Cold Abyss Water-Congealing Marrow! Thanks to [One Flower, One Grass, One Tree] for the character summon!

The guard took the spirit stones and impatiently waved his hand. "Go in. No causing trouble on the ship, or suffer the consequences yourself!"

Xu Changqing said nothing more and stepped into the cabin at once.

Unlike the deck, the interior was far more orderly.

At the center stood an auction platform roughly a zhang high, while cultivators packed the surrounding area shoulder to shoulder. There were especially many participants.

They were either Rogue Cultivators clad in black robes with mixed, impure auras, or unfamiliar cultivators deliberately concealing their own presence.

None spoke to one another, yet every pair of eyes burned as they stared at the auction platform.

Several dozen black jade boxes sat upon the stage, each faintly emitting a different spiritual fluctuation.

At that moment, the auctioneer, dressed in black and wearing a ghost mask, slowly stepped onto the platform. He raised a hand and opened the first jade box. A streak of blue spiritual light flew forth, transforming into a small, exquisite jade sword that floated in midair.

Fine wind patterns were carved across the blade, and a faint, low chant could be heard from it.

The auctioneer announced loudly, "The first auction item: the Wind-Whistling Jade-Shattering Sword.

"A high-grade Dharma artifact containing a trace of Wind-Element Law.

"It can slice through hair as if blowing it away, and can also summon wind to wound enemies. Starting price: forty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones!"

"Isn't that the personal magic treasure of Li Qing, a Clearwind Sect disciple?"

"Yeah! He was still carrying that sword while training in the Fallen Immortal Abyss last month. How did it end up here?"

"You don't understand, do you?

"This Ten Thousand Ghosts Auction Ship may look like it belongs to the Wan Family, but it actually has nothing to do with