Shi Feng stared at the item displayed on the auction screen, stunned for a good while.
A Secret Skill Book!
This was the kind of treasure any top-tier player could only dream of.
He never expected the very first item sold at the Black Wing Auction to be this shocking.
If he could get his hands on this Golden Stone Tablet, more Zero Wing members would be able to master powerful combat techniques, instead of struggling the way they were now.
While Shi Feng was still recovering from his surprise, bidding on the Golden Stone Tablet had already begun.
The starting price was a hundred gold coins, but some of the players in the venue were calling out bids as if they had gone insane.
"110 gold!"
"120 gold!"
...
"700 gold!"
In just a few short seconds, many people in the hall were dumbstruck.
The starting price alone was enough to make most people look up in awe, yet someone was willing to spend 700 gold on a broken stone tablet of questionable purpose. For a third-rate guild, that price was utterly astronomical—their total liquid assets hovered around four or five hundred gold at best. Only a second-rate guild could afford something like that.
But even for a second-rate guild, spending every last coin of their liquid funds on a stone tablet whose use nobody understood—unless they had lost their minds.
"1,000 gold! The Nine Heavens Tower will take it!" Yun Yinshan suddenly shouted.
The entire venue froze for a moment.
No one expected a super guild like the Nine Heavens Tower to be this frantic, willing to drop 1,000 gold.
"The Nine Heavens Tower sure talks big. Do you think you can just take whatever you want?" A strikingly elegant female Elementalist scoffed. "1,500 gold! The Holy Mage Hall will take it."
"Xuan Jing, why bother? Do you really think the Holy Mage Hall can outbid us right now?" Yun Yinshan smiled and threw out another high price: "1,600 gold!"
The Holy Mage Hall had recently spent a huge amount of gold purchasing land plots and magic crystals to develop their guild, so their reserves had dropped sharply—nowhere near the Nine Heavens Tower's current wealth.
Of course, his words served two purposes. First, to make Xuan Jing back off; second, to buy time. Originally, Yun Yinshan hadn't paid much attention to this auction trip—he had mostly come along to accompany Bai Qingxue and take a look. As a result, he hadn't brought much money; everything he had pooled together was just over 2,000 gold. On any ordinary auction, that would be more than enough—even enough to purchase an Epic-grade item.
But now it probably wasn't nearly enough to secure the Golden Stone Tablet.
After all, the value of a Golden Stone Tablet far surpassed that of any Epic-grade item. Every major super guild was scouring the world for one, but despite investing massive manpower and resources, they had turned up virtually no leads. There was no pattern to it whatsoever—it was purely a matter of luck. Now that one had appeared, forget a few thousand gold; even ten thousand wouldn't be too much.
This thing was like prime real estate in the Divine Realm—not only was it unique, but its value would only climb higher and higher in the future. It was a treasure that came along only by rare chance.
But gathering funds from the guild would take some time. That made Yun Yinshan somewhat anxious.
"Hahaha, I never expected the great Yun Yinshan to say something like that." Xuan Jing couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing—a sound that left many of the male players in the hall completely captivated. "It seems you didn't bring much money after all. Then I won't be polite—I'll be taking it!"
"3,000 gold!"
The entire venue went dead silent. Representatives from every guild and countless independent players could hardly believe their ears.