"How do you plan to sell this soul bone?" Jing Hongchen asked.
"Trade it for a soul bone." Wang Lin looked at Meng Hongchen, whose eyes were already filled with excitement, and replied.
"Good, Senior Wang... what attribute soul bone do you need?" The young girl was a little agitated and almost spoke Wang Lin's real name.
It wasn't surprising that Meng Hongchen was so excited. Her martial soul, the Vermilion Ice Toad, used the combination of its fire-attribute eyes and its ice attribute to produce a special chilling poison.
With the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone, Meng Hongchen could use its power to suppress the backlash of the chilling poison. For a long time to come, she wouldn't have to suffer the effects of the chilling poison.
"Mental attribute or Life attribute." Wang Lin stated his requirements. This method of trading bone for bone was clearly very satisfactory to Meng Hongchen.
"I've noted it." Meng Hongchen nodded. Wang Lin directly handed the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone to Meng Hongchen.
"By the way, the remnant soul of the Ice Jade Scorpion in this soul bone was purified by me, so it should be relatively easy to absorb."
"Mm-hmm." Meng Hongchen nodded solemnly upon hearing Wang Lin's remark.
Seeing Wang Lin so easily giving the soul bone to Meng Hongchen, Long Xiaoyao felt a pang of heartache for some reason.
It was clearly a good thing. Trading other soul bones for a soul bone that was extremely suitable for Meng Hongchen was not a loss for Jing Hongchen at all.
"I'm done here. Goodbye, Head." After handing over the soul bone, Wang Lin bid farewell and did not linger.
Since he had prompted Jing Hongchen to make a move, Wang Lin wasn't worried that the soul bone would be bought by someone else. In terms of financial power, Jing Hongchen, as the Hall Master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall, had never been afraid of anyone.
Leaving Room No. 3, as he reached the entrance of Room No. 4, he again ran into Xu Jiujiu, the Star Luo Princess, whose expression was not very good at the moment.
Her face was even a little gloomy. She noticed Wang Lin and quickly greeted him: "Your Excellency, you were correct earlier."
The facts were indeed similar to what Wang Lin had said. The Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Master from Shrek Academy claimed that the reason for the absorption restrictions was the pride of the Ice Jade Scorpion race.
Because of this pride, only Soul Masters with the Ultimate Ice attribute could absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion race's soul bones.
Xu Jiujiu asked for the specific reason, but that Soul Master couldn't explain it at all, only kept repeating "pride, pride."
If she wasn't the auctioneer and couldn't strike a guest, Xu Jiujiu would have loved to slap that Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Master across the face with the word "pride."
Pride my ass!
"That's good." Wang Lin nodded. It was good that she wasn't misled. In the original work, Xu Jiujiu was indeed misled by Huo Yuhao.
Ultimately, the soul bone was bought by the Starlight Auction House itself and served as the champion prize for Shrek Academy.
But too many changes had occurred now. Shrek Academy had cheated, their reputation was severely damaged, and it wouldn't be so easy for a single Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul to fool Xu Jiujiu now.
Moreover, Wang Lin had even produced another Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone as evidence.
"Mm." Xu Jiujiu said no more, bid farewell, and hurriedly went back to host the auction. Wang Lin also returned to his room. Just as he sat down on the sofa.
Long Xiaoyao asked with a smile: "Little Linzi, you gave the soul bone away, didn't you?"
"Uh..." Wang Lin paused and replied: "What do you mean 'gave away'? I went to trade for a soul bone."
"Oh..." Long Xiaoyao became interested. "What soul bone did you trade for?"
"I haven't acquired it yet. I don't know what it will be." Wang Lin remained silent for a moment before replying.
"That's just giving it away!" Long Xiaoyao nodded contentedly, sighing with emotion in his heart, The kid is finally figuring things out.
As the master and disciple spoke, the auction continued. White light flashed on the huge light-guided screen. Twelve million gold soul coins appeared, and then the number continuously jumped.
The price rose all the way to sixteen million before gradually stabilizing, finally stopping at the figure of 17,350,000.
As the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone was successfully auctioned, the final item was brought up.
A wooden tray appeared on the light-guided screen. As Xu Jiujiu introduced it, the words "100,000-year soul beast embryo" were spoken.
Wang Lin could clearly feel the air around him noticeably heavy. Long Xiaoyao also narrowed his eyes and muttered: "Even that fellow Poison Douluo is here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the starting price of the 100,000-year soul beast embryo immediately appeared on the soul tool screen.
The price of 100 million gold soul coins appeared, and in the blink of an eye, it changed, quickly soaring all the way up to 140 million.
Then, the number suddenly jumped, directly soaring to 160 million, after which no one bid again.
Wang Lin didn't even need to guess. It must have been Xiao Hongchen, that big fool, who made that bid. In the original work, it was Xiao Hongchen who bought the soul beast embryo.
Before he could even absorb it, the Snow Empress successfully escaped and self-detonated, ultimately benefiting Huo Yuhao.
He was truly a great sucker, wasting 150 million. But now, Wang Lin wouldn't let Xiao Hongchen be that big sucker. Well, at least he wouldn't let Huo Yuhao benefit.
As the auction ended, staff members immediately walked into Room No. 4, taking Wang Lin and Long Xiaoyao back to the hotel through a secret passage inside the room.
The staff member leading the way suddenly asked: "Your Excellency, due to funding constraints, we cannot provide enough gold soul coins at once, so we will substitute a portion of the gold soul coins with items like soul bones, soul tools, and heavenly treasures. May I ask if you have any requirements?"
"No soul tools. The soul bone attributes should focus on Life or Mental attributes, and the heavenly treasures should focus on strengthening the physical body."
Wang Lin spoke. Substituting a portion of the gold soul coins with goods was one of the previously agreed protocols with Xu Jiujiu.
"Understood, Your Excellency. The auction house will finalize the list of items before tomorrow morning and send it for your selection."
The staff member said respectfully. After sending Wang Lin and the others back to the hotel, he returned to the Starlight Auction House via the secret tunnel.
For the Starlight Auction House, tonight was bound to be a busy night.
As the auction items were delivered to each room and the transactions completed, each room had a dedicated secret passage for the guests inside to leave.
Transaction after transaction was completed. Even the Illustrious Virtue Hall couldn't produce 160 million funds all at once, so naturally, a large portion of the gold soul coins was accounted for by soul tools.
This was also what the Starlight Auction House hoped for.
The long night slowly passed. As the first ray of sunlight illuminated Star Luo City, the Starlight Auction House concluded its busy night and also sent over the list of items Wang Lin required.
Leaving it for Wang Lin to slowly choose, Wang Lin sat on the sofa, scanning the list of items in his hand.
His first glance fell upon the soul bone named Golden Dragon Right Arm Bone, ranked third in the soul bone column. This Golden Dragon soul bone, only ten thousand years in age, was actually valued at a full 10 million gold soul coins.
This was the part that surprised Wang Lin. The other soul bones on the list with similar prices were generally above 50,000 years.