Published: March 9, 2025
The white-browed old man took a deep breath and said, “In my personal judgment, this person here should not yet reach the level of the nine emperors and one empress. So, could it be that this is the mysterious guest from the strange auction a while back?”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s expression darkened.
That mysterious guest had good things, but he made it clear that they were all for the people of Eastern Sovereign Heaven... They arrived two days late, and they didn’t even get a sip of soup.
Naturally, they felt uncomfortable.
Confronted with such a terrifying existence, a being they could only look up to, everyone felt heavy-hearted. Though each had their thoughts, no one dared to actually investigate anything!
At this moment, acting rashly was no different from seeking death.
Ordinary people practice to absorb heaven and earth spiritual energy to strengthen themselves. However, there are impurities in heaven and earth spiritual energy; they first absorb it, then use their meridians as channels and their dantian as a purifier, repeatedly refining it to gradually make it purer.
In the end, it transforms into power that wholly belongs to them, meaning: the most pure and refined spiritual energy!
But now, that person had directly ignored this process, absorbing the most refined spiritual energy straight from between heaven and earth.
After all this, while the spiritual energy in the sky remained dense, the most refined part was already gone. This meant that no matter how hard you tried, even if you absorbed all the spiritual energy from this entire space... refining it in the end would be in vain!
Practicing in the same place as such an existence was a great sorrow.
This was also the main reason why such powerful beings could easily dominate a region: who would want to share with others? If it was too much to provoke... would you stay here to seek punishment when you could leave?
But those present could not leave.
Because... the secret of the Soul Suppressing Stone had yet to be revealed.
Even if they couldn’t practice here, they couldn’t leave!
Thus, everyone’s faces looked as if they had eaten something bitter...
Originally, once the Soul Suppressing Stone was activated, the spiritual energy would surely be extremely rich.
Such spiritual power would thoroughly cleanse everyone’s meridians.
It would bring about a qualitative change and an astonishing enhancement.
Most of the people came here with that purpose in mind.
But... now with this terrifying figure present, everyone was essentially on a sightseeing trip: aside from spending travel costs, they just got to see the scenery, wasted time they could have spent cultivating at home, and risked losing their lives...
The group of old men sighed in unison, sitting down again, feeling a bit dejected and frustrated.
They had truly never encountered such a shameless old man.
Was this too disgraceful?
You say it’s just a Soul Suppressing Stone, it would make sense for those of our level to get involved, but would someone like you have the audacity to act? Is it worth the ticket price? And yet you’re still here, refusing to leave? It seems like a treasure left by the predecessors for future generations, and now, with such a terrifying guy here, could this old man be from even earlier generations?
Who knows!
It’s very possible!
...
What to do?
It seems we can’t stretch our arms and legs...
Everyone sighed: did we travel hundreds of thousands of miles just to come here and feel oppressed?
The old men were extremely displeased.
Of course, their displeasure was kept to themselves; let alone do something, they didn’t even dare to speak out. Their expressions remained almost the same as usual, truly unable to reveal too much abnormality. Perhaps their current demeanor was within the coverage of that person’s divine thought; if that person felt unhappy for a moment, their lives would likely be forfeit here!
As for why they held such a perception, the reason was quite simple: because they themselves had done similar things before. Most of them were ancient monsters with hundreds of thousands of years behind them; they had engaged in quite a few acts of forceful plundering. For those dimwitted fellows who disagreed with their methods, most would receive some punishment. If one couldn’t hold back their hand, eliminating one or two was hardly a big deal.