Outside the city gates, figures thronged and shifted.
Two rows of guards stood with heads held high, clad in Purple-Patterned Red-Gold Armor and holding Dragon-Slaying Army Breaker Spears, every piece emanating dense fluctuations of immortal artifacts.
In Linlang Heavenly Capital, even the guards at the gates seemed wealthier than the geniuses of ordinary sects.
"Anyone entering the city must pay five Immortal Yuan Stones."
The guard commander's voice was like muffled thunder, rumbling endlessly through the void.
As his words fell, the noisy city gate abruptly went quiet.
Most cultivators looked as usual, clearly already aware of the inside story; only a few loose cultivators who had traveled from afar instantly turned ugly in expression.
Five Immortal Yuan Stones.
That was already enough to buy a set of Tribulation Transcendence magic tools, yet in this place, it was merely a certificate for entering the city.
But this was not unexpected either.
In the Southern Domain of the Eastern Divine Continent alone, the population was counted in the hundreds of trillions. If there were no threshold at all to enter the city, then no matter how vast Linlang Heavenly Capital was, it would sooner or later be crushed under the tide of people.
Seeing the situation in the venue, the guard commander snorted coldly. "Don't complain it's expensive. Once you enter the auction hall later, the capital-verification threshold will only be higher. If you're only here to watch the excitement, turn back early, lest you waste your money."
Hearing this, the few loose cultivators exchanged glances. In the end, they could not bear to pay, and left with their tails between their legs.
"No wonder it's called a gold-selling den. It truly is rich and overbearing."
Shen Yun watched this scene and nodded slightly.
This kind of naked class division was