Second Fleshly Body

Demon Dragon Domain, Stone City.

On the second day of the Trading Fair, Li Yuan was still wandering through the cavern.

The goods on the stone platforms had changed: several pieces of dragon-aspected spirit ore, two bottles of Dragon Clan Medicinal Pills, and a damaged Dharma Artifact engraved with Dragon Script.

Li Yuan examined them one by one but found nothing with an affix he could equip.

Back in his stone chamber, he sat cross-legged and circulated the Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula alongside the Nether Abyss Demonic Condensation Art. Spiritual power pulsed within his Spirit Transformation Core. Spiritual energy and demonic energy surged into his body together, while a resonance wave from the Enlightenment Tree fell from his Portable Small Realm to the edge of his sea of consciousness.

After two full circulations, the spiritual power and demonic energy returned to their respective cores.

Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula: Proficiency.

Nether Abyss Demonic Condensation Art: Proficiency.

Li Yuan ended his cultivation and looked inward. The dark gold and violet glow on the surface of his Spirit Transformation Core had deepened, and its density had risen another notch.

On the third day.

The Auction was held in an isolated cavern at the lowest level of Stone City. The walls of the cavern, a hundred zhang across, had been polished smooth. Seats descended in tiers toward an auction platform at the center, its surface covered in restrictive Spirit Patterns.

By the time Li Yuan entered, the cavern was already more than half full.

The Demon Race cultivators took all manner of forms. Some were human, some half-beast, while others remained in their beast forms, curled up on their seats. There were plenty with Spirit Transformation auras and even more at the Nascent Soul level.

Li Yuan chose a seat near the