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In the dead of night, Darkya City.

Issei spent a single day and a single night in this city.

He learned from Naru who investigated the guild that the Black Feather Merchant Guild was actually the number one merchant guild of the Darkya Realm.

The Black Feather Merchant Guild had existed for over fifty thousand years and their roots were deep and vast. Not only were they known to all the people in this lower star realm, but they were also very famous among some middle star realms too. The merchant guild in Darkya City was also the heart of the entire Black Feather Merchant Guild and they had not only spread their control throughout the entire Darkya Realm, they were even reaching beyond it.

Its vast source of customers and incredible reputation were literally rivaled by no one in a total of thirty thousand lower star realms. The wealth they possessed was practically beyond a normal person's imagination.

It was rumored that the Black Feather Merchant Guild was supported by the ruling sect of Darkya Realm, the Black Soul Divine Sect. The sect master of the Black Soul Divine Sect was also the Great Realm King of the Darkya Realm.

A short and simple message was sent to him the moment it was time and following its instructions he arrived at an unfamiliar city area about one hundred kilometers to the north of the Black Feather Merchant Guild and entered a ruined stone tower.

After going through four checkpoints in total, he finally reached the bottommost level of the stone tower. Here, it was so dark that one couldn't even see their own fingers. He had to wait there for a very, very long time before the wall in front of him suddenly opened to reveal a beautiful girl. The girl walked over to him and bowed slightly. "I apologize for the wait, esteemed guest. Please, come with me."

He followed the girl through the secret door before he abruptly fell through the darkness. He estimated that he had fallen at least a couple hundred meters before he finally reached the bottom. A flash of profound light later, yet another secret door opened before his eyes.

"If you will, esteemed guest."

Issei walked through the door slowly.

The world beyond the door was a large stone chamber. Although several lamps were lit inside the chamber, the lights were purposely adjusted to create an incredibly dim environment. At a glance, there were hundreds of tables and chairs placed tidily inside the stone chamber. A lot of people had filled in the seats already.

These people's reactions towards Issei's arrival were quite tense since it's not every day that they saw a Divine King Realm cultivator here...

Although he was a completely unfamiliar face, no one wants to invoke trouble with him nor paid attention to him because pretty much everyone who came here was hidden behind a different identity. It was all too normal for people to wear false names like Issei and a large number of them had even disguised their appearances.

So him wearing a mask is nothing out of the ordinary either.

Although he was wearing a mask, his figure alone manages to attract the women who are attending this auction. This earned a few scowls from the men's side...

However, the Black Feather Merchant Guild 'knew' who he really is. Although Mister Ji hadn't dug to the bottom of Issei's identity, he knew that the person behind him was Mu Xuanyin. And that, was enough.

Silence filled the stone chamber. Issei swept a glance across the chamber and counted less than two hundred people inside. It wasn't many. More than half of the participants had disguised their faces with profound energy but every one of them was carrying themselves with an air of extreme arrogance or nobility. They were obviously extremely highly placed characters in Darkya Realm and no one here was ordinary.

These people were basically all youths and more than eighty percent of them were at the Divine Soul Realm. The strongest among them had already neared the peak of the Divine Soul Realm and considering that they were all youths of lower star realms, it was an impressive lineup.

Although these young masters were obviously extraordinary people, none of them appeared to be guarded by an elder. It was obvious that this was a rule set by the Black Feather Merchant Guild too. The message he received today had also mentioned that he was to attend this trade fair alone.

Esdeath's group already entered the waiting for further instructions.

Issei randomly chose a seat, sat down, and wait for the auction to begin.

While everyone was waiting in silence, a stone platform slowly rose about one and a half meters from the ground at the far end of the stone chamber. Then, a secret door above the stone platform opened to reveal two people walking out one after another. They were followed by six beautiful girls.

The pair was a man and a woman. The woman had a pretty countenance and a well-developed body. Her walking form was beautiful and graceful and her black dress added to the air of mystery and charm around her.

The man behind her was a middle-aged man clad in black clothing. His head was bowed slightly and his face looked stiff. His entire person was giving off an uncomfortable feeling and the profound energy aura he kept withdrawn was extremely thick. He was at the Divine Tribulation Realm.

The arrival of the beautiful girl caused the atmosphere inside the quiet stone chamber to change instantly. Wanton gazes immediately roamed up and down the woman's shapely body.

"Hahaha! I didn't realize that Miss Ruyan was the one who would be hosting this event. Forget the pleasant surprise inside the 'invitation letter', your presence alone brings massive joy to me, Miss Ruyan!" The young man sitting at the foremost of the group laughed brashly.

"The last time your great merchant guild sent an invitation letter of their own accord was three years ago. I'm sure that you won't disappoint us this time either. This noble one grows impatient, Miss Ruyan," said another guy slowly.

"Hahaha," the woman chuckled. Her laughter sounded unusually soft and mind-numbing, "You are all important guests of the Darkya Realm. We wouldn't dare invite you all over without a good enough surprise, would we?"

"Alright, tonight's trade fair officially begins now. My name is Ji Ruyan and this servant shall be in your care, oh noble ones. The rules are the same as last time, alright?"

Clap! Clap!

Ji Ruyan clapped her hands together softly before a maid walked forwards seductively while holding a long, wooden box.

Ji Ruyan pushed away the cover gently and immeasurably powerful sword energy spilled out of the box. It immediately started a hurricane of sword energy in the stone chamber that persisted for a long time.

"That is a good sword!" Dozens of people immediately cried out in shock. In fact, some of those cultivators who belonged to sects of sword were already standing on their feet...

Issei closed his eyes in boredom while they started bidding for this sword... At some point, Ji Ruyan started introducing the sword origin but Issei doesn't feel interested in the slightest so he ignores it altogether...

...

"Eight million purple profound stones!"

One final dark and fierce roar later, the sword ultimately fell into the possession of the man known as Sir Zhuo at the astronomical price of eight million purple profound stones.

"The next 'item' also came from Wind End Valley. However…" Ju Ruyan put on a rather mysterious smile, "It is a lot more interesting than the sword."

She clapped her hands again after she said this.

The middle-aged man behind her continued to stand completely still without saying a word, moving a muscle or rolling his eyeballs even once, like a dead man. He was so obscure that one might forget that he existed before they realized it.

Rrrrm...

To the left of Ji Ruyan, a stone platform suddenly rose from the ground before coming to a stop.

There was a sealing profound formation brimming with white light above the platform. No one could see clearly what was sealed behind the light.

Ji Ruyan smiled slightly before pointing a finger at the formation. The profound light immediately faded quickly, until a single layer was all that was left. A thin and weak woman is crouched inside the half-translucent sealing profound formation!

The girl's long hair was disheveled and it covered of more than half of her face. Her clothes looked recently changed since they were both very white and new. However, it was torn in many places and the dry skin beneath the clothes appeared to be covered in red marks.

The woman couldn't stop shaking when everyone's gazes became trained on her. However, she kept utterly quiet and hid her face deeper behind her hair.

Issei isn't the least surprised seeing that they also doing human trafficking here.

Naru has already investigated this guild to a certain extent after all...

Previously, the Black Feather Merchant Guild and the Black Soul Divine Sect had existed in harmony with each other as the two major powers in the Darkya Realm. Then, a thousand years ago, the Black Soul Divine Sect caused trouble for them all of a sudden. They held Mr. Ji as a hostage, who was still a child at the time and forced his father to give his consent to the Black Soul Divine Sect to integrate their underground merchant guild with the Black Feather Merchant Guild.

Mr. Ji's father had nine children in total but except for him, everyone else died at an early age. As such, his father had no choice but to agree in the end. Not long afterward, the Black Feather Merchant Guild sold Wood Spirit Orb for the first time and it was only then that Mr. Ji was released by them. Once they had gotten dirt on the Black Feather Merchant Guild, they were within the firm grasp of the Black Soul Divine Sect and were completely forced into a dark quagmire since then. Every time they were forced to carry out an underground trade, the Black Soul Divine Sect would use a Profound Imagery Stone to leave behind proof of the trade, consequently, forcing the Black Feather Merchant Guild to fall deeper and deeper.

Thenceforth, the Black Feather Merchant Guild had no way out but to be controlled by the Black Soul Divine Sect. Otherwise, once it makes the proof of the underground trade public, things would go south in no time. Not only each and everything that is possessed by the Black Feather Merchant Guild would be destroyed in a day, but it would also fall into a miserable situation where the common people would condemn and cast aside even those of its later generation.

The Black Soul Divine Sect absolutely didn't do so just to control the Black Feather Merchant Guild. It wants the whole Darkya Realm to be in its complete control. After all, every time a filthy and evil underground trade was done, the customers would also end up having the Black Soul Divine Sect get dirt on them, similar to the Black Feather Merchant Guild. The Merchant Guild is required to provide extremely detailed information about all the customers and the things they want to purchase, to the Black Soul Divine Sect, and the whole trading process is even secretly recorded by a Profound Imagery Stone.

The Black Soul Divine Sect was not afraid of any backfire since it's not them who carry out the underground trade. It's the Black Feather Merchant Guild that has always been in charge of it. If something were to really happen, the Black Feather Merchant Guild would be destroyed in a day but it definitely wouldn't hurt the Black Soul Divine Sect in any way.

Issei decided that once he's done here, he will send the to wipe out the ...

The people beneath the stage were rather silent. If this woman was peerlessly beautiful, then they might have bought her home as a plaything. However, not only did the woman look average, she looked like a filthy toy who was used and discarded… they had no interest in a woman like this.

Ji Ruyan cast a glance at the woman but she immediately moved her gaze away right after. She said, "This woman is no ordinary woman. I may surprise you all when I reveal her identity."

"I am sure everyone present has heard of her father's reputation. He was… the villa master of the Wind End Villa that was exterminated three years ago!"

"What?" As expected, her words shocked all of the people present.

"The Black Feather Merchant Guild doesn't spout any lies," said Ji Ruyan smilingly. "This woman is none other than the first miss and final descendant of Wind End Villa. Therefore, she may have inherited the Wind End Villa's sword forging techniques… of course, this isn't all. Besides that, she also possesses a Wind Yin Body."

"Wind Yin Body?" The dozens of gazes trained onto the woman's body immediately grew heated.

"All young masters who cultivate a wind type profound art, I am sure that your cultivation speed will grow up twice as fast if you have a Wind Yin Body woman to use as a dual cultivation incubator, am I right?" Ji Ruyan's gaze slowly moved across the crowd, "My father once told me that there are a lot of noble ones here who are searching for a woman with a Wind Yin Body all this time and today, we are finally able to fulfill that demand. Unfortunately, this woman can only belong to one young master, so you will have to give it your all."

As expected, thirty or so men had already jumped to their feet before Ji Ruyan could even finish her sentence. They all looked very excited and determined to win.

"If there is one downside to this woman, it is that she has lost her vital yin already, so I can't set the asking price too high. So, let it be… eight million purple profound stones."

"Ten million!" Ji Ruyan had just finished speaking when a shout cut right through the air. The price was immediately raised by two million purple profound stones!

"Twelve million!"

"Fifteen million! I hail from Wind Bend Alliance of the northern region and I am sure that everyone here has heard of our proud achievements. I will benefit greatly if I can obtain this woman, so please give her to me!"

"Heh, Wind Bend Alliance is not the only place in the Darkya Realm with those who cultivate the wind profound arts. This is the Black Feather Merchant Guild and status and favors have never mattered in this place! The one thing that does matter, is wealth! Twenty million!"

In the blink of an eye and just between several people, the bid price had reached twenty million purple profound stones. The skyrocketing price surprised many people and caused them to sit back down reluctantly.

"Twenty-three million!"

"Twenty-five million!"

Issei calmly observes the ongoing bidding... He wanted to see if the highest bidder will be a good person or not. If he's a good person then Issei will let it be, but if not, he will do the bidding instead.

Issei could just bid for her now but even if he were to release her later, she mig