Chapter 154: Meeting Another Powerful Being in the Tribulation Phase

As dusk fell, the crowd at the Stardust Auction Hall gradually dispersed. The auction, which had lasted all day, finally came to an end.
An old man with white hair stepped out of the auction hall, clearly delighted to have obtained what he wanted, ready to leave. But just a few steps away from the hall, a young voice called out from behind him.
“Hey, old man!” The old man glanced around before noticing a young man in a green robe blocking his path not far ahead.
He raised his eyelids slightly, sized up the young man, then silently continued on his way.
“Hey, I’m talking to you!” The young man persisted, reaching out to block his way.
At this point, onlookers began to gather, but none stepped in to intervene.
“Move aside!” The old man stared coldly into the young man’s eyes, his lips moving as he uttered two words filled with menace.
“Leave the Immortal Grass behind, and I might consider letting you go!” The young man ignored his threats completely.
“Dream on…” Before the old man could finish speaking, he vanished in a flash.
Before anyone could react, the old man was gone, while the young man in green let out a scream. A large amount of blood gushed from his waist, and his upper body and legs separated, falling to the ground in two halves. Only then did everyone realize he had been cut in half.
The crowd was filled with horror; they had never seen such a brutal method of killing.
Among the crowd, a man in black robes was drenched in cold sweat. Only after the crowd gradually dispersed did he cautiously leave the scene, thinking to himself, “I’m glad I listened to my master. If I hadn’t waited to act first, I might have been the one cut in half…”
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After hearing the black-robed man’s account, the man he called his master frowned slightly. “Zhao Xiong is roughly on your level, both at the peak of the Divided Mind phase. If he can kill someone at that peak level instantly, and you can’t even see how he does it, then it’s obvious that that seemingly honest old man must be a powerful being in the Tribulation phase.”

“We never expected that a powerhouse at the Tribulation stage would come all the way to the Origin Planet to buy the Immortal Grass. Let alone someone who’s used to the top-notch services of a fifth-class planet’s auction would sit in a regular seat at a second-class planet’s auction. We thought such a person would just be a messenger, but who would have thought…” The young man shook his head with a wry smile. “Zhang Ming, help me check if he’s left the Origin Planet! If not, give me his address—I want to pay him a visit.”
“Master, do you mean to…” The man in black robes seemed to understand what his master wanted after hearing this.
“That’s right. If he can help…” The young man nodded, though his expression grew somewhat grave.
“I’ll go right away!” The man in black robes nodded. Although he felt some apprehension toward that old man, he accepted the task. As long as he was polite, he shouldn’t suffer the same fate as Zhao Xiong.
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“What? Zhao Xiong is dead?” In a luxurious mansion, a middle-aged man stared in shock. “How is that possible? Zhao Xiong was a peak expert at the Divination stage! His cultivation level was among the highest on the entire Origin Planet! That old man was clearly just a mere messenger…”
“Wait… Was it an old man who did this?” The middle-aged man stopped speaking mid-sentence and suddenly turned to look at the servant who came to deliver the news.
“Yes, it’s said to be a white-haired old man. No one else present saw how he did it, but Zhao Xiong’s body was split in two right at the waist…” The servant replied honestly.
“It really was that old man… That guy is actually a powerhouse at the Tribulation stage…” The middle-aged man’s pupils constricted sharply, and sweat poured down his forehead. “If he finds out it was me who ordered this…”
“Zhao Xiong didn’t reveal your identity. He just asked the old man to leave the Immortal Grass before being killed,” the servant tried to comfort him.
“He didn’t expose us, but who on the entire Origin Planet doesn’t know that Zhao Xiong is my attendant? He could just ask any passerby and find out… What should we do?” The middle-aged man was sweating profusely from worry.
“Master, if he shows up, just claim you know nothing. Say that Zhao Xiong suddenly had evil intentions and tried to steal the Immortal Grass. Then we can give him some compensation as an apology. That should resolve the issue, right?” The servant continued to offer suggestions.
“It’s easy to say. Do you think he’s stupid? That easy to fool?” The middle-aged man still paced anxiously around the hall.

“Well… then I really have no way…” The young servant helplessly spread his hands.
“Go away, go away…” The middle-aged man waved his sleeves repeatedly, driving the servant out impatiently. “With your stupid brain, what good ideas could you possibly come up with?”
Seeing this, the servant hurriedly left the hall, thinking to himself, “I’d better pack up and go back to my hometown! It’s not my business. I don’t want to get involved. I’m just a servant after all…”
After driving the servant away, the middle-aged man paced around the hall a few times before finally sitting down in an armchair. “Now, the only option is to pretend I know nothing and settle this matter by giving some gifts… I’m really too smart to come up with such a method!!!”
If that servant were here now, he would probably be so angry he’d spit blood—after all, he had proposed the same idea just moments ago and was already called a fool…