Chapter 813: I

Fifty million at this price is still far from Ye Liuyun's target price!

But everyone in the hall started to heckle. They thought Ye Liuyun was deliberately raising the price for Chang Wanshan.

Only Qiong Qi knew that Ye Liuyun truly wanted to buy it for other Monster Beasts.

But he also joined the heckling: "Why does Second Young Master Chang stop bidding?"

"Stop bidding, it's not worth it! I don't want it!"

The Princess saw the price had risen to ten times the starting bid and immediately ordered Chang Wanshan to stop.

In fact, with her own strength she could still raise the price. She also knew the price wasn't really expensive.

However, if she kept saying she wanted it, she'd owe too much.

Letting her pay herself, she worried it would affect later auctions, so she decided to give up.

Although her Luanfeng also needed to advance its realm, it wasn't absolutely necessary to have this pill.

Chang Wanshan's heart had been bleeding. Hearing the Princess say she didn't want it, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought to himself: "It seems the Princess still has feelings for me, knowing how to save me money! How could she spend so much on a pet?"

Out loud he gave himself an excuse: "Alright then, I also want to see how those who deliberately raise the price against me end up."

No one else offered more than fifty million top‑grade Spirit Stones to buy a pill for a pet.

This cross‑border pill of such rank naturally went to Ye Liuyun.

Many Martial Cultivators in the hall immediately cast sympathetic glances at Ye Liuyun, thinking he was deliberately raising the price and trapping himself.

Some Martial Cultivators even spoke up to mock Chang Wanshan on Ye Liuyun's behalf.

Unexpectedly, Ye Liuyun's face didn't change and his heart didn't race; he paid outright.

"Whoa! This is serious! That kid really has money!"

"Fifty million just to buy a pill for a pet?"

"No wonder this kid raises the price so aggressively; he really has money!"

The crowd of Martial Cultivators were stunned.

Chang Wanshan also didn't expect Ye Liuyun to pay without hesitation.

Finally he could only force a excuse: "This kid must be puffing himself up to look rich! Anyway, he can't just refuse to pay!"

The Princess looked at Ye Liuyun, thoughtful: "I wonder what ferocious beast he's raising that makes him spend so freely. It seems he really cares about his pet."

If there were no Chang Wanshan and no subsequent items to auction, she might have kept competing with Ye Liuyun.

She also raises a pet, knowing Ye Liuyun still made a profit.

In the following auctions, Ye Liuyun made no bids.

The Princess and Chang Wanshan both kept a low profile.

The Princess knows that as long as she bids, Chang Wanshan will auction, but the later items are all very expensive, and she doesn't want to owe Chang Wanshan too much.

Chang Wanshan also noticed the items getting pricier. He was terrified by the Martial Cultivators' price hikes in the hall. Even if he truly liked something, he wouldn't bid.

Not long after, it came to the auction of Foreign Tribe corpses.

When those Foreign Tribe corpses were displayed, Ye Liuyun activated his Golden Pupil and examined them closely.

"How is it? Anything fishy?" Qiong Qi's Transmission Voice prompted.

Ye Liuyun slightly lifted the corner of his mouth and replied to Qiong Qi: "The Soul is sealed inside the primordial pill! Your earlier guess was correct; they intend to use these Foreign Tribe corpses to harm people."

"I told you they had no good intentions!" Qiong Qi said, sounding obvious.

Then he told Ye Liuyun: "Once you win them, I'll help you collect those Souls into your Hundred‑Refined Soul Banner!"

"Of course! They do this to let these Foreign Tribe bodies borrow Human Martial Cultivator bodies to resurrect, then operate covertly?" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.

"Exactly! They probably fear exposure, so they devised this scheme to trap people. Moreover, those who can afford these Foreign Tribe corpses must have some power and status. Controlling them is like controlling many more people!"

Qiong Qi gave Ye Liuyun a thorough explanation.

The host then divided the six high‑rank Foreign Tribe corpses into six separate auctions. Each corpse's starting bid was twenty million top‑grade Crystal Stones.

This price was indeed quite high.

Ordinary Demon Cultivators wouldn't even consider it. Only those at the pinnacle of the Yin‑Yang Realm or at the Zao Hua Realm could possibly afford it.

Or only the great families and Demon Cultivator sects could meet that price.

Moreover, Demon Cultivators' use of Foreign Tribe corpses involves great waste and cannot be fully absorbed. So the twenty million top‑grade Spirit Stone price is still high.

Thus the auction started very cold.

The host kept promoting how sturdy the Foreign Tribe's scale armor is and how solid the flesh is.

Yet few bid. In the end, of the six corpses, five were bought by Ye Liuyun at an average of over thirty million top‑grade Spirit Stones each.

When the last one was up, Ye Liuyun finally met a competitor.

It was an elderly man in a black cloak, clearly a Demon Cultivator of Zao Hua Rank One.

"Young man, you've already bought five corpses; how about giving one to this old man?" the elder said to Ye Liuyun: "These corpses, at most, are worth twenty‑five million."

"Sorry, senior! I have use for this corpse!" Ye Liuyun gave no further explanation and bid thirty‑five million.

"You're not a Demon Cultivator; why do you need so many corpses? Are you deliberately opposing me?" the Demon Cultivator was clearly very displeased.

Ye Liuyun showed a hint of Demon Qi and politely told the Demon Cultivator: "Senior, don't misunderstand, the next one is indeed useful, it's not targeting anyone!"

The Demon Cultivator, seeing the Demon Qi on Ye Liuyun and his sincere words, snorted "Humph" and stopped pursuing the matter.

An auction is won by the highest bidder; he had nothing more to say.

Meanwhile, Chang Wanshan heard this and felt a stir. He thought Ye Liuyun was a Demon Cultivator, that buying corpses was of little use, so he could raise the price.

He finally could take revenge on those who raised the price. Earlier Ye Liuyun snatched his pill; intentional or not, he bore a grudge.

So he also rushed to quote forty million top‑grade Spirit Stones, waiting for Ye Liuyun to raise the bid.

"Since you like it, I'll give it to you!"

Ye Liuyun gave a faint smile, no longer bidding.

He didn't want Chang Wanshan to keep raising the price without end, so he deliberately didn't compete with him.

Now it was Chang Wanshan's turn to be stunned.

He isn't a Demon Cultivator, so this thing is utterly useless to him. If his family knew he'd spent so much money buying such a useless thing to take back, they'd surely laugh him to death,

"You... you're not bidding?" he asked Ye Liuyun, feeling a bit guilty.

"I've already won five; since Second Young Master Chang likes it so much, I'll let you have one!" Ye Liuyun said with a smile.