Chapter 140: Establishing Authority

After Chen Ronghua spoke, the originally lively auction venue suddenly fell dead silent, everyone went mute, and no one dared to bid again.

Many people held a spectator's mindset, their expressions varied, their gazes playful.

"Now let's see what Qiyao Pavilion will do. If it really is just a Qi Refining Seventh Layer piece of trash on the surface, or if they only have Qi Refining cultivators, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold down the scene today."

Seeing the situation turn awkward, Yu Dahai on the auction stage darkened in complexion, looked at Chen Ronghua, gently exhaled a breath of turbid Qi, his expression unkind:

"Dao Friend, I'm afraid that's not too appropriate? Our Qiyao Pavilion is a place for buying and selling, not a place for you to talk connections."

"Oh? Where is it inappropriate?" Chen Ronghua didn't take it to heart, hearing this he smiled contemptuously, a servant beside him proactively fanning him.

This Qiyao Pavilion that suddenly popped up, before coming he had already secretly investigated its background, the result obtained was also merely a small clan's industry, posing not the slightest threat to him.

Although it was very strange how these goods appeared here, there were still some doubts in this matter, but Chen Ronghua was confident, relying on his own cultivation base and background, even if Qiyao Pavilion perhaps truly had some power, they wouldn't dare do anything to him.

Therefore, he dared to be so unscrupulous.

Thus Chen Ronghua said with a light laugh:

"You do your business, I also normally buy my things, what's inappropriate about that? Didn't I also bid? Three thousand spirit stones, not few, others also feel going higher would be unsuitable, what problem is there?"

Hearing this, Yu Dahai's complexion darkened completely, he said slowly: "If you put it like this, can I consider you to be provoking my Qiyao Pavilion?"

"Since it's like this..." Yu Dahai took a deep breath, suddenly turned around, bowed respectfully toward the back of the auction stage, and said:

"Ancestor, someone is disrupting my Qiyao Pavilion's business, please Ancestor make a move to punish!"

His voice was resounding, shaking throughout the venue.

"Hm?"

The crowd in the auction house watched this scene, their gazes flickering, all aroused with interest regarding the Ancestor in Yu Dahai's mouth, silently not speaking.

Just as Yu Dahai finished speaking, the next moment, a cold hum exploded beside everyone's ears, merely a single character, yet deafening, transforming into rolling thunder, surging in the depths of their hearts and minds.

"Hmph!"

"What audacity!"

Behind the auction stage, Yu Changsheng's gaze was icy cold, his Divine Sense releasing without reservation for the first time, sweeping across all directions, covering the entire venue! Simultaneously, he fully activated the Disguise Treasure Pearl, his whole cultivation base infinitely amplified, a vast momentum soaring into the sky!

Divine Sense transforming into a sea, raising heaven-shocking giant waves, raging torrents surging, momentum like the heavens, triggering Void trembling, as if heavenly thunder rolling.

In a moment, it was as if the sky collapsed and the earth split, the ground rolling with heavenly thunder, a terrifying pressure unreservedly acting upon everyone's essence, energy, and spirit, focusing heavily on Chen Ronghua.

"Using status to suppress the price in my Qiyao Pavilion, who gave you the guts?"

A vicissitudinous voice exploded, Divine Thoughts sweeping, momentum and pressure possessing the might of overturning mountains and seas, in an instant a gale rose, the Void undulating, pressing toward Chen Ronghua from all four directions!

"Kneel!"

In merely an instant, Chen Ronghua's legs bent, his complexion a deathly pale, he knelt on the ground.

"Pfft..."

A mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out uncontrollably, blood gushing from his mouth, clothes a patch of bright red, his cultivation base also becoming chaotic and unsightly under this pressure, his whole body as if carrying several great mountains, difficult to bear. "Crack crack crack..."

Bean-cracking muffled sounds rang out inside Chen Ronghua's body, the time of one breath.

Chen Ronghua's entire body's ribs were all fracturing, intense pain nearly causing him to faint, yet Yu Changsheng's Divine Sense continuously stimulated his nerves, making him feel this pain even more clearly.

Killing intent, at this moment, was unscrupulously exposed, anyone could feel the anger hidden in the Divine Thoughts.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Everyone present, even those not deliberately targeted, as long as their cultivation base hadn't reached Foundation Establishment, at this moment couldn't help but tremble physically, complexions pale, gasping heavily. Shock mixed with disbelief, they barely raised their heads to look toward the back of the stage.

"Gold... Golden Core?!"

"How is this possible? To actually alarm a Golden Core Daoneng? The existence behind Qiyao Pavilion is actually a Golden Core True Person?!"

"This aura, even if not Golden Core, is at least Half-step Golden Core?! What joke, if I'd known there was this kind of existence I'd have said so earlier! Who would dare be blind and provoke, don't want their life right?"

The crowd wailed inwardly, threads of cold sweat falling from their foreheads.

No one dared imagine Qiyao Pavilion actually had a Golden Core True Person! Yu Dahai, because of his own experience, and also because Yu Changsheng had held back, only felt this was Foundation Establishment momentum, but the people present saw more clearly, the pressure and Divine Thoughts erupting at this moment fundamentally could not be emitted by a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

"Qian Sui! This junior deserves death, having eyes but failing to recognize Mount Tai, I offended you senior, voluntarily offering three thousand spirit stones to compensate Qiyao Pavilion's losses! Still hoping Qian Sui, for the sake of my father Chen Yangzi, will forgive this junior's recklessness this time!"

Chen Ronghua knelt on the ground, gasping heavily, his back already soaked through, voice trembling as he hurriedly spoke, eyes full of terror, a strong life-and-death crisis exploding in his heart.

How did he not think, to actually blast out such an existence he absolutely could not afford to offend! Regret in his heart, like a tide, like a setting sun, wave after wheel continuously sweeping over, and fear even more occupied his entire heart and mind.

At this moment, he could only risk bringing out his own old man, hoping to make the other party have some scruples.

"Oh? Chen Yangzi, what thing is that, never heard of it."

An indifferent voice transmitted, ancient well without waves, nearly letting Chen Ronghua's heart fall into despair, but the following words again let him give birth to a thread of hope.

"As for what you said, considering you are a first offender, Qiyao Pavilion just opened, doesn't want to see blood..."

The voice reached here, paused slightly, as if the person behind was contemplating.

"Leave behind five thousand spirit stones, sever one arm yourself, then you can scram."

Three breaths' time, to Chen Ronghua was yet as long as a hundred years.

Until hearing these words, he didn't dare the slightest hesitation, deeply afraid that two seconds later Yu Changsheng would change his mind, trembling he fished them out, even demanding quite a few from his servants, only then scraping together five thousand spirit stones.

Then, gritting his teeth, a ruthless flash in his eyes, he swung the blade and severed, fresh blood gushing like water, Chen Ronghua's complexion instantly even paler, breath even weaker, stature unsteady.

Five thousand spirit stones to Chen Ronghua was also a huge sum, enough to make him hurt tendons and move bones, and severing one arm himself although harsh, Chen Ronghua was very clear, compared to his little life, this didn't count as anything.

Spirit stones gone can be earned again, an arm can also be reattached using Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, but life gone, is truly gone.

(Chapter End)