Chapter 458: Interception

After the Flower Crown was auctioned off, the mysterious auction ended very quickly. What followed was the most important and exciting part of the entire auction: the Spirit auction.

As an auction house backed by the Morning Light Forest, the Morning Light Auction House is also the Spirit Race's largest window for material exports to the outside world. The annual auction is also the time when the Spirit Race sells their specialty products to the outside.

Of course, as the saying goes, wealth stirs the heart; it is not as if no one has ever had designs on the Morning Light Auction House, but their outcomes were extremely miserable. After all, having had the protection of Lingyun back then, the Spirit Race's losses during the Millennium Holy War were the smallest among all races, and they still retained quite a bit of top-tier combat power.

After several top-tier forces that targeted the Morning Light Auction House were destroyed, those who had secret ulterior motives could only retract their claws and obediently bid for what they wanted at the Morning Light Auction House, or target those who had successfully bid for the items they desired.

The Spirit auction pushed the venue to a climax; various bids rose one after another. Even those in the top-tier private rooms bid frequently, demonstrating powerful financial resources. Of course, preventing others from bidding or maliciously suppressing prices is prohibited here. If one were to be blacklisted by the people of the Morning Light Auction House and unable to enter, that would be the greatest loss.

Naturally, the auction items appearing at the auction were not ordinary things. The Spirit Race's unique Natural Magic Scrolls, dew from the Elf Ancient Tree, and leaves from the Elf Ancient Tree are all precious items that only the Spirit Race can produce.

The final grand finale items were even more extraordinary: a bottle of Holy Water produced by the Moon Well and a branch of the Elf Ancient Tree, which made everyone in the top-tier private rooms argue until their faces were red and their necks thick. If it were not for the fact that this place was the Morning Light Auction House, Lingyun believed that a full-scale brawl might have broken out here.

The Holy Water produced by the Moon Well not only possesses powerful natural power but also has the ability to help others comprehend the Heavenly Domain, and it is even of no small help for breaking through to tiers above the Heavenly Domain.

The branches of the Elf Ancient Tree possess powerful strength and can be crafted into powerful weapons. One of the most powerful weapons in the Spirit Race, the Elf Holy Bow, is said to have been crafted from a branch of the Elf Ancient Tree. It is said that even existences that have surpassed the Heavenly Domain must flee in a sorry state when facing the Elf Holy Bow. Although weapons made from this branch of the Elf Ancient Tree cannot be as powerful as the Elf Holy Bow, they are still undoubtedly Heavenly Domain Tier 1 weapons.

The appearance of such precious items this time caused many families to beat their chests and stamp their feet, as they had not prepared sufficient funds. However, even more people were sending messages outside; after all, bidding for an item at an auction is one skill, but whether one can hold onto it is another. Moreover, the Morning Light Auction House does not intervene in battles occurring outside the auction house unless there are special circumstances.

"Let's go too; this place will likely turn into a battlefield before long!" Lingyun said to the others.

"Let's go!" Chen Jing and the others exchanged a glance, then left the private room.

The moment they stepped out of the private room, the shadow at Lingyun's feet twisted for a moment, then quickly vanished into the distance.

"Hey, you lot, stop right there!" Just as Lingyun's group walked out of the Morning Light Auction House, a group of people suddenly intercepted the four of them.

Looking at the people blocking his path, Lingyun raised an eyebrow slightly. He remembered that since arriving at Norton Imperial City, he had not offended anyone. However, when his gaze fell upon the man beside the person leading the group, he understood why.

Beside the leading man was a woman. This girl was currently reaching out to wrap her arms around the man's, her ample bosom rubbing back and forth against his arm. Lingyun remembered this woman; the reason the price of the Elf Flower Crown had risen to twelve thousand gold was inseparable from her.

"What is it?" Lingyun said coldly.

"Hand over the Elf Flower Crown, and then let these women accompany this young master for some fun, and this Prince can spare your dog lives!" The man's gaze swept over the four of them, and he spoke with an arrogant expression.

"This guy, isn't that the notorious Seventh Prince? How could he appear in this place?"

"Sigh, those few people's luck is truly bad; to think they were targeted by scum like the Seventh Prince."

"..."

Lingyun's ears twitched slightly, hearing the whispers among the surrounding crowd. It seemed this Seventh Prince was also very famous in Norton Imperial City, and for a bad reputation at that.

"Well, have you thought it over?" The Seventh Prince Molie's gaze swept over Chen Jing and the others, his eyes flashing with greed.

"Get lost!" Looking at the person in front of him, Lingyun couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids, and he spoke coldly.

"Get lost? You dare tell this Prince to get lost?" Molie looked as if he had heard some grand joke, and he threw his head back and laughed wildly. "In this Imperial City, besides my Imperial Father, truly no one can tell me to get lost. You lowly commoner, you really are courting death!"

Amidst Molie's wild laughter, the guards beside him stepped forward in unison, and a tragic, intense aura erupted from their bodies, enveloping the four of them. These guards were all very powerful, with none of them below the Seventh Tier. Most importantly, one could tell from the bleak aura on them that every one of them was an executioner who had walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

"Truly, you know nothing!" Lingyun shook his head slightly. "Simply a lawless Devil King spoiled by his family!"

A powerful aura suddenly erupted from behind Lingyun, and a terrifying killing intent surged over, covering everything and instantly suppressing those guards. A figure shrouded in a black robe had appeared quietly behind Lingyun at some point.

"Crack, crack..." Small cracks appeared on the ground beneath the guards' feet; this was the invisible pressure brought by the terrifying killing intent. A teeth-grinding creaking sound came from their bodies, and wisps of blood seeped out from their skin; this was caused by the Gravity Domain that had quietly enveloped them.

"Your Highness, let's go!"

A gaunt old man suddenly appeared beside Molie and pulled him away directly. As for the pale-faced woman beside Molie, she was ignored by the old man entirely.

"What's wrong, Grandpa Enduo?" Molie, who had been dragged a long distance away by the old man, asked the person beside him in confusion.

"My little ancestor, how did you provoke that guy?" Enduo asked with an ugly expression.

"That guy? He's just a Seventh Tier commoner, what's there to fear?" Molie said dismissively.

"How could someone who can have a Half-step Heaven Realm expert as a guard be an ordinary person? My little ancestor, Norton Imperial City is a mixed bag of people during this time; you must absolutely not cause trouble again. If you happen to run into someone you can't afford to offend, neither I nor your mother can protect you. Have you forgotten the fate of the Eleventh Prince a while ago?" Enduo said with a helpless expression.

"Eleventh Brother?" Hearing Enduo say this, Molie couldn't help but shiver.

A while ago, his Eleventh Brother had offended someone unknown and was assassinated in his own study; the entire person had turned into a dried corpse. It was said that the person who acted had strength of at least the Holy Domain Peak. His father had ordered a thorough investigation for this, but to this day, there were still no clues.

At the thought of his Eleventh Brother's miserable state, Molie felt a chill in his heart.

"I understand, Grandpa Enduo, I will be careful during this time!" For the sake of his own life, Molie promised Enduo with a serious expression.