Chapter 4834 — A Scene Gone Mad
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Wei Zhao could not help but laugh, speechless. He had assumed that only someone like Yang Qianshuang, whose looks had been ruined, would be so obsessed with the Beauty-Enhancing Pill. Never had he imagined that every woman was the same. No wonder Ning Xuefei had treasured it so when she first received one—this thing was practically every woman's lifeblood.
Once the screaming had somewhat subsided, the white-bearded elder announced: "One Beauty-Enhancing Pill of superior quality, starting bid: three million spirit jade!"
For a seventh-grade pill of equally superior quality, the starting price was a full one million two hundred thousand higher than that of the Great Return Pill. There was no help for it—this was the classic case of rarity driving up value.
If one spoke purely of practical use, the seventh-grade Great Return Pill was actually far more useful than the Beauty-Enhancing Pill. It was a pity it could not drive women mad the way this one did. Wei Zhao had now seen it for himself: wherever you went, women's money was still the easiest to earn!
The moment the white-bearded elder's voice fell, bids rose one after another. By now spirit jade was no longer spirit jade at all—it was simply a number. Women at such a moment were utterly beyond reason. In but a brief span, the price had climbed to an absurd nine million, far surpassing the final price of the seventh-grade Great Return Pill just before!
Wei Zhao was left gaping, and in his heart he quietly made up his mind: it seemed that if he ever lacked spirit jade in the future, he need do nothing but casually refine a few Beauty-Enhancing Pills and put them up for sale. He could easily rake in ten million spirit jade.
Among the bidders, apart from Box One, every one of the top-ranked boxes had entered the fray without exception—even Box Three, which had never spoken before. Yet while Box Three's was a woman's voice, the others were all men's.
Naturally, if they were bidding on this Beauty-Enhancing Pill, it was certainly for a woman. Unless a man were a madman, no ordinary fellow would use such a thing himself.
Wei Zhao paid particular attention to Box Three. The voice that had spoken earlier was hollow and wavering—one could tell at a listen that some voice-altering method was being used. But combined with Box Three's ranking, Wei Zhao's first thought was of the Donghai Divine Nun.
After all, as one of the three giants of Morning Star Academy, if the Donghai Divine Nun were attending in person, it was hardly strange that she would be assigned Box Three. Still, Wei Zhao could only guess. Until he saw the master within with his own eyes, no conclusion could be drawn.
But on second thought—though the Beauty-Enhancing Pill drove every woman mad, surely the Donghai Divine Nun, with her cultivation and temperament, would not be unable to rise above such vulgarity?
Still, Box Three had spoken only once midway and then made no further bids, not madly chasing it like the others—just a shallow taste and no more. So it was not impossible that the Donghai Divine Nun sat within.
In the end, this superior Beauty-Enhancing Pill fell to Box Four at a final price of nine million five hundred thousand spirit jade. Such an astronomical sum was unprecedented and would never be surpassed—not just at this grand auction, but even counting every Morning Star Grand Auction ever held, it would surely rank among the very highest.
At last the dust settled, and every woman in the hall was left heartbroken. Losing out on the Beauty-Enhancing Pill was to them like losing a lover to death. They had only themselves to blame for lacking spirit jade—a figure of nearly ten million was truly not something an ordinary power could produce. One had to cling to a sufficiently thick, top-tier thigh.
"Next is the Hong Clan Merchant Guild's fourth lot, and the last of today's merchants' special auction—five Thunder Mystery Pills, superior quality!" the white-bearded elder announced at last.