Sea City Auction

The main hall of Azure Wave Pavilion was utterly different from an ordinary inn. The entire hall was built from azure sea-crystal stone, and under the glow of spirit lamps, layered halos of rippling water shimmered across the walls. Beneath their feet were pale-white floor tiles ground from fine sand and crushed shells, soft and soundless when stepped on.

Behind the front desk hung an enormous sea-region map, marked with the locations of tens of thousands of islands in the Southern Saint Domain. Several fine threads of sea-blue spiritual power flowed slowly across the surface of the map.

A woman in a jade-green dress stood behind the front desk. When she saw Lu Changsheng and the other three enter, she set down the jade slip she had been reading and revealed a perfectly measured smile. She had a lovely face and gentle brows and eyes, and pinned to the lapel at her chest was a jade-green shell emblem—the symbol of Azure Wave Palace.

"Would our honored guests like rooms?" the woman asked, her voice gentle as a sea breeze brushing the face.

"Four rooms, for three days."

Lu Changsheng walked up to the front desk, his gaze sweeping over the jade price tablets hanging on the wall.

Smiling, the woman took out a jade-green jade slip from beneath the counter and pushed it before him. "Azure Wave Pavilion's rooms are divided into three grades for our honored guests to choose from. Sea Sand Residence is an ordinary room, fifty thousand spirit stones per night. It is built from ordinary sea-crystal stone, has a basic soundproofing spirit array, and its spiritual power density is the same as the outside world. Coral Pavilion is a mid-grade room, one hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones per night. Millennium coral crystal cores are embedded