‘Just what sort of existence are you?’ as he remembers that his interaction with the system is being more human during some occasion, Wu Xiaotian asks with the hope of his greatest helper in his cultivation path so far to answer.
[… Soon… There is a turning point that you will encounter, something that will change everything.]
Expecting not to receive an answer, Wu Xiaotian’s eyes widened in disbelief as he receives one, a deep and soothing voice resounding in his mind, feeling extremely familiar yet unfamiliar to him, his entire being knows that this is the Universal Shop System despite this being what he thought is the first time he heard this voice.
After this, the voice never replied to the questions in his mind, making him smile helplessly as he redirected his focus towards the auction once again, his thoughts still filled with the thing that the system is pertaining, wondering just what this turning point could possibly be.
“Is there a problem baby?” feeling him turning stiff previously, it is only now that Su Meiyao asks him as she thought he’s thinking about something important previously, hence she decided not to interrupt him until now.
“No problem here mom, I’m just looking forward to the results of the things me and Xian’er is selling” he assured as he moves his face to kiss the top of his mother’s head, the gorgeous mature woman clearly knowing that he’s not saying something, but just lets him be as she thought that there’s really nothing that she could do if her son refuses to tell her something, and she just had to wait as she knew that he will tell her whatever is in his mind eventually.
After just losing himself in his thoughts for a bit, the first item is now snatched by the ‘couple’ from the Tempest Saber Sect, for a grand price of forty-six million spirit stones, the young master of the Iron Blood Sword Sect seemingly extremely happy despite not getting the artifact.
“He’s really just as I expected” Wu Xiaotian muttered while observing the burly young man smiling all alone in one of the private rooms, the very same guy all the audience thought is just some temperamental young master, a guy that Wu Xiaotian thought is quite similar to Wang Sheng with his cunning.
“He wants to reduce the competition” hearing his words, Hua Xian’er asked, having some knowledge about the geniuses of various top tier forces of the continent, and that includes the two that just competes for the artifact armor.
“Indeed, although that is just a small amount for the forces backing them, almost fifty million spirit stones are still more than enough to create a significant hole on this people’s pockets” Wu Xiaotian replies, possessing almost the same level of knowledge Hua Xian’er has despite him only reading in the libraries of the Heavenly Secret Tower for a month.
As the other beauties around him joins on the conversation, the auction proceeds as normal, the lady hosting on the stage gleaming with joy as she never thought that something that the experts of the tower estimates to sell for at most thirty million spirit stones exceeding the prediction by more than fifty percent.
‘Alright!! Let’s continue doing our best!!’ the lady thought to herself as she gains a newfound motivation for tonight, her mesmerizing smile attracting the attention of the audience even more, her current appearance making them feel that something in her smile changes.
Items after items starts getting sold, most of them not even reaching the territory of the first item’s price, but all of them are selling for a relatively good price in comparison to the predictions before the auction starts, multiple known young geniuses grabbing some of the rarer items for themselves, almost no one contradicting once their well-known voices starts resounding across the building.
“Oh my god, there are a lot of geniuses from multiple top tier forces gathered here!!! Just what are the other items in this auction that made all of this forces to gather here???”
“Are you living under a rock? The Golden Spirit Pool is about to open, of course there will be a lot of geniuses gathering within the city…”
“But… isn’t the Golden Spirit Pool still needs a week of preparation before it opens? I remember all those years ago, the top tier forces only arrived here two or three days before the opening”
“Oh? So the two of you are uninformed about the event that takes place in the recent Crescent Moon Secret Realm huh?”
“Crescent Moon Secret Realm? Isn’t the only thing significant that happened there is that the Heavenly Secret Tower picks up a rumored once in a millennia genius?”
“Ahh!!! I remembered, is ‘that’ item going to be sold here today?”
“Indeed, that’s why there are a lot of geniuses that came out of the Crescent Moon Secret Realm gathering in this auction, after all, they’re the ones who managed to observe how that thing works in person”
As the crowd who can’t afford to place any more bids starts talking, the rumors surrounding the up-and-coming genius that is currently under the Heavenly Secret Tower’s protection starts to pop out, causing even more rumors and talks to float.
“Come to think of it, nearly all of the Nascent Source Realm geniuses that managed to enter that secret realm is in attendance today, so where’s the people from the Purple Lightning Temple?”
“You think their people will go here after the humiliation they suffered from the creator of that thing? Are you dumb on purpose?”
“I’m just asking okay!?”
“Brothers, you don’t know about this but a shocking news starts circulating around the cities surrounding the Purple Lightning Temple… apparently, Lei Xing falls bedridden a couple of hours after the secret realm closes, and not only him, but also every disciple of the temple that goes in that secret realm”
“Is that it? Sure, it is shocking but they are together all the time, isn’t it pretty normal for all of them to experience the same thing?”
“That’s just the start, after a few days, the mental states of the weaker once starts degrading exponentially, to the point that they cannot even keep saliva from flowing out of their mouths now, and even the stronger ones are affected, barely remembering everything about them once they got out of their bedridden state”
Given that the seats of the crowd is pretty compressed, the stories this person is telling starts spreading out despite his low voice when he’s telling it, causing the crowd to wonder just what is it that made the disciples of the Purple Lightning Temple like that, some smarter ones managing to link what happened towards that Su Tian, the mysterious genius making his first appearance during the Crescent Moon Secret Realm, completely unaware that the very same genius is in the same building as them, surrounded by the softness of his loved ones, all of them being heavenly beauties enough to compete and defeat goddesses in terms of charms and appearance.
“Just what is it that you did there baby?” given her high cultivation, Su Meiyao clearly hears the rumors going around the crowd, making her look at her son with her eyes filled solely with curiosity and nothing else, the other ladies on either side of him also looking at him with the same eyes.
