Alex was brought to a room where the armor artifact was already on the table with another man sitting on the couch beyond it.
As soon as Alex walked in, he stood up and greeted.
Alex returned the greeting too, but it was a bit awkward. He was still very tense from the constant monitoring of the man in the spiritual realm.
However, all of a sudden, it stopped. Alex could no longer feel any spiritual sense in him. 'He stopped after I entered the room? Did he just want to check where the armor was? Or is he just not interested anymore?' Alex wondered.
'Or was I just paranoid and the man was just sending out his spiritual sense everywhere and not just at me?' Alex thought and almost called himself stupid. He sighed in massive relief.
That was the most possible explanation and he felt dumb that he didn't think of that. However, in his defense, he felt the spiritual sense of a Saint Realm cultivator and couldn't think straight due to his fear.
'Yeah, what would a Saint Realm cultivator even want from a Self Tempering realm brat like me? Sigh, at least that is over,' he thought.
"Dear guest here is your armor," the man said as he presented the armor to Alex. Alex walked up and checked it as he stroked the surface.
He could see a name pop up with not much information to it.
[Onyx Skin Armor
Grade - Mortal]
Alex nodded and took out 20 True spirit stones as well as 20 spirit stones and handed them to the man. The man bowed and gestured for Alex to take it.
"May I wear this right now?" he asked.
"Whatever you wish, dear guest," the man said.
Alex thanked him and took off his upper robe. His incredibly well-built body was on full display. His muscles were really toned and he didn't look much strong. But one could tell that those small muscles carried incredible strength.
Alex already had a good-looking body from when he randomly chose one when starting the game, but after body cultivating for over a month, it was even more incredible.
The staff lady blushed a little when she saw him. Alex did not care about them and wore the T-shirt armor.
"Woah," he was surprised. It felt like the cloth was hugging his body and he could no longer feel any air or temperature from the outside.
"I can't feel it despite my focus mode being perpetually active?" Ning thought in surprise. He hit his chest a bit, but couldn't feel anything.
"Well, it doesn't cover my whole body, but simply having some protection on my vital organs should be good," he thought.
Once he was done checking everything, he nodded farewell to the person and walked out of the room. The staff lady accompanied him to the door where he left her and walked into the busy streets.
The normal guests were leaving the auction house just now as well as the many other auction house guests. So the crowd on the street was quite a lot.
Alex could see the disciples from many other sects too and wondered what items the other auction houses sold.
Having nothing else to do, he decided to leave. He started walking east to reach a crossroad from where he could take north and reach his hotel.
He walked at a normal pace, slightly happy about finally getting armor. Just as he reached the intersection, however, something happened.
A spiritual sense washed over him, nearly stopping him in his tracks.
'No, it's probably not for me. The man must be just randomly sending it out,' he tried to hope for the best. Still, he knew that he had to prepare for the worst, so he went south instead of north.
He kept walking south and suddenly turned east. The spiritual sense did not leave him a single moment. The feeling of fear that had left him started returning.
After walking for a little while, he turned north. The spiritual sense was still on him. He walked further for a bit and turned west and continued walking.
The spiritual sense did not leave him at all. Finally, he reached back to the crossroad he was at before and yet the spiritual sense was still on him.
He was absolutely sure now; He was being followed by the Saint realm man. 'F*ck it," Alex thought and immediately started sprinting, but the street up north and west was crowded, so he was forced to run towards the west.
He wanted to run as fast as he could and walk out of the range of the spiritual sense. He ran as fast as his body allowed him to and soon, he was out of the range.
But the man was in Saint realm, so Alex knew he wasn't getting away at all.
Alex went into an alley and disappeared. He went invisible and contained all of his aura to make him untraceable. However, just as he was about to teleport to somewhere close, an aura descended upon him, letting him know that the man was here.
The man landed in the middle of the dark alley and used both his cultivation base and spiritual sense to check for Alex nearby.
"Oh, there you are," he said when he saw Alex hidden away near him.
Unfortunately for Alex, he couldn't escape the spiritual sense even when his aura and image had disappeared. "That's an interesting technique you have there. Seems quite useful too. I will think if I want it or not later though," he said.
Alex was trapped in the place due to the cultivation base and couldn't move. The pressure was somehow stopping him from moving his Qi altogether.
The veil disappeared and Alex appeared in normal light. He looked at the man in front of him.
The man looked like he was in his early 40s. He still had his black hairs but looked like they would go gray at any moment. His face was a little square-ish and the beards on them were short and rough.
The man was wearing a red robe and was about the same height as Alex.
Out of all of this, however, there was only one thing that really surprised him.
The man was not in Saint realm.
