Chapter 558: Chapter 560: Auction House Scavenging Method Reappears

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“Alas, it is hateful to hide such strength. Truly deceitful and cunning,” the Heavenly Demon God fumed, believing that strong individuals should be forthright, not motionless like Qin Muye, hiding like a turtle.

“That’s exactly what I was waiting for you to say,” Qin Muye couldn’t help but smile, then promptly made his move.

“Damn, a storm is coming,” the face of the Heavenly Demon God turned gloomy.

“Heh, an interesting life form. First come, first served, the rest of you will have to wait for the next opportunity,” Qin Muye’s voice, with its terrifying contamination, flowed through the cosmos, but was quickly purified by some Rank 8 Transcendents.

“Damn it!” The Heavenly Demon God nearly gnashed his teeth to pieces, not expecting this trick.

“Now I can only turn to the Star Cluster Empire, and if they don’t accept me…” In order to save his own life, the Heavenly Demon God couldn’t care too much although joining the Star Cluster Empire would mean more restrictions and loss of benefits, but nothing was more important than life.

“Scoundrel! Today’s humiliation, I will return a hundredfold tomorrow.” The Heavenly Demon God looked exceedingly unpleasant; his opponent was absolutely ruthless.

“How the hell did this Lord acquire such a powerful Hero unit? No wonder he was so confident,” the Heavenly Demon God was taken aback.

“Now it seems all Divine Artifacts must really be handed over to him,” the Heavenly Demon God was very reluctant.

[***: This is too troublesome, I’ve listed an item, just bid on it in the auction house.]

[Heavenly Demon God: I have listed all Divine Artifacts in the auction house designated for *** to purchase.]

Rank 8s dare not look too long, he, a Rank 7, stared directly and survived only because Qin Muye was still waiting for him to hand over Divine Artifact Level Treasures.

Given Qin Muye’s strength, the Heavenly Demon God ultimately chose to pay the protection fee, but he wasn’t foolish enough to hand over everything; some core Divine Artifacts were simply not possible to give up.

Initially, his idea was indeed to default on the debt, not bluntly, but by dragging it out, finding any excuse to stall when the time came.

After all, the credibility of “Lord Era” had deeply embedded itself in people’s hearts, changing a person would not make others believe.

After all, not all servers had experienced apocalypse-type events; the Heavenly Demon God came to this server not because of an apocalypse event like the True Dragon Emperor, but because his own server lost during a server war.

However, Qin Muye had no intention of attacking the Heavenly Demon God and soon withdrew his hand, even throwing the Star God into the terrifying Demon Tide.

Of course, he also considered his backup plan if the Star Cluster Empire didn’t accept him, after all, one shouldn’t put all their eggs in one basket.

The opponent’s auction item was just a low-level treasure, but the price was that of all Divine Artifact Level Treasures, he had him cornered.

Suddenly, an unexpectedly dense, pitch-black flame emerged in his eyes, followed by a multitude of negative statuses, leaving him somewhat at a loss.

Such strength was effortlessly snatched away by Qin Muye, without even exerting any effort, even though it had just been born, it was all too easy.

The scene just now nearly scared him to death.

Offering a way out would be good for him, good for me, good for everyone, and just gloss over it. It was his own affair, had it been someone else he definitely would have advised them to be generous, but when it happened to him, it was no longer a matter of generosity, but how long his heartache would last.

More importantly, he couldn’t kill the monster. Even with Divine Artifact Level Treasures he was no match, let alone now that he had lost all his Divine Artifact Level Treasures.

Fortunately, Qin Muye didn’t push him too hard. Daring to use Identification and Investigation Techniques on him was simply seeking death; his indescribable state was not something ordinary people could behold.

Fortunately, on the leaderboard he was already the last, but there was still room to drop further, for instance from a Rank 7 Champion to a Rank 7 Elite now.

Soon, the glances of all Rank 8s were withdrawn, they probably understood why Qin Muye had come.

Returning to his territory, he also realized the extent to which his territory’s strength had diminished.

After frantically warping with his battleship dozens of times, he returned to his own territory. Having lost the Divine Artifacts, his overall strength diminished, a journey that originally required only a dozen warps had increased several fold.

Just by his chaotic twisted appearance one could tell he wasn’t a good person; even the Star God who had always been hunting him was snatched away by him with one hand, much less himself.

But now the opponent was truly strong, if they really dared to default Qin Muye would definitely be crushed to dust.

It must be for that unique life form of the planet, it couldn’t possibly be to save an interstellar pirate, right? Even if this pirate had the backing of the Star Cluster Empire, that was all there was to it.

The terrifying distortion and chaos burst forth in an instant, and the warships of the Heavenly Demon God swayed and overturned like a flat boat in a storm.

The Demon claw pierced through the warship of the Heavenly Demon God and directly seized the Star God.

Those observing Transcendents of Rank 8 had no objections now; a living planet was indeed interesting and valuable, but since Qin Muye had gotten there first, they definitely would not try to snatch it away, rare as it was, but not worth breaking ties with Qin Muye over.

His territory would probably be crushed to pieces by his opponents as well.

A gigantic abyss stretched across, and from it, a massive Demon claw emerged, tearing through the various planets and meteorite belts between the star domains.

Actually, it was only unknown to the Heavenly Demon God; every individual at the apex of the pyramid in the entire Shining Universe server knew not to mess with Qin Muye, and hence he had various privileges concerning the Endless Abyss.

Looking at the opponent’s stance, they had no intention of leaving him a way out.

Qin Muye came quickly and left quickly, directly grabbing the Star God and returning to the Endless Abyss; the speed was naturally very fast.

A Divine Artifact level Treasure for a Lord was a pillar of strength, and should it be lost, the drop in strength would be quite significant.

The distance across several star domains was but a moment for Qin Muye, but this move naturally caught the attention of many Rank 8 Transcendents.

So many eyes followed the trajectory of Qin Muye’s journey.

He initially thought about joking around to see if he could blur the matter, but reason told him it was best not to, as the opponent could kill him.

He did not believe it was Qin Muye’s own strength because as a Lord, the Rank could not exceed that of the territory, so it must be some powerful Hero unit the other party had obtained from somewhere.

He indeed had not expected the auction house to be able to set such conditions previously; there had been cases of bartering before, but he didn’t expect it to set such terms.

Especially those Divine Artifacts that could affect the entire territory were particularly valuable.

The eyes of the Heavenly Demon God soon regenerated, looking around at the devastated surroundings, and he couldn’t help but gasp for breath.

After reading this passage, the Heavenly Demon God opened the auction house and stared fixedly at the items Qin Muye had listed, thinking he could deceive the other party, yet the execution was flawless.

The Heavenly Demon God saw the terrifying Demon claw crossing the star river coming toward him, nearly panicking; after using the Identification Technique, all he saw was a cluster of question marks, unable to investigate anything.

Generally speaking, when Rank 8 Transcendents travel, they only ride ships or warships, even though their speed is countless times faster than these vehicles, but walking by themselves makes too big of a fuss and draws much attention.

After all, they didn’t know what it was.

After a pang of regret, he then realized, if the Star God’s were all of Rank 8, what would he do?

After much heartache, he ultimately chose to comply.

The event was exceedingly dangerous, and unlike the True Dragon Emperor and another, who managed to snatch a Server Transfer Token and could flee, once a large-scale invasion of Star Gods occurred, whether the Star Cluster Empire could maintain its hold was itself a question, how could anyone possibly care about him as a mere puppet.

Such vast benefits wouldn’t be given up by anyone.

This made his expression increasingly hideous; it was already a dangerous juncture, and now his strength had declined as well.

This event of the Star Gods had been recognized by “Lord Era,” although he didn’t know what the so-called Cosmic Will was or what the meaning behind the limited-time event was, but having witnessed the capabilities of the Star God, he could ascertain it was definitely not a good event.

It was only because the Lords trusted “Lord Era” too much, that they didn’t believe Qin Muye was of Rank 8.

But this caused many to reassess Qin Muye, seeing that in their opinion, the Star Gods were of Rank 8, that is, a Level S Rank.