Conquer the game world

Chapter 53 Invitation

Ye Feng was very upset that the Flame Crystal was bought by someone else. He had made a lot of preparations for it, and even though he knew the arena was a life-or-death arena, he still insisted on going there for this reason.

If Xu Bo buys the Flame Crystal, Ye Feng certainly wouldn't mind killing him and robbing him at any time. With his stealth skills, Ye Feng is confident he can do it.

However, the Flame Crystal has now been bought by someone else. Ye Feng knew he couldn't bring himself to kill and rob someone he had no grudge against, especially since the other party was a beautiful woman.

Now that the Flame Crystal had been bought, Ye Feng didn't want to stay in the auction house any longer and got up to leave.

"Next up for auction is an unidentified stone. Well, this stone seems to possess some kind of magic, but our appraiser can't see anything special about it. However, there's a strange symbol on the stone," the host suddenly announced on stage, at which point the item was placed on the stage.

"Although the appraiser couldn't see anything special about this stone, it's clearly not an ordinary stone, and even the power of a martial artist at the Spirit Realm cannot destroy it." Seeing that the audience wasn't very interested, the host spent more time introducing the stone's extraordinary features.

"Alright, the starting bid for this stone is 500 purple gold coins. You can bid as much as you like. Let's begin."

Although the starting price for this stone is so low, it is the lowest starting price among all the items auctioned so far.

Even so, the price is only slowly rising, and there aren't many people participating in the stone auction.

That's understandable. Although this stone is somewhat special, it has no real value. Just because it's special doesn't mean many people would be willing to be foolish and spend money to buy such a stone.

"One thousand purple gold coins"

After several rounds of bidding, the price for this stone barely reached one thousand purple gold coins.

Once the price of 1,000 purple gold coins was announced, no one raised the price any further.

After waiting for a while, the host on stage was basically preparing to continue the process and announce the ownership of the stone.

Ye Feng then offered "two thousand purple gold coins".

When Ye Feng first took the stone out, he didn't pay much attention to it. However, after Ye Feng glanced at the stone casually, he discovered that it was actually a No. 9 Rune Stone.

Although runestones don't have much use for Ye Feng right now, considering that he will need to use many runestone combinations in the future, the more runestones Ye Feng has, the better. Besides, Ye Feng doesn't have runestone number nine yet.

Since the Flame Crystal was no longer available, Ye Feng, who carried a large sum of money, certainly didn't mind spending some money to buy this 'ordinary' stone.

Ye Feng's offer naturally surprised the others in the room.

"Hey, two thousand purple gold coins to buy something useless, that's such a waste."

"Who knows? Didn't you see that guy just bid 100,000 purple gold coins for a single flame crystal?"

The crowd was buzzing with discussion. In their eyes, Ye Feng had become a spendthrift who had appeared out of nowhere. After all, given Ye Feng's age, it seemed that everyone was more inclined to believe that Ye Feng was a spendthrift young master from a wealthy family.

Judging from the current situation, two thousand purple gold coins seem to be a high price. There shouldn't be anyone else in the market competing with Ye Feng, that spendthrift, for this useless stone.

Just when everyone thought the ownership of the "five thousand purple gold coins" was settled, another discordant voice rang out.

Xu Bo made the offer again. It wasn't because he also liked the stone; he just wanted to stir things up and drive up the price because he saw Ye Feng wanted to buy it.

"Look, it's Young Master Xu from the Xu family again. They must have some grudge, deliberately driving up the price." The onlookers started talking again.

The host on stage was all smiles. The two sides had some past grievances, and deliberately raising the price during the auction was the most welcome thing to see at the auction.

Ye Feng, clearly not one to back down, continued to raise the price of "ten thousand purple gold coins".

Xu Bo continued to raise the price of "20,000 purple gold coins".

"Twenty-five thousand"

The two of them kept raising the price, and this ordinary stone, which was initially ignored, was driven up to an unimaginable price.

Xu Bo quoted another price of "90,000 purple gold coins," a price that was already outrageously high. Xu Bo was certain that Ye Feng wanted to buy the stone, and he had figured out from the beginning when Ye Feng was fighting over the Flame Crystal that Ye Feng should have 100,000 purple gold coins. This time, he raised the price to force Ye Feng to quote 100,000, and then quickly give up and stop bidding.

After quoting the price, Xu Bo smiled wickedly, seemingly already envisioning Ye Feng spending 100,000 purple gold coins on such a worthless stone. Since even the appraiser from the Flying Dragon Chamber of Commerce couldn't discern the stone's value, Xu Bo had already considered it trash.

"Ninety thousand purple gold coins once"

When the auctioneer announced "90,000 purple gold coins twice," Ye Feng surprisingly didn't raise the price any further. Instead, he changed his sitting posture and looked at Xu Bo with a relaxed expression.

"Congratulations to this guest for purchasing this 'magical' stone for 90,000 purple gold coins three times!" the host said meaningfully.

Ye Feng had already guessed Xu Bo's intentions when Xu Bo raised the price. Although the rune stone was useful to Ye Feng, he believed that he could get it sooner or later by running the dungeon a few more times. For now, Ye Feng was not in a hurry to get the rune stone.

Ye Feng deliberately followed Xu Bo's lead and kept raising the price, estimating that Xu Bo would definitely quote a price of around 90,000 to force him to spend 100,000 to buy the rune stone.

Having made up his mind, Ye Feng stopped bidding when Xu Bo quoted a price of 90,000 purple gold coins. As a result, Xu Bo, who originally wanted to scam Ye Feng, ended up tragically spending 90,000 purple gold coins instead.

Amidst the stares of the crowd who looked at him like he was an idiot, Xu Bo reluctantly paid 90,000 purple gold coins and received the item he had won. At the same time, Xu Bo turned to look at Ye Feng, his resentful eyes seeming to spit fire. If looks could kill, Ye Feng would have been dead several times over.

The auction ended quickly, and Ye Feng didn't linger, disappearing into the crowd in no time.

"This auction was truly spectacular; those two idiots were such spendthrifts."

"I think the idiot is that Young Master Xu. Didn't you see the face on his face after he was tricked? Hahaha." Xu Bo left the auction house with a gloomy expression, while the people behind him were also discussing it.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary of this auction was the auction house; the auctioneer's smile hardly stopped.

"Kill him! I'm going to kill him!" Xu Bo roared as he returned to his residence.

"Young Master Xu, should we have someone kill him?" A henchman standing nearby suggested to Xu Bo, trembling with fear, as he watched Xu Bo lose his temper.

"My dad won't let me do it. It would be troublesome if he found out." It wasn't that Xu Bo didn't want to find someone to kill Ye Feng, but he was afraid that things would get out and it would be a tragedy if his dad found out.

"Young Master Xu, we can find One-Eyed and Baldy. As long as we pay them a little money, they can handle things cleanly and without anyone finding out," the henchman suggested again.

"Oh, contacting them, that's something we can consider." Xu Bo fell into deep thought upon hearing his subordinate's suggestion.

Walking out of the auction house, Ye Feng was not happy despite having tricked Xu Bo earlier. He had 100,000 purple gold coins on him, but he couldn't buy what he needed. Anyone would be unhappy in that situation.

Ye Feng walked with his head down, deep in thought, seemingly lost in thought. As he looked down, he sensed someone blocking his path.

Without looking up, Ye Feng took a step to the side, preparing to let the guy in front of him pass.

Who knew that the guy in front of him would also take a step, blocking Ye Feng's path once again.

"I said you're sick... right?" Ye Feng was already furious and had nowhere to vent his anger. This guy blocking his way reignited Ye Feng's anger, and Ye Feng looked up and cursed.

Before he could finish his curse, Ye Feng recognized the woman blocking his way as the same beautiful woman who had snatched the Flame Crystal at the auction house earlier.

Upon seeing that she was a beautiful woman, Ye Feng's imposing manner faltered, and he unconsciously swallowed back the words of his insult halfway through.

"Hello, I'm Bei Linhan, and you must be Ye Feng." The beautiful woman in front of him didn't seem angry at Ye Feng's words; instead, she introduced herself generously.

"Oh, is there something you need? If not, I'll be going now." Although Ye Feng swallowed his curses when he saw the beautiful woman, it didn't mean he wanted to have any more interaction with her.

"Hey, how can you just walk away with such a beautiful woman like me in front of you?" Bei Linhan blocked Ye Feng's way again.

"Oh, beautiful lady, what brings you here? Are you inviting me to dinner?" Blocked again, Ye Feng wasn't in a hurry to leave and said jokingly.

"Oh," Belle Han's eyes darted around, as if she had thought of something, "Inviting you to dinner? Sure, no problem at all."

"Hey beautiful lady, I don't know you, so let's skip the dinner." Although Ye Feng wouldn't mind having dinner with the beautiful woman in front of him, he still declined the suggestion. He had many other things on his mind than dinner.

"So, you're not interested in the Flame Crystal either?" Belinhan suddenly said.

"Since you've already bought it, it's yours now," Ye Feng said helplessly. He couldn't compete with the other person's wealth.

"Hahahaha," Belin Han laughed happily, "So you still really need the Flame Crystal. In that case, I'll host a banquet for you at Jingyi Pavilion tonight, and it wouldn't be so bad to give you the Flame Crystal."

After saying that, Belinhan stopped blocking the way and turned to leave.

Watching Bei Linhan's departing figure, Ye Feng couldn't help but smile. Since he had the opportunity to obtain the Flame Crystal, Ye Feng would definitely go on this trip. Moreover, it seemed that having dinner with a beautiful woman would be a good thing.

(End of this chapter)