The auction continued, and the atmosphere remained lively, but Xu Yi never bid again.
Half an hour passed before the auction reached its final stages and moved on to the miscellaneous items.
When the seventh miscellaneous item came up for auction, Xu Yi's blood surged once more.
Attack-type treasures had appeared earlier in the auction, and though they were precious, compared with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword, Xu Yi had found them unimpressive.
He didn't expect an attack-type magical treasure powerful enough to make "one treasure emerge, and all under heaven submit." He only needed one with a particular strength.
It could be peerlessly sharp, vanish in an instant, or have an extraordinarily wide attack range. At the very least, it had to be able to easily deter a Yang Venerate expert.
Unfortunately, the attack-type treasures offered throughout the auction were either equally suited to offense and defense, or had a particular strength that still fell short of Xu Yi's requirements.
Xu Yi, of course, wasn't willing to waste a fortune on something unimportant.
That changed when the Red Robe Middle-aged Man revealed an inconspicuous dagger in his hand.
The moment it appeared, the entire hall erupted.
Everyone's attention, including Xu Yi's, was drawn to the two black Law Patterns on the dagger.
Xu Yi could hardly believe it. Judging by the Law Patterns on magical artifacts, the Dark Obsidian Dagger before him should be an eighth-rank magical artifact.
Magical artifacts were ranked by power in the same way, through Five Revolutions and Fifteen Ranks. His prized Soul-Summoning Banner, for instance, had only one white Law Pattern and was merely at the first rank of the second revolution—in other words, it was only a fourth-rank magical artifact.
Yet this Dark Obsidian Dagger had reached the astonishing eighth rank. Based on what