"Damn it, Zhang Daoran, since when did you have such fire in your blood? How come I've 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, Brother Daoran," Xiao Hua said lightly, his heart stirring.
"This second matter concerns the irregularities at the Yaotai Gathering!" Zhang Daoran explained at length. "I wonder whether you two brothers noticed that this Yaotai Gathering is utterly different from those of the past? To be honest, this old man has attended several Yaotai Gatherings. In the past, for Daoist sect cultivators like us at the middle and late Nascent Soul stages, the Yaotai Gathering was less a trial than a different sort of auction! Only, at ordinary auctions, one competed with yuanstones, while at this auction, one competed with strength! So long as one had strength, one could obtain rare treasures and spirit herbs from the Star Lord Palace, which hosted the auction, without necessarily paying the price of 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 excitement."
"Indeed!" Xunkong Shangren nodded in agreement after hearing Zhang Daoran's words. "Speaking of the Yaotai Gathering, who doesn't know it is bait cast by the Star Lord Palace? Every ten years, they bring out some good things for disciples of our Daoist sects to fight over, to slaughter one another over? But when fighting over rare treasures, how could there be no bloodshed? Killing takes place outside Yaotai Mountain, and killing takes place within Yaotai Mountain as well. Rather than fight and kill over rare treasures of unknown authenticity