138: Chapter 138 Tianxuan Pavilion

The entire pavilion was built from rare Star Meteor Iron and Millennium Warm Jade, with eighty-one stories piercing the sea of clouds, magnificent and vast, with an Aura that reached the heavens.

The exterior walls were engraved with billions of complex and mysterious ancient Formation patterns, with brilliant Spiritual Qi radiance interwoven in gold and silver flowing day and night. Nine man-made, majestic Spiritual Rivers circled the pavilion, with Spiritual Liquid surging torrentially and seven-colored rainbows falling from the Nine Heavens, naturally possessing a supreme momentum that connected heaven and earth and suppressed all directions.

Outside the pavilion, layers upon layers of Restrictions were densely packed, and a Void-Locking Formation firmly covered the entire building, making it as solid as a fortress.

Even if an ordinary Nascent Soul Immortal Master were to arrive in person, it would be absolutely impossible to act wantonly or forcibly seize treasures here.

This was the core of order absolutely controlled by the Tianxuan Sect, and no transgression was tolerated.

Li Changqing changed into a simple and clean green robe, without any Family emblem on his body, his Aura restrained like still water without waves, blending into the endless stream of people, walking forward slowly.

Today's Tianxuan Market was undoubtedly a gathering place for high-level Cultivators; Golden Core Cultivators, who were rare in the past, could be seen everywhere at this moment.

Among the crowd, there were reclusive old monsters with frost-white hair and nearly exhausted Lifespans, wearing old and simple robes, their Auras obscure and deep, with a desperate madness hidden in their eyes, wishing to borrow the Opportunity of the Secret Realm to defy the heavens and extend their lives.

There were young Prodigies and peerless Prodigies in their prime, dressed in gorgeous clothing, full of energy, with brilliant Spiritual Qi rhymes around them, carrying the proud demeanor of heaven's favored children; there were also top-tier Loose Cultivators who had been traveling alone for years and had experienced countless killings, walking silently, with murderous intent hidden and a cold Aura.

Nascent Soul Immortal Masters rarely appeared, and the Golden Core Cultivators seen everywhere at this moment were already the top combat power that could be gathered within the territory of the Tianxuan Prefecture.

Whispers from the surrounding Cultivators constantly reached his ears, laden with intense greed and tension.

"The final treasures of today's auction are all peerless trump cards tailored for the Taixu Secret Realm!"

"Top-Grade defensive Magic Treasures, broken maps of the ancient Secret Realm, secret talismans for sealing evil and locking Restrictions, treasures for instantaneous Void Realm escape, top-tier healing Spirit Medicines that can bring the dead back to life—there are even rumors that an ancient Spirit Treasure will appear at this auction!"

"Not just that! It is said that there is also a [Taixu Guiding Jade] unique to the Secret Realm, which can faintly sense the exact location of ancient ruins within the Secret Realm. This item can be called a priceless treasure for the Secret Realm trip!"

"With such Heaven-Defying heavy treasures appearing one after another, countless Prodigies and veteran Cultivators today will likely exhaust their life's savings to crazily bid and fight!"

Everyone knew clearly that this grand auction was the last and most critical resource competition before the opening of the Taixu Secret Realm.

Whoever could obtain more protective trump cards and Secret Realm treasures here would have more confidence to survive in the perilous exploration of the Secret Realm and a better chance to encounter supreme Opportunities and break through shackles.

A moment later, Li Changqing followed the vast crowd and successfully arrived at the entrance of the Tianxuan Pavilion.

On both sides of the entrance stood two rows of Tianxuan Sect Inner Sect Disciples, all of them at the Foundation Establishment Rank, standing straight like pines, their expressions solemn and stern, with flowing light surrounding their Spiritual armor, their Aura strict and cold, guarding the mountain gate.

There were even several Golden Core Elders with profound Auras sitting at the main entrance, their indifferent gazes sweeping across the crowd, with invisible pressure permeating the entire venue, firmly maintaining the order of the whole area.

The seating of the Tianxuan Pavilion auction was strictly divided into three grades: low, medium, and high, with clear distinctions.

Below the twentieth floor of the pavilion were ordinary loose seats, with over a thousand seats on each floor, and a single admission ticket cost twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones, for ordinary Cultivators to sit.

From the twenty-first floor to the seventy-ninth floor were exquisite jade seat private rooms, with only one hundred private rooms per floor, offering excellent privacy, with a single seat costing two hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, exclusively for Cultivators with some wealth.

As for the Lingxiao top-tier private rooms above the eightieth floor, the threshold was extremely high; only Golden Core Rank Cultivators and above could enter, enjoying a quiet space, able to overlook the myriad scenes of the entire auction venue from a high position.

The Cultivators who could step into the Tianxuan Pavilion to participate in the auction were all people of considerable wealth, and more than ninety percent of those present today were fully prepared for the upcoming Taixu Secret Realm.

Since the birth of the Taixu Secret Realm, when it first appeared, there were only ten thousand Secret Realm entry tokens in the entire Juxing Domain, scattered across various places in the Juxing Domain.

Every time it opened, only a very small number of Sect Prodigies with strong backgrounds, children of aristocratic Families, and lucky individuals with excellent luck could obtain the qualifications to enter.

In the ten thousand years that followed, countless top-tier Artifact Refiners and Formation Masters above the fourth Rank in the Juxing Domain devoted themselves to research, finally successfully imitating a large number of Taixu Secret Realm tokens.

However, these imitated tokens were vastly different from the original Secret Realm token that Li Changqing obtained from the storage bag of Immortal Master Shuangjue.

Firstly, the original Taixu token could be used repeatedly and permanently. After a Cultivator stepped into the Secret Realm, no matter how remote a corner of the Secret Realm they were in, when the Secret Realm time limit ended, they would be forcibly teleported out by the Secret Realm's core Formation, with the landing point being random within a million miles of the original entry point, ensuring safety.

Secondly, although the imitated tokens could also open the Secret Realm passage and successfully enter for exploration, they had a fatal drawback: the Cultivator must return to the initial entrance area of the Secret Realm on time before the Secret Realm closure time limit expired to be able to use the power of the Formation to teleport back to the fixed entrance in the outside world. Once the deadline was missed and they were stranded, they would be permanently trapped in the Secret Realm.

Although these imitated Taixu tokens were only made of ordinary spiritual materials, they still sold for two thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones each, because only those who were both fourth-Rank or higher Formation Masters and Artifact Refiners could refine them.

Therefore, the Cultivators who could enter the Taixu Secret Realm were either Loose Cultivators with profound cultivation and deep Opportunities, or Sect Cultivators or Family disciples with backgrounds; ordinary low-Rank Loose Cultivators could not even afford the Taixu token.

Entering the auction house, although Li Changqing did not care about the level of the seat, for the sake of being quieter and avoiding some unnecessary trouble, he bought a small private room on the thirty-sixth floor.

He had no intention of being high-profile to compete for treasures, and coming here this time was more just to broaden his horizons. When one's strength was insufficient, being high-profile and flamboyant was always a way to court death.

Stepping into the private room, the interior was elegant and clean, with Spiritual Jade paved on the floor, fairy light falling, and a glass Spiritual window in the front, from which one could clearly overlook the three huge Formation projections in front, each clearly displaying the huge auction stage above the Void Realm.

This auction, specially prepared for the Taixu Secret Realm, would last for seven days. Cultivators could leave at any time in the middle, but if they wanted to enter again, they would have to buy a ticket again.

On the table were placed Mind-Calming Incense and Spiritual Spring Jade Liquid, with strands of Spiritual Qi lingering, enough to stabilize the mind and nourish the Divine Sense.

Li Changqing sat down, closed his eyes, and waited quietly for the auction to begin.

Half an hour later, the crowd had all entered the pavilion, and the tens of thousands of seats in the venue were full.

The noise gradually ceased, and all sounds slowly faded into silence.

High above, a white-clothed female figure stepped on a spiritual rainbow and appeared, landing in the center of the auction stage.

The woman looked to be in her thirties, dressed in white as snow, with an ethereal temperament, her dark hair tied up, her eyebrows and eyes gentle but not lacking in majesty, with a faint Golden Core Spiritual rhyme surrounding her; she was actually a genuine Late Stage Golden Core Cultivator.