"Please present your qualification numbers."
Zhang Chen and Bai Shengzhan each handed over the first-level qualification numbers they had just obtained to the monks guarding the entrance. After verifying them, the monks solemnly instructed them:
"Please take your seats according to the numbers on your qualifications. Throughout the auction, you must obey the rules set by the internal auctioneer. Do not do anything that violates the auction's regulations, and especially do not do anything that threatens another person's life. Otherwise, you will be personally punished by the Bodhi Patriarch. Serious offenders will be exiled directly into the void and left to fend for themselves."
Bai Shengzhan merely took their words as a warning meant to maintain order at the auction, but Zhang Chen could clearly sense that the two monks' remarks were directed at him.
"The Bodhi Patriarch's direct disciples truly are extraordinary. Can they see some clue about my body?"
After walking a short distance along the entrance passage, Zhang Chen and Bai Shengzhan arrived at a broad doorway. They could already faintly hear the noisy clamor from within.
When the two pushed open the doors, the chaotic scene before them was somewhat hard to adjust to. This gathering had brought together all of Ling's current factions. The densely populated first floor was a complete hodgepodge, with every type of creature gathered here. There were likely more than thirty different species.
Because the first floor held so many people, the auction seats had been packed tightly together according to normal human proportions. With creatures of so many different kinds crammed together like this, it naturally led to plenty of absurd situations.
Some of the larger creatures, such as a bear demon from the Monster Realm, could barely squeeze its buttocks into its assigned seat and ended up occupying part