Douluo Dalu: Ice Snake Martial Spirit, Infinite Evolution

Chapter 54: Buying the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife
"You two, wait a moment!"

When the guard heard that they were there to purchase unsold items, he immediately went in and found the auctioneer's supervisor to report.

Soon, a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes followed the guard out.

He looked at Dugu Han, whose face was childish and only about eight or nine years old, but he already had the cultivation of a great soul master. He then looked at Xue Lao behind him, whose cultivation was so profound that even he, a soul sage, could not see through it.

He immediately invited Dugu Han and the other two in, not daring to neglect them at all.

Arriving at the reception room of the auction house, the middle-aged manager personally made tea for the two of them before asking, "At our Starlight Auction House, we have had many items that have been unsold over the years. I wonder which one you two would like to purchase?"

"Soul Devouring Carving Knife!"

Dugu Han directly stated the purpose of his visit.

The auction house manager was stunned when he heard this term. He then pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, but I need to explain to you first why the Soul Devouring Carving Knife failed to sell. This is for the good of both you and my auction house."

"no need!"

Dugu Han shook his head slightly and said, "I already know its history and why it failed to sell. Just tell me the price."

Upon hearing this, the auction house manager looked at Dugu Han in surprise, wanting to know if he had a way to solve the evil nature of the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife.

But the rule of the auction house is to not do anything else and only focus on the auction of items.

So the auction house manager suppressed his doubts and said, "The starting price for the Soul Devouring Carving Knife is 300,000 Gold Soul Coins. Although it has been sold off several times, it is, after all, a ranked carving knife."

"Although it has its drawbacks and is ranked at the bottom of the list of carving knives, it is undeniable that it is a genuine carving knife. There are only ninety-eight carving knives ranked above it in the world, and they are all in the hands of various eighth- and ninth-level soul masters."

"So our auction house is very optimistic about the auction of the Soul Devouring Carving Knife."

Having said this, the auction house glanced at Dugu Han, and seeing that he looked normal, they continued, "That's why we estimate the final auction price for the Soul Devouring Carving Knife to be around 600,000 Gold Soul Coins. If you're willing to buy it directly, it will save us a lot of trouble. So I can waive 100,000 Gold Soul Coins and set the price at 500,000 Gold Soul Coins. What do you think?"

"can!"

Dugu Han nodded, took out a gold soul coin card from the Ice and Snow Love, and handed it to the auction house manager.

"Please wait!"

The auction house manager took the Gold Soul Coin Card with both hands and walked out.

Dugu Han watched him go out, picked up the tea and took a sip.

Five hundred thousand gold soul coins are definitely a bit expensive, but compared to the gold of living beings, it is not worth mentioning!

Moreover, now is not the time when the Soul Devouring Carving Knife will remain unsold for a few years and the starting price will drop all the way to 100,000 gold soul coins.

At this point in time, the Starlight Auction House had just acquired the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife not long ago.

Just as the supervisor said, they were still very optimistic about the auction of the Ranking Carving Knife. Even if someone really bought the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife at the starting price of 300,000 Gold Soul Coins and no one else bid, their Starlight Auction House would directly arrange someone to bid for it.

This is almost the unspoken rule of all major auction houses except for the top ones!

Soon, the auction house manager came back with the Gold Soul Coin Card and an exquisite box!
He handed the Gold Soul Coin Card with 500,000 Gold Soul Coins deducted from it to Dugu Han.

He then took the box containing the Soul Devouring Knife and opened it, revealing a knife with ancient patterns and emitting a fierce chill. The moment the knife appeared, the three people in the living room inexplicably felt a chill and a fierce, oppressive aura.

Even Xue Lao, the eighty-nine-level peak Soul Douluo, is no exception.

Because it was not a change in temperature, but a feeling of being surrounded by a fierce and oppressive aura all over the body.

With a "pop" sound!
The auction house manager closed the box, and the fierce and oppressive atmosphere that permeated the entire reception room disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"The carving knife inside is the Soul Devouring Carving Knife."

"And this box is a level six soul guide. Ordinary low-level storage soul guides cannot store the Soul Devouring Carving Knife. The murderous aura it emits can destroy the core formation of storage soul guides below level five."

After the auction house manager finished explaining, he smiled and said, "If you need it, I can sell you this level 6 soul guide storage box for 500,000 gold soul coins."

"I don't need the storage box. I just need the Soul-Devouring Knife." Dugu Han shook his head.

His Ice and Snow Love is a ninth-level defensive storage soul guide, and it was made by Kong Deming himself. Not to mention one Soul-Devouring Carving Knife, even if ten or twenty Soul-Devouring Carving Knives were placed in it at the same time, it would not be a big deal.

"Row!"

Upon seeing this, the auction house manager said nothing more, but simply opened the box again and handed it to Dugu Han.

Dugu Han stretched out his hand and put the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife in the box into the Love of Ice and Snow.

Then he took Xue Lao and left the Starlight Auction House and headed towards Shrek Academy.

Shrek Academy is located at the junction of the three former Douluo Kingdoms, not too far from Xingluo City.

It only took Dugu Han and Xue Lao five days to leave the Xingluo Empire and arrive in Shrek City.

Shrek City is an independent city of Shrek Academy and is not subject to the control of any country. The permanent population in the city exceeds two million. Moreover, due to the fame of Shrek Academy and its proximity to the Star Dou Great Forest, it is a resting place for many soul masters who need to go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt souls, and it stops by when entering and leaving.

Therefore, the prosperity of this city is even greater than that of Xingluo City, and only Mingdu of the Sun and Moon Empire can be compared with it.

There are four gates in Shrek City, namely the east, west, south and north. The east gate is the main gate of Shrek Academy.

Outside the gate, numerous vendors lined the streets, their cries of hawking constantly attracting many Shrek Academy's external students to come and buy their wares and snacks...

Among them was a young woman with a slim figure, wearing a red inner courtyard student uniform and with a beautiful appearance. She was eating the soul beast meat skewers she had bought. Suddenly, she looked up and saw Dugu Han and Xue Lao walking towards her in the distance and was stunned.

"Hey……"

She came to her senses and quickly nudged two young women behind her, also wearing the red uniforms of inner court disciples, who were gathered in front of the stall, and said, "Le Xuan, Ruoruo, do you think that's Xiao Bi Ga?"

"What's that little nose thing?"

Han Ruoruo turned around curiously and saw Dugu Han and the other man approaching from a distance. She was stunned for a moment and subconsciously murmured, "It's him!"

"Who?"

Zhang Lexuan, holding the meat skewers prepared by the vendor, also turned around and looked in the direction of Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo, and said in surprise, "Dugu Han!"

(End of this chapter)