*****For a moment, nearly everyone in the Lower Realm seemed to lose the ability to react.They had watched Xavier win the first item.Then he had casually taken the second.And now, with the Seven-Star Phoenix Earrings, he had gone from $350,000 to an astonishing $800,000 in a single bid, effectively doubling the previous price without even blinking.The entire Lower Realm fell into an awkward silence.The earrings were undeniably valuable. For lower-ranked cultivators, their ability to detect hostile killing intent within twenty feet could be an incredibly useful advantage, especially in a world where ambushes and assassination attempts were hardly rare.The additional ability to reduce mental fatigue only made them more appealing.But even with those benefits, most people believed the earrings were worth around half a million dollars at most.Yet Xavier had just thrown $800,000 onto the table as though he were buying a cup of coffee.It was enough to make people question whether m