Inside VIP Room No.
1, only Emperor Xu Jiawei sat in the main seat.
“Brother Qian is here.”
Upon seeing him, Emperor Xu Jiawei smiled and stood up to greet him.
Qian Daoliu nodded in response.
He sat down casually.
Then, he looked at the large screen directly in front of the VIP room.
The image on the screen was clear; it was the stage outside.
It must have been some kind of spirit tool technology.
Emperor Xu Jiawei sat back down and said, “Brother Qian, if you see anything you like later, just say the word, and I will gift it to you.”
Dai Hao chimed in from the side, “Your Majesty, Brother Qian is actually interested in one item.”
Emperor Xu Jiawei’s eyes lit up.
“What is it?”
Dai Hao coughed twice lightly and said, “Naturally, it is the 100,000-year soul beast embryo.”
Upon hearing this, Emperor Xu Jiawei raised an eyebrow.
He hesitated slightly.
The 100,000-year soul beast embryo was something he had specifically prepared.
The purpose was to drive the tiger to devour the wolf.
If he were to just give it to Qian Daoliu, his plan would be wasted.
But then he thought about it.
If Qian Daoliu accepted his gift, it would mean he owed him a favor.
This was far more valuable than the plan to drive the tiger to devour the wolf.
And much more valuable at that.
After all, Qian Daoliu was very likely a Limit Douluo.
A favor from such a person was something one could not even beg for.
After realizing this, Emperor Xu Jiawei immediately beamed with smiles.
“In that case, I will bid for it later and gift it to Brother Qian for free.”
Qian Daoliu watched his somewhat excited demeanor.
Although he didn’t know what he was thinking, he guessed it wasn’t anything good.
After a moment of thought.
Qian Daoliu did not refuse immediately but just said, “We shall see when the time comes.”
Seeing this, Emperor Xu Jiawei knew better than to be thick-skinned.
He nodded with a smile.
Then, he didn’t speak anymore.
After waiting for a while.
A crisp and pleasant voice came from the screen.
“Everyone, thank you for waiting.”
Immediately after, a woman dressed in golden attire appeared.
The woman was about twenty years old.
Her long golden dress trailed on the floor, outlining a slender waist.
Her long hair was tied into a high bun, adorned with a phoenix-headed gold hairpin.
Her smile was sweet, and her eyes were bright and charming.
“I am Princess Xu Jiujiu, the gold-level chief auctioneer of the Starlight Auction House.”
“I will be hosting this auction.”
At this time, Emperor Xu Jiawei spoke, “Brother Qian, this is my younger sister; she usually likes being an auctioneer.”
Qian Daoliu recognized Princess Xu Jiujiu; she was the woman he had met in the Royal Library not long ago.
He gave a hum of acknowledgment.
“I can tell.”
Seeing that he seemed to have no interest in chatting, Dai Hao sighed inwardly and stopped trying to find topics of conversation.
On the screen, Princess Xu Jiujiu continued, “I believe everyone does not like listening to me ramble, so let us begin now.”
“Next is the first auction item.”
Two maidservants appeared, carrying a heavy battle saber.
The battle saber was about four feet long, and its blade was as black as ink.
Dark red patterns were carved on the back of the blade, faintly emitting a fierce aura.
Princess Xu Jiujiu introduced, “This is an eighth-level close-combat spirit tool, the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade.”
“Its core material is a right arm bone from a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Tiger Spirit Beast, with the exclusive Spirit Bone ability ‘Tyrant Blade Slash’ solidified within it.”
“At the same time, it can amplify the attack power of similar spirit abilities by fifty percent.”
“The threshold for use is extremely low; one only needs to be a seven-ring Spirit Saint to wield it, allowing a Spirit Saint to possess the combat power to challenge a Spirit Douluo above their level.”
“The starting bid is one million gold coins, and each bid increment must not be less than ten thousand gold coins.”
As soon as she finished speaking.
VIP Room No.
7 made the first bid.
“One million gold coins.”
Several others competed afterward.
VIP Room No.
4 called out 1.1 million.
VIP Room No.
9 called out 1.3 million.
In the end, it was won by VIP Room No.
7 for the price of 1.56 million gold coins.
In the time that followed.
One good auction item after another appeared.
Sixth-level fixed-load spirit tool cannonballs.
Ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone.
Rare metals.
Eighth-level long-range spirit tool.
Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone…
Each item, if taken out, would be enough to make ordinary Spirit Masters green with envy.
The sounds of bidding rose and fell.
People in various VIP rooms competed for the bids.
Although they were all rare items.
To Qian Daoliu, they were just so-so.
Even though spirit tools could indeed strengthen combat power, as a Limit Douluo, he did not think eighth-level spirit tools were useful to him.
At the very least, a ninth-level spirit tool would be needed.
Not to mention Spirit Bones.
He still had several in his possession.
All of them were over ten thousand years old.
Among them, there was even one that was 99,999 years old.
There was no helping it; having been the Supreme Pontiff for decades, his foundation was simply solid.
And just when Qian Daoliu was feeling uninterested.
Princess Xu Jiujiu on the screen spoke again.
“For the last auction item, I believe most of you have come for it.”
“So, everyone, please look.”
A white tray appeared on the screen.
Inside the white tray, there was a wooden pedestal carved with dense patterns.
Inside the wooden pedestal, a mass of Qi was surging.
This mass of Qi seemed to want to rush out.
But each time, it was blocked by a layer of pale golden light.
As the Qi rolled, one could faintly see something wrapped inside it.
With the appearance of this item.
A faint, almost imperceptible aura appeared at the auction venue.
Ordinary people could not detect it at all.
But as a Limit Douluo, Qian Daoliu was able to keenly capture it.
For some reason, he felt like he had encountered this aura somewhere before.
But he couldn’t recall it for a moment.
“I believe all distinguished guests are aware that in the Spirit Beast World of the Douluo Continent, when a Spirit Beast’s cultivation reaches 100,000 years, it will face two ultimate choices.”
Princess Xu Jiujiu continued to speak.
Her voice was unhurried, carrying the unique charisma of an auctioneer.
“The first choice is to continue cultivating and surviving in the form of a Spirit Beast.
However, every time it reaches a 100,000-year Bottleneck, it must face a nine-deaths-and-one-life Heavenly Tribulation.
Success means it can continue to survive and enter the ranks of Vicious Beasts, while failure means it will be Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering on the spot, doomed forever.”
“The second choice is to re-Cultivate as a human.
Choosing this path, they must abandon their cultivation and beast body, transforming into the most primitive embryonic form of a human, and begin cultivating from scratch.
As long as they can safely Cultivate to the seven-ring Spirit Saint level, they can completely transform into a human form, and in the future, they will almost certainly be able to Breakthrough to the Titled Douluo Realm.”
Princess Xu Jiujiu paused slightly.
Her gaze swept across the entire venue.
“And now, this existence that you see with your eyes is a 100,000-year Spirit Beast.”
“During the process of choosing to re-Cultivate as a human, it was captured by a powerful expert and completely imprisoned within the ninth-level spirit tool, the god sealing platform.”
“In a sense, this is the unformed embryo of a 100,000-year Spirit Beast re-cultivating as a human.”
“Such a sight, let alone you distinguished guests, I dare say that in the entire Douluo Continent, there are probably very few people who have seen it with their own eyes.”
At this moment, the entire venue was deathly silent.
The sound of breathing became heavy.
In VIP Room No.
1, Emperor Xu Jiawei looked at Qian Daoliu calmly.
In VIP Room No.
2, Xiao Hongchen stared fixedly at the screen, greed erupting in his eyes.
In VIP Room No.
3, two Spirit Douluos from the Body Sect exchanged glances.
In VIP Room No.
7, Huo Yuhao’s eyes darted around, as if he was receiving some information.
Princess Xu Jiujiu paused for a moment.
Then, she continued.
“I know what you distinguished guests care about most is what it can bring.”
“Every word I say next is guaranteed by my dual identity as a Princess of the Star Luo Empire and the chief auctioneer of the Starlight Auction House; there is absolutely no falsehood in it.”