Chapter 156: Gambling on Soul Bones
Soon, Flender arrived at the center of the hall, led by a waitress.
The auction hasn't officially started yet, so several metal racks have been erected on the outer wall of the auction hall, filled with pictures and signs of all kinds of soul beast corpses.
The depictions of the soul beast corpses in these pictures are so lifelike, they look like photographs.
Shi Lin felt that this must have been made by a soul master with a photographic function, since drawing so many pictures would be a huge waste of manpower and resources.
Flender and his companions were led to a corner of the venue by a waitress.
"Your Excellency Soul Saint, this is the venue for the Soul Bone Betting. I won't disturb you any longer. I wish you all success in obtaining your Soul Bones." The waitress bowed to Flender and then prepared to leave.
Flender casually tossed a gold soul coin into the waitress's hand.
"Thank you, Lord Soul Saint." The waitress quickly bowed to Flender again before leaving.
"Come on, see if there's anything you want. The quality of the soul beasts here is unparalleled in the Douluo Continent," Flender said with a smile to Shi Lin and the others.
Gambling on soul bones is purely a gamble of luck. No one knows whether there are soul bones inside the corpse of a soul beast, since the soul bones cannot be seen unless the soul beast is dissected.
Moreover, the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House has a very good reputation. All the soul beast corpses are purchased from the Star Dou Forest or other soul beast forests, ensuring that no one has ever checked whether there are soul bones inside.
"Dean, are we really going to judge whether a soul beast has a soul bone based on this picture? Isn't that a bit hasty?" Shi Lin raised an eyebrow and asked Flender.
After all, you have to spend money without even seeing the actual product... that's a bit of a rip-off.
"Of course, the auction venue is only so big. It can't even fit ten soul beast corpses here. What would we do with the rest? Besides, no soul beast corpse is clean. It would stink so badly that we couldn't auction it off," Flender explained to Shi Lin with a smile.
"Alright, let's go check the prices. If it's a good deal, I'll buy more." Shi Lin smiled and nodded at Flender.
Then a few people came to the shelf and began to examine the prices written below the pictures.
The corpse of a hundred-year-old soul beast usually costs a few gold soul coins.
The corpse of a thousand-year-old soul beast is generally worth between one hundred and two hundred gold soul coins.
The price of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast corpse ranges from two thousand to twenty thousand.
"Good heavens! This ten-thousand-year-old soul beast corpse is too expensive!" Shi Lin exclaimed, his eyes wide with disbelief.
It's not even a soul bone yet, and it's already selling for such a high price. Moreover, given the low probability of soul bones being produced, it's unlikely that we'll break even if we sell it like this.
"Xiao Lin, do you know how much a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone costs?" After hearing Shi Lin's words, Flender pointed to the picture and asked Shi Lin.
"Five hundred thousand?" Shi Lin raised an eyebrow and asked Flender.
"The starting price is one million gold soul coins! The highest price is five million per coin," Flender said seriously to Shi Lin.
Shi Lin, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar all gasped at the same time, never expecting that soul bones would be so expensive.
Even if the Shi family were sold, they still couldn't buy a single soul bone.
"If we actually manage to gamble out a soul bone, it would cover Shrek Academy's expenses for hundreds of years," Ma Hongjun muttered, looking at the corpses of these ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.
"What are you thinking about?" Flender said, patting Ma Hongjun on the back of the head in an annoyed tone.
"Hehe." Ma Hongjun chuckled.
"Don't gamble with what you need; fight for it with your own strength," Flender said earnestly to Ma Hongjun.
Gambling is inherently unreliable, since nine out of ten gamblers lose. Even if you buy a soul beast corpse worth five million gold soul coins, you might not get a single soul bone.
"Xiao Lin, are you ready to give it a try?" Flender asked Shi Lin with a smile.
"Two thousand-year-old soul beast corpses for each person, it's on me, let everyone relax." Shi Lin smiled and nodded at Flender, then turned to Ma Hongjun and the others and said.
There's nothing I can do; I'm the richest among these people, and they're all friends, so I might as well spend the money.
"Long live Brother Lin!" Ma Hongjun and Oscar waved excitedly at the same time.
Flender and Zhao Wuji exchanged a glance, then smiled and shook their heads.
These two people may be shameless, but they wouldn't stoop so low as to rob a child of their money.
Ma Hongjun and Oscar stepped forward to start selecting pictures.
Shi Lin glanced at Shi An standing behind him.
"Brother An, why don't you go and pick one out too?" Shi Lin said to Shi An with a smile.
"Young Master, I won't waste your money," Shi An said with a chuckle, scratching his head.
"No, pick two. My brother An has always been very lucky. Go ahead and choose." Shi Lin smiled at Shi An and said.
"Well... alright then." Shi An actually wanted to pick two to try out, but he was a little worried that it would waste Shi Lin's money, so he went to choose the soul beast corpses instead.
Shi Lin watched as Shi An also went over, then turned and walked towards the direction of the hundred-year-old soul beast.
Currently, Shi Lin needs a large number of century-old soul beast corpses to create second-tier Gu worms.
Shi Lin didn't care whether or not he gambled on the soul bones; what he cared about were the corpses of these soul beasts.
Shi Lin arrived at the shelf displaying the hundred-year-old soul beasts and began to carefully select one.
It must be said that the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House is quite powerful; the quality of the soul beast corpses on the soul bones they gambled on this time was exceptionally high.
Normally, a hundred-year-old soul beast cannot develop a soul bone, but there are exceptions, which is why a hundred-year-old soul beast is very cheap.
Shi Lin glanced at the hundred-year-old soul beast, and then began to take down the signs from the shelf one by one.
In just a few minutes, Shi Lin removed the tags of hundreds of hundred-year-old soul beasts. The quality of these soul beast corpses was excellent, making them very good materials for refining Gu worms.
The people around him looked at Shi Lin with curiosity. When they saw that Shi Lin was choosing corpses of hundred-year-old soul beasts, their eyes were filled with concern for the mentally challenged.
Hundred-year-old soul beasts basically don't produce soul bones. No matter how many you buy, if they're destined to have no soul bones, they still won't have any.
However, what they didn't know was that Shi Lin didn't care whether there were soul bones in these soul beast corpses; what he wanted were these soul beast corpses.
After selecting 150 soul beast corpses, Shi Lin stopped; he had nowhere to put any more.
Shi Lin picked up the signs with difficulty and then went to the payment counter.
"Could you please register me?" Shi Lin said to the staff at the registration desk.
"Okay." The person registering was also stunned.
Is this a rising star in Heaven Dou City?
They actually bought so many soul beast corpses to gamble on soul beasts.
However, when he saw the signs for those soul beasts, he shook his head helplessly.
They were all hundred-year-old soul beasts.
However, the staff were very professional and did not look down on Shi Lin just because he bought the corpse of a hundred-year-old soul beast. After registering the signs, they handed Shi Lin a wooden sign and a list.
"Young Master, after the auction ends, you can take this token to the back warehouse to collect the soul beast corpses you need. These soul beast corpses are worth a total of 342 gold soul coins." The staff member stood up, handed the items to Shi Lin, and then explained.
"Thank you for your trouble." Shi Lin nodded, then took out 342 gold soul coins from his soul tool and handed them to the staff.
Just then, Ma Hongjun and his group had already chosen the thousand-year-old soul beasts they wanted.
Each of the three people paid money and received a plaque.
Flender and Zhao Wuji each selected two ten-thousand-year-old soul beast corpses, but they paid for them themselves.
Shi Zhen paid Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the others very high annual salaries!
So Flender wasn't exactly broke; he was just incredibly stingy.
"Alright, we won't know the results of the soul bone bet until after the auction. Let's go to the auction first," Flender said with a smile to the little ones behind him.
Shi Lin and the others naturally had no objections and followed Flender upstairs.
They soon arrived at a private room on the third floor.
As a Soul Saint, it's perfectly normal for Flender to have a private room.
The private room was spacious and had sofas, fruit, drinks, and a brass bell.
One side of the private box has a transparent wall, allowing you to see the auction stage and the auctioneer outside.
"Sit down and rest for a while. The auction shouldn't start for another hour," Flender said, waving to the children.
Shi Lin and the others nodded, then found a place to sit down.
There are several auction brochures on the table, which introduce the items to be auctioned today.
After Shi Lin sat down, he picked up an auction catalog and began to read it.
As Shi Lin flipped through the auction catalog, he realized that today's auction was indeed quite large.
Gold, silver, jade, precious jewelry, antiques, slaves, soul tools, and rare soul bones are all available.
This time, the soul bone is a 30,000-year-old ice jade Xuanjia turtle torso soul bone!
However, the price of the soul bone wouldn't be too low, and Shi Lin simply didn't have the ability to participate in the auction.
Shi Lin began to peruse the auction catalog from beginning to end.
At the beginning, they mainly sold gold and silver jewelry, which was already very expensive for ordinary people.
However, these items are not very valuable to soul masters, so their prices are relatively low.
Shi Lin looked through them and noticed that the gold and silver jewelry was of very high quality and made of solid materials. Shi Lin wondered if he should buy some for Shi Zhen so that Shi Zhen could find him a stepmother.
If the price isn't too high, Shi Lin will pick out two items.
After the gold and silver jewelry was taken, they became slaves.
The Heaven Dou Royal Auction House is currently auctioning off mostly top-quality slaves.
The majority of them are children with cultivation talents, as well as some girls who satisfy abnormal desires.
Shi Lin wasn't very interested in children with cultivation talent, since he had a large number of top-grade wine Gu that could give ordinary people cultivation talent as well.
Shi Lin looked around and thought about auctioning off a few slaves to take back with him later.
Although Shi Lin is a modern person, he does not resent the slave system of this era. After all, Shi Lin is a beneficiary of the system and has no need to resist a system that is beneficial to him.
Moreover, the Shi family had a small population and needed slaves to populate the rapidly expanding Shi family, making the Shi family's legacy more solid.
Shi Lin took out a pen and circled the names of several slaves he liked.
Continuing on, we'll see the content related to soul tools.
These soul tools are all of extremely high quality, likely the finest items accumulated over a long period by the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House.
Complete soul tools are not very attractive to Shi Lin, since he can repair them and the repaired soul tools are no different from new ones, so Shi Lin has no need to buy complete soul tools.
Just then, Shi Lin suddenly saw a damaged soul tool.
"Sumeru?" Shi Lin's eyes widened as he looked at the name of the soul tool.
This name is really too abnormal.
Mount Sumeru is a Buddhist term. Could it be that before I reincarnated here, there were other Earthlings who reincarnated to this place?
As for the Great Sumeru Hammer of the Clear Sky Sect, it has absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of Sumeru.
"What's wrong? You want this soul tool?" Flender asked Shi Lin, looking at him.
"Hmm, I'm somewhat interested." Shi Lin didn't say much, just nodded slightly.
"Okay, I'll take a picture for you in a bit." Flender nodded with a smile.
"Then I'll have to trouble Dean Flender," Shi Lin said with a smile to Flender.
Flender nodded as well.
Then, Shi Lin continued to look behind him. The soul tools behind him were mostly intact, so Shi Lin didn't pay any more attention to them.
Finally, there were a few soul bones, which Shi Lin simply couldn't afford.
"Dean Flender, what are you looking to buy?" Shi Lin asked Flender after closing the auction catalog.
"A soul tool shaped like a flame," Flender said to Shi Lin, shrugging his shoulders.
"A Flame Star worth 30,000 gold soul coins? Ma Hongjun has no use for this. Who are you going to give it to?" Shi Lin raised his eyebrows and looked at Flender with curiosity.
"Children shouldn't pry into adults' affairs," Flender said to Shi Lin in an annoyed tone.
Shi Lin pursed his lips, thinking that this thing was probably a gift for Liu Erlong.
"Damn it, how about we get a Love-Happiness Gu? To help them get things done? But even a second-tier Love-Happiness Gu shouldn't be able to affect Soul Saints, especially two Soul Saints." Shi Lin's face showed a troubled expression.
However, Shi Lin suddenly thought, why should Flender and Liu Erlong be together? Wouldn't it be better to arrange a proper wife for him?
Shi Lin touched his brow and suddenly had a bold idea.
Just then, Ma Hongjun came up to Shi Lin.
"Brother Lin, can you buy me something? I'll tell you about my teacher." Ma Hongjun approached Shi Lin and said in a cheeky tone.
Just then, Flender waved his hand, and a black feather appeared near Ma Hongjun's mouth, silencing him who was about to launch into a long speech.
"Waaah..." Ma Hongjun struggled to remove the feather stuck to his beak, but he couldn't get it off at all.
Looking at Ma Hongjun's expression, Shi Lin smiled and shook his head.
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