A pillar of light descended, illuminating the high platform as bright as snow.
Amid drifting flower petals, a figure slowly appeared at the center of the beam.
She was a woman with a bewitching figure and eyes like silken threads. Clad in a pink gauze dress as thin as cicada wings, she had eight fluffy fox tails gently swaying behind her. Every step she took seemed to tread upon the very hearts of all male creatures.
"This little woman is Mei Ji. Greetings, honored guests."
Her voice carried an innate allure. Amplified by the formation, it reached every ear with perfect clarity, making hearts and minds stir without their owners realizing it.
"It is this little woman's honor to host the once-in-a-century Myriad Demon Auction."
"Without further nonsense, I trust you honored guests have already grown impatient."
Mei Ji smiled sweetly and gave a light wave of her jade-like hand.
A burly man carried a jade tray covered in red cloth onto the platform.
"Now, our first auction item of the evening!"
As her voice fell, she abruptly pulled away the red cloth.
Resting quietly upon the jade tray was a round pill the size of a longan, exuding a rich medicinal fragrance and Dao charm.
Faint lightning flickered over the pill, while nine-colored radiance curled around it. A powerful surge of life essence washed over the crowd.
"A Tribulation Crossing Pill!"
"And a supreme-grade Tribulation Crossing Pill produced by Medicine God Valley!"
Mei Ji's voice was brimming with incitement.
"This pill can increase a Tribulation Crossing Realm cultivator's chance of successfully surviving their Heavenly Tribulation by more than fifty percent!"
Boom!
The instant her words fell, the entire auction hall erupted.
Heavy breathing rose and fell throughout the venue, while countless blazing gazes nailed themselves onto that pill.
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