As the sun sank beyond the horizon, a bright full moon appeared in the sky, spilling down clear, radiant moonlight.
The Yan Clan auction finally began.
All notable human martial artists and powerful Mystic Beasts took out tokens representing their identities and filed into a massive ancient castle of bluish-gray stone.
Of course, many people were stopped outside the auction house because their status was insufficient and they were not qualified to enter.
After Ning Xiaochuan and Situ Jing presented their tokens, they entered the castle. Led by a maid, they arrived at the main hall on the first floor and took seats rather far toward the back.
Ning Xiaochuan raised his head and looked ahead.
At the center of the first-floor hall stood a ten-meter-high circular platform built from blue crystals.
Beneath the platform stood twelve warriors clad in Black Gold Battle Armor, each holding a broadsword as wide as a palm. Every part of their bodies was covered by armor; even their eyes and teeth were shielded by crystal plates.
A High-Grade Profound Stone was embedded in the chest of each warrior, supplying source energy to their armor and amplifying their combat strength to the seventh level of the Earth Venerable Realm.
"The armor those twelve warriors are wearing must be the 'Black Gold Armor' forged by the Yan Clan's great Artifact Refinement Masters."
"As long as one wore a set of that armor, even a Worldly Detachment Realm martial artist could unleash the combat strength of the seventh level of the Earth Venerable Realm. However, Black Gold Armor is extremely expensive. Every set is worth at least a hundred thousand Profound Stones."
"Moreover, Black Gold Armor requires High-Grade Profound Stones to sustain it, consuming an enormous amount of Profound Stones. Only death warriors raised by great clans