286: Chapter 286 You guys aren't trying to get something for nothing, are you?

"Halt! This is the Supreme Zone of the Star Core Auction House. Unauthorized personnel are strictly forbidden from entering!"

Just as they reached the main entrance, two alien giants standing four meters tall, covered in green scales and possessing four arms, blocked Chen Xi and his group's path with crossed electromagnetic halberds.

Although the two were wary of Chen Xi and the others' Void Elf forms, they still fulfilled their duties in the face of the Black Market's rules.

"We are here to attend today's grand finale auction. Move aside," Chen Xi said coldly through the translator, lifting his chin slightly with an extremely lazy and haughty tone.

"The grand finale auction? Heh, young master of the Void Race, it seems you don't understand the rules of our Black Market."

Accompanied by a harsh screech of metal, a pot-bellied silicon-based supervisor with an inverted triangle head and a single massive compound eye slid slowly out from behind the gate.

His compound eye sized up Chen Xi. Though he was wary of the other's race, his gaze betrayed the shrewdness and philistinism of a merchant.

"The grand finale auction in the Supreme Zone isn't for just any riffraff. To enter, you must undergo a financial verification! The minimum threshold is ten million Interstellar Credits or high-tier cosmic-level treasures of equivalent value!"

"I see that although you are of noble blood, you don't even seem to have a storage treasure on you. You're not trying to get something for nothing, are you?"

"Financial verification?"

Hearing these two words, Chen Xi didn't get angry; instead, he chuckled softly as if he had heard an incredibly hilarious joke.

He didn't even spare the supervisor a glance, turning instead to look at Su Xiaoxiao behind him, his tone carrying the nonchalance of a nouveau riche:

"Xiao Xiao, this backwater place sure has a lot of rules. Just take out some of those 'trash toys' we usually don't want to deal with these uncultured beggars."

"Yes, Young Master." Su Xiaoxiao stepped into her role perfectly. Keeping a cold expression on her stunning face, she stepped forward slowly and lightly brushed her fair hand through the void.

Buzz—!

Three cards, emitting an incredibly obscure and ancient aura that caused the surrounding space to visibly distort, floated quietly in front of the one-eyed supervisor!

These three cards were low-level rule cards Chen Xi had casually crafted using [Miracle Creation] and those high-dimensional fragments on the way here. While they were just practice pieces for Chen Xi, in the outside world, their value...

"This... what is this energy fluctuation?! No magic elements, no mechanical structures, this is pure..."

The one-eyed supervisor casually pulled out a monocle-style high-dimensional detector and placed it over his eye. However, the very instant the device scanned the three cards—0.01 seconds!

Bang!!!

That expensive detector, claimed to be able to analyze all items below the eighth rank, actually exploded on the spot because the incoming energy level was too high, leaving the supervisor's face covered in black smoke!

"Ru... Rule Manifestation Items?!!!!"

The supervisor's massive compound eye instantly became bloodshot. His legs went weak, and he actually collapsed to his knees before Chen Xi with a 'thud,' his voice as shrill as a rooster being strangled by the neck:

"The first card... [Local Time Reversal: Five Seconds]?! This... this is a forbidden item involving the Great Dao of Time!"

"The second card... [Miniature Void Annihilation Collapse]?! This... this is enough to instantly destroy the shields of an interstellar battleship!"

"My god... any one of these three cards would fetch an astronomical price at an auction of a first-rate civilization! These... these are actually your toys?!"

Silence!

The entire auction house lobby, which had been watching the spectacle, was now so deathly silent that one could hear a pin drop.

The jaws of all the aliens present nearly hit the floor.

Throwing out divine objects involving the fundamental rules of time and space as 'trash toys' just for financial verification?!

What kind of god-tier tycoon was this?! Did he empty out the gold mines of an entire galaxy?!!!

"What? Are these scraps of paper enough to buy us a few tickets?"

Chen Xi looked down at the shivering supervisor kneeling on the ground, his eyes full of mockery:

"If you don't want them, I can swap them for something else."

"Enough! It's enough! More than enough!!!"

The supervisor no longer cared for the dignity of the Black Market. He scrambled up like a dog, holding a top-tier black entry card embedded with nine-colored star diamonds in both hands, and presented it to Chen Xi with trembling respect:

"Dis... Distinguished Young Master of the Void Royalty! Please forgive this lowly one's blindness!"

"This is our Star Core Auction House's highest-level [Supreme Ultra-God VIP Black Card]! For all your purchases at this auction, we will waive all transaction fees!"

"Quick! You two idiots! Hurry and lead the way for these honored guests! Escort them to the [Heaven-Tier One] floating box on the top floor!!!"

Watching the two four-armed giants, who were previously so arrogant but now bowed and scraped like servants, Chen Xi casually took the Supreme Black Card. Without even glancing at the three divine cards he had thrown out, he strode into the auction house's exclusive passage.

"Let's go, let's see..."

A bloodthirsty glint flashed in the depths of Chen Xi's eyes:

"Just how many fat sheep who don't know the meaning of death are in this black market today for me to slaughter."

Myriad Realms Black Market, Star Core Auction House Headquarters.

This massive structure, built above a dying white dwarf and encased in an endless dark-gold energy shield, possessed a level of luxury that surpassed the limits of the human imagination of 'opulence.' The entire auction hall was shaped like a giant funnel, with tens of thousands of independent floating boxes surrounding the white jade auction stage at the bottom like a sea of stars.

Chen Xi and the Nirvana Battle Team were currently leaning back comfortably inside the [Heaven-Tier One] floating box on the highest floor, which offered the best view and symbolized the highest status in the entire Black Market.

The floor of the box was made of completely transparent high-dimensional crystal, allowing a clear view of the tens of thousands of powerhouses from various cosmic races below. Among them were silicon-based behemoths wreathed in stellar flames, interstellar pirate lords with three heads and six arms emitting terrifying fluctuations above Lv. 100, and even unknown dimensional lifeforms with half their bodies hidden in the void.

"My god... this is like a convention of monsters."

Li Murou looked down through the crystal floor, her scalp tingling. Any one of the beings below, if placed on Earth, would be a world-ending catastrophe capable of triggering an S-rank disaster. Yet here, they could only sit obediently in the crowded ordinary seats, not even daring to breathe loudly.