Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 276 It wasn't an explosion, it was a sudden death.

Just as the Shrek group was eating fruit and chatting in the private room, Princess Jiu Jiu's voice soon rang out on the screen in the room.

"Dear VIPs in the private rooms, please have the staff in charge of the introduction adjust the knob on the screen to zoom in and observe the specific shape of this soul bone. Try out the new function of our Starlight Auction equipment."

"Therefore, we have added an extra ten minutes for viewing this Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone. Please enjoy it to your heart's content."

After saying this, Princess Jiujiu's figure quickly disappeared from the screen, leaving only the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, which looked as if there was light flowing inside, quietly placed on the display stand, exuding a mysterious charm.

Before long, the door opened and the elegant auctioneer returned to the room.

Accompanying her was Princess Jiujiu.

Upon seeing her, everyone stood up.

Given her status as a princess and the fact that this was the Star Luo Empire, everyone naturally had to show the proper respect.

Well, actually, there wasn't much respect involved. After all, no one put down the fruit and juice they were holding; it was basically just a matter of getting up and going through the motions of courtesy.

"Which distinguished guest said there was a problem with the left arm bone of our Ice Jade Scorpion?"

Princess Jiu Jiu bowed slightly to everyone and then asked anxiously.

Chen Ping was taken aback upon hearing this, and quickly waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't say there was a problem with your soul bones, what are you doing?"

"If the soul bones worth tens of millions are accused of having problems and can't be sold, I won't take the responsibility."

Upon hearing this, Princess Jiu Jiu immediately realized that there was a problem with what she had said, and quickly tried to make amends: "I'm sorry, I meant that this soul bone can only be absorbed by soul masters with the ultimate ice attribute, just as you said?"

"If other Soul Masters, even powerful Ice-attribute Soul Masters, absorb it, they will still explode and die?"

Chen Ping shrugged: "Well, maybe I remembered it wrong."

Upon hearing Chen Ping's words, sparks flew from Princess Jiu Jiu's beautiful eyes. "Are you Shrek people here to play games with us?!"
Princess Jiujiu's anger had almost reached its peak at this point.

But her composure still made Princess Jiujiu simply smile and nod.

"Alright, in that case, Jiu Jiu will continue to preside over the auction. I hope all the distinguished guests from Shrek Academy have a great time today."

After saying this, Princess Jiujiu turned to leave.

"A Soul Master who is not at the extreme level of Ice should die instantly after absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, rather than explode. I was wrong, um, that's it."

Chen Ping then gave a definite answer: he couldn't quite remember the side effects of absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, and the key point was that the original work didn't explain this clearly either.

However, it's highly unlikely that absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone would cause the body to explode; that would be too extreme. Thinking about it this way, forcibly absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone would probably only result in sudden death.

Princess Jiujiu had only taken two steps when she heard Chen Ping's words and almost stumbled and fell.

It turns out that Chen Ping simply didn't remember whether the price of forcibly absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone was sudden death or body explosion; he wasn't deliberately playing a trick on himself.

In an instant, Jiu Jiu's pretty face flushed red. She secretly thought to herself that she was lucky that she hadn't shown any real displeasure on her face, otherwise the misunderstanding would have been too big!

But Chen Ping from Shrek Academy is also... infuriating. Why are you so concerned about whether the side effects are exploding or sudden death? Does it even matter if the wording is accurate or not? Once someone's dead, who cares about that!
The students at Shrek Academy are all really strange. I don't know what the Emperor likes about Shrek Academy. Even after graduating for so long, he still keeps talking about Shrek.

Princess Jiujiu muttered to herself, but she quickly turned around to express her gratitude and went straight into the innermost privy, number one, after leaving privy seven.

"Brother, something's wrong."

Inside the room, only one tall and imposing man sat there—it was none other than Emperor Xu Jiawei of Xingluo.

Upon seeing Princess Jiu Jiu enter the room, Emperor Xingluo said in a deep voice, "I know something's wrong. Otherwise, you wouldn't have extended the viewing time. What's going on?"

After repeating Chen Ping's words over and over, Xu Jiawei was taken aback.

"Such strange things really exist in this world?"

"Well, this soul bone was originally just a trial balloon, so it's no harm to do a bigger favor."

"The Shrek people have helped our auction house avoid a significant potential problem. Go and handle it. Make sure this favor is done properly."

After a long while, he nodded knowingly. "Brother, are they worth all this trouble? Doing this would result in a significant loss for the auction house."

"Of course it's worth it. It's a win-win situation; maintaining a good relationship with Shrek Academy is essential."

"This little guy named Chen Ping may seem to be the vice-captain of the reserve team, but he is actually the decision-maker of the entire Shrek Academy team."

“I’ve watched every single one of their matches, even the official players who later returned to the team. Whenever it came to a match involving a player, I would subconsciously look at this kid named Chen Ping.”

"The students at Shrek Academy are all unruly individuals. It's only because everyone is strong enough within the academy that they've kept their sharp edges to themselves. But in reality, most of them don't submit to anyone else."

"In this situation, Chen Ping is only twelve years old, yet he was able to subdue all the Shrek Academy students, including that regular member. Is this kid simply talented?"

"Ma Rulong, the captain of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Team, couldn't even control his own reserve team captain, Xiao Hongchen. Yet Chen Ping, as the vice-captain of the reserve team, was able to subdue the Shrek Academy's regular members. The difference between them is quite obvious."

"Ah."

Princess Jiujiu's eyes flashed with light as she pictured Chen Ping in her mind, wondering to herself, "Is that little guy really not even thirteen years old yet?"

That stubborn, unyielding attitude of his makes him seem like a real troublemaker!

"Shrek will accept this gift. When we send someone to negotiate with them about their novel flying soul tool, we can ask for some discounts or something."

Xu Jiawei took out an urgent memorial from his ring and waved it in front of Xu Jiujiu: "Do you know why only one of Shrek Academy's regular players has arrived so far?"

"This is a memorial dictated by Dai Hao's eldest son and written down by Dai Hao himself, which was urgently submitted to us. Take a look."

As he handed the folded document to Xu Jiujiu, Xu Jiawei continued, "Shrek's new type of flying soul tool can carry a load of nearly one ton when used by an ordinary four-ring Soul Master. That's already an outrageous figure."

"But what I value most is the level of this new type of flying soul tool. The flying soul tool that Chen Ping used in the previous competition was actually a level two flying soul tool."

At this point, Xu Jiujiu finally lost his composure and almost instinctively exclaimed in surprise, "Brother, you mean Shrek Academy has developed a flying soul tool that even a Great Soul Master can use? That's impossible! Even the Sun Moon Empire can't do that!"

(End of this chapter)