After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

In the square, many cultivators who had won the bids for their desired items had already quietly left their seats.

Firstly, the items to be auctioned were beyond their reach; secondly, if they waited until the auction ended before leaving, they feared that more people with ill intentions would follow them.

Some even sneaked out of the hall unnoticed while the auction was in full swing, while others fled back to their sect overnight.

The host on stage ignored this and, after bidding on a piece of silver soft armor priced at two thousand spirit stones, did not immediately take out the next item for auction. Instead, he lightly tapped the jade bell on the stage three times.

The sound of the bell, imbued with the mantra of tranquility, echoed throughout the auction hall, invigorating everyone present.

"Thank you all for your patience. I wonder if you have all made any progress."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have them. The next three items are the highlight of this auction. Any one of them will make your trip worthwhile. Fellow Daoists, please seize this last opportunity."

After she finished speaking, a beautiful and elegant female cultivator from Tianhefang gracefully walked onto the auction stage.

However, everyone's attention was focused on the jade box in her hand, while the beauty and temperament of the person holding the box were completely ignored.

"The next item in this auction is not from Tianhefang, but is being auctioned on behalf of our shop. The seller has special requirements, and no details about this item will be provided. Furthermore, the seller will not accept spirit stones, but only Infant Transformation Pills. The bidding starts at five pills, with each bid increasing by one pill!"

Upon hearing this, the remaining cultivators below the stage erupted in an uproar.

The Nascent Soul Transformation Pill is a treasure used by Golden Core cultivators to increase their success rate when attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. Taking multiple pills together can also increase the chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation after a failed attempt. It is a coveted item for Golden Core cultivators.

However, its refining method is extremely complicated, and the raw materials required are extremely rare. Only major sects have the financial and human resources to refine it, and it is only for the consumption of core disciples, with very little being leaked out.

Even at the auction in Tianhefang, there has never been a trace of the Infant Transformation Pill.

Everyone was extremely curious about this treasure, which started with five Nascent Soul Pills.

As the host slowly opened the much-anticipated jade box, the uproar in the square reached its peak.

To everyone's surprise, what lay inside the jade box was a crystal radius bone, as if it were naturally formed.

The crystal radius bone was crystal clear and shimmering with light, but apart from its stunning appearance, there was no trace of spiritual power, divine consciousness, or other aura emanating from it, as if it were merely a strangely shaped ornament.

This seemingly ordinary item had a starting bid of five Infant Transformation Pills!

The host gently struck the jade bell, ignoring the murmurs from the audience, and announced the start of the auction.

The moment the jade box was opened, Huo Yu's soul seemed to be touched by an inexplicable force. A strong tremor flashed by and then disappeared without a trace.

When he gazed at the crystal radius bone again, everything returned to calm; it seemed to be just an ordinary bone.

After the host announced the start of the auction, Huo Yu immediately announced his price:

Six pills.

These words not only caused another uproar in the room, but even Changsun Ning couldn't help but cast a questioning look at Huo Yu:

"Brother Huo, do you know the origin of this item?"

"I don't know."

Huo Yu spoke the truth.

Changsun Ning assumed that Huo Yu was unwilling to reveal it, so she did not press further or ask Huo Yu why a Foundation Establishment cultivator would have a Nascent Soul Transformation Pill.

With no one bidding higher, the host began the final questioning.

"Six Nascent Soul Transformation Pills at once!"

"Six Infant Transformation Pills twice!"

Just when everyone thought the mysterious crystal radius bone would be sold for the price of six Nascent Soul Pills, a sudden voice broke the silence:

"Ten Infant Transformation Pills".

The crowd erupted in cheers once again, and those who were paying attention began to secretly observe the approximate locations of the two bidding parties.

"Eleven pills."

Huo Yu raised the price without changing his expression, secretly pondering to himself.

While the Infant Transformation Pill might be priceless to others, sects of the scale of the four major demonic sects can still produce some each year.

When Huo Yugang first became the Demon Lord, he amassed a large collection of Nascent Soul Transformation Pills for a period of time, so much so that now, Nascent Soul Transformation Pills are indispensable when the four major sects offer tributes.

Huo Yu hadn't even finished using the Nascent Soul Transformation Pills he had initially collected, so he gave them all to the Left Protector.

"Fifteen Infant Transformation Pills!"

The bidding sounds came from a private room in the west. Due to the concealment of the array around the room, the cultivators outside could not accurately determine which room the cultivators were bidding from.

Huo Yu did not immediately raise the price.

He still had dozens of Nascent Soul Transformation Pills in his storage bag, enough for him to play for more than ten rounds if the other party wanted to.

However, this would inevitably attract too much attention and be too complicated.

Huo Yu had already used his divine sense to locate the room where the other party was during the first bid, but the other party had obviously added another layer of protection on top of the original array in the room, and Huo Yu was unable to see the person in the room even when he used his Nascent Soul stage divine sense.

"Fifteen Nascent Soul Transformation Pills at once!"

"Fifteen Infant Transformation Pills twice!"

Just as the auctioneer was about to bring down the hammer, Huo Yu finally spoke up and announced his final price:

Sixteen grains.

At the same time, Huo Yu's divine sense finally broke through the layers of protection and saw the person in the room clearly—the other party was actually a foreigner with a high nose and deep-set eyes!

As Huo Yu's divine sense pierced through the barrier, the foreigner seemed to sense it as well, looking in surprise in Huo Yu's direction. He then activated the formation to block Huo Yu's divine sense from entering again.

Perhaps intimidated by Huo Yu's move, the foreigner made no further bids, and the crystal radius bone of unknown origin ultimately became Huo Yu's possession.

After the host announced the successful auction of the crystal radius bone, an array appeared in the center of the table in Huo Yu's room.

"Congratulations, Brother Huo! Now you only need to put sixteen Nascent Soul Pills into this formation, and the transaction will be complete."

Changsun Ning smiled and congratulated Huo Yu.

Huo Yu tossed out a pill bottle, and with a flash of light on the array, the bottle vanished without a trace.

A few breaths later, the array lit up again, and a jade box appeared out of thin air.

Huo Yu opened the jade box, glanced at it, and then put it into his storage bag, but his mind was still thinking about the scene he had just seen in his divine sense.

Although the appearance of that foreigner was rare in the inland, the Chang Le Mountains were located on the border of the Central Plains and adjacent to Bharata. Cultivators of the two races often clashed at the border, and Huo Yu had intimidated quite a few foreign cultivators.

What surprised Huo Yu was the crystal on the foreigner's head; it was unlike any he had ever seen before.

It was a golden prism shattered into pieces; no matter how dazzling it had been when intact, it was now dull and lifeless. The annotations attached to it were in golden characters that Huo Yuqian had never seen before.

These golden characters were like living things, seemingly possessing a mysterious power to escape the shackles of memory. No matter how hard Huo Yu tried to memorize them, they would always slip away silently from his mind.

When he tried to engrave them on the jade slip, the characters had already blurred and vanished without a trace.

Meanwhile, in the room where the foreigner was, a gray-haired, blue-eyed man from another land was waiting anxiously.

Finally, the magic circle in the center of the table flashed, and a small jade bottle appeared out of thin air.

The foreigner opened the jade bottle and found fourteen Nascent Soul Pills inside—the two missing ones had been deducted by Tianhefang as auction brokerage fees.

A cold glint flashed in the man's eyes. He took out a small golden bottle from his pocket, put all fourteen Nascent Soul Pills into it, and left the original jade bottle on the table.

Before the auction even ended, he immediately activated the teleportation jade slip in his hand.

A flash of white light, and the room was empty.