However, among the bidders were quite a few who shared its thoughts.
At that moment, an icy, bone-piercing Emperor's Pressure suddenly swept across the entire venue from the southwest corner.
That aura carried an intense stench of blood and brutality, as if it had just emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Every cultivator in the auction house shuddered, finding even breathing difficult.
"This item belongs to me." A hoarse voice rang out, carrying ruthless, unquestionable authority. "Whoever dares compete with me will have their entire clan exterminated—man and beast alike!"
Everyone looked toward the voice and saw Xiu Wudao in the southwest corner no longer concealing his aura as he slowly rose to his feet.
He was tall and powerfully built, dressed in fitted black clothes stained with dark red blotches. His bare arms were covered in savage scars, each one seeming as though it had been seared by flames.
Most striking was his left eye: an Evil Eye glowing with an eerie green light. Vengeful spirits seemed to drift within its pupil, and anyone it looked upon felt terror rising from the depths of their soul.
This was Xiu Wudao, ranked beyond a thousandth place on Starfall City's wanted list.
Rumor had it that, in order to cultivate a certain forbidden Emperor Art, he had once slaughtered three Ascension Cities under Starfall City's jurisdiction. His methods were so vicious that even Emperor Realm evil cultivators of the same realm feared him.
At this moment, he unleashed the pressure of the early Emperor Realm. Like invisible shackles, it enveloped the entire auction hall and instantly extinguished the desire to bid from those cultivators who had still been considering it.
No one was willing to provoke such a fiend over an Imperial Evil Artifact.
The auction