The next day.
Black-Seal City.
Xiao Jie and Hai Bodong left the inn with Qing Lin and slowly made their way toward the auction house.
The streets of Black-Seal City were as noisy as ever, and since today was the city's once-every-three-month auction, even more people had arrived.
The crowd was exceptionally dense. Fortunately, Xiao Jie and Hai Bodong were both Dou Emperors. As they moved through the crowd with Qing Lin, they used their Dou Qi with precision, gently pushing the people around them aside with a soft force.
This massive tide of people surged toward the auction house, with arguments and fights breaking out from time to time due to the jostling.
More than a dozen small open spaces formed around the brawls, standing in stark contrast to the tightly packed crowd.
Following the flow of people, they finally arrived at the entrance passage of the Black-Seal Auction.
At the entrance, the crowd split into two streams. One stream was enormous, and the passage they entered resembled a huge, pitch-black maw, dark and sinister. Ten Da Dou Shi guards stood in a row at the entrance, maintaining order.
The passage on the other side had an entirely different style. A red carpet extended all the way out from within, while five young and beautiful maidservants stood on each side of the entrance to welcome guests. Another ten Da Dou Shi maintained order there.
After observing for a moment, Xiao Jie understood that only those with VIP cards could enter through this passage. Those without them could only follow the huge, crowded stream into that dark maw.
Now and then, some people who did not understand the situation tried to force their way into the exclusive VIP passage, but the guards always stopped them. They could only leave behind