The formcast model didn't have a base price; it had been set by Lu Yin.
The first person to bid had raised the price to a point where countless people flinched at the sight of 30,000 star essence, which was ten times the price of a single natural treasure.
It was customary for auctions on the mainland to use star essence as payment.
Gerlaine was curious, "Star essence?
What's the exchange rate for star crystals? "
Lu Yin answered, "One to 100,000."
Gerlaine was speechless, "That much?"
Lu Yin nodded.
Gerlaine was stunned for a moment before she blurted out, "You've developed robbery to the level of civilization. You're really cultured."
Lu Yin was speechless.
"Hahaha, Seventh Bro, this girl is right. Auctions are robbery, but it's a cultured robbery." The monkey laughed.
Jeraldine stifled a laugh.
The competition immediately began, and the bidders were mostly from the private rooms. Lu Yin knew that Shamrock Enterprises, Mavis Bank, and other well-known powers were all present. There was also the Temple of Taimo, a power in the central weave, and even the Wei family.
As expected, the competition would only be between the behemoths. The first formcast model was bought by Shamrock Enterprises for a sky-high price of 150,000 star essence.
Lu Yin was excited; even though he knew that the price would be high, he hadn't expected it to be this high.
With Shamrock Enterprises' foundation, they shouldn't have a five-stage formcast model, which was strange.
In a private room in the auction house, Xiao Qin was talking to Shen Fu. "I bought it."
"That's good."
"I don't understand. If you have a five-stage formcast model, why are you buying it at such a high price?" Xiao Qin was curious.
"President Yu is overbearing. He offended the Great Eastern Alliance, so we have to express our goodwill."
"Is that necessary?
There's always fish, and Shamrock Enterprises doesn't need to bow to anyone. "
"We'll talk about it later. It's not a lot."
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Gerlaine counted with her fingers for a long time, but she still couldn't figure out how much 150,000 star essence was. She knew a lot, but she had no idea how much it was.
This was a matter of level. At her level, she still used more cosmic dollars than star crystals, but a single cube of star crystals could be exchanged for a million cosmic dollars. That was an exaggeration, so she couldn't figure it out.
At Lu Yin's level, all he used was star essence, and universal currency was nothing more than scrap paper.
This was also the reason why the Mavis Bank hung the universal currency on the tree, allowing it to float down and be picked up by others. Different people had different perspectives.
After that, the auction went back to normal. The auctioneers would take a commission from the items provided by others.
This included items of unknown origin or items that could not be brought to the auction table, but none of them went unsold. Currently, the auction house was filled with a large portion of the Outerverse's rich, and some of the items were just numbers to them.
Furthermore, the highest bid for these items was only a thousand star essence, and many people were too lazy to even bid for them. They had all come for the high-quality items that Lu Yin had provided.
Not long after, the second item appeared. It was an arrow, one of the three that Lu Yin had upgraded.
There were many people who used arrows, and the most famous was naturally the Hall of Tai Mo.
The divine arrows that Lu Yin had selected from Arrow Mountain had been sold to the Hall of Tai Mo for 20,000 star essence each. The three arrows in front of him had been upgraded to the point where they could threaten Enlighters, and they were also considered divine arrows. The starting price of 20,000 star essence was not expensive, as this was an auction house where many rich people had gathered.
However, arrows were inanimate objects, and these people could not see the rune lines on them, so they could not determine their quality.
Lu Yin thought that someone would question him, but when the arrows appeared, someone from a private room immediately bid 25,000 star essence.
Lu Yin knew that the person in that room was from the Hall of Tai Mo. Others might not be able to determine the quality of the arrows, but it was impossible for them not to.
To the Hall of Tai Mo, a good arrow was comparable to a battle technique.
Most people did not bid, but those who did did so with the mindset that they had to win. This was especially true for the Hall of Tai Mo, who raised the price to 45,000 star essence.
This was a very high price. The divine arrows that Lu Yin had obtained from Arrow Mountain had been sold to the Hall of Tai Mo for 20,000 star essence each.
With such a high price, no one competed with the Hall of Tai Mo, and in the end, the arrows were sold for 45,000 star essence.
Lu Yin smiled, as the price was not bad. He was considering whether or not he should upgrade the next batch and sell them to the Hall of Tai Mo. That would make him rich.
After waiting for a round, the second formcast model appeared. This time, the formcast model was purchased by someone from the Amethyst Trading Company for a high price of one hundred and twenty thousand Gold Coins. Only a group like this that had money but no super powerhouses would need a five-stage formcast model.
Gerlaine stared blankly at the bidding below. Every item was being auctioned for a price that was out of her reach, and she could not even afford to exchange them for universal currency.
Jeraldine had a complicated expression; this was no longer the Great Yu Empire of the past. If any of the people below had appeared in the Great Yu Empire, they would have been treated as VIPs and would have been personally summoned by His Majesty. They would have received all sorts of privileges, but now, they could only sit below and compete with each other. They did not even have the right to enter a private room.
This was the person that Lu Yin had brought up. This person who had fought with them to the death on Earth seven years ago was now standing at the peak of the universe.
The gun appeared with a starting price of 60,000 star essence. There was no need for an introduction, and the people in the private rooms began to compete.
The gun seemed to be synonymous with Lu Yin, as he had used it to kill an Enlighter. No one doubted the gun's power.
The starting price was meaningless, and the first bidder raised the price to 100,000 star essence. This person was unfamiliar, and Lu Yin had Bei Qing look him up. He was surprised to find that this person was actually from Myriad City.
The first person he thought of was the Zhu family. Their ancestor, Zhu Tiezhu, was dead, and the Zhu family was being suspected by the Jasper Mountains and Seas, so they were definitely not living comfortably. They had money, but they did not have the power to protect themselves. Facing the Qiong family would put them under a lot of pressure, so they would naturally buy something that could protect themselves.
Various powers competed, especially those that were involved in technological manufacturing, as they all wanted to buy the gun for research purposes.
But in the end, the gun was bought by someone from the Zhu family for a final price of 220,000 star essence.
This price exceeded Lu Yin's expectations, as he had not expected it to sell for such a high price. It could only be said that the Zhu family was truly anxious.
220,000 star essence was a sky-high price for most powers in the Outerverse, and everyone was trying to guess at the person's background.
Time quickly passed, and while Lu Yin was participating in the auction, Elder Lohar left Ironblood Weave and arrived at a desolate region of space. As far as the eye could see, this place was filled with turbulence, meteorites, planetary fragments, and all sorts of cosmic trash.
This place was like a cosmic graveyard, and strange astronomical phenomena would sweep past from time to time, swallowing up the surrounding space.
After arriving here, even Elder Lohar had to be careful.
"Disciple Lohar requests an audience with Esteemed Teacher." His voice reverberated throughout the depths of space.
Not long after, an aged voice was heard. "What is it?"
The voice was illusory, and it was unknown where it had come from, but Elder Lohar instantly felt as if he was being exposed to an indescribable terror. The region of space changed the moment the voice appeared, and the strange astronomical phenomena disappeared.
The voice was a law, and the region of space cooperated with the appearance of the voice, not daring to make even the slightest sound.
"Esteemed Teacher, the Sixth Mainland might be invading the Outerverse through the Technocracy. Please investigate, Esteemed Teacher," Elder Lohar said respectfully as he bowed deeply with a terrified expression.
The entire region of space suddenly trembled, and Elder Lohar's heart skipped a beat. In the next moment, the feeling of being exposed to an extreme terror disappeared. His esteemed teacher had left.
The Hall of Honor was the strongest organization in the entire Human Domain, and its foundation was unfathomable. How could the Outerverse only have one Elder Lohar overseeing it?
Elder Lohar was just a figurehead; the true strength of the organization lay here.
On Zenyu Star, the auction had ended. Lu Yin was delighted, and he specially rewarded Gerlaine and Jeraldine with ten star essence each.
Ten star essence was equivalent to a million star crystals, which was an astronomical figure to them. However, Lu Yin didn't care about such a small amount of money.
During this auction, his premium items alone had been sold for 765 thousand star essence, and with the commission from the other auctions, he had made a huge profit.
His assets had once again risen to over two million star essence, which was enough to give Yuehua Mavis a run for her money.
When all of the money was gathered, Lu Yin's heroic spirit soared to the sky, as if he owned the entire world.
The only thing that made him unhappy was that the last two arrows had been bought by the Temple of Tai Mo for 30,000 star essence. Everyone else knew that the Temple of Tai Mo was determined to obtain the arrows, so they didn't plan on competing with them.
The fact that they had taken advantage of the situation meant that Lu Yin had suffered a loss, which made him uncomfortable. He decided not to sell his arrows like this in the future and instead sell them wholesale. He would raise the price by a hundred arrows to the Temple of Tai Mo in one go and empty out all of their assets.
Although the auction had ended, there was still much to talk about in the outside world, especially when the person who had bought the gun had been robbed in outer space and killed a Hunter with a single shot. According to some estimates, the gun's power level had reached 200,000, which shocked countless people. Many people's eyes burned with desire; the items sold by the mainland's auction house were indeed real.
On Zenyu Star, the person in charge of the Mavis Bank was vexed. Every time the mainland's auction house held a premium item auction, his star essence would be completely used up. He had already gathered all of the star essence from all of the Mavis Bank branches in the eastern weaves, but he still couldn't keep up with the consumption.
If the Innerverse and Outerverse hadn't been separated, then he wouldn't have cared even if they held a premium item auction every day.
There were only so many star essence in the Outerverse, and the Mavis Bank didn't have much in stock. He hurriedly reported the situation to his superiors and asked them to think of a solution or to negotiate with the mainland's auction house so that they could circulate star crystals.
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Ah Lan was an ordinary cultivator who had come from a barren but beautiful planet. His life had been peaceful, but one day, a group of youths who called themselves trialtakers had arrived and completely changed his life.
His planet had more than a billion people, but in the end, only a few had followed the trialtakers into outer space. The reason he had been able to do so was because he had awakened an innate gift of listening. That's right, listening was an innate gift that could be useful or useless.