276: Chapter 276 I'm buying this chamber of commerce!

This casual remark echoed back and forth within the spacious auction house, like a thunderbolt crashing down from the Nine Heavens, making the scalps of all the powerful Cultivators present tingle with shock.

Buy the Myriad Treasures Tower branch?

If anyone else had said this, it would definitely have been dismissed as the ramblings of a lunatic.

That was a behemoth-level power from the Central Province. Just the Tianyin City branch's annual revenue was enough to buy ten ordinary Holy Lands.

Not to mention the complex trade route contracts and the underlying Formation foundations within.

But now, the person who said this was the Young Lord of the Ancient Imperial Clan, and beneath his feet, he was stepping on a peak-grade Divine Source Mountain that was even larger than a palace!

Unchanging Gold, who had been sprawled at the foot of the Divine Source Mountain, suddenly struggled violently as if waking from a dream.

His face, usually pampered and well-kept, became distorted with extreme jealousy and fear.

"Madman! You are a complete and utter madman!"

Unchanging Gold pointed at Xu Chen, who was on the suspended corridor, and roared with a voice like a broken gong.

"The Myriad Treasures Tower will never sell its branch! Even if you have a Divine Source Mountain, so what? There are some things in this world that money simply cannot buy!"

"Steward Shang! What are you waiting for! Immediately activate the Absolute Kill Formation and take down this madman who is disrupting the order of the Chamber of Commerce!"

Unchanging Gold, as if grasping at his last straw, shrieked madly toward the dome.

The auction house was silent; no one paid any heed to this stray dog barking wildly.

Xu Chen glanced down at Unchanging Gold, as if he were looking at a pile of worthless trash.

He couldn't even be bothered to look for another half-second, instead casting his profound gaze toward the hidden Formation fluctuations behind the high platform, finally fixing it on the direction of the top-floor pavilion.

"What, does Steward Shang feel that the price offered by this Young Lord is insufficient?"

Xu Chen's fingers gently rubbed against the white jade railing, his voice lazy and casual.

Inside the top-floor pavilion.

Shang Qingdai reclined on a white tiger-skin couch, and her beautiful, cold, and glamorous face no longer held the composure she had previously displayed.

She stared fixedly at the glaring Divine Source Mountain through the gold-threaded glass magical mirror, her ample chest heaving violently.

As someone with the Heaven-Reaching God of Wealth Physique, no one understood the value of that Divine Source Mountain better than her.

That extremely pure Heaven and Earth Luck was crazily provoking her Physique Origin, making the blood in her body seem as if it were about to boil.

But the rationality of the business empress was still making a final struggle.

"Young Master Xu is joking."

Shang Qingdai's voice traveled through the layers of Formations and spread throughout the entire auction house. It was still magnetic and pleasant, but upon closer listening, there was a trace of an imperceptible tremor.

"One hundred thousand catties of Divine Source is indeed a shocking and enormous sum. However, the Tian Yin branch involves thousands of lifeblood trade routes of my Myriad Treasures Tower in the Northern Region of the Eastern Wasteland, and there are countless Cultivators' livelihoods and Heavenly Dao contracts staked here."

"Such a vast foundation cannot be measured by a sum of dead assets."

Shang Qingdai tried to use the most impeccable business logic to resist Xu Chen's unreasonable ability to throw money around.

Upon hearing this, Xu Chen not only didn't get angry, but instead let out a low laugh.

"The thing I dislike most about you business people is that you like to complicate simple matters."

Xu Chen released the hand holding Gong Yu, took a step forward, and stood directly upon the Void Realm.

"In the end, you still think I'm not rich enough."

The moment his voice fell, Xu Chen's eyes suddenly became incomparably sharp.

He raised his right hand, his five fingers suddenly splayed, aiming at the Void Realm in front of him.

Boom!

A terrifying and unparalleled Spatial Law erupted from within Xu Chen's body, directly tearing open a deep black fissure in the defensive Formation of the Myriad Treasures Tower's dome.

The entire Tianyin City shook violently at this moment, as if it were facing the end of the world.

"That... what is that!"

An older generation Saint Master pointed at the Void Realm fissure in sheer horror, his whole body trembling like chaff.

Roar!

Accompanied by three terrifying Dragon roars that shattered the clouds.

Three colossal creatures, ten thousand feet long and emitting purple-gold divine light, were forcibly pulled out from the depths of the Void Realm by Xu Chen using the Spatial Law, circling above the auction house!

They were not real living creatures.

They were peak-grade Dragon veins formed purely from the condensation of peak-grade spiritual liquid, Heaven and Earth Luck, and supreme Dao Origin!

The moment the Dragon veins appeared, all the night-luminescent pearls used for lighting in the auction house shattered.

Endless purple-gold divine light submerged everything.

Terrifying Spiritual Pressure poured down, and all the Cultivators below the Saint Realm present were uncontrollably forced to their knees, finding even breathing to be incomparably difficult.

"Peak-grade Dragon veins! It's actually three complete peak-grade Dragon veins!"

"He's crazy! Has the Ancient Imperial Clan moved out their entire foundation!"

The old monsters swallowed their saliva frantically, their eyeballs nearly popping out.

A single peak-grade Dragon vein was enough to support an eternal Holy Land's Legacy for tens of thousands of years without withering.

And now, Xu Chen had directly pulled out three of them like pulling noodles, just hanging them in the sky so casually!

Bathed in the purple-gold divine light of the Dragon veins, Xu Chen’s clothes fluttered, making him look like a peerless deity inspecting the mortal world.

"Three peak-grade Dragon veins, plus that Divine Source Mountain."

Xu Chen's voice was not loud, but it carried an imperial will that could not be defied.

"I'm buying the ownership of the Tian Yin branch, everything in your treasury, and everyone here who has been enslaved by your Heavenly Dao contracts."

He slightly raised his chin, his gaze piercing toward the top-floor pavilion like a sharp sword.

"Shang Qingdai, you are a smart woman."

"Are you selling, or not?"

Inside the top-floor pavilion.

Shang Qingdai stood stiffly in front of the Formation light screen.

The moment those three peak-grade Dragon veins appeared, the last line of defense in her heart, known as "business rationality," was completely shattered like dry wood.

The instinct of the Heaven-Reaching God of Wealth Physique completely took the upper hand at this moment.

Her breathing became extremely rapid, and a layer of alluring pink flush appeared on her fair skin. Her form-fitting black slit dress had even been slightly soaked through by a fine layer of sweat, clinging tightly to her devilish curves.

She was making a killing.

This deal was so profitable it was practically unreasonable!

This monstrous wealth, let alone buying a single Tian Yin branch, even if all the Myriad Treasures Tower branches in the entire Eastern Wasteland were packaged and sold, it would still fall far short of even a single whisker of these three peak-grade Dragon veins!

As a patrolling envoy appointed by the headquarters, she possessed the supreme authority to act first and report later.

Shang Qingdai bit her red lips tightly and reached out to take off the gold-threaded glass magical mirror from the bridge of her nose. In those long, narrow, beautiful eyes, only extreme, pure fanaticism and submission remained.

This was no fat sheep.

This was clearly a prehistoric behemoth capable of swallowing her whole, skin and bones.

"Deal."

Shang Qingdai's voice was a bit hoarse, yet exceptionally firm.

Hum!

The Formation at the top of the pavilion shifted.

A rhombic crystal token, purple-black all over and engraved with the supreme totem of the Myriad Treasures Tower, drifted slowly down from the dome and hovered in front of Xu Chen.

This was the highest authority token of the Tian Yin branch.

Mastering it meant mastering the hub of all the Formations in this Chamber of Commerce, as well as the power of life and death over everyone whose contract was held here.

Xu Chen beckoned casually, taking the purple token into his palm.

Seeing this scene, Unchanging Gold below let out a pig-like wail, falling into absolute despair.

He knew he was finished.

Xu Chen held the warm crystal token, and the corner of his mouth curled back into that lazy smile.

His gaze did not look at the crowd below who were shocked into numbness, but instead passed through the Void Realm without hindrance, precisely meeting the fiery gaze of Shang Qingdai in the top-floor pavilion.

Their gazes collided fiercely in mid-air.

Xu Chen's eyes seemed to be telling her: Get cleaned up and wait; this Young Lord will come to inspect the assets in a while.

Shang Qingdai understood that look, and instead of feeling humiliated, she felt an indescribable heat surge through her body.

Amidst this clash of auras where undercurrents surged.

Xu Chen slowly turned around and looked at Unchanging Gold, who was still sprawled on the ground.