Douluo Continent: So What If I Reincarnate as Ning Rongrong?

Chapter 63 The Auction House (Part 1)

Private room, or VIP room.

On the second floor of the auction house, you can clearly see the auction stage from the windows.

According to Zhou Xun, the auction house's manager, the VIP rooms on the second floor of the auction house are usually used by wealthy nobles or people of high status, including powerful Soul Masters.

Hanhai City is close to Poseidon Island, and the Soul Masters of Poseidon Island would occasionally come out to purchase supplies.

Therefore, VIP rooms are usually prepared for them, but not always.

For example, occasionally high-level Soul Masters from the mainland will come here for sightseeing, and incidentally auction and purchase items.

"Do Soul Masters from Seagod Island often come to Hanhai City?" Ning Rongrong remembered that Seagod Island had very strict rules, and it seemed that they couldn't leave the island at will.

"I come once every year or two," Zhou Xun shook her head.

"The last time they came was about two months ago. They usually come to buy some daily necessities, or occasionally browse the auction house."

"I see," Ning Rongrong said thoughtfully. Soul Masters are also human beings; they need to eat, drink, and relieve themselves. It's impossible for them to be completely isolated from the world. Isolation is only relative.

From this perspective, although Hanhai City is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tiandou Empire, it is actually an extension of Seagod Island.

"I heard there are many pirates in this sea area. Doesn't Seagod Island care?" Ning Rongrong asked subconsciously, thinking of the events in the original story.

Zhou Xun paused for a moment upon hearing this, looked at the three people in front of her, and said with a wry smile, "Many of those pirates are descendants of the residents of Seagod Island."

"Poseidon Island is said to have an extremely strict rule: if you can't cultivate by the age of 18, you will be expelled from Poseidon Island regardless of your life or death."

"There must be quite a few residents of Poseidon Island in Hanhai City, right?" Ning Rongrong wanted to learn more about Hanhai City.

"Yes." Zhou Xun also realized that among the three, the seemingly delicate-looking girl was the real leader. After a moment's thought, he explained.

"Some of the residents who were expelled from Poseidon Island came to live in Hanhai City, while others became pirates."

Zhou Xun paused briefly before continuing:

"The most famous pirate crew in the world is the Purple Pearl Pirates, whose captain is named Purple Pearl."

"Her father was said to have been thrown off Poseidon Island because he lacked soul power, and then became pirates."

"However, in Purple Pearl's generation, her soul power is very strong. She is close to the Soul Emperor at a young age and has made a name for herself in the sea."

"Actually, she was eligible to enter Poseidon Island to participate in the assessment, but she didn't, and seemed to show some resistance to Poseidon Island."

"So young?" Dugu Yan blinked, quite curious. "How old is that girl named Purple Pearl?"

"Around 27 years old, and according to information from her subordinates, her soul power is around level 57 or 58."

"Indeed...it's quite impressive." Dugu Yan clicked her tongue.

I'm only 19 years old and level 48 now. I'm confident that I'll be close to Soul Emperor by the time I'm 27.

But what are my own conditions?

The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School feeds you with a variety of medicinal baths and is blessed with immortal herbs.

What about Purple Pearl? Judging from Zhou Xun's words, she's a pirate.

That's a bit outrageous.

"Interesting," Ning Rongrong mused, but quickly dismissed the thought. She looked at the auction house manager, who was still talking non-stop.

"Mr. Zhou Xun, do you have any ancient whale glue here?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xun smiled wryly and said, "Very rarely, almost never."

"Whale glue is beneficial to Soul Masters, increasing their power, especially whale glue that is over a thousand years old, which is practically impossible to sell. As for ten thousand years old..."

"To be honest, even a Soul Emperor wouldn't dare say that he could easily obtain whale glue from a ten-thousand-year-old whale-like soul beast."

Zhou Xun told Ning Rongrong and the others that the power that sea spirit beasts can exert in the water is far more terrifying than that of sea spirit masters.

Even an ordinary ten-thousand-year-old sea spirit beast might not be a match for a Soul Emperor.

In addition, most sea spirit beasts appear in groups, so even if you accidentally kill a ten-thousand-year-old sea spirit beast, you must leave the sea area as soon as possible.

Blood will attract the predation of other soul beasts, or the wrath of the sea soul beasts of your own kind.

Therefore, killing a soul beast in the sea is extremely difficult, let alone obtaining the ten-thousand-year whale glue.

"I see." Ning Rongrong stopped discussing this topic. "Do you have sea charts? Mainly those for sea spirit beast areas, preferably those for ten-thousand-year spirit beasts."

"Yes, we do have that," Zhou Xun said quickly. From their conversation, he could roughly tell that they were looking for whale glue. What they were doing there was unknown, and it was none of his business. He was just a small auction house manager.

"How much."

"One thousand gold soul coins," Zhou Xun said tentatively.

"Okay." Ning Rongrong tossed a bag of gold soul coins to Zhou Xun.

Zhou Xun knew that the people in front of her were wealthy, so she thought for a moment and continued speaking.

"A soul tool from ancient times will be auctioned here later. If you are interested, you can take a look."

"An ancient soul tool?"

"Yes..." Just as Zhou Xun was about to elaborate, the doorbell rang. "Manager, the auction is about to begin. We need you to come over now."

"Oh, okay." Zhou Xun nodded.

"Excuse me, everyone, I need to go appraise the auction items, so I won't disturb you any longer." With that, Zhou Xun hurriedly pushed open the door and left.

"I'll have someone send the nautical chart over later."

The VIP room door closed again.

"Hmph, what a clever little devil."

"What's wrong, Grandpa?"

"That auction house manager, he timed his mention of ancient soul tools perfectly, probably just to make more money. Maybe he thinks we're some big spenders," Dugu Bo laughed.

Dugu Yan: "..."

That's outrageous, that's just outrageous.

However, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School does indeed have the potential to become a wealthy and powerful family.

Ning Rongrong looked out the window. There were many people below, but the auction stage was empty; the auction had not yet started.

Not long after, a young man who looked like an auctioneer stepped onto the stage. The first thing he pushed up was the pill that Dugu Bo had given to the auction manager.

Good afternoon, everyone!

"Today is the weekly auction..." the auctioneer said, uttering some meaningless words.

They began by introducing the elixirs that Dugu Bo had given them.

Each bottle contains 29 capsules, and there are three bottles in total, sold as a bundle.

With Dugu Bo's consent, they each tried one pill to confirm its effects.

After the auctioneer finished explaining the effects of the elixir, the Soul Masters below became excited.

Although its medicinal properties are not strong, it can be life-saving if you can't hold on any longer!

One pill can save your life if you take it before you die. Besides, in addition to restoring health, it also contains antidotes and pills that restore soul power. It is an essential item for going to sea.

Although its effect is more effective below level 40, and drops rapidly above level 40, it is still quite useful as a support Soul Master.

The pill was eventually acquired for 5000 gold soul coins, but many people were more curious about its production method.

Ning Rongrong didn't care too much about these things, but Dugu Yan did bid on a few items at the auction. In any case, as she put it, she wasn't short of money.

"Ding-dong—"

The sound of the doorbell caught the attention of Ning Rongrong and the others.

"Senior, the supervisor asked me to bring the nautical chart over."

Seeing this, Ning Rongrong opened the door and took the nautical chart. Dugu Yan also came closer, her eyes fixed on the nautical chart.

"Hmm, the black dots are the areas with ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, and the red dots are the areas with one-hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts?" Dugu Yan muttered to herself as she looked at the descriptions at the edge of the area.

"It may not refer to a single soul beast, but more likely to a group of soul beasts of roughly the same age."

"So we have to be careful in the future." Ning Rongrong saw that there were dozens of black dots indicating ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. This was still the area that could be surveyed. There might be even more in those less-visited areas.

Just then, the auctioneer's voice came through the loudspeaker.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please watch closely, for now is the moment to witness another miracle."

"Our auction house will be auctioning a soul tool that has been passed down from ancient times."

Ning Rongrong and the others couldn't help but walk to the window and look at the center of the auction stage.

They became somewhat interested in the legendary ancient soul-guided artifact that was slowly pushed out and touted by the auctioneer.

(End of this chapter)