Reality

Chen Lin sat in his private booth and glanced through the window toward the woman who had spoken.

For Ancestor Qingyun to court her so eagerly, and for her surname to be Xin, she had to be Xin Shangxiu, the Xin Family head with a Wind Attribute bloodline and a Dao Rhyme Seventh Stage expert!

Xin Yueling, the woman Zhang Zhengan had invited to explore a treasure site with him, was her granddaughter.

Chen Lin had been interested in the True Spirit's remains as well. If put to good use, its Origin Essence might help him advance to Void Refinement, if only a little. Now he could only look on with regret.

One treasure after another was brought out.

The others could only compete for ordinary treasures. Whenever a major Buddhist treasure or True Spirit remains appeared, it fell into the hands of a Void Refinement expert.

Even at the end, the Ruyi Staff was not brought out.

He did not know whether it could not shrink because no one had refined it, or whether some powerful expert had reserved it long ago. He never even got to see it.

When the auction ended, Chen Lin collected the treasures he had won and returned to the inn.

His first task was to set up a Formation. Then he took out the Bronze Coffin and had the Golden Core Puppet stand guard while he entered the Small Woods in the Nightmare Realm.

With the Bronze Coffin's defensive strength, almost no one in this realm could break it open. It was a safe arrangement.

His figure flickered, and Chen Lin appeared among the trees.

The Nightmare Realm's scenery never changed. Several hundred years had passed since he first discovered this Scenario, yet everything in the Small Woods looked exactly as it had