Not to mention how smug the True Persons of the Forging Spirit Sect were.
After the Yam-Dragon auction ended, the true grand finale was brought forth.
"The next auction item."
Hu Tong's expression suddenly turned exceedingly solemn.
None of her earlier radiant charm remained.
Even the immortal music within the auction house fell silent.
All the beams of light converged upon a box that had abruptly appeared on the auction platform, its surface carved with densely packed spirit-sealing talisman patterns.
Hu Tong cautiously raised a phantom of one of her tails and lightly touched the box. Only then did it slowly open, like a lotus blooming.
A crystalline five-colored lotus rested quietly within.
At the lotus's central seedpod sat a Water Spirit resembling a carp, yet trailing a long dragon tail.
The lotus was crystalline and translucent, yet threads of black calamity qi coiled within its petals. The instant it appeared, any cultivator with keen Divine Sense could sense the rumbling crash of a Heavenly Tribulation!
"Is this the Tribulation Transcendence Immortal Lotus capable of drawing forth a Heavenly Tribulation?"
"If we had this item..."
"Hu Tong, child, hurry up and tell us how it will be auctioned!"
The Nascent Soul Cultivators were vastly experienced, and naturally could no longer sit still.
It could be said that quite a few of them had come specifically for this. If they obtained it, they could help their disappointing descendants and juniors grow accustomed to Heavenly Tribulations, ensuring they could pass them in the future.
One had to know that growing accustomed to a tribulation before passing it, and relying on all manner of Magic Treasures or formations to assist in passing it, were entirely different concepts.
With the former, one's future Dao Path would be far smoother... even if it had been