"Second Miss, who is this?" The Liu family steward couldn't help but ask when he saw the aloof tomb maiden.
"Oh, this is one of my distant cousins!"
Liu Zhaodi gave a brief introduction and then left without saying anything, leading the tomb maiden towards the auction house.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuan quickly followed. Today's auction was being held on his behalf, and if anything unexpected happened, he would have to step in.
When the crew-cut youth and his companions entered the auction hall, the entire place was already in an uproar. Everyone was shouting for a refund, and some people had already started trying to take advantage of the chaos and snatch items from the auction stage.
"Stop it, all of you!"
With a sharp shout, Liu Zhaodi, who already possessed the Heart of Fusion and mutated soul energy, had extremely strong mental power. The effect of this shout was no less than that of a mental attack.
"Since the disaster, my Liu family has held no less than a hundred auctions, large and small. Our reputation in Nancheng is well-known. Today, anyone who dares to slander my Liu family is going against us!" Liu Zhaodi slammed her hand on the auction stage, her sharp eyes sweeping across every corner of the stage, showing no fear of the fact that the people who came were all the elites and powerful figures of various families.
"Isn't this Liu's niece? Where's your father? Why don't you let him come out and take charge, and give the victims justice!" Ji Kaiping sneered from the back.
"Yes, what's a little girl like you doing getting involved? Go call your parents!"
The audience burst into laughter, clearly indicating that some people had already figured out the Liu family's true nature; the Liu family was now just an empty shell, lacking any ability to inspire awe.
"Yeah?"
Liu Zhaodi tapped the table rhythmically and said unhurriedly, "Whoever was deceived can come up on stage and confront me!"
The few people who initially caused trouble exchanged glances, and then, encouraged by others, stepped onto the auction stage one by one.
"Just say it! With so many families and powerful figures sitting here, the Liu family wouldn't dare to renege on their debt!" The people behind started to jeer.
Liu Zhaodi still intended to give them a chance, and said in a low voice, "You'd better tell the truth, otherwise the Liu family will not forgive you, and neither will the powerful families sitting behind you!"
"I'm here to auction off what your Liu family is..."
Huang Mao suddenly stopped, his eyes began to glaze over, and it wasn't just him; everyone who had come up with him seemed to be in a daze.
"I need you to tell the truth. If you tell even one lie, do you know what will happen to you!" Liu Zhaodi's ethereal voice echoed in the hall. To outsiders, it was just an ethereal voice, but to Huang Mao and his gang, it was a death knell.
Liu Zhaodi used her mental domain, within which she could control everything. However, she didn't control Huang Mao and his gang; instead, she chose to let them tell the truth themselves.
"Your Liu family auctioned off a Breakthrough Pill. I was bewitched and accepted benefits from the Ji family to slander the Liu family. This is 10,000 ninth-grade Holy Spirit Stones given to me by the Ji family, all of them are here!" The blond-haired man finished speaking slowly and deliberately, and even put a large bag of Holy Spirit Stones on the ground.
It wasn't just the blond guy; the others started to follow suit, either bribed by the Ji family or instigated by the Shen family. In any case, they all came with a purpose.
"Uncles and elders, thank you for your kindness to Zhao Di. You even spent money to find someone to temper my will to revitalize the Liu family. I thank you all in advance!" Liu Zhao Di nodded neither humbly nor arrogantly, but anyone could see the contempt in her eyes.
"Spreading rumors and misleading the public! My Ji family has never given them any benefits, so how could there be any talk of bribery! It must be you, you witch, who used some kind of sorcery!" Ji Kaiping stood up and angrily pointed at Liu Zhaodi.
"How dare you disrespect the lady!"
Suddenly, the Tomb Woman launched an attack, casting a Soul Binding spell directly at Ji Kaiping. Ji Kaiping, with only a little over three thousand energy points to break through to the first stage of the Void Spirit Realm, was nowhere near as strong as the Tomb Woman's nine thousand five hundred soul energy points. Instantly, the powerful suppressive force made Ji Kaiping's body tremble and he was about to kneel down.
"Witch, how dare you attack others!"
Shen Chengye was clearly in cahoots with Ji Kaiping, and the Shen family members also made their move at the beginning.
"Netherworld Barrier! Soul Binding Seal!"
Although the Tomb Maiden's Soul Binding Technique could only suppress three people, her ghostly and divine power, and the Netherworld Barrier, were already sufficient.
"Don't!"
Liu Zhaodi panicked when the Tomb Woman made her move. It was an auction, and she wanted an explanation, but the Tomb Woman's indiscriminate attack was sure to ruin the entire auction.
However, it was too late; the Tomb Maiden had already made her move.
"Ouch!" Jiang Yuan, hiding in the shadows, slapped his forehead. Sometimes being naive is a sin. In the eyes of the Tomb Maiden, protecting Liu Zhaodi was her primary responsibility, so she could not allow anyone to harm Liu Zhaodi.
"How dare you attack my Crimson Blood Army!"
"Your Liu family is quite arrogant, aren't you? You don't take my camp seriously?"
With people constantly launching attacks, Liu Zhaodi had no choice but to ask the tomb maiden to stop. "Sister, please stop your supernatural powers. It'll be alright!"
"Madam, but they want to hurt you!" The tomb maiden was persistent; although she was very respectful to Liu Zhaodi, she still did not stop.
However, the actions of Liu Zhaodi and the tomb maiden made the audience speculate. One called her "sister," while the other called her "madam," making the difference in their social status obvious.
"It's alright, they are guests!"
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