Genius Demon Empress - Chapter 21

Chapter 21 - Controversy

Translated by Luxican

The first two rounds, went by without any unexpected situations and around the estimated price.

"The third auction item is Falling Star Iron Ore. It is slap-sized and weighs 130 pounds. It can easily penetrate the shell of a fourth-rank mysterious turtle." The auctioneer didn't talk much, but what he said was just right.

"Seven hundred profound pellets," someone took the lead in rising the bidding card. Yue Jing Hua followed Ya Qing's instruction and wasn't in a hurry to bid.

After three rounds of bidding, the price was pretty much stuck at nine hundred profound pellets. Most of the visitors were old customers, and their eyesight wasn't bad. So, most of them saw the shortcomings of the Falling Star Iron.

The price went up by twenty profound pellets, and there was only one bidder left. Yue Jing Hua thought now would be the right time, and when she was about to rise her bidding card, someone from the two-star seats roared: "One thousand profound pellets."

The man speaking was a brawny man with a scruffy beard, his armor covered with scars, and his boots muddy, he looked like a mercenary.

Yue Jing Hua looked at the man for a few seconds, and noticed that his armor had the mark of the "Shadow Rodent" on it.

He had shouted that price, while eyeing the thighs and chests of the little twin sisters sitting not far away with a perverted gaze.

"Huh, what bad luck to actually meet this man," Ya Qing seemed to know the man.

That man was called Qi Zhi, his name had words of wisdom in it, but he was the plain opposite of that. Qi Zhi was the leader of the Shadow Rodent Mercenary Corps, and a Profound Jade Cultivator.

At first Qi Zhi had only known how to steal chickens and dogs, but one day, he met a master and took up an errand job, and so, learned of this auction. He was a man with bad eyesight, and just liked to join the fun. Anything that he wanted had to be bought at all costs.

With the participation of Qi Zhi, the price of the Falling Star iron once again began to rise and climbed from the original 1,000 to 1,900 profound pellets.

"Give up, this piece of Falling Star Iron isn't worth its price, only Qi Zhi, who is brainless, will purchase it at such a price," Ya Qing persuaded.

"In my dictionary there is no "give up"," Yue Jing Hua raised the sign and spit out a number. "Three thousand profound pellets."

Her voice wasn't loud, but everyone could hear her clearly.

Three thousand profound pellets, that was everything Yue Jing Hua possessed.

Ya Qing was surprised, he looked at Yue Jing Hua, although he couldn't see her face clearly, he could, at this moment, perceive that a kind of brilliance appeared from Yue Xiao Qi.

"Her Grandma, where did this slut learn to grab Laozi's stu-," Qi Zhi couldn't stop her purchase, and regardless of the still ongoing auction, jumped up from his seat, and began screaming at Yue Jing Hua.

Before his words were even finished, he could feel two fierce pairs of eyes, strike his back.

One gaze came from a man in pink, while the other came from a man with purple eyes.

The two gazes were like daggers that stabbed into Qi Zhi, he even had difficulties breathing.

Qi Zhi's legs went soft, and almost collapsing on the spot, sat back down. Three thousand profound pellets weren't a small amount. Moreover, the gazes of the two men were nothing to joke about.

In the time Qi Zhi was thinking this, the auctioneer already sold the Falling Star Iron to Yue Jing Hua at the price of three thousand profound pellets.

"You really are crazy, if the three thousand profound pellets were still not enough to buy the Falling Star Iron, what were you going to do?" After taking back his gaze, Ya Qing returned to his usual appearance, still that easy-going self.

"Why should I care about that now," Yue Jing Hua said indifferently, and took out the one-star Profound Pellets Card, and gave it to Xiao Ya.

Ya Qing gave a smile that was yet not a smile, and his eyes flashed like meteors.

On the platform, the middle-aged man announced: "The fourth auction item are two sets of Precious Jade Pills. Precious Jade Pills can promote Profound Human Cultivators to Profound Jade Realm. The base price is 2,000 profound pellets."

After the announcement, nearly half the people in the auction began discussing, surprised and unbelieving.

The Nightmare Field was really good at planning, ah! They would actually not write the nasty side-effects of such pills!

"I believe that many guests present don't believe in the efficacy of this mystic pill. But do the guests remember the two girls Xiao Ya and Xiao Chu? Just about an hour ago, Xiao Ya received one of the Precious Jade Pills, and her cultivation immediately broke through to Profound Jade Realm without any side-effects."

About the history of Xiao Ya and Xiao Chu, many guests were clear. In this way, the effects of the Precious Jade Pills were apparent now.

"Two thousand and one hundred,"

"Two thousand and two hundred"

The price shot upward, and this made Yue Jing Hua and the middle-aged man on stage equally happy.

The price of the first set of Precious Jade Pills was finally settled at 3,500 profound pellets, which was 1,500 higher than Yue Jing Hua's sale with the Nightmare Field.

The middle-aged man immediately unfolded the second set of Precious Jade Pills, but there was a slight difference this time: " In the second set of Precious Jade Pills, the number of pills is still two, but this time the pills also come with a copy of the Precious Jade Pill formula, the starting price is four thousand profound pellets."

"The Nightmare Field is indeed worthy of its reputation, ah!" Ya Qing was amazed.

If the Nightmare Field was an experienced prostitute of the Red-Light District, then Yue Jing Hua was a shy little maiden, in the matter of profiteering. Yue Jing Hua had, unintentionally disclosed the pill formula in front of Mrs. Yao, which was the best-selling part of pills.

For pills, the most important thing was not the pill itself, but the pill formula.

If you could find a Senior Alchemist, the Pill could, as long as the materials of the medicine weren't too complicated, be copied.

"Fourteen thousand," at this time, a guest, sitting on a four-star seat, raised his card.

"Someone of the Lie Family, big families like the Lie Family would send people to the Nightmare Field all year round. As long as it was precious medical herbs or pill formulas, they wouldn't be easy to obtain," Ya Qing sneered.

In the auction were no such people as the important family members of the Lie Family. The real big people would only show up at the large-scale auctions. On ordinary days, there would only be some servants to buy the occasional treasures.

If the Precious Jade Pill fell into the hands of the Lie Family, the value would change immensely.

First of all, would the Precious Jade Pill be bought by someone else, once it was refined, the status and might of the Lie Family would drop.

Secondly, if the Precious Jade Pill could be refined the overall strength of the Lie Family would rise to another level.

The big families participating had the same idea.

The price of the Precious Jade Pill began to climb higher again, and reached an astonishing 10,000 profound pellets.

The visitor of the Lie Family got also swept up by the excitement, "11,000."

This amazing price finally calmed the other competitors. Yue Jing Hua wasn't excited at all over this price. She even elegantly took a cup of fragrant tea from Xiao Ya's hands and slowly blew on it to enjoy its fine herb taste.

"Why aren't you worrying? Now, if the Lie Family refines the Precious Jade Pill, selling won't be as smooth anymore," Ya Qing felt that the Yue Xiao Qi girl of unknown origin became more and more interesting.

When quiet, she was like a lake in spring, and people could not help watching, when agitated, she was like a shower of rain impossible to parry.

"Worry, why should I worry. The Precious Jade Pill is not something every dog on the street could refine. Even Madame Yao wouldn't be able to refine the Precious Jade Pill," under the heavens only the Chaotic Green Lotus Flame could blend the three herbs perfectly.

The two old men of the Lie Family, if they knew that they bought a piece of waste paper at such an amazing price, she feared, they would spit up blood on the spot.

"Yue Xiao Qi," Ya Qing whispered into Yue Jing Hua's ear without hesitation, breathing a sigh of relief, "this young master appreciates you more and more."

The next moment he could feel a stabbing sensation on his forehead.

"Next time, if you get so close again, it won't be your head, but the thing on your lower body," Yue Jing Hua's words were like bucked of cold water, and Ya Qing shrank pack hurriedly, pitifully protecting his lower body, Xiao Ya on the side laughed.

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At the moment Ya Qing and Yue Jing Hua had whispered so intimately with each other, "Young Master?" Song Mu, who was sitting next to the man with purple eyes, felt cold, as faint anger exuded from the man with purple eyes.

But after Yue Jing Hua had threatened Ya Qing coldly, and Ya Qing shrank back, the anger immediately dissipated. As if hearing the words of the two, the corner of the purple eyed man lips raised into a beautiful arc.

Song Mu's eyes widened. Heavens, the Young Master had actually smiled twice today!

Song Mu didn't dare continue looking, and withdrew his gaze, concentrating on the auction.

The seventh round, the eighth round, and the ninth round were auctioned without any incidents. And the auctioning price of each auction item only outdid their starting price by one to two thousand, like the first set of Precious Jade Pellets.

"The tenth auction item, and the last one of tonight, is the Heaven Form Spell. It is said that the Heaven Form Spell can break the boundary of Yin and Yang and help enter an unknown territory." The middle-aged man hadn't even finished yet, when Qi Zhi jumped up, hurriedly shouting: "Twenty thousand profound pellets."

"Thirty thousand profound pellets," the purple-eyed man's voice sounded like a calm spring breeze.