The time for auctioning the pills arrived, and thousands of people, about seventy percent of whom were noblewomen, flooded into the auction house, completely filling the seats in the auction hall.
Ma Rulong secretly observed the guests and sighed, realizing his advertising had been very effective.
"Xiao Jiahuo's pills are too lethal to women. This time, we've struck gold."
In the morning, Ye Liangchen and his group set off for the auction house. To avoid suspicion, Shui Bing'er and Xiao Maomi also put on veils.
When the group arrived at the entrance of the auction house, the welcoming lady was stunned. Who was this young man? How could he be so handsome? The two veiled female Douluo from yesterday had also come.
"Miss, please take us to see Ma Rulong."
Ye Liangchen handed the VIP card to the welcoming lady.
"Oh! Alright. Esteemed guests, please follow me."
The welcoming lady immediately came to her senses and quickly led Ye Liangchen and the others to Ma Rulong's office.
Just then, Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan Douluo, dressed in black robes, swiftly approached from a distance, catching up to Ye Liangchen's group in a few breaths.
"Mother, you've come too."
Ye Liangchen greeted Bibi Dong.
"We've been waiting for you at the restaurant over there," Bibi Dong said with a chuckle.
"Let's go! Let's see how much money we can make today."
Ye Liangchen instructed the welcoming lady to lead the way.
The lady in front, seeing the two unfamiliar women, dared not say or ask anything, and silently led everyone into the auction house.
When Ye Liangchen and his group arrived at the backstage hall of the auction house, Ma Rulong was already waiting, along with several unfamiliar elders.
"Ma Rulong, who are these people?" Ye Liangchen asked curiously.
"You are the owners of the pills?" Just then, one of the Spirit Douluo elders spoke, staring at Ye Liangchen's group.
"Sirs, I advise you not to inquire about the identity of the pill owners," Ma Rulong calmly advised the elders.
"As managers of the auction house, we should have the right to meet the seller, shouldn't we?"
A representative of the royal family, putting on an arrogant air, stared at Ye Liangchen's group.
These people were still not giving up, wanting to use the auction house's authority to meet the owner of the pills, and even obtain the pill formula.
"You do have the authority, but it's not effective in front of us."
"Buzz..."
Ling Yuan Douluo, following Bibi Dong's arrangement, directly released her nine spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, and five black—displaying her Titled Douluo strength. Shui Lanyue also released her nine spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red.
"Titled Douluo? And a Ten-Thousand Year spirit ring?" The elders were instantly terrified.
"Why aren't you leaving?" Bibi Dong said coldly. She knew these people's objective was to get their hands on Xiao Jiahuo's pill formula.
"Your Eminence, please calm your anger. We will leave immediately." The elders quickly left the place, not wanting to stay for another moment.
"Xiao Chen, I'm sorry, these are my superiors. I advised them before, but they wouldn't listen," Ma Rulong said apologetically.
"It's fine. Wealth moves hearts. It's normal for them to appear here."
Ye Liangchen waved his hand indifferently. In the face of such profit, everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
"Ma Rulong, how many people came today?"
"Xiao Chen, there are 2,000 seats in the auction hall, and it's completely full."
"So many people? Then we'll make a fortune. I've decided to bring out all the Yuhua Pill stock, a total of 150 pills. But Ma Rulong, you need to implement a hunger marketing strategy, auctioning them in batches, like this and this..."
"Don't worry, Xiao Chen! It's about dangling the bait for those VIPs. I'm best at this kind of thing."
"Yes, exactly! This time, I'm going to drain the wallets of those noblewomen. Not making money when there's money to be made is being a scoundrel, hahaha..."
Watching Ye Liangchen and Ma Rulong discuss those schemes, Bibi Dong and Shui Lanxin felt that these two were unscrupulous merchants, especially Ye Liangchen, who was even more ruthless than a typical unscrupulous merchant.
"Xiao Chen, who did you learn these tricks from?" Bibi Dong secretly transmitted a message to Shui Lanxin using spirit power.
"This Xiao Jiahuo has been smart since he was little. These are all things he figured out himself." Shui Lanxin smiled helplessly. To be honest, it was her first time seeing Xiao Jiahuo's money-making methods.
Ye Liangchen took out 100 Soul Power Pills and 150 Yuhua Pills and handed them to Ma Rulong for him to arrange.
Then, led by two young ladies, Ye Liangchen and his group passed through a secret door and arrived at a pre-arranged VIP private room.
"Oh my goodness! So many people."
Ye Liangchen saw the dense crowd in the auction hall through the crystal projector.
"Oh! Xiao Chen Didi, look quickly, the Moon Pavilion Master, Tang Yuehua, seems to have come too."
Shui Bing'er pointed to an elegant masked woman on the screen and told Ye Liangchen.
"Bing'er Jie, she's wearing a mask, and you still recognize her?" Xiao Maomi leaned over, staring at the woman on the screen.
"That woman is indeed Tang Yuehua."
Bibi Dong spoke at this point, observing carefully and recognizing many old acquaintances.
"Ning Fengzhi has also come, and Sword Douluo is with him. Oh, Ning Fengzhi's Mother, Ning Shuanghua, has also come. How interesting."
"Supreme Pontiff, Ning Shuanghua should be over 90 years old, right?"
"Yes! She is of the same generation as Sword Douluo."
"..."
Shui Lanxin, Bibi Dong, and the others looked at their old acquaintances, truly surprised!
Ye Liangchen also saw Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo. They were not wearing masks, and beside them was a graceful old woman who looked about 60 years old. She should be the Ning Shuanghua that Bibi Dong mentioned.
In addition, he also saw Prince Xue Xing, that old schemer, who had also come and was whispering with several elders.
"Welcome, esteemed guests, the auction begins."
Just then, the voice of the ceremonial lady sounded, followed by two ladies pushing a cart and an Auctioneer walking out from the back door.
First to be auctioned were some relatively ordinary treasures, such as rare ores, jewelry, and other items, which did not cause too much sensation. However, all the good items brought out by the auction house today were sold.
"Distinguished guests, next is a highlight that might interest the male guests present."
At this moment, the Auctioneer announced the news to everyone, arousing their curiosity.
"Grumble... Grumble..."
A sound of wheels rumbling was heard as two staff members pushed out a large cart covered with a red cloth, preventing anyone from seeing what was inside.
"Hurry up and let us see what kind of treasure it is!" Some big-headed men shouted.
"Alright, esteemed guests, please look."
The Auctioneer uncovered the red cloth, revealing a young and beautiful cat girl crouching in an iron cage, her expression filled with terror. Due to nervousness and anger, two cat ears appeared on her head, and she had a cat tail behind her back.
"Wow! A cat-eared girl!"
The male guests present, seeing such a high-quality item, immediately had their eyes turn green, and Prince Xue Xing was even more frantic.
The Auctioneer rattled on about the cat girl's features and then announced the auction.
"The auction begins, starting bid is ten thousand gold coins."
"Twenty thousand."
"Thirty thousand."
"Fifty thousand."
"..."
Many male guests at the scene raised their bids. Faced with such a good item, no one wanted to miss out.
In the VIP room where Ye Liangchen was, Xiao Maomi, seeing the auctioned cat-eared girl, was extremely angry and couldn't help but tremble.
"The auction house is actually selling slaves." Shui Bing'er was also very angry.
"Heaven Dou Auction House dares to do anything. This slave trade project was started by Prince Xue Xing and some nobles. They often send people to remote villages to capture young men and women, bring them to the auction house for auction, especially beautiful young girls, who are bought by some noblemen for pleasure."
Bibi Dong explained the background of Heaven Dou Auction House to everyone. As long as you have money, you can buy anything here.
Ye Liangchen was very surprised. Wasn't that cat girl supposed to appear several months later in the original plot? He didn't expect it to be brought forward now.
Looking at the frantic actions of the men at the auction, Ye Liangchen shook his head helplessly and directly pressed a bell.
"Click..."
"Sir, what do you need?"
The VIP room door opened, and two young ladies walked in, asking Ye Liangchen curiously.
"Please tell Ma Rulong to stop the slave auction. Also, help me release a message to the Heaven Dou Auction House's high-level officials: if there are any more slave auctions in the future, I will have a Limit Douluo directly dismantle the Heaven Dou Auction House."
Ye Liangchen said calmly. As a transmigrator, he couldn't stand seeing young girls being auctioned, so he directly used the name of a Limit Douluo to scare the Heaven Dou Auction House's high-level officials.
"Follow his instructions, otherwise, the Heaven Dou Auction House will cease to exist."
The Shui Lanxin Sisters cooperated with Ye Liangchen's words, directly releasing their nine spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red—to express their stance to the two young ladies.
"Oh! I'll go inform Manager Ma right away."
The two young ladies immediately ran to the backstage to inform Ma Rulong. In a short while, Ma Rulong was seen rushing to the auction hall to take over the auction work.
"I apologize, esteemed guests, today's slave auction is canceled. The auction house will immediately release all slaves."
"Following the warnings of the esteemed sirs, the Heaven Dou Auction House will no longer auction slaves from now on."
Ma Rulong's efficiency was very fast. He immediately had the staff release all the slaves and even returned their money to send them home.
"What's going on? They're not auctioning them anymore."
"How can the auction house be so untrustworthy?"
"..."
Many male guests at the scene were very dissatisfied and expressed their displeasure to Ma Rulong.
"Ma Rulong, what are you doing?" Prince Xue Xing and some other officials publicly accused Ma Rulong.
"Esteemed sirs, this is not my idea. This is a warning from the owner of the pills. Furthermore, I advise you, esteemed sirs, not to do such infuriating things again, otherwise, a Limit Douluo will come and dismantle our auction house."
Ma Rulong calmly stated the matter, instantly silencing the guests present.
"The owner of the pills actually has a Limit Douluo behind him?"
Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo exchanged glances, feeling incredibly shocked. Previously, they had wanted to go backstage to meet the owner of the pills after the auction, but upon hearing this news, they immediately dropped the idea.
In another VIP room, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, was also incredibly shocked. The owner of the pills actually had a Limit Douluo behind him? Besides her grandfather, were there other Limit Douluo on the continent? Who could it be?
Prince Xue Xing felt it must be a bluff, so he formed a plan in his mind: after the auction, he would gather some men to test the true strength of the pill owner.
"Next is the final pill auction, which I will preside over."
"This auction will feature Soul Power Pills and Yuhua Pills, sold at the final Sold Price. Each person is limited to three pills."
"After last month's trial, I believe everyone knows the effects of these pills, especially the Yuhua Pill. This is a miraculous pill that can allow all the female guests present to discard their cosmetics."
Ma Rulong directly took charge of Ye Liangchen's pill auction, instantly bringing the atmosphere to a climax again.
"Hurry up! We can't wait any longer."
"That's right! We've been waiting for this day for several days."
"This time, I must buy it..."
Many noblewomen at the scene immediately started shouting, urging Ma Rulong to start the auction quickly.
"First, we will auction the Soul Power Pill, starting bid five thousand." Ma Rulong directly started the bidding.
"Six thousand."
"Eight thousand."
"Ten thousand."
"Twelve thousand."
"Fifteen thousand."
"Eighteen thousand."
"Twenty thousand."
"..."
"Thirty thousand once, thirty thousand twice, thirty thousand thrice."
"Sold!"
With Ma Rulong's final gavel, the Soul Power Pill was ultimately bid up to thirty thousand per pill by those nobles.
Soul Power Pills can be used by young disciples to break through bottlenecks, especially for Spirit Master, Spirit Grandmaster, and Spirit Elder ranks, where the effect is very good. Therefore, these nobles spent high prices to buy them back for their descendants, to be used as cultivation resources.
"Did we just earn 3 million gold coins from this?"
Bibi Dong and Shui Lanxin were very surprised to see that 100 Soul Power Pills could sell for such a high price.
"Xiao Chen, you're practically picking up money!" Bibi Dong said with a chuckle.
"This is just a small scene." Ye Liangchen waved his hand, telling everyone not to be too surprised.
"Next will be the main event: the auction of the Yuhua Pill. This pill is the guardian of women's youth. Taking it will make your skin smooth and firm, and you can even throw away your cosmetics..."
"The starting bid is ten thousand per pill."
Ma Rulong gave a flowery description of the Yuhua Pill's effects, first auctioning 50 pills to create hunger marketing.
"I bid twenty thousand." A noblewoman immediately raised the price.
"Lianhua, how can you offer twenty thousand? I bid thirty thousand."
Another woman next to that noblewoman directly raised the bid to thirty thousand.
"Forty thousand."
"Fifty thousand."
"Sixty thousand."
"Seventy thousand."
"..."
"One hundred twenty thousand once, one hundred twenty thousand twice, one hundred twenty thousand thrice."
"Sold!"
As Ma Rulong's auction hammer fell, the first batch of Yuhua Pills was snatched up by a group of noblewomen.
"Manager Ma, go ask the owner of the pills if there are any more?"
The noblewomen who didn't get any were very unwilling, so they urged Ma Rulong to go ask.
"Alright, ladies, please wait a moment."
Ma Rulong pretended to run backstage, and after a while, he walked back to the auction hall.
"Ladies, after my persistent persuasion, the owner of the pills has brought out some more Yuhua Pills." Ma Rulong pretended to say.
"Ma Rulong, stop playing games with us, hurry up and auction them! We have money to spare."
"Everyone here is rich, we don't care about that little bit of money."
"Exactly, exactly..."
A group of noblewomen directly and generously told Ma Rulong not to play tricks anymore.
"Since that's the case, let's start bidding. Still starting at ten thousand."
"Twenty thousand."
"Thirty thousand."
"Forty thousand."
"..."
"Two hundred thousand."
"Three hundred thousand once, three hundred thousand twice, three hundred thousand thrice."
"Sold!"
The remaining 100 Yuhua Pills were directly bid up to three hundred thousand per pill by a group of noblewomen, and then snatched up in an instant.
These wealthy women didn't care about money, only about their appearance, so they spent generously, determined to get them.
Bibi Dong also helped to raise the price several times, as these noblewomen were all wealthy anyway.