The Ancient Rare Phoenix: Colourful Flames - Chapter 40
Inside the Blood Fang Auction House
After a loud gong rang in the stage reverberating in the entire hall. Everyone stopped chattering and looked at the stage.
Slowly 10 male attendants pushed the 2 sided roll cage covered with a black sheet at the front of the stage. While a beautiful female auctioneer came along with few guards and started to introduced herself in the stage. After she was done, she took out the black sheet covering the 2 sided roll cage.
Inside the 2 sided roll cage was a enormous savage spirit beast. It was the Sawtooth bulbari.
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Spirit Beast: Saw Tooth Bulbari
Grade: Early Stage Earth Origin Realm
Territory: Green Forest Forbidden Zone
Description: It has a very big and round upper body part looks like a mini mountain covered in green coloured, jaws like a shark, shorts legs like a boar and it has a big and beautiful blue flower at its back however when it senses any danger, it emits a deadly poisonous gases.
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Just like auction started and beast after beast were bid and sold. However none could interest Hou, while Hu Jiao and the trio were excitingly watching and waiting for a flying spirit beast to come out.
After a while, A huge flying spirit beast was displayed. It was the Red-Crowned Crane.
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Spirit Beast: Red-Crowned Crane
Grade: Peak Stage Earth Origin Realm
Territory: Forbidden Blood Zone
Description: It is snow white in color with black on the wing secondary’s, which can appear almost like a black tail when It is standing, but the real tail feathers are actually white. Measuring about 50m.
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As soon as Hu Jiao saw the Red-Crowned Crane, She liked it very much and was excited and too anxious to bid.
When Hou noticed that, He gave a look at fatty Bo. Fatty Bo hurriedly messaged using a talisman to the guard beside the auctioneer lady. Once it was done, the auctioneer bowed and apologized to everyone before saying that It was directly sold to seating area no. 50.
However at the seating area no.80, 2 teen girls were fuming and cursing at the auctioneer for being biased and not following the rules. The auctioneer looked troubled and embarrassed however she thicken her skin and directly started to auction the next spirit beast.
Fatty Bo also was feeling same and wanted to say ‘ you should at least bid ‘ to Hou. However every time he tried to say something to him, he would just swallow his words back and sweat alot, knowing Lily was behind them.
Hou gave a knowingly look at him and slyly said.
” Don’t worry, fatty Bo, I’ll also follow the rules from now on since it’s no fun for me to just win like that in the auction. ”
Hearing that fatty Bo sighed in relief while Lily thought something and looked around everyone then pity them.
After a couple of rounds, Hou found out that shady pervert aka Fang Lao still couldn’t decide so he thought he should just choose one for him.
Next spirit beast came out, It was a huge Golden Crow about same size as Red-Crowned Crane. So he decided to get that for Fang Lao. Then waited for few bid before starting.
Finally when the bid was at 150,000 gold, only few bidders were left. Then he decisively said.
” 200,000 gold ”
As soon as he said it, another bid came from the seating area no.80. It was from the 2 teen girls.
” 220,000 ”
Hou raised the bid.
” 240,000″
” 245,000″
Another bid came again from the same seating area as soon as he raised it.
Hou looked at them and saw how they were coldly staring at him. He smiled at them and sat down.
Seeing him back down, the 2 teen girls weren’t happy at all and instead gave a mocking look at him before sitting down. Thus the Golden Crow was won by them.
After that, Next spirit beast was a baby Flood Dragon. Just like before Hou thought he should get that for Fang Lao.
When the bid was at 120,000 gold, he finally bid.
” 150,000 ”
Just like before, another bid came as soon as he bid, it was from the same seating no. 80. Those teen girls were just staring at him.
Hou once again smiled at them while his eyes were slowly shinning and sparkling. When Lily saw that, she backed off a step from her spot. However no one noticed her little action.
After that another bid came and those teen girls didn’t bid anymore. Thus that bidder won the baby flood dragon.
Finally the last spirit beast before the main show was out. It was the Stinging Nettle Bug.
This time Hou bid first before anyone else could. Just like before as soon his voice died, another bid came from the same seating no.80. Those teen girls were smiling at him and feeling happy about it.
Hou once again just smiled and sat down. Hu Jiao and the trio were looking oddly at him and wondering what he was actually planning to do while fatty Bo and Elder Feng thought he doesn’t really know about bidding in the auction. Only Lily could vaguely guess but kept quiet.
Then Hou glanced at fatty Bo and indifferently asked.
” Fatty Bo, tell me about the spirit beast for the main show. ”
Fatty Bo didn’t noticed his shinning eyes and just directly said.
” There are 3 spirit beasts for the main show today. At the 3rd place is Fire Golden Tiger: Mid Stage Sky Origin Realm, at the 2nd place is Red Scaled Dragon Snake: High Stage Sky Origin Realm. Both these beasts are estimated final price for 800,000 gold each. Finally at the 1st place is Purpled Snow Dove: Early Stage Heavenly Origin Realm which our auction house estimated priced at 2,000,000 gold. ”
Hou slightly nodded his head then stared without blinking at those teen girls at the seating no.80. Noticing his stare, those teen girls just smiled at him before looking at the stage.
Finally the main show started. The Fire Golden Tiger was bought by some big clan at 860,000 gold while the Red Scaled Dragon snake was bought at 930,000 gold.
Those teen girls didn’t show any sign of excitement seeing those spirit beasts and were only intensely watching the final cage behind. Seeing that Hou started to smile then slowly stood up.
Seeing him slowly standing from his seat, Hu Jiao, the trio, Elder Feng and fatty Bo were perplexed and bewildered. Just as they were going to ask if something was wrong.
The auctioneer revealed the final cage and was trying to give some detail about the spirit beast. A loud childish voice interrupted her which reverberated in the entire hall.
” I bid 10,000,000 gold ”
” I bid 10,000,000 gold ”
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Hou stared at those teen girls at the seating area no.80 and slyly said.
” Stupid little witches, Now outbid me if you can. ”
Saying that he arrogantly sat down on his seat then started to sip his tea slowly.
Absolute complete silence remained in the hall. Everyone froze for a brief moment, after that they started to look at the direction of the voice.
Both those teen girls looked at him with their wide eyes and mouth open. They were stupefied by his bid. How they never expected him to bid that high. They’ve heard of the news of the Purple Snow Dove so they hurriedly came with their small savings which was around 3,000,000 gold altogether and thought it was enough to get the Purpled Snow Dove.
After recovering back to normal, they once again glared at him while gritting their teeth in anger since they couldn’t overbid him. They looked at the mid-aged woman wearing dark red cloak behind them and reluctantly sat down while thinking something.
As for Hu Jiao and the trio, they finally felt relieved knowing that he was just as they expected him to be.
While Elder Feng and fatty Bo were also shocked for a while however they quickly recover themselves before looking at each other and excitingly smiling. Already guessing him having powerful background and now extremely prodigal that made him look like a walking treasure. If they could get on his good side then they could profit a lot in the future.
As for Lily, She was feeling dj vu while also thinking something was still missing.