The Martial Commerce's Hall Master Gao Hao had prepared a special location for Chu Feng — one designed for activating the Benefactor Formation.
It was a formation world. Not particularly large, but it contained powerful formations within.
Inside this formation world, Chu Feng could activate the Benefactor Formation more rapidly.
Once he truly began, however, he discovered that the Benefactor Formation was even harder to activate than he had anticipated.
Even beneath the support of this formation world's master, it took Chu Feng a full three days before he finally succeeded in opening one Benefactor Formation.
The formation activated, and he obtained a red crystal.
This red crystal was a cultivation artifact specifically prepared for spirit world creatures.
Though it was useless to him personally, it would provide considerable assistance to a spirit world creature.
In truth, the Benefactor Formation shared some similarities with the Sealing Heaven Bamboo Scroll Fragments.
Within a Sealing Heaven Bamboo Scroll Fragment, the contents were uncertain.
Within a Benefactor Formation, the contents were also uncertain.
But the difference lay in this: the uncertainty within a Sealing Heaven Bamboo Scroll Fragment could lead to drastically different outcomes.
Either you soared to the heavens in a single leap.
Or you lost everything.
With a Benefactor Formation, however, you would either obtain something beneficial for a spirit world creature, or something beneficial for a Spirit World Master.
You simply didn't know what it would be — but you would never walk away empty-handed.
Though this red crystal was a cultivation artifact for spirit world creatures, its quality gave Chu Feng tremendous confidence.
In his estimation, the red crystal was most likely not the finest treasure hidden within the Benefactor Formation.
There would be better things ahead.
Perhaps there would even be a treasure that could help heal Egg Egg's injuries.
And so Chu Feng grew ever more eager — eager to activate a treasure that could aid Egg Egg's recovery.
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Meanwhile, word of what had happened at the Nine Heavens Peak was gradually spreading.
Chu Feng was still alive.
The appearance of the Ancient Heavenly Clan had come as a surprise to all.
But the most shocking revelation was that Chu Feng had not only defeated a host of young geniuses, he had claimed first place at the Nine Heavens Peak.
What was even more astonishing was that Chu Feng had defeated a powerful heir of the Ancient Heavenly Clan.
And he had done so only after that heir had defeated the current generation's young prodigies one after another.
Chu Feng had even conquered the legendary power — the Origin of Veins.
Such accomplishments left people absolutely no room to doubt Chu Feng's strength.
Powerful. Simply inconceivably powerful.
The son of Jie Ranqing had not only shown his brilliance, he had surged forth with even greater ferocity than his mother had in her day.
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Deep beneath an upper world of the Immortal Sea Heavenly River, an enormous spatial world lay concealed.
This spatial world was so vast that it was nearly as large as the upper world in which it was hidden.
And it was hidden so deeply that without extraordinary means, no cultivator or Spirit World Master of the current era could discover this place.
Here, everyone wore a spirit world robe.
And throughout the area, the same banner flew in numerous places.
Upon the banner were written four large characters — Seven Realms Celestial Pavilion.
Before long, a teleportation formation within this underground world surged with power.
Once that power dissipated, a group of people appeared.
It was the very same group of young people Chu Feng had encountered at the auction.
Only now, they had removed the hoods of their spirit world robes.
Most among them were elders, but leading the group was a young man. All of them wore grim expressions.
"Young Master Gongyi, you've returned! Was the trip a success?"
Upon seeing the young man and the elders return, several elderly figures immediately stepped forward with welcoming smiles.
The white-haired elder at their forefront appeared to hold a fairly high position as well.
"Success? What success! I spent the price of a Supreme Grade Divine Weapon just to buy an ordinary bamboo scroll."
"That Sealing Heaven Bamboo Scroll Fragment — whichever bastard invented it was clearly scamming people on purpose."