That afternoon, the Blazing Fire City auction began.
As a major auction held once every three years, the auction hall was packed wall to wall, with not a single empty seat. Everyone present was a Life and Death Realm King; those below the Life and Death Realm did not even qualify to enter.
In a private room in the corner, Ye Chen sat on a soft bench. He had obtained it in exchange for one hundred Origin Stones.
After taking a sip of the auction house's supreme wine, Ye Chen thought to himself, The Vermilion Bird Starfield has countless geniuses, more than a hundred times the number in True Spirit Continent. Beyond the Vermilion Bird Starfield lie the three great starfields—the Azure Dragon Starfield, White Tiger Starfield, and Black Tortoise Starfield. That saber wielder, from what they said, should be Leng Fanfei. He is ranked seventh on the Celestial King Rankings and comes from Great Blade Star in the White Tiger Starfield.
Ye Chen had already heard of the Celestial King Rankings. It truly was a list of monsters. The Swift Goose Young Master of Firebird Star, whose cultivation had reached the Life and Death Realm Fifth Heaven, could only rank ninety-fourth. That alone spoke volumes. Leng Fanfei, meanwhile, ranked seventh despite only being at the Life and Death Realm Fourth Heaven. He was a monster among monsters.
"Without fighting, who can say whose combat strength is greater?"
Ye Chen knew full well that he was not invincible beneath the heavens. Besides, Leng Fanfei's cultivation was a whole Heaven above his own. Among geniuses, even the slightest disadvantage could create a gap too vast to bridge. Unlike ordinary people, Ye Chen saw an exceedingly terrifying potential in Leng Fanfei—a potential like that of a Demon God. Once it erupted, it