Yuan Yong was furious, because his blood python branch had been stolen!
Indeed, Yuan Yong was the black-clad young man who had bid on the blood python branch at the auction-the son of Yuan Yi, leader of the Eight Gates.
He had already considered the blood python branch his. After all, most people in Black Seal City would show the Eight Gates some respect. He had never expected to encounter someone so heedless of his own life.
As for why the young master of the Eight Gates needed the blood python branch, he intended to use it as an ingredient, commission someone to refine an Emperor's Extreme Pill, and present it to his father.
Many people would have found this puzzling. Why would the mighty leader of the Eight Gates, the head of the organization behind the Black Seal Auction, need an Emperor's Extreme Pill?
It was not as though the Black Seal Auction had never auctioned off an Emperor's Extreme Pill. By all rights, obtaining one should have been as easy as reaching out his hand for Yuan Yi, shouldn't it?
In reality, that was not the case. Although the Eight Gates was powerful and hosted the Black Seal Auction, a high-grade sixth-tier pill like the Emperor's Extreme Pill was scarce and in tremendous demand.
Whenever one appeared, numerous Dou Huang experts would fight over it. With only a handful available, they naturally ended up in the hands of those high-rank Dou Emperors who occupied the top five places on the Black List.
Those were not people the Eight Gates could afford to provoke.
Moreover, most Emperor's Extreme Pills came from Medicine Emperor Han Feng. The Eight Gates dared not entertain any crooked schemes, either. If they offended Han Feng, their Black Seal Auction might have to close its