118: Chapter 118 Humiliating All Races? This Copper Coin Suppressed the Entire Scene!

"One copper coin!"

When these four words were clearly poured into every corner of the auction house through the sound transmission Formation, transforming into Divine Soul syllables that every living being could understand.

The entire vast space, constructed from flowing light crystals and the Sumeru Mustard Seed Formation, fell into a strange pause.

The wind stopped, the trajectory of Spiritual Qi flow solidified, and even the surging mana within the Cultivators' bodies experienced a momentary stagnation at this moment.

The expressions on people's faces turned from anticipation and tension to dullness and astonishment in an instant, finally converging into an extreme sense of absurdity that could not be described in words.

This deathly silence, where heaven and earth lost their voices, did not last long.

Three breaths.

Only three breaths later.

"Pfft—"

Somewhere in an unknown private box, a Young Master of a noble family who was sipping Spirit tea sprayed a mouthful of tea all over the jade table in front of him, making the first inappropriate noise.

This strange noise was like a spark splashing into a pot of oil that had long been boiling, instantly exploding the astonishment and absurdity that had accumulated to the Peak.

"Hahahaha! Am I having auditory hallucinations? What did the heavenly room number one just bid?"

"One copper coin! He said one copper coin! My god, is he a storyteller from a Mortal kingdom who thinks this is telling a joke?"

"Using a copper coin to buy an enlightenment stone? What does he think Tianji Pavilion is? A vegetable market in the Mortal world? Does he think this enlightenment stone is a sesame seed cake that costs one coin for two?"

"Could this person be trying to laugh us to death with this method so he can inherit the Spirit Stones we have accumulated in our lifetimes? Truly… such deep calculations, such malicious intentions!"

The overwhelming roars of laughter and mockery turned into tangible sound waves, impacting the Mountain Protection Grand Array of Tianji Pavilion, causing ripples visible to the naked eye to appear on the layered light screens.

Within this laughter was filled with the superiority and disdain of high-level Cultivators toward low-level Cultivators and the ignorant.

Inside the Heavenly Character No. 2 Private Box, the muscles on the Qilin Blood Prince's face stiffened first, and then, he burst into a spasm of wild laughter, laughing so hard he swayed back and forth, causing the entire private box to shake along with him.

He clutched his lower abdomen, his body shaking violently, and physiological tears even seeped from his eyes due to the excessive laughter, his voice sharp and ear-piercing.

"Hahahaha! One! Copper! Coin!"

He said each word distinctly, every word filled with endless mockery and the pleasure of venting.

"This Prince thought you had some earth-shattering Legacy backing you, or which reclusive ancient orthodoxy it was that had the confidence to contend with my Qilin Ancient Cave!"

"As it turns out… it turns out you are just a poor wretch who cannot even bring out Spirit Stones and can only use this method to attract attention!"

His laughter subsided in an instant, turning into extreme, gloomy rage, his voice infused with mana, turning into rolling thunder that pierced through the barriers of the private box, directed straight at the heavenly room number one.

"If you cannot produce Spirit Stones, are you using such clownish behavior to defile the sanctity of the enlightenment stone?"

"You are humiliating this Prince! You are humiliating the eternal Legacy of Tianji Pavilion! Even more so, you are humiliating all the fellow Daoists here who are striving for the Dao!"

His tone shifted, pointing the spearhead directly at Mo Wentian: "Mo Wentian! Is this the hospitality of your Tianji Pavilion? Allowing a madman to break into such a grand event, disrupting order, and ruining our enjoyment!"

On the auction platform, the gray-robed Elder who was presiding over the auction already had a face so gloomy that water could drip from it.

His aura was no longer restrained, the terrifying pressure of the Soul Transformation Late Stage leaked out uncontrollably, causing many Cultivators in the front rows below the stage to feel a palpitation.

He had presided over the Tianji Pavilion auction for hundreds of years, having seen wealthy heirs of Holy Lands and peerless figures of the Demonic Path, but he had never seen, nor had he ever thought, that someone would bid with "one copper coin."

This was not a bid.

This was the most direct, most naked provocation! It was a public trampling on his personal dignity and the eternal reputation of Tianji Pavilion!

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, his killing intent already locked onto the heavenly room number one, and he was just about to transmit his voice to the Elder guarding the pavilion to seize that ignorant madman and execute him on the spot to warn others.

However, just at the Peak where the sky full of mockery and killing intent intertwined.

Inside the heavenly character no. 1 private box.

Su Changge turned a deaf ear to the clamor outside the window that would have caused ordinary Cultivators' Dao Heart to collapse.

Those ear-piercing sneers, to him, were no different from the cicadas chirping in late summer deep in a courtyard.

His slender, fair fingers picked up the ancient coin on the table, stained with dark verdigris.

Then, facing the terrace that extended outside the private box, he flicked it outward with an extremely casual motion.

"Ding—"

A barely audible soft sound.

The copper coin drew an unremarkable arc in the air, without the addition of mana, without the entanglement of Dao Laws, lightly and weakly falling toward the brightly lit, massive auction platform below.

Everyone's Divine Thought captured this action, and the mockery on their faces grew even richer.

"What? Did we hit a sore spot and you're embarrassed into anger? Want to smash people with a copper coin?"

"With this little force, I'm afraid it won't even touch the edge of the auction platform, and a gust of wind could blow it back to its mother's womb, right?"

Just as the copper coin flew into mid-air, its potential energy exhausted, and it began to fall under the pull of gravity.

Hum!

An supreme Dao Rhyme that transcended language, transcended cognition, and transcended all Laws of this Realm, with that small copper coin as the absolute Origin, swept out in all directions with a roar!

There was no earth-shattering sound.

But, in the depths of the Divine Soul Origin and the center of the Sea of Consciousness of all the Cultivators present, regardless of their cultivation level or location, a series of crisp, deafeningly loud sounds exploded!

That was money hitting the ground, it was the measurement of value, it was the transaction of all things, it was the cycle of Karma, it was the concretization of the most ancient "equivalent exchange" Law since the opening of the Universe!

The world before their eyes lost its color at this moment.

The auction house disappeared, fellow Daoists disappeared, and even their own Physical Body disappeared.

Their Divine Soul were forcibly pulled into an endless void by an irresistible force.

In the void, there was only a "sun" slowly rolling!

How could that be a copper coin!

That was clearly a supreme Dao Fruit woven, smelted, and compressed by billions of Great Dao chains! It was the source of the two supreme Laws of "transaction" and "value"!

Every time it rolled, it expounded to the living beings of the Universe the mysterious transformation of "existence" and "non-existence," the ultimate Profound Truth of "gain" and "loss"!

The mottled dark verdigris on it was not mundane filth at all, but the marks of "Karma" precipitated after one era after another came to an end and one Universe after another returned to silence! It was the trace of time decaying!

"That… that is what…"

"My Dao Heart… my Dao Heart is prostrating before it! It… it is even more supreme than my own path!"

"Heavens! I saw it… I saw the supreme method leading to the Golden Core Realm! So that's how it is, so that's how it is!"

An old Cultivator with gray hair, stuck at the Foundation Establishment Peak for a full 150 years with his Lifespan nearing its end, felt his entire aura shake violently the moment he "saw" that copper coin, and he uncontrollably sat cross-legged on the spot!

Spiritual Qi frantically poured into his body, his aura rose step by step, and outside the dome above the auction house, the originally clear night sky gathered wind and clouds without warning, and streaks of dazzling lightning tore through the firmament—it was actually the Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation being triggered on the spot!

Clang.

A soft sound, so weak it was like a hallucination.

The copper coin that carried the Karma of an era and expounded the supreme Dao principles landed squarely on the auction platform, right next to that glowing enlightenment stone.

The millionth of a second when the copper coin made contact with the platform carved from a single piece of "flowing light crystal".

Crack! Crash! Crackle—

The countless high-level Formation runes engraved on all the walls, beams, and domes of the entire vast, boundless auction house for defense, isolation, and stabilization of space flashed wildly for an instant, then, as if they had suffered an unimaginable overload impact, burst one after another, their light completely dimming and extinguishing!

The entire Tianji Pavilion headquarters, floating above the clouds, shook violently, as if hit head-on by an invisible ancient divine hammer!

That auction platform, which claimed to be able to withstand a full-strength blow from a Saint without damage, saw spiderweb-like black cracks spreading wildly with the landing point of the copper coin as the center—that was not the shattering of matter, but the collapse of space itself!

In just an instant, the cracks covered the entire crystalline surface!

Deathly silence.

An absolute void, ten thousand times more silent than those three breaths just now.

All laughter, mockery, discussion, breathing, and heartbeats were ruthlessly erased from this world by an invisible hand at this moment.

Replacing it was a horror so thick it became tangible, making the air viscous! It was the instinctive fear from the deepest part of the Divine Soul when facing the crushing pressure of the Heavenly Dao!

The wild laughter and rage on the Qilin Blood Prince's face froze into an incredibly ugly and ridiculous shape.

His mouth was wide open unconsciously, and "ho ho" wheezing sounds came from his throat, but he couldn't piece together a single complete syllable, like a Mortal rooster whose throat had been strangled by fate.

The gray-robed Elder on the auction platform had his eyes wide open like copper bells, reflecting nothing but that ancient copper coin lying quietly in the center of the cracks.

He trembled, uncontrollably reaching out his hand, wanting to investigate what it was.

But when his fingertips were still a foot away from the copper coin, a terrifying Dao pressure, enough to grind his Soul Transformation Late Stage Divine Soul and his eternal cultivation into nothingness, made all the hair on his body stand on end!

He retracted his hand like lightning, as if he had touched the most terrifying branding iron in the world, his legs went soft, and he stumbled backward, falling onto the cracked platform with a thud.

That was not a copper coin.

That was the authority of a god, the judgment of the Heavenly Dao!

He dared not touch it.

He even dared not look at it again! That one glance seemed to be about to erase his Dao Heart, his existence, from this world completely!