"Hold there. This is the Cloud Cliff Auction's premises. No one may enter unless they belong to the auction house or have been invited."
The guards at the entrance all wore matching sets of spirit armor. The armor worn by the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators differed markedly, but both bore the Cloud Cliff Auction's distinctive insignia, a testament to the auction house's influence.
Lu Xiaotian said nothing. He simply raised the jade token in his hand toward the two guards barring his way.
"So it's an honored guest. Please, come in."
The middle-aged man leading the guards was startled when he saw the token. Though the one-armed cultivator before him appeared to be only at the Golden Core stage, the status represented by that token was far beyond what an ordinary Golden Core cultivator could compare to.
"Welcome to our auction house, honored guest. May I ask what brings you here?"
A woman with a full bosom and slender waist, radiant in her beauty and with a face like peach blossoms, came forward with a smile. She looked at the cultivator before her, whose head was covered by a cloak. Though she couldn't see his features, Fang Ling had received many distinguished guests, and quite a few, like this man, preferred not to show their true faces.
The auction house had not yet begun its public sale of spirit objects. Since this guest had arrived now, he clearly had some special business with the auction house.
"Some years ago, I paid your house a deposit of Spirit Stones to order Voidspace Swordstone and Netherbone Sword Orchid. Several decades have passed. Have you managed to collect these two spirit objects?"
Lu Xiaotian got straight to the point. He had paid tens of millions of Spirit Stones at the time,