Su Mingyue strongly suspected these people were putting on an act at her expense, but she had no proof.
They knew perfectly well how hard it would be for a black hen like her to fly up onto a branch and become a phoenix, yet they kept tearing open her wounds.
It was not that Su Mingyue belittled herself. The halos surrounding Chen Mu were simply too dazzling. Beside them, her own halos looked dim and lightless.
Even someone who had originally been a phoenix would have to be demoted to a black hen before him.
Fortunately, not even one person in a trillion was like him!
Otherwise, Su Mingyue could hardly imagine how much psychological pressure the world would have to bear.
How many self-proclaimed geniuses would be crushed into abandoning the path of cultivation, shouting things like, "Cultivate, my ass! There's no future in it. I might as well go home and farm!"
When ordinary people faced geniuses, most were battered until not a patch of skin remained intact.
The same principle applied to those geniuses, too.
"Oh, right! I heard you went to Heavenly Treasure Auction City and monopolized the entire auction. Did you pick up any treasures?" someone asked just then.
"Far too many!" At those words, Su Baoqing immediately stepped forward.
He had been waiting for that question all along.
He displayed all sorts of High-Grade Pills rarely seen on the market, along with various Peerless Manuals, Divine Weapons, and Divine Artifacts. Even veterans like Su Changyu, who considered themselves well acquainted with great storms and mighty figures, could not keep their hearts calm.
At last, they understood why the Su Family's auction house had been so deserted this year, with so few visitors.
Any single one of these items would have been fully qualified