When Qin Fengming returned to the Black Swallow Mountain auction hall, the final day's auction had only just begun.
Although he had been away for many days, Qin Fengming was not particularly worried about whether the auctioned items included the few rare artifact-refining materials and spirit herbs he needed.
The materials he required were exceedingly rare. Otherwise, he would have obtained them long ago. Such treasures, even if they truly existed, would certainly be auctioned as finale items.
Sure enough, only the time it took to drink a cup of tea after Qin Fengming had taken his seat, an old man on the high platform carried a Jade Box over and placed it on the stone table before him.
By then, the Nascent Soul cultivators in charge of the auction had already been replaced by three different mid Nascent Soul stage cultivators.
The old man gently removed the lid and held out a fist-sized piece of artifact-refining material that shimmered with blue-violet light. Viewed from nearby, one could actually see a slowly rotating vortex formed from blue-violet halos within that radiance.
As the old man raised his left hand, the several thousand cultivators in the hall erupted in cries of surprise. Some even called out impatiently, urging the old man to auction the item at once.
"Hehe, fellow Daoists, please calm yourselves. I imagine many of you can recognize the item in my hand, but I still need to explain it in detail."
The old man on the platform was in no hurry. With a slight gesture, he pressed down the clamorous voices of the crowd.
"The item in my hand is called the Universe Stone. Though it does not contain a universe within it, it is not far from one. This is because it possesses an extremely special property: