Chapter 955: Blood Essence Secured, Damaged Ninth-Grade Armor

Qin Xiao had expected a billion to be enough. Someone had bid 1.1 billion, though. Perhaps it was more valuable than he thought.

“One billion six hundred million.”

He doubled his own last bid again, to 1.6 billion.

After all, Qin Xiao had already guessed who those three families were, and coincidentally, they were three of the five who had tacitly allowed their disciples to block the door yesterday. That made Qin Xiao even less inclined to let this go.

The 1.6-billion bid silenced the room.

His first estimate had been close. Few could use Demon Dragon Blood Essence; a billion was already a high price. At 1.6 billion, all three factions suspected a shill.

A bid of 1.1 billion for a billion-value item was understandable. But who added five hundred million at once? It made sense to suspect the seller had hired someone to bid.

Even among the top forces on the fourth floor, such tactics were entirely possible, or perhaps the bidders were the owners of the item trying to fleece people here.

The three families simultaneously stopped bidding, each waiting to see which of the other two would take the bait first.

Yet after waiting for a moment, no one else called out a price. Eventually, the first auction lot was won outright by Qin Xiao.

They also assumed one of their three factions had bought it. They were on good terms. If needed, they could buy ten or twenty drops later, even at a small premium, rather than bid against one another for the seller’s benefit.

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