Chapter 539: Half a Year

Ye Feng set the auction date for half a year later. Since he was determined to make this auction unparalleled, he naturally needed enough time for people from afar to reach City Sent. Fortunately, City Sent was located at the center of the Divine Realm Continent. Even those coming from the edges of the Divine Realm, using the special routes of the major forces, only needed about 150 days to get there.

The news spread by Ye Feng quickly reached all corners of the Divine Realm, even reaching the Four Great Forbidden Lands and the Endless Abyss.

“Blade Edge?” In the Endless Abyss, three saints-level powerhouses also heard this news. They were none other than the three beastmasters Ye Feng had encountered on the second layer of the Abyss.

“He’s actually the lord of City Sent?” Utreid, a tall figure whose true form was an ancient giant whale, wore a peculiar expression. “Strange. With his strength, he could unify the entire Divine Realm Continent. Why would he be content to be just a minor city lord? Never mind. I’ll just give a greeting to the Sea Emperor and then go check out this City Sent.”

“It seems I need to talk to the Sea Emperor. A powerhouse like this, though human, must not be offended.” Hayes, dressed in formal attire, was actually a starryfierce shark. His ancestor, the starry giant shark, was one of the ancient fierce beasts, once ranking in the top 80 on the list of fierce beasts. By his generation, its ferocity had diminished significantly. As one of the Sea Emperor’s right-hand men, he naturally didn’t want to attract a strong enemy for the Endless Abyss.

“Auction? That sounds interesting. I’ve never attended a human auction before. I’ll go take a look and show some goodwill…” Carol, slender in build, was a bloodthirsty python, the most cunning among serpent beastmasters. Bloodthirsty pythons were extremely fond of challenges. They habitually chose stronger opponents as prey. Once they found an opportunity, they would act without hesitation. But before that, they would approach their prey to gather more useful information. Only if they concluded that it was impossible to kill the prey would they switch targets and try to maintain a friendly relationship with them.

Meanwhile, in the Four Great Forbidden Lands, four beastking rulers were also watching the news coming from below.

“Blade Edge? Isn’t he the powerhouse mentioned from the Endless Abyss a few days ago? An opponent so powerful that even saints-level powerhouses feel powerless against him…” Sadi, whose true form was a one-eyed beast, was the king of the forbidden land in the southwest corner of the Divine Realm Continent. He had a reclusive personality.

“Such a powerful being has emerged among humans. It seems we really can no longer stay isolated…” The king of the northwest forbidden zone was named Andrew, a giant axe demon ape, whose lineage was somewhat akin to that of stones.
“Over the years, with the help of the Sea Emperor, I finally reached the level of a Holy Spirit through seclusion. Yet now I find that humans have produced such a genius,” said Bill, the king of the northeast forbidden zone, shaking his head helplessly. His true form was a swift fierce tiger, a rather ordinary magical beast. Though lacking noble bloodlines, his strength came entirely from hard work, earning him recognition from many other powerful magical beasts.
“I thought it might be some old monster who had just ended their seclusion. Turns out it’s just a handsome guy. Interesting. Let’s go to this auction to see what’s going on.” Karin was the only female among the four kings, governing the southeast forbidden zone. Her true form was a seven-tailed celestial fox, a branch of the nine-tailed lineage, and the most intelligent race among all magical beasts. Unfortunately, the seven-tailed celestial foxes had low fertility, making it difficult for their population to grow.
With Jin’s help, the Guardians’ Alliance quickly spread word of the auction throughout every corner of the divine realm. Not only in the main cities but also in many first-tier cities, even second- and third-tier towns, people heard about it.
The rumors claimed that the auction would feature holy artifacts, holy-grade pills, and even divine entities at the peak of the Ancestral God realm…
This news stunned everyone. Holy-grade items weren’t available at every major auction, and whether they were holy artifacts or pills, their value was unimaginable. If someone determined to steal them succeeded, it would be truly heartbreaking. Thus, in a hundred auctions across the divine realm, it was already quite remarkable if one featured a holy item.
But Ye Feng’s grand announcement made even many who usually engaged in robbery back down. Rumors claimed he possessed holy-grade strength, but many didn’t believe it. In fact, those with stronger law-based powers were the least convinced—the stronger their law-based abilities, the more they understood how difficult it was to reach the holy realm. Yet now, seeing Ye Feng unhesitatingly announce that he had holy-grade pills and weapons, there were only two possibilities: either his strength was extremely formidable, so much so that he wasn’t afraid of even the powerful beings from the Endless Abyss, or he was a foolish idiot. So, many chose to wait and see.

If sacred artifacts are divine weapons that only the powerful in the divine realm can encounter, then holy-grade pills are even more precious. For sacred artifacts don’t necessarily have to be used by those at the holy rank. But holy-grade pills are consumables—each one taken reduces their supply. Although few in the divine realm reach the holy rank, each of them possesses great wealth, so they will naturally compete fiercely for them. Ye Feng could easily foresee that holy-grade pills would be in high demand.

A powerful divine essence is also a target of competition among those below the holy rank.

While the outside world was in an uproar over the auction to be held in Sent City in half a year, Ye Feng was not in Sent City. He continued to fly higher into the divine realm—10,000 meters, 100,000 meters, 1,000,000 meters, 10,000,000 meters…

This was one of the pieces of information provided to Ye Feng by the Heavenly Dao earlier: the entire divine realm is surrounded by a layer of gale winds, caused by an extreme wind-element substance—wind dust.

What Ye Feng was doing now was enter the area where these gale winds existed and absorb the hidden wind dust to fill the last gap in his Five Elements elemental laws.

When Ye Feng’s body reached a height of 90,000,000 meters, he finally saw where the gale winds were. Not far above him was a wall formed by the gale winds, resembling the ceiling of a room.

After making a preliminary estimate, Ye Feng realized that even a god-level warrior would likely be torn to pieces by these gale winds in just half a minute if they entered that wall. However, this posed no problem for Ye Feng—his physical strength was already that of a mid-grade sacred artifact. Once he advanced his Melting Law to a higher level, it wouldn’t be difficult for him to reach the strength of a high-grade sacred artifact. He wouldn’t suffer any damage in these gale winds.

After extending his hand into the gale winds, Ye Feng roughly assessed their pulling force before nodding and diving in.