36: System upgrade, Nangong Lian

For a beauty, squandering all wealth, drawing suspicion, envy, and admiration from the world, tyrant points +100.

Accumulated tyrant points: 1050.

Over the past half month, Xia Xuan had been relaxing and indulging in nightly revelry, accumulating 950 tyrant points.

The appearance of the Merfolk Clan Young Miss just happened to give him an extravagant opportunity.

The thousand-point mark was successfully broken through.

Ding! tyrant points have reached 1000, Intermediate Lottery has been activated.

The System has met the upgrade conditions, do you wish to upgrade? The upgrade will take four hours.

Yes.

Xia Xuan did not hesitate; he could afford to wait eight hours.

The System panel automatically hid, becoming a countdown.

He let out a soft sigh.

At this point, his auction journey was over.

Anything that appeared afterward was basically irrelevant to him; over a hundred billion yuan stones had been completely spent, leaving only a few hundred million as change.

However, Xia Xuan was not in a hurry to leave.

Because it was rumored that the last item up for auction came from beyond the heavens, he wanted to take a look.

Nearing the end, the competition for the last few auction items was rather uninspired.

In the interim, Shang Yingxue took turns resting. She personally brought the Merfolk Clan Young Miss to see Xia Xuan.

Outside the door, the Merfolk Clan Young Miss's steps faltered. She bit her red lip lightly and turned to look at Shang Yingxue, her voice slightly tearful: Sister, I'm scared.

Don't be afraid. Although King Chu is not a good person, he is not a bad person either.

Shang Yingxue was at a loss for how to describe Xia Xuan. They had too little time together, and she found it difficult to truly understand him.

The former King Chu might have been a scoundrel.

But the King Chu she knew now seemed like a superior who was impossible to fathom.

Such a person should have principles and bottom lines; at least, he wasn't a fanatical madman or pervert... Xia Xuan looked up.

Before him, the Merfolk Clan Young Miss was wearing a light blue dress. Her fish tail had transformed into human legs, her jade feet small, pure white, and tender. Each toe was delicate and lovely, round and full, with clear and graceful curves.

Most of the Merfolk Clan people do not wear shoes. She was treading on a thin layer of mist, and around her ankles, she wore a string of glistening light red pearl ornaments.

Seemingly noticing Xia Xuan's bare gaze, Nangong Lian's Face paled slightly, and she tried to hide her jade feet in the mist.

Cough.

Shang Yingxue coughed and stepped forward to hand Xia Xuan a precious spatial storage device.

Your Highness, this is your remaining five hundred eighty million yuan stones. All the other items you bid on are also inside.

Mm.

Xia Xuan swept his Divine Thought over it, confirmed the quantity was correct, and continued to appraise the Merfolk Clan Young Miss.

The appearance of Merfolk Clan women conformed perfectly to Human Race aesthetics.

Beyond the ultimate beauty version.

Such a beauty, just quietly looking at her, was a delight to the eyes.

A certain Great Master once said that the secret to longevity is to look at beautiful women often.

In other words, looking at beautiful women is for the purpose of prolonging life... What is her name?

Nangong Lian.

Nangong Lian bit her red lip, tears uncontrollably flowing down, and pearls clattered down.

Don't be afraid, little sister. Your Highness is not a Vicious Beast; he won't eat you.

Come sit here with me.

Nangong Lian slowly stopped sobbing. Looking at the gentle elder sister, her heart immediately felt a little more at ease.

She cautiously asked, her voice soft, sweet, and sticky: Can I?

Xia Xuan waved his hand, feeling a bit helpless. He had only looked a few extra times.

Nangong Lian's reaction made him seem like some heinous villain.

In fact, with Xia Xuan's current level of handsomeness, anyone would easily feel a sense of closeness upon seeing him.

It was just that crossing species inevitably had some influence.

Moreover, the faint majesty in his gaze was not something ordinary people could withstand.

After Nangong Lian's inquiry was affirmed, her Face finally regained some color. She was not very used to walking on feet and took some effort to slowly shuffle next to Ye Qingci.

Snowball, who was sleeping, opened its eyes to look at her, then rolled over and continued to sleep.

Don't be afraid, look, all of us here are older sisters.

Her words indeed gave Nangong Lian some courage.

There were so many older sisters here, and none of them were afraid of that strange person who kept staring at her tail.

Perhaps she had misunderstood him?

After all, Merfolk rarely transformed their tails into human legs.

I hope Your Highness can take good care of Lian. She suffered misfortunes since childhood and was hunted by the Merfolk Imperial Clan, so she's a bit afraid of strangers...

Shang Yingxue knew she had no right to make demands, so her words were very tactful.

Xia Xuan chuckled: I can ignore others' Face, but I still have to give Young Miss Shang's Face.

Aunt Qing, she feels at ease by your side, so I'll trouble you to look after her from now on.

His primary purpose in buying Nangong Lian was to unlock the Bronze Sparrow Terrace achievement, not truly to buy her as a slave.

Ye Qingci nodded gently, her impression of Xia Xuan improving slightly.

Thank you, Your Highness.

Xia Xuan waved his hand, and it was at this moment that the auction came to an end.

The last item up for auction, after appraisal, is an extraterrestrial object.

On the display stand, the white-haired elder introduced a pitch-black stone: This meteorite contains unknown residual blood, possessing infinite power, capable of instantly incinerating Dharma Aspect Realm powerhouses. It has now been subjected to eighteen layers of seals by our Heaven and Earth Merchant Guild.

The final winner, please be extremely cautious and do not arbitrarily break the seals.

The starting bid for this item is ten billion yuan stones, and each increment must not be less than five hundred million.

Inside the venue, after a long discussion, someone finally made a bid.

Xia Xuan looked at the meteorite, unable to discern anything. Listening to the Heaven and Earth Merchant Guild elder describe it in such an abstruse manner, it sounded like the blood of a deity?

Does Young Miss Shang know anything else?

Xia Xuan turned his head and saw Shang Yingxue's hesitant expression, so he asked.

When this extraterrestrial object first appeared, it caused quite a stir in the Four Seas and Five Regions. Where it fell, a thousand li of land turned barren, and all life perished, becoming a Forbidden Ground of death.

This situation only improved during a stormy night over twenty years ago. Our Heaven and Earth Merchant Guild paid a huge price to retrieve it from the Forbidden Ground, but we have always been unable to utilize its power.

Shang Yingxue explained in detail.

Suddenly, a bid from below silenced the entire venue.

Twenty billion!

Ji Wuhuang's clear voice, at this moment, shocked everyone.

How strong exactly was the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty?

Having bid eighteen billion for the Sumeru Mountain Spirit Gathering Array, they still had the capacity to bid twenty billion.

Seeing the small, knowing the large, such financial power showed the prosperity of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty's national strength.

At that time, being number one was still an insufficient evaluation.

Number one throughout history?

Or was it hopeful of achieving great unification?

Since the Empress took over the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty, it had never fully launched a national war. Even the attack on the Southern Frontier was handled with ease, with subordinate generals arranged to manage the overall situation.

Could it be that Empress Tianzhao knows the origin of this item?

Xia Xuan guessed.

Buying an item of unknown origin for twenty billion yuan stones was definitely not the act of a wise person.

The Empress in his memory had excellent leadership and governance skills; she didn't seem like a gambler.

But there was also another extremely low possibility, which was that the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty was too rich to care about these twenty billion yuan stones.

The auction ended.

Many people were still savoring the grand spectacle.

And most representatives of the super- power had already left the Wu Dynasty Imperial Capital one after another.