"Many people came here with a purpose."
The auction had already been going on for six full hours and was now nearing the end of the seventh round.
Yet only a tiny fraction of the attendees had left. Not a single person had departed from the highest-level VIP area, and most of them were deliberately conserving their money, seemingly waiting for an extremely rare treasure.
The penultimate ordinary treasure of the seventh round was a relatively crude map scroll.
"This is a treasure map. The reason it is so crude is that it was hastily made under urgent circumstances, so its coordinates may be somewhat inaccurate... The treasure map was consigned by a highly trusted Formless One. Since the location should be somewhere in the Evil Resentment Mountains in the west, we do not know what exactly is hidden there, nor whether the map is genuine. Even our auction house lacks that information."
"The Evil Resentment Mountains!!"
Just hearing the name of that place caused many people's faces to turn pale.
Although people were not forbidden from entering the western mountain region, it was a forbidden area in the eyes of the evil demons.
"The Evil Resentment Mountains? Miao Zi, what kind of place is that?" Yu Jing asked.
"Answering you, my lord, this is the most dangerous region in the Mount of Demons. I have never been there, and our Purple Mansion would never do business anywhere near it. In the past, several Formless Ones even disappeared inside... It is rumored that some extremely evil creature dwells there. That's right! The evil elder hosting the auction may have a very deep connection with the Evil Resentment Mountains."
"Oh!? Buy this treasure map for me."
"Buy this... My lord, you aren't planning to go to the Evil Resentment Mountains..." Miao