Auctioning Across the Heavens: Starting with a Con in the Condor Heroes’ World

The auction's low-brow nature might fool some uninformed people, but it becomes a liability when dealing with highly intelligent individuals. The auction has too many flaws; if a high-IQ person notices them, it lowers the auction's credibility; if they don't, its reputation collapses. Without change, it's a dead end.

This is a topic from over ten years ago. The most important thing in writing this kind of book is to have a sophisticated, high-brow image; this kind of invitation is a direct rejection.

Having read so many novels, those that are truly readable must have relatively well-developed worldviews and logical structures. If there are too many plot holes, then it's destined that not many people will read them.

The older generation of authors has already passed on this subject matter for decades.

If you're just starting out in martial arts and are still a weakling, don't create too much of a storyline. It'll be difficult to fight anyone and there won't be much of a thrill. It's better to focus on improving your strength by holding more auctions.

The idea is good, but the chosen world-building is not very good. If the world-building could be set in an infinitely vast universe, then you could trick martial arts characters from other worlds into believing that completing certain tasks would allow them to enter this world and break their cultivation plateaus. You could even obtain their cultivation techniques.

This guy's got talent! He turned high-class sophistication into something as pathetic, ugly, and poor.

The author's description of the myriad realms lacks sophistication. The Nine Yin Manual is only rank 4, and the Six Meridians Divine Sword is rank 3. Let's not even discuss whether your ranking is correct! There are only two ranks above: rank 1 and rank 2. For example, how would you rank the Devouring Star technique here? You need to rank life forms, starting with the extraordinary level 1. Any technique that can be cultivated to rank 1 is also a first-class technique, and then rank them down.

Shouldn't the focus be on running the auction house? But instead, we see the protagonist roaming the martial arts world, with little to no auction activity.

Don't exaggerate in your novels. Could Li Shimin really have defeated 100,000 with only 3,000? With the Wei River Alliance, Chang'an had no shortage of equipment and supplies; raising 100,000 troops to fight the Turks would have been a piece of cake. Why bother with tributes and signing any alliances?