The auction lots were all of considerable quality: high-level Mysterious Rank cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, sixth-tier magic cores, Sixth-Grade Pills...
The problem was that they all had something to do with poison.
Zi Yan leaned against the window and watched for quite a while, her brows drawing tighter and tighter.
She had initially coveted those pills and herbs. After all, they were fine things brimming with energy.
But whenever she looked closely, they were either black as ink, glowing an eerie green, or giving off a faint, sickly-sweet smell she could detect even through the crystal window.
Poisonous.
Every last one of them.
The little girl pursed her lips and withdrew sulkily, refusing to look anymore.
Qin Han did make one purchase.
It was a sixth-rank beast flame, spectral green throughout. As the flames danced, the faint silhouette of a venomous snake could be seen slithering within them.
The auctioneer explained that it was the innate beast flame extracted from a sixth-rank magical beast, a Netherworld Poison Python.
The opening bid was three million.
Qin Han immediately bid six million and secured it.
After another seven or eight lots, they finally reached the grand finale.
Elder Sun clapped his hands on the auction stage, and a maid stepped up carrying a palm-sized jade bottle.
The bottle was snow-white, with a dark purple mass faintly visible flowing slowly inside.
Elder Sun took the jade bottle. Rather than opening it immediately, he first looked around and said with a genial smile, "Everyone, our next lot could well be called the crowning treasure of today's auction."
He slowly removed the stopper.
In an instant, thick purple mist rose from the bottle and rapidly spread outward.
The mist carried an uncanny sweet fragrance. A single breath of it was enough to make one's