Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 336 Having tasted the sweetness, one knows the true flavor (8K)

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou didn't react much to the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, because they had seen quite a few close-combat soul tools of this level in order to create new types of close-combat soul tools and target the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool market.

The other students from Shrek Academy couldn't help but stand up and walk to the screen to carefully examine the level eight soul tool sword.

Even the well-informed inner court students showed expressions of surprise.

Level 8 soul tools had appeared at auctions they had attended before, but they were extremely rare. Generally speaking, it was already quite good for a level 6 soul tool to appear at an auction, and the occasional appearance of a level 8 soul tool was definitely the grand finale.

Although the old-style melee soul tools using the casting method are indeed somewhat outdated, their effects are still undeniably powerful. For high-level soul masters, melee soul tools are even more important than ranged and fixed soul tools, as they are easier to integrate with their abilities.

While the Shrek Academy members were immersed in the design and effects of the soul tool, Huo Yuhao fell into deep thought because of a single sentence he had been pondering for a long time.

Mingde Hall.

If Shrek Academy's inner courtyard is the holy land of all soul masters, then Mingde Hall is the holy land of all soul masters, equivalent to the inner courtyard of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, or even the Sea God Pavilion.

As far as he knew, he was not qualified to study at Mingde Hall during this exchange program. This was normal, as Shrek Academy did not easily show off many of its valuable items, such as the ancient books hidden in the Sea God Pavilion that had been stored for countless years.

That being said, Huo Yuhao did indeed have a feeling of longing for Mingde Hall, even though he could not reach it. After all, almost all the level nine soul masters on the Sun Moon Continent came from Mingde Hall, or had some indirect connection with Mingde Hall.

Being able to enter the Mingde Hall is absolutely every Soul Master's dream.

Even Huo Yuhao absorbed a lot of wisdom from Mingde Hall in his study of soul tools. The books in Shrek Library that only have a blurry illustration and unclear technical descriptions are essentially from Mingde Hall thousands of years ago.

Those technologies, which students at Shrek Academy can learn now, were all top-tier soul tools with epoch-making significance when they first appeared. They were the most cutting-edge works of soul tool research on the continent.

Shrek Academy still treasures the advanced technology of the Sun Moon Empire from thousands of years ago, but how far has the Sun Moon Empire's advanced soul guidance technology developed now?

Huo Yuhao couldn't help but recall the report given by Elder Kong at the Soul Master Exchange Conference.

"Utilization of 'spontaneous chaos' and 'self-repairing ability of space' after a high-energy offensive breaks through space in space polarization defense technology"

It's time to go to the Sun Moon Empire. The difference between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire is like the difference between a Soul Master and a monkey. Although they both use tools, they seem to have nothing in common.

Hopefully, he can learn a lot when he goes to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy after the competition. There's no place like home. As for Shrek Academy's soul guidance system being a bit weak, so be it. He can just drag the soul guidance system along slowly.

"Time to view the auction. The Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade starts at 500,000 Gold Soul Coins. Each bid must be at least 5,000 Gold Soul Coins higher. Distinguished guests are all experts, so I'm sure there's no need for further explanation. The auction begins. If no one raises the bid within one minute, the auction is complete."

The screen changed, turning a pale white, and the previous image of the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade faded into the background. A huge number, five hundred thousand, appeared on the screen.

If this had happened a year ago, the starting price for the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade would definitely not have been this low. However, the new technology has indeed impacted these older soul bone-type melee soul tools, even level eight soul tools have been affected to some extent.

Just as Dai Yueheng was about to speak, he suddenly turned around and glanced at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao smiled slightly and took out the level 7 melee soul tool, the Wild Katana Wind Mantis Giant Shadow Slash, which had been gathering dust for a long time, from his storage soul tool.

"I'm not used to using melee soul tools like machetes. At most, I can use something like a nodachi. I just can't wield a greatsword properly."

Upon hearing that Huo Yuhao had no intention of making a purchase, Dai Yueheng visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone present knows how superb Huo Yuhao's swordsmanship is. If Huo Yuhao is really interested in this broadsword, it would be difficult for him to bid on it.

"Five hundred and fifty thousand."

Dai Yueheng spoke up, then turned to Wang Yan and said, "Teacher Wang, this was my personal action."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile. The fact that the students in the inner academy were starting to actively use soul tools was a good sign.

As soon as Dai Yueheng made his bid, the golden-clad maid immediately performed a simple operation on the soul guidance screen, and the huge number on the screen changed to 550,000.

Huo Yuhao's attention was not on the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade at this moment, but on watching the golden-clad maid's actions.

Besides high-definition broadcasting of optical image capture, it can even be quoted through individual Soul Guide Screens?

Huo Yuhao unceremoniously activated his mental detection again. "Good, good, I almost missed this great technology. Let me see how this thing works."

Just as Huo Yuhao was calming down and recording the core array of the soul guide, Dai Yueheng had already bid for the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade for 1.36 million gold soul coins.

For an eighth-level melee soul tool, this price is really not high. If Dai Yueheng is not interested in disassembling and replacing soul bones, the advantages of the new melee soul tool are not very meaningful to him, but he got a pretty good deal on the price.

The second item is nothing special: a set of twelve level-five fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells produced by Mingdetang, each with different attributes.

If used in actual combat, its cost-effectiveness is extremely low.

However, it has extremely high scientific research and collection value.

With Huo Yuhao's scanner, a single glance is enough to understand the core array inscription method of these cannonballs, and it can also bypass those troublesome encryption arrays.

At He Caitou's instigation, Wang Yan acquired this set of ammunition for an extremely low price, close to the bottom line.

The Star Luo Empire must have studied this thing before releasing it, only to find that they couldn't extract anything of value from it.

However, this is not the case for Shrek.

Not every animal on the grasslands can enjoy the delicious marrow. To truly savor the marrow, one needs a good set of teeth, which Shrek happens to have.

Shrek Academy did not bid on the next few items. The five consecutive items were a left arm bone, a right arm bone, a left leg bone, an extremely rare metal, and a level eight ranged soul tool.

(End of this chapter)