One month until the auction… 

Before doing anything else, Lu Changsheng went to a business that specialized in selling and renting cave residences and purchased one with spirit stones. In Sacred Star City, ordinary people lived in houses and manors, while those of greater status generally preferred cave residences. There were no special qualifications required to own one. As long as a person had enough spirit stones, they could buy one. 

After settling in, Lu Changsheng sat cross-legged and carefully went over everything he had seen and heard at the Secret World Pavilion that day. 

The Secret World Pavilion says that unclaimed secret worlds have become difficult to find, to the point that their coordinates must be auctioned off to competing bidders. But that's only their side of it, and it doesn't match what the founding ancestor of the Heavenly River Sacred Land has said. I can't trust this before I look into it myself. 

No matter how solid the Secret World Pavilion's reputation was, Lu Changsheng was not about to take its claims at...