At that moment, aboard the spaceship.
Now that he had achieved his main goal, there was nothing else he needed to buy. Xia Ping left the auction hall at once, taking the items he had won and quickly returning to the Moon Goddess.
Whatever happened at the auction after that had nothing to do with him.
Of course, the most important reason Xia Ping had hurried back was to find out what this Mysterious Bead was. If he investigated it at the auction, where there were so many people and so much chatter, something unexpected might happen.
It was safer to return to the Moon Goddess.
"What exactly is this bead?"
Back aboard the Moon Goddess, Xia Ping immediately took out the black bead and placed it on the table for a close examination. No matter how he looked at it, though, he couldn't figure it out.
He let his divine sense seep into the black bead, but no matter how carefully he examined it, it seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary magical treasure, with nothing special about it.
Then Xia Ping thought about it. If his divine sense could see through the treasure so easily, the Cosmic Sea Auction Company, with its many experts, would have figured out the bead's mystery too.
"Hell Golden Crow Eye!"
With that, Xia Ping activated his Hell Golden Crow Eye. A beam of golden light immediately shot out and penetrated the black bead.
Countless lines appeared in the depths of his pupils. They were the formations inside the black bead, so complex and profound that they seemed unfathomable, like countless laws.
But those formations were now broken. Their lines had snapped one by one, likely because the bead had once suffered terrible damage.
"Is this the core of the formation?"
Xia