Chapter 2507 — Speechless
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Lu Xiansheng smiled bitterly to himself. He had never imagined that in the end he would be up against these two—one a man of the Hidden You family, the other the consignor of all those pills. He truly did not know which way to choose. On any ordinary day he would have done You Pangao a favor, brought down the hammer, and been done with it. But now, doing so would in effect mean offending a potential major supplier of the Cultivators' Trading Association.
"One hundred and eighty-one million." Wei Zhao frowned inwardly. If this went on, he would certainly not be a match for You Pangao—the Hidden You family had money, after all!
"Boy, so you're deliberately set on making things difficult for the Hidden You family?" You Pangao flew into a rage, rose to his feet, and glared viciously at Wei Zhao. "I've already said it—this pure yellow jade is ours, and we mean to have it!"
"What a joke!" Wei Zhao said coldly. "The rule of an auction is that the highest bidder wins. I have never heard of anyone announcing at an auction that a thing is theirs and therefore no one may compete for it! But if you insist that I am opposing the Hidden You family, then opposed we are."
"You—" You Pangao glared at Wei Zhao, his chest heaving without pause. After a long moment he turned to Lu Xiansheng. "Two hundred million! Boy, if you know what's good for you, let me have this thing."
"Two hundred and one million." Wei Zhao raised the paddle in his right hand, but his left hand did not rest idle—he flicked out a small pebble he had picked up from the ground, sending it flying at You Pangao not far away. You Pangao had bid a full two hundred million; Wei Zhao could not let him keep bidding. Any further, and Wei Zhao would have no money left to pay.
So after much thought Wei Zhao had devised this one method: catch You Pangao off guard and seal his acupoint, leaving him temporarily unable to speak, and then let Lu Xiansheng bring down the hammer.
"Two—" You Pangao was about to bid again when he suddenly realized he could not speak! Though he was a cultivator, he cultivated the mental method of an alchemist, and his vigilance was comparatively poor. He had never imagined Wei Zhao would attack him with a pebble, and so he had not shielded his body with true qi; the stone struck his acupoint directly, and he could not make a sound.
You Pangao's mouth fell open in shock, yet not a single word came out!
"Mr. Lu, since You Pangao is no longer bidding, may we bring down the hammer?" Wei Zhao looked at Lu Xiansheng and asked.
Lu Xiansheng found it strange that You Pangao should stand there with his mouth wide open and make no bid, but he still asked according to the rules of the auction: "Two hundred and one million for the first time... two hundred and one million for the second time..."
"Ha... ha..." You Pangao wanted to speak, but nothing would come out, and he labored terribly.
The Heaven Rank vice-chairman looked at You Panghu and frowned. But Wei Zhao had been rather discreet—he had loosed the pebble at the very moment he made his bid, and everyone's attention had been on him, so naturally no one had been watching You Pangao. Even the Heaven Rank vice-chairman had not noticed that detail.
Not that he could not have noticed, but that he had not been paying attention at all. He had come merely to keep order in the hall; in his view, it was impossible for anyone to make trouble at an auction, and so it was even less possible that he would watch every single person in the auction hall at every moment.
Moreover, acupoint sealing was only a legendary martial art. Most cultivators had merely heard of it, never witnessed it, and could not use it themselves—so no one thought in that direction at all.