Not far away,
a graceful figure stood quietly, gazing ahead as if waiting for someone.
That figure was Jiang Xuanran, and the person she was waiting for was Lu Yuan!
As soon as Lu Yuan appeared, delight shone in Jiang Xuanran's beautiful eyes. She hurried over with a few quick steps.
"Junior Lu Yuan."
Jiang Xuanran greeted him with a smile.
"Mm."
Lu Yuan nodded.
Not long after he and Jiang Xuanran had parted ways, the volcano had erupted!
At the time, he had wondered whether something might have happened to her.
But after the eruption, he had been too busy looking after himself to worry much about anything else.
At least she was an acquaintance. Seeing that she was safe put his mind at ease.
Then Lu Yuan prepared to leave and return to the Great Xia Kingdom.
After saying, "Senior Jiang Xuanran, I'm heading back," he started walking.
But Jiang Xuanran's next words made him abandon the idea of leaving and stop in his tracks.
He heard her say, "There's going to be an auction over there soon. Want to take a look?"
"An auction..."
Lu Yuan suddenly remembered that this enormous building had a trading center.
Resources could be exchanged there for items of equal value.
In return, one could receive resources of equivalent value or the ruin coins issued jointly by the twelve ruins.
Naturally, the currency used at the auction wouldn't be Blue Star coins, but ruin coins.
So Lu Yuan and Jiang Xuanran headed toward the trading center together.
Trading Center.
"Here are your 121 ruin coins. Please take them."
Ahead of Lu Yuan, a bald, burly man smiled as he took a bag of ruin coins from the attendant.
Once the bald man had left, it was Lu Yuan's turn.
So Lu