Douluo: The Unrivaled Demon Lord

Chapter 155 The Top-Tier Auction: Confessing and Promoting the Idea of ​​Soul Spirits
The rest of the competition went smoothly. The complete Shrek Seven Devils were incredibly powerful. Even though Shu Yan had been watching from the sidelines and hadn't made an appearance, three of the remaining six were Soul Emperors, and the other three were all high-level Soul Kings above level 55.

Even without the strongest member, Shu Yan, this lineup is still far beyond the reach of ordinary soul master teams. Even top-tier teams would find it difficult to withstand the combined ice and fire attacks of Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.

As they swept through the competition, the teams that already had a bad impression of Shrek Academy became even more terrified at the sight of Ma Xiaotao and her group, not to mention the unlucky teams that encountered them. Most of them chose to concede defeat before the official match even began.

This left Ma Xiaotao and the others quite helpless, so they simply sent out their reserve team when they encountered teams of average strength, allowing Bei Bei and the others to get some practical experience and familiarize themselves with the game in advance...

Shu Yan initially watched a few games from the stands, but gradually got bored. So he decided to wander around with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming. After they finished, he realized with some dismay that it would have been better to just stay bored in the stands.

However, this situation was short-lived. That evening, while everyone was having dinner, an auctioneer from Starlight Auction House knocked on their door.

The auctioneer who delivered the invitations to everyone happened to be Qingya, who had some feelings for Wang Yan in the original story. However, this time Han Ruoruo replaced Wang Yan in the original story, so their relationship naturally disappeared.

She maintained a humble demeanor, possessing little spiritual power. If it weren't for her certain methods and the backing of the Starlight Auction House, she would never have been able to reach the social class of the others…

"Let's go join in the fun and give you guys a break too."

Feeling the gazes directed at him, Shu Yan made a decision without much thought.

Huo Yuhao and the other youngest members of the group immediately showed a hint of surprise in their eyes. They had all heard about the Starlight Auction House these past few days. Anything that appeared at such a top-tier auction was definitely not ordinary. High-level soul tools and even soul bones were bound to appear. Even if they couldn't afford to buy them, it would be good to broaden their horizons...

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Starlight Auction House, Room 7.

As everyone looked around at the extremely luxurious decor, a strange look appeared in their eyes.

Born into poverty, Huo Yuhao had a remarkable journey. He had never seen the real upper class. Just the decorations in the corridor outside were worth more than a lifetime's worth of grilled fish.

As the light-guiding screen from the Sun and Moon Empire slowly opened, a rich golden light burst forth, then gradually subsided. Immediately afterwards, a melodious voice rang out:

"Welcome, distinguished guests, to the Starlight Auction House's premier auction. Today, we will be presenting nine precious items for your enjoyment, arranged from lowest to highest value. We hope you will appreciate them."

The soul guidance screen became clear again, and the original platform had turned into a light white. In the center of the platform stood a girl who looked only eighteen or nineteen years old.

Today, Xu Jiujiu was dressed in a red gauze dress, which made her already fair skin look like snow and jade. It has to be said that as an imperial princess, she not only has the beauty to the extreme, but also has an elegant temperament that ordinary women cannot have, which makes her every move full of indescribable charm.

Hmm... Next up is Dai Yueheng's probing question.

Shu Yan was a little curious. Dai Yueheng was a renowned cultivation genius in the Star Luo Empire since childhood and came from a top noble family. Even though she went to Shrek Academy to study from a young age, she would always come back for a few days a year. How come she had no impression of the current emperor's most favored and powerful princess?
This doesn't make any sense...

Like him, although he didn't have much contact with the top noble children of the Douling Empire, he still knew them to some extent, especially the royal children. Even if he didn't take the initiative to get to know them, those people would frantically try to befriend him. Over time, Shu Yan also left some impression on them.

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After the elegant auctioneer's introduction, Dai Yueheng and the others were all deeply surprised, while Shu Yan sat quietly to the side, not particularly interested in these things.

His main target at this auction was the 70,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion's left arm bone. Ice Explosion could be considered a divine ice-attribute skill. Even if Shu Yan possessed more powerful spatial abilities, who would complain about having too many trump cards?

However, Shu Yan didn't intend to fuse with this soul bone. Soul skills are the innate abilities contained within the bloodline of soul beasts, and the divine skill Ice Explosion only appears in Ice Jade Scorpions with royal blood within the Ice Jade Scorpion clan. Shu Yan planned to conduct an experiment, combining the power of himself, Tianmeng, Xie Ji, and Ilex, to see if he could help the Ice Emperor comprehend the origin of the Ice Explosion skill without fusing with the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone…

If he succeeds, it doesn't matter whether he absorbs the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's left arm bone or not.

His left arm bone had reached 400,000 years of cultivation, and even if he fused with this soul bone, he wouldn't be able to break through 500,000 years. Under these circumstances, it would be better to leave this soul bone to Ling Luochen, who was also an extreme ice expert. This soul bone would undoubtedly greatly enhance her combat power... After all, the Ice Jade Scorpion clan were all super soul beasts, and the soul bones produced by their clan were of comparable quality to those produced by top-tier true dragons.

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The auction proceeded in much the same manner as in the original novel. Dai Yueheng won the first item, the Level 8 Soul Guidance Weapon, the Tyrant Tiger Purgatory Blade. After obtaining Han Ruoruo's consent, Huo Yuhao and the others won the twelve Level 6 Fixed-Motion Soul Guidance Shells, intending to take them back for research...

Not long after, Ning Tian, ​​in her personal capacity, won a 40,000-year-old left arm bone from the top-tier plant-type soul beast, the Golden Sunflower. This soul bone was likely intended for her own use. Nearly 90% of soul bones produced by the Golden Sunflower provide support or amplification-type soul skills, while a small number of variants provide offensive-type soul skills. However, Ning Tian, ​​being of noble birth, naturally possessed exceptional insight. She immediately recognized that this Golden Sunflower soul bone was not capable of producing offensive-type soul skills, which is why she entered the auction.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School has been the wealthiest organization on the continent for ten thousand years. At its peak, its accumulated wealth even exceeded that of the imperial treasury. Now, ten thousand years later, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School is even more glorious than it was ten thousand years ago. For the people of their sect, gold soul coins are no different from dirt. They can have as much as they want.

Han Ruoruo also took a fancy to a left leg bone, but Shu Yan's words dissuaded her from bidding... They didn't lack better options; unless a soul bone under 50,000 years old was truly of the highest quality, it could be directly excluded.

The rare metals and the level-eight soul tool, the Heaven-Opening Earth-Splitting Cannon, didn't interest anyone... When Shu Yan saw the Heaven-Opening Earth-Splitting Cannon, he was reminded of his level-seven decomposition cannon. He had bought it two years ago, but it was now completely useless... His strength had advanced too quickly, and there was nothing he could do about it...

Shu Yan plans to hand over the Level 7 Decomposition Cannon to Ling Luochen in a few days. Among his women, Ling Luochen is currently the weakest. With the Level 7 Decomposition Cannon in hand, she will have some trump card in case of any unexpected events. After all, the power of that thing is quite good. If used properly, it is not difficult to kill a Title Douluo.

After the Heaven-Opening Cannon was bought for a high price of seven million gold soul coins, the penultimate item of the auction, the left arm bone of the 70,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion, finally appeared in everyone's sight.

Within Shu Yan's mental sea, Hyotei's hands clenched into fists in an instant. Even though Shu Yan had already told her about this, she still couldn't help but feel a surge of anger...

Possessing the Ice Explosion Divine Skill proves that this Ice Jade Scorpion has the bloodline of the Ice Jade Scorpion Royal Family, and has a nearly 90% chance of breaking through to become a 100,000-year-old Soul Beast in the future... But now, a junior of the same race and the future Beast King has been hunted down by humans, so it would be strange if the Ice Emperor wasn't furious.

After suppressing his anger, Hyotei spoke in a deep voice:

"Ayan, you must get your hands on this soul bone, no matter what." Shu Yan agreed softly, then reassured Bingdi a few times. Even if Bingdi hadn't said anything, Shu Yan wouldn't have let this soul bone fall into someone else's hands.

As a super race of extreme ice, the Ice Jade Scorpion clan produces soul bones that inherit the domineering nature of the Ice Jade Scorpion race. Only soul masters with extreme ice attributes can absorb them, otherwise they will be severely injured or even killed by the backlash.

After the soul bone appeared, everyone's eyes turned to Ling Luochen.

Even Huo Yuhao and others were the same.

They all knew that Ling Luochen was a Soul Master with the ultimate attribute, and that it happened to be the ultimate ice attribute. The Ice Jade Scorpion, as the dominant race in the far north, was taught in Shrek Academy's curriculum.

Ling Luochen also noticed the gazes directed at her. She turned to look at Shu Yan, a questioning glint in her eyes.

Shu Yan smiled and pinched her cheek, then said:

"This soul bone can only be yours. It will be useless to anyone else even if they get their hands on it. After all, unless you are a soul master with the ultimate ice attribute, an ordinary ice attribute soul master cannot absorb this soul bone."

"how about you?"

Ling Luochen asked with some concern.

As Shu Yan's closest bedmate, she knew quite a lot, including Shu Yan's second martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

“I don’t need this soul bone. I already have a left arm bone, and my left arm bone also comes from the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan. Compared to my left arm bone, this soul bone can only be described as ordinary.”

Shu Yan's words were absolutely correct. The 70,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion's left arm bone was indeed quite good, but compared to the 400,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's left arm bone, it was a complete and utter defeat...

Ling Luochen's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and then he nodded slightly.

Compared to herself, she felt that this soul bone was actually more suitable for Shu Yan, but since Shu Yan already had a left arm bone, she could definitely try to get this soul bone.

As Ma Xiaotao and the others listened, something seemed amiss. After a brief brainstorming session, Ma Xiaotao suddenly slammed her hand on the table and looked at Shu Yan, saying:

"You... just said that, apart from the ultimate Ice Soul Master, ordinary Soul Masters cannot absorb the soul bones of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, then... doesn't that mean..."

Shu Yan glanced at her, then said directly:
"I possess twin martial souls. My primary martial soul is the Yazi, and my secondary martial soul is the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. In terms of seniority, my secondary martial soul is considered the ancestor of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan..."

"Twin martial souls!? Didn't you tell Elder Xuan before that you only had one martial soul?"

Ma Xiaotao slammed her hand on the table again, this time standing up excitedly.

"Look, he's in a hurry."

Shu Yan gestured for Ma Xiaotao to sit down, then spoke:
"My second martial soul is quite special. I obtained it during my training in the far north... Essentially, my second martial soul is formed from the essence of a ferocious beast, and with some fortuitous encounters, it was able to be used as a martial soul by me... That's about it, do you understand?"

"Transformed from the very essence of a ferocious beast!?"

This time, not only Ma Xiaotao was excited, but everyone else, except for a few people who knew the truth, looked at Shu Yan with incredulous and shocked eyes.

Shu Yan nodded, raised his right hand, and a layer of diamond-like ice crystals slowly adhered to it. The temperature in the room instantly dropped by more than ten degrees, and the originally warm and pleasant temperature instantly became icy cold. Ma Xiaotao seemed to have been greatly frightened, and her whole body immediately stiffened...

"Ranked second among the three great kings of the far north, the 400,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion..."

Shu Yan smiled slightly, then looked at everyone and continued:
"Speaking of which, not long ago I created a new kind of life by chance, which I call a soul spirit."

"Simply put, it involves extracting the soul and essence of a soul beast without killing it and fusing it with a soul master. This allows the soul beast to become the soul master's soul ring while retaining its full consciousness. My experiments have shown that even a hundred-year-old soul spirit can condense two hundred-year-old soul rings for a soul master, and a ten-thousand-year-old soul spirit can provide four ten-thousand-year-old soul rings... This thing is very interesting. I see terrifying potential in it. If you have the guts, you can come to me later and become one of the first test subjects for soul spirits..."

After saying that, a small, ice-blue grass in Shu Yan's hand slowly rose up, along with a blood-red soul ring.

"The soul spirit of the 100,000-year-old Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass can provide me with at least four or five 100,000-year-old soul rings, but I only allowed him to condense one soul ring."

"You can try to make contact with it and experience the mystery of this so-called spirit."

As he spoke, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass flew out of Shu Yan's hand, leaving an icy blue trail in the air where it passed.

Everyone quickly came to their senses, forgetting their astonishment, and tried to sense the state of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass itself.

Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming looked at Shu Yan, and Shu Yan winked at them...

Promoting Soul Spirits is inevitable, but it requires pioneers of sufficient stature, and Ma Xiaotao and others, as top students of Shrek Academy, are undoubtedly the best choice...

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(End of this chapter)