auction?
No matter how he looked at it, he was certain…
“Huh?”
Just as 【Blood Crow】 was indulging in his happy fantasies, the gates of Idle Cloud Manor swung open, and he was dumbstruck.
A sea of people crammed the once-spacious manor to the brim!
…
…
Without a combat system, creating a secret realm was not difficult.
Lu was at the late Nascent Soul stage, and his spiritual energy and divine sense far exceeded those of his peers. Constructing such an ordinary secret realm posed no challenge.
The reason it took him three days was…
He had made the secret realm far too large.
He had known from the start that at least several thousand people would attend this auction.
He needed to prepare at least 2,000 bidding rooms to ensure smooth operations.
The auction process was simple:
All participants exchanged cash for chips.
Just like in the illusion, chips could only be purchased when the player had less than 1 million in chips, with a maximum of 2 million.
The venue was also divided into the same tiers: 100,000-table, 500,000-table, 1 million-table, 2 million-table, and 5 million-table…
After a full day of bidding, at the evening hour of Hai, the final 【Secret Auction】 would begin.
Entry required 10 million in chips.
Since 10 million chips could not be obtained directly, even wealthy nobles had to earn them through gameplay.
In reality, for an entrance ticket, countless rich layabouts who loved the thrill but lacked skill ended up spending far more than the equivalent of 10 million chips in real money…
…
【Heart Demon】 had never seen such a bustling auction.
In his experience, auctions were upscale events attended by no more than a hundred people, right?
At this moment, the waiting hall alone held no fewer than a thousand people!
Counting those bidding in various rooms, the number could easily reach tens of thousands!
In the waiting hall, many ordinary citizens dressed in plain clothes chatted excitedly about their bidding experiences.
“How much have you earned?”
“Not much, just a small gain of 2 million chips…”
“Hahaha, it’s like picking up free money!”
“Damn it, I missed that red one earlier. Such a pity…”
…
Listening from the side, 【Blood Crow】 grew more and more bewildered.
Where the hell had this event come from?
Was this still an auction?
He had never seen ordinary folks in simple clothes entering an auction hall before.
Nor had he ever heard people at an auction talking about making money instead of the items on sale…
Was this meant to be a place for making money?!
“Alliance Leader…”
【Blood Crow】 transmitted gravely through divine sense.
“I have a bad feeling about this.”
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