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That makes sense, but these were just a group of ignorant little demons who had never encountered anything like this before, and they were still shocked for a moment.

A little demon snapped out of its daze and said, "Then I'll stay until the very end of the auction to see how Zhou Li's physical body will be auctioned off."

"Me too."

While the little demons were talking, the spirit fish in the Water Fish Marsh had already been divided up.

Inside a private room on the fifth floor, there was a black-clad female demon with cat ears on her head and extremely round eyes that shimmered with an eerie light, like emeralds.

"This Jade Butterfly Lord did a good deed. If it weren't for her, how could I have bought so many spirit fish from the Fish Pond?"

"If it weren't for having to wait for the next items to be auctioned, I would really like to buy all of these spirit fish."

As for Zhou Li's physical body, she also coveted it greatly.

The auction became much more interesting with the addition of Jade Belt Butterfly.

The black-clad succubus wore a meaningful smile, though the smile didn't reach her eyes.

"Next up is our first mysterious item for auction at Yutang Pavilion—'The Ancient Food Classic'!"

As soon as the alluring enchantress presiding over the auction finished speaking, the Jade Hall Pavilion erupted in excitement.

Her voice rose considerably as she proclaimed, "The 'Ancient Food Scripture' is a sacred book about the Way of Food, containing various methods for nourishing one's cultivation through food. It is a treasure coveted by every demon race. The value of this book cannot be measured in crystals, therefore there is no reserve price; the highest bidder wins!"

Immediately, a demon race member couldn't wait to speak up: "A high-grade beast core!"

"I'll offer two seventh-tier demon cores!"

I'll play three!

"..."

The intense bidding outside reached Ning Fusang's private room.

This book, "The Ancient Food Classic," only appealed to the demon race, but it was useless to her, so Ning Fusang naturally didn't pay much attention to it.

Moreover, she suspected that the "Ancient Food Classic" was incomplete and probably a fragment, and how many dietary supplements it contained remained to be investigated.

If the "Ancient Food Classic" were complete, it shouldn't be ranked so high, considering only its importance to the demon race.

On the fifth floor, for example, there weren't many demons bidding, which shows that they all knew what they were doing.

The fierce competition lasted for nearly an hour and a half before it ended.

After a half-hour break, a female succubus took over the auction stage.

This demon had a distinctly snake-like face, and its eyes shone with a cold light. Only when it smiled slightly did it conceal its natural coldness.

The items auctioned earlier were all common rare and precious materials. Ning Fusang only bought a piece of "Ten Thousand Year Lotus," planted it in his dantian, and it looked like a green plate floating on the water.

The silkworm spirit, a tiny, round dot the size of a grain of rice, sits atop the lotus leaf, resembling a pearl with a restrained luster.

Because of Ning Fusang's identity as a demon lord, she acquired the "Eternal Lotus" very easily. No lesser demons challenged her, and she bought the lotus at the starting bid.

The snake woman, with her cool and aloof voice, presided over the auction of the next mysterious item.

"The final item in this auction is the Four Spirits Mantras of Heaven and Earth, one of which is the Xuanwu Mantra. Like the Ancient Food Scripture, it has no reserve price and no limit on the increments. The highest bidder wins!"

On the table next to the snake woman, there was a black stone tablet surrounded by water mist, making it impossible to see the talismans carved on it.

After Ning Fusang placed a bid, Canling advised, "Fusang, don't bid on this Xuanwu Curse."

"Why?"

"Because it doesn't work!" Ning Fusang temporarily gave up on negotiating the price and asked, "Is the Xuanwu Incantation sold by Yutang Pavilion fake?"

Silkworm Spirit shook her head: "I don't know if it's true or false, but I'm sure that whether it's true or false, it won't work."

Ning Fusang pondered the silkworm spirit's words. Could it be that even the Four Spirits Curse of Heaven and Earth wouldn't work? Or does it have requirements for the user, which she certainly doesn't meet?

Silkworm Spirit asked, "Fusang, do you know where the power of the Four Spirits Curse of Heaven and Earth originates?"

"Naturally, they come from the four celestial spirits: the Azure Dragon of the East, the White Tiger of the West, the Vermilion Bird of the South, and the Black Tortoise of the North."

Ning Fusang knew this much.

The silkworm spirit hummed in agreement and began to recount a secret that Ning Fusang was unaware of: "Before the Fifth Era, there were four celestial pillars in this world, which correspond to the four spirits you mentioned."

"They guarded the four directions and supported the sky. Later, an unnamed person walked to the end of the world and saw the Vermilion Bird Pillar among the four pillars of heaven. He lamented his own insignificance and the sublimity of the pillar. Time flies by. Under the pillar, he comprehended a talisman. As long as he chanted the true name of the Vermilion Bird, he could draw on the power within the pillar."

"The origins of the other three spirit incantations are roughly the same. For thousands of years, no one has known who created the four spirit incantations or why they have such great power, but these four incantations have been widely spread throughout the world."

Ning Fusang was quick-witted and understood the meaning of the silkworm spirit upon hearing this.

"With the fall of the Fourth Era and the collapse of the Heavenly Pillars, the Four Spirits Curse has lost its source of power and therefore will not take effect, right?"

The silkworm spirit replied crisply, "Yes."

“There was once a madwoman who swept away the power of the four spirits and destroyed the pillar of heaven.”

Ning Fusang's eyes flickered, and she pressed on, "Was she a god from the previous era?"

The silkworm spirit paused for a moment, then nodded, "Yes."

Ning Fusang suddenly smiled. In this world, there really is a realm of gods; it is not just a legendary realm.

Who in the world, besides those at the level of gods, possesses the power to destroy the Heavenly Pillar?

A complete transformation...

Isn't the current Zhongling World the result of that deity's transformation of heaven and earth?
The Fourth Age was supported by four pillars of heaven, so what is the truth about the Fifth Age?
Ning Fusang felt that she had finally glimpsed just the tip of the iceberg of this world.

"Why did that deity destroy the Heavenly Pillar? Where did she go after the Fourth Era ended?"

Ning Fusang asked curiously. Although she knew that the Silkworm Spirit probably didn't know the answer either, she couldn't help but explore such a secret.

The silkworm spirit rolled over on the lotus leaf and whispered, "Nobody knows, I've never seen that deity's face."

"Perhaps when the Fourth Age ends, she will be plunged into endless nothingness and darkness."

Ning Fusang suggested, "Could it be that she broke free from her cage and left this world?"

The silkworm spirit was bewildered: "What cage?" Where did this cage come from?

Ning Fusang took out a piece of bamboo paper, palm down, and brushed it across the air. Four round pillars rose from the four corners of the bamboo paper, covered with billowing clouds.

She said, "Four pillars, square and solid, with the sky above and yellow earth below, isn't this world just a vast and boundless cage?"

The silkworm spirit's eyes widened as it listened, and it swallowed hard; this was something it had never imagined before.

How could such a vast and free landscape be a cage?

But it also felt that what Fusang said seemed to make some sense.

The silkworm spirit shook its head, thinking, "Forget it, it's only the size of a speck of dust, and the world is so vast. Whether it's confined or not is not a problem for a tiny silkworm spirit like me to worry about."

(End of this chapter)