hotmtlnovel Chapter 148 Heavenly Dream: Luxury, Depravity, and Envy
Chapter 148 Heavenly Dream: Luxury, Depravity, and Envy
Chapter 148 Heavenly Dream: Luxury, Depravity, and Envy
The round-robin tournament was played every two days. After discussing strategies for the remaining teams, Huo Yuhao led everyone to the Starlight Auction House on the second night to relax.
As expected, everyone saw people from Shrek Academy at the entrance of the auction house.
The two teams avoided pointless verbal exchanges, exchanged a cold glance, and then each entered the auction hall.
From the outside, Starlight Auction House appears to be a small auction house, but inside it is a completely different world.
As the largest auction house in Xingluo City, members like the Di'ao Second Team who suddenly apply to join are generally not eligible to bid. Going through normal channels would require at least half a month of review before they could possibly enter.
But there's nothing we can do; the biggest backdoor in Douluo Continent is right there in Huo Yuhao's team.
"I never expected that."
Nan Qiuqiu looked completely naive: "An auction house with royal backing? Ning Tian, your family actually owns shares in it."
The same applies to Yu Tianlong and Xingyan.
The three of them had hardly left Dragon City since childhood, and to be honest, this was their first time attending an auction.
Not only them, but everyone present except Ning Tian had never attended an auction before.
Su Tong had been a wandering Soul Master for many years, and after joining Di'ao Academy, she had never worried about resources, so there was no need for her to participate in the auction.
And Huo Yuhao goes without saying.
Even though he received a sum of gold soul coins when he was granted a title, he was still a penniless beggar in front of all kinds of auction houses, big and small.
As for Gu Mingxi's transformation into a soul beast, let's not mention it.
Jin Peng, who seemed to have attended the auction, grinned after noticing the gazes of the younger crowd: "Why are you looking at me? What can't be taken?"
This can be considered a case of "what's the use of trying," since the original Body Sect was indeed a bandit stronghold so poor that it couldn't even afford to eat.
Only now, after cooperating with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School and having money, have they started to pay attention to their image.
The most obvious change was that Du Bu Si started wearing a respectable robe on formal occasions and carefully groomed his dwindling hair.
Ning Tian smiled slightly: "Although the Starlight Auction House has the shadow of the Star Luo Royal Family, the financial operations and some channels are managed by our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School."
"As long as the bidding isn't too outrageous, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School can cover the costs of tonight's auction items."
Upon hearing Ning Tian's words, everyone sighed in unison.
"It's good to be rich." Xingyan sighed, "I feel like even those arms dealers in the Sun Moon Empire aren't as rich as you guys."
Ning Tian smiled upon hearing this: "That's different."
The Sun Moon Empire's arms business is based on exorbitant profits from the needs of war.
The foundation of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School lies in its extensive commercial network that spans the entire continent.
From auction houses to chambers of commerce, and then to banks, from clothing, food, housing, and transportation to Soul Master resources, it covers almost the entire continent.
Of course, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School never touches the truly top-tier resources.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's advantage lies in its ability to gather treasures scattered among the people and then distribute them through various channels.
They made huge profits from it.
Huo Yuhao thought about ways to make money in the Tianxuan Continent, but found that there weren't any.
If there's anything you can't film, just kill and steal it afterwards.
Might makes money, and strength is the greatest asset.
Huo Yuhao shook his head, banishing the dangerous thought from his mind.
At this moment, the group, guided by the auction house manager, arrived at the most luxurious private room.
Today's auction is a special auction of soul tools, held in Hall 12. There wouldn't normally be any private boxes set up.
Even VIPs at the Starlight Auction House can only wear red masks and sit in the front row of VIP seats.
As for top-tier gold VIPs, they generally don't appear in these kinds of casual auctions.
However, Ning Tian's identity was so special that the auction house had to prepare a luxury private room for everyone, and even assigned a personal waiter to each person.
"Luxury, decadence."
Tianmeng slumped on the sofa, enjoying the juice the waiter brought her: "I'm envious."
"director."
A beautiful woman respectfully handed Ning Tian a booklet with gold lettering: "This is tonight's auction list."
Everyone immediately gathered around out of curiosity.
Even Di Tian couldn't help but take a few glances.
He is now extremely curious about soul tools.
Huo Yuhao glanced at them and found that he wasn't interested in most of the soul tools.
However, the final item up for auction tonight caught Huo Yuhao's attention: "A carving knife for listing items?"
Huo Yuhao also has a carving knife, which the Heavenly Soul Empire bought for him at a high price.
According to Linghu, that carving knife was fully capable of helping Huo Yuhao become a level seven soul master.
However, compared to the engraving knife in the list, that carving knife seemed rather ordinary.
There are a total of one hundred engraving knives listed, more than two-thirds of which are in the Sun and Moon Empire, while the rest are scattered among the people and their whereabouts are unknown.
Noticing Huo Yuhao's gaze, the beautiful waitress immediately said, "Hello, distinguished guest."
"This carving knife is called the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife, and it ranks ninety-ninth among the listed carving knives."
Upon hearing the name of the carving knife, no one reacted, except for Huo Yuhao, who showed a surprised expression.
He was the only Soul Master among those present, so he naturally knew the legend of the Soul-Devouring Carving Blade.
"You dare to auction off even a carving knife like this?"
The waitress smiled slightly, intentionally or unintentionally showing off to Huo Yuhao: "Your Excellency is indeed very knowledgeable."
Seeing this, Nan Qiuqiu secretly rolled her eyes.
Strangely enough, Di Tian and Jin Peng both stood in front of the female attendant without prior arrangement.
They said in unison, "Let me introduce this carving knife."
Nan Qiuqiu's eyes lit up immediately, and she began to glance at Su Tong and Gu Mingxi unintentionally.
But she soon sighed, thinking to herself that pressuring someone to get married was a bad idea, since the person in question was still a blockhead.
Xingyan, Yutianlong, and Long Aotian noticed Nan Qiuqiu's unusual behavior.
Nan Qiuqiu coughed lightly, nudged Tianmeng with her elbow, and gestured for him to use the resonance of their heartstrings to connect them.
After the dream used the resonance of the heartstrings to connect the five people, everyone's expressions became very interesting as Nan Qiuqiu narrated.
Long Aotian remained silent.
He suddenly remembered that Du Busi had indeed assigned him a task to help Huo Yuhao understand things.
However, he was too busy during this period and completely forgot about the matter.
Long Aotian fell even more silent for a moment.
After hearing Long Aotian's inner thoughts through the resonance of their hearts, Nan Qiuqiu and the others' expressions became even more intrigued.
Long Aotian realized that he was still connected to the Heartstring Resonance, so he hurriedly exited the connection.
Tianmeng's skill is really useful in battle, but now it has become a scene of public execution.
Long Aotian coughed awkwardly, pretending to be focused on the auction list: "Hmm, this one is not bad."
The waitress had just finished explaining the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife.
"Yuhao," Di Tian frowned, "you want this carving knife?"
Huo Yuhao said, "Let's see how things go."
For some reason, after discussing the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife with Electrox in the Niwan Palace, both of them felt that there must be a very deep secret hidden behind this carving knife.
The auction had already begun, and the first item up for auction was called the Soul-Guiding Paralysis Ray.
It's not high-level, but it's very practical.
The starting bid was 1,000 gold soul coins, and Huo Yuhao quickly won the bid for 2,500 gold soul coins.
People from Shrek Academy were also participating in the auction, clearly intending to buy it for He Caitou's research.
Huo Yuhao wasn't bidding against Shrek Academy with malicious intent; he just felt that if he could thoroughly understand the underlying principles, he might be able to develop some different soul tools.
The paralyzing ray directly affects the Soul Master's nerves. If the Soul Guidance Circuit is modified, could a pain amplifier be designed to make the enemy feel more intense pain in battle?
Ning Tian prepared to take out his gold card.
Huo Yuhao stopped her, saying, "I can afford this much money."
Ning Tian smiled but didn't say anything; he simply put his card away.
Next, the members of the second team from Di'ao occasionally took photos of things that interested them.
They could all afford to pay for it themselves, so there was no need for Ning Tian to pay.
It wasn't until the very end of the auction, when the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife, the grand finale item, was brought to the auction stage, that the crowd regained some of their interest.
Huo Yuhao's spiritual power slowly drifted toward the Soul Devouring Carving Knife.
In just a moment, the spiritual power he released was actually backfired by the Soul-Devouring Carving Blade!
Even with Huo Yuhao's current level of mental strength, he still felt a severe headache.
He promptly severed that connection.
But at that moment, Ilex, inside the Niwan Palace, uttered a surprised exclamation: "The Gold of Life?"
"Yuhao, the material of this carving knife is actually the gold of life."
"If you take a picture of it, your plan to use the Fu Kui method to create a body for me and build a permanent and stable teleportation portal on another continent will become very feasible."
Upon hearing Electrolux's words, Huo Yuhao's breathing instantly became rapid.
The living gold that can forge a magical body for Electrox has actually appeared?
Huo Yuhao was originally troubled by the matter of the Life Gold.
The concept of "Gold of Life" does not belong to Douluo Continent or Tianxuan Continent, but to the Holy Demon Continent of Electrolux.
Trying to find the gold of life with this little information is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
For some reason, Huo Yuhao suddenly had the feeling of having searched high and low without finding it, only to have it come to him effortlessly.
The auctioneer had just finished introducing the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife and announcing its starting price.
Huo Yuhao did not hesitate and immediately asked the manager to provide a quote.
Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's extremely decisive offer, everyone showed a serious expression.
"It's alright," Huo Yuhao shook his head, "Since I dared to film it, it means I'm not afraid of it."
The Shrek Academy students frowned slightly upon hearing the auctioneer's bid.
Which idiot would spend a whopping 100,000 gold soul coins to buy such a vicious knife?