Tribulation of Myriad Races

Grandstar City.

Numerous strands of willpower were busy inspecting the corpse.

All the experts were shocked.

One of them said, “Tianduo, have you learned the breathing technique?”

Su Yu nonchalantly replied, “Seeing is believing. This technique is both difficult and easy to learn.”

“Is it possible for us to extract a drop of blood from this corpse for inspection?”

Su Yu did not say anything. He merely threw a punch at the corpse. Instantly, a counter-force erupted from the corpse. Even after so many years, this corpse was still capable of unleashing such a powerful counter-force. This was truly a shocking sight.

Su Yu ignored the counter-force and continued punching the corpse. After a short moment, when everyone’s faces were starting to twitch, some rotten blood seeped out of the corpse’s arm.

The experts hurriedly inspected the blood. One of them frowned, “The blood has been ruined by death qi. I’m afraid the value of the blood won’t be too high.”

But even the presence of blood in such an old corpse was already a piece of good news. They could all see that there was very little blood left in the corpse. Perhaps most of the blood had failed to survive the passage of time.

Su Yu said, “This isn’t my fault. This was the state I found the corpse. I don’t know the origin of the death qi in this corpse.”

Nobody said anything, but they guessed that this expert might have been exposed momentarily to the Death Realm after death. They wanted to know the reason for that as well, but a deeper investigation was required to find out about that.

A divine skywing said, “Can I take a look at the palms of this corpse?”

Su Yu raised the arms of the corpse and showed the palms. Thick calluses could be seen on the fingers. But the fingers had also suffered some damage from death qi erosion.

After taking a close look at the palms before inspecting the rotten blood yet again. Then, he sighed inwardly and sent a voice transmission to the other divine experts, “This is a senior from the divine skywing race.”

He was certain that this expert was a divine skywing. This was an extremely powerful senior. The divine skywing himself was only a seventh-stage Sunmoon. Meanwhile, this senior was still capable of emitting such a powerful aura so many years after his death. This was most definitely a super expert during the ancient past. Judging from the strength of this senior, the divine skywing race must have enjoyed a glorious past as well.

What a pity that the remains of a senior from their race had actually fallen into the hands of a devil. Furthermore, the devil was actually openly auctioning the corpse before the myriad races. This was an insult to the divine skywing race. But at this point, there was nothing they could do about it.

With this, the divines were finally certain that this was the corpse of a senior from their race. They didn’t know the exact identity of this senior, but the ancient character in the sea of willpower was most likely a character of the divine race as well.

As for the ancient articles of clothing on the corpse, they were already badly damaged. Even the body itself had suffered a lot of damage due to death qi erosion. In fact, the corpse was starting to smell.

Strictly speaking, if this was a modern corpse, it would not have much value as the death qi on the corpse would be very hard to deal with. Just the cost of removing the death qi would be massive. This corpse was only so valuable since it was supposed to contain some unknown ancient secrets.

At this point, most of the experts had concluded that this corpse was the real deal. Unfortunately, the corpse was too old for them to accurately judge the exact strength of this expert.

Suddenly, someone claimed, “This is only the corpse of a ninth-stage Sunmoon, not an Invincible.”

It didn’t matter if that was true. This was the argument they would present. The corpse would be way too expensive if they agreed that it was an Invincible corpse.

Su Yu protested, “How is that possible? It has been so many years yet it still has such a powerful aura…”

“That’s most probably because the ancient spatial pocket had preserved the corpse well.”

Su Yu’s voice turned cold, “You’re free to fuck off if you don’t want to buy. I’m not even counting on the value of the corpse. The breathing technique is the real treasure here. As far as I’m concerned, the corpse does not matter that much.”

He was being unreasonable. Someone cursed inwardly. If this was really an Invincible, then it would be invaluable. How could it be not important?

Su Yu grew impatient as he said, “You’ve seen all you can. I believe all of you are already aware of the authenticity of this corpse–”

Someone interrupted him, “Tianduo, apart from all these, did you discover anything else from the spatial pocket?”

Su Yu replied, “That is none of your business. Even if there are, I’m not selling them. Do I not have the freedom to do that? These are the only things I’m selling. If you’re not interested, you can simply refrain from buying.”

“…”

There was nothing they could say about that. From Tianduo’s words, he was likely hiding something as well. But that wasn’t surprising.

Zhu Guangshen smiled, “Tianduo, must you sell it for heavenearth profound light or the other treasures you mentioned? There are a lot of things just as valuable as those treasures…”

Su Yu coldly said, “Don’t waste my time, human. We all know how poor the humans are. If you can’t afford my price, don’t bother participating in the auction.”

“…”

Zhu Guangshen cursed inwardly. But what could he say? The divines, devils, and immortals had always been looking down on the humans for being poor. That was common knowledge. Meanwhile, the divines, devils, and immortals smiled upon hearing those words. Yes. The humans were uncompetitive here.

Su Yu said, “To prevent anyone from blindly raising the bid to ruin the auction, I’ll add one extra rule for the auction. Before calling out a bid, you’re required to pay ten drops of Sunmoon blood essence as the deposit. Those ruining the auction will lose the deposit.”

Zhu Guangshen protested, “Why didn’t you mention this earlier?”

Su Yu said, “I only remembered this after seeing humans here. The humans are so poor. Can you guys even afford this? Everyone knows that the humans are crafty. What if you decide to blindly raise the bid to waste my time so that you can find an opportunity to steal the corpse?”

He looked at the others and said, “I’m adding this rule for everyone’s sake. Ten drops of Sunmoon blood essence are nothing. With this, the price will remain at a reasonable level. Without this rule, you might need to pay more than that just to secure the bid. As for those who are too poor to participate, you should leave and stop wasting everyone’s time.”

The divines, devils, and immortals nodded with happy smiles. Yes. This was how the auction should be conducted. If there was no mechanism in place to prevent anyone from bidding maliciously, the price could easily go out of control. And the humans were indeed known for their tendency to play dirty. No matter what, ten drops of Sunmoon blood essence were still quite valuable. If the humans decided to play dirty yet again, they would have to pay a price for it.

Su Yu said, “If the winner of the bid fails to pay on the spot, the item will go to the second highest bid. The winner will lose the deposit while the rest of the bidders will receive their deposit back. Similarly, the second-highest bidder will also lose the deposit if they can’t afford to pay while the item will go to the third-highest bid.”

Everyone nodded. That was reasonable.

This was a good idea to prevent malicious bidders.

Even Zhaiyue of the Lade Family was nodding in agreement. When he looked at Su Yu, admiration filled his eyes. This was indeed a genius of their family. Even when conducting an auction, he was able to think so far ahead. With this limitation, he would be able to guarantee the sale even though the price would probably be lower.

Su Yu said, “Is the deposit too expensive for anyone here? You can also use heavenearth profound light or sunmoon profound yellow liquid of equal value as the deposit if you don’t have enough Sunmoon blood essence. Since I’ve announced in advance that these are the resources I’m accepting for this auction, you can consider leaving if you can’t even afford the deposit.”

Some of the people cursed inwardly upon hearing that. It was clear they had to pay a price if they wanted to create trouble during the bid. Some people would definitely be unhappy about the deposit, but those truly here for the auction wouldn’t mind it. Compared to the things being auctioned here, ten drops of Sunmoon blood essence were nothing.

In fact, some of them even believed that the deposit was too low. For an auction of this scale, the deposit should be no lower than one hundred drops of Sunmoon blood essence. Then again, that was probably too crazy. Some people would find that too hard to accept. Ten drops of Sunmoon blood essence were a lot more reasonable.

Su Yu proceeded to stare at the crowd silently, waiting for them to make their payment. Nearly thirty groups were present. None of them withdrew from the auction. Some of them didn’t have enough Sunmoon blood essence, but they merely paid with other resources of equal value. Before long, a large amount of valuable resources were gathered in Su Yu’s hands.

Su Yu was careful to inspect what he received to prevent anyone from using their own blood essence as the deposit.

It didn’t matter if the Sunmoon was dead. But alive, a Sunmoon was capable of regrowing from a drop of blood. He had to be careful lest someone tried to use such a trick to catch him by surprise.

But the venue was also quite helpful in this aspect as the blood essence of someone who was still alive would cause the appearance of death spirits. Meanwhile, no death spirit would appear if the blood essence belonged to someone dead. He looked around, confirming that no powerful death spirit had appeared.

Su Yu was greatly pleased. He had received an assortment of resources worth around 270 drops of Sunmoon blood essence. This was actually massive as one would need to kill 27 Sunmoons to get this much blood essence. Sure enough, his scam would be a lot more profitable if he could gather all the major races together.

As for the fact that these resources were deposits that had to be returned…well, that wouldn’t happen. Su Yu couldn’t help but feel some pity for Zhu Guangshen and Qin Hao. The human race was too poor. This was most definitely a significant amount of wealth for them. But what could he do about it? He couldn’t spare them as that would look too suspicious.

Done with the prelude, it was time to move on to the main show. Su Yu said, “Let’s not waste any time. Heavenearth profound light will be used as the basic currency for the auction at the value of three strands per drop of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. As for any other resources you wish to use as your bid, we will value them according to Heavenly Hunt Pavilion’s exchange rate. I trust the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion will not ruin its reputation for a single auction. The starting bid will be a hundred strands of heavenearth profound light.”

That was most definitely not a low starting bid. Then again, the corpse was definitely worth that price.

Suddenly, Zhan Wushuang asked, “To make things clear, are we bidding for everything you showed us earlier?”

Su Yu said, “Of course. The breathing technique, heaven weapon, corpse, and character will go together. They’re only worth that much together.”

Zhan Wushuang nodded. That was acceptable.

Dawo asked, “Will the devil receive a ten percent discount?”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes. After all, I’m a devil. I won’t offer the corpse to the devils for free, but I am willing to concede this much. But the payment must be made on the spot. If not, the corpse will go to the next highest bidder.”

The devils said nothing else. Tianduo was already giving them an advantage over the other races. It was pointless to say more. The other races did not protest either. This wasn’t surprising at all since he still needed to rely on the backing of the devils in the future.

Naturally, the divines were the most determined to obtain the corpse. Since the corpse belonged to an ancient divine skywing, it might be a lot more useful to them.

The moment the auction started, Zhan Wushuang of the divines called out, “Three hundred strands.”

The price tripled with a single bid. This way, they could keep the poorer parties from participating and save some time.

Right after, Dawo called out, “Five hundred.”

“…”

The look in many eyes changed. Everyone was cursing inwardly. They were talking about heavenearth profound light, not source qi liquid. But these people were calling out hundreds of strands like they were talking about water. How were the others supposed to participate?

The divines and devils were indeed worthy of their hegemonic positions among the myriad races. Heavenearth profound light was a resource only Sunmoons or stronger could harvest amid the boundless void at the edge of the Allheaven Battlefield.

At times, a Sunmoon would need to spend years to harvest only a single strand. To obtain hundreds of strands, at least ten Sunmoons needed to stay in the boundless void for ten years. Then again, the divines and devils did not lack Sunmoons. So perhaps this was no big deal for them.

Furthermore, due to the long history of these races, it was reasonable for them to accumulate a large number of strands after so many years. Additionally, they had also been increasing their supply from the minor realms they had conquered over the years.

This was a price some minor races could never afford. Five hundred strands of heavenearth profound light were equal in value to about five hundred drops of Sunmoon blood essence. Fifty Sunmoons needed to die to gather this much blood essence. And some minor races didn’t even have fifty Sunmoons. Even Su Yu was greatly shocked.

How rich!

Holy shit!

The divines and devils were indeed wealthy. Just look at how easily the bid had reached five hundred strands. Initially, he had thought that he would only be able to make around a hundred strands from this scam. But he couldn’t be more wrong.

In truth, Su Yu’s pockets had been feeling quite light after the massive investment he made in the scam. He was nearly out of heavenly source qi. Recently, he had extracted more heavenly source qi to tide him over. He was also running out of other resources. He had also purchased some ancient items and destroyed one of his own characters for this. Why had he invested so heavily in this? To earn an acceptable level of profit.

Clearly, his investment was paying off. He was going to earn massively. Despite the value of an eighth-stage Sunmoon corpse, his total investment couldn’t even reach a hundred strands of heavenearth profound light in value.

Meanwhile, the divines and devils had instantly pushed the bid to five hundred strands. That was truly crazy. The divine skywing looked at the devils with a frown while the devils remained completely relaxed thanks to the ten percent discount they were enjoying.