Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 305 Secret Talks Among High-Ranking Officials (Daily Passage)

The Shrek team reaped considerable rewards from tonight's auction.

Similarly, it cost quite a bit of money.

The others returned to the hotel first, while Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao went to the backstage to handle the payment and collect the items.

After completing the payment procedures, Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao's levels at the Starlight Auction House were directly upgraded from the initial white level to the purple level, making them eligible to participate in most levels of auctions.

As for the most prestigious auctions at Starlight Auction House, apart from special invitations, only high-level clients with a Black rank or above can participate.

"Sir, please come this way."

In the passageway of the auction house, a maid was leading Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan toward a secret room.

The auction house staff had already retrieved the level 3 to 6 soul tools and handed them over in an ordinary room.

Rare auction items like slime corpses, which have no attributes and can fetch tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, will be handed over in a private room.

After confirming everything is correct, customers who have made the purchase can leave through a special passage.

Starlight Auction House does an excellent job in protecting customer privacy.

The maid beside her smiled and said, "If you have verified that it is correct, you can put it away now and leave through this passage."

Huo Yuhao gently touched the slime's corpse, and the first thing he felt at his fingertips was a cold and slippery sensation.

The corpse was like a lump of frozen grease, chilling to the bone and slippery to the touch. His fingers slid lightly across it, as if caressing a bar of soap just taken from a cold-working soul guide box; the interplay of cold and slippery sensations was somewhat unsettling.

As his fingers penetrated deeper, Huo Yuhao began to feel the hard core hidden beneath the slime's corpse. It was a sensation completely different from the smooth outer skin, hard and cold, as icy and merciless as stone.

This core seems to be the true core of this slime; despite the destruction of its surface, it still retains its resilience and power.

At the same time, Huo Yuhao also felt the barely perceptible pulling force of the corpse on his soul. When a person's soul is protected by a body and the soul and body are integrated, it is basically not affected by the soul attribute slime.

This is why the Starlight Auction House has never been able to figure out what attribute this slime corpse actually is. Soul attribute attacks are strongly correlated with mental power, but they are not equal. The Starlight Auction House doesn't employ any evil soul masters, so naturally they can't determine what attribute this thing actually is.

Moreover, even among evil soul masters, the vast majority do not have the method to control soul power. The Death Messenger is already one of the best among evil soul masters of the same level, but in Ilex's eyes, he is just a lich who plays with the corpses of the dead, not even a lich.

Looking across the entire continent, there are probably no more than a handful of people who can figure out exactly what this thing is, and among those few, Electrolux and Huo Yuhao occupy two spots.

Huo Yuhao didn't mind the slippery texture of the object. He rolled it up and stuffed it into an empty storage soul tool. If there was one soul tool that Huo Yuhao had the most of, it would definitely be the storage soul tool.

He wore four rings on his hands and a storage belt around his waist with two storage pouches on either side. If it weren't for the fact that wearing too many rings would affect the feel of holding a knife, Huo Yuhao wouldn't mind wearing rings on all ten fingers.

After Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan left, several people emerged from the secret room. Judging from their luxurious attire, it was clear that any one of them was a high-ranking executive at the Starlight Auction House.

"I'm starting to regret it."

One of the managers, who had a small mustache, frowned and looked uneasy as he watched the secret passage close automatically after Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan left.

"Who knows if this guy will come to a Level 4 auction house? I just hope that after he spends 800,000 to buy this thing, he can research something and feel that it's worth the money. Otherwise, we'll all be in trouble."

"Hey, that's a seven-ring Soul Saint with a hundred thousand-year soul ring, and he's so young. We should report this. If this gentleman likes the item, great. If not, we can compensate him by spending some money."

"It's better to get scolded by your boss now than to wait ten or twenty years and then have this guy feel wronged and come to confront you, right?"

"Being on good terms with this person will definitely pave a smooth road for your future. On the other hand, everyone knows what might happen. Anyway, this is just an isolated incident. That guy just bought this thing in one go. It's not like we deliberately sold it to him. The higher-ups can't hold it against us too much."

Several senior executives from Starlight Auction House discussed the matter and finalized the next steps.

In Douluo Continent, powerful people receive all sorts of extraordinary extra treatment. Everyone is worried that the strong will suffer losses, and they would rather be taken advantage of than take advantage of others. Even Huo Yuhao himself probably did not expect such an interesting situation to occur.

"Xiaoyu, take this VIP black card and give it to Qingya. Have Qingya deliver it to that gentleman. Remember to emphasize that it's a small token of our Starlight Auction House. Qingya will naturally know what to do next."

One of the leaders beckoned to the maid who had been too quiet to speak, took out a black VIP card and handed it to the maid. The maid didn't dare to say anything, nodded and hurriedly left.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Huo Yuhao, this young prodigy, will undoubtedly become a Title Douluo in the future, and a Title Douluo at Shrek Academy no less.

That's an incredibly important person!

If they could be on good terms with this person, what would a black card that could be resold for several thousand gold soul coins on the black market be? This black card was just a small token of their appreciation. If they had the chance, they wouldn't mind sending some more good things over.

The next morning, everyone at Shrek Academy was already up.

Aside from Huo Yuhao, he worked many extra hours with Electrolux at night, cultivating with Wang Dong while also keeping busy in his spiritual sea, learning the basics of soul magic and attempting to study the essence of the Thousand Flow Soul Technique.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ice Emperor were naturally of little help, but they could still enjoy watching the fun. Seeing Huo Yuhao construct one illusory spell model or soul skill model after another, they couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

That's the power of humanity. Take Electrox, for example. Luckily, the other party is from another world and has focused all his energy on how to destroy humanity. Otherwise, if he had turned his attention to the soul beasts, even if the number of soul beasts had increased several times, it wouldn't have been enough for him to kill.

(End of this chapter)