In front of everyone, three people stood up for Yun Chen and protected him. The first person to move was elder Kong because he had already accepted Yun Chen as his master a long time ago now. The two other persons were the chairman of the auction house Chu Gao and his manager Lao Gu.
«Mu Yantian! Tang Xuedong! This is a death match! You have no right to intervene. You were the ones who started this and now that you lost, you want to break the rules? » declared the chairman with murderous intent.
«I don't care about your rules! He killed my son, and he must pay for that.
Members of the Tang family, listen! I will reward a first-grade earth weapon and twenty thousand low-grade spirit stones to anyone who can take Yun Chen's head! Kill without mercy! » the Tang family patriarch shouted in anger.
After hearing that, everyone from the Tang family rushed in the arena.
«Mu family members, kill Yun Chen! I will reward the one who bring his head back to me with fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones and an opportunity to become a disciple of the Taiyi sect! » shouted the Mu family patriarch.
After that announcement, the Mu family members also joined the pursuit.
Suddenly, there was some cries coming from the arena. Those cries were from the Mu and Tang family members that stepped on the arena. They were more than a dozen and were killed on the spot by Yun Chen. There were some bone needles that can be seen on their bodies. It was Yun Chen's poisoned bone needles.
«If anyone want to die, he can step on the arena. I will gladly take his life. » shouted Yun Chen while using a slight soul pressure to supress them. Fear began to spread in everyone's heart. Almost all of them were discouraged.
«Do you think this cheap trick can word on everyone? I will be the one to take your life today. » shouted someone that jumped from the crowd and stepped on the arena.
That person son was Mu Li, a member of the Mu family at the ninth layer of spirit-gathering realm and also a disciple of the Taiyi sect.
«Oh? Only with me you, a trash disciple of the Taiyi sect? It is not enough! » Yun Chen declared while smiling.
«And what if you add us? » another voice was heard from the crowd and another two people jumped on the arena.
«The number doesn't matter! You will all die anyway. » Yun Chen replied indifferently.
They all began to cast their most powerful skill from the start. Yun Chen didn't move a single bit even after seeing their technique. Meanwhile, in the air over the arena, the two patriarchs were fighting with elder Kong and elder Lao Gu. The two patriarchs were at their limits but when they glanced at the arena, they saw the three people make their move on Yun Chen. Their attacks have raised a lot of dust but since Yun Chen didn't defend against it, he should be dead. That was what the two patriarchs were thinking.
«Hahahah! Chairman, it seems that Yun Chen is dead now! It is useless to fight against us now. » laughed the Mu family patriarch.
«My son, did you see it? You have been aveng…. » the Tang family patriarch was saying and stopped suddenly.
The two patriarchs were stabbed in the back by two daggers that came out of the dust below them. They began falling from the sky because they were dying. Before reaching the ground, they took a quick look at the arena and saw Yun Chen standing amidst the dust with three corpses around him and they finally understood what happened while their blood essence, qi and souls were swallowed by the two daggers. Yun Chen used the dust cloud as a cover to loot all the corpses. He then retrieved his daggers.
«Haha! They became fifth-grade earth weapons. » Yun Chen though to himself.
He then slowly walked toward the three people that saved him and thanked them for their intervention. He also took a glance at the Yun family patriarch. The patriarch didn't even move a finger when he was in danger, and he stayed still with his poker face.
«The patriarchs of the Mu and Tang family are dead! If you don't want to die, surrender immediately. » shouted elder Kong after parting with Yun Chen.
Yun Chen returned home and directly entered secluded cultivation. Now, Yun Chen has more spirit roots than he expected and he can break through at anytime after absorbing them. The process of absorbing the spirit roots went smoothly. There were more than twenty spirit roots and almost all of them were swallowed. Even after reaching the nine-star grade, his spirit roots continued to absorb the spirit roots that were given to them. When the spirit roots couldn't absorb anymore, they began to glow as if they were carved from bright jade of various colors.
It was now the time for a breakthrough and for that, he needed a lot of energy. So, Yun Chen decided to take out his loots from the previous battle.
«Th e disciples of these families are very poor. Even when collected together, they spirit stones didn't even amount to ten thousand. No wonder they rushed to kill me when heard about the rewards from the two patriarchs. Well, let's see what is inside the two patriarch rings! » said Yun Chen after examining almost all the loots. The two patriarchs' rings contained a lot of good things from natural treasure and spirit weapons to spirit stones in larges quantities. But what attracted Yun Chen's attention the most wasn't those things but a two-colored stone in black and white exuding some sort of heat. After a careful examination, Yun Chen found out that something extremely powerful must have been sealed inside it because there was an extremely powerful seal formation on it and judging from the faint outline of the formation circle, it must have lasted for hundred of thousands of years. Yun Chen decided to not break the seal since he doesn't know what is inside and instead used his eye of truth to see what was inside.
Inside the stone, there was an independent little space comparable to a larges room. A little further inside that space. There was an altar with runes inscribed on it and two flames circling around each other. Yun Chen didn't know a lot about those runes since they came from ancient times, but he could still understand some of them.
«Yin….and…. Yang…transcendental fire! » Yun Chen read what was inscribed on the altar.
After reading that name, Yun Chen finally understood what the thing in front of him was.
«The Ying-yang fire? This is impossible! How come it still exist in this world. From the legend of the ancient times, the Yin-Yang fire is transcendental fire and since it was impossible to subdue it due to its strength and the fact that it gained wisdom, an immortal banished it inside another dimension after it burned twenty cities to ashes. » said Yun Chen after recalling the story.
The two black and white fires in front of Yun Chen are in fact the same entity. One can't subsist without the other. This was the only transcendental fire that has existed in this world and is above the heavenly fires on the heavenly fire list.
«But judging by the look, it is really the Yin-Yang fire, and this altar is used to drain its power and weaken it. Right now, its strength is no better than an earth fire and it is possible for any alchemist to refine it. But an alchemist that want to refine a fire must first step into the spirit-gathering real otherwise the body wouldn't be able to stand the fire's strength. Let's forget about it for the moment. It wouldn't be to late to refine it after I enter the spirit gathering realm. » Yun Chen said while putting the stone inside his space-ring.
Originally, the Yin-Yang fire was an earth fire but due to its special ability that allow it to swallow other fires to evolve and integrate some of their properties, it quickly became a heavenly fire. But the tragedy began when it devoured a lot of heavenly fire and evolved into a transcendental fire. It destroyed all things in its way before being sealed by the immortal realm cultivator.
If Yun Chen were to refine this fire and slowly raise it by making it swallow other fires, it can progressively reach the heavenly grade and even the transcendental grade without going out of control.