Xia Tianqiong's private room was located on the second floor, offering a panoramic view of the entire venue.
The front of the private room was completely open, with an exquisite wooden railing. He stood by the railing, looking down at the humans locked in the iron cage, feeling somewhat puzzled.
"How were these humans captured and brought to the Ghost Realm?"
As far as he knew, the realm of the supernatural and the human world overlapped in one direction; the supernatural could descend to the human world, but could not return.
At least in his previous life, before he died, he had never heard of the supernatural being able to return to the realm of ghosts.
Manager Hu walked over to him and explained, "Some special magical artifacts or tricks can also travel from the human world to the ghost world. You were transported here using gold tickets, but this is a relatively rare occurrence."
"I see!"
The auction has begun, and hundreds of eerie figures are bidding below.
One after another, people rushed to offer prices, and the price quickly exceeded 100,000 ghost money.
They seemed extremely interested in humans, like hungry wolves that hadn't eaten meat in a long time, their eyes filled with excitement when they finally saw food.
There were five people in the iron cage, three men and two women, all young people around eighteen or nineteen years old, like students.
Now, curled up inside, shivering, they had forgotten how to cry.
"Two hundred and eighty thousand ghost money, any higher bids?"
The host's mouth looked like a megaphone, and he shouted twice in a row.
Just as they were about to shout for the third time, a cold voice suddenly came from above.
"Three hundred thousand ghost money."
The host, Gui Wei, raised his head slightly, looking at the private room with a professional smile on his face. "Our VIP guest number one has bid 300,000 ghost coins. Does anyone else want to bid?"
He shouted three more times, and finally the small wooden hammer fell heavily.
With a clang, the first item in the auction was successfully sold.
For the supernatural, this price far exceeds the value of several humans.
The reason it was auctioned off for such a high price is twofold: firstly, it was the first item up for auction, and everyone wanted to be the first to bid for good luck; secondly, they hadn't seen humans in a long time, and everyone wanted to try something new.
For Xia Tianqiong, however, it wasn't a matter of money at all.
He had no problem with bizarre murders or cannibalism, but being stripped naked like livestock, watched over, and auctioned off was something he found hard to accept.
As the saying goes, one can be killed but not humiliated!
So he spent money to buy these five people.
Three hundred thousand ghost money is only thirty taels of gold. For him, killing a small wild monster could bring in four or five hundred taels of gold, so this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket.
The auctions here are all conducted on-site. After Xia Tianqiong won the bid for five humans, a strange creature immediately carried an iron cage to his private room and paid for it on the spot.
This is quite different from auctions in the human world.
The three men and two women looked around in fear, and finally all looked at Xia Tianqiong.
They didn't know that the person in front of them was human, and thought he would eat them, so they were all terrified.
"Please, don't eat me. I'll do anything you want."
A girl clung to the iron cage, crying with tears streaming down her face; she looked utterly pitiful.
Xia Tianqiong glanced at them and said calmly, "I will release you when I return to the human world."
The five people in the cage were stunned for a moment, looking bewildered, thinking they had misheard.
Just as I was about to ask a question, a huge suction force suddenly appeared.
They were sucked into the bronze mirror along with the iron cage, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived in another antique world.
For a moment, they thought they had traveled through time.
Xia Tianqiong took the five people into the mirror space and instructed the delivery guy to find them clothes, after which he left them alone.
The auction is still ongoing, and bidding has already begun on the second item.
The items auctioned here are all extraordinary, rare finds even in the Ghost Realm.
There are various strange artifacts, strange objects, spiritual fruits, pills, and some materials of unknown purpose, etc.
Xia Tianqiong buys whatever she likes, without caring about the price at all.
Anyway, he makes money very easily.
In an instant, all the hundreds of supernatural beings in the room focused their attention on Number One. As soon as he spoke, the other supernatural beings knew they had no chance.
This also made the crowd very dissatisfied. With such a wealthy person present, it would be difficult to bid on the items they wanted.
In the stands below, Sister Peach and her companions sat together.
At this moment, Leng Manjin walked over and said in a low voice, "Who among you can make the decision? I have a deal to discuss with you."
All the trees seemed to be staring down at Sister Peach.
Leng Manjin understood immediately upon seeing this.
It chuckled and sat down in the empty seat next to Sister Tao.
"I have a bit of a conflict with the number one human in the Heavenly Realm, and I'd like to ask you to help me raise the price and rip him off with more ghost money. For every transaction he completes, I'll give you a 1% cut."
Leng Manjin spoke arrogantly and bluntly, which was very much in line with his playboy style.
Sister Tao frowned, as if deep in thought.
The other dozen or so tree spirits, however, were somewhat excited.
It had only been half an hour since the event started, and more than a dozen items had been auctioned off. The top-ranked human had already bought up more than half of them, spending two to three million ghost money.
The truly valuable things are yet to come; given this human's nonchalant attitude towards money, it could end up costing tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.
Taking a 1% cut means hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
This is no small number for the Tree Demon Clan; it's hard for them not to be tempted.
Sister Tao stared at Leng Manjin, a hint of doubt in her expression.
"Your Leng family must have shills specifically tasked with driving up prices, right? Why did you hire us?"
Leng Manjin glanced at it indifferently, "That human has Manager Hu protecting him, and I don't want to offend him. Your Tree Ghost Clan has always been at odds with our Leng family, and no one would have thought that you would help me raise the price, so you are the most suitable."
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