"Please!" Ying Bo raised a hand, inviting Xiao Hua onward. Xiao Hua smiled. "No need to stand on ceremony with this Xiao. You lead the way!"
Ying Bo smiled faintly and led Xiao Hua into the auction grounds, arriving in a rather large hall. The hall resembled those commonly seen among the human race, except that its interior was filled with large stone boulders.
Ying Bo said to a demon race member beside the hall, "Go invite the nine elders. Tell them True Person Xiao has arrived!"
"True Person?" The demon race member was startled, and the way he looked at Xiao Hua immediately changed. Then he hurried away.
"Nine elders?" Xiao Hua stepped into the hall and smiled. "Are they elders of your clan?"
Ying Bo nodded. "Precisely!"
Then Ying Bo took a jade chair from his Qiankun Ring and placed it beside the boulders at the head of the hall. Raising a hand, he said, "True Person, please sit."
Xiao Hua knew this was where honored human guests sat, so he did not stand on ceremony and took his seat. Then he saw Ying Bo openly sit in the seat of honor beside him. Xiao Hua suddenly understood and cupped his hands. "Ah, congratulations, Fellow Immortal. You are now the head of a clan?"
"True Person, you flatter me!" Ying Bo's face broke into a smile. "My clan is but a small clan in the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons. Being clan chief is nothing remarkable! Besides, my rise to this position is related to True Person Xiao as well!"
"Could it be..." Xiao Hua was already beginning to understand.
Ying Bo explained, "True Person Xiao has guessed correctly. It was precisely because I conducted several transactions with True Person and Black Wind Ridge, gaining quite a