"Shipment! Shipment! Shipment!"
"Screw it... I got scammed again!"
"Why didn't I snap up that warehouse... I'm losing my mind!!"
"Who was it that pushed me into that bidding war just now? Show yourself!"
"This old man has some low-grade magic artifacts here—anyone willing to trade for 10 million chips?"
"You call an Aether Lord artifact low-grade???"
...
In the waiting room of the auction secret realm, all sorts of characters were making a scene, their noise rising and falling in waves.
Blood Crow frowned harder the longer he watched.
He had been keeping an eye on the place for ages, but instead of thinning out, the number of people in the secret realm only kept growing!
"Alliance Leader, at this rate, they're going to sell off all the goods..."
Blood Crow transmitted through divine sense, his voice low and tense.
The auction rooms in the secret realm were fully modeled after illusion realms, with cultivation power sealed off, but the waiting room had no such restriction.
At that moment, Heart Demon, ensconced in a floating tower, was using a spell to share Blood Crow's field of vision, silently observing everything.
"Hold on..."
Blood Crow suddenly noticed many people heading toward the waiting room with items they had won at auction. His eyebrows shot up.
He dashed over and sure enough, found Zhao Wendao and Nangong Yuan sitting at a table, making deals with the participants.
"What are you two doing? Hiring others to bid for you? That's cheating!"
Blood Crow puffed out his chest and roared.
"Why are you shouting like that?"
Qin Ming, who was just about to exchange a green-grade bronze spittoon, scowled at Blood Crow, making the latter stumble back a few steps in fright.
"But... the rules don't allow it..."
Blood Crow stammered, pointing at Zhao Wendao, his momentum instantly deflating.
"The rules don't allow bribing with money, that's true—but they don't say we can't barter with chips, do they?"
Lu Ze stepped out of the room with a smile, picking up the chips Zhao Wendao was using for exchanges and waving them in front of Blood Crow.
"Besides..."
Lu Ze laid out two chips worth 200 each, took the bronze spittoon from Qin Ming, and tossed it into the massive warehouse behind him with a grin.
"We're not buying—this is a restock for a second round of auctioning."
"None of this stuff belongs to the trading house."
Faced with that reasoning, Blood Crow had nothing to say. He had to turn around.
"Whew... so this is just fake auction prosperity, right? These people are returning everything they won!"
Blood Crow felt relieved as he spoke to Heart Demon.
"I knew it—who would ever bother winning junk like that..."
"...You idiot."
Heart Demon cursed under his breath, a rare occurrence.
"If they make a profit reselling in auction... repeating the process over and over, they'll earn far more than selling directly!"
"Then..."
Blood Crow went quiet for a moment.
"Surely no one's stupid enough to buy these things at a premium, right?"
He waited a long while, but Heart Demon never replied again.
Even the shared vision was cut off.
Blood Crow simply refused to believe that anyone in this world would pay over the odds for something like a spittoon.
Especially from a supreme master like Qin Ming.
And since he didn't meet the auction entry conditions, he couldn't even get into the auction hall to find out the truth.
"No... I can't just sit here and do nothing!"
Blood Crow steeled himself.
"I will catch you cheating if it's the last thing I do!!"
...
...
The auction proceeded more smoothly than Lu Ze had anticipated.
People swarmed in, tireless in their enthusiasm.
A single green-grade spittoon could be resold dozens, even hundreds of times...
As long as one of those resales went off at a premium in the high-tier auction rooms, the profit was secured.
And it was a massive profit at that.
Watching more and more wealthy elites and nobles arrive to buy chips, a confident smile crept onto Lu Ze's face.
The reason he was winning was simple.
Everyone else built secret realms based on the concept of ordinary auctions.
But not him.
Auction King was less of an auction and more of a casino.
What Lu Ze was exploiting was the greed of the human heart!
The more people there were, the more he made.
Since when did the house ever lose?
He had already fine-tuned the drop rates for the entry-level auction rooms—making sure the common players could earn something, but capping it within a set range.
Once the common players' assets grew, the high-tier rooms would start bustling on their own.
And those rich second-generation scions—the ones who couldn't care less about money—were his ultimate harvest target!
It might look foolish to cap chips at 2 million for exchange.
But in truth, hardly any of those spoiled rich kids could actually win their way up through pure skill.
The money these noble brats spent on repeated bankruptcies and chip repurchases far exceeded the simple cost of buying 10 million chips outright for the evening's Clandestine Auction!
The secret realm's total revenue was climbing constantly.
Ten million, twenty million, thirty million...
...
...
By the hours of the evening, when the Clandestine Auction kicked off, the Auction King secret realm reached its peak fervor.
Because everyone knew that the Clandestine Auction was guaranteed to drop top-tier goods!
Of course, the final participants in the Clandestine Auction were either gambling masters from the common crowd or filthy-rich nobles who had cash to burn.
Those who had painstakingly and steadily scraped together tens of millions in chips mostly ended up selling them at a high markup to those spoiled brats.
There was one exception though.
Qin Ming.
The sight of him wandering around swapping all kinds of artifacts for chips had even Lu Ze stunned.
He was a perfect mix of dead broke, hopelessly bad, and addicted to playing.
...
The early morning hours passed.
As the final Clandestine Auction ended, the Auction King secret realm entered its closing phase.
"What are you doing?!"
Blood Crow, who had been watching every move of the Lingxiao Sect group like a hawk, pointed accusingly at Lu Ze, who was using cash and banknotes to make transactions. "I caught you red-handed!"
"?"
Lu Ze looked at Blood Crow like he was an idiot.
"These chips aren't trading house property—they're of Lu's own making. Isn't it fine for them to be bought back too?"
"You...!!"
Blood Crow choked, unable to form words.
At that moment, he finally understood why Lu Ze had people exchange money for chips—it was to work around the rules!
"Fine, fine... I hope all these people participated voluntarily!"
Lu Ze chuckled. "They absolutely participated voluntarily."
"Talk is cheap—we'll see soon enough!"
Blood Crow gave a sinister smirk.
Earlier that afternoon, he and Rakshasa had set up a formation at the secret realm exit.
It could detect whether a normal person was lying!
Right now, Rakshasa was at the gate, questioning every person who walked out of the secret realm—asking whether anyone had been coaxed or bribed into participating in this auction.
If even one person slipped up, he'd have the excuse to declare Lu Ze a cheater!
Liars would trigger a red light glowing outside.
He watched the exit, full of anticipation, and gradually, his eyes went dull—
One after another, green lights kept flashing.
Lu Ze looked at Blood Crow with a happy expression:
"Oh, look, Elder Blood Crow, the sky outside is really green out there... just like you."
...
...
The final revenue for Auction King secret realm clocked in at a massive 130 million.
An undisputed first.
No matter how hard Blood Crow and Rakshasa tried, they couldn't find any evidence that Lu Ze had cheated.
In the past, they might still have fabricated false evidence to frame Lu Ze.
But with a supreme expert like Qin Ming present, who had nothing but praise for The Auction King, they truly didn’t dare to make a move, and could only watch helplessly as Lu Ze pocketed the second token.
At this moment, within the floating pavilion, the four elders were filled with worry.
“What can we do? If we lose another round, the Void Soul Crystal will be that kid’s prize…”
“No! We must win this round!”
“Where exactly is his weakness…”
“…”
Only Blood Crow remained silent.
Because he had lost money again, and again.
In his dealings with Lu Ze, he had lost everything down to his last shred of dignity, and was now pondering the meaning of life.
“A loss is a loss… it doesn’t matter.”
After a long silence, Heart Demon finally spoke.
“The third trial—he will never be able to accomplish it!”
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