Spring passed and autumn came, while time flowed leisurely.
Several decades passed as though a finger had merely flicked.
Xuan Shui Domain.
Inside the venue of the Wantong Grand Auction.
Rows of jade platforms floated in midair, their surfaces engraved with countless formations.
On the jade platforms stood clusters of elegant cultivators' residences, each exquisitely designed and ingeniously unique.
Above the auction stage surrounded by numerous jade platforms, beams of light shot into the sky. Multicolored restrictions formed curtains of light, protecting the stage layer upon layer.
A Void Returning Cultivator was introducing a seven-colored short sword in his hand:
"Rare treasure—the Seven Star Sword, sixteen thousand immortal jades! Does any fellow Daoist have a higher bid..."
"Good. No one has raised the bid for the third time. Congratulations to the fellow Daoists in Heavenly Character Box Number Thirteen for winning this treasure!"
Xuan Shui Domain was one of the Ninety-nine Domains of the human race. It lay at the heart of the human territories, where commerce flourished, and several Body Integration forces stood guard. Even during wartime, it remained relatively safe.
The Wantong Grand Auction had been organized by Wantong Pavilion.
Although Wantong Pavilion was not as famous as Black Tortoise Pavilion, its origins ran even deeper, and it was in fact the more venerable of the two.
Every hundred years, it held a Grand Auction, attracting numerous high-level cultivators to compete for treasures.
After this rare treasure was sold, rare ores, miraculous pills, and high-level cultivation techniques were brought out one after another, drawing bids from cultivator after cultivator. However, high-level cultivators generally knew their limits. Once an auction item exceeded its true value by thirty or forty percent, the number of bidders dropped sharply.
Unless they were in particularly urgent need, the final transaction price would not