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"Hello everyone. Today is a specialized auction for soul tools. Since the soul tools today are only up to Rank 6, the scale is not large. According to the grading, it can only be considered Rank 4 at most, and the bidding should not be too fierce. We sincerely wish everyone can bid for the items they desire," the etiquette lady said with a smile.
Zhou Yi nodded and said, "Thank you for the guidance."
Upon entering the auction hall, the light suddenly dimmed. Only the wall lamps around the perimeter were lit. Everyone entering the auction hall received a beautiful mask to conceal their identity. After all, for some overly precious items, buyers preferred not to let others know what they had purchased. However, today there was no need to be so cautious, as the etiquette lady had just stated that all items were below Rank 6 soul tools, and there was no risk of anyone trying to steal them.
"Welcome, distinguished guests, to our Starlight Auction House. I am today's auctioneer, Qingya. Our auction will begin soon. Please take your seats, distinguished guests." A beautiful and melodious female voice echoed throughout the auction hall, and the hall instantly fell silent. The auctioneer was a beautiful woman, the kind that could make Xu Sanshi drool. This was also a marketing tactic; a beautiful auctioneer's effect was definitely better than a coarse brute.
Auctioneer Qingya smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please look. Our first item for today is a Rank 3 offensive soul tool. Although it's just a common soul ray, you can probably guess that if it were merely an ordinary soul tool, it wouldn't appear at our auction. Because this is actually a special work from a Rank 6 soul engineer. The master who created it used an extremely unique method, simplifying the complex, and added special effects to the internal core array, making this soul ray capable of paralyzing. So its true name should be the Soul Paralysis Ray. Anyone hit by it, any soul master below the Soul King cultivation level, will be paralyzed. The degree of influence and the duration of paralysis are both related to the soul master's own cultivation."
Under the detailed introduction, this Rank 3 soul tool was described as no less impressive than a Rank 4, and indeed, it sounded quite good.
Yuwen Tuo said, "The Soul Paralysis Ray is indeed good. Xiao Xiao, it's very suitable for you. Your soul power is currently Soul Venerable, and using this, your attack power would be enough to make a Soul Sect wary."
"Oh, this young brother seems to like it quite a bit. How about buying it and gifting it to this little girl?" Suddenly, a hand hooked around Yuwen Tuo's shoulder, and the voice was one no one had ever heard before.
"Jiang Peng?" Ma Xiaotao was startled. "Why are you here?"
The person who arrived was none other than Jiang Peng, the captain of Dio Academy. Although she wasn't very familiar with him, she wouldn't fail to recognize the captain of Dio Academy, one of Shrek's old rivals. Five years ago, when she was still in the reserve corps, Jiang Peng was also a substitute for Dio Academy at that time. Dai Yaohuan had even fought him, and their strength was evenly matched. Now, Jiang Peng should have also reached the Soul Emperor level.
"If you Shrek can come, why can't I?" Jiang Peng chuckled.
Ma Xiaotao asked in confusion, "But this is our Shrek's private box. Besides, haven't you always looked down on soul tools? Today is specifically an auction day for soul tools. Also, are you very familiar with Yuwen Tuo?" Seeing him so chummy with Yuwen Tuo, those who didn't know would think Yuwen Tuo was a student of their Dio Academy, not Shrek's.
"Not familiar at all, it's our first time meeting today, but haven't you heard the saying 'like old friends at first sight'? This young brother Yuwen is so handsome, almost half as handsome as I am. Handsome people always appreciate each other, right, young brother Yuwen?" Jiang Peng said.
"Thank you for the compliment, Senior Brother," Yuwen Tuo smiled. Jiang Peng's sudden enthusiasm towards him seemed to indicate that he had already learned about his situation from Vina and Long Aotian.
"Young brother, you're clearly a smart person. Let Senior Brother teach you a principle. For example, when we're buying things today, we can first praise something we don't want as a facade to encourage others to buy it. Then, when the item we truly desire appears, they'll already be out of money," Jiang Peng hinted meaningfully.
Yuwen Tuo understood the implied meaning in his words: he was referring to Yuwen Tuo's use of Huo Yuhao as a decoy to trick him.
"Thank you for the guidance, Senior Brother, I will reflect on it!" Yuwen Tuo said.
"Mm-hmm, what a sensible junior student. Ma Xiaotao, you're truly enviable to have such a good junior student. If only he were one of ours, how about I have my family elders talk to Shrek and see if we can have this junior student join us?" Jiang Peng said in a joking tone.
Ma Xiaotao snapped, "What nonsense are you talking about? Yuwen Tuo will always be a member of my Shrek!"
"If it's not possible, then it's not possible. Why are you getting so angry?" Jiang Peng waved his hand and casually found a seat. He had specifically followed Yuwen Tuo here today after hearing he was coming. In truth, he had no interest in this auction whatsoever. Soul tools were not part of his cultivation path.
Yuwen Tuo knew that he had specifically come to warn him. Although no one believed his joking tone, Yuwen Tuo could understand his unspoken meaning. His family elders had already set off, telling him to prepare to leave with them at any moment.
At this moment, the soul tool auction had reached its third round. For the first two rounds of items, the Soul Paralysis Ray only sold for a few thousand gold soul coins. He didn't buy it for Xiao Xiao either. Although it was suitable for Xiao Xiao at the moment, given Xiao Xiao's full soul power cultivation speed, she would likely be able to challenge a true Soul Sect in no time, at which point the Soul Paralysis Ray would become redundant.
The second auctioned item was a recharging soul tool called a "feeding bottle," which could rapidly replenish a soul master's soul power. A Rank 1 feeding bottle could replenish a Soul Master's soul power, and so on: Rank 2 corresponded to a Great Soul Master, and Rank 3 to a Soul Venerable. The highest-ranked feeding bottle to appear so far was a Rank 7 soul tool, which had sold for a high price of seven million at the Starlight Auction House.
This time it was a Rank 4, purchased by Zhou Yi for 25,000 gold soul coins. And in this third round, something finally appeared that interested Yuwen Tuo.
This was a blade, not a soul tool. Of course, since this was a specialized soul tool auction, this item couldn't be unrelated to soul tools. This was a very important tool used in crafting soul tools: a carving knife! Among the very best carving knives, those known as Ranked Carving Knives, only the top one hundred were recorded on the carving knife rankings of the Douluo Continent. More than two-thirds of these were in the Sun Moon Empire. This was one of the important reasons why the Sun Moon Empire had so many powerful soul engineers.
Of course, Yuwen Tuo did not cultivate soul tools and had little interest in carving knives. What interested him was the material used to create this carving knife. The one that appeared at this moment was precisely the Metal of Life, which in the original work helped Huo Yuhao open his second Spiritual Sea.