The auctioneer from before and Gelong now had completely different styles.
Gelong was very casual onstage. When the mood struck him, he even exchanged a few jokes with the creatures in the front rows.
Perhaps the chief auctioneer possessed absolute privilege. Rather than beginning the next round of bidding, he put on a convincing display as he explained the wonderful prospects after the continent was divided.
The newest path of cultivation, the survival landscape within the Void Expanse after the continent's disintegration, new forms of trade partners, and a unique territory belonging solely to oneself.
Abandon one's current shell, merge the soul into the continent, and become part of the continent itself.
Everything sounded so wonderful that even Li Ziran felt that if he did not secure a continent fragment, he would have no way to survive in the future.
Setting ability aside, this eloquence alone was beyond what ordinary creatures could possess. Just as Li Ziran thought Gelong was merely painting a grand pie, the entire auction house suddenly went pitch-black.
The abrupt change triggered a string of screams, even violent waves of magical power. Yet a point of light soon appeared overhead—a highly concentrated spotlight. The beam moved inch by inch from the center of the seats to the stage, forming a circle half a person tall. As the circle settled upon the screen behind it—
The structural map of the Red Soil Continent had completely vanished. In its place stood a specially designed heptagram structure.
It was not a magic array, but a Void structure like Goni's. Two black spheres sat at its edges, linked by a thin rod in the middle. Lacking any skeletal framework, the peculiar heptagram structure drifted across the screen like a squid.
Li Ziran saw it clearly. This was the most primitive