Chapter 698 - 695: Forceful

Chapter 698: Chapter 695: Forceful

At this moment, everyone’s attention was focused on the third-floor private rooms of the auction hall.

The bid from Luoo Xiaoshuang, the Eastern Land’s First Divine Maiden, had just been called.

Immediately after, a young man’s voice sounded from another private room.

"Heh, Miss Luoo, I’ve heard your Lifebound Magical Artifact, the Celestial Frost Divine Bow, possesses boundless power and can evolve indefinitely as long as it has enough Divine Material."

"Unfortunately for you, I have my eyes on this Star River Divine Stone, which means you won’t be getting it."

"Your Luoo Family may be powerful, but I’m afraid it’s nothing compared to my Xia Family!"

"I bid one million five hundred thousand Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones."

"Hehehe... Once my Lifebound Magical Artifact successfully evolves, Luoo Xiaoshuang, I’ll be able to crush you and make you submit!"

From the private room, the young man’s voice was arrogant, domineering, and utterly wild.

Everyone who heard it was shocked, and the same thought occurred to them all.

The Xia Family, the foremost reclusive Noble Family of the Eastern Land!

This was clearly a shocking development!

Since the world began its great transformation, the changes in the Eastern Land of the Mortal World had been the most drastic.

Reclusive Noble Families and Sects had emerged one after another.

These reclusive families and sects were incomparably powerful, effortlessly replacing the existing Great Families and Sects.

And the Xia Family was the first to emerge from seclusion after the world’s great transformation.

They were peerlessly dominant, their foundations unfathomably deep.

Now, someone from the Xia Family was actually in one of the private rooms.

Moreover, he was directly challenging the Luoo Family of the Eastern Land, even boasting that he would make the Eastern Land’s First Divine Maiden, Luoo Xiaoshuang, submit to him.

In her private room, a cold look flashed across Luoo Xiaoshuang’s incomparably beautiful face.

She was dressed simply, yet her attire outlined her slender and perfect figure.

Her entire being radiated a valiant and heroic aura, and her phoenix eyes were utterly soul-hooking.

Luoo Xiaoshuang parted her jade-like lips and announced her bid, "One million six hundred thousand Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!"

Faced with the mysterious young man from the Xia Family’s aggression, she naturally couldn’t back down and responded with force.

"Heh heh, it seems the Luoo Family has invested a lot of resources in you. To think you can mobilize such a vast quantity of Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones."

"But no matter how much you have, there’s a limit. I’ll bid two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones directly. Miss Luoo, can you still keep up?"

The mysterious young man’s voice was filled with mockery.

But it was just as the mysterious young master from the Xia Family said: Luoo Xiaoshuang could not produce more than two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones.

"Actually, if you submit to me and marry me, I can give you this Venerable Divine Material, the Star River Divine Stone, as a simple first-meeting gift. When I formally come to propose, the betrothal gifts will be even more substantial."

"Just think, an alliance between the Xia and Luoo Families would surely make us one of the top five powers in the Eastern Land. Luoo Xiaoshuang, why don’t you just give in to me?"

The voice of the mysterious young master from the Xia Family continued to ring out.

By now, the entire audience was shocked into silence.

They couldn’t even begin to imagine what two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones represented.

But from the words of the mysterious young man from the Xia Family, it was something he could give away casually.

At this moment, the auctioneer’s trembling voice began to call out, "Two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going once! Two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going twice! Two million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going three times! This Venerable Divine Material, the Star River Divine Stone, will belong to the Xia—"

However, before the auctioneer’s voice could fall, a calm voice echoed throughout the hall. "Two million five hundred thousand Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!"

The moment the voice spoke, the auctioneer’s call came to an abrupt halt.

The crowd also fell suddenly silent.

All eyes locked onto the source of the voice on the ground floor.

’It’s him, it’s him again!’

That unfamiliar Young Master Jiang!

He actually... joined the bidding war against the mysterious young master from the Xia Family, directly bidding two million five hundred thousand Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!

’This... We didn’t hear that wrong!’

At that moment, everyone was stunned. They felt as if they were dreaming, unable to believe what they were seeing and hearing.

But then, the auctioneer’s voice rang out, "Young Master Jiang, are... are you sure you bid two million five hundred thousand Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones?"

"Yes. If no one else is going to bid against me, then hurry up and announce who the Star River Divine Stone belongs to."

Jiang Jichen reminded him calmly.

Only then did the crowd awaken, realizing that what they had witnessed was as real as could be.

This was unprecedented!

Someone so world-shocking had actually appeared in the ground-floor auction hall, daring to challenge someone in a third-floor private room.

And the price he quoted completely crushed his opponent.

"You ignorant piece of trash, you dare bid against me? You—"

From the private room, the mysterious young man from the Xia Family began to speak, flustered and exasperated.

But before he could finish, Jiang Jichen forcefully cut him off. "Enough nonsense. If you’re not going to bid, then don’t waste my time!"

The mysterious young man from the Xia Family had just been casually berated by an unknown cultivator from the ground-floor hall.

Sitting beside Jiang Jichen, Wentian was now in complete awe of him.

He could never have imagined that the Brother Jiang he knew was so heaven-defyingly dominant.

Even Luoo Xiaoshuang, the Eastern Land’s First Divine Maiden, cast a look of astonishment toward Jiang Jichen from her private room.

Before, Jiang Jichen’s performance had also been astonishing.

But it wasn’t enough to catch the eye of the major figures in the third-floor private rooms.

Now, however, they were utterly shocked.

"You... Fine. I bid three million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!"

The mysterious young man from the Xia Family finally calmed his emotions and continued bidding.

He refused to believe he could lose a bidding war to some nameless brat.

But the moment his bid was announced, Jiang Jichen’s calm voice sounded again. "Four million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!"

This time, he had directly increased the bid by one million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones.

Hearing this, the hearts of the crowd nearly leaped out of their chests in shock.

This time, a private room on the third floor exploded, and a tall, handsome young man walked out.

His gaze, sharp as lightning, fell upon Jiang Jichen.

The terrifying pressure made Wentian, who was right beside him, feel as though his body was about to explode.

Cracks had already appeared on his skin, and blood was starting to trickle out.

This was the terrifying might of the Eighth Layer of the Holy Dao.

Attacking was forbidden here, but the young man from the Xia Family didn’t need to; he could crush people with his aura alone.

Just then, Jiang Jichen also released his aura, and the terrible pressure on Wentian was invisibly nullified.

"I bid five million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones!"

The young man from the Xia Family’s expression was savage as he practically roared his bid.

"Six million!"

The moment the Xia youth’s voice fell, Jiang Jichen immediately followed up.

"You... you’re ruthless. But can you even produce that many Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones?"

"If you can’t, all your previous bids are void!"

At this moment, the young man from the Xia Family could no longer keep up with the bids. Clearly, he had reached his limit.

"Does that mean you’ve given up? What a shame. Then the Star River Divine Stone belongs to me."

Jiang Jichen said calmly.

And with that, the auctioneer’s voice rang out, "Six million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going once! Six million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going twice! Six million Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones, going three times! The Star River Divine Stone belongs to Young Master Jiang."

With a final bang of the gavel, the Venerable Divine Material, the Star River Divine Stone, was his.