Chapter 4850 — The Road of Giants
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"Heh heh, now he's really putting on airs and playing the fool—time for him to make a proper spectacle of himself in front of my Wang Xinyan!" Bao Zuoliang and Su Kesheng mingled with the crowd, sneering without end.
But before their sneering could run its course, Wei Zhao casually tossed out a seventh-grade Great Return Pill and said with a faint smile, "Will this do?"
"It will, it will—of course it will!" The staff member nodded again and again. Other treasures still had to be examined by a specialist appraiser, but this seventh-grade Great Return Pill skipped even that procedure entirely. Never mind whether it qualified for auction—it could serve as the finale lot and no one would object.
"Damn it, this bastard really isn't short on spirit jade!" Bao Zuoliang stared, dumbstruck. Even he, the only son of a city lord, could never spend with such extravagance.
They came to the familiar auction hall. This time, since none of the great personages would attend, no VIP boxes had been set aside. Still, given the status of the three of them, they were assured good seats even without a box. Ordinary folk only dared watch from afar, not venturing close, lest they give offense and bring trouble down on themselves.
The auction had not yet begun. Wei Zhao chatted and drank tea with the two women while listening to the buzz of conversation around them. Most of it circled back to the guild's last special auction, though he noticed many people also bringing up the same matter—it seemed that before long, an epochal trial was to be held here.
What a coincidence. Last time on West Island he had happened upon the West Island Trial, and now his visit to East Continent had landed him in the path of another epochal trial. It sounded like something formidable indeed.
"An epochal trial? What does that mean?" Wei Zhao could not resist asking the two women.
"Oh, you mean the trial that opens three months from now—the legendary Road of Giants of the East Continent's Yellow-Rank sea region," Wang Xinyan explained with a smile.
"The Road of Giants?" Wei Zhao was taken aback, and instinctively recalled the Giant Realm that the ghost thing had explained to him. Could this trial actually produce top-tier experts of the Giant Realm?
"That's right. They say it's a very special and very important trial ground. If you want to advance to the Mystic Ascension stage, you must enter the Road of Giants, because only there can you summon the lightning tribulation," Huang Xiaotao added.
"Indeed. Everyone knows that to assault Mystic Ascension, one must undergo the lightning tribulation. Only within the tempering of that tribulation, harmonizing two attribute spirit roots with each other, is there any chance of advancing to Mystic Ascension. Outside, it is very hard to summon the tribulation—and without the tribulation, naturally there is no assaulting Mystic Ascension," Wang Xinyan nodded.
"So that means only by entering the Road of Giants can one summon the lightning tribulation, and only then have a chance at Mystic Ascension?" Wei Zhao said thoughtfully. This differed somewhat from his conception of the Giant Realm—at the very least, only the Mountain-Opening stage counted as the Giant Realm. Still, strictly speaking, Mystic Ascension was the preparatory class for the Giant Realm, so calling it the necessary Road of Giants was not far off.
"Mm-hm. So this grand auction has come at just the right time. Everyone wants to seize the chance to buy more good things in preparation, so they won't be caught off guard in the trial. Especially since the last auction released five Lightning Mystery Pills all at once—it was like sending coal in the snow," Huang Xiaotao laughed.
"Those five from last time were all carved up by the upper echelons of your academy, weren't they? Ordinary disciples would find it very hard to get their hands on any. Don't tell me they all already have one?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled.