Sky-High Auction! Xu Meng's Protection

The buyers in the hall came to a sudden realization, all understanding the Ibu Team's strategy.

Their minds relaxed.

And at that very instant, from a seat on the right side below the stage, a hair-thin thread of Nen shot out, flying straight toward the storage card!

The movement was too subtle, too well-concealed. Most people in the hall not only failed to react—they had not even seen it happen!

Yet just before the thread touched the storage card, a wrinkled, white-bearded old man suddenly appeared beside the auctioneer.

No one saw how he had appeared.

But the moment he did, he raised his right hand, pressed his index and middle fingers together, and caught the invisible Nen thread between them.

In the auction hall, those wealthy people who merely used sleep time to extend their lifespans in disguise had no idea what had happened, even after seeing the old man abruptly appear.

But the real players immediately grew excited!

"Holy shit! The Chairman!"

"Is this auction house really that awesome? They got the Chairman to be their bodyguard?"

"Damn, now it's really secure!"

"Using Nen Ability in front of the Hunter Association's Chairman? That's like showing off an axe before a master carpenter!"

The Hunter Assessment in Sprawling Metropolis was held every so often.

It was just that the people designing the assessment content had changed from Xu Meng to the Sprawling Metropolis Operations Department.

And every person who passed an assessment round would receive a license from that scruffy old Chairman, along with a quest to unlock Nen Ability.

After this happened several times, players soon began to wonder:

Why was the Chairman this scruffy old man?

Was he strong?

Bold players driven by curiosity soon could not resist challenging him.

As for the results...

Everyone who