Awakening the God-Devouring Physique

"Tell me, has the master of the Profound Heaven Auction House gone mad? An auction every day! Where is he going to find all those treasures?"

"He's still too young. He's barely arrived in Guangyang City, and he's already making such a big move. If you ask me, he's just a young master sent out to gain experience. He wants to run the auction house well, but at this rate, no matter how many treasures he has, he'll squander them all."

"Heh, I've never seen an auction house auction off its own treasures before..."

"Just wait for the show. In a few days, that Auction Master Gu will have to change the rules back."

"..."

Outside the Profound Heaven Auction House.

A dense crowd streamed out, discussing things in low voices.

Although Gu Fan's final words had truly stunned them senseless, once they recovered, they understood that behind all those rules was nothing more than a young master from a Lineage who wanted to make a name for himself!

Inside the luxurious carriages by the roadside.

Several prominent figures of Guangyang City also instructed their drivers to head home.

However, the looks they cast toward the Profound Heaven Auction House were inscrutable.

An auction every day?

He would not disappoint them?

"I'd like to see... just how many tricks you can pull!"

The masters of the two auction houses sneered.

Inside the auction house.

The milling figures were gone.

Just as Gu Fan was about to return to the secluded chamber to awaken his divine physique, Zhu Huai stopped him.

"Master! You've done something foolish!"

Zhu Huai's face flushed red as he forced out those words.

Previously, he had managed to keep himself from speaking out of turn, but this time, he truly could not hold back.

Reducing the commission to 1% really would leave the auction house unable to cover its expenses. Although this would attract more people to bring their treasures here for auction, they would still be doing business at a loss!

Even with the Profound Heaven Auction House's vast wealth and holdings, it could not withstand this little ancestor's squandering!

Besides, an auction every day? Where would a tiny place like Guangyang City find so many treasures to auction?

When the time came, they would only be offering commonplace wares like the Hundred-Tempered Saber, smashing their own signboard!

No matter how he looked at it, Gu Fan was acting foolishly!

"Steward Zhu, just trust me."

Neither joy nor anger showed on Gu Fan's face.

Although Zhu Huai's words were unpleasant, he was at least concerned about the auction house and took his responsibilities seriously.

He was unlike those who trimmed their sails to the wind and did nothing but flatter. If he really were that sort of person, Gu Fan would have replaced him early on!

After offering Zhu Huai some encouragement, he walked toward the secluded cultivation chamber at the back.

After all the exertion that evening, he would have been unable to hold on long ago without the Fortune Golden Pill, let alone deliver that speech onstage in such a strong, resonant voice.

Now that the auction had ended, he was eagerly preparing to awaken his God-Devouring Physique!

And as he watched him leave.

Behind him, Zhu Huai could not help sighing.

Inside the secluded chamber.

Gu Fan sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion. With a thought, a pill gleaming with golden light appeared in his hand.

The instant the pill appeared.

A rich medicinal fragrance filled the entire chamber, whetting his appetite.

At the same time.

An overwhelming hunger flooded Gu Fan's entire body, making even his eyes turn intensely ravenous.

This was the supreme-grade fifth-tier pill-the Fortune Golden Pill!

A supreme treasure that not even the Gu Lineage in the royal capital had ever possessed!

As for what this pill did, Gu Fan did not know much.

However, since it was a pill obtained through a critical-hit return from the Four Symbols Pill, presumably it was also a supreme treasure pill geared toward cleansing the essence and marrow and strengthening the body's hidden reserves!

Licking his lips, Gu Fan tossed the supreme-grade fifth-tier pill into his mouth.

The pill melted upon entering his mouth, turning into a silky liquid that flowed into his body.

"Hiss..."

Gu Fan could not help drawing in a breath at the comfort.

The liquid was extremely gentle. The moment it entered his body, it separated into fine threads that poured into his limbs and meridians, nourishing his long-decayed meridians and acupoints.

In just a few breaths.

Gu Fan felt his mind clear and his vision sharpen.

It was as though his body, a lamp whose oil had run dry, was being restored piece by piece, leaving him brimming with vitality.

And as his perception gradually recovered.

Gu Fan also discovered that the liquid threads were still charging relentlessly in an unknown direction.

Everywhere they passed, they seemed to pierce through layer after layer of stubborn membranes, seeking to reach the deepest recesses of the human body and unleash its utmost potential!

And during this process.

Gu Fan felt an extremely terrifying devouring force surge from his body!

No!

Every acupoint in his body was unleashing endless devouring force!

This... was his God-Devouring Physique awakening!

Every time the liquid formed from the Fortune Golden Pill pierced through another membrane, Gu Fan felt that devouring force grow stronger!

It was as though... it greedily sought to swallow the entire boundless world into this tiny body!

At the same time.

An intense hunger instantly swept through his body!

Gu Fan felt as though he had not eaten for days, so hungry that he wished he could swallow the chamber around him in one gulp to sate his hunger!

And as the devouring force grew stronger, that thought gradually took root and sprouted in Gu Fan's mind!

"Buzzz!!!"

The chamber walls suddenly gave off a sound.

Gu Fan focused his gaze and saw, to his shock, spiderweb cracks appearing across the thick walls!

Some fragments even flew toward him under the increasingly terrifying devouring force!

Gu Fan's brows knitted tightly.

He truly had not expected the awakening of the God-Devouring Physique to cause such a huge disturbance!

This was only the beginning. By his estimate, once the God-Devouring Physique truly awakened, the growing devouring force would swallow the entire street where the Profound Heaven Auction House stood into his body!

Including... the people!

"This can't go on..."

Gu Fan's face was grave.

Then, with a thought, an egg-sized inner core appeared before him.

The inner core of a low-grade second-tier demonic beast-the Violent Strange Tiger!

The next instant.

As though it had found a target, all the devouring force locked onto the inner core.

Before his very eyes, in a mere instant, layers of cracks appeared across this second-tier demonic beast's hardest inner core, before it shattered completely with a bang!

"Buzzz!"

A faint black light bloomed, and Gu Fan's eyes abruptly widened.

He felt an extremely savage, baleful force being devoured into his body!

However, this deeply unpleasant savage, baleful Qi was instantly dissolved by the devouring force, becoming exceptionally pure spiritual power that then sank into his acupoints.

A low-grade second-tier demonic beast corresponded to a human cultivator in the Spirit Sea Realm.

At this moment, Gu Fan was merely an ordinary person.

Thus, this immense power finally caused the devouring force to settle down a little.

At least... it no longer targeted the chamber around him.

And at that moment.

Gu Fan was surprised to discover that, at some unknown point, an ancient scripture had appeared in his mind.

The scripture was incomparably complex, yet strangely, he could understand it.

"The God-Devouring Scripture..."

Gu Fan murmured.