"Damn it, Zhang Daoran, since when did you become so bloody-minded? Why had I never seen you act on impulse before?" Xunkong Shangren grinned as well.
"Actually..." Zhang Daoran continued, "this concerns the second matter this old man wished to discuss with you two brothers..."
"Please speak, Brother Daoran!" Xiao Hua said lightly, his heart stirring.
"This second matter concerns the abnormalities of the Yaotai Gathering!" Zhang Daoran explained at length. "Did you two brothers notice that this Yaotai Gathering was utterly different from the previous ones? To be honest, this old man had attended several Yaotai Gatherings before. In the past, for Daoist sect cultivators like us in the middle and late Nascent Soul stages, it was less a trial than a different kind of auction! Only, at ordinary auctions, one competed with Yuan stones, while at this auction, one competed with strength! So long as one had the strength, one could obtain rare treasures and spirit herbs from the Star Lord Palace, which hosted the auction, without necessarily paying with one's life. That sort of danger was only for Golden Core cultivators and early Nascent Soul cultivators. Otherwise, so many Nascent Soul fellow cultivators would not have come here to join the fun this time."
"Exactly!" Xunkong Shangren nodded in agreement after hearing Zhang Daoran's words. "Speaking of the Yaotai Gathering, who did not know it was bait cast by the Star Lord Palace? Every ten years, they brought out some good items and let disciples of our Daoist sects come fight over them, come slaughter one another? But when fighting over rare treasures, how could there be no killing? Killing outside Yaotai Mountain was killing, and killing inside Yaotai Mountain was also killing. Rather than slaughtering each other over rare treasures of uncertain truth outside Yaotai Mountain,