Miss Loser is too enchanting

"550 Purple Coins."

"600 Purple Coins."

"650." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Seated in the room, Dugu Qianye watched the proceedings below and commented, "She’s still as succinct as ever."

"You’ve seen her before?"

"Back when I was on the Xuanyue Continent, I attended an auction at the Qian Pavilion once. She was the host then."

"Was that when you met Qu Xiaotian?"

"Roughly."

The auction continued below, and Dugu Qianye noticed that the individuals winning the bids were all from the main hall. Practically no one from the private boxes upstairs had placed a bid.

"Next up for auction is a mysterious egg. It is called mysterious because even the appraisers do not know what kind of egg this is. However, it is definitely an egg with life in it. Winning it could mean owning an ancient Divine Beast! The starting bid is 10,000 Purple Coins, with each increase not to be less than ten percent."

Despite Qu Yaoyao linking the egg with ancient Divine Beasts, there were hardly any bidders. After all, no one recognized the egg; who would want to risk buying something that might only be good for frying?

"11,000 Purple Coins." Eventually, someone spoke up after a long pause.

"12,000 Purple Coins."

"13,000 Purple Coins."

"Do you like it?" Fen Qingran asked Dugu Qianye, who had been continuously watching the egg.

"Don’t know what it is, just a bit curious," said Dugu Qianye.

"If you like it, just buy it. At worst, it’s a Spiritual Chicken; grow it big and you can make chicken soup out of it!" Hao Pengyou woke up from his half-sleep state, overheard their conversation, and pressed the bidding button, shouting, "One hundred thousand Purple Coins."

"Whoa—"

"One hundred thousand, just jumped up by eighty thousand."

"You think they don’t know who that is? The Spiritual Master Association, that amount of money wouldn’t even fill the gaps in their teeth."

Upon hearing Hao Pengyou’s bid, the people below stopped bidding. Competing with the Spiritual Master Association was masochistic. On the entire Continent, the Spiritual Master Association, Alchemist Guild, Refiners Guild, and Beast Trainer Guild were the wealthiest. Who could compete with them?

"One hundred thousand Purple Coins once, one hundred thousand Purple Coins twice, one hundred thousand Purple Coins thrice—sold, the egg goes to the Spiritual Master Association. Now, let’s move on to the next auction item," Qu Yaoyao hammered down decisively.

The next auction item was brought up, and the mysterious egg was directly delivered to Dugu Qianye’s room. Hao Pengyou paid and took a look at the egg, finding nothing special about it other than its slightly small size.

"Shall we just fry it up when we get back?" Hao Pengyou suggested, then tossed the egg into Dugu Qianye’s hands.

Sweating, Dugu Qianye thought about eating this egg, bought for one hundred thousand Purple Coins—but even the wealthy Spiritual Master Association would be chased down two streets by Shi Honggui with a shoe if he found out!

"Crack—"

Suddenly, the egg emitted a faint sound, and Dugu Qianye saw a crack forming.

"It wasn’t broken by your throw, was it?" Dugu Qianye picked up the egg and examined it carefully. "Or maybe it got scared by you."

"That’s just perfect, let’s see what it is, see if we can eat it," said Hao Pengyou.

"Crack—". While Dugu Qianye watched, the crack in the egg in his hands grew larger. Suddenly, the top of the eggshell was pushed off, revealing a water-blue head.

Round, bulging eyes stared straight at Dugu Qianye, eye to eye for half a minute. Then a pair of webbed paws stretched out, and with its wings pressing against the eggshell, the plump body gradually wriggled out, followed by a long tail that seemed rather dragon-like.

"What’s this?" Dugu Qianye looked toward Fen Qingran and Hao Pengyou, only to find them both equally perplexed.

After the Beast pulled its plump body out, its wet body plopped onto Dugu Qianye’s chest, and it cried out, "Mama."

"Hahaha!" Fen Qingran and Hao Pengyou burst into laughter when they heard the Beast’s words, especially seeing it lying on Dugu Qianye’s chest.

Dugu Qianye, with a face full of dark lines, looked at the damp thing on her chest, holding back the urge to curse and said sternly, "Get off!"

"Don’t wanna!" the Beast protested.

"Get off!" Dugu Qianye said again.

"Don’t wanna!" the Beast continued to disregard someone’s irritation.

"Last time, get off!" Dugu Qianye felt her temper was about to explode.

"Wah wah—Mama, you’re scaring me, wuu wuu." The Beast, intimidated by Dugu Qianye’s demeanor, started to cry loudly.

"If I tell you to roll, then roll! Is it your place to dominate my territory?!" Dugu Qianye hadn’t even acted yet when a shadow appeared before everyone, kicking off the Beast that clung steadfastly to Dugu Qianye’s chest, then stood with hands on hips looking at the blue shadow trying to approach again.

"Dandan?"

"Mama, wuu wuu, Mama doesn’t want me anymore, wuu wuu..." The Beast, seeing Dandan’s fierce and ferocious stance in front of Dugu Qianye staring at it, wept even more heartbreakingly.

Fortunately, the soundproofing in the room was quite good, otherwise everyone might think the people from the Spiritual Master Association were bullying someone!

"Don’t call me Mama!"

"Mommy, wuu wuu." the Beast continued weeping.

Pfft, Dugu Qianye was both angered and amused by the Beast’s behavior.

"Haha." Hao Pengyou was laughing so hard on the chair that he was rocking back and forth. "This thing is too funny, it doesn’t call you Mama, it calls you Mommy, haha!"

"No crying!" Dandan yelled at the Beast, but the Beast didn’t care and cried even louder.

"Cry again and I’ll throw you out!" Dugu Qianye growled lowly.

As soon as the Beast heard Dugu Qianye threaten to throw it out, it really stopped crying.

"You two still laughing?" Dugu Qianye looked at Fen Qingran and Hao Pengyou with a cold face.

Seeing Dugu Qianye was not amused, the two tried to hold back their laughter. However, their shaking shoulders were not so easily hidden.

Dugu Qianye took Dandan into her lap, while the Beast had already run over, hugging Dugu Qianye’s other leg and shaking it saying, "Mama Mama, I want to come up too."

Dugu Qianye lifted it onto the table with one hand and asked, "Why are you calling me Mama?"

"Because you are Mama! Mama don’t refuse baby, baby is very obedient." the Beast said, looking pitifully at Dugu Qianye.

"I’m not your Mama, you can call me Sister." Dugu Qianye conceded.

"Sister? If I call you Sister, will you not want me?" the Beast asked.

"Sister didn’t say she didn’t want you!" Dugu Qianye said, "First, tell Sister, what kind of Spiritual Beast are you?"

"Baby is a Water Dragon Beast!" the Beast replied.

"Water Dragon Beast?" The three of them looked at each other in confusion, none of them knowing what kind of Beast that was.