Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor
chapter-1253

Wang Wei stopped thinking and sipped his tea.

"Done?" Xiao Tiandi asked.

"Sorry about that."

"I understand," Xiao Tiandi nodded. He knew It was best to let his thoughts flow naturally when he got these sudden inspirations.

"So, what have you been up to?"

"You know, preparing for the future," Wang Wei replied vaguely.

"Is the Dao Opening Sect prepared to give you full support to fulfill your destiny?"

"Why do you want to know?" Wang Wei asked him.

"So, I was right. You're trying to keep them out of it," Xiao Tiandi said with a smirk.

"You know, I preferred you when you were silent and depressed."

"That's a low blow."

"I can go lower if you continue to test me," Wang Wei said, looking him calmly in the eyes.

Xiao Tiandi sighed before standing up. "Well, this was fun. Let's do it again another time." His body turned into a field of flowers as he flew into the sky, and his voice echoed:

"I once walked a lonely path, but now, it is illuminated by a flower that symbolizes beauty and wrath — a flower that I will go to any length to protect its laugh, including living my life in bloodbath."

[AN: I spent so much time trying to write this poem. I should have just used AI.]

Wang Wei's lips twitched. 'What is this? Could it be that Xun Junyao is so beautiful that it made this bastard turn into a poet?' He shook his head before flying away. He did not leave but looked around this place, thinking of sending his guard to this place to gather information.

Wang Wei flew to the place in this territory with the most condensed destiny and also where most of the chaos occurs. Snow-Sky City is where most events would happen, so it was the best place to create a branch. He might even extend the missions of his Changing Fate Hall to this location.

This city was enormous, as are most things in the upper dimension. However, this was not the most unique part of this place. As soon as Wang Wei arrived, he caught people's attention for one reason: he wore ordinary clothes while almost everyone else had a fur coat on.

Snow-Sky City was built long ago on top of Celestial Ice Crystal Mine, causing the temperature to be extremely low. Celestial Ice Crytal is a top Tier 11 material, and if enough is concentrated on an area, even an Empyrea— a conceptual being — can freeze to death.

In Snow-Sky City, not wearing a specially-made coat meant your clothes were top-tier artifacts that could resist the temperature, or you were powerful enough to ignore the cold. Wang Wei blended with a small group and changed his clothes to resemble everyone else.

As he walked around the city and observed, he recalled what he knew about it. Snow-Sky City used to be the property of the Skill Dao Association; they used the Celestial Ice Crystal to make weapons, talismans, pills, etc. However, this place became the property of Undead Phoenix and Five Feathers, but the dispute might have originated from how to share the resources. Or the dispute might have been over something else, but it resulted in their fight spilling over the mine distribution of Celestial Ice Crystal.

'So many resources, but most of them are wasted,' Wang Wei sighed. The parasites killed most of the professional Dao Paragons, meaning that they could not refine resources on that level. Wang Wei guessed that Maitreya and Supreme Unity might have allowed them to keep a few, but that is unlikely since the creation of some Paragon Pill, depending on the type, could cause severe vision and affect the entire world, which is what they wanted to prevent.

Additionally, these parasites, maybe except Time Eater, were not brave enough to keep another Paragon close to their side. As such, the best they could do was keep a rare Insurgent Dao Monarch that could refine Paragon Grade — or close to that — artifacts, pills, talismans, etc.

As Wang Wei was walking around the city, he heard something that caught his interest.

"Are you serious?" said a female Dao Ruler.

"Yes. I just heard the news. The Purple Lotus Actiol Hall released the news that the next auction will contain Relife Iron," said her companion, an Immortal Sovereign.

"Shh, don't say so loud," warned the woman. "But they are so bold to announce selling such a thing?"

"It's probably because it's only second tier, but there is a rumor going around that they have third-tier Re-Life Iron, but it will only be sold in a secret auction."

"Rumors are rumors, after all."

"So, you don't think it's true?"

"So what if it is?" the woman asked. "Do you think this is the kind of stuff we can interfere with?"

"I know. I'm mentioning it to convince you to attend the auction. There might be some good stuff there."

"I smell trouble, so we should stay far away," the woman replied.

"You play it too safe," her partner countered. "That's fine and all, but if that is how we were going to operate, what was the point of coming to such a dangerous place?"

"There is a fine line between benefiting from danger and being swallowed by it. I feel this is one of the cases where we might get swallowed, so listen to me and stay away from that auction."

"Alright, alright, I'll listen to you," the man sighed.

'Re-life Iron?' Wang Wei thought with squinted eyes. This is another rare resource with many uses, the most important being the nemesis of longevity resources. Initially, this thing was used by people without access to a Dao Will to kill Emperors and above. They would seal the body in prisons built from Re-Life Iron, preventing the Emperor from reviving; the prison also made it easier to wash away the dead body's Dao Imprint.

Later, Re-Life Iron was further developed into the Re-Life Talisman, which can force someone with an extra life to revive directly in front of anyone who killed them. In other words, people would use the talisman to force people with extra lives to revive before them to kill them again, ensuring they are truly dead.

'The parasites outlawed Re-life Iron. Although they only reinforce the rules when the third-tier ones are discovered, their subordinate does reinforce the rest of this rule,' Wang Wei thought. 'So, why are those people so blatantly selling it?'

He was intrigued, so he participated in this banquet. He had to wait six months but decided to take a small vacation. Wang Wei bought a VIP lounge for the auction, but he also complained the price was too much. The receptionist explained that the price was due to the nature of what was being sold; however, he still felt it was needlessly pricey.

On the day of the auction, he waited and observed. The announcer/hostess was a beautiful woman with a goth vibe. She wore dark purple lipstick, long black nails, and a revealing winter fox coat. Why would a coat be revealing? No one knows, but that's how she was dressed, and the audience seemed to love it.

The first item was surprisingly Grade 7, meaning it was for people of Void Shattering Realm. Then, it slowly increased until Grade 10, when Wang Wei finally bought something. He fetched 3 of the 5 Heaven Wills they were selling. He did not fight for the remaining two because the people who wanted it seemed desperate, so despite the fact he could outbid them, he let it go — considering granting these two some blessing.

After his bid, someone brought him his things, and he paid; the process was simple and direct. As he held the Heaven Will, Wang Wei could not help but sigh. These things are fought after in the lower dimension, with everyone lusting and willing to do everything for one of them. However, in the upper dimension, it is a commodity — albeit rare, but still a commodity.

Wang Wei did not buy anything more, as even the things in the tier 11 section did not interest him. Then, it was the last object of the auction. The hostess waited a few seconds for someone to bring it out, but no one cared.

"Apologies, everyone, it seems there might be some issue. Give me a moment to resolve everything," the hostess announced as she bowed. "To compensate for this blander, everyone here will receive a 5% discount in all future auctions."

The crowd erupted in murmur, and the auctioneer walked behind the curtain, returning about three minutes later with the item floating behind her.

"Now, let's move on," she said, removing the red cover, showing black rock with white stripes running in a circular pattern. Countless divine senses checked this thing to ensure it was the real deal, and the auction allowed it since this was an unwritten rule of the auction business.

"You all know this thing's value so I won't repeat it," the auctioneer said. "For the starting bid…" she paused for dramatic purposes and to build suspense. "Your life." She said in a severe tone, her eyes full of disdain and killing intent

'As expected,' Wang Wei thought. A barrier suddenly surrounded the auction, and two armies wearing phoenix-designed armor rushed into the place and immediately attacked everyone present.