"The time has come. The auction begins."
At last, atop the auction platform, the cloud figures who had vanished earlier appeared once more, including Fate Heart.
Fate Heart gave everyone a faint smile, then accepted a tray wrapped in red cloth from one of the cloud figures beside her.
Looking at the crowd, Fate Heart slowly removed the white cloth covering the tray. The next instant, a fruit that looked remarkably like a human appeared upon it.
The fruit stood about half a meter tall, sitting cross-legged like an infant. It simply sat there in tranquil silence, untouched by the strife of the world.
"This item is a Ginseng Fruit."
The moment Fate Heart finished speaking, countless living beings present erupted into an uproar.
One after another, they stared at the Ginseng Fruit in Fate Heart's hands with shock written across their faces.
"This is a Ginseng Fruit? The legendary Ginseng Fruit?"
"Heavens, this auction is going all out. They even brought out something like this?"
"This is truly something one can only encounter by chance, never seek. It appears once in tens of millions of years. Madness—everyone has gone mad."
"It seems someone is getting anxious."
A living being sneered coldly, his eyes involuntarily turning toward Ye Lin in the distance.
"Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by that?"
A cultivator beside him asked with a puzzled expression.
"Heh, a Ginseng Fruit is no ordinary fruit. It is refined from living beings."
"As for the materials, naturally, they are Human Race infants. Since ancient times, powerful cultivators have discovered that nearly every Human Race infant possesses a strand of innate qi."
"This innate qi is extraordinarily mysterious, as though it does not exist within this Star River Cosmos at all."
"And this innate qi lasts only for the blink