Meanwhile, Feng Qingyang was not the only one interested in the Dragon Core.
Deep within the Starlight Auction Hall, the atmosphere in another waiting room was entirely different from the calm of Feng Qingyang's Black-Class Waiting Room.
The decor and layout of this waiting room were exquisitely elegant to the extreme, with an extraordinary air of nobility everywhere.
The space was nearly twice as large as the Black-Class Waiting Room, with a lofty ceiling draped in layers of pale gold curtains. The walls were set with warm jade and soul tool lamps, casting soft yet bright light.
The floor was covered in thick handwoven carpets, soft beneath the feet and warm in color, perfectly complementing the solemn, grand redwood furniture.
A faint cool fragrance lingered in the air, subtle and enduring, a full level above the incense used in the Black-Class Waiting Room.
The Red-Class Waiting Room.
The Starlight Auction Hall's highest-grade VIP room, the pinnacle among the five ranks: white, yellow, purple, black, and red.
Guests who could enter this room needed not only immense wealth, but also the strength and status worthy of the Starlight Auction Hall personally receiving them with the highest courtesy.
At this moment, seated in this Red-Class Waiting Room was the delegation from Sun Moon Imperial Academy.
Inside the room, the Sun Moon Imperial Academy students stared at the soul tool crystal screen, their faces overflowing with shock.
No, to be precise, they should have been looking at the Dragon Core display case Xu Jiujiu held high in her hands.
Within the transparent display case, the Dragon Core, black from end to end and wreathed in strands of dark aura, appeared ever more mysterious and profound against Xu Jiujiu's golden-red figure.
That dark aura flowed soundlessly, as though it could devour all light and