Manager Ye’s current behavior is finally normal. If upon meeting, this proud, exceptionally intelligent beauty fell in love with Chu Feng, that would be unusual.

Chu Feng might have to worry if this woman wants to steal his wealth or his life.

Following Ah-Jiu back through the Light Gate once more, after a dizzying sensation, he returned to the outside grocer.

"Master, have you settled everything?" Li Shishi had been waiting outside. Upon seeing Chu Feng emerge, she hurried to greet him.

"Yes!" Chu Feng nodded. However, there were still things he didn’t understand that he needed to ask clearly. "Shopkeeper, could you please advise, if I want to attend the auction in two days, should I come here again?"

According to Chu Feng’s thinking, Penglai Auction certainly won’t only have guests from Baihu City.

There must be guests from other places too.

Where exactly is the auction venue set?

If it’s too far from Baihu City, even traveling would be a significant problem. Although with Chu Feng’s current strength, flying ten thousand miles would take at least about a day.

"The guest can come here when the time arrives! Of course, if you have urgent matters, leave Baihu City and don’t have time to get here, I suggest you can choose the nearest contact point," the shopkeeper said with a smile.

This time, Chu Feng seemed to have grasped a bit of the crux of the matter.

"Do you mean, Shopkeeper, that I can enter the auction at any contact point I find?"

"Naturally!" The shopkeeper confirmed with a nod.

"Could it be that the Penglai Auction is not held in one place but in multiple locations?" Chu Feng asked puzzledly.

"Young master, you’re joking! Our Penglai Auction, there’s only one; even the large auction held once a year is only in one place," the shopkeeper replied with a faint expression of pride. "Young master may have never participated in a Penglai Auction, so do not understand. No matter which contact point you enter from, you will enter the same Penglai auction venue."

This time, Chu Feng was truly shocked.

This means that whether guests enter from Baihu City or Azure Dragon City, tens of thousands of miles away, they all end up in the same auction venue.

Wouldn’t it mean there’s a Transmission Array at every contact point?

Chu Feng recalled the mystical Light Gate, which is likely the entrance to the Transmission Array.

After figuring it out, Chu Feng left with Li Shishi.

...

With one day remaining until the next auction begins, Chu Feng, who was cultivating with eyes closed, suddenly sensed the Penglai Auction’s membership card seemed to shake twice.

He instinctively probed with his thoughts.

"Huh, this is the time for the next auction to start, and here are the items to be auctioned!" Chu Feng was surprised to find a unique stream of information within the membership card. Once his thoughts probed, that stream of information immediately surged into his brain.

The Penglai Auction, revered as the foremost auction of the Divine Martial Continent, was indeed not undeservedly famous.

In every aspect, it was the best in the industry.

Unmatched by any other.

Even such a small membership card possessed such powerful functions.

It could actually transmit information.

Its capabilities surpassed even the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn.

After reviewing all the auction items, Chu Feng couldn’t help but feel disappointed. Although every item up for auction was remarkably valuable, many were rare treasures that Chu Feng had only heard of but never seen.

Yet among these treasures, there wasn’t the Blood Ginseng that Chu Feng wanted.

It’s indeed true that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Chu Feng also lost interest in cultivation.

The remaining time for Chang’e was increasingly limited. Yet the Blood Ginseng that could save her life remained elusive.

Even though Chu Feng did everything he could, managed to collect over one million six hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and even struggled ten thousand miles to find the Penglai Auction to acquire a membership card.

All his efforts still showed no glimmer of hope.

Chu Feng sighed deeply, feeling downcast as he stepped out of the room, seeking some air.

The backyard garden had been transformed into a medicinal herb bed, planted with various herbs. Many herbs blossomed with flowers, competing for beauty, adorning the Longevity Hall’s back garden.

Chu Feng walked to the pond’s edge, gazed at the playful fish within, lost in thought.

Recalling his youthful arrogance at the time, dreaming of expanding the Longevity Hall across the Divine Martial Continent, creating an Empire’s Elixir Store. Even aspiring to stand alongside Shennong Mountain.

Now, after enduring tribulations and vicissitudes, Chu Feng had long lost his former vigor.

Unable even to save the woman he loved, how effective was earning more money, obtaining greater fame?

"Master, please don’t bury all your suffering and worries alone. Watching makes my heart ache!" Unbeknownst to him, Li Shishi had arrived behind him, gently embracing him.

"No matter how great the difficulty, no matter how troubled or pained, Shishi always wishes to be your strongest support," Li Shishi pressed her cheek tightly against Chu Feng’s back.

Her comfort moved Chu Feng profoundly.

He took a deep breath, then exhaled. Chu Feng wished to expel all the troubles in his heart completely.

"Meeting you lovely confidantes in this lifetime is a blessing cultivated over several lifetimes. It’s a gift from God. It’s my incapability, not being able to protect my woman, and making you all suffer with me..."

Chu Feng’s voice was hoarse, low, filled with guilt and self-reproach.

Li Shishi is probably the person who understands Chu Feng the most.

Just as Li Shishi said, no matter the difficulty, no matter the affair, Chu Feng always prefers to bear it alone.

"Master is troubled about the Blood Ginseng matter, isn’t he? Even if the Penglai Auction doesn’t have it, it’s okay, we’ll find other ways, through other channels to obtain it." Li Shishi held Chu Feng tighter, preventing him from speaking further. "I’ve already deployed the entire intelligence network to search for the Blood Ginseng, and I believe good news will come soon."

"Shishi, thank you! Thank you for everything you’ve done for me!" Chu Feng turned around to embrace her, filled with deep love and gratitude.

In the sunset glow, their shadows were elongated.

"To dedicate everything to Master, Shishi enjoys it sweetly! Just hope that Sister Chang’e can recover soon, so that once Master avenges his great vendetta, he can take us away to seclusion! The worldly disturbances, the fight for name and profit, I have long grown weary of. I only hope for the day I can accompany you and the sisters to farm until old age."

Li Shishi is perhaps the least interested in cultivation among Chu Feng’s four dear confidantes.

Though Chu Feng often urges her to commit to cultivation, she merely agrees verbally. Whenever Chu Feng isn’t around, she busies herself otherwise, spending shockingly little time on cultivation.

These years have truly been hard for her, yet she’s been invaluable.

Assisting Chu Feng in managing the Longevity Hall, forming an intelligence network, she has continuously and silently supported Chu Feng with all her strength.

When it comes to vengeance, Chu Feng does think of one issue. Why has the Emperor Star of Panlong Heavenly Emperor become bright again?

"Shishi, do you know the recent movements of Panlong Heavenly Emperor?"