As Lex watched Mary have a hundred Celestials drool over a ball of dirt that Z had picked up, he was completely convinced that the rest of the auction would go well. Life was unusual. They had picked up so many treasures from Abaddon, so many of them useful, and so many of them completely worthless to them and the Inn. Yet to those cultivators much stronger than Lex, they would be priceless. At the same time, they had a much easier time getting their hands on resources that were, relatively speaking, less rare, and yet they were what Lex wanted.
Initially, the auction had all been about MT, but now that Lex had gained so much, what he really wanted were items that would benefit him immediately.
At the moment, Lex was in need of two types of resources that he didn't have access to himself. The first were the kind that would be used in the crafting of the Karmic bead, and the second were the kind that would expedite the formation of the bead itself.