Kong Deming only felt a divine voice, full of fateful inevitability, explode by his ear.
He stared at Huo Yuhao with disbelief, taking a long time to recover before stammering, “Yuhao, this…
that voice just now, is that also an ability of your martial soul?”
Huo Yuhao nodded.
He didn’t need to explain any further.
“Good.
Teacher believes you.”
Faced with that voice he fundamentally couldn’t resist, Kong Deming was now incredibly certain that his disciple’s second martial soul was unimaginably powerful.
Engraving traits.
Just this one ability was enough to push this martial soul to unprecedented heights when acquiring spirit rings in the future.
As long as his disciple’s physical fitness could keep up, if they specifically chose spirit beasts with ultimate attributes then…
he didn’t even dare imagine what could be achieved.
Let alone the mysterious [Fate] bell toll!
“However…” Kong Deming still wasn’t at ease, and instructed further, “You have your own opportunities, and this old man won’t interfere.
But to ensure your safety, Teacher still has to send people to protect you secretly.”
This was already the best outcome.
Huo Yuhao agreed without a second thought.
At worst, once he entered the Far North, he’d secretly use the Spirit Interference Domain to shake off the secret protectors.
Combined with the Starlight Ring’s concealment ability, as long as he didn’t want to be found, no one could find him—not even a Titled Douluo.
“Alright.
You child, always bringing Teacher surprises without considering if this old man’s heart can take it.
Once this week’s medicinal bath is over, hurry up and scram.
Go do what you need to do.”
“Oh.” Huo Yuhao still had things to do anyway, so he didn’t stick around.
He was completely oblivious to the fact that a certain old man had already fallen into deep introspection.
After he left, Kong Deming’s eyes were a bit unfocused, his mouth continuously muttering words of envy.
“Engraving traits…
how many ultimate attributes will that be in the future?
Can this brat’s physical body handle it?
And he acts like it’s nothing…”
From beginning to end, he didn’t mention Xu Tianran’s reward.
A teacher should escort their disciple’s journey.
He knew exactly what Xu Tianran was plotting.
Politics was not something the current Yuhao should participate in.
Nighttime.
Sun Moon Empire Royal Auction House.
As the top-tier auction house in the imperial capital of the Sun Moon Empire, its prestige naturally went without saying.
When Huo Yuhao stepped inside, the soul-guided exhibition hall that greeted him almost blinded him with its brilliance.
Just this ordinary exhibition hall on the first floor, which didn’t involve auctions, displayed dozens of Class 5 and Class 6 soul tools of all sizes.
Soul-guided milk bottles, invincible shields, flying soul tools—you name it.
There were also many treasures.
One could only imagine how many treasures would be up for bidding during the actual auction.
Today happened to be the once-a-month heavy treasure auction event.
As a bidder, after verifying his funds, Huo Yuhao signed a non-disclosure contract according to procedure.
Carrying his massive fortune of over 13 million gold spirit coins, he followed a maid into the exclusive auction hall.
Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gel could be bought directly in the outer exhibition hall.
After selecting two pieces of roughly ten-thousand-year whale gel and one piece of thirty-thousand-year whale gel, and paying 800,000 gold spirit coins, Huo Yuhao’s goal for this trip was practically achieved.
The value of whale gel was directly tied to its age and quality.
A perfectly intact piece of thousand-year whale gel was worth roughly 10,000 to 100,000 gold spirit coins.
Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gel, however, had a severe premium, varying between 100,000 to 500,000 gold spirit coins.
After packaging all the ten-thousand-year quality whale gel, Huo Yuhao grew interested in the auction itself.
Douluo specialties, after all—you could say it was a must-try.
Perhaps Jing Hongchen or Kong Deming had sent word, because after the maid verified Huo Yuhao’s identity, she led him directly to a VIP suite.
The access channel to the auction hall was designed very covertly.
The main entrance was a sunken staircase.
After descending 20 meters underground to the registration desk, one was guided inside by maids in red dresses.
Then came a golden corridor, 10 meters wide, with floors paved in ivory jade bricks and walls covered in gold foil engraved with complex patterns.
Soul-guided crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling.
Once inside, the auction space formed an entire three-dimensional golden world.
The auction hall was divided into the ordinary hall and VIP suites.
The ordinary hall could accommodate 200 people, with dim lighting, dedicated to mid-to-low spec auctions—namely, soul tools below Class 6 and treasures valued around a million gold spirit coins.
The VIP suites had nothing to do with money; they were a symbol of status.
They had exclusive viewing windows using high-definition customized soul-guided glass, allowing a view of the entire venue.
The sofas were made of rare spirit beast pelts.
There was also an exclusive built-in light-guided screen, driven by dedicated personnel’s soul power, transmitting real-time images of the auction items.
Huo Yuhao was brought to Suite No.
2.
To be honest, he felt a bit surprised too.
But thinking about his current status as Kong Deming’s closed-door disciple, it felt much more reasonable.
The walls of the VIP suites were all made of special soul-guided metal, making it impossible to probe who was in the other suites.
What Huo Yuhao didn’t know was that in Suite No.
3 next door, the sibling pair Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had arrived here a step before him.
Half an hour later, the auction officially began.
Huo Yuhao originally thought he was a big spender.
But as items appeared on the soul-guided screen one by one—especially the arrival of some Class 7 and even Class 8 soul tools—the astronomical prices still made him back down.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford them, but it was unnecessary.
Right now, he had the trigger-type Class 9 defensive soul tool Hongchen’s Protection, and a Class 9 soul tool like the Starlight Ring.
There was really no need to be interested in these uninspiring Class 8 soul tools, nor could he even use them.
However, as the auction progressed, something that caught Huo Yuhao’s interest finally appeared.
“Secret Method Spirit Bone?”
Looking at the special spirit bone on the soul-guided screen, he couldn’t help but pay closer attention.
This type of item was different from natural spirit bones.
It was a special existence with artificially synthesized attributes.
The method was through special means, such as killing 100 spirit beasts of the same kind within half an hour to artificially synthesize the spirit bone.
Moreover, there was only a 10% chance of generation.
Its essence was closer to a “pseudo-spirit bone” rather than a naturally dropped one.
Functionally, it also had flaws.
It didn’t provide a spirit bone skill, only raised soul power by 5%, and its quality was far inferior to natural spirit bones.
It also didn’t denote a specific age limit; its value mainly depended on the strength of the synthesis materials.
But none of this could dispel Huo Yuhao’s interest, because this type of spirit bone possessed a trait he desperately needed: Secret Method Spirit Bones possessed fusion characteristics and were compatible with other spirit bones.
“I didn’t expect to actually encounter this thing here.”
Later, when heading to the Far North, if nothing unexpected happened, during the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion’s sacrifice and spirit bone fusion, a Secret Method Spirit Bone could play a crucial role.
After hearing the auctioneer’s introduction, Skydream, who had been sleeping, suddenly popped out.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Human soul masters are truly cruel to actually come up with a method like this.”
(END CHAPTER)
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