Chapter 389 I Established a Sect in the Cultivation World (18)

Soon, a maid brought over the jade slip.

Zhou Jue paid with spirit stones, held the jade slip in his hand, and probed it with his divine sense. Sure enough, he sensed an extremely subtle restriction.

She tossed the jade slip directly into the Starry Sky Box, then focused a sliver of her attention on having the system begin deciphering it.

Almost instantly, the restriction melted away like thin ice, and a profound and vast incantation, like a river bursting its banks, surged into her sea of ​​consciousness.

At the same time, after the cultivation technique was extracted, the jade slip itself flashed and transformed into an ancient bronze token, lying quietly in the corner of the secret box.

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained the qualification to enter the secret realm 'Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Palace'.]

The system notification sounded again.

Zhou Jue's heart stirred slightly, but his face remained expressionless.

The auction continued.

As time went on, one by one, the real treasures began to appear, and the atmosphere in the room gradually reached its climax.

Finally, we arrived at the grand finale.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Next up is the final item of this auction, the one that everyone has been eagerly anticipating!"

The host used all his strength to shout at the top of his lungs, bringing the atmosphere to its peak.

"The Dao Artifact - the Dragon Spear of Breaking Army!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dazzling golden light shot into the sky, and a long spear, entirely made of crimson gold with a ferocious dragon shadow coiled around its shaft, floated in mid-air.

An invincible and sharp aura swept across the entire arena in an instant!

"Twenty million low-grade spirit stones!"

Thirty million!

"I'll offer fifty million!"

Prices began to skyrocket at an alarming rate.

Those who made the bids were all Nascent Soul stage monsters or even Nascent Soul stage experts in those private rooms.

Zhou Jue also called out a few prices, but they were quickly drowned out by even more terrifying bids.

Ultimately, this magical artifact was auctioned off for a staggering 130 million low-grade spirit stones to someone in a mysterious private room on the second floor.

As the event concluded, the crowds flowed slowly out of the venue like water.

Zhou Jue and Jing Bai blended into the crowd and were not conspicuous.

"Sister, that gun is so cool! It's a pity someone else bought it." Jingbai was still a little regretful.

“If you want it, I’ll forge an even better one for you later,” Zhou Jue replied.

Jing Bai's eyes lit up: "Really?"

"real."

"It's a deal then!"

The two followed the flow of people and walked out of the central square.

Just then, a commotion arose from behind the crowd, growing louder and louder, mixed with exclamations and curses.

"Make way! Make way!"

"The Heavenly Palace of Myriad Phenomena is about to open! Hurry and grab the tokens!"

"What token?"

"Is that the legendary ancient secret realm that opens only once every thousand years?"

"Is it true? Is the news reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable! It's news that the Pavilion Master of Tianbao Pavilion personally released! It's said that only those holding a special bronze token can enter."

"Moreover, only cultivators at the Golden Core stage or above are allowed to enter, and there are only two hundred tokens in total!"

Where do you rob it?

"Hey! Stop dawdling! Can't you see everyone's heading east?"

Those who were still walking out instantly erupted in chaos, one after another flying eastward with the crowd.

"Sister! They're talking about tokens, aren't we going to rob them?" Jing Bai tugged at Zhou Jue's sleeve, her golden eyes wide open.

Zhou Jue didn't answer, but simply pulled her along, mingling with the frenzied crowd, moving against the flow.

While everyone else was running east, she leisurely headed in the opposite direction, towards the west of the city.

"Sister, aren't we going to watch the excitement?" Jingbai asked, somewhat puzzled.

“The east side is fake,” Zhou Jue said calmly.

"Huh?" Jing Bai looked completely confused.

"The Pavilion Master of Tianbao Pavilion spread the word, and the crowd surged eastward." Zhou Jue's steps did not falter: "If the token is really in the east, wouldn't his spreading the word just encourage everyone to rush to grab it?"

Jingbai tilted her head and thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out. However, she chose to believe Zhou Jue unconditionally.

"oh."

"Listen to me, just follow me."

The two quickly escaped the chaotic crowd and walked on the relatively quiet streets of the West City.

Unlike the madness of the East City, this place was peaceful. Zhou Jue, with Jing Bai in tow, went directly to the tallest restaurant in the West City.

She took out a few high-grade spirit stones and asked for the best private room on the top floor. Standing by the window, she could see the entire eastern side of Cloud City.

In the distance, above the East City Square, a sea of ​​people thronged, a dark mass of them, with countless cultivators standing in the air like a swarm of startled locusts.

The brilliance of various magical treasures rose and fell, and the clamor could be faintly heard even across half the city.

Time passed little by little.

The unrest in the east not only failed to subside, but intensified.

Some people have even started fighting over advantageous positions, with the booming sounds of spells echoing from time to time.

Jingbai got a little bored and started fiddling with the spiritual fruits on the table.

"Sister, how long do you think they'll have to wait?"

"It'll be soon." Zhou Jue looked at the sky.

The moment she finished speaking, something unexpected happened!

boom--!

A loud bang came not from the riotous east side of the city, but from the completely opposite west side!

A dazzling blue light shot into the sky from outside the west gate, exploding in mid-air and forming a huge light curtain.

On the light screen, a line of ancient seal script slowly emerged:

[The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Palace is open to those who attain the Golden Elixir; the one holding the token shall enter.]

This caused an uproar throughout the entire Cloud City.

The hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the East City Square were all dumbfounded.

"West! It's in the west!"

"Damn it! I've been scammed!"

"Hurry up and go!"

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of streaks of light, like a swarm of bees returning to their nest, turned around and surged wildly toward the west gate. The entire sky above Cloud City was covered by magical artifacts and sword light.

Jingbai's mouth dropped open: "Sister, how did you know?"

Zhou Jue smiled but offered no explanation.

She put down her teacup, took Jingbai's hand, and said, "Come on, let's go join in the fun."

The two flew out of the restaurant, but instead of heading straight for the city gate, they circled around and blended into the chaotic crowd.

At this moment, the area outside the West Gate was in complete chaos.

A towering ancient stone stele, hundreds of feet tall, rose from the ground at some unknown time, its surface covered with mysterious runes.

At the top of the ancient stele, a huge cyan sphere of light was slowly rotating, within which bronze tokens could be vaguely seen floating.

"The token! The token is inside!"

"Charge!"

A Nascent Soul cultivator, relying on his superior cultivation, was the first to rush towards the stone tablet, attempting to directly seize the light orb.

However, as soon as he approached within a hundred feet of the stone tablet, a flash of blue light appeared on the tablet, and an invisible force instantly blasted him away.

The Nascent Soul cultivator tumbled through the air more than a dozen times before regaining his balance. His face was pale and a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of his mouth.

This calmed everyone down a bit.

Just as everyone was filled with doubt and uncertainty, the seal script on the stone tablet changed again.

[A hundred orders are issued simultaneously, each relying on its own opportunity.]

As soon as he finished speaking, the huge cyan sphere of light exploded with a loud "bang"!

One hundred bronze tokens, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, transformed into one hundred streams of light, shooting out in all directions!

"Rob it!"